CLASS 6 CHAPTER 5 India That is Bharat MCQs
1. According to the Ṛig Veda, what was the name given to the northwest region of the Indian Subcontinent?
(A) Jambudvīpa
(B) Bhāratavarṣha
(C) Sapta Sindhava
(D) Kaccha
Answer
Answer: (C) Sapta Sindhava
2. Which ancient text uses the terms ‘Bhāratavarṣha’ and ‘Jambudvīpa’ to describe the Indian Subcontinent?
(A) Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
(B) Mahābhārata
(C) Ṛig Veda
(D) Upanishads
Answer
Answer: (B) Mahābhārata
3. In which inscription did Emperor Aśhoka refer to the Indian Subcontinent as ‘Jambudvīpa’?
(A) Persian Inscriptions
(B) Brahmi Inscriptions
(C) Greek Inscriptions
(D) Chinese Records
Answer
Answer: (B) Brahmi Inscriptions
4. Which name for India was adopted from ancient Persian records?
(A) Indike
(B) Hind
(C) Indu
(D) Bharat
Answer
Answer: (B) Hind
5. The name ‘Bharat’ is derived from which of the following?
(A) A river in ancient India
(B) The name of a Vedic tribe
(C) A king mentioned in Persian texts
(D) An ancient Chinese term
Answer
Answer: (B) The name of a Vedic tribe
6. Which famous ancient Indian text lists regions such as Kāshmīra, Kurukṣhetra, and Vanga?
(A) Ṛig Veda
(B) Mahābhārata
(C) Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
(D) Bhagavad Gita
Answer
Answer: (B) Mahābhārata
7. What does the term ‘Bhāratavarṣha’ specifically refer to in ancient Indian texts?
(A) The region around the Indus River
(B) The land of the seven rivers
(C) The entire Indian Subcontinent
(D) A specific region in South India
Answer
Answer: (C) The entire Indian Subcontinent
8. In ancient literature, what does the term ‘Jambudvīpa’ signify?
(A) A mountain range in southern India
(B) An ancient Indian empire
(C) The Indian Subcontinent
(D) A group of islands off the Indian coast
Answer
Answer: (C) The Indian Subcontinent
9. Which of the following ancient kings used the term ‘Jambudvīpa’ in his inscriptions?
(A) Chandragupta Maurya
(B) Ashoka
(C) Samudragupta
(D) Raja Raja Chola
Answer
Answer: (B) Ashoka
10. According to the Viṣhṇu Purāṇa, which geographical feature lies to the north of Bhārata?
(A) The Indian Ocean
(B) The Himalayas
(C) The Vindhya Range
(D) The Deccan Plateau
Answer
Answer: (B) The Himalayas
11. Which foreign empire was the first to refer to the region of the Indus River as ‘Hind’?
(A) Greek
(B) Persian
(C) Chinese
(D) Roman
Answer
Answer: (B) Persian
12. What term did the ancient Greeks use to refer to the region of India?
(A) Indike
(B) Hind
(C) Sapta Sindhava
(D) Jambudvīpa
Answer
Answer: (A) Indike
13. The name ‘Yindu’, used by ancient Chinese scholars to refer to India, originated from which word?
(A) Hindu
(B) Indike
(C) Sindhu
(D) Jambudvīpa
Answer
Answer: (C) Sindhu
14. The term ‘Hindustān’ was first used in which type of ancient inscription?
(A) Greek
(B) Persian
(C) Chinese
(D) Roman
Answer
Answer: (B) Persian
15. Which Chinese scholar visited India in the 7th century CE, collecting Buddhist texts and translating them into Chinese?
(A) Xuanzang
(B) Faxian
(C) Confucius
(D) Zhou Enlai
Answer
Answer: (A) Xuanzang
16. Which ancient foreign civilization referred to India as ‘Tianzhu’, which could also mean ‘heavenly master’?
(A) Greek
(B) Chinese
(C) Roman
(D) Persian
Answer
Answer: (B) Chinese
17. The term ‘Hindustān’, first used by invaders to describe the Indian Subcontinent, appeared approximately how many years ago?
