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MODEL TEST PAPER-1 No. of Questions: 120 Time: 2 hours Codes: I II III IV (a) A B C D Instructions: (b) C A B D (c) A C D B (A) All questions carry equal marks (d) C A D B (B) Do not waste your time on any particular question 4. Where do we find the three phases, viz. Paleolithic, (C) Mark your answer clearly and if you want to change Mesolithic and Neolithic Cultures in sequence? your answer, erase your previous answer completely. (a) Kashmir Valley (b) Godavari Valley (c) Belan Valley (d) Krishna Valley 1. Pot-making, a technique of great significance 5. Excellent cave paintings of Mesolithic Age are found in human history, appeared first in a few areas at: during: (a) Bhimbetka (b) Atranjikhera (a) Early Stone Age (b) Middle Stone Age (c) Mahisadal (d) Barudih (c) Upper Stone Age (d) Late Stone Age 6. In the upper Ganga valley iron is first found associated 2. Which one of the following pairs of Palaeolithic sites with and areas is not correct? (a) Black-and-Red Ware (a) Didwana—Western Rajasthan (b) Ochre Coloured Ware (b) Sanganakallu—Karnataka (c) Painted Grey Ware (c) Uttarabaini—Jammu (d) Northern Black Polished Ware (d) Riwat—Pakistani Punjab 7. Teri sites, associated with dunes of reddened sand, 3. Match List I with List II and select the answer from are found in: the codes given below the lists: (a) Assam (b) Madhya Pradesh List I List II (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Andhra Pradesh Chalcolithic Cultures Type Sites 8. Which one of the following is not a megalithic burial? (I) Banas Culture (A) Ghaligai (a) Dolmenoid (b) Intrado (II) Gandhara Culture (B) Inamgaon (c) Menhir (d) Cairn (III) Malwa Culture (C) Gilund 9. Which Chalcolithic site of Maharashtra has shown (IV) Savalda Culture (D) Navdatoli evidence of an irrigation canal and an embankment? MTP.2 | Indian History (a) Daimabad (b) Inamgaon 17. Which of the thinkers is said to have characterized the (c) Jorwe (d) Sonegaon Self as “neti, neti” in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad? 10. The Ochre Coloured Pottery is closely connected with: (a) Uddalaka (b) Svetaketu (a) Aryans (b) Early Harappans (c) Yajnavalkya (d) Janaka (c) Late Harappans (d) Mature Harappans 18. Which one of the following assemblies was also called 11. At only one of the Indus sites have archaeologists narishta, meaning a resolution of many that cannot discovered a middle town, as distinct from the citadel be broken? and the lower town. Identify the site from among the (a) Gana (b) Vidatha following: (c) Sabha (d) Samiti (a) Surkotada (b) Daimabad 19. Which one of the following deals with the doctrine (c) Dholavira (d) Lothal of the transmigration of soul in a systematic manner 12. Given below are two statements one labelled as Assertion for the first time? (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). (a) Aitareya Upanishad Assertion (A): A distinctive feature of the house (b) Hrihadaranyaka Upanishad construction of the Harappans was that the roadward (c) Chandogya Upanishad side of a block presented a plain blank facade. (d) Kena Upanishad Reason (R): The entrances to the houses were from 20. What is the descending order of the following punch- the narrow lanes which were set at right-angles to the marked coins? main streets. (i) Masha (b) Satamana In the context of the above two statements, which one (iii) Kakani (d) Pada of the following is correct? (v) Karshapana (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- Choose the answer from the codes given below: nation of A. (a) ii, i, iv, v, iii (b) iii iv, i, ii, v (b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct (c) iv, ii, i, iii, v (d) ii, v, I, iii, iv explanation of A. 21. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly (c) A is true but R is false. matched? (d) A is false but R is true. (a) Chedi—Asmaka (b) Kuru—Panchala 13. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (c) Kasi—Kosala (d) Matsya—Surasena using the codes given below the lists: 22. The Buddhist social division ukkattha (excellent) did List I List II not-include one of the following. Pick it out. (Harappan Sites) (Burial Customs) (a) Bahamanna (b) Khattiya (i) Harappa (A) Brick chamber (c) Vessa (d) Gahapati (ii) Lothal (B) Coffin burial 23. Consider the following: (iii) Kalibangan (C) Pot burial The six great cities mentioned in the early Buddhist (iv) Surkotada (D) Double burial texts include: Codes: (i) Pataliputra (ii) Champa (a) i-B, ii-D, iii-C, iv-A (b) i-D, ii-B, iii-A, iv-C (iii) Vaisali (iv) Rajagriha (c) i-B, ii-D, iii-A, iv-C (d) i-A, ii-C, iii-B, iv-D (v) Varanasi (vi) Kausambi 14. From which of the following regions do we get the (vii) Sravasti (viii) Indraprastha report of 21 sites, some of which are very large in (ix) Kusinagara size, concentrated in an area of approximately 50 ¥ Choose the answer from the codes given 25 km.? below: (a) Kirtar piedmont (b) Kohistan (a) i, ii, iv, vi, vii, ix (b) ii, iii, v, vi, vii, viii (c) Bhatinda (d) Kutch (c) i, iii, iv, vi, vii, ix (d) ii, iv, v, vi, vii, ix 15. Which one of the following pairs is not correct? 