Ch -7

Civilising the ‘Native’, Educating the Nation

Worksheet-1
1. William Jones was a great scholar of............................
a) Persian b) Latin c) French d) All of these
2. Where was the first Madrasa set up?
a) Delhi b) Calcutta c) Madras d) Bombay
3. When was the Hindu College established?
a) 1791 b) 1782 c) 1783 d) 1784
4. Someone who knows and studies several languages is called.............................
a) orientalist b) linguist c) pandit d) munshi
5. .........................was a scholar of Sanskrit and ancient sacred writings of Hinduism.
a) T.B. Macaulay b) H. T. Colebrooke c) James Mill d) Warren Hastings
6. Madrasa is a/an.......................word for a place of learning: any type of school or college.
a) Latin b) Greek c) French d) Arabic
7..................... is a person who can read, write and teach Persian.
a) Munshi b) pandit c) linguist d) Orientalist
8. ...................... saw India as an uncivilised country.
a) T. B. Macaulay b) James Mill c) William Jones d) William Carey
9. In the 1830s, William Adam, Scottish missionary toured districts of..............................
a) Bengal & Odisha b) Punjab & Haryana c) Bengal & Bihar d) Goa and Karnataka
10. Who said, “English language has enslaved us”.
a) Rabindranath Tagore b) Mahatma Gandhi c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) B.R. Ambedkar
11. The English Education Act was introduced in the year...............................
a) 1854 b) 1830 c) 1835 d) 1781
12. Asiatic Researches (Journal) was not started by………………..
a) Nathaniel Halhed b) William Carey c) William Jones d) H.T. Colebrooke
13. .........................was an English official who had deep respect for the Indian culture.
a) William Carey b) Henry Colebrook c) James Mill d) Paul Henry
14. To promote the study of Arabic and Persian, a Madrasa was set up in ..................in 1781.
a) Calcutta b) Lucknow c) Sarnath d) Benaras
15. Wood’s Dispatch for ‘Education for Commerce’ in India was introduced by.........................
a) William Wood b) Henry Wood c) Archie Wood d)Charles Wood
16. ..........................college was established on the banks of Hooghly near Calcutta.
a) Serampore b) Hindu c) Islamic d) None of these
17. When did William Jones arrive in Calcutta?
a) 1781 b) 1782 c) 1783 d) 1784
18. Wood’s despatch was sent to India in..............................
a) 1831 b) 1834 c) 1853 d) 1854
19. Who among the following was a Scottish missionary?
a) William Carey b) William Jones c) Nathaniel Halhed d) James Mill
20. Who among the following was against Western education?
a) Auronbindo Ghose b) Ram Mohan Roy c) Mahatma Gandhi d) All of these
21. When did Rabindranath Tagore start Santiniketan?
a) 1900 b) 1901 c) 1902 d) 1904
22. …………..was one of those who attacked the Orientalists.
a) James Mill b) H.T. Colebrooke c) William Jones d) Nathaniel Halhed
23. William Jones arrived in .......................in 1783.
a) Delhi b) Bombay c) Madras d) Calcutta
24. According to Adam’s report, there were over ...........schools in rural Bihar and Bengal in the 1830s.
a) fifty thousand b) one lakh c) two lakh d) three lakh
25. Who said, “Literacy in itself is not education”?
a) William Jones b) William Adam c) T. B. Macaulay d) Mahatma Gandhi
26.............................. was a Scottish Missionary who helped to establish Serampore Mission.
a) William Carey b) Thomas Woods c) Paul Derik d) James Watt
27. According to Aurobindo Ghose, the goal of national education was to awaken the spirit of…
a) religion b) dignity c) nationality d) caste
28. .............................city is situated on the banks of river Hooghly.
a) Agra b) Calcutta c) Lucknow d) Lahore
29. The _______ established the University of Bombay.
a) French b) Dutch c) German d) British
30. ............................... missionaries first started setting up schools exclusively for girls’ education.
a) Buddhist b) Christian c) English d) None of these
31. In 1854, the Company appointed several governments ..................to look after pathshalas.
a) servants b) pandits c) teachers d) munshis
32. The ideas of William Jones were supported by......................
a) James Mill b) H. T. Colebrooke c) T. B. Macaulay d) Charles Wood
33. William Jones started a journal called……………..
a) Times of India b) Asiatick Researches c) Bengal Gazette d) None of these
34. ..................saw India as an uncivilised country that needed to be civilised.
a)William Jones b) Nathaniel Halhed c) H. T. Colebrooke d)T. B. Macaulay
35. The Hindu College was established in………………..in 1791.
a) Benaras b) Madras c) Delhi d) Agra
36. When did the sepoys revolt in Meerut and Delhi?
a) 1857 b) 1854 c) 1842 d) 1867
37. 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
38. Asiatick Researches (Journal) was NOT started by....................
a) William Jones b) H. T. Colebrooke c) Nathaniel Halhed d) William Carey
39. 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
40. .................was one of the first Company officials to study Sanskrit?
a) H. T. Colebrooke b) Nathaniel Halhed c) William Adam d) William Jones
41. The East India Company was opposed to missionary activities in India until…………….
a) 1813 b) 1781 c) 1791 d) 1857
42. In 1783, William Jones was appointed at which post in Supreme Court?
a) Chief Advocate b) Chief Judge c)Junior Judge d) Public Prosecutor
43. In the 1830s, in some places classes were held under a...................tree.
a) Neem b) Banyan c) Peepal d) Mango
44. Lord Macaulay emphasized to teach this language. Which language did he insist to teach?
a) Persian b) Sanskrit c) English d) Hindi
45. “Temples of darkness that falling of themselves into decay”. Who said these words about the
Calcutta Madrasa and Benaras Sanskrit College?
