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TS 6th Class Social Bits 6th Lesson From Gathering Food to Growing Food – The Earliest People
Objective Type Questions
I. Choose the correct answer and write its letter it in the bracket.
1. An example for natural food
A) Boiled rice
B) Chutney
C) Curry
D) Honey
Answer:
D) Honey
2. This food item should be soaked in water to eat.
A) Wheat
B) Fruits
C) Pizza
D) Vegetables
Answer:
A) Wheat
3. The early people used the tools made up of
A) Sand
B) Stone
C) Steel
D) Bronze
Answer:
B) Stone
4. The tools made from small pieces of hard stones were called
A) Bone tools
B) Neoliths
C) Flakes
D) Microliths
Answer:
C) Flakes
5. An example for microliths
A) Stone sickle
B) Early stone axe
C) Heavy stone tools
D) Cutter
Answer:
A) Stone sickle
6. This enabled the early humans to eat roasted meat.
A) Sickle
B) Axe
C) Stone
D) Fire
Answer:
D) Fire
7. The early man used fire to provide light in
A) Streets
B) House
C) Caves
D) Theatres
Answer:
C) Caves
8. This was often heated on fire to harden it for use.
A) Stone
B) Wood
C) Steel
D) Bronze
Answer:
B) Wood
9. The early humans used to live in
A) Small groups
B) Small families
C) Joint families
D) Large families
Answer:
A) Small groups
10. ‘Serupally’is in this district
A) Adilabad
B) Nagar Kurnool
C) Peddapally
D) Mahabub Nagar
Answer:
D) Mahabub Nagar
11. The main occupation of the early humans
A) hunting
B) animal hiding
C) growing crops
D) all the above
Answer:
A) hunting
12. From whom the early humans did get knowledge ?
A) Gods
B) Ancestors
C) Natural powers
D) Priests
Answer:
B) Ancestors
13. The tools of the early humans are made of
A) stones
B) bones
C) wood
D) all the above
Answer:
D) all the above
14. The early humans used large store tools for
A) to cut meat
B) to digout tubers
C) to hunt animals
D) all the above
Answer:
D) all the above
15 causes a great change in the life style of the early humans.
A) Discovery of fire
B) Hunting animals
C) Collecting tubers
D) None
Answer:
A) Discovery of fire
16. The early humans used fire in this way.
A) to keep off wild animals
B) to light the caves
C) to cook food
D) all the above
Answer:
D) all the above
17. The people constantly moving from one place to another are called as
A) Nomads
B) Easyads
C) Strollers
D) Wanderers
Answer:
A) Nomads
18. Find out the wrong matches.
| Stone age sites | Districts |
| 1. Ekkala – | Jayashankar |
| 2. Amarabad | Mahabubnagar |
| 3. Eleswaram | Nalgonda |
| 4. Ramagundam | Karimnagar |
| 5. Utnoor | Adilabad |
| 6. Armoor | Nizamabad |
| 7. Manjeera valley | Medak |
| 8. Cherla | Bhadradri |
A) 1,2,3
B) 3.5,7
C) 1,4,8
D) 2,4.7
Answer:
D) 2,4.7
19. Even now, several groups of people sustain themselves by hunting and gathering food in our state
A) Yanadis
B) Chenchus
C) Both A & B
D) None
Answer:
C) Both A & B
20. Who were the hunterers in early humans ?
A) women
B) men
C) men & women
D) none
Answer:
C) men & women
21. There were no …………. differences in sharing the collected food hunted
A) gender
B) economical
C) small / big
D) none
Answer:
B) economical
22. Human beings started growing crops only about ………. years ago.
A) 10.000
B) 12,000
C) 14,000
D) 16,000
Answer:
B) 12,000
23. The early crops that were grown
A) paddy
B) wheat, jowar
C) pulses, tubers, grains
D) all the above
Answer:
D) all the above
24. These products were obtained from the animals reared by the early humans.
A) meat
B) animal hides
C) milk
D) all the above
Answer:
D) all the above
25. Every year there was no need to go far off places for fertile lands. How do they come to know this issue ?
A) by ploughing the land and by using the fertilizers they can keep the lands fertile
B) ploughing the land by using animals
C) rearing animals
D) none
Answer:
D) none
26. The early humans constructed their houses with
A) stone, wood
B) mud
C) hay
D) all the above
Answer:
