Deck 21: Literature, History, and Education in British India

Question 1

T.S. Eliot received Nobel Prize for literature in……………………

A)1950
B)1949
C)1948
D)1953

Answer 1

1948

Question 2

"This is the way the world ends; Not with a bang but a whimper"? is the famous lines of T.S. Eliot's ………………………….

A)The Wasteland
B)The Hollow men
C)Ash Wednesday
D)The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Answer 2

The Hollow men

Question 3

___________..is the first long poem written by T.S. Eliot after his conversion to Anglicanism.

A)Hollow men
B)Ash Wednesday
C)The Wasteland
D)Murder in the Cathedral

Answer 3

Ash Wednesday

Question 4

'A History of Western Philosophy' was written by……………………..

A)A.J. Toynbee
B)G.M. Trevelyan
C)Bertrand Russell
D)Gibbon

Question 5

Who among the following British scholar was famous for his anti?war activities and campaigns against the proliferation of nuclear weapons?

A)Bertrand Russell
B)G.M. Trevelyan
C)A.N. Whitehead
D)A.J. Toynbee

Question 6

English people heard the death knell of "Victorianism" through the writings of…………………………

A)W.B. Yeats
B)Oscar Wilde
C)Thomas Hardy
D)William Thackeray

Question 7

Who authored a twelve volume book titled 'A Study of History'?

A)Edward Gibbon
B)Bertrand Russell
C)A.J. Toynbee
D)G.M. Trevelyan

Question 8

"Challenge and Response Theory" was propounded by the famous British historian………………………….

A)Edward Gibbon
B)Collingwood
C)E.H. Carr
D)A.J. Toynbee

Question 9

William Butler Yeats belongs to………………………..

A)England
B)Ireland
C)Scotland
D)Wales

Question 10

In which year W.B. Yeats received Nobel Prize in Literature?

A)1925
B)1923
C)1928
D)1929

Question 11

'The Tower', a famous poem published in 1928 by……………..

A)W.B. Yeats
B)Thomas Hardy
C)T.S. Eliot
D)Oscar Wilde

Question 12

. ___________.................defined the Common Wealth as a "Procession of different countries at different stages in their advance towards complete self?government".

A)A.E. Zimmern
B)General Smuts
C)Beveridge
D)William Temple

Question 13

The name "Common Wealth" was suggested by………………………in 1917.

A)A.E. Zimmern
B)William Temple
C)General Smuts
D)Beveridge

Question 14

___________ is the Head Quarters of the 'Common wealth Secretariat'.

A)India House, London
B)Marlborough House, London
C)Memorial Hall, London
D)Westminster

Question 15

The main intergovernmental agency of the Common wealth of Nations known as the "Common Wealth Secretariat" was established in the year……….

A)1960
B)1968
C)1965
D)1969

Question 16

"From the Five Rivers" and "Tales of the Punjab", famous Anglo?Indian short stories, were written by………………………

A)E.M. Thomson
B)E.M. Forster
C)Flora Annie Steel
D)Thomas Stephens

Question 17

In which novel Flora Annie Steel depicts the incidents of Indian mutiny of 1857?

A)Voices in the Night
B)A Sovereign Remedy
C)On the Face of the Waters
D)The Hosts of the Lord

Question 18

Edward M. Thomson was famous………………………

A)Anglo Indian Poet
B)Orientalist
C)Historian
D)Diplomat

Question 19

"A Farewell to India" was written by………………………

A)E.M. Forster
B)Rudyard Kipling
C)Edward M. Thomson
D)F.A Steel

Question 20

In which year T.B. Macaulay issued his famous 'Minute on Indian Education', which became the blue print for the introduction of English education in India?

A)1st March 1835
B)2nd February 1835
C)2nd February 1836
D)1st Mar. 1836

Question 21

The beginning of Western education in India was dated from the…………………….

A)Act of 1832
B)Act of 1867
C)Charter Act of 1813
D)Charter Act of 1830

Question 22

The 'Charter Act of 1813' provided the allocation of ……………………. Rupees per year for the education purpose of India.

A)5 lakh
B)2 lakh
C)1 lakh
D)3 lakh

Question 23

___________… was established in 1823 to look after the development of education in India.

A)Council of Education
B)Committee of English Education
C)General Committee of Public Instruction
D)Board of Public Instruction

Question 24

___________…….in 1841 recommended the opening of English colleges at Delhi, Agra, Allahabad, Patna, Banaras, Bareilly, and Dacca.

A)William Bentinck
B)Lord Auckland
C)Lord Dalhousie
D)Lord Canning

Question 25

In 1854, ………………………………….laid down the policy which became the guiding principle of the education programme of the Government of India.

A)T.B. Macaulay
B)Sir Charles Wood
C)William Bentinck
D)Canning