 a) Lord Macaulay b) Charles Wood c) James Mill d) William Adam
46. Name the poet who reacted against the introduction of Western education in India?
a) Bishnu Dey b) Auronbindo Ghose
c) Rabindranath Tagore d) Budhadev Bose
47. Many British officials said that knowledge of the....................was full of error.
a) North b) South c) East d) West
48. ……………was appointed as a junior judge at the Supreme Court in Calcutta in 1783.
a) Nathaniel Halhed b) H. T. Colebrooke c) T. B. Macaulay d) William Jones
49. Who declared that “A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature
of India and Arabia”?
a) William Adam b) William Carey c) T.B. Macaulay d) William Jones
50. Which year a printing press was set up at Serampore by the Christian missionaries?
a) 1830 b) 1800 c) 1818 d) 1854
51. William Carey was a……………………missionary.
a) Scottish b) Chinese c) Portuguese d) Dutch
52. . The Benaras Hindu College was established to encourage the study of ancient……texts.
a) Hindi b) Arabic c) Persian d) Sanskrit
53. The attack on the Orientalists became sharper by the………………..
a) 1830s b) 1840s c) 1850s d) 1860s
54.. Rabindranath Tagore established Santiniketan in ………….area.
a) urban b) rural c) semi rural d) semi urban
55. Who was the headmaster of the famous Rugby School?
a) William Adam b) William Jones c) Thomas Arnold d) William Carey
56. …………is an Arabic word for a place of learning.
a) Munshi b) Vernacular c) Linguist d) Madrasa
57. Who set up the Calcutta Madrasa?
a) T.B. Macaulay b) Henry Colebrooke c) Warren Hastings d) William Jones
58. ………..is a term generally used to refer to a local language or dialect.
a) Madrasa b) Vernacular c) Journal d) Arabia
59. In 1857, the sepoys rose a revolt in…………………
a) Agra b) Meerut c) Mysore d) All of these
60. Serampore was under the control of the…………East India Company.
a) Danish b) British c) Portuguese d) French
61. A printing press was set in………………….in 1800 by the Christian missionaries.
a) Calcutta b) Bombay c) Madras d) Serampore
62. Who set up the Asiatic Society of Bengal?
a) Nathaniel Halhed b) William Jones c) H.T. Colebrooke d) All of these
63. The…………..established Bombay University.
a) Dutch b) British c) French d) Indian
64. Who toured the districts of Bengal and Bihar in 1830s?
a) William Carey b) William Jones c) William Adam d) Nathaniel Halhed
65. Calcutta is situated on the banks of which river?
a) Narmada b) Indus c) Kaveri d) Hooghly
66. In which year did the Court of Directors of the East India Company in London send an educational
despatch to the Governor-General in India?
a) 1854 b) 1835 c) 1813 d) 1818
67. Those with a scholarly knowledge of the language and culture of Asia were knows as………..
 a) Munshi b) Orientalist c) Linguist d) Vernacular
68. Name the place where the Britishers established universities.
a) Bombay b) Madras c) Calcutta d) All of these
69. Who was the President of the Board of Control of the Company in London?
a) T. B. Macaulay b) William Jones c) Charles Wood d) William Carey
70. Where did Aurobindo Ghose state that the goal of national education was to awaken the
spirit of nationality among the students?
a) Bombay b) Calcutta c) Madras d) Delhi
71. Who strongly felt that Indian languages ought to be the medium of teaching?
a)Mahatma Gandhi b) William Carey c) Rabindranath Tagore d)William Jones
72. Rabindranath Tagore started Santiniketan in 1901 near……………………
a) Delhi b) Calcutta c) Madras d) Bombay
73. Serampore College was established in which year?
a) 1800 b) 1813 c) 1818 d) 1854
74. William Jones was an expert in…………………..
a) medicine b) physics c) law d) in chemistry
75. William Joes studied ………………………at Oxford.
a) Greek b) Latin c) French d) Both a and b
76. William Jones also learnt…………..at Calcutta.
a) Persian b) French c) Greek d) Latin
77. Which of the following ancient Indian texts was not studied by William Jones?
a) Politics b) Economics c) Medicine d) Arithmetic
78. Henry Thomas Colebrooke was a scholar of………and ancient sacred writings of Hinduism.
a) Greek b) Latin c) Sanskrit d) Arabic
79. Francois Solvyn was a………………..painter.
a) British b) French c) German d) Dutch
80. Who was the founder of Santiniketan?
a) Mahatma Gandhi b) T.B. Macaulay
c) Rabindranath Tagore d) William Jones
81. Nathaniel Halhed was a………………..official.
a) British b) Dutch c) French d) None of these
82. Which of the following subjects was taught at Santiniketan?
a) Music b) Science c) Dance d) All of these
83. Rabindranath chose to set up his school………………kilometres away from Calcutta.
a) 25 b) 50 c) 75 d) 100
84. Schools for girls were being set up by the Christian missionaries by the mid…………century.
a)seventeenth b)eighteenth c) nineteenth d) sixteenth
85. The East India Company decided to improve the system of vernacular schools after…………..
a)1835 b) 1854 c) 1885 d) 1909
86. Who said these “Education means all round drawing out of the best in child and man- body, mind
and spirit”?
a)b) Mahatma Gandhi b) William Jones c) T. B. Macaulay d) Charles Wood
87. Who among the following believed that Colonial education had created a sense of inferiority in the
minds of Indians?
a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Ram Krishna Paramhans
c) Rabindranath Tagore d) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar