: Activity 1 :
Rearrange the following sentences in the correct order and put the numbers in the given boxes:
1.) Subhas and Sisir chose the wanderer of their journey [ 6 ]
2.) Sisir entered Subhas’s bedroom that December afternoon . [ 1 ]
3.) The police were keeping a watch on Subhas’s house [ 4 ]
4.) Sisir was to help plan and carry out Subhas’s escape from India [ 2 ]
5.) Subhas‘s nephew helped him listen to foreign broadcast [ 5 ]
6.) Sisir walked back to his own house in a state of wonder and excitement [ 3 ]
: Activity 2 :
Complete the following sentences with information from text :
a) On a December afternoon Sisir, Subhas’s nephew entered Subhas’s bedroom .
b) The task that Subhas gave Sisir was to help planning and carry out Subhas’s escape from India .
c) 1, Woodburn park was the residence of Sisir kumar Bose.
d) The escape plan of Subhas and Sisir was to drive out , in the most natural fashion through the main gate.
: Activity 3:
Answer the following questions :
Why did Subhas and Sisir ,as their plan of escape , decide to drive out in the most natural fashion through the main gate ?
Ans: Subhas and Sisir drove through the main gate in most natural fashion because they can elude whatever suspicions of the British soldiers keeping a watch on Subhas .
: Activity 4 :
Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements in the given boxes. Give supporting statements for each of your answers :
(A) Akabar Shah operated in the northeastern frontier provinces. [ F ]
Supporting Statements : He fully tried to operate in the northeastern frontier provinces but failed in it .
(B) The items of clothing for Subhas’s disguise were purchased from a shop in South kolkata [ F ]
Supporting Statements : the shop they want in central Calcutta where they bought beggy ,shalwars ,trousers and a black Fez for Subhas’s disguise .
(C ) Everyone in Subhas’s family was aware of his plan of escape [ F ]
Supporting Statements : only Subhas’s niece lila and a male cousin , Damien knew everything.
(D) The policemen preferred warm blankets on the cool winter night of 16 January [ T ]
Supporting Statements : on January 16 in the night of winter , the policemen preferred that there should be warm blankets on charpoi.
: Activity 5 :
Answer the following questions :
a) What items were purchased for Subhas to be carried with him on his Journey ?
Ans: A suitcase , Bedroll , Shirts , Baggy shalwars etc. items were purchased for Subhas.
b) What was the real identity of Muhammad Ziauddin?
Ans: Muhammad Ziauddin was Subhas Candra Bose in reality.
c) Why do you think Subhas had to put on a false identify ?
Ans: Because I think Subhas ji surely decided to free from his house arrest and therefore he had to put on a false identify.
: Activity 6 :
Fill in the following chart with information from the text :
: Activity 7 :
Answer the following questions :
a) In which direction did Sisir drive after leening Elgin Road ?
Ans: After Leening Elgin Road he drove the Car to Howrah Bridge.
b) Who was Ashok ? How did he help in Subhas’s escape ?
Ans: Sisir’s brother was Ashok who helped the Subhas Chandra Bose to be stayed for while some time in his house at the time of escape from India .
c) Describe Sisir’s last sight of Subhas.
Ans: When Subhas and Sisir decided to escape from India then for that first they purchased some dresses so that they can move in disguise from there .Then Sisir picked Subhas up in his wanderer and reached Gomoh Station in the moonlight night .Subhas said as parting words and Sisir watched him Mount the railway over bridge and walked along it with his usual majestic gait thus last sight of the Subhas.
d) Why did Sisir pick Subhas up in his Car a little further from Ashok’s house?
Ans: Because Subhas was unknown for Ashok who only knew him as Muhammad Ziauddin in order to keep the identification belongs to Subhas secret .And so Sisir was able to pick up Subhas in his car a little further from Ashok’s house.