Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation Class 8 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. 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

2. Tagore wanted to combine the elements of ……………………. with traditional Indian Education.

3. Who set up Asiatic Society of Bengal?

4. Who started the journal Asiatick Researches?

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

6. The English Education Act was passed

7. Who was Charles Wood?

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

9. William Jones was a linguist because

10. Name the person who arrived in Calcutta in 1783 and was appointed as junior judge at the Supreme Court.

11. In 1830’s a Scottish missionary who toured the districts of Bengal and Bihar was:

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

13. The temples of darkness that were falling of themselves into decay. Who said these words about the Calcutta Madrasa and Benares Sanskrit College?

14. Charles Wood despatch was also known as:

15. Hindu College was established in Benaras in:

16. Asiatick Researches (Journal) was NOT started by

17. Those with a scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia were known as:

18. What would you call a person who knows several languages ?

19. The Education Act was introduced in the year

20. Study of which of the following was NOT the purpose of setting up Madrasa in Calcutta in 1781?