BABAR ALI
World’s Youngest Head Master making remarkable changes in India
Samarpita Mukherjee Sharma
I. Answer the
following in a word, a phrase or a sentence each:
1. Who is the
youngest headmaster in the world?
a) Babar Ali b) Babar Ahmed c) Babar Azan
Ans: a) Babar Ali
2. Babar Ali
initially started his afternoon school at the age of ______
a) 6 b) 7 c) 9
Ans: c) 9
3. What was the name
of Babar Ali’s little afternoon venture (school)?
a)
Anandshikshaniketan b) Shantiniketan c) Niketankumar
Ans: a)
Anandshikshaniketan
4. Babar Ali hails
from the village of ______ in West Bengal.
a) Munaffanagar b) Murshidabad c) Munawarbad
Ans: b) Murshidabad
5. Where did Babar
Ali teach hundreds of students?
a) backyard of his
house b) front of his house c) beside his house
Ans: a) backyard of
his house
6. Who was the first privileged member in Babar Ali’s
family to get a proper education?
a) Nasiruddin Sheikh b) Babar Ali c) Debarita
Ans: Babar Ali
7. How many students in total, learn in Babar Ali’s
school?
a) 600 b) 700 c) 800
Ans: c) 800
8. What do the underprivileged children learn free of
cost at Babar Ali’s school?
a) basic and
fundamentals of life b)
formal education
c) computer education
Ans: a) basic and
fundamentals of life
9. Who is described as a fortunate soul in his district
of Murshidabad?
a) Nasiruddin Sheikh b) Babar Ali c) Debarita
Ans: Babar Ali
10. The extent of Babar Ali’s home is described as the
size of an average________
a) a hall b) average city
kitchen c) bed room
Ans: b) average city
kitchen
11. The name of Babar Ali’s father is _________
a) Nasiruddin Sheikh b) Ali c)
Abdulla
Ans: a) Nasiruddin
Sheikh
12. Nasiruddin Sheikh was a _________ by profession.
a) Jute seller b) auto driver c) taxi driver
Ans: a) Jute seller
13. What is man’s true religion, according to Nasiruddin
Sheikh?
a) Education is man’s
true religion b) Education is basic
rights
c) Education is
woman’s rights
Ans: a) Education is
man’s true religion
14. Who believed that education is man’s true religion?
a) Nasiruddin Sheikh b) Ali c)
Abdulla
Ans: a) Nasiruddin
Sheikh
15. How many subjects do the students at Babar Ali’s
school study?
a) 8 subjects b) 9 subjects c) 10 subjects
Ans: c) 10 subjects
16. Who initially supported Babar Ali’s venture with his
own income?
a) Nasiruddin Sheikh b) Ali c)
Abdulla
Ans: a) Nasiruddin
Sheikh
17. Many families could not afford to send their children
to school in spite of free education because they still had to pay for
______________.
a) books and uniforms b) biscuits and coke c) bread and butter
Ans: a) books and
uniforms
18. The School ‘Anand Shiksha Niketan’ started as a
________.
a) a sports b) a game c) a test
Ans: b) a game
19. The children enjoy playing the game ‘school-school’
because they_______
a. learnt arithmetic b.
had never seen the inside of a school
c. Both a and b
Ans: b. had never
seen the inside of a school
20. Babar Ali gets the children to listen to him
because____________
a) He speaks them
like a teacher b) He speaks them
like a brother
c) He speaks them
like a friend
Ans: c) He speaks
them like a friend
21. According to Babar Ali, what works to their
advantage?
a) narrow age gap b) respect for others c) huge age gap
Ans: a) narrow age
gap
22. When was Babar Ali’s school institutionalized?
a) 2000 b) 2001 c) 2002
Ans: c) 2002
23. Who initially provided the rice for the mid-day meals
at Babar Ali’s school?
a) Nasiruddin Sheikh b) Ali c)
Abdulla
Ans: a) Nasiruddin
Sheikh
24. How many students are on roll-call in Babar Ali’s
School?
a) 200 b) 210 c) 220
Ans: c) 220
25. Babar Ali’s afternoon school is now registered and
recognized by the Government of _______________.
a) West Bengal b) Maharashtra c) Karnataka
Ans: a) West Bengal
26. Who is described as an’ illiterate fishmonger’ by
morning and a ‘crusading educationalist’ by afternoon?
a)Babar Ali b)Tulu Rani Hazra c) Debarita d)Nasiruddin
Ans: b) Tulu Rani
Hazra
27. What does Tulu Rani Hazra do when she ventures on her
fish selling rounds of nearby villages?
a) recruit students b) Sell fish c) playing chess
Ans: a) recruit
students
28. How many children has Tulu Rani Hazra recruited?
a) 60 b) 70 c) 80
Ans: c) 80
29. The teaching staff of nine at Babar Ali’s school
comprises of ______
a) Babar Ali’s
friends, parents and relatives
b) Babar
Ali's own teachers, monks at the local Ramakrishna Mission, sympathetic IAS
officers and local cops.
c)
Babar Ali’s classmates
Ans: b) Babar
Ali's own teachers, monks at the local Ramakrishna Mission, sympathetic IAS
officers and local cops.
30. Who is the most educated of the high school student
volunteers at Babar Ali’s school?
a) Debarita
Bhattacharya b) Ramakrishna c) Monks
Ans: a) Debarita
Bhattacharya
31. In Babar Ali’s school, _____ are given free for
classes I to V.
a) Note books b) text books c) Magazines
Ans: b) text books
32. ___________ is spared in Babar Ali’s school.
a) Rod b)
biscuits c) tea
Ans: a) Rod
33. Babar Ali must
be the youngest………………………in the world.
a)student b) teacher c)head master d)scientist
Ans: c) headmaster
34. Babar Ali
became the youngest head master in the world at the age of ………
a) nine b) twenty-one c)sixteen d)fourteen
Ans: c) sixteen
35. Babar Ali is
the story of a young man from Murshidabad in…………………
a) West Bengal b)Uttar Pradesh c)Assam d)Arunachal
Pradesh
Ans: a) West Bengal
36. Babar Ali
takes an auto rickshaw first and later walks five kilometres to the “Cossimbazar
Raj Govinda Sundari Vidyapeeth” where he is a classs tudent. ………………………
a) XI b) XII c)IX d)X
Ans: b) XII
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