Textual Questions & Answers of 'A Great Social Reformer' of Class-V

 

A Great Social Reformer

Textual Questions & Answers

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Let’s match column A with column B: 
 

A	B
a. Vidyasagar	Started Young Bengal Movement (d)
b. Vivekananda	Stopped the evil custom of ‘Sati’ (c)
c. Raja Rammohan Roy	Spread the message of brotherhood (b)
d. Derozio	Started widow remarriage (a)

 
 

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 :
 

A	B
a. Kind	Rich (b)
b. Poor	Forget (d)
c. Advantaged	Cruel (a)
d. remember	Disadvantaged (c)

 
 

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:
 

Personal Pronoun	Possessive Pronoun
he	his
we	ours

 

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