This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 8 > History > Social Science > Class 8 History Chapter 8 Civilising The Native, Educating The Nation – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 8 History Chapter 8 Civilising The Native, Educating The Nation Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 2. The Education Act was introduced in the year A) 1885. B) 1855. C) 1835. D) 1845. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1835. 3. According to Macaulay, what was the value of English literature compared to Indian literature? A) Slightly better. B) Equal. C) Inferior. D) Much better. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Much better. 4. What was the flexibility in the fee structure of traditional pathshalas? A) All students paid the same fee. B) Rich students paid less than poor students. C) There was no fee. D) Rich students paid more than poor students. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rich students paid more than poor students. 5. In the 1830s, no classes were held for rural students once ..... started. A) Winter season. B) Rainy season. C) Harvest season. D) Summer season. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harvest season. 6. Who set up Asiatic Society of Bengal? A) William Jones. B) Henry Thomas Colebrooke. C) Nathaniel Halhed. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 7. A educational dispatch sent by Charles Wood to Governal General of India was called as A) Charles's Dispatch. B) Educational's dispatch. C) Wood's Dispatch. D) British's Dispatch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wood's Dispatch. 8. Which society did William Jones help establish in Calcutta? A) The British Educational Society. B) The Calcutta Literary Society. C) The Indian National Congress. D) The Asiatic Society of Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Asiatic Society of Bengal. 9. Why did Rabindranath Tagore establish Santiniketan? A) To compete with British schools. B) To create a school where children could be free and creative. C) To promote religious education. D) To train future political leaders. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To create a school where children could be free and creative. 10. In which year did Mahatma Gandhi express his views on colonial education? A) 1950. B) 1930. C) 1920. D) 1940. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1930. 11. The Serampore Mission was established with the help of the ..... East India Company. A) French. B) Dutch. C) Danish. D) Portuguese. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Danish. 12. According to Adam's report, there were over ..... schools in rural Bihar and Bengal in the 1830s. A) 1 lakh. B) 50 thousand. C) 2 lakhs. D) 5 lakhs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1 lakh. 13. Tagore wanted to combine the elements of ..... with traditional Indian Education. A) Eastern Education. B) Western Education. C) Religious education. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Western Education. 14. Those with a scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia were known as: A) Orientalists. B) Vernacular. C) Anglicists. D) Munshi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Orientalists. 15. What did Mahatma Gandhi believe about literacy? A) It was the same as education. B) It was not enough for true education. C) It was the foundation of education. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was not enough for true education. 16. Why was the General committee of public instruction, 1823 formed A) To look after the development of education in India. B) To promote the Orientalists. C) To promote English. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To look after the development of education in India. 17. What did Tagore want to cultivate at Santiniketan? A) Natural creativity. B) Living in harmony with nature. C) A sense of wonder. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. Until 1813, East India Company was opposed to the ..... in India. A) Trade. B) Religious function. C) Education. D) Missionary activities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Missionary activities. 19. What did Tagore believe about the existing schooling system? A) It killed the natural desire of the child to be creative. B) It was suffocating and oppressive. C) It needed to be set up in a rural setting. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. "A single shelf of a good European library was worth whole native literature of India and Arabia" was said by A) Thomas Babington Macaulay. B) Richard Westmacott. C) Henry Thomas Colebrook. D) Warren hastings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas Babington Macaulay. 21. 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 the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi. 22. Who was not a orientalist and did not play a role in setting up the Asiatic Society of Bengal and starting a journal called Asiatick Researches. A) James Mill. B) Nathaniel Halhed. C) Henry Thomas Colebrooke. D) William Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James Mill. 23. What measures did the British take to improve vernacular education? A) Appointing government pandits. B) Introducing textbooks and annual examinations. C) Establishing rules and routines. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 24. Rural ..... which accepted new rules were supported through government grants by the Company. A) Shops. B) Pathshalas. C) Colleges. D) Temples. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathshalas. 25. When did the British government start to impose new rules on local pathshalas? A) 1870. B) 1860. C) 1800. D) 1854. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1854. 26. ..... started Shantiniketan in 1901. A) Rabindranath Tagore. B) Subhash Chandra Bose. C) Aurbindo Ghosh. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rabindranath Tagore. 27. Charles Wood emphasised the practical benefits of a system of ..... learnings A) European. B) Korean. C) Indian. D) American. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) European. 28. Santiniketan is also referred to as A) Pathshalas. B) Abode of peace. C) Pathshala and missionary school. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abode of peace. 29. How did colonial education impact native cultures? A) It led to the erosion of traditional practices and languages. B) It led to the preservation of native cultures. C) It had no impact on native cultures. D) It strengthened traditional practices and languages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It led to the erosion of traditional practices and languages. 30. ..... was introduced in India in 1835. A) Civil Services Act. B) Sanskrit Education Act. C) Arabic Education Act. D) English Education Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) English Education Act. 31. Munshi was a person who can read, write and teach Persian A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 32. To promote study of English texts, the company set up a Hindu College in ..... A) Benaras. B) Madras. C) Surat. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benaras. 