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Contents

1 English literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 The Fun They Had . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2 The Sound of Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.3 The Little Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.4 A Truly Beautiful Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1.5 The Snake and the Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
1.6 My Childhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
1.7 Reach For The Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
1.8 Kathmandu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
1.9 If I were You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
1.10 The Road Not taken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
1.11 Wind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
1.12 Rain on The Roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
1.13 The Lake Isle of Innisfree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
1.14 A Legend of The Northland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
1.15 No Men Are Foreign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
1.16 On killing a tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
1.17 A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
1.18 The Lost Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
1.19 The adventures of Toto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
1.20 Iswaran the Storyteller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
1.21 In the kingdom of fools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
1.22 The Happy Prince . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
1.23 The Last Leaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
1.24 A House is not a Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
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1.25 The Beggar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

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1. English literature

1.1 The Fun They Had

1. Based on details in the text, it can be in- C. Her teacher makes her take too many
ferred that Tommy and Margie are tests.
A. brother and sister D. There are no other students in her
B. neighborhood friends “class”
C. cousins 4. Which word is most similar in meaning to
D. friends who live far apart from each bore?
other A. wild and disorderly
2. What could have most likely happened to B. flexible
make the education system change so dras- C. carried
tically?
D. suddenly, violently pushed
A. Mistrust in human intellect and trust in
artificial intelligence. 5. In “The Fun They Had, “ which of these
scientific advances does the author mainly
B. Teachers were too bored teaching the
use to create an imaginary invention?
same things over and over again.
A. machines that can perform human
C. A nuclear war obliterated the majority
functions
of the population.
B. paper that is made from recycled ma-
D. Children no longer were taught to be
terials
respectful and obey orders from humans.
C. clothing that cannot rip or get dirty.
3. Which of the following best explains why
Margot hates school more than ever? D. lighting that can save electricity

A. She never understands what her 6. In what way is the setting of “The Fun
teacher is saying. They Had” typical of science fiction?
B. The county inspector visits her home A. The story takes place in the distant
schooling too often. past.

1. B 2. A 3. A 4. C 5. A 6. D
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B. The story takes place in another world. 12. From which point of view is “THE FUN
C. The story takes place in outer space. THEY HAD” told?
D. The story take place in the future. A. First Person (the narrator is a charac-
ter in the story)
7. How old was Tommy?
B. Second Person
A. Ten years
B. Eleven years C. Third person (the narrator is not a
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C. Fourteen years
D. none of above
D. Thirteen years
8. The story takes place in the 13. If a person behaves nonchalantly, how
A. past does he or she most likely feel?

B. present A. sad
C. future B. angry
D. none of above C. worried
9. What is the conflict in the story? D. carefree
A. Margie’s robot teacher is giving her
too many tests. 14. What does ‘so’ mean in the line “Margie
did so with a sigh.”?
B. Margie hates school and thinks about
the fun the kids had at school in the old A. attending the class
days. B. inserting yesterday’s homework in the
C. Tommy won’t let Margie read the old proper slot
book.
C. answering the teacher
D. Margie has to learn about geography
and fractions. D. going to her schoolroom

10. What did Margie right about in her diary? 15. Who found a real book?
A. A real school A. Tommy
B. A real teacher
B. Margie
C. A real book
C. Tommy’s teacher
D. Tommy
D. The mechanical teacher
11. Why does Margie have to write her paper
using a punch code? 16. What was unfamiliar to Margie in this
A. She doesn’t want anyone to copy her story?
work
A. human teachers, school buildings,
B. Her parents write everything in punch group learning
code
B. tests, human teachers, chalk boards
C. Her teacher doesn’t speak the same
language C. computers, books, human tachers
D. A machine grades her work D. none of above

7. D 8. C 9. B 10. A 11. D 12. C 13. D 14. B 15. A 16. A 17. D

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17. Who told Margie once about real books? 23. In what subject was Margie doing poorly?
A. Her father A. math

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B. Tommy B. spelling
C. The mechanical teacher
C. geography
D. Her grandfather
D. science
18. Margie and Tommy study
24. What prompts Margie’s mother to send for
A. at a regular school
the County Inspector?
B. each one in their house
A. Geography tests were too difficult for
C. at Margie’s house Margie and she performed bad repeatedly
D. at their teacher’s house
B. The mechanical teacher couldn’t turn
19. Who is the MAIN character in the story? on
A. Margie C. The Math tests were too difficult for
B. Tommy Margie
C. the teacher D. Margie refused to interact with the me-
chanical teacher
D. none of above
20. For Margie, what is the worst part of 25. Who is the speaker of the line:”Today
school? Tommy found a real book!”?
A. the homework A. Mrs Jones
B. the tests B. Margie’s grandfather
C. the classmates C. Margie
D. the classroom D. The County Inspector
21. The children lock Margot in
26. What does ‘real book’ mean in the line,
A. a school “Today Tommy found a real book!”
B. a barn
A. Telebook
C. a closet
B. Scripture
D. rocket ship
C. Printed book
22. Why did Margie think old kind of schools
D. Encyclopedia
must have been fun?
A. because the teachers were humans. 27. Which of these technological advances is
B. because all the students went to the most clearly featured in the science-fiction
school together laughing, playing, sharing story “The Fun They Had”?
things. A. the Internet
C. because the students learned the B. satellite TV
same things, so they could help one an-
other with the homework. C. on-screen readers
D. All of these D. GPS

