Assam is a beautiful state in the northeast part of India. It is famous for its tea gardens, rivers, forests, and rich culture. The people of Assam belong to many different communities, tribes, and religions. They speak many languages and live together peacefully. The study of population and people is called demography. It tells us about how many people live in Assam, how many are men and women, what languages they speak, how many are educated, and how they earn their living.
In many Assam Government Exams like TET, Assam Police, DHS, APDCL, PNRD, and other state-level jobs, questions from the demography of Assam are very common. So, if you are preparing for these exams, it is very important to read and practice this topic. Learning about Assam’s population will help you answer questions quickly and score good marks in your exam.
This quiz will help you test your knowledge of Assam’s demography in a fun and easy way. All the questions are made in a simple format. You will see one question with four options. You have to choose the correct answer. These questions are useful for students, teachers, job seekers, and anyone who wants to learn about Assam.
So, let’s start the quiz and learn more about the people of Assam. Keep practicing, and you will surely succeed in your exam. All the best!
Multiple Choice Questions
Multiple Choice Quiz Questions (MCQs) on Demography of Assam for General Knowledge preparation for APSC, ADRE, Assam Police Recruitment, Assam Rifles Recruitment, APDCL, and other competitive exams in Assam…
1. How many human groups contributed to the population of Assam?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
Correct Answer: C [4]
2. In which year the first Census of Assam conducted?
(a) 1872
(b) 1873
(c) 1901
(d) 1911
Correct Answer: A [1872]
3. Which district has the highest decadal growth in 2001–2011?
(a) Nagaon
(b) Bongaigaon
(c) Goalpara
(d) Dhubri
Correct Answer: D [Dhubri]
4. Which district has the lowest growth during the 2001–2011 decade?
(a) Dima Hasao
(b) Karbi Anglong
(c) Majuli
(d) Kokrajhar
Correct Answer: D [Kokrajhar]
5. What is the literacy rate of Assam?
(a) 64%
(b) 70%
(c) 72.2%
(d) 73.03%
Correct Answer: C [72.2%]
6. What percent of area of India is covered by Assam?
(a) 2.4%
(b) 2.5%
(c) 3.4%
(d) 2.3%
Correct Answer: A [2.4%]
7. What percentage of the total population of India lives in Assam?
(a) 2.6%
(b) 3.0%
(c) 4.4%
(d) 5.2%
Correct Answer: A [2.6%]
8. In which district is population density the highest?
(a) Kamrup (M)
(b) Nagaon
(c) Dhubri
(d) Goalpara
Correct Answer: A [Kamrup (M)]
9. The population of Assam is:
(a) 3,12,05,567
(b) 3,11,06,566
(c) 3,10,06,766
(d) 3,13,07,765
Correct Answer: A [3,12,05,567]
10. In Assam, only one city has Municipal Corporation. Which city is it?
(a) Dhubri
(b) Dibrugarh
(c) Jorhat
(d) Guwahati
Correct Answer: D [Guwahati]
11. When did the Ahoms establish their kingdom in Assam?
(a) 1228 A.D.
(b) 1328 A.D.
(c) 1150 A.D.
(d) 1253 A.D.
Correct Answer: A [1228 A.D.]
12. Who was the first king of the Ahoms?
(a) Lachit Barphukan
(b) Suhungmung
(c) Chaolung Sukafa
(d) Rudra Singha
Correct Answer: C [Chaolung Sukafa]
13. Who was the most famous king of the Kochs?
(a) Narnarayan
(b) Chilarai
(c) Parikshit Narayan
(d) Lakshmi Narayan
Correct Answer: A [Narnarayan]
14. Who established Kundil Nagar?
(a) The Chutiyas
(b) The Ahoms
(c) The Motoks
(d) The Morans
Correct Answer: A [The Chutiyas]
15. Which word is used to indicate the language of the Barmans?
(a) Bhasa
(b) Barna
(c) Katha
(d) Thar
Correct Answer: D [Thar]
