Mir Mosharraff

Mcqs

1. Mir Mosharraf Hossain is best known for writing about which of the following?
Ans: The lives of zamindars
2. Which of Mir Mosharraf Hossain’s works is about the Battle of Karbala?
Ans: Bishad Shindhu
3. What does Mir Mosharraf Hossain’s masterpiece Bishad Shindhu tell the story of?
Ans: The Battle of Karbala
4. What is Mir Mosharraf Hossain’s work Udashin Pathikir Moner an example of?
Ans: Satire
5. What is the subject of Mir Mosharraf Hossain’s Bishad Shindhu?
Ans: a battle
6. At which age did Mir Mosharraf Hossain start his writing?
Ans: 13
7. Which of the following statements about Mir Mosharraf Hossain is true?
Ans: He has a statue erected to his memory in Kolkata

8. Which of the following worked as a journalist?

Ans: Mir Mosharraf Hossain
9. What tribute was paid to Mir Mosharraf Hossain?
Ans: A statue was erected in his memory

Part b
1. I Describe the life and work of Mir Mosharraf Hossain
Ans . Novelist, playwright, essayist and journalist, living between 1847 and 1912. His first
major works were produced when he was still a teenager. He wrote on the life and
history of Islamic people. Bishad Shindru is seen as his masterpiece – deals with the
Battle of Karbala. He wrote about everyday life, for example Zamindar Darpan (1872–
73). He also wrote satires and was a journalist and later a newspaper editor and
textbook writer. He worked in Kolkata and Kumarkhali.
(ii) Explain why he is so important in the culture of Bangladesh.

Ans: His social concerns for the people in the peasant uprisings and his use of literature
as a means of trying to help the countryside; his satires which tried to point out the
faults of and thus reform contemporary society; his educational work and his
importance in spreading awareness of Islamic life and history.