(A) 1,000 years
(B) 1,500 years
(C) 1,800 years
(D) 2,000 years
Answer
Answer: (C) 1,800 years
18. Which of the following names for India was derived from the Sindhu River, according to Persian and Greek sources?
(A) Indu
(B) Indoi
(C) Yindu
(D) Jambudvīpa
Answer
Answer: (B) Indoi
19. Xuanzang, the Chinese traveler, spent how many years in India collecting Buddhist texts and meeting scholars?
(A) 7 years
(B) 10 years
(C) 15 years
(D) 17 years
Answer
Answer: (D) 17 years
20. The ancient Greeks dropped which letter from the word ‘Hindu’ due to the absence of this sound in their language?
(A) H
(B) N
(C) S
(D) D
Answer
Answer: (A) H
21. Which Persian word for India was first used about 1,800 years ago and later adopted by invaders?
(A) Hind
(B) Indoi
(C) Yindu
(D) Jambudvīpa
Answer
Answer: (A) Hind
22. Xuanzang, the Chinese traveler, translated Buddhist manuscripts from Sanskrit into which language after returning to China?
(A) Greek
(B) Latin
(C) Chinese
(D) Persian
Answer
Answer: (C) Chinese
23. The term ‘Bhārata’, still used today to refer to India, became common in ancient texts after which period?
(A) Around 250 BCE
(B) 6th century CE
(C) 1,000 BCE
(D) 7th century CE
Answer
Answer: (A) Around 250 BCE
24. In which ancient text do we find the description of Bhārata as the country between the ocean and the snowy mountains?
(A) Ṛig Veda
(B) Mahābhārata
(C) Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
(D) Upanishads
Answer
Answer: (C) Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
25. Which part of the Indian Subcontinent is referred to as ‘Cape Kumari’ in ancient Tamil literature?
(A) Western Ghats
(B) Kanyakumari
(C) Vindhya Range
(D) Kashmir
Answer
Answer: (B) Kanyakumari
26. According to ancient Persian records, what term was used to refer to India and is purely geographical in nature?
(A) Yindu
(B) Hindu
(C) Indoi
(D) Bhārata
Answer
Answer: (B) Hindu
27. Which of the following ancient civilizations referred to India as ‘Yintu’ or ‘Yindu’?
(A) Roman
(B) Greek
(C) Chinese
(D) Persian
Answer
Answer: (C) Chinese
28. In which century did the Persian emperor launch a military campaign and gain control of the Indus region?
(A) 7th century BCE
(B) 6th century BCE
(C) 5th century BCE
(D) 4th century BCE
Answer
Answer: (B) 6th century BCE
29. The term ‘Sindhu’ was used to refer to which river or region in ancient India?
(A) Yamuna
(B) Ganges
(C) Indus
(D) Godavari
Answer
Answer: (C) Indus
30. Which Greek term for India is derived from the Persian adaptation of the word ‘Sindhu’?
(A) Indoi
(B) Tianzhu
(C) Bhārata
(D) Hindustān
Answer
Answer: (A) Indoi
31. Which term used in the Viṣhṇu Purāṇa describes the land located north of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains?