16. Which community worships Doyi-Polo?
(a) The Rabbas
(b) The Mizos
(c) The Misings
(d) The Nagas
Correct Answer: C [The Misings]
17. A gaam is a ruler of which community?
(a) The Simphos
(b) The Rabbas
(c) The Kacharis
(d) The Misings
Correct Answer: A [The Simphos]
18. How many times did the Mughals attack Assam?
(a) 12 times
(b) 15 times
(c) 20 times
(d) 17 times
Correct Answer: D [17 times]
19. The Assamese Sikhs settled in which district?
(a) Darrang
(b) Kamrup
(c) Guwahati
(d) Nagaon
Correct Answer: D [Nagaon]
20. Lai Haraoba is the primary festival of which community?
(a) Manipuris
(b) Nagas
(c) Mizos
(d) Rabbas
Correct Answer: A [Manipuris]
21. In which year did the Burmese invade Assam for the first time?
(a) 1815
(b) 1817
(c) 1821
(d) 1824
Correct Answer: B [1817]
22. Who was the last king of the Ahoms?
(a) Purandar Singha
(b) Chandrakanta Singha
(c) Jogeswar Singha
(d) Gaurinath Singha
Correct Answer: A [Purandar Singha]
23. Which was the capital of Assam during the British period?
(a) Shillong
(b) Dispur
(c) Guwahati
(d) Tezpur
Correct Answer: A [Shillong]
24. In which year did Assam become a separate province?
(a) 1912
(b) 1911
(c) 1905
(d) 1947
Correct Answer: A [1912]
25. In which year was the capital of Assam shifted from Shillong to Dispur?
(a) 1971
(b) 1973
(c) 1975
(d) 1972
Correct Answer: B [1973]
26. Who was the first Christian priest in Assam?
[A] Allan Bond
[B] David Scott
[C] Henry Nicholls
[D] Robert Brend
Correct Answer: D [Robert Brend]
27. Where the first Gurudwara of Assam situated?
[A] Guwahati
[B] Dhubri
[C] Goalpara
[D] Bongaigaon
Correct Answer: B [Dhubri]
28. According to the Census of 2011, what percentage of the inhabitants of Assam are Hindu?
[A] 55.46%
[B] 88.45%
[C] 95.03%
[D] 61.46%
Correct Answer: D [61.46%]
29. Who introduced Neo Vaishnavism in Assam?
[A] Sri Sankardev
[B] Madhavdev
[C] Haridev
[D] Gopaldev
Correct Answer: A [Sri Sankardev]
30. Who was Ali Mech Raja?
[A] A local king
[B] First to accept Islam in Assam
[C] An invader
[D] A minister
Correct Answer: B [First to accept Islam in Assam]
31. In which year did Bakhtiar Khillji invade Assam?
[A] 1302 A.D.
[B] 1206 A.D.
[C] 1228 A.D.
[D] 1205 A.D.
Correct Answer: D [1205 A.D.]
32. Which community uses the Sadri language?
[A] Assamese
[B] Koch
[C] Adivasi
[D] Hmar
Correct Answer: C [Adivasi]
33. In which year was the Deori language declared as Government Language?
[A] 2003
[B] 2004
[C] 2005
[D] 2006
Correct Answer: C [2005]
34. What percentage of the people of Assam speak Assamese?
[A] 48.38%
[B] 58.08%
[C] 60.38%
[D] 46.38%
Correct Answer: A [48.38%]
35. What script is used to write Bodo language?
[A] Devanagari
[B] Eastern Nagari
[C] Kamrupi
[D] Hindi
Correct Answer: A [Devanagari]
36. In which year was Assam Rastrabhasa Prasar Samiti established?
[A] 1938
[B] 1939
[C] 1937
[D] 1936
Correct Answer: A [1938]
37. What is Champai?
[A] A magazine
[B] A book
[C] A newspaper
[D] A weekly
Correct Answer: A [A magazine]
