Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation MCQs with answers

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Q. William Jones was a linguist because
  • (A) he had studied Greek and Latin
  • (B) he knew French and English
  • (C) he had learnt Persian
  • (D) all of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) all of these
Q. Who set up Asiatic Society of Bengal?
  • (A) William Jones
  • (B) Henry Thomas Colebrooke
  • (C) Nathaniel Halhed
  • (D) All of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of these
Q. Madrasa was set up ip, Calcutta in the year
  • (A) 1750
  • (B) 1761
  • (C) 1771
  • (D) 1781
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) 1781
Q. According to whom, “English education had enslaved Indians”?
  • (A) Rabindranath Tagore
  • (B) Mahatma Gandhi
  • (C) Subhas Chandra Bose
  • (D) Aacharya Vinoba Bhave
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Mahatma Gandhi
Q. the Education Act was introduced in the year
  • (A) 1850
  • (B) 1835
  • (C) 1910
  • (D) 1900
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) 1835
Q. Name the person who arrived in Calcutta in 1783 and was appointed as junior judge at the Supreme Court.
  • (A) Warren Hastings
  • (B) Lord Comwalis
  • (C) William Jones
  • (D) Henry Thomas
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) William Jones
Q. Those with a scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia were known as
  • (A) Vernacular
  • (B) Orientalists
  • (C) Anglicists
  • (D) Munshi
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Orientalists
Q. Hindu College was established in Benaras in
  • (A) 1781
  • (B) 1773
  • (C) 1777
  • (D) 1791
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) 1791
Q. Charles Wood despatch was also known as
  • (A) Wood’s Despatch
  • (B) Wood’s Commission
  • (C) Macaulay Committee
  • (D) Court of Directors
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Wood’s Despatch
Q. In 1830’s a Scottish missionary who toured the districts of Bengal and Bihar was
  • (A) Williams Carey
  • (B) William Adam
  • (C) Thomas Babington
  • (D) Charles Wood
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) William Adam
Q. What would you call a person who knows several languages ?
  • (A) Biographer
  • (B) Linguist
  • (C) Biolinguist
  • (D) Translator
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✅ 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
  • (A) Western education
  • (B) Subsidiary alliance
  • (C) Doctrine of Lapse
  • (D) Expansion policies
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Western education
Q. Who started the journal Asiatick Researches?
  • (A) Henry Thomas Colebrooke
  • (B) Warren Hastings
  • (C) William Jones
  • (D) Max Muller
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) William Jones
Q. The temples of darkness that were falling of themselves into decay. Who said these words about the Calcutta Madrasa and Benares Sanskrit College?
  • (A) Lord William Bentick
  • (B) Lord Dalhousie
  • (C) Lord Ripon
  • (D) Lord Macaulay
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Lord Macaulay
Q. How did the European learning improve the moral character of Indians?
  • (A) It would expand the trade and commerce
  • (B) It would make them truthful and honest
  • (C) It would make the Indians realize the importance of developing resources of the country
  • (D) It would make them change their tastes and desires and create a demand for British goods
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✅ 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.
  • (A) Eastern Education
  • (B) Western Education
  • (C) religious education
  • (D) Local education
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Western Education
Q. Rural ……………………… which accepted new rules were supported through government grants by the Company.
  • (A) Pathshalas
  • (B) Shops
  • (C) temples
  • (D) colleges
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Pathshalas
Q. The ……………………. established the University of Bombay.
  • (A) British
  • (B) French
  • (C) Dutch
  • (D) German
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) British
Q. …………………..city is situated on the banks of river Hooghly.
  • (A) Madras
  • (B) Calcutta
  • (C) Delhi
  • (D) Lahore
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Calcutta
Q. Asiatick Researches (Journal) was NOT started by
  • (A) William jones
  • (B) Henry Thomas Colebrooke
  • (C) Nathaniel Halhed
  • (D) William Carey
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) William Carey
Q. Study of which of the following was NOT the purpose of setting up Madrasa in Calcutta in 1781?
  • (A) Arabic
  • (B) Sanskrit
  • (C) Persian
  • (D) Islamic laws
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Sanskrit
Q. Who was Charles Wood?
  • (A) The President of the Board of Control of the Company
  • (B) e Commissioner of the Board of Control of the Company
  • (C) An Educationist
  • (D) None of the above
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) The President of the Board of Control of the Company
Q. 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
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) all of the above
Q. 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
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of the above
Q. …………………… had argued that English education had enslaved Indians
  • (A) Mahatma Gandhi
  • (B) Raja Rammohan Roy
  • (C) Sardar Patel
  • (D) Rasbehari Bose
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✅ 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”?
  • (A) Rabindranath Tagore
  • (B) Mahatma Gandhi
  • (C) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Mahatma Gandhi

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  1. William Jones was a linguist because
  2. Who set up Asiatic Society of Bengal?
  3. Madrasa was set up ip, Calcutta in the year
  4. According to whom, “English education had enslaved Indians”?
  5. the Education Act was introduced in the year
  6. Name the person who arrived in Calcutta in 1783 and was appointed as junior judge at the Supreme Cou
  7. Those with a scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia were known as
  8. Hindu College was established in Benaras in
  9. Charles Wood despatch was also known as
  10. In 1830’s a Scottish missionary who toured the districts of Bengal and Bihar was
  11. What would you call a person who knows several languages ?
  12. Complete by choosing the most appropriate word from the following list of options. The introduction
  13. Who started the journal Asiatick Researches?
  14. The temples of darkness that were falling of themselves into decay. Who said these words about the C
  15. How did the European learning improve the moral character of Indians?
  16. Tagore wanted to combine the elements of ……………………. with traditional Indian Education
  17. Rural ……………………… which accepted new rules were supported through government grants
  18. The ……………………. established the University of Bombay.
  19. …………………..city is situated on the banks of river Hooghly.
  20. Asiatick Researches (Journal) was NOT started by
  21. Study of which of the following was NOT the purpose of setting up Madrasa in Calcutta in 1781?
  22. Who was Charles Wood?
  23. The English Education Act was passed
  24. What type of school did Tagore want to set up?
  25. …………………… had argued that English education had enslaved Indians
  26. Who said these “Education means all round drawing out of the best in child and man- body, mind and