Please use the following text to answer the question. Dalits, also known as "Untouchables," are members of the lowest social group in the Hindu caste system. The word "Dalit," meaning "oppressed" or "broken," is the name members of this group gave themselves in the 1930s. A Dalit actually is born below the caste system, which includes four primary castes: Brahmins (priests), Kshatriya (warriors and princes), Vaishya (farmers and artisans), and Shudra (tenant farmers and servants).

According to the text above what is another name for the group of people known as "Dalits?"

Question 1 options:

Vaishyas

Untouchables

Shudras

Question 2 (2 points)
As used in the reading, what does the word “Jatis” refer to?

The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term jati appears in almost all Indian languages and is related to the idea of lineage or kinship group. There are perhaps more than 3000 jatis in India and there is no one all-Indian system of ranking them in order of status. Yet in each local area jati ranking exists and is very much related to purity and pollution. Each jati has some unique job, but not everyone in the jati performs it. Thus there are barbers who do not shave, carpenters who do not build, and Brahmins who do not act as priests.

Question 2 options:

The thousands of subcastes in India

Marriage between members of different caste groups

The over complication of the caste system

Question 3 (2 points)

Answer the following 2 questions after reading the passage below

The Minoans

In the year 1900, Sir Arthur Evans, a British archaeologist, discovered the

buried ruins of a huge palace at Knossos (NAH-suhs), on the Mediterranean

island of Crete (kreet). Evans had stumbled on the remains of the earliest

civilization in Europe, one that flourished from about 3000 to 1100 B. C.E

Evans named it the Minoan civilization, after King Minos (MIY-nuhs), a

mythical ruler of Crete. As Evans dug up the ruins of the palace, he was astonished to find how wealthy and advanced the Minoan culture had been. He uncovered the remains of a sophisticated plumbing system that piped fresh water into the palace. His most striking discovery, however, was a series of frescoes—wall paintings made by applying colors to wet plaster. Some of the frescoes depicted plants and animals. Others showed Cretan men and women dressed in elegant clothes.



The Minoans are thought to be the earliest civilization of…

Question 3 options:

Europe

India

Asia

According to the above map above what is the furthest area Buddhism spread to in 1000 years?

Question 5 options:

China

Japan

Ceylon