38. In which year did the Bodo language become a state language?
[A] 1990
[B] 1985
[C] 1984
[D] 1986
Correct Answer: C [1984]
39. When was the first book of the Bodo language published?
[A] 1910
[B] 1915
[C] 1920
[D] 1916
Correct Answer: B [1915]
40. What is Jhumur?
[A] Songs of Tea tribe
[B] A bird
[C] A prominent person
[D] An instrument
Correct Answer: A [Songs of Tea tribe]
41. Who was Mangri Oraon?
[A] A freedom fighter
[B] A writer
[C] A doctor
[D] A politician
Correct Answer: A [A freedom fighter]
42. What are the labourers called who were bought following agreement?
[A] Tribe
[B] Janajati
[C] Labour
[D] Girmitiya
Correct Answer: D [Girmitiya]
43. What is aarkathiya?
[A] A class of labour
[B] A tea garden
[C] A class of labour leader
[D] A type of tea
Correct Answer: A [A class of labour]
44. What is Madol?
[A] An instrument
[B] A type of tea
[C] A labour class
[D] A type of wage
Correct Answer: A [An instrument]
45. When was the Assam Tea Company established?
[A] 1935
[B] 1940
[C] 1939
[D] 1938
Correct Answer: C [1939]
46. Where was first tea of Assam planted?
[A] Chinamora garden
[B] Shadiya
[C] Chabua
[D] Chenglung
Correct Answer: C [Chabua]
47. From where did the tea labourers bought at first?
[A] Central India
[B] South India
[C] China
[D] Bangladesh
Correct Answer: A [Central India]
48. Who is the first Literary Pensioner of the Tea Tribe?
[A] Simon Singh Hor
[B] Santosh Kumar Topno
[C] Mangri Oraon
[D] Meghraj Karmakar
Correct Answer: D [Meghraj Karmakar]
49. What are ukluwa and aaroi?
[A] Kinds of rice
[B] Types of fuel
[C] Paddy
[D] Vegetables
Correct Answer: A [Kinds of rice]
50. Which community uses Saanipaani?
[A] Tiwas
[B] Misings
[C] Ahoms
[D] Hajongs
Correct Answer: C [Ahoms]
51. What is Jou?
(a) Rice beer
(b) Light food
(c) Type of tea
(d) Oil
Correct Answer: A [Rice beer]
52. What is the scientific name of Betel nut?
(a) Areca catechu
(b) Betel areca
(c) Nut areca
(d) Betel catechu
Correct Answer: A [Areca catechu]
53. What is Kharisa?
(a) Bamboo shoot pickle
(b) Plum powder
(c) Mango powder
(d) A sweet dish
Correct Answer: A [Bamboo shoot pickle]
54. What is the most important ingredient of panitenga?
(a) Sesame
(b) Mango
(c) oil
(d) Mustard seed
Correct Answer: D [Mustard seed]
55. Apong is used by which tribe?
(a) Misings
(b) Tiwas
(c) Ahoms
(d) Karbis
Correct Answer: A [Misings]
56. What is the most popular sweet dish of Assam?
(a) Pitha
(b) Laru
(c) Jolpaan
(d) Gur
Correct Answer: A [Pitha]
57. What is the taste of the leafy vegetable, suka?
(a) Sweet
(b) Bitter
(c) Salty
(d) Sour
Correct Answer: D [Sour]
58. Which district is famous for ivory craft?
(a) Nagaon
(b) Sonitpur
(c) Darrang
(d) Barpeta
Correct Answer: D [Barpeta]
59. What is Thuria?
(a) An ornament
(b) A sport
(c) A recipe
(d) A traditional craft
Correct Answer: A [An ornament]
60. For which metal was the Suwansiri River famous?
(a) Silver
(b) Gold
(c) Copper
(d) Iron
Correct Answer: B [Gold]
61. Who were the Tiruwals?
(a) People involved in the extraction of iron
(b) People involved in the extraction of gold
(c) People involved in the extraction of silver
(d) People involved in the extraction of copper
Correct Answer: A [People involved in the extraction of iron]
