MCQs- English in India

 MCQs:  English in India

1.  Who gave the concept of “Filtration Theory”?

a. Macaulay

b. Lord Hastings

c. Lord Bentick

d. Lord Cornwallis

 

2. Which is known as “Magna Carta of English Education in India”?

a. Kothari Commission

b. Wood’s Dispach

c. Sadler Commision

d. Macaulay Minute.

 

3. Who is known as “Father of Indian Renaissance”

a. Gandhi

b. Ram Mohan Roy

c. B.R Ambedkar

d. Macaulay

 

4.  Macaulay Minute was proposed on

a. 2 Feb 1835

b.31 Dec 1835

c. 15 Aug 1835

d. 1 Apr 1835

 

5. Status of English in India is

a. Official Language

b. Associate Official Language

c. Both A and B

d. None of the above

 

6. Which of the following incidents are not related to English in India?

a. Macaulay Minute

b. Discovery of sea route to India

c. Official languages Act

d. Great Vowel Shift

 

7. Who wanted to create a class of people Indian in blood and colour but English in taste and opinion?

a. Lord Macaulay

b. Lord Wellington

c. Lord Dulhousie

d. Lord Bentick

 

8. Who said “England and America are two countries divided by a common language”?

a. Francis Bacon

b. T.S. Eliot

c. G.B. Shaw

d. Samuel Johnson

 

9. UGC was formed in 1953, but the autonomous status was granted in ……...?

a. 1956

b. 1955

c. 1954

d. 1957

 

10. who iscalled as “Father of modern eduction in India”?

a. Warren Hastings

b. Macaulay

c. Charles Grant

d. Lord Cornwallis

 

Answers:

1. a

2. b

3. b

4. a

5. b

6. d

7. a

8. c

9. a

10.b