Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation MCQs with answers
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Q. According to whom, “English education had enslaved Indians”?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Mahatma Gandhi
Q. Name the person who arrived in Calcutta in 1783 and was appointed as junior judge at the Supreme Court.
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
William Jones
Q. Those with a scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia were known as
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Orientalists
Q. In 1830’s a Scottish missionary who toured the districts of Bengal and Bihar was
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
William Adam
Q. What would you call a person who knows several languages ?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Linguist
Q. Complete by choosing the most appropriate word from the following list of options. The introduction of ………………………….. brought with it ideas of democracy, liberty, fraternity among the minds of Indians
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
Western education
Q. The temples of darkness that were falling of themselves into decay. Who said these words about the Calcutta Madrasa and Benares Sanskrit College?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
Lord Macaulay
Q. How did the European learning improve the moral character of Indians?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
It would make them change their tastes and desires and create a demand for British goods
Q. Tagore wanted to combine the elements of ……………………. with traditional Indian Education.
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Western Education
Q. Rural ……………………… which accepted new rules were supported through government grants by the Company.
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
Pathshalas
Q. …………………..city is situated on the banks of river Hooghly.
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Calcutta
Q. Study of which of the following was NOT the purpose of setting up Madrasa in Calcutta in 1781?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Sanskrit
Q. Who was Charles Wood?
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
The President of the Board of Control of the Company
Q. …………………… had argued that English education had enslaved Indians
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
Mahatma Gandhi
Q. Who said these “Education means all round drawing out of the best in child and man- body, mind and spirit”?
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Mahatma Gandhi
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