Class 6 Social Science History Chapter 5 MCQs – India, That Is Bharat
Class 6 Social Science History Chapter 5 MCQs for “India, That Is Bharat” (based on NCERT textbook Exploring Society: India and Beyond ).
MCQ with Answers for Practice – History Chapter 5 – India, That Is Bharat
Class 6 Social Science – Exploring Society: India and Beyond
Theme B: Tapestry of the Past
History Chapter 5: India, That Is Bharat
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Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) – History Chapter 5: India, That Is Bharat
Q1. What is the main focus of Chapter 5, “India, That Is Bharat”?
a) Indian freedom struggle
b) Ancient Indian rulers
c) Names and identity of India
d) Indian economy
Answer: c) Names and identity of India
Q2. The quotation at the beginning of the chapter is given by
a) Rabindranath Tagore
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Sri Aurobindo
d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: c) Sri Aurobindo
Q3. Which natural features are referred to as India’s boundaries in the chapter?
a) Rivers and plateaus
b) Hills and deserts
c) Himalayas and seas
d) Plains and forests
Answer: c) Himalayas and seas
Q4. The region often referred to as the ‘Indian Subcontinent’ includes
a) Only present-day India
b) Only South India
c) A large part of South Asia
d) Only Northern India
Answer: c) A large part of South Asia
Q5. Which is the most ancient Indian text mentioned in the chapter?
a) Mahābhārata
b) Rāmāyaṇa
c) Ṛig Veda
d) Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
Answer: c) Ṛig Veda
Q6. ‘Sapta Sindhava’ refers to
a) Seven mountains
b) Seven oceans
c) Land of seven rivers
d) Seven kingdoms
Answer: c) Land of seven rivers
Q7. The word ‘Sindhava’ comes from
a) Ganga
b) Yamuna
c) Sindhu
d) Saraswati
Answer: c) Sindhu
Q8. ‘Sindhu’ originally referred to
a) A mountain range
b) A city
c) The Indus River
d) A kingdom
Answer: c) The Indus River
Q9. Which text lists regions such as Kashmir, Kutch, and Kerala?
a) Ṛig Veda
b) Mahābhārata
c) Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
d) Upanishads
Answer: b) Mahābhārata
Q10. Kurukṣhetra mentioned in ancient texts is located in present-day
a) Rajasthan
b) Punjab
c) Haryana
d) Uttar Pradesh
Answer: c) Haryana
Q11. Prāgjyotiṣha refers to which modern region?
a) Bengal
b) Assam
c) Kerala
d) Gujarat
Answer: b) Assam
Q12. Which ancient text uses the terms ‘Bhāratavarṣha’ and ‘Jambudvīpa’?
a) Ṛig Veda
b) Mahābhārata
c) Arthashastra
d) Manusmriti
Answer: b) Mahābhārata
Q13. ‘Bhāratavarṣha’ means
a) Land of rivers
b) Island of trees
c) Country of the Bharatas
d) Sacred land
Answer: c) Country of the Bharatas
Q14. The name ‘Bharata’ first appears in the
a) Mahābhārata
b) Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
c) Ṛig Veda
d) Upanishads
Answer: c) Ṛig Veda
Q15. ‘Jambudvīpa’ literally means
a) Land of mountains
b) Island of the jamun tree
c) Land of rivers
d) Sacred island
Answer: b) Island of the jamun tree
Q16. Which tree is associated with the name ‘Jambudvīpa’?
a) Banyan
b) Peepal
c) Jamun
d) Neem
Answer: c) Jamun
Q17. Which emperor used the term ‘Jambudvīpa’ in his inscriptions?
a) Chandragupta Maurya
b) Harsha
c) Aśhoka
d) Kanishka
Answer: c) Aśhoka
Q18. Aśhoka ruled around
a) 500 BCE
b) 250 BCE
c) 100 CE
d) 500 CE
Answer: b) 250 BCE
Q19. During Aśhoka’s time, India included present-day
a) Only India
b) India and Sri Lanka
c) India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan
d) Only Northern India
Answer: c) India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan
Q20. Which text describes India as land north of the ocean and south of snowy mountains?
