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#	Question	Subject and topic	Difficulty
51	Bronze is an alloy of copper and	Anthropology Metal Age	Easy
52	Cultures that used copper together with stone tools are called	Anthropology Metal Age	Easy
53	Which Bronze Age civilisation of South Asia produced the bronze "dancing girl" figurine?	Anthropology Metal Age	Medium
54	Although bronze was used earlier, iron later became far more widespread. The main reason was that	Anthropology Metal Age	Medium
55	How did iron tools contribute to the spread of agriculture in the Ganga plain?	Anthropology Metal Age	Hard
56	According to the law of superposition, in undisturbed deposits the oldest layer is usually	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Easy
57	Radiocarbon dating can be used directly on which of these finds?	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Easy
58	A charcoal sample has one-eighth of the C-14 found in living wood. Taking the half-life as 5730 years, its ap…	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Medium
59	Archaeologists want the age of a volcanic ash layer lying just above early hominin fossils thought to be abou…	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Medium
60	Which statement correctly distinguishes relative from absolute dating?	Anthropology Stratigraphy and dating	Hard
61	Pit dwellings and burials of dogs with humans are associated with which Neolithic site?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Easy
62	The Great Bath is a famous structure at	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Easy
63	An industry of pebble choppers and chopping tools in the Siwalik foothills of the north-west is named after t…	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Medium
64	Why were the houses at Burzahom built partly below ground level?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Medium
65	Which group of features best shows that Harappan cities were planned?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Hard
66	A family consisting of a husband, wife and their unmarried children is called a	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Easy
67	Marriage of one woman to several men at the same time is called	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Easy
68	Among the Khasi, children take their clan name from their mother and property passes mainly through women. Th…	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Medium
69	After the death of her husband, a woman marries his younger brother as expected by custom. This practice is k…	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Medium
70	In a community, a person must marry within the same caste but outside his or her own clan. This combines	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Hard
71	Who gave the classic definition of culture as a "complex whole" acquired by man as a member of society?	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Easy
72	Judging other cultures as inferior by the standards of one's own culture is called	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Easy
73	An anthropologist studying a food taboo explains it in terms of the community's own ecology and beliefs, with…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Medium
74	The potato, first domesticated in South America, became a common food in India without Indians and South Amer…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Medium
75	A tribal community living for decades beside a town adopts the town's dress, language and festivals while kee…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Hard
76	Belief in spirits and souls, regarded by Tylor as the earliest form of religion, is called	Anthropology Religion and belief	Easy
77	The division of the world into the sacred and the profane is central to the theory of religion of	Anthropology Religion and belief	Easy
78	A healer makes a small clay image of an enemy and pierces it, believing this will harm the person. This illus…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Medium
79	Members of a clan regard the tortoise as their ancestor and never kill or eat it. This practice is an example…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Medium
80	Malinowski observed that Trobriand islanders performed elaborate magic before open-sea fishing but not before…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Hard
81	Shifting cultivation in north-east India is commonly known as	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Easy
82	The Toda of the Nilgiri hills are traditionally associated with	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Easy
83	A small group moves seasonally through a forest collecting honey, roots and game, owns few possessions and sh…	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Medium
84	Shepherds of the Himalayas take their flocks to high pastures in summer and down to the valleys in winter. Th…	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Medium
85	Why does intensive plough agriculture usually support larger and more stratified societies than foraging?	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Hard
86	Which political unit is typically a small, mobile, egalitarian group of foragers with informal leadership?	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Easy
87	Power that is accepted by people as legitimate is called	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Easy
88	A village headman holds office because his father and grandfather held it before him, as custom requires. Acc…	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Medium
89	In a village, a man who repeatedly breaks rules is mocked, avoided and not invited to feasts, though no court…	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Medium
90	A society has a hereditary chief who collects produce from several villages and redistributes it at feasts, b…	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Hard
91	The idea that the language a person speaks influences how he or she perceives the world is called the	Anthropology Language and culture	Easy
92	A child of Tamil-speaking parents is adopted at birth and raised in a Punjabi-speaking family. The child will…	Anthropology Language and culture	Easy
93	Hindi has separate words for father's brother and mother's brother, while English uses only "uncle". This bes…	Anthropology Language and culture	Medium
94	A student speaks Marathi at home, English in class and a mix of both with friends, switching smoothly. This p…	Anthropology Language and culture	Medium
95	Human language allows people to talk about ancestors who died long ago and plans for next year. This property…	Anthropology Language and culture	Hard
96	Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam belong to which language family?	Anthropology Diversity in India	Easy
97	Bihu is a major harvest festival of which state?	Anthropology Diversity in India	Easy
98	Santali, spoken by the Santhals, belongs to which language family?	Anthropology Diversity in India	Medium
99	In a hilly region with very heavy rainfall and frequent flooding, which house design is most likely?	Anthropology Diversity in India	Medium
100	Which statement about the languages of India's tribal communities is correct?	Anthropology Diversity in India	Hard