Lesson 2: Begum Rokeya (2)

Read these questions first. Then listen to the teacher/CD and answer the questions.

1. What did Begum Rokeya do to make people remember her husband?
2. Do you know what kind of books she wrote?

Listening text: 6

Listen again and tick the best answer.

1. Sakhawat Hossain died in: a. 1902. b. 1909. c. 1932.

2. Begum Rokeya set up a girls’ high school in: a. Kolkata. b. Bhagalpur. c. Pairabandh.

3. Begum Rokeya set up this school in memory of her: a. husband. b. father. c. mother.

4. There was a dispute in her husband's family. Here ‘dispute’ means that the members: a. were of the same opinion. b. had different opinions. c. did not like each other.

5. Sakhawat Hossain Memorial Girls’ school is: a. a private school. b. a government school. c. a Muslim school.

6. Begum Rokeya wrote: a. short stories and poems. b. novels and poems. c. novels and short stories.

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Answer the following questions.

1. What did Begum Rokeya do for female education?
2. Why did she move Sakhawat Memorial Girls’ High School to Kolkata?
3. What are some of her important writings?