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Class 6 India’s Cultural Roots worksheet
CBSE Social Science. Oral traditions, manuscripts and inscriptions, the Brahmi script, the mahajanapadas, ancient centres of learning, and early Indian mathematics, medicine and astronomy. Every sheet has 20 questions in three sections and an answer key, and the numbers change every time.
Sample questions
Real questions from this chapter, as the app sets them. Tap Answer to see the answer and working.
Section A · multiple choice
- 1.
Knowledge passed down by speaking and memory, not writing, is called:
- film tradition
- internet tradition
- printed tradition
- oral tradition
Answer
(d) oral tradition
- 2.
The capital of the mahajanapada of Avanti was:
- Ujjayini
- Champa
- Ahichchhatra
- Vaishali
Answer
(a) Ujjayini
- 3.
The bronze figure of a dancing girl from Mohenjo-daro belongs to which field of knowledge?
- mathematics
- medicine
- astronomy
- metalwork
Answer
(d) metalwork
Section B · short answer
- 4.
What is an oral tradition?
Answer
Knowledge, stories and songs passed from older people to younger ones by speaking and memory.
- 5.
Write the word: (a) a song passed down among the people of a region (b) knowledge passed down by speaking and memory
Answer
(a) folk song (b) oral tradition
Section C · long answer
- 6.
How did knowledge pass from one generation to the next before books were common?
Answer
Teachers recited and students repeated until they knew it by heart; later, texts were copied by hand on palm leaves and birch bark, and important orders were carved on stone.
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