HISTORY

Chapter -8

Civilising the “Native”,Educating the Nation

 

1.      Who set up Asiatic Society of Bengal?

a)      William Jones

b)       Henry Thomas Colebrooke

c)      Nathaniel Halhed

d)     All of these

2.      Madrasa was set up up, Calcutta in the year

a)      1750

b)      1761

c)      1771

d)     1781

3.      According to whom, “English education had enslaved Indians”?

a)      Rabindranath Tagore

b)      Mahatma Gandhi

c)      Subhas Chandra Bose

d)     Aacharya Vinoba Bhave

4.      Who was Charles Wood?

a)      The President of the Board of Control of the Company

b)      Commissioner of the Board of Control of the Company

c)      An Educationist

d)      None of the above

5.      What type of school did Tagore want to set up?

a)      Where the child was happy

b)      Where he/she could be free and creative

c)      He/she was able to explore her own thoughts and desire

d)     All of the above

6.      Who said these “Education means all round drawing out of the best in child and man- body, mind and spirit”?

a)      Rabindranath Tagore

b)      Mahatma Gandhi

c)      Swami Dayanand Saraswati

d)      None of these

7.      The English Education Act was passed

a)       to materialise Macaulay’s thinking

b)       to make the English the medium of instruction for higher education

c)      to stop the promotion of oriental institutions

d)     all of the above

8.      Someone who knows and studies several languages ­

a)      Pantomath

b)      Booksmart,

c)      Linguist

d)     None of the above

 

9.      Those with a scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia

a)      Orientalists

b)      Angelist

c)      Linguist

d)     None of the above

10.  Who was William Adam?

a)      Supreme Court Judge

b)      French missionary,

c)      Scottish missionary

d)     Teacher

11.  Who started Santiniketan?

a)       Mahatma Gandhi

b)       Rabindranath Tagore

c)      Macaulay

d)     William Carey

12.  A person who can read, write and teach Persian

a)       Qazi

b)       Mufti

c)       Sufi

d)     Munshi

13.  “a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia”. Who said this?

a)      William Carey

b)      Thomas Babington Macaulay

c)      James Mill

d)     William Jones

14.  Who started a journal called Asiatick Researches?

a)      Thomas Colebrooke and Nathaniel Halhed

b)      Thomas Babington Macaulay

c)      William Carey

d)     Mahatma Gandhi

15.  Wood’s Despatch was sent to India in?

a)      1856

b)      1854

c)      1947

d)     1918

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer

1.      William Jones

2.      1781

3.      Mahatma Gandh

4.      The President of the Board of Control of the Company

5.      All of the above

6.      Mahatma Gandhi

7.      All of the above

8.      Linguist

9.      Orientalists

10.  Scottish missionary

11.  Rabindranath Tagore

12.  Munshi

13.  Thomas Babington Macaulay

14.  Thomas Colebrooke and Nathaniel Halhed

15.  1854

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