Chapter-The Beginning of time

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Q.1. When did the first human-like creative come into existence?

a) 6.6 million years ago

b) 5.6 million years ago

c) 7.6 million years ago

d) 4.6 million years ago

Answer:

b) It was 5.6 million years ago that human like creative appeared on the face of earth.

Q.2. Human beings resembling us appeared on earth about ___________ years ago.

a) 160,000

b) 150, 000

c) 140, 000

d) 130, 000

Answer:

a) It was only about 160,000 years ago that species looking like humans appeared.

Q.3. Fossils are ___________ of old plants and animals which have turned into stone.

a) Remains

b) Pieces

c) Things

d) Pictures

Answer:

a) Fossils are remains of old plant get embedded rock and have thus been preserved.

Q.4. Specie is a group of ______________ that can breed to produce fertile offspring’s.

a) Tree

b) Human

c) Animal

d) Organism

Answer:

d) Species is a group of organism and members of one specie cannot mate with those of other specie.

Q.5. _____________ can be dated through direct chemical analysis or indirectly by dating the rudiments in which they are embedded.

a) Trees

b) Artifacts

c) Fossils

d) None of them

Answer:

(c) Fossils are dated adopting the above processes.

Q..6. Which year was the Rigveda composed

a) 2000 to 1000

b) 1500 to 1400 c) 700 to 600

d) 3000 to 2000

Answer:

b) One of the oldest books of the Aryans was written during this period.

Q.7. Who wrote, “On the Origin of Species”?

a) L. Cunnigham

b) Carl Fuhlrott

c) Charles Darwin

d) None of the above.

Answer:

c) Charles Darwin propounded the theory that humans had evolved from animals long time back.

Q.8. Which year did Charles Darwin propound his theory on the animal ancestor of a human being?

a) 1859

b) 1759

c)1659

d) 1959

Answer:

a) Charles Darwin propounded this theory in the year 1859.

Q.9. When did Hominoids come into being?

a) 25 Million years ago

b) 24 Million years ago

c) 26 Million years ago

d) 27 Million years ago

Answer:

b) Hominoids a subgroup of pivates came into being about 24 Million years ago.

Q.10. From when do we get proof of Hominids coming into existence?

a) 5.6 Million years ago

b) 6.5 Million years ago

c) 4.5 Million years ago

d) 7.5 Million years ago

Answer:

a) Hominids the next developed from of human being came into existence about 5.6 Million years ago.

Q.11. What is one major difference between hominoids and hominids?

a) Smaller brain

b) Bigger brain

c) Smaller Jaw

d) Bigger jaw

Answer:

a) The hominoids had smaller brain in comparison to hominids.

Q.12. Give another difference between hominoids and hominids.

a) walked upright

b) walked on fours

c) Walked on three

d) None of the above

Answer:

(a) The hominids walked on two feet in contrast hominoids who were quadrupeds.

Q.13. Which place could we say was the origin of the hominids?

a) S. America

b) America

c) Asia

d) Africa

Answer:

d) Africa most probably was where the hominids originated.

Q.14. What is the Australopithecus?

a) Hominid fossil

b) Name of a genus

c) Hominoid fossil

d) None of the above

Answer:

b) The earliest hominid fossil belongs to the genus Australopithecus.

Q.15. Fossils found apart from Africa are about _____________ old.

a) 2.8 Million years ago

b) 3.8 Million years ago

c) 1.8 Million years ago

d) 4.8 Million years ago

Answer:

c) The oldest fossils found are in Africa as old as 5.6 Million years ago.

Q.16. ___________ are subgroup of mammals.

a) Amphibians

b) Reptiles

c) Primates

d) Annelids

Answer:

c) Primates are subgroup of mammals

Q.17. The main difference between Hominoids and monkeys are

a) Larger body

b) Absence of tail

c) Longer period of infant development

d) All of the above

Answer:

d) Hominoids have all the above features which are not in monkeys.

Q.18. Genus is a branch of _____________ .

a) Hominoids

b) Hominids

c) Mammals

d) Primates

Answer:

b) Hominids are subdivided into Genus.

Q.19. Who do you understand the term Australopithecus?

a) Southern ape

b) Northern ape

c) Southern monkey

d) Northern monkey

Answer:

d) Australopithecus means southern ape due to its features still resembling apes.

Q.20. The more advanced example of Hominids is the

a) Australopithecus

b) Homo

c) Primates

d) Mammals

Answer:

b) Homo was a more advanced example of Hominids in the history of evolution.

Q.21. Traces of early human history have been recovered from

a) Rift Valley, East Africa

b) Rift Valley, Colorado

c) Rift Valley, India

d) Rift Valley, East India

Answer:

a) Rift Valley, East Africa is one of the important areas, from where, traces of early human history has been found.

Q.22. Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey were.

a) Archaeologists

b) Historians

c) Painters

d) Geologists

Answer:

a) They were archaeologists who found Australopithecus

Q.23. What is the one major difference between the remains of humans and their classification into different species?

a) Bone structure

b) Finger structure

c) Colour of skin

d) Place of origin.

Answer:

a) It is the bone structure such as the jaw size and skull size that early human remains are differentiated into species.

Q.24. Fossil limbs recovered from Hadar and Ethiopia are

a) Larger jaw Structure

b) Bipedalism

c) Larger skull structure

d) Smaller jaw structure

Answer:

It is one of the best examples of evolution of Bipedalism

Q.25.What do you mean by bipedalism in the context of the evolution of human beings?

a) Use of hands

b) Use of feet

c) Use of feet and hands separately

d) None of the above

Answer:

Bipedalism enabled hands to be freed for carrying objects which was another step towards evolution.