24. The Buddhist doctrine of patichcha-samuppada or (a) Mundigak—Ochre Coloured Ware Culture dependent origination is contained in which of the (b) Rangpur—Lustrous Red Ware Culture four Noble Truths? (c) Kudwala—Cemetry H Ware Culture (a) First (b) Second (d) Ghaligai—Gandhara Grave Culture (c) Third (d) Fourth 16. Panchavimsha Brahmana is also known as 25. Which Minor Rock Edict of Asoka informs us about (a) Tandyamaha (b) Jaiminiya Samba, a kumara being in charge of Manemadesa? (c) Satapatha (d) Kausitaki Model Test Papers | MTP.3 (a) Panguraria (b) Ahraura 34. Jaina philosophy is knows as: (c) Rupnath (d) Maski (a) Pudgala (b) Samkhya 26. The fourteen Major Rock Edicts of Asoka located at (c) Samachari (d) Syadvada Shabazgarhi and Manshera are in: 34. What is the chronological order of the following (a) Kharoshti Script (b) Aramaic Script foreigners? (c) Greek Script (d) Brahmi Script (i) Arrian 27. What is the name Megasthenes gives to the town of- (ii) Hippalus ficials of Mauryan administration? (iii) Pliny, the Elder (a) Agranomoi (b) Agrasenoi (iv) Strabo (c) Astynomoi (d) Astysenoi (v) Anonymous author of the Periplus 28. Consider the following statement: Choose the answer from the codes given below: “Sovereignty can be carried on only with assistance. (a) ii, iv, iii, i and v (b) iii, v, iv, i, and ii A single wheel does not move, hence the king should (c) iv, ii, v, iii and i (d) v, i, iii, ii and iv employ the ministers and hear their advice.” 36. Vadagalai and Tengalai were the: This has been attributed to: (a) sacred texts of the Alvars and Nayanars (a) Asoka (b) Kautilya (b) legendary sages of Vaikhanasa cult (c) Megasthenes (d) Manu (c) founders of the Kapalika and Kalamukha sects 29. Consider the following statements. One labelled as (d) northern and southern branches of Sri Vaishnavas Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): 37. The Sunyasampadane was the main scriptural text of: Assertion (A): Niyoga was definitely practised by the (a) Kanphatas (b) Kapalikas Sudras, through not by the Dvija Varnas, in the early (c) Lingayats (d) Aghoris centuries of the Christian era. 38. Which one of the following terms does not stand for Reason (R): According to Manu, Niyoga cannot take a guild? place in marriages which are performed according to (a) Nigama (b) Jetha the mantras. (c) Puga (d) Sartha In the context of the above two statements which one 39. The largest number of copper coins were issued by of the following is correct? the: (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- (a) Kushanas (b) Satavahanas nation of A. (c) Guptas (d) Sakas (b) Both A and R are true but R is not correct expla- 40. The well-known trade route Uttarapatha, in the time nation of A. of Kushanas, was running between the following two (c) A is true but R is false. urban settlements: (d) A is false but R is true. (a) Ujjain to Mathura 30. Which one of the following mixed castes was a result (b) Purushapura to Mathura of tribal associations? (c) Mathura to Taxila (a) Nishadas (b) Abhiras (d) Purushapura to Taxila (c) Gonds (d) Mallavas 41. Match the following: 31. Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched? List I List II (a) Murugan—Hillmen (I) Akaradhaksha (A) Mines (b) Varuna—Merchants (II) Sutradhyaksha (B) Weaving (c) Krishna—Shepherdesses (III) Khanyadhyaksha (C) Digging (d) Korravai—Hunters (IV) Sitadhyaksha (D) Agriculture 32. The four castes of Tudiyan, Panan, Paraiyan and Codes: Kadamban are mentioned in the: (a) I-A, II-B, III-C, IV-D (a) Tolkappiyam (b) Pattinappalai (b) I-B, II-A, III-C, IV-D (c) Purananuru (d) Silappadigaram (c) I-B, II-A, III-D, IV-C 33. Shariputraprakarana, the oldest extant drama in (d) I-A, II-B, III-D, IV-C Sanskrit, was written by: 42. Land grants, using the term abhyantarasiddhi, armed (a) Asvaghosa (b) Dignaga the donees with: (c) Vasumitra (d) Asanga (a) fiscal powers MTP.4 | Indian History (b) police and judicial powers (a) Alberuni (b) Amir Khusrau (c) powers to extract forced labour (c) Ibn Battutah (d) Minhaj Siraj (d) powers to levy extra taxes 52.