A Great Social Reformer
Textual Questions & Answers
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Let’s match column A with column B:
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A
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B
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a. Vidyasagar
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Started Young Bengal Movement (d)
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b. Vivekananda
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Stopped the evil custom of ‘Sati’ (c)
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c. Raja Rammohan Roy
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Spread the message of brotherhood (b)
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d. Derozio
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Started widow remarriage (a)
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Activity - 1
Complete the following
sentences with information from the text:
i. Begum Rokeya was born in a rich Muslim family.
ii. At home she learnt Arabic and Persian and lessons
in Bengali and English.
iii. She never went to school but educated herself by her own
efforts.
iv. She wrote some great books both in Bengali and English.
Activity - 2
Table A and Table B
have words with opposite meanings. Let’s match Table A with Table B :
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A
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B
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a. Kind
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Rich (b)
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b. Poor
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Forget (d)
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c. Advantaged
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Cruel (a)
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d. remember
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Disadvantaged (c)
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Activity - 3
Let’s write T for true
and F for False statements in the given boxes:
i. Begum Rokeya never thought about others. [F]
ii. Begum Rokeya demanded education for women. [T]
iii. She wrote against social injustice. [T]
iv. She never felt the importance of women in a family. [F]
Activity - 4
Find out the
word-clusters (describing word + naming word) from the above text:
i. Social reforms
ii. Healthy girl
iii. remarkable women
iv. first need
v. strong humanist
vi. famous books
vii. ideal woman
viii. great books
Activity - 5
Put the punctuation
marks in the following sentences. The first one is done for you:
1. Vivekananda said, ‘all Indians are my brothers and sisters.’
Ans: Vivekananda said, “All
Indians are my brothers.”
2. i am rokeyas friend said the lady.
Ans: “I am Rokeya’s
friend.” said the lady.
3. who are you oh you are wounded.
Ans: “Who are you?” Oh!
You are wounded.
4. i know there are many birds like crow parrot mynah.
Ans: I know there are
many birds like crow, parrot, and mynah.
5. netaji founded ajad hind fauj.
Ans: Netaji founded
‘Ajad Hind Fauj’.
6. vidyasagar was a social reformer.
Ans: Vidyasagar was a
social reformer.
Activity - 6
Let’s fill in the
blanks with appropriate prepositions:
Swami Vivekananda was born in 1863. He was
born in Calcutta. He belonged to a
rich family. In those days our country was under the
British rule. Vivekananda felt for the misery of the
Indians.
Activity - 7 (a)
Let’s classify the
personal pronouns and possessive pronouns from the passage:
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a great social reformer. He lived in the 19th
century Bengal. He worked hard for the betterment of our country. His fight was
for abolishing the evil system of Sati, and his contribution to the improvement
of Indian education will be remembered forever. We are all proud of him.
Personal Pronouns → He, we
Possessive Pronouns → No Possessive Pronouns
Activity - 7 (b)
Change personal pronouns used in Activity 7(a) into possessive pronouns.
One is done for you:
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Personal Pronoun
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Possessive Pronoun
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he
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his
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we
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ours
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