Hason Raja was born in 1854 in a
wealthy landlord's family in Sylhet. He did not receive much forma; education.
In his youth, he led a life of luxury. He had everything-money, comfort and
pleasure. At once time he understood that all these are meaningless. He gave
away all of his properties. He started to think deeply about the Creator, about
life, death and mankind. Hason Raia wrote a lot of songs, perhaps about a
thousand in numbers. His book called "Hason Udash" was published in
1906. The book had 206 songs in it. In his song Hason called himself 'Crazy
Hason Raja' or the 'Pagla Hason Raja'. A volume called 'Hason Raja Samagra
(Complete Works of Hason Raja) was also published. The book contained 500 poems
and songs. Some of the songs were written by the poet in Hindi.
Hason Raja's songs were always
popular in Sylhet. But very soon they spread all over Bangladesh and beyond. In
India's West Bengal, some eminent folk singers made Hason's songs popular. When
you grow older, you will learn more about this great mystic poet through
reading and listening to his songs.
1. Chose he right answer from the alternative.
(a) Hason Raja was born in a
_____family.
(i) Poor (ii) wealthy (iii) insolvent (iv)
needy
(b)In his youth, held a/an _____ life.
(i) Simple (ii)
unhealthy
(iii) Luxurious (iv)
uncomfortable
(c) Hason Raja is a_____ poet.
(i) Nature
(ii) mystic (iii) love (iv) Crazy
(d) Hason Raja _____ all of his properties.
(i) Received
(ii) took care of
(iii) left
(iv) enjoyed
(e) Hason Raja had less_____ education.
(i) Academic (ii) informal
(iii) Family
(iv) singing
(f) The word property’ means ________.
(i) Possession
(ii)
ability
(iii) Mark (iv)
virtue
(g) The
word ‘crazy’ means______.
(i) Indifferent (ii)
inattentive
(iii) Eccentric (iv) insane
(h) How many songs were in the book ‘Hason
udash’?
(i) 1906
(ii) 206
(iii) 209 (iv)
500
(i) The two books contain_____ songs
and poem.
(i) 206 (ii)
500
(iii) 1000 (iv) 706
(j) The word ‘eminent’ means _______.
(i) Ordinary (ii)
famous
(iii) Natural (iv) foreign
2. Answer the following questions.
(a) How was Hason Raja’s youth?
(b) How was Hason Raja’s family?
(c) At one time he understood that
all these are meaningless
‘What does the sentence mean?
(d) What did he start to think about?
(e) What do you know about his
publications?
3. Read the following text and answer the question that follows
Our national
poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in 1306 B.S. [1899 A.D.) at Churulia in the district
of Burdwan. Even in his childhood he showed the signs that he would once be a
great poet. He lost his father at the age of eight. At the age of eleven he
showed his poetic genius. In 1914 when the First World War broke out he went to
the army. Then he was minor. At the age of 16 when he was a student of class
nine he joined the army as an ordinary soldier on the side of the Allies. On
his return from the battle field, he gave up the sword for the pen and began to
write poems. He wrote a lot of poems, songs, short stories, gajals, novels etc.
He traveled in all branches of Bengali literature. His famous poem
"Bidrohi" stirred the whole nation and he was termed as the rebel
poet. He was always against slavery. His poems inspired our Freedom Fighters in
the Liberation War. Bangladesh became independent in 1971 and he was taken to
Bangladesh in 1972 from Calcutta and was declared our national poet. It was a
tragedy that he had been suffering from a cruel disease since 1942 and was
almost half dead for the rest of life. He died on the 29 August, 1976 and was
buried in the compound of Dhaka University Mosque
A Complete the
following table with the information gives in the passage.
Parson
|
Doing/Event
|
Incident
|
Effect/Time
|
Nazrul
|
Was born
|
in
|
(i) …………
|
He
|
lost
|
His (ii)…….
|
At eight.
|
The first world war
|
began
|
In
|
(iii) ………
|
He
|
joined
|
The (iv)……
|
As a soldier.
|
He
|
(v)………
|
in
|
1976.
|
B. Read the passage again and writes true or false beside the following
statements. Give answers for the false statements.
(a) Nazrul demonstrated lyrical
mastermind at the age of eight.
(b) Nazrul was only eight years old
when his father breathed last.
(c) Nazrul did not write any novel.
(d) He was always in favour of
slavery.
(e) Nazrul was buried in the
compound of Dhaka University Mosque.
4. Complete the text
with the right words in the box.
Ran is an old
(a)____many poets were (b)_____ in that country. They were famous all over the
(c)______.Even today we read their (d)_____saadi was such a (e)______.he was
also born (f)_____Iran. once he got an (g)_____from the king he started for the
royal court. he was in a very simple (h)____.on his (i)____to the court he took
shelter in a noble man’s (j)____to pass the night.
5. The texts in column A are the beginnings of some sentences .The
extensions are give in Column B and column C match the text in Column A, B and
C to make complete sentences.
Column A
|
Column B
|
Column C
|
AT night I
Because I
I
Then I
|
Thought
Put on
Couldn’t sleep
Started
Woke up
|
for my school.
At all.
My new dress.
About the school.
Very early in the morning.
|
6. Read the texts and
rearrange them in correct order:
(a)The noble prize has been given
since 1901.
(b) In 1850 Alfred noble joined his
father’s company.
(c) He earned a lot of money from
his Dynamite business.
(d) He was an engineer and chemist.
(e) Dr Alfred noble was born on 21st
October, 1833 at Stockholm Sweden
(f) This award was named after
Nobel and it was called ‘Nobel prize.
(g) His father Emanuel Nobel was an
architect and a research.
(h) He had ammunition business at
Leningrad.
(i) He undertook a plan to give an
award for encouraging the creative work for setting up peace in the world.
(j)After some years Alfred Nobel
invented Dynamite.
