Hi Everyone!! This article will share The Village School Questions & Answers.
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The Village School Questions & Answers
Question 1: For whom did the three girls start a school?
Answer: The three girls – Tabassum, Tarranum and Rubina started school for the children who had never stepped out of their home or had dropped out of school because of problems at home.
Question 2: What was the biggest challenge the three girls faced?
Answer: The biggest challenge that the three girls faced was to bring in the girls who had left school altogether. Their parents did not want them to leave their homes as they thought going to school was a waste of time for them as they could do household work during the day.
Question 3: What was their plan to educate the girls of the village?
Answer: To educate the girls of the village, the trio had a plan. They started a small tailoring training centre at the school so that the families would let their daughters come there. Along with the tailoring, they started teaching them as well. The parents got angry about it but they said to their parents that tailoring requires some measurements and calculations and for that a basic education is necessary.
Question 4: What did the women of the village learn from the school?
Answer: The women of the village learnt to write their names with signatures.
Question 5: What does the school do for the students instead of giving them degrees?
Answer: The school gave the students good education and help them connect to good schools.
Question 6: Read the line and answer the questions:
1. “We, the three of us, were the only ones who finished school.”
a. Who said the ‘we three’?
Answer: Tabassum, Tarranum and Rubina were the three girls.
b. Which place is the speaker talking about?
Answer: The speaker is talking about their village, Sajoi, near Varanasi.
c. Why did the others from that place not go to school?
Answer: The others from that place did not go to school because they never took education seriously. The girls would drop out of school to help their mothers. The children would start working at a young age and ignore their education. According to the villagers, education is only a waste of time.
2. “It was very difficult in the beginning”.
a. What was difficult in the beginning?
Answer: It was difficult in the beginning to convince the parents and to drag the students out of their homes to school.
b. How did the girls tackle the difficulty?
Answer: The girls tackled the difficulty by going door to door and made the villagers agree to come to school.
c. Did their efforts get them positive results?
Answer: Yes, their efforts got them positive results. After six months of their efforts, students started coming to school themselves.
Question 7: How did the people of the village first react to the school? Did this change later?
Answer: The people of the village shouted at the three girls and said that they were a bad influence on their girls. They also asked them to leave the public space where they were running their school. They also said that the trio wouldn’t be able to do anything just because they were girls.
Yes, later it changed. When the girls changed the face of the village, the same people who used to mock them came forward to support them.
Question 8: How would you describe the determination and resilience of Tabassum, Tarranum and Rubina?
Answer: In the beginning, it was not an easy task for the three girls to change the face of their village. But with their determination and resilience, they made the villagers understand the importance of education. The trio didn’t pay any heed to the insult done by the villagers. Finally, they succeeded in their plan and made ninety percent of the villagers educated and helped them to connect to good schools. This shows that with determination and resilience one can do any difficult task.
So, these were The Village School Questions & Answers.