a) Mahābhārata
b) Ṛig Veda
c) Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
d) Arthashastra
Answer: c) Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
Q21. ‘Snowy mountains’ mentioned in the Viṣhṇu Purāṇa refer to
a) Aravalli Range
b) Vindhya Range
c) Himalayas
d) Western Ghats
Answer: c) Himalayas
Q22. Cape Kumari is located in
a) Northern India
b) Eastern India
c) Southern tip of India
d) Western India
Answer: c) Southern tip of India
Q23. Ancient Tamil literature shows knowledge of India’s
a) Politics only
b) Geography only
c) Trade routes only
d) Geography and boundaries
Answer: d) Geography and boundaries
Q24. The phrase ‘India, that is Bharat’ appears in the
a) Mahābhārata
b) Ṛig Veda
c) Indian Constitution
d) Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
Answer: c) Indian Constitution
Q25. The Indian Constitution came into force in
a) 1947
b) 1949
c) 1950
d) 1952
Answer: c) 1950
Q26. The first foreigners to mention India were the
a) Greeks
b) Chinese
c) Persians
d) Romans
Answer: c) Persians
Q27. The Persians referred to India as
a) Indoi
b) Bharat
c) Hind / Hidu
d) Yindu
Answer: c) Hind / Hidu
Q28. In ancient Persian, the word ‘Hindu’ was a
a) Religious term
b) Political title
c) Geographical term
d) Cultural term
Answer: c) Geographical term
Q29. The Greeks dropped which letter from ‘Hindu’ to form ‘Indoi’?
a) d
b) n
c) h
d) u
Answer: c) h
Q30. The Greek names for India were
a) Hind and Hidu
b) Indoi and Indike
c) Yindu and Yintu
d) Bharat and Bharatam
Answer: b) Indoi and Indike
Q31. The Chinese name ‘Yindu’ originally comes from
a) Ganga
b) Bharat
c) Sindhu
d) Himalaya
Answer: c) Sindhu
Q32. Which Chinese scholar visited India in the 7th century CE?
a) Fa-Hien
b) Xuanzang
c) Megasthenes
d) Al-Biruni
Answer: b) Xuanzang
Q33. Xuanzang stayed in India for nearly
a) 5 years
b) 10 years
c) 17 years
d) 25 years
Answer: c) 17 years
Q34. Xuanzang translated texts from Sanskrit into
a) Persian
b) Arabic
c) Chinese
d) Greek
Answer: c) Chinese
Q35. ‘Tianzhu’ was a Chinese name for India meaning
a) Land of rivers
b) Sacred land
c) Heavenly master
d) Golden land
Answer: c) Heavenly master
Q36. ‘Hindustān’ was first used in a
a) Greek text
b) Chinese manuscript
c) Persian inscription
d) Indian Purāṇa
Answer: c) Persian inscription
Q37. ‘Hindustān’ began to be used about
a) 500 years ago
b) 1,000 years ago
c) 1,800 years ago
d) 3,000 years ago
Answer: c) 1,800 years ago
Q38. Most foreign names for India were derived from the
a) Ganga River
b) Yamuna River
c) Sindhu / Indus River
d) Godavari River
Answer: c) Sindhu / Indus River
Q39. Which of the following is NOT an ancient name of India?
a) Jambudvīpa
b) Bhārata
c) Hind
d) Asia
Answer: d) Asia
Q40. Today, the official name used in the Constitution is
a) Bharat
b) India
c) India, that is Bharat
d) Hindustan
Answer: c) India, that is Bharat
Q41. The term ‘Indian Subcontinent’ mainly refers to
a) A political unit formed after 1947
b) A cultural region with fixed borders
c) A large geographical region of South Asia
d) Only the plains of North India
Answer: c) A large geographical region of South Asia
Q42. The boundaries of India changed over time mainly because
a) Climate change
b) Natural disasters
c) Political and historical developments
d) Population growth
Answer: c) Political and historical developments
Q43. Which source does NOT help us learn about ancient India’s names?
a) Ancient texts
b) Inscriptions
c) Travellers’ accounts
d) Satellite images
Answer: d) Satellite images
Q44. The term ‘inhabitants’ refers to
a) Visitors to a place
b) Traders and pilgrims
c) People living in a particular place
d) Rulers of a region
Answer: c) People living in a particular place
Q45. Which region was NOT mentioned in the Mahābhārata list of regions?
a) Vanga
b) Kāshmīra
c) Prāgjyotiṣha
d) Tamil Nadu
Answer: d) Tamil Nadu
Q46. The Mahābhārata is difficult to date mainly because
a) It was written in many languages
b) It has no written form
c) It was composed over a long period
d) It contains myths
Answer: c) It was composed over a long period
Q47. The word ‘varṣha’ in ‘Bhāratavarṣha’ means
a) Kingdom
b) Land or region
c) River
d) Mountain
Answer: b) Land or region
Q48. Which statement about ‘Jambudvīpa’ is correct?
