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Carefully examine the map of the Citadel area of Mohenjodaro and answer the Questions that follow:

(a) Identify the two most important buildings located in the citadel area of Mohenjodaro. 

(i) Great Bath and Great Temple 

(ii) Great Bath and the Warehouse 

(iii) Reservoir and the Palace Complex 

(iv) Ploughed field and the Fire alters. 

(b) According to the assumption of most of the historians the purpose of the Great Bath must have been:

(i) Washing clothes. 

(ii) Bathing space for Women 

(iii) Ritual bathing 

(iv) Leisure Bathing just like Roman baths. 

(c) Choose the correct option. 

Assertion(A) : Citadel was smaller but higher part of Mohenjodaro. 

Reason(R) : It is on the citadel that we find evidence of structures that were probably used for special public purpose: 

(i) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A. 

(ii) Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A. 

(iii) A is incorrect but R is correct. 

(iv) R is incorrect but A is correct. 

(d) Consider the following statements : 

(a) The Great Bath was a large round tank. 

(b) There were two flight of stairs on the north and the south of the tank. 

Choose the correct option: 

(i) Only (a) is correct 

(ii) Only (b) is correct. 

(iii) Both (a) and (b) are correct. 

(iv) Neither (a) nor (b) is correct

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(a) ii- Great Bath and the Ware hose are considered to be most important buildings of Mohenjodaro.

(b) iii - Most scholars agree that the purpose of Great Bath may have been ritual bathing.

 (c) ii - Both A and R are correct but there is no concrete corelation between them. 

(d) ii- only b is correct because Great Bath was a large rectangular tank not a round tank.

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