Traditional India
Review Quizzo Game
Round 1: Gods & Goddesses
Identify the following gods/goddesses…
1.Removes obstacles
2.Creator god
3.Goddess that kills evil & demons
4.Goddess wealth & prosperity
5.Helps people do their dharma
6.God that destroys & reincarnates
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
Answers to Round 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Ganesh
Brahma
Kali
Lakshmi
Vishnu
Shiva
7. Shiva
8. Lakshmi
9. Kali
10. Brahma
11. Ganesh
12. Vishnu
Round 2. Hindu Beliefs
Identify the term for…
1. A person’s spirit or energy
2. Idea that a person dies, their spirit
get reborn into another living things
3. A person’s duty in life
4. The result of a person’s actions in
this life
5. Showing your devotion to a god
6. Sacred animal
7. A person cannot change how their
life is going to go
8. A person’s spirit has become so
pure that it does not need to be
reincarnated, and so it becomes
one with the Universal Spirit
9. Universal Spirit
10. status in society
Answers to Round 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Atman
Reincarnation
dharma
karma
puja
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
cow
fate
mokshe
Brahmin
caste
Round 3: Caste
1. What does caste represent?
2. What is the highest caste?
3. What is the lowest caste?
4. What is the largest caste?
5. How does a person know what caste
they are?
What “job” do Kshatrya have?
What “job” do Vaishya have?
Which god determines your caste?
Which Hindu idea is directly tied to
caste?
10. Finish the following sentence: Caste
affects a person’s entire ________
of __________
6.
7.
8.
9.
Answers to Round 3
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Spiritual purity 6.
Brahman
7.
Untouchables
Sudras
Birth/parents 8.
9.
10.
warrior
Skilled
worker/
craftsmen
Shiva
Karma
Entire way of
life
Round 4: Hindu Stories
Identify the story based on the following
plot…
1.An elephant will not put a flag pole in
a hole, despite being beaten, so he
does not kill a cat
2.Blind men are using touch to describe
an elephant
Identify the story based on the
following plot…
3.Arjuna does not want to fight in a
battle, but Krishna, an incarnation
of Vishnu, convinces him to do so
4.A priest is going to sacrifice a goat,
but the goat stops him so he, too, is
not reincarnated as a goat
Identify the story based on the main
Hindu belief…
5.Bad karma leads to bad
reincarnation
6.Do your dharma
7.All life is sacred
8.The Universal spirit is hard to describe
Answers to Round 4
1.
2.
3.
4.
Mahagiri
Six Blind Men
and the
Elephant
Arjuna’s
Sorrow (Lord’s
Song)
Jataka Parable
5.
6.
7.
8.
Jataka Parable
Arjuna’s
Sorrow (Lord’s
Song)
Mahagiri
Six Blind Men
and the
Elephant
Round 5: Early Civilizations ^
Patterns of Life
1. What are two reasons the Indus
Valley Civilizations began where it
did?
2. Why is the Indus Valley Civilization
significant?
3. Did the Aryans come from the
northeast, northwest, southeast, or
southwest?
4. The most significant idea that the
Aryans brought with them that is still
part of Hindu culture today is what?
5. What is the Hindu and Muslim tradition
of women staying secluded from society?
6. Did most people live in villages,
cities, or far apart?
7. Most villages made everything they
needed to survive. What is the social
studies term for this?
8. Who was the head of the traditional
Indian family? – the man or
women?
9. What determined what a person
wore, what they ate, and what job
they had within the village?
Answers to Round 5
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Fertile soil &
fresh water
One of the
largest ancient
civilizations
northwest
Casste system
Purdah
6.
7.
8.
9.
Villages
Selfsufficent
Man
caste
Please note…
This power point does not
include questions covering the
Ancient Civilizations or
Powerful Empires sections of
the review pacekt