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  • 1. 
    William Jones was a linguist because

  • he had studied Greek and Latin
  • he knew French and English
  • he had learnt Persian
  • all of these

  • 2. 
    Who set up Asiatic Society of Bengal?

  • William Jones
  • Henry Thomas Colebrooke
  • Nathaniel Halhed
  • All of these

  • 3. 
    Madrasa was set up ip, Calcutta in the year

  • 1750
  • 1761
  • 1771
  • 1781

  • 4. 
    According to whom, “English education had enslaved Indians”?

  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Subhas Chandra Bose
  • Aacharya Vinoba Bhave

  • 5. 
    The Education Act was introduced in the year

  • 1850
  • 1835
  • 1910
  • 1900

  • 6. 
    Asiatick Researches (Journal) was NOT started by

  • William jones
  • Henry Thomas Colebrooke
  • Nathaniel Halhed
  • William Carey

  • 7. 
    Study of which of the following was NOT the purpose of setting up Madrasa in Calcutta in 1781?

  • Arabic
  • Sanskrit
  • Persian
  • Islamic laws

  • 8. 
    The English Education Act was passed

  • to materialise Macaulay’s thinking
  • to make the English the medium of instruction for higher education
  • to stop the promotion of oriental institutions
  • all of the above

  • 9. 
    What type of school did Tagore want to set up?

  • Where the child was happy
  • Where he/she could be free and creative
  • He/she was able to explore her own thoughts and desire
  • All of the above

  • 10. 
    Who said these “Education means all round drawing out of the best in child and man- body, mind and spirit”?

  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Swami Dayanand Saraswati
  • None of these
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