Multiple Choice Quiz on Human Evolution

This quiz is designed to assess your basic knowledge in 'human evolution’. Questions come under ‘medium’ category. Choose the best answer from the four options given. When you've finished answering as many of the questions as you can, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check your answers by clicking 'Get score'. Percentage score will be displayed along with right answers.

1. Who was the first civilized man?
Cro Magnon man
Ternifier man
Neaderthal man
Heidelberg man
2. The fossils of Ramapithecus was discovered by
E. Lewis
Leaky
Eugene Dubois
Raymond Dart
3. Which of the following is not in the direction of evolution of human species
developed brain
binocular vision
opposable thumb
raised orbital ridges
4. Ancestor of man first stood erect was
Cro magnon
Australopithecus
Peking man
Java man
5. Which one of the following factors is considered best for evolution of man?
extinction of reptiles
appearance of angiosperms
pliestocene climate
preference of cave life
6. A book 'Man's place in Nature' was published by
Charles Darwin
Raymond Dart
T H Huxley
Mary Leakey
7. Which of the following is the age of tools of stones and bones?
mesolithic
bronze
neolithic
paleolithic
8. The cranical capacity was the largest in one of the following fossils of man
Peking man
Cromagnon Man
Neanderthal man
Peking man
9. Coloured rock painting were presumably first made by
Cromagnon man
Java ape man
Peking man
Neanderthal man
10. The earliest site where human civilization and crop cultivation started was presumably
around river Nile
around river Amazon
around Caspian and Mediterranean sea
all of the above
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