RBSE Class 7 Social Science Important Questions Civics Chapter 5 Women Change the World

Rajasthan Board RBSE Class 7 Social Science Important Questions Civics Chapter 5 Women Change the World Questions and Answers. 

RBSE Class 7 Social Science Important Questions Civics Chapter 5 Women Change the World

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. 
Writer of Amar Jiban’ is:
(a) Ramabai
(b) Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Rashsundari Devi
Answer:
(d) Rashsundari Devi

 

Question 2. 
Who was given the title of Pandita?
(a) Laxmi Lakra
(b) Ramabai
(c) Rashsundari Devi
(d) Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Answer:
(b) Ramabai

Question 3. 
As per the to census of 2011, the percentage of literate girls and women is:
(a) 65 
(b) 64 
(c) 74
(d) 84
Answer:
(a) 65 

Question 4. 
Scheduled caste is the official term used for: 
(a) Dalit 
(b) Adivasi
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer:
(a) Dalit 

Question 5.
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain started a school for:
(a) Boys
(b) Adults
(c) Girls
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Answer: 
(c) Girls

Fill in the blanks

Question 1. 
Ramabai set up a mission in Khedgaon near Pune in year ................
Answer:
1898

Question 2. 
Rashsundari devi wrote her autobiogrphy in ................ language.
Answer:
Bangla

Question 3. 
India has a census every ................  years, which counts the population of whole country.
Answer:
10

Question 4.   
................ was the first known autobiography written by an Indian women.
Answer:
Amar Jiban

Question 5.
According to the census of 2011,................  percentof boys and men and ................ percent of girls and women were found literate.
Answer: 
82, 65.

True/False

Question 1. 
Media is the plural of the word middle.
Answer:
False

Question 2. 
Television has made us think of ourselves as globol citizens.
Answer:
True

Question 3. 
Changing Technologies help media to reach more poeople.
Answer:
True

 

Question 4. 
Balanced report discusses only one of view; or one side of story.
Answer:
False

Question 5. 
Media can be divided into print media and:/electronic media.
Answer: 
True

Match the column

Column A	Column B
1. J.L. Baird	(a) 1940’s
2. Khabar Lahriya	(b) Revolutionized mass media
3. Satellite	(c) Television
4. A Gutenberg	(d) local paper in U.P
5. Electronic typewriter	(e) Printing press

Answer:

Column A	Column B
1. J.L. Baird	(c) Television
2. Khabar Lahriya	(d) local paper in U.P
3. Satellite	(b) Revolutionized mass media
4. A Gutenberg	(e) Printing press
5. Electronic typewriter	(a) 1940’s

Very Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1. 
What is a stereotype?
Answer: 
It refers to the belief that people belonging to a particular religion, community, gender, etc. have certain traits and can do only a certain type of work.

Question 2. 
When is the International Women’s Day celebrated?
Answer: 
8th March every year.

Question 3. 
What is census?
Answer: 
Census counts the whole population of the country. India has a census every 10 years.

Question 4. 
List two negative stereotypes on women prevalent in your society.
Answer: 

1. They cannot be good drivers.
2. They cannot do job after marriage.

Question 5. 
Who is a women’s rights activist?
Answer: 
A women rights activist is a person who works to bring about political or social changes for women in the country by campaigning in public or working for an organisation. 

 

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1. 
Why did Rosie ma’am’s class draw more women as nurses and men as Army officers?
Answer: 
This is so because people feel that outside the home, women are good at only certain jobs. For example, people believe that women are more efficient as nurses and can be more patient and gentle. People believe that science requires a technical mind and girls and women are not capable of dealing with technical things. People have stereotype image regarding girls.

Question 2. 
How does being stereotype affect the girls regarding education?
Answer: 
Because of being a stereotype, girls do not get the same support that the boys get in study and train to become doctors and engineers. Many families encourage the girl child to see marriage as the main aim of their life after they finish school.

Question 3. 
What kind of pressures do children face from the world around them?
Answer: 
There are many pressures imposed on the children by their families. Few of them are:

1. Demand from adults to make a career.
2. Unfair teasing by their own friends.
3. Pressure of getting a job with a good salary.
4. To follow the ongoing trends of the society and to behave like other boys.
5. Not to cry in front of others.

Question 4. 
Give an account of Pandita Ramabai’s struggle to encourage women to be literate.
Answer: 
Pandita Ramabai initiated the cause of women’s education. Although, she was not given any learning to read and write from her parents but then also she could read and write Sanskrit. She was given the title of ‘Pandita’ because of this remarkable achievement. She set up a mission in Khedgaon near Pune in 1898 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 not usually taught to girls even today.

Question 5. 
Write a short note on the life sketch of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.
Answer: 
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was bom in a rich landlord family. She knew how to read and write Urdu but was not allowed to learn Bangla and English. She learnt to read and write Bangla and English with the support of her elder brother and an elder sister. She became a writer and wrote a story titled Sultana’s Dream in 1905. Hossain had always dreamt that women should fly planes and cars even girls should be encouraged to go to school. Her education gave her the power not only to dream, read and write but also to do more to help other girls go to school and to build their own dreams.

Long Answer Type Questions

Question 1. 
Make a comparative study of the past and the present forms of learning for children.
Answer: 
Past: 
The skill of reading and writing was known only to a few. Children usually learnt the work from their families and elders did. The girls were not allowed to learn even the alphabets. The families where skills like pottery, weaving and craft work were being carried out in the trade. The contribution of daughters and women was only seen as a support.
At present: 
Many new ideas about education and learning have emerged. Schools have emerged as a new centre of learning. Many communities who had never learnt reading and writing started sending their children to school. All the girls faced opposition regarding being educated but they struggled to learn to read and write.

Question 2.
What were Rashsundari Devi’s experience regarding her struggle to become literate?
Answer: 
Rashsundari Devi was born in West Bengal approximately 200 years ago. She was a housewife from a rich landlord’s family. She was not allowed to learn, read and write because 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 after her marriage. She secretly learnt alphabets from her eldest son’s book.

After learning the alphabet, she started matching the letters from the page of the book Chaitanya Bhagabat with the letters that she learnt. Later at the age of 60, she wrote her autobiography in Bangla language named Amar Jiban. Her book was the first known autobiography written by an Indian woman. She wrote about her everyday life experiences in details and her books gave the world an opportunity to read about women’s lives in those days.

 

Question 3. 
What strategies had been used to abstract awareness, fight discrimi¬nation and seek justice in the women’s movements?
Answer: 
(i) Campaigning: This is usually done by doing rally on the streets, approaching the courts and by sharing information. Eventually it becomes a public issue in the newspapers and society which forces the government to take actions regarding that issue. Campaigning is done to fight against discrimination and violence against women.
(ii) Raising awareness: In order to raise public awareness, the message was spread through street plays, songs and public meetings.
(iii) Protesting: Women protested against the injustices done against them by public rally and demonstrations.
(iv) Showing solidarity: This is shown through candle march and by making human chain.