Top 550+ Solved Social and Cultural History of Britain MCQ Questions Answer
Q. 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
Q. Edward M. Thomson was famous………………………
a. Anglo Indian Poet
b. Orientalist
c. Historian
d. Diplomat
Q. “A Farewell to India” was written by………………………
a. E.M. Forster
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. Edward M. Thomson
d. F.A Steel
Q. In which year T.B. Macaulay issued his famous ‘Minute on Indian Education’, whichbecame 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
Q. 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
Q. The ‘Charter Act of 1813’ provided the allocation of ……………………. Rupees per year for theeducation purpose of India.
a. 5 lakh
b. 2 lakh
c. 1 lakh
d. 3 lakh
Q. …………………………… was established in 1823 to look after the development of education inIndia.
a. Council of Education
b. Committee of English Education
c. General Committee of Public Instruction
d. Board of Public Instruction
Q. ……………………………….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
Q. In 1854, ………………………………….laid down the policy which became the guiding principle ofthe education programme of the Government of India.
a. T.B. Macaulay
b. Sir Charles Wood
c. William Bentinck
d. Canning
Q. The establishment of University at ……… ……….. ………..were recommended by, Sir CharlesWood.
a. Delhi, Punjab, Bihar
b. Calcutta, Bombay, Madras
c. Agra, Jaipur, Orissa
d. Delhi, Agra, Rajasthan
Q. Among the following countries which is not included in the Latin Americas?
a. Venezuela
b. Paraguay
c. Bolivia
d. Canada
Q. ……………………. comprises the entire continent of South America, as well as CentralAmerica and Mexico, and the Islands of Caribbean.
a. USA
b. Latin America
c. Tanzania
d. Canada
Q. ………………………. popularised the term Latin America through his writings in the 1830s.
a. Johan Edwardson
b. Edwin Williamson
c. Michel Chevalier
d. H. James
Q. Which monarch provided the financial assistance to Columbus’s voyages to the “NewWorld”?
a. Ferdinand of Portugal
b. Queen Isabella of Spain
c. Queen Elizabeth of England
d. Louis of France