Ans: D

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• Statement 1 is incorrect: The Houses in the Harappan cities were arranged in a grid system, with roads cutting across one another virtually at right angles. The same city was inhabited by different housing groups that were not of the same size. Social differentiation is indicated by different residential structures, with the number of rooms varying from one to twelve.
• Statement 2 is incorrect: In Mohenjodaro, the largest building is a granary. In Harappa, as many as six granaries can be found. Kalibangan has brick platforms, which may have been used for granaries. Thus, it appears that granaries played an important role in Harappan cities.

Ans: C

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• Statement 1 is correct: Indus people produced wheat, barley, rai, peas, sesamum as well as mustard. Rice husk was found at Lothal. Food grains were stored in huge granaries in both Mohenjodaro and Harappa, and possibly in Kalibangan. The Indus people were the earliest people to produce cotton, and because of this, the Greeks called the area Sindon.
• Statement 2 is correct: In the Harappan culture, the citadel may have been the seat of sovereign power, the middle town may have been the area where the bureaucrats lived or the seat of government, and the great granary at Mohenjo Daro may have been the treasury.  Fortification was a feature of several cities. Dholavira, in particular, had forts within forts.

Ans: A

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• Pair 1 is correct: Mohenjodaro (Mound of the Dead) is in northern Sindh province, Pakistan. Some of the prominent findings of Mohenjodaro were the great bath, Granary, Bronze dancing girl, seal of Pashupati, steatite statue of bearded man.
• Pair 2 is incorrect:  Fire Altar was found in Kalibangan and Lothal. A water harnessing system and Water reservoir was found in Dholavira. The citadel of Dholavira, built of stone, is a monumental work and the most impressive among the Harappan citadels discovered so far. 
• Pair 3 is correct: Banawali is a Harappan site in Hisar district, Haryana. A substantial quantity of barley was discovered at Banawali. 

Ans: B

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• Statement 1 is incorrect: The greatest artistic creations of the Harappan culture are seals. About 2000 seals have been found, and of these a majority of seals carried short inscriptions with pictures of one horned animals called unicorns, buffaloes, tigers, rhinoceroses, goats, elephants, antelopes, and crocodiles. 
• Statement 2 is correct: Seals were made of steatite (or soapstone) or faience and served as symbols of authority, and were used for stamping as well as amulets.  Some seals have mathematical images and are used for educational purposes.

Ans: C

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• Statement-I is correct: In Harappa, numerous terracotta figurines of women have been found. In one figurine, a plant is shown growing out of the embryo of a woman. The image probably represents the goddess of earth, and was believed to be  connected with the origin and growth of plants. The Harappans, therefore, worshipped the earth as a fertility goddess in the same way that the Egyptians worshipped the Nile goddess Isis. 
• Statement-II is incorrect: However, there is no evidence of whether the Harappans were matriarchal people like the Egyptians. In Egypt, the daughter inherited the throne or property, but the nature of inheritance in Harappan society is not well known today.