a) It referred only to South India
b) It referred only to North India
c) It referred to the entire Indian Subcontinent
d) It referred to a religious centre
Answer: c) It referred to the entire Indian Subcontinent
Q49. The jamun tree mentioned in the chapter is
a) Native to Europe
b) Native to China
c) Native to India
d) Native to Africa
Answer: c) Native to India
Q50. Aśhoka’s inscriptions are important because they
a) Describe wars only
b) Provide names of Indian regions
c) Give clues about ancient names of India
d) Explain foreign invasions
Answer: c) Give clues about ancient names of India
Q51. Which modern countries were part of India during Aśhoka’s rule?
a) Nepal and Bhutan
b) Sri Lanka and Myanmar
c) Pakistan and Bangladesh
d) Iran and China
Answer: c) Pakistan and Bangladesh
Q52. The Viṣhṇu Purāṇa defines Bhārata using
a) Political borders
b) Natural features
c) Language boundaries
d) Religious centres
Answer: b) Natural features
Q53. ‘North of the ocean’ in the Viṣhṇu Purāṇa refers to the
a) Indian Ocean
b) Bay of Bengal
c) Arabian Sea
d) Southern seas around India
Answer: d) Southern seas around India
Q54. The phrase ‘south of the snowy mountains’ indicates
a) Aravalli range
b) Vindhya range
c) Himalayas
d) Eastern Ghats
Answer: c) Himalayas
Q55. Which language uses the form ‘Bharatam’?
a) Hindi
b) Sanskrit
c) Tamil
d) English
Answer: c) Tamil
Q56. The similarity in India’s description across regions shows
a) Political unity
b) Cultural and geographical awareness
c) Religious uniformity
d) Military control
Answer: b) Cultural and geographical awareness
Q57. The Constitution of India was originally written in
a) Hindi only
b) English only
c) Sanskrit
d) Persian
Answer: b) English only
Q58. The Hindi phrase used in the Constitution is
a) Bharat Mata
b) Bharatvarsha
c) Bhārat arthāth India
d) Hindustan
Answer: c) Bhārat arthāth India
Q59. The Persian emperor mentioned in the chapter controlled
a) Ganga basin
b) Yamuna basin
c) Indus River region
d) Deccan Plateau
Answer: c) Indus River region
Q60. Greeks referred to India after learning from
a) Romans
b) Persians
c) Chinese
d) Indians
Answer: b) Persians
Q61. Why did Greeks remove the letter ‘h’ from ‘Hindu’?
a) It was silent
b) It was difficult to pronounce
c) It did not exist in Greek language
d) It changed the meaning
Answer: c) It did not exist in Greek language
Q62. ‘Indike’ is associated with which civilisation?
a) Persian
b) Roman
c) Greek
d) Chinese
Answer: c) Greek
Q63. The Chinese name ‘Yintu’ indicates
a) Trade influence
b) Religious respect
c) Linguistic borrowing
d) Political control
Answer: c) Linguistic borrowing
Q64. Tianzhu reflected China’s respect for India as the land of
a) Vedas
b) Kings
c) Buddha
d) Trade
Answer: c) Buddha
Q65. Xuanzang visited India mainly to
a) Trade spices
b) Meet kings
c) Study Buddhism
d) Conquer territory
Answer: c) Study Buddhism
Q66. Xuanzang’s translations helped in
a) Spreading Hinduism
b) Preserving Indian knowledge
c) Expanding Chinese empire
d) Promoting Persian culture
Answer: b) Preserving Indian knowledge
Q67. The term ‘Hindustān’ was mostly used by
a) Indian villagers
b) European traders
c) Foreign invaders
d) Buddhist monks
Answer: c) Foreign invaders
Q68. Which language uses the term ‘Inde’?
a) English
b) French
c) Spanish
d) German
Answer: b) French
Q69. The Latin word ‘India’ came from
a) Bharat
b) Ganga
c) Indus
d) Himalaya
Answer: c) Indus
Q70. Which idea best explains why India had many names?
a) Frequent wars
b) Large population
c) Long history and foreign contacts
d) Religious diversity
Answer: c) Long history and foreign contacts
Q71. The chapter mainly helps students understand
a) Ancient wars
b) Historical geography and identity
c) Trade routes
d) Religious rituals
Answer: b) Historical geography and identity
Q72. Which term is still officially used today?
a) Jambudvīpa
b) Hindustān
c) Bhārata
d) Indike
Answer: c) Bhārata