Class 7 Civics Chapter 5 Question Answers - Women Change the World

Very Short Q&A:

Q1: Our society has changed a lot for women as a result of their struggle for equality True / False.

Ans : True

Q2: Identify the agricultural work done by Indian women

a. Planting and weeding

b. Threshing and harvesting

c. Threshing

d. Both a and b

Ans : d

Q3: Why women are considered as better nurse?

Ans : Because they are more patient and gentle

Q4: Give an example where a girl brooked stereotypes.

Ans : Generally engine drivers are male, but Laxmi Lakra from a poor tribal family in Jharkhand is the first women engine driver for Northern Railway

Q5: Laxmi Lakra belongs to a poor tribal family in Orissa. True / False

Ans : False

Q6: In most families, once girls finish school, they are encouraged by their family to see ____________as their main aim in life

Ans : Marriage

Q7: After lot of efforts made my men and women, _____________opened to educate female child.

Ans : girl's school

Q8: Ramabai was given the title__________________.

Ans : Pandita

Q9: Ramabai also work for the betterment of ________________ and poor women.

Ans : Widows

Q10: In Ramabai’s mission women were taught

a. Carpentry

b. Running a printing press

c. Both a and b

d. None of these

Ans : c

Q11: Women wrote stories, letters and autobiographies describing their situation and experience of inequality. True/ False.

Ans : True

Q12: Name the first known autobiography written by an Indian woman

Ans : Amar Jiban

Q13: Why women were not allowed to read and write English?

Ans : It was believed that English was a language that would expose girls to new ideas, which people thought were not correct for them.

Q14: State important features of ladyland..

Ans : Women had freedom to study, work and create inventions like flying air cars and controlling rain from cloud.

Q15: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain started a ___________________ for girls.

Ans : School

Q16: Name the place where Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain started a school for girls.

Ans : Kolkata

Q17: State some reasons that forces girls to leave school and studies.

Ans : Poverty, inadequate schooling facility and discrimination.

Q18: Name the book whose one of the page was taken out secretly by Rashsundari Devi.

Ans : Chaitanya Bhagabat

Q19: State some fields where girls are working at larger level in India.

Ans : Fields like legal reform, violence and health

Q20: Name the women whose daughter was murdered for dowry and she became an active member of the movement against dowry death.

Ans : Satyarani

Q21: __________________ and ___________________ are very powerful way of drawing attentions to injustices.

Ans : Public rallies and demonstrations.

Q22: International Women’s day is celebrated on _______________

Ans : 8th March