Question Paper
Class / Subject: Class 6 (CBSE) · Social Science
Chapter: Chapter 4 — Chapter 4: Timeline and Sources of History
Time Allowed: 32 minutes
Max Marks: 16
1. What does a timeline show? [1]
(A) Events in the order they happened
(B) Random events
(C) Only recent events
(D) Only ancient events
2. Where do the earliest events usually appear on a timeline? [1]
(A) On the left
(B) On the right
(C) In the middle
(D) Nowhere specific
3. What defines the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age? [1]
(A) The tools and technology used
(B) Only the rulers
(C) Only the wars
(D) Only the population
4. What comes after the Stone Age? [1]
(A) The Bronze Age
(B) The Iron Age directly
(C) Nothing
(D) Modern age directly
5. What do timelines help us understand? [1]
(A) How events and civilizations connect
(B) Nothing useful
(C) Only single events in isolation
(D) Only future events
6. What skill does creating timelines build? [1]
(A) Organising historical information
(B) No skill
(C) Only drawing skill
(D) Only counting skill
7. What relationship do timelines help us understand? [1]
(A) Cause-and-effect in history
(B) Only random events
(C) No relationships
(D) Only geography
8. Why is understanding timelines useful in history? [1]
(A) It helps organise and connect historical events
(B) No use
(C) Only for tests
(D) It's not useful
9. What is an example of a written source? [1]
(A) An inscription
(B) A folk tale
(C) A song
(D) A legend
10. What is an example of an archaeological source? [1]
(A) Pottery artefacts
(B) A written manuscript
(C) A folk song
(D) A legend
11. How are archaeological sources often found? [1]
(A) Through excavation
(B) Through writing only
(C) Through singing
(D) Through guessing
12. What is an example of an oral tradition? [1]
(A) Folk tales and legends
(B) Written inscriptions
(C) Coins
(D) Manuscripts
13. When are oral traditions especially useful? [1]
(A) When written records are scarce
(B) When there are too many written records
(C) Never useful
(D) Only for modern history
14. What do coins with rulers' names help historians learn? [1]
(A) About the rulers and their time period
(B) Nothing useful
(C) Only about currency value
(D) Only about art
15. Why do historians use multiple sources? [1]
(A) To build a more accurate picture of the past
(B) To confuse history
(C) One source is always enough
(D) No reason
16. What do historians do with different sources? [1]
(A) Study and cross-check them together
(B) Ignore most of them
(C) Use only one at random
(D) Discard them