D) all the above
27. In this age the early farmers needed to clear the forests by cutting trees and branches by using a new kind of tool.
A) old stone age
B) middle stone age
C) modern stone age
D) none
Answer:
C) modern stone age
28. In which age the agriculture was performed with new stone tools
A) modern stone age
B) old stone age
C) middle stone age
D) bronze age
Answer:
A) modern stone age
29. The earliest evidence of domestication in the Deccan comes from the border of these states.
A) Telangana, A.P. Karnataka
B) Telangana, Maharashtra, M.P
C) Telangana, A.P. M.P
D) A.P. Tamilnadu. Kerala
Answer:
A) Telangana, A.P. Karnataka
30. Ash mounds are found in this district in our state.
A) modern stone age
B) old stone age
C) middle stone age
D) bronze age
Answer:
C) middle stone age
31. The sites of new stone age were found in this district of our Teiangana state.
A) Warangal Rural, Warangal Urban, Karimnagar, Peddapally
B) Mahaboobnagar, Adilabad, Jayashankar
C) Both A and B
D) Ranga Reddy, Medak, nagar Kurnool
Answer:
C) Both A and B
32.
What does the picture shows ?
A) Life style of early people
C) Life style of Hilly tracts
B) Life style of present people
D) Life style of rural people
Answer:
A) Life style of early people
33.
These are found in
A) Amarabad, Nagar Kurnool
B) Serupally, Mahabubnagar
C) Yeleswaram, Nalgonda
D) Ghanpur, Adilabad
Answer:
B) Serupally, Mahabubnagar
34. 
What did the picture tell us ?
A) Food preserved
B) Get the food from grains
C) Seeds
D) None
Answer:
A) Food preserved
35. 
What does the picture reveals ?
A) Hunting the deer
B) Offering thanks to a hunted deer
C) Protecting the deer
D) Tamming the deer
Answer:
B) Offering thanks to a hunted deer
36. The reason to find out fire by man
A) Migration from one place to another place
B) For hunting
C) To cook food
D) For Agriculture
Answer:
C) To cook food
37. People who regularly move from place to place are called
A) Nomads
B) Hunter-gatherers
C) Herders
D) Farmers
Answer:
A) Nomads
38. The harvest had to be stored for long periods about
A) Two years
B) Six months to one year
C) Four years
D) Two months
Answer:
B) Six months to one year
39. The earliest evidence for domestication in the Deccan comes from the border of
A) Kerala and Karnataka
B) Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
C) Maharashtra and Rajasthan
D) Tamilnadu and Karnataka
Answer:
B) Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
40. In our own state the till very recently lived in hunting – gathering manner.
A) Yanadis and Chenchus
B) The earlist people
C) Herders
D) Nomads
Answer:
A) Yanadis and Chenchus
II. Read the following information and answer the following questions.
1. Microliths: After thousands of years they began to make fine, small pieces from
hard stone. These pieces were called ‘microliths’ Eg: Stone sickle. Early Hand axe was excavated in Kamakur village, Pottisriramulu Nellore district.
2. Neoliths : Vessels were needed to store and cook gram, water, milk etc. It led to the making of pots of different kinds. The early farmers selected the right kind of stone which was ground on rock to give it an axe like edge.
Eg: An old pot preserving food, Axe head fixed to a wood. Neolithic stone tools made by grinding stones were excavated is Serupalli, Mahaboobnagar district. Axe head fixed to a wood was excavated at Ahmarabad, Mahaboobnagar.
1. …………… were fixed to wooden or bone handles which then served as knives, arrows, sickles, etc.
A) Microliths
B) Neolithics
C) Pots
D) Stones
Answer:
A) Microliths
2. The early farmers selected the right kind of stone which was ground on rock to get …………..
A) Axe
B) Pot
C) Mortar
D) Knife
Answer:
A) Axe
3. …………….. were needed to cook and store grain, water, milk, etc.
A) Vessels
B) Sickles
C) Axe
D) Machines
Answer:
A) Vessels
4. Grinding stones were excavated in Serupalli, ………….. district.
A) Nalgonda
B) Krishna
C) Guntur
D) Mahaboobnagar
Answer:
A) Nalgonda
5. It is after this new kind of stone tool that this period of early agriculture is called ……….. period.
A) Stone Age
B) Paleolithic
C) Neolithic
D) Microliths
Answer:
C) Neolithic