Let’s March
Short Questions
1. Who is Kailash Satyarthi?
Answer: An Indian activist against child labour.
2. What is the Bachpan Bachao Andolan?
Answer: A movement founded by Kailash Satyarthi to protect children’s rights.
3. Which award did Kailash Satyarthi win in 2014?
Answer: Nobel Peace Prize.
4.What is the main aim of Kailash Satyarthi’s life?
Answer: To ensure every child is free.
5. What does Satyarthi refuse to accept about the world?
Answer: That it is too poor to give children education.
6. Who does Satyarthi dedicate his Nobel Prize to?
Answer: Child martyrs and activists.
7.What does Satyarthi call Malala?
Answer: His daughter.
8.What does the empty chair in Satyarthi’s speech represent?
Answer: Children left behind.
9. What did the small child labourer ask Satyarthi in the Himalayas?
Answer: Why can’t the world give him a toy and book?
1O. What does Satyarthi say about global military spending?
Answer: One week’s spending can educate all children.
11. What is one social issue Satyarthi highlights?
Answer: Child labour.
12. What does Satyarthi want to globalize?
Answer: Compassion.
13. What did the cobbler boy’s father say to Satyarthi?
Answer: We are born to work.
14. What does Satyarthi see in the smiling faces of children?
Answer: Gods smiling.
15. What does Satyarthi call for at the end of his speech?
Answer: A march for children’s rights.
Long Questions
1. What is the main message of Kailash Satyarthi’s speech “Let’s March”?
Answer: He urges everyone to fight for children’s freedom and education. His speech inspires action to end child labour and violence.
2. Why does Satyarthi refuse to accept that laws cannot protect children?
Answer: He believes laws and justice should save children from slavery. No child should suffer due to weak systems.
3. How does Satyarthi describe the importance of education in his speech?
Answer: Education gives children hope, rights, and a better future. It stops violence and builds global citizenship.
4. What story does Satyarthi share about the tiny bird and the forest fire?
Answer: A bird tries to put out a fire with one drop of water. It shows everyone must do their part, no matter how small.
5.Why does the question of the rescued eight-year-old girl shake Satyarthi?
Answer: She asked why he didn’t come earlier to save her. It reminds him that every moment matters for suffering children.
6.What does Satyarthi mean by “globalizing compassion”?
Answer: He wants people worldwide to care for all children. Compassion should unite us to end their suffering.
7. How does Satyarthi connect his childhood vision to his work today?
Answer: As a child, he dreamed of a cobbler boy in school. Now, he works to make education a right for all.
8. What challenges does Satyarthi say the world faces for children’s rights?
Answer: Fear, intolerance, and lack of education are big problems. These lead to violence and harm to children.
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