MCQ Questions for Class 6 History: Ch 3 From Gathering to Growing Food

MCQ Questions for Class 6 History: Ch 3 From Gathering to Growing Food

1. _____ is the name given to the process in which people grow plants and look after animals.
(a) Domestication
(b) Plantation
(c) Flowering
(d) Agriculture
► (a) Domestication

2. The art of making pot is called

(a) Pottories

(b) Poetries

(c) Patys

(d) Pottery

► (d) Pottery

3. Place where many families choose to live together for mutual cooperation and better protection.

(a) State

(b) Block

(c) Village

(d) District

► (c) Village

4. Which art was learnt by Neolithic man made by hand and dried in sun and later wheel was used to make it

(a) Cart

(b) Wheel

(c) Chair

(d) Pots

► (d) Pots

5. Domestication means

(a) Process in which people look after animals

(b) Process in which people grow plants and lived in communities

(c) Process in which people grow plants and look after animals

(d) Process in which people grow plants

► (c) Process in which people grow plants and look after animals

6. Wheeled cart was made in which age? 

(a) Mesolithic age

(b) Palaeolithic age

(c) Neolithic age

(d) Chalcolithic age

► (c) Neolithic age

7. Neolithic man live in 

(a) Small communities such as villages

(b) In pair near bank of river

(c) Alone in the forest

(d) Alone in the bank of river

► (a) Small communities such as villages

8. Which was the first metal to be discovered

(a) Copper

(b) Gold

(c) Silver

(d) Iron

► (a) Copper

9. Barter system is

(a) System of exchange of money

(b) System of exchange of articles

(c) System of exchange of money to services

(d) System of exchange of articles to money

► (b) System of exchange of articles

10. How was the earth treated in Neolithic age

(a) Mother

(b) Father

(c) Son

(d) Sister

► (a) Mother

11. Microlith were made during which period

(a) Chalcolithic

(b) Mesolithic

(c) Neolithic

(d) Palaeolithic

► (b) Mesolithic

12. Tools like copper and hand axes were used in

(a) Mesolithic age

(b) Upper stone age

(c) Old stone age

(d) Middle stone age

► (c) Old stone age

13. Copper was discovered by ___ man

(a) Masolilthic

(b) Neolithic

(c) Palaeolithic

(d) Chalcolithic

► (d) Chalcolithic

14. In village early people learn the following except

(a) Cultivation

(b) Hunting

(c) Taming animals

(d) Living a settled life

► (d) Living a settled life

15. ____ was the main occupation of people of the Chalcolithic age

(a) Agriculture

(b) Mining

(c) Hunting

(d) Gathering

► (a) Agriculture

.16. Tools of points, crescentic blades and scrappers etc were used in which stone age

(a) Middle stone age

(b) Upper stone age

(c) Neolithic age

(d) Old stone age

► (b) Upper stone age

17. Meso means in Mesolithic age is

(a) Micro

(b) Must

(c) Middle

(d) Macro

► (c) Middle

18. Hallur is in present day

(a) Uttar Pradesh

(b) Karnataka

(c) Gujarat

(d) Kashmir

► (b) Karnataka

19. Mehrgarh is in present day

(a) Bihar

(b) Pakistan

(c) Kashmir

(d) Uttar Pradesh
► (b) Pakistan

20. People began using pots for

(a) Cooking food

(b) For making stones

(c) Preserving flesh of animals

(d) Preserving soil

► (a) Cooking food