R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | CBES Board Class 11 MCQ for Class 11 History Set-1

Fossils found in the ______ were called Homo neanderthalensis.

1. Barun Valley
2. Hunza Valley
3. Neander Valley
4. Lidder Valley

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the base of the classification of fossils of early humans?

1. Bone Structure
2. DNA
3. Muscle Structure
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

An archaeological site, which was used for quarrying limestone was:

1. Chesowanja, Kenya
2. Schoningen, Germany
3. Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic
4. Neander Valley, Germany

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The term pathological idiot has been used with reference to

1. Australopithecus
2. Homo Habilis
3. Homo Erectus
4. Neanderthal

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Long forelimbs, Curved hand and foot bones, and mobile ankle joints helped ______ to live on trees.

1. Hominidae
2. Neanderthal
3. Hominoids
4. Australopithecus

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Zagros mountains, which form one limit of the Fertile Crescent, is situated in:

1. Egypt
2. Lebanon
3. Iran
4. Syria

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The last Ice Age ended around:

1. 15,000 years ago
2. 14, 000 years ago
3. 13,000 years ago
4. 12,000 years ago

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The main reason that led to a change from foraging to farming occupation was:

1. Domestication
2. End of Ice Age
3. Making of iron tools
4. Warmer and wetter conditions

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Hominids survived for about:

1. 1 Million years
2. 2 Million years
3. 3 Million years
4. 4 Million years

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Dexterity of the hands refers to:

1. Roughness of the hands
2. Shape of the hands
3. Hardness of the hands
4. Flexibility of the hands

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Fossils of Hominid found in Asia were not older as compared to fossils found in ______

1. Europe
2. Africa
3. Australia
4. America

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Fossils of Hominid found in Asia were not older as compared to fossils found in ______

1. Europe
2. Africa
3. Australia
4. America

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Population pressure in some areas increased due to the

1. end of the ice age
2. change in climate
3. increase in food availability
4. domestication

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In the Eastern Hadza community, the lands belonged to

1. Women
2. Headmen
3. Clan
4. No one

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Genus is the branch of the:

1. Hominids
2. Hominoids
3. Neanderthalensis
4. Australopithecus

✅ Correct Answer: 1

From which organism group the hominids were evolved?

1. Neanderthal
2. Hominoids
3. Neanderthalensis
4. Australopithecus

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Hominids belong to a family which is known as _____

1. Hominidae
2. Neanderthal
3. Clan
4. Australopithecus

✅ Correct Answer: 1

From which word Cuneiform is derived?

1. Latin
2. Greek
3. Chinese
4. Mayan

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which language replaced the Sumerian language after 2400 BCE?

1. Mesopotamian language
2. Akkadian language
3. Chinese language
4. Middle Eastern language

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In the 2000 BCE, the city that flourished as the royal capital of Mesopotamia was

1. Ur
2. Mari
3. Mohenjodaro
4. Kalibangan

✅ Correct Answer: 2

With which person, the first event of Sumerian trade is associated?

1. The ancient ruler of Uruk City, Enmerkar
2. The ancient ruler of Lebanon City, Enmerkar
3. The ancient ruler of Nile City, Enmerkar
4. The ancient ruler of Aral City, Enmerkar

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Inanna was the Goddess of

1. the Moon
2. love and War
3. wind
4. fire

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The earliest temples in Southern Mesopotamia were built-in

1. c.4000 BCE
2. c.5000 BCE
3. c.6000 BCE
4. c.7000 BCE

✅ Correct Answer: 2

From which wordCuneiform is derived?

1. Latin
2. Greek
3. Chinese
4. Mayan

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The best kind of wine came to Rome from _______

1. Fayum
2. Byzantium
3. Galilee
4. Campania

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Roman emperor who consolidated the rise of provincial upper classes so as to exclude the senators from military command was

1. Augustus
2. Constantine
3. Gallienus
4. Tiberius

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What were Amphorae?

1. A type of army
2. A type of container
3. A type of district administrator
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Augustus, the first Roman Emperor was called the leading citizen whose Latin term is

1. Basileus
2. Dominus
3. Princeps
4. Res gestae

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Saint Augustine was bishop of the North African city of

1. Annaba
2. Algeria
3. Hippo
4. Numidia

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The emperor who made Christianity the official religion in the Roman Empire was

1. Alexander
2. Augustus
3. Constantine
4. Nero

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Roman ruler _____ was considered as the leading citizen only to show that he was not the absolute ruler.

1. Augustus
2. Constantine
3. Gallienus
4. Tiberius

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In Roman urban life, the entertainment shows called spectacular happened for at least

1. 150 days
2. 160 days
3. 167 days
4. 176 days

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The religion of Islam arose during the

1. 5th century CE
2. 8th century CE
3. 6th century CE
4. 7th century CE

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Roman Empire got the best kind of wine from the city of

1. Byzaciuma
2. Campania
3. Naples
4. Sicily

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire in the

1. 1st century CE
2. 2nd century CE
3. 3rd century CE
4. 4th century CE

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Roman silver coin, known as the denarius, weighed _________ gm of pure silver.

1. 2
2. 3
3. 4
4. 5

✅ Correct Answer: 3

______ and Greek languages were used in the administration of the Roman Empire.

1. Chinese
2. Mayan
3. Latin
4. Turkish

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which one of the following is a rive that forms the boundary of the Roman Empire?

1. Mekong River
2. Rhine River
3. Amur River
4. Yangtze River

✅ Correct Answer: 2

By whom Ali assassinated?

1. Muawiya
2. Kharji
3. Bedouins
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Zakat was an/a

1. agriculture tax
2. alms tax
3. religious tax
4. trade tax

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Caliph during whose reign the Hijri was established was:

1. Abu Bakr
2. Muhammad
3. Uthman
4. Umar

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was the name given to nomadic Arab tribes?

1. Sanam
2. Qabila
3. Bedouins
4. Umma

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The semi-historical works sira in Islamic history are

1. biographies
2. chronicles
3. eyewitness reports
4. inscriptions

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Umayyad Emperor who introduced Arabic as the language of administration was

1. Abd al-Malik
2. Ali
3. Abbas
4. Muawiya

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who introduced an Islamic coinage?

1. Abu Bakr
2. Abd-al-Malik
3. Uthman
4. Umar

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The woman-saint Sufi who, in her poems, preached intense love for God by uniting with God was

1. Rabia
2. Aisha
3. Fatima
4. Khadija

✅ Correct Answer: 1

After the Arabs and Iranians, the group that was rising to power on the Islamic scene was the

1. Buyids
2. Iranians
3. Samanid
4. Turks

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Prophet Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina with his followers in 622 CE is called hijra:

1. Hijra
2. Kaba
3. Mecca
4. Calipha

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Caliph Muawiya shifted his capital to

1. Rome
2. Medina
3. Mecca
4. Damascus

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The followers and non-followers of Ali were called

1. Arabs and Iranians
2. Shias and Sunnis
3. Umayyads and Abbasids
4. Byzantines and Sasanids

✅ Correct Answer: 2