West Bengal Primary Board A Great Social Reformer Question Answer Class 5 Lesson 10 | Activity Solution
A Great Social Reformer
Let’s match column A with column B:
| A | B |
| (1) Vidyasagar | started Young Bengal Movement (4) |
| (2) Vivekananda | stopped the evil custom of ‘Sati’ (3) |
| (3) Raja Rammohan Roy | spread the message of brotherhood (2) |
| (4) Derozio | started widow remarriage (1) |
ACTIVITY 1
Complete the following sentences with information from the text:
Begum Rokeya was born in an affluent Muslim family.
At home she learnt Arabic and Persian.
She never went to school.
She wrote some great books 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 |
| (1) Kind | Rich (2) |
| (2) Poor | Forget (4) |
| (3) Advantaged | Cruel (1) |
| (4) Remember | Disadvantaged (3) |
ACTIVITY 3
Let’s write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements:
(1) Begum Rokeya never thought about others. [F]
(2) Begum Rokeya demanded education for women. [T]
(3) She wrote against social injustice. [T]
(4) 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 girls.
(iii) Remarkable women.
(iv) First pioneer.
(v) Strong humanist.
(vi) Famous books.
(vii) Ideal state/woman.
(viii) Great books.
ACTIVITY 5
Put the punctuation marks in the following sentences.
(i) Vivekananda said, ‘All Indians are my brothers.’
(ii) ‘I am Rokeya’s friend,’ said the lady.
(iii) ‘Who are you?’ oh! You are wounded.
(iv) I know there are many birds like crow,parrot and mynah.
(v) Netaji founded ‘Ajad Hind Fauj.’
(vi) 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 forthe 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. Helived in the 19th century Bengal. Heworked 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 Pronoun – He, We
Possessive Pronoun – His, Our
ACTIVITY 7(b)
Change the personal pronouns used in activity 7(a) into possessive pronouns.
| PERSONAL PRONOUNS | POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS |
| He | His |
| We | Our |
A Great Social Reformer Question Answer
ACTIVITY 8
Use the following hints and write ten sentences about Henry Louis Vivian Derozio:
| Name | Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. |
| Date of Birth | 18.04.1809 |
| Parents’ names | Francis Derozio; Sophie Johnson. |
| Place of Birth | Entally, Kolkata. |
| School | David Drummond’s “Dhurramtallah Academy’’. |
| Service | Teacher of English Literature and History, Hindu College. |
| Achievements | Assistant editor of ‘The India Gazette’, editor of ‘The Calcutta Gazette’, ‘The East Indian’ and ‘The Bengal Annual’ etc. |
| Notable works | ‘To India, My Native land’, ‘The Harp of India’, ‘The Fakir of Jungheera’ etc. |
| Death | 26th December, 1831. |
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Henry Lewis Vivian Delosio was an Indian English poet. He was born on April 18, 1809. His father's name was Francis Delocio and his mother was Sophie Johnson. He was born in Entally and grew up in Kolkata. He attended the Dhurramtallah Academy of David Dramondo. After that, he began teaching English literature and history at a Hindu university. He soon became the Deputy Editor of the Indian Bulletin and the Editor of the Calcutta Bulletin, and the Yearbooksa of East India and Bengal. He wrote many poems in his spare time. Some of his famous poems are: "To India, my hometown", "Indian harp", "Fakir Zungil", etc. He died on December 26, 1831.
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