Question

Read the following passage and answer the questions based on it. Choose the most appropriate

answer.

It is taken for granted by the advocates of oriental learning that no native of this country can possibly

attain more than a mere smattering of English . They do not attempt to prove this. But they perpetually

insinuate it. They designate the education which their opponents recommend as a mere spelling-book

education. They assume it as undeniable that the question is between a profound knowledge of Indian

and Arabic literature and science on the one side, and superficial knowledge of the rudiments of

English on the other. This is not merely an assumption, but an assumption contrary to all reason and

experience. We know that foreigners of all nations do learn our language sufficiently to have access to

all the most abstruse knowledge which it contains sufficiently to relish even the more delicate

graces of our most idiomatic writers. There are, in this very town, natives who are quite competent to

discuss political or scientific questions with fluency and precision in the English language. I have heard

the very question on which I am now writing discussed by native gentlemen with a liberality and an

intelligence which would do credit to any member of the Committee of public instruction. Indeed it is

unusual to find, even in the literary circles of the Continent, any foreigner who can express

herself/himself in English with so much facility and correctness as we find in many Indians Nobody, I

suppose, will contend that English is so difficult to an Indian as Greek to an Englishman. Yet an

intelligent English youth, in a much smaller number of years than our unfortunate pupils pass at the

Sanskrit college, becomes able to read, to enjoy, and even to imitate not unhappily the compositions of

the best Greek authors. Less than half the time which enables and English youth to read Herodotus

and Sophocles ought to enable an Indian to read Hume and Milton.

1. The writer feels that the advocates of oriental learning are

(1) cautiously open to the idea of English education. (2) aware of the tyranny of English education.

(3) irrational in their views about English education. (4) aware of the politics of English education

2. Which of the following ideas does the writer have a problem with ?

(1) Some natives are proficient in discussing complex topics

(2) Knowledge of English is pitched against that of Indian and Arabic Literature.

(3) Foreigners can read and enjoy some of the difficult English writings

(4) Learning English for an Indian can be easier than learning Greek for an Englishman

3. The Foreigners discussed in the passage is

(1) an Arab. (2) a Greek (c) an Indian (4) an Englishman

4. Which of the following sentences best captures the main argument of the writer ?

(1) Many Indians are capable of using English like any Englishman.

(2) Learning English is as difficult as learning any other foreign language.

(3) The importance of English education needs to be recognised by the supporters of oriental learning.

(4) An Indian can learn English in half the time taken by an Englishman to learn Greek.

5. According to the author, it is easier for

(1) Indians to have a profound knowledge of Arabic literature and Science than learn English.

(2) Indians to learn Sanskrit than for Englishmen to appreciate Greek literature.

(3) Foreigners to learn Indian language than for Indians to learn foreign languages.

(4) Indians to appreciate English literature than for Englishmen to appreciate Greek literature​

Answer 1

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