Women Change the world - Worksheets

 CBSE Work Sheet 01

Women Change the world

  1. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain knew how to read and write

    1. Bangla

    2. Hindi

    3. Urdu

    4. English

  2. Who said these line ?I would start working at dawn, and I would still be at it until well beyond midnight. I had no rest in between. I was only fourteen years old at the time. I came to nurture a great longing: I would learn to read and I would read a religious manuscript?
    1. Ramabai
    2. Rashsundari
    3. Rokeya
    4. Laxmi

  3. Our belief  that people belonging to particular groups based on religion, wealth, language, we create a____.

    1. Prejudice
    2. Discrimination
    3. Difference
    4. Stereotype

  4. Passage of law on domestic violence in 2006 was the result of

    1. protesting

    2. raising awareness

    3. showing solidarity

    4. campaigning

  5. According to Rokeya Sakhawat lady land is a place where_______________________.

    1. Land build by ladies
    2. Lady have freedom to study and work
    3. Lot of Ladies are living
    4. Ladies owned lot of land
  6. Fill in the blanks:

    Messages through songs, street plays, and public meetings are spread while _________.

  7. Fill in the blanks:

    Xavier was happy with the result of ________.

  8. State true or false:

    Royeka Sakhawat Hossain was prompted to learn English.

  9. When is International Women's Day celebrated?

  10. Who was Rashsundari Devi? What did she write in her autobiography?

  11. Who set up a Mission in Khedgaon near Pune in 1898? How did the Mission prove beneficial for the women?

  12. What do you know about census? Give an account of 1961 and 2001 census?

  13. Who wrote the story Sultana's Dream? What is the story all about?

CBSE Work Sheet 01
Women Change the world

Solution

  1. (c) Urdu
    Explanation: Urdu
  2. (b) Rashsundari
    Explanation: Rashsundari Devi (1800–1890), who was born in West Bengal, some 200 years ago. At the age of 60, she wrote her autobiography in Bangla. Her book titled Amar Jiban is the first known autobiography written by an Indian woman. Rashsundari Devi was a housewife from a rich landlord’s family. At that time, it was believed that if a woman learnt to read and write, she would bring bad luck to her husband and become a widow! Despite this, she taught herself how to read and write in secret, well after her marriage.She wrote; “I would start working at dawn, and I would still be at it until well beyond midnight. I had no rest in between. I was only fourteen years old at the time. I came to nurture a great longing: I would learn to read and I would read a religious manuscript.
  3. (d) Stereotype
    Explanation: When we believe that people belonging to particular groups based on religion, wealth, language are bound to have certain fixed characteristics or can only do a certain type of work, we create a stereotype. For example, we saw how boys and girls are made to take certain subjects not because he or she has an aptitude for it, but because they are either boys or girls. Stereotypes prevent us from looking at people as unique individuals.
  4. (d) campaigning
    Explanation: campaigning
  5. (b) Lady have freedom to study and work Explanation:

    Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born into a rich family. Rokeya learnt to read and write Bangla and English with the support of her elder brother and an elder sister. She wrote a remarkable story titled Sultana’s Dream in 1905 to practise her English skills when she was merely 25 years old. This story imagined a woman called Sultana who reaches a place called Ladyland. Ladyland is a place where women had the freedom to study, work, and create inventions like controlling rain from the clouds and flying air cars. In this Ladyland, the men had been sent into seclusion – their aggressive guns and other weapons of war defeated by the brain-power of women.

  6. raising awareness

  7. Class X board exam

  8. False

  9. International Women's Day is celebrated on 8 March every year.

  10. Rashsundari Devi was a housewife from a rich landlord's family in West Bengal. She wrote about her everyday life experiences in her autobiography.

  11. Pandita Ramabai setup a Mission in Khedgaon near Pune in 1898. This was the place where widows and poor women were encouraged not only to become literate but to be independent. They were taught a variety of skills from carpentry to running a printing press, skills that are considered male preserve. This Mission is still active today and does a lot for women's upliftement.

  12. Census is the process of counting the number of people in a country and collecting information about them such as their age, schooling, job, etc. This information is also used to calculate the like number of literate people, the ratio of men and women, etc.
    The 1961 census recorded a 40% literacy rate of males and 15% of females whereas the 2001 figures show 76% of males and 54% of females are literate.

  13. It was Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain who wrote the story Sultana's Dream in 1905 at the age of 25. The story is all about Sultana's dream. In her imagination she reaches a place called Ladyland. Ladyland is the place where women had the freedom to study, work and create inventions like controlling rain from the clouds and flying air cars. In this Ladyland, the men had no freedom at all.

    They had been sent to seclusion. Their aggressive guns and other weapons of war defeated by the brain-power of women. As Sultana travels in the Ladyland, she awakes suddenly and becomes disappointed to see the reality.