(A) Hindustān
(B) Jambudvīpa
(C) Bhārata
(D) Sapta Sindhava
Answer
Answer: (C) Bhārata
32. The phrase ‘India, that is Bharat’ is mentioned in which important Indian document?
(A) The Rig Veda
(B) The Mahābhārata
(C) The Constitution of India
(D) The Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
Answer
Answer: (C) The Constitution of India
33. What is the common interpretation of the term ‘Jambudvīpa’ in ancient Indian texts?
(A) Island of the Jambul Tree
(B) Land of Seven Rivers
(C) Mountain Range
(D) River Valley
Answer
Answer: (A) Island of the Jambul Tree
34. Which ancient Tamil text describes a king whose name is known from Cape Kumari to the great northern mountains?
(A) Tirukkural
(B) Sangam Literature
(C) Silappatikaram
(D) Manimekalai
Answer
Answer: (B) Sangam Literature
35. The Constitution of India, originally written in English, uses which phrase to define the country?
(A) Jambudvīpa, that is India
(B) Bharat, the Great Subcontinent
(C) India, that is Bharat
(D) Hindustān, the Indian Subcontinent
Answer
Answer: (C) India, that is Bharat
36. Which foreign term for India was adapted by the ancient Greeks, dropping the initial ‘H’ sound?
(A) Hindustān
(B) Indoi
(C) Tianzhu
(D) Yindu
Answer
Answer: (B) Indoi
37. The ancient Chinese word ‘Tianzhu’ for India could also be interpreted as what?
(A) Land of Buddha
(B) Heavenly Master
(C) Land of Rivers
(D) Land of Kings
Answer
Answer: (B) Heavenly Master
38. Which ancient foreign traveler is known for visiting India, collecting Buddhist texts, and translating them into Chinese?
(A) Faxian
(B) Xuanzang
(C) Megasthenes
(D) Marco Polo
Answer
Answer: (B) Xuanzang
39. The name ‘Hindustān’ was first used in a Persian inscription approximately how many years ago?
(A) 1,000 years
(B) 1,200 years
(C) 1,500 years
(D) 1,800 years
Answer
Answer: (D) 1,800 years
40. The Greek term ‘Indike’ is related to the ancient word for which river in India?
(A) Ganges
(B) Yamuna
(C) Godavari
(D) Sindhu
Answer
Answer: (D) Sindhu
41. What was the main source of the ancient Chinese term ‘Yindu’ for India?
(A) Hindu
(B) Sindhu
(C) Jambudvīpa
(D) Bhārata
Answer
Answer: (B) Sindhu
42. Which of the following was **not** a name derived from the Sindhu River?
(A) Hind
(B) Indoi
(C) Yindu
(D) Bhārata
Answer
Answer: (D) Bhārata
43. In ancient Persian, what did the word ‘Hindu’ refer to?
(A) A religious group
(B) A geographical region
(C) A ruler
(D) A dynasty
Answer
Answer: (B) A geographical region
44. Which ancient civilization’s records show the earliest usage of the term ‘Hindustān’?
(A) Chinese
(B) Greek
(C) Persian
(D) Roman
Answer
Answer: (C) Persian
45. The term ‘Tianzhu’ used by the ancient Chinese to refer to India can be traced back to which original word?
(A) Sindhu
(B) Bhārata
(C) Indoi
(D) Jambudvīpa
Answer
Answer: (A) Sindhu
46. Which Persian word evolved to become the name ‘Hindustān’ for the Indian Subcontinent?
(A) Sindhu
(B) Yindu
(C) Indoi
(D) Tianzhu
Answer
Answer: (A) Sindhu
47. The Chinese traveler Xuanzang visited India during which century?
(A) 5th century CE
(B) 6th century CE
(C) 7th century CE
(D) 8th century CE
Answer
Answer: (C) 7th century CE
48. Xuanzang’s journey to India lasted for how many years?
(A) 7 years
(B) 10 years
(C) 17 years
(D) 20 years
Answer
Answer: (C) 17 years
49. In addition to India, which modern-day countries were part of ‘Jambudvīpa’ according to ancient Indian texts?
(A) Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan
(B) Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan
(C) Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal
(D) Iran, Iraq, Nepal
Answer
Answer: (A) Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan
50. Which document mentions the phrase ‘India, that is Bharat’ at its beginning?
(A) The Viṣhṇu Purāṇa
(B) The Rig Veda
(C) The Constitution of India
(D) The Mahābhārata
Answer
Answer: (C) The Constitution of India
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