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 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 8 History Chapter 8 Civilising The Native, Educating The Nation Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to Aurbindo Ghosh, education should awaken the spirit of ..... among students of India. A) Nationality. B) Integration. C) Thoughtfulness. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nationality. 2. ..... had argued that English education had enslaved Indians A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Raja Rammohan Roy. C) Sardar Patel. D) Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mahatma Gandhi. 3. William Jones had started a journal which was called A) The Times of India. B) Asiatick Research. C) Philosphical Research. D) Bengal Gazette. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asiatick Research. 4. What was the purpose of the Asiatic Society of Bengal? A) To study Western literature. B) To translate ancient Indian texts. C) To establish English schools. D) To promote Indian learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To translate ancient Indian texts. 5. Name the important scholar who studied Sanskrit and found it to be the most scientific language of the world. He also translated the important works Shakuntala and Manusmriti into English A) Nathaniel Halhed. B) Max Muller. C) Charles Wood. D) William Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Jones. 6. ..... city is situated on the banks of river Hooghly. A) Calcutta. B) Lahore. C) Delhi. D) Madras. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calcutta. 7. By education I mean all round drawing out of best in children and man-body, mind spirit Literacy is neither the end of education nor even the biginning. Who said the words? A) Jawaharlal Nehru. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Sarojini Naidu. D) Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mahatma Gandhi. 8. William Jones was an- A) President of board of control. B) Orientalist. C) English education activist. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Orientalist. 9. To promote Islamic law, a madarasa was set up at ..... in 1861. A) Bombay. B) Calcutta. C) Benaras. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calcutta. 10. Where in India a Madrasa was set up in 1781 to promote the study of Arabic, Persian and Islamic Law? A) Madras. B) Benares. C) Bombay. D) Calcutta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calcutta. 11. William Jones arrived in Calcutta as a junior judge but he was also a ..... A) French. B) Anglicist. C) Linguist. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anglicist. 12. How did Tagore's view on Western civilization differ from Gandhi's? A) Tagore completely rejected Western ideas. B) Tagore wanted to combine Western and Indian elements. C) Tagore favored complete Westernization. D) There was no difference in their views. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tagore wanted to combine Western and Indian elements. 13. Orientalist refers who ..... A) Supports the language and culture of West. B) Advocates language and culture of Asia. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Advocates language and culture of Asia. 14. William Jones had respect for Indian ancient cultures. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. What did Tagore want to combine in his educational system? A) Elements of Western and Indian traditions. B) Art, music, and dance. C) Science and technology. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. What was the role of government pandits in the new education system? A) To teach Sanskrit. B) To inspect and improve pathshalas. C) To write textbooks. D) To train British officials. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To inspect and improve pathshalas. 17. The English Education Act was passed A) To materialise Macaulay's thinking. B) To materialise Macaulay's thinking. C) To stop the promotion of oriental institutions. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. According to Mahatma Gandhi, what was the impact of colonial education on Indians? A) It created a sense of inferiority. B) It destroyed their pride in their own culture. C) It made them admire British rule. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. What were some strategies used by the natives to resist colonial education? A) Boycotting colonial schools, creating their own educational systems, and preserving their traditional knowledge and practices. B) Encouraging the spread of colonial educational institutions. C) Assimilating into the colonial culture. D) Embracing colonial education willingly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boycotting colonial schools, creating their own educational systems, and preserving their traditional knowledge and practices. 20. Person who knows and studies several languages is known as A) Multi-talented. B) Teacher. C) Linguist. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linguist. 21. As a child, Tagore ..... A) Hated going to school. B) Didnot go to school. C) Loved going to school. D) Bunked school. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hated going to school. 22. Name the person who was a part of the Scottish missionary who helped to establish the Serampore Mission A) William Carry. B) William Card. C) Andrew Fuller. D) William Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Carry. 23. In which year, Wood's Despatch was issued? A) 1835. B) 1844. C) 1885. D) 1854. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1854. 24. Hindu College was established in Benaras in: A) 1781. B) 1777. C) 1773. D) 1791. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1791. 25. Who are Orientalists? A) A person who can read, write and teach persian. B) A person who knows and studies several languages. C) People who have scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People who have scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia. 26. The English Education Act was introduced in A) 1833. B) 1780. C) 1920. D) 1900. E) 1835. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 1835. 27. "A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia" who said these words? A) James Mill. B) Thomas Arnold. C) William Carey. D) Thomas Babington Macaulay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Babington Macaulay. 28. Hindu College was set up at Banaras to encourage the study of ancient Hindi texts A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 29. Wood's Dispatch for 'Education for Commerce' in India was introduced by ..... A) Charles Wood. B) William Wood. C) Henry Wood. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Wood. 30. Who was the fully critic of western Education? A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Raja Rammohun Roy. D) Both Mahatama Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mahatma Gandhi. 31. Patashala is a place of arts A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 32. The ..... established the University of Bombay. A) German. B) Dutch. C) French. D) British. