Weaving and Pottery Ceramic Technology: Multiple choice questions with answer

Tamils and Technology

Unit - I:

WEAVING AND CERAMIC (Pottery) TECHNOLOGY

 

MCQ QUESTIONS

  

1. How many types of clothing are there in pathupattu reference?

a) 10

b) 5

c) 9

d) 7

(Ans: c)

2. Who wears the garment called "Thuhil'?

a) Men

b) Women

c) God

d) Window

(Ans: a)

3. Who wore the 'Kalingam' dress?

a) Men

b) Women

c) Deity

d) Window

(Ans: b)

4. What is the rough fabric used to make a tent?

a) Aruvai

b) Kazhagam

c) Kandam

d) Katchai

(Ans: c)

5. What is a torn, dirty rag?

a) Aruvai

b) Kalingam

c) Katchai

d) Sithar

(Ans: d)

6. What is the period of sculptures found in Amaravati- Jakkayyapettai in Andhra Pradesh?

a) B.C.500 - A.D.300

b) B.C.200 - B.C.100

c) A.D.200 - A.D.300

d) A.D.100 - A D 500

(Ans: b)

7. What is the period of the sculptures of men wearing turbans?

a) A.D.100 - A.D.200

b) A.D.100 - A.D.300

c) A.D.100 - A D.400

d) A.D.100 - A.D.500

(Ans : c)

8. What was the product of agriculture that marked the beginnings of human civilization?

a) Rice

b) Sugarcane

c) Cotton

d) Coconut

(Ans: c)

9. What is the raw material of the weaving industry?

a) Loom

b) Cotton (paruthi)

c) Cotton (panju)

d) Thread

(Ans: b)

10. Who were involved in weaving during the Sangam period?

a) Men

b) Women

c) Children

d) Girls

(Ans: b)

11. Who were involved in the cleaning of cotton?

a) Weaver

b) Cultivators

c) Cotton women

d) Boys and girls

12. How many types of clothes were there?

a) 2

b) 3

c) 4

d) 5

(Ans: c)

13. Which planet was used for dyeing?

(a) Auri konrai

b) Hibiscus – Rose

c) Poovarasu - Arali

d) Jasmine - Bichi

(Ans : a)

14. What was the tax levied on unwoven looms?

a) Kudi tax

b) Mudi tax

c) Loom tax

d) Thread tax

(Ans : b)

15. What was the tax levied for using weaver's road?

a) Madi tax

b) Kudi tax

c) Loom tax

d) Threshold tax

(Ans: d)

16. What was the name of the weaver's sales tax?

a) Clan tax

b) Thala tax

c) Loom tax

d) Cloth tax

(Ans: a)

17. How were potters called?

a) Panar - Panaiyar

b) Mannar - Vanaiyar

c) Kuyavar - Vetco

d) Kuvalar – Saliyar

(Ans: c)

18. How many types of pots were used by the Tamils of the Sangam period?

a) 5

b) 4

c) 10

d) 7

(Ans: a)

19. What was the pot used for keeping pickles?

a) Jar

b) Khadi

c) Lid

d) Thadavu

(Ans : b)

20. What was the pot used to heat water?

(a) Thadavu

b) Gadi

c) Kannal

d) Pot

(Ans: a)

21. What was the pot where milk and curd were kept?

a) Gadi

b) Kannal

c) Thasumbu

d) Thadavu.

(Ans: c)

22. What was the pot used to hold water?

a) Jar

b) Gadi

c) Kannal

d) Thadavu

(Ans: c)

23. What was the pot used for cooking food?

a) Kumizhi

b) Kannal

c) Satti

d) Pot

(Ans: a)

24. What was the tool used to make pottery?

a) Potting machine

b) Thiruvai

c) Roller

d) Soil tiller

(Ans : b)

25. How many types of thiruvais were there?

a) 2

b) 3

c) 4

d) 5

(Ans: a)

26. What were the types of thiruvai?

a) Small - large thiruvai

b) Ball - point cone cavity

c) Circle - wheel

d) Roller – wheel

 (Ans : b)

27. What is the period of the black red vessels?

a) B.C.1450 - B.C.1200

b) A.D.1450 - A.D.1200

c) B.C.1500 - B.C.1200

d) A.D.1500 - A.D.1200

(Ans : a)

28. What gave colour to black red pots?

a) Hematite - charcoal

b) Charcoal - hematite

c) Lacquer - Auri

d) Konrai - saffron

(Ans: b)

29. How hot should the pot be heated?

a) 120c

b) 1120c

c) 1100c

d) 1200c

 (Ans: c)

30. What was the reason why the black red colour of the pot did not fade?

a) Hematite - Sari

b) Carbon - nano tubes

c) Temperature

d) Organic matter.

(Ans: b)

31. What was the pot used to bury the body of the deceased?

a) Perumpanai

b) Earthern pot

(c) Old people thazhi

d) Earthern Jar

(Ans: c)

32. What is the name of the Tamil script that existed in the Indus Valley Civilization?

a) Dravidian

b) Tamil

c) Thanizhi

d) Code

(Ans: c)

33. What is the writing style found on the kodumanal – Keezhadi pottery?

a) Thamizhi

b) Tamil Brahmi

c) Dravidam

d) Ariyan

(Ans: b)

34. Where were the most numerous inscriptions found in South India?

a) Kerala

b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Telungana

(Ans: c)

35. What was the symbol (muthirai) of the Indus Valley people?

a) Animal

b) Bird

c) Tree

d) Swasthik

(Ans : d)

36. How was the Tamil - Brahmi form called?

a) Code

b) Thamizhi

c) Incision.

d) Brahmi

(Ans: b)

37. How many Tamil inscription pottery sherds have been found in the Keezhadi excavations?

(a) 50

b) 56

c) 46

d) 36

(Ans : b)

38. What are the places where archaeological research has Econ carried out in Tamilnadu?

a) Adichanaloor - Korkai

b) Karungulam - Mangulam

c) Sengulam - Puthukkulam

d) Arikamedu – Bhavani

(Ans : a)

39 What was the form used for communication during the Sangam period?

a) Code

b) Incision

c) Letters

d) Picture

(Ans: a)

40. What is the name given to a Tamil inscription with six letters on a single line?

a) Thamizhi

b) Incision

c) Kuviran

d) Code

(Ans: c)