33. What significant document was issued in 1854 regarding education in India? A) The Indian Education Policy. B) Wood's Despatch. C) Macaulay's Report. D) The Education Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wood's Despatch. 34. How many total Local Pathshala were there in Bengal and Bihar? A) Over 1 Lakh. B) 1 lakh. C) 20 lakh. D) 50 thousand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Over 1 Lakh. 35. When did the Court of Directors of the East India Company send an educational despatch to the Governor-General of India? Who sent it? A) 1854, James Mill. B) 1855, James Wood. C) 1854, Charles Wood. D) 1855, Lord Dalhousie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1854, Charles Wood. 36. How did the new education system affect the independence of gurus? A) It increased their autonomy. B) It had no effect. C) It provided them with more resources. D) It made it difficult for them to compete with government-aided schools. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It made it difficult for them to compete with government-aided schools. 37. What were some forms of resistance to colonial education? A) Celebration, cooperation, and compliance. B) Boycotts, protests, and alternative educational systems. C) Military intervention, acceptance, and assimilation. D) Integration, submission, and obedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boycotts, protests, and alternative educational systems. 38. William Jones learnt ..... and ..... at Oxford. A) Latin, Greek. B) Greek, Persian. C) French, English. D) Latin, Arabic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latin, Greek. 39. What was the main goal of the English Education Act of 1835? A) To promote Sanskrit and Arabic studies. B) To make English the medium of instruction for higher education. C) To establish more Oriental institutions. D) To ban the teaching of Indian languages. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To make English the medium of instruction for higher education. 40. ..... started the Santiniketan in 1901. A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Williani Jones. C) Rabindra Nath Tagore. D) Charles Wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rabindra Nath Tagore. 41. When was the Wood's Despatch issued by Charles Wood sent? A) 1890. B) 1918. C) 1866. D) 1854. E) 1800. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1854. 42. ..... was an English official who had deep respect for the Indian culture. A) James Warren. B) Henry Colebrook. C) Paul Henry. D) Bruce Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry Colebrook. 43. William Jones arrived Calcutta in ..... A) 1882. B) 1783. C) 1793. D) 1873. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1783. 44. Name the person who arrived in Calcutta in 1783 and was appointed as junior judge at the Supreme Court. A) William Jones. B) Warren Hastings. C) Lord Comwalis. D) Henry Thomas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Jones. 45. Gandhiji wanted Indians to learn ..... to become self reliant. A) Western Education. B) Crafts and vocational courses. C) Science and technology. D) Geography and mathematics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crafts and vocational courses. 46. Shantiniketan is also referred to as A) Pathshalas. B) Abode of peace. C) Pathshala and missionary school. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abode of peace. 47. What did Mahatma Gandhi believe true education should develop? A) Literacy skills only. B) Western values. C) A person's mind and soul. D) Technical skills only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A person's mind and soul. 48. James Mill said the following lines A) Literacy in itself us not education. B) Grave errors of the East. C) A single shelf of good European Library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grave errors of the East. 49. What did Mahatma Gandhi believe about education in English? A) It created a sense of inferiority. B) It distanced Indians from their own culture. C) It made them strangers in their own lands. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 50. In 1854, the Court of Directors of the East India Company in London appointed ..... to set up new Educational Policies. A) Charles Wood. B) Henry Thomas. C) William Adams. D) James Mill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Wood. 51. ..... first started setting up schools exclusively for girls' education. A) Christian missionaries. B) Indian pandits. C) Company. D) Local government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christian missionaries. 52. Mahatma Gandhi was the promotor of English language. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 53. According to whom, "English education had enslaved Indians" ? A) Rabindranath Tagore. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Subhas Chandra Bose. D) Aacharya Vinoba Bhave. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi. 54. What was the primary aim of the British educational policy in India? A) To civilize the population. B) To promote local languages. C) To encourage traditional education. D) To preserve Indian culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To civilize the population. 55. Who was critical of Western civilization and its worship of machines and technology? A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mahatma Gandhi. 56. What was one of the criticisms of Eastern literature by British officials? A) It was too complex. B) It was non-serious and light-hearted. C) It was too religious. D) It was too lengthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was non-serious and light-hearted. 57. Who started the journal Asiatick Researches? A) William Jones. B) Warren Hastings. C) Henry Thomas Colebrooke. D) Max Muller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Jones. 58. What did Mahatma Gandhi believe education should develop? A) The mind and soul. B) The capacity to understand. C) The ability to work with hands. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 59. What did Thomas Babington Macaulay argue about Indian literature? A) It was superior to European literature. B) It should be the focus of Indian education. C) It was worthless compared to European literature. D) It was equal to European literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was worthless compared to European literature. 60. William Jones was a linguist because A) He knew French and English. B) He had learnt Persian. C) All of these. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of these. Next →Related QuizzesHistory QuizzesClass 8 QuizzesClass 8 History Chapter 8 Civilising The Native, Educating The Nation Quiz 2Class 8 History Chapter 8 Civilising The Native, Educating The Nation Quiz 3Class 8 History Chapter 8 Civilising The Native, Educating The Nation Quiz 4Class 8 History Chapter 1 How, When And Where QuizClass 8 History Chapter 4 Tribals, Dikus And The Vision Of A Golden Age QuizClass 8 History Chapter 7 Weavers, Iron Smelters And Factory Owners QuizClass 8 History Chapter 9 Women, Caste And Reform Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books