Class Test Question
First Paper
Read the passage and answer the question 1-2:
My brothers,
The Assembly has been called into session on the 25th of March. But the blood spilled on our streets has not yet dried. About the 10th of this month, I have told them: Mujibur Rahman won’t join the Round Table Conference because that would mean wading over the blood that has been shed. Although you have called the Assembly into session, you’ll have to listen to my demands first. You’ll have to withdraw Martial Law. You’ll have to return all army personnel to their barracks. You’ll have to investigate the way our people have been murdered. And you’ll have to transfer power to the representatives of the people. It is only then that I’ll decide whether we will take our seats in the Assembly or not. I don’t want the Prime Minister’s office. We want the people of this country to have their rights. I want to state clearly that from this day Bangladesh’s courts, magistracies, government offices and educational institutions will be shut down indefinitely. So that the poor don’t have to suffer, so that my people don’t have to go through hardships, all other things will be exempted from the General Strike from tomorrow. Rickshaws, horse carriages, trains, and launches will be allowed to move. Only the Secretariat, the Supreme Court, the High Court, Judges’ Court, and semi-government organizations such as WAPDA will not be allowed to work. On the 28th employees will go and collect their salaries. If their salaries are not paid, if another bullet is fired, if my people are shot dead again, I request all of you: convert every house into a fort; confront the enemy with whatever you have. And even at the risk of your life, and even if I am not around to direct you, shut down all shops and make sure that traffic on all roads and ports are brought to a stand still. If need be, we will starve to death, but we’ll go down striving for our rights.
- Each of the following questions has a word with four alternative meaning. Choose the word which is closest in meaning in the context that has been used in the text. 10
- The word salary mentioned in the passage means.
(i) remuneration (ii) assist (iii) gift (iv) contributions
(b) The word investigate mentioned in the passage means
(i) inspection (ii) learning (iii) study (iv) probe
(c) The word ‘organizations’ in line 11 refers to
(i) arrangements (ii) representation (iii) institutions (iv) publications
(d) Bangabandhu said that he would decide whether he would take seat
(i) in the President’s office (ii) in the Assembly
(iii) in the Round Table Conference (iv) in the Prime Minister’s office
(e). What does the word confusion in the passage refer to?
(i) puzzlement (ii) density (iii) disorder (iv) glamour
(f) The word allow mentioned in the passage means.
(i) debar (ii) disturb (iii) permit (iv) disburse
(g) What made Bangabandhu so confident his people?
(i) their swear (ii) their strength (iii) their arms (iv) their sacrifice
(h) The word exempt mentioned in the passage means.
(i) cash (ii) spare (iii) lessen (iv) restrain
(i) Bangabandhu wanted the people to free from
(i) the superstition (ii) Martial Law (iii) hardship (iv) oppression
(j) “Rickshaw, horse carriage, trains and launches will be allowed to move.” -This declaration implies that Bangabandhu was –
(i) uncaring to the suffering of the poor (ii) sympathetic to the poor
(iii) apart from to the hardship of the people (iv) careless to the condition of the poor
- Answer the following question: 10
- What is the significance of Bangabandhu’s 7 March speech?
- Who imposed Martial Law and why? Explain in brief.
- When die the Assembly been called into session?
- What did Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman request the people?
- “I don’t want the Prime Minister’s office.” Who said these words? What did the actually want?
3 Read the passage and answer the question :
Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multi-racial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for justice around the world.
Imprisoned for nearly three decades for his fight against white minority rule, Mandela never lost his resolve to fight for his people’s emancipation. He was determined to bring down apartheid while avoiding a civil war. His prestige and charisma helped him win the support of the world.
I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life ; I will fight it now , and will do so until the end of my days,’ Mandela said in his acceptance speech on becoming South Africa’s first black president in 1994, ……
“The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come,”
“We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation.”
Give the synonym/ antonyms: 10
- Apartheid (synonym)
- Reconciliation (antonym)
- Embody (Antonym)
- Resolve (synonym)
- Emancipation (antonym)
- Prestige (antonym)
- Charisma (antonym)
- Manifestation (synonym)
- Heal (synonym)
- Achieve (synonym)
- Re Arrange the sentences. 10
(i) All the servents were called and interrogated.
(ii) In order to find out the thief, the judge chalked out an intelligent plan.
(iii) Once a gold necklace was lost from a rich man’s house.
(iv) The servent’s were summoned to the court but they denied having stolen the necklace.
(v) When the servents came to the court the next day, the thief had already cut off an inch of his stick.
(vi) But nobody confessed their guilt.
(vii) So the owner of the house lodged a complaint in the court.
(viii) The judge found one of the sticks shorter than the others and in this way he could easily catch the thief.
(ix) Naturally it was suspected that one of the servants had stolen the necklace.
(x) He gace each of the suspects a stick of equal length and said that one of the sticks would increase by an inch the next day.
