Q. What is the birth name of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar?

a) Keshab Chandra Sen

b) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

c) Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay

d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Answer: c) Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay

Q. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is famously associated with which social reform?

a) Remarriage of widows

b) Religious tolerance

c) Caste system promotion

d) Untouchability

Answer: a) Remarriage of widows

Q. In which year was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar born?

a) 1800

b) 1820

c) 1835

d) 1850

Answer: b) 1820

Q. Lord Dalhousie with the help of Vidyasagar finalized which bill to an Act in 1856?

a) Hindu Widow Remarriage Act

b) Child Marriage Restraint Act

c) Sati Regulation Act

d) Caste Discrimination Act

Answer: a) Hindu Widow Remarriage Act

Q. In 1891, which social reform was done by Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar?

a) Hindu Widow Remarriage Act

b) Child Marriage Restraint Act

c) Sati Regulation Act

d) Caste Discrimination Act

Answer: b) Child Marriage Restraint Act

Q. Vidyasagar is known for his significant contribution in reforming which Indian language’s script?

a) Hindi

b) Tamil

c) Bengali

d) Telugu

Answer: c) Bengali

Q. Which institution did Vidyasagar establish to promote education?

a) Indian Institute of Science

b) National College of Arts

c) Sanskrit College

d) Metropolitan Institution

Answer: d) Metropolitan Institution

Q. What is the meaning of the title “Vidyasagar”?

a) Sun of Knowledge

b) King of Education

c) Ocean of Wisdom

d) Light of Enlightenment

Answer: c) Ocean of Wisdom

Q.  Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s efforts in promoting women’s education earned him which title?

a) Father of the Nation

b) Mother Teresa of India

c) Pioneer of Women’s Education

d) Guru of Enlightenment

Answer: c) Pioneer of Women’s Education

Q. What is Vidyasagar’s birth place?

a) Kolkata

b) Paschim Medinipur

c) Darjeeling

d) Murshidabad

Answer: b) Paschim Medinipur

Q. Who gave him the title ‘Vidyasagar’?

a) Presidency College

b) Calcutta University

c) Sanskrit College

d) St. Xavier’s College

Answer: c) Sanskrit College

Q. He was also the secretary of a Hindu Female School which later came to be known as _____________?

a) Bethune Female School

a) Bethune Female School

b) St. Xavier’s School

c) Loreto Convent School

d) Modern School

Answer: a) Bethune Female School

Q. Which book written by Vidyasagar is most popular for Bengali literature introduction?

a) Sahaj Path

b) Atmabodh

c) Barnaparichay

d) Vartaman Patra

Answer: c) Barnaparichay

Q. Which Shakespeare’s play was translated to Bengali by Vidyasagar?

a) Romeo and Juliet

b) Macbeth

c) Comedy of Errors

d) Othello

Answer: c) Comedy of Errors

Q. Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar is known as ‘Father of Bengail ___________’?

a) Art

b) Prose

c) Science

d) Music

Answer: b) Prose

Q. Rabindranath wrote about Vidyasagar in which of his following books?

a) Chatritropuja

b) Chokher Bali

c) Ghare-Baire

d) Chaturanga

Answer: a) Chatritropuja

Q. Another title of Vidyasagar is ‘Dayarsagar’. He helped one renowned poet with ransom amount once. Name the famous poet?

a) Rabindranath Tagore

b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

c) Michael Madhusudan Dutt

d) Kazi Nazrul Islam

Answer: c) Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Q. What is the name of weekly magazine published by Vidyasagar?

a) Sahaj Path

b) Atmabodh

c) Somprakash

d) Vartaman Patra

Answer: c) Somprakash

Q. Vidyasagar’s son Narayan Chandra Bandhopadhyay married a widow lady. What is her name?

a) Kadambari Devi

b) Kamala Nehru

c) Bhabasundari Devi

d) Savitribai Phule

Answer: c) Bhabasundari Devi

Q. Vidyasar formed a school in the memory of his mother in his birth place. What is the name of the school?

a) Bhagawati Vidyalaya

b) Saraswati School

c) Kanya Gurukul

d) Vidyamandir

Answer: a) Bhagawati Vidyalaya