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) British. 33. What did the British educational policy aim to create a demand for? A) Cultural exchange. B) Traditional crafts. C) British goods. D) Local goods. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) British goods. 34. Who carried Serampore mission? A) William Adam. B) William Carey. C) William Jones. D) Thomas Babington Macaulay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Carey. 35. According to Mahatma Gandhi, what should be the medium of teaching in India? A) English. B) Sanskrit. C) Indian languages. D) A mix of English and Indian languages. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indian languages. 36. Charles Wood's Despatch was related with which of the following? A) Education. B) Trade. C) Military Reforms. D) Administrative Reforms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Education. 37. What was Mahatma Gandhi's opinion on Western Education? A) Western education destroyed the pride Indians had in their own culture and created a sense of inferiority in their minds. B) He wanted to combine the best elements of Western and Indian education and culture. C) Western Education was the best. It helps to understand new wonderful things that had sense and had no errors. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Western education destroyed the pride Indians had in their own culture and created a sense of inferiority in their minds. 38. What did Tagore believe about the combination of Western and Indian traditions? A) It was necessary for a national education. B) It was unnecessary and harmful. C) It should focus only on Indian traditions. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was necessary for a national education. 39. Officials influenced by the ideas of orientalists said that the A) Indians ought to be taught foreign sciences and educated about the technological advances of British. B) Indians should be taught about their ancient past, because that is when India truly attained its glory. C) Indians should be taught in both the Western and Eastern literature. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indians should be taught about their ancient past, because that is when India truly attained its glory. 40. Hindu College was set up in A) Madras. B) Tamil Nadu. C) Kolkata. D) Benaras. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Benaras. 41. In what year did William Jones arrive in Calcutta? A) 1790. B) 1783. C) 1800. D) 1820. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1783. 42. What was the Court of Directors of the East India Company? A) An advisory board of Indian princes. B) A committee of British parliamentarians. C) The governing body of the Company in London. D) A group of Indian educators. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The governing body of the Company in London. 43. What year did the British begin to focus on vernacular education? A) 1875. B) 1854. C) 1860. D) 1800. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1854. 44. What were some challenges in implementing colonial education policies? A) No language barriers or cultural differences. B) Lack of interest from local communities. C) Resistance from local communities, lack of resources and infrastructure, language barriers, and cultural differences. D) Abundance of resources and infrastructure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resistance from local communities, lack of resources and infrastructure, language barriers, and cultural differences. 45. Who was Charles Wood? A) Governor General. B) E Commissioner of the Board of Control of the Company. C) The President of the Board of Control of the Company. D) An Educationist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The President of the Board of Control of the Company. 46. Asiatick Researches was NOT started by A) Nathaniel Halhed. B) William jones. C) Henry Thomas Colebrooke. D) William Carey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Carey. 47. Madrasa was set up in Calcutta in the year A) 1781. B) 1750. C) 1771. D) 1761. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1781. 48. The term vernacular language means ..... A) English language. B) Local language. C) Sanskrit language. D) Persian language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Local language. 49. What did Mahatma Gandhi believe colonial education did to Indians? A) Empowered them. B) Educated them. C) Enslaved them. D) Liberated them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enslaved them. 50. What was the mission the British believed they had to carry out? A) Cultural mission. B) Territorial conquest. C) Revenue collection. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 51. ..... saw India as an uncivilised society that needed to be civilised. A) James Mill. B) Warren Hastings. C) Robert Clive. D) Thomas Macaulay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Macaulay. 52. Henry Thomas Colebrooke was a scholar in Persian and ancient sacred writings of Hinduism A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 53. Asiatick Researches (Journal) was NOT started by A) Nathaniel Halhed. B) William jones. C) William Carey. D) Henry Thomas Colebrooke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Carey. 54. Wood's Despatch is An order brought from England to India by Wood. A) True. B) Falsse. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 55. Madrasa is a place where the students can learn A) English, Science. B) Arithmetic, Maths. C) History, philosophy. D) Arabic, Persian and Islamic Law. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arabic, Persian and Islamic Law. 56. What effects did colonial education have on national identity? A) No impact on national identity. B) Complete eradication of national identity. C) Dilution of national identity and a sense of inferiority. D) Strengthening of national identity and a sense of superiority. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dilution of national identity and a sense of inferiority. 57. In what ways did colonial education impact the traditional practices of the natives? A) Enhancement of native traditions. B) Preservation of native traditions. C) Erosion of native traditions. D) No impact on native traditions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Erosion of native traditions. 58. When was English Act of Education Adopted A) 1835. B) 1813. C) 1854. D) 1819. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1835. 59. What was the purpose of Santiniketan? A) To encourage self-learning. B) To cultivate natural creativity. C) To provide an abode of peace. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 60. What was William Jones' primary contribution to Indian studies? A) Developing a new Indian language. B) Translating Sanskrit texts into English. C) Establishing the first British school in India. D) Creating the Indian civil service exam. 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