18. B 19. A 20. D 21. C 22. D 23. C 24. A 25. C 26. C 27. C 28. B
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28. Which word is most similar in meaning to 33. What kind of conflict is established in the
resilient? story?
A. wild and disorderly A. Man vs. Man
B. flexible B. Man vs. Self
C. collision C. Man vs. Society
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29. What does the speaker consider ‘waste’ 34. What year is this story set in?
in the line “what a waste”? A. 3042
A. Typing homework in punch code B. 2028
B. Paying for the price of a book C. 1999
C. Electricity consumption by telebooks D. 2155
D. Throwing away the book after reading 35. What was Margie’s mechanical teacher
it giving her?
30. Why do Margie and Tommy find the book A. Test in mathematics
interesting? B. Test in geography
A. It was very old and printed on paper C. A sound beating
B. They liked to read books D. Good marks
C. The pages were full of colorful pictures
36. Which of these adjectives would best de-
D. The story was written by their favorite scribe someone who loftily answers a
author question?

31. What was the author’s MAIN purpose for A. inspirational

writing this passage? B. thoughtful
A. to teach readers about computers and C. snobby
convince them to use them D. kind
B. to explain how books are printed and
show readers their importance 37. How where the words in the book?
A. Moving
C. to inform readers about the future and
prepare them for mechanical teachers B. Steady
D. to entertain readers and encourage C. Getting on printed after reading
them to think about changes in the future D. None of these
32. At which of these events would a person 38. In the short story, the teacher is described
most likely speak sorrowfully? as
A. concert A. An animal
B. funeral B. Mechanical
C. wedding C. Mean-spirted human
D. graduation D. none of above

29. D 30. A 31. D 32. B 33. C 34. D 35. B 36. C 37. B 38. B 39. A
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39. The short story The Fun They Had is clas- clearly use as a basis of an imaginary in-
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A. Sci-fi A. machines that can perform human
B. Fiction functions

C. Fairytale B. paper that is made from recycled ma-

terials
D. none of above
C. clothing that resists wear and tear
40. Why does the author give a date in the
first paragraph of the passage? D. lighting that can save electricity

A. to show that the story takes place long 45. How does Asimov describe the County In-
ago spector?
B. to show that the story takes place in A. Round, little man, red face
the future
B. Strong, tall man, with a mustache
C. to show that the story takes place in
the present C. Round, little woman, red hair
D. to show that the story takes place in D. Strong, tall woman, with purple
the recent past clothes

41. Which sentence describes Margie’s 46. How old was Margie?
teacher?
A. 11
A. He is a man.
B. 12
B. It is a computer.
C. 13
C. She gives too much homework.
D. It takes too long to grade papers. D. 14

42. How does Tommy treat Margie? 47. Re-read the sentence in paragraph 36. If
a person behaves nonchalantly, how does
A. like she is smarter than him he or she most likely feel?
B. like she is dumb
A. sad
C. like she has cooties
B. angry
D. like he cares for her deeply
C. worried
43. ‘They’ in the title ‘The Fun They Had’ D. carefree
refers to:
A. Margie and Tommy 48. How long ago were the old schools
B. The classmates of Margie around?

C. The students of the past A. Centuries ago

D. none of above B. Fifty years ago

C. Thousands of years ago
44. In “The Fun They Had, “ which of these
scientific advances does the author most D. 10 years ago

40. B 41. B 42. B 43. C 44. A 45. A 46. A 47. D 48. A 49. D
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49. What two things does the County Inspec- 54. Margie was surprised that students of the
tor do when he arrives at Margie’s house? past had a for a teacher.
A. He gives Margie an apple and then A. computer
gives her another Geography test B. human
B. He gives Margie an apple, and he takes C. robot
away the mechanical teacher
D. television
C. He smiles at Margie and takes the me-

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chanical teacher away 55. What was Margie scornful about?
D. He give Margie an apple, and takes the A. The printed book
mechanical teacher apart
B. The school
50. In “The Fun They Had, “ Tommy finds a C. Tommy
book. Why are the books pages yellow
D. Email books
and crinkly?
A. The book is very cheaply made. 56. Margie said to Tommy, “Can I read the
book some more with you after school?”
B. No one has ever read the book before.
“Maybe, “ he said, nonchalantly. He
C. The book was printed a long time ago. walked away whistling, the dusty old
D. Someone was trying to hide the book book tucked beneath his arm. What type
in the attic. of context clue do we have here?
A. Inference:we have to guess based
51. What was strange about the old book? on what’s happening what nonchalantly
A. It was a computer. means.
B. It was very long. B. Example:we see what nonchalantly
C. The words didn’t move means based on what the Tommy does.

D. It was white. C. Definition:we get the definition right

after the word.
52. The image of the future presented in “The D. Synonym:we get a word that means
Fun They Had” is one of the same as nonchalantly.
A. more science and less literature
57. Margie and Tommy
B. more technