A Child is Born by Germaine Greer // Rainbow Part-2 Prose Chapter-7

 

A CHILD IS BORN
-Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer’s Biography

    1.       Germaine Greer was born in 1939 in Australia.

    2.       She is a famous feminist writer.

    3.       Her major works include The Female Eunuch, Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility and The Change.

    4.       A Child is Born is an extract from her book Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility.

A CHILD IS BORN SUMMARY

This essay “A Child Is Born” is written by Germaine Greer. “A child is born” is an extract from her book sex and destiny. She was born in 1939 in Australia. In this essay she talks about the ways of managing child birth in traditional societies.
She says that every woman goes to her husband’s house from her mother’s house after marriage to live with the husband. There is a concept that such women do not become the members of her husband’s family until they have born a child. It is told that a girl is lucky who parents alive. She goes to her mother’s house for the last month of her pregnancy and about the first three months of the baby’s life.
When a child is of seven days old, the naming ceremony is held. A new dress is brought for child and also a new sari is brought for the mother. There is dancing and singing programme until late night. Garlands of turmeric and garlic are worn to the child to protect from evil sprits. After three months of delivery again she goes to her husband’s home and she becomes the family member.

A CHILD IS BORN OBJECTIVE QUESTION

    1.      Germaine Greer was born in __________.
a)1929
b)1939
c)1949
d)1950

    2.      The ceremony is held __________.
a)only for boy
b)only for girl
c)for both
d)none of these

    3.      In Bangladesh children are looked after by __________.
a)father only
b)mother only
c)whole family
d)none of these

    4.      During pregnancy the best place for the woman is __________.
a)hotel
b)in-laws-family
c)her mother’s house
d)hospital

    5.      ‘A Child is Born’ is written by __________.
a)B.Russell
b)G.Greer
c)Shiga Naoya
d)Dr. Zakir Hussain

    6.      Sylheti woman and her child are given new dress on the __________ day of the birth.
a)5^th
b)6^th
c)8^th
d)7^th

    7.      In __________ children under the age of five or six are looked after by the whole family.
a)India
b)Bangladesh
c)China
d)Australia

    8.      Germaine Greer is a famous __________ writer.
a)educational
b)scientific
c)feminist
d)war

    9.      Germaine Greer was born in __________.
a)Australia
b)India
c)Africa
d)Bangladesh

    10.  The Female Eunuch, Sex and Destiny, The Change is written by __________.
a)HE Bates
b)Pearl S. Buck
c)Germaine Greer
d)Shiga Naoya

    11.  ‘A Child is Born’ is an extract from __________.
a)Macbeth
b)Sex and Destiny
c)As You Like it
d)The Changes

    12.  Germaine Greer is an __________ writer.
a)Australian
b)Indian
c)America
d)Bangladeshi

    13.  Generally a pregnant woman is sent to her __________ home for childbirth.
a)parents
b)village
c)relative
d)hospital

    14.  In the __________ the husband wife due enjoy more freedom and individuality.
a)East
b)West
c)South
d)north

    15.  A __________ woman has to observe various taboos, rituals and custom.
a)pregnant
b)stubborn
c)literate
d)none of these

    16.  A Child is Born is written by __________.
a)Germaine Greer
b)J.N. Neharu
c)Shiga Naoya
d)G.S. Chadda

    17.  In Bangladesh __________ is a kind of fairy tales.
a)Rupthoka
b)Machthoka
c)Jupthoka
d)none of these

    18.  Garlands of __________ were given to a new baby.
a)apples and banan
b)garlic and turmeric
c)gram and rice
d)patato and tomato

    19.  __________ visited an enormous modern hospital for ‘Bantu patients’ in South Africa.
a)Sheila Kitzinger
b)Nandini Sen
c)Dr. Mao
d)Dr. George

A CHILD IS BORN QUESTION ANSWER

    1.       How the ways of managing childbirth in the traditional society is useful?
Ans. In traditional societies there are many different ways to manage childbirth. They are useful primarily because they are accepted culturally and collectively. The expectant mother is free from the anxiety of reinvesting the procedures.

    2.       Where do Sylheti women go to stay during the last stage of pregnancy?
Ans. In the last stage of pregnancy Sylheti women go to their parents’ house to live.

    3.       What is the difference between the East and the West in the matters of mother child relationship?
Ans. In the East, the biological family is deliberately weakened. Mother-child relation is given more importance than that of husband-wife. In the west, the husband-wife duo enjoy more freedom and individuality. The biological family is not weakened.

    4.       What is the truism of anthropology that the writer talks about?
Ans. It is a truism of anthropology that women do not become members of their new family until they have borne a child.

    5.       What is the reward of pregnancy for young Sylheti woman?
Ans. A Sylheti woman is sent to her mother’s home well before she is delivered of her child. The new born is looked after by her parents. She and her child are given new dress on the seventh day of the birth. Feasting and singing go on till night.

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7.      A CHILD IS BORN LINE EXPLANATION

1.       The ways of managing childbirth in traditional societies are many and varied their usefulness strens directly from the fact that they are accepted culturally and collectively so that the mother does not have the psychic burden of reinventing the procedures.

    Ans. The given stanza has been taken from the chapter A Child is Born which is written by Germaine Greer. She says that there are several ways by which child birth is managed in traditional societies. Their usefulness stems direct from the fact that they are socially and culturally accepted by the society and the mother does not have the psychic burden of re-inventing the procedures.