Question 1

....................., who is generally regarded as the architect of the system of education in India during the British rule.

Accepted Answer

A)  thomas babington macaulay
B)  william james
C)  swami vivekananda
D)  swami A

Question 2

William James founded The Asiatic Society of ...................in 1784.

Accepted Answer

A)  bengal
B)  madras
C)  bombay
D)  delhi A

Question 3

Wood's Education Despatch formed the basis of the education policy of east India Company's government in India since...........................

Accepted Answer

A)  1854
B)  1864
C)  1874
D)  1884 B

Question 4

Noticeable magazines published by ....................were the Brahmanical Magazine, the Sambad Kaumudi and Mirat-ul-Akbar.

Accepted Answer

A)  raja ram mohan roy
B)  toru dutt
C)  sri aurobindo
D)  thomas paine

Question 5

Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and The World) are ......................his best-known works,

Accepted Answer

A)  rabindranath tagore's
B)  robert h. ross
C)  richard aldington
D)  laurence binyon

Question 6

Macaulay's minutes was accepted and ................issued his proclamation inn march 1935 which set at rest all the controversies and led to the formulation of a policy which became the corner stone of all educational programmes during the British period in India.

Accepted Answer

A)  lord william bentinck
B)  queen elizabeth ii
C)  jonathan duncan
D)  warren hastings

Question 7

................... famous book 'Anand Math', the Bible of modern Bengali patriotism, provided very great inspiration to the people.

Accepted Answer

A)  rabindranath tagore's
B)  bankim chandra's
C)  lakshminath bezbarua's
D)  vishnu shastri chiplunkar's.

Question 8

The symbol of the Commonwealth is.............. who is the Head of the Commonwealth.

Accepted Answer

A)  queen elizabeth ii
B)  warren hastings
C)  jonathan duncan
D)  macaulay,

Question 9

..................... served as the first governor of the Oudh from 1947 to 1949; the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state.

Accepted Answer

A)  sarojini naidu
B)  walter scott
C)  jules verne
D)  goethe

Question 10

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj at ...............in 1828.

Accepted Answer

A)  madras
B)  kolkata
C)  bombay
D)  delhi

Question 11

................................... founded, Visva-Bharati University.

Accepted Answer

A)  rabindranath tagore
B)  mrs annie besant,
C)  mahadev govind ranade
D)  rousseau,

Question 12

....................... also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India, was an Indian independence activist and poet.

Accepted Answer

A)  sarojini naidu
B)  walter scott
C)  jules verne
D)  goethe

Question 13

......................., Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Accepted Answer

A)  rabindranath tagore
B)  robert graves,
C)  ivor gurney
D)  siegfried sassoon

Question 14

................., the founder of the Arya Samaj, gave the slogan, "India for the Indians".

Accepted Answer

A)  lord william bentinck
B)  swami dayanand saraswati
C)  raja ram mohan roy
D)  subramanya bharati

Question 15

...................was an Indian socio-educational reformer who was also known as 'Maker of Modern India' and 'Father of Modern India' and 'Father of the Bengal Renaissance.'

Accepted Answer

A)  raja ram mohan roy
B)  subramanya bharati
C)  bharatendu harishchandra
D)  altaf hussain mali

Question 16

The Commonwealth was formally constituted by the London Declaration in.................., which established the member states as "free and equal".

Accepted Answer

A)  1949
B)  1987
C)  1967
D)  1998

Question 17

"I am not a man of letters," wrote .................in one of his missives from jail to his daughter Indira, but of course he was.

Accepted Answer

A)  jawaharlal nehru
B)  ibn battuta
C)  marx,
D)  oswald spengler

Question 18

The term ..................... refers to the emergence of a totalitarian government.

Accepted Answer

A)  nwo
B)  commonwealth
C)  globalization
D)  arya samaj

Question 19

Sarojini Naidu was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in ................................

Accepted Answer

A)  1903
B)  1910
C)  1915
D)  1925

Exam 4: Famous Personalities and Symbols of the Commonwealth and Indian History