Q.26. When did the phase of glaciations start in world history?

a) Around 2.5 Million years ago

b) around 3.5 Million years ago

c) around 4.5 Million years ago

d) around 5.5 Million years ago

Answer:

a) The age of glaciations started around 2.5 Million years ago.

Q.27. What led to the extinction of the genus Australopithecus?

a) Glaciations

b) Desertification

c) Rains

d) Flood

Answer:

a) Glaciations led to the extinction of Australopithecus as they were

Q.28. Which genus was more adapted to drier conditions?

a) Australopithecus

b) Hominids

c) Homo

d) None of the above

Answer:

c) The next genus after the Australopithecus was the Homo which was more adaptive to drier conditions.

Q.29. On the map of Africa Mark

a) Tanzania

b) Ethiopia

c) Kenya

d) South Africa

Answer:

Q.30. What does Homo sapiens mean?

a) Upright man

b) Toolmaker

c) Thinking or Wiseman

d) None of the above

Answer:

a) “Homo” means Man, “Sapiens” means wise or thinking.

Important MCQ-based questions History class 11 chapter-The Beginning of time Set-B

Q.31. The name of fossils are derived form

a) Places they are found

b) Typical characteristics

c) None of the above

d) All of the above

Answer:

d) The fossils are named after both the above factors.

Q.32. How long did the hominid species survive.

a) 1 Million years

b) 2 Million years

c) 3 Million years

d) 4 Million years

Answer:

a) Hominids survived for nearly one million years.

Q.33. Regional continuity model of the place of origin of early humans says that the early homos had.

a) Multiple regions of origin

b) Multiple origins in the same region

c) One region of one origin

d) None of the above

Answer:

a) Amongst various theories of origin this is one of the,

Q.34. Replacement model of origin related to the origin of early human (Homo Sapiens) in

a) One region – Africa

b) Two regions – Africa and Asia

c) Three regions – Africa, Asia and Germany

d) None of the above

Answer:

a ) this theory maintains that similarity amongst modern humans is due to their descent from population that originated in same region.

 

Q.35. Hunting as a way of getting food began in about.

a) 100,000 years ago

b) 200,000 years ago

c) 400,000 years ago

d) 500, 000 years ago

Answer:

d) Hunting began at about 500,000 years ago.

Q.36. Box grove in S. England and Schoningen in Germany are places where we find evidence of ______________?

a) Planned villages

b) Planned architecture

c) Planned hunting

d) None of the above

Answer:

c) These places give as clear evidence of deliberate hunting.

Q.37. Caves and open-air sites began to use between __________ years ago.

a) 400,000 – 125,000

b) 125,000 - 100, 000

c) 500. 000 – 125, 000

d) 100, 000 – 50,000

Answer:

a) Evidence for this has been found in sites in Europe like S. France.

Q.38. Who were the earliest tool makers?

a) Homo

b) Australopithecus

c) Homo Sapiens

d) Homo Erectus

Answer:

b) They were probably the earliest tool makers.

Q.39. The earliest evidence of tool making and use of stone tools comes from.

a) S. Africa

b) France

c) England

d) Ethiopia

Answer:

a) These two places have the earliest evidence of tool making.

Q.40. The earliest evidence of sewn cloth comes from about

a) 20, 000 years ago

b) 30,000 years ago

c) 21, 000 years ago

d) 31,000 years ago

Answer:

c) The earliest evidence of sewn cloth was about 21,000 years ago.

Q.41. Development of language amongst early humans dates back to about.

a) 2 Million years ago

b) 3 Million years ago

c) 4 Million years ago

d) 5 Million years ago

Answer:

a) Homo habilis genus had certain features which made it possible for them to speak.

Q.42. Art developed in about.

a) 50 ,000 – 40 ,000 years ago

b) 40,000 – 35,000 years ago

c) 30,000 – 25, 000 years ago

d) 20,000 – 15,000 years ago.

Answer:

b) The development of art has been closely related to development of language.

Q.43. Alta mina is Spain is famous for evidence of

a) Hunting

b) Plant fossils

c) Cave paintings

d) None of the above

Answer:

a) Alta mina in Spain and places in France are where hundreds of paintings of animals have been discovered.

Q.44. Study of human culture and evolutionary aspects of human biology is called.

a) History

b) Anthropology

c) Biology

d) Physiology

Answer:

Anthropology is the study of above aspects.

Q.45. The study of contemporary ethnic groups' livelihood, rituals political institutions, and social customs is called.

a) Ethnography

b) Anthropology

c) Ethnicity

d) None of the above

Answer:

a) Ethnography is the study of the above

Q.46. Between which years did the early man start to domesticate plants and animals approximately?

a) 10,000 – 4,500 years ago

b) 4,500 – 2000 years ago

c) 20,000 – 15,000 years ago

d) 30,000 – 20,000 years ago

Answer:

a) Domestication of plant and animals started in about 10,000 to 4,500 years ago.

Q.47. When did the last ice age come to an end?

a) 15,000 years ago

b) 14, 000 years ago

c) 13,000 years ago

d) 12,000 years ago

Answer:

c) The last ice age came to an end in about 13,000 years ago

Q.48. What reasons led to the change from foraging to farming occupation amongst the early humans?

a) end of the ice age

b) Warmer and welter weather

c) Domestication of animals c) All of the above

Answer:

d) All the above were reasons for development of farming.

Q.49. Pastoralism and farming began in an area extending from the Mediterranean coast to Zagros Mountain in Iran.

a) Development Crescent

b) Farming Crescent

c) Fertile Crescent

d) None of the above

Answer:

c) The area where farming and domestication of animals became permanent was the Fertile Crescent

Q.50. When approximately did people start living in cities?

a) 100, 000 years ago

b) 50,000 years ago

c) 10,000 years ago

d) 5,000 years ago

Answer:

d) It was approximately 5,000 years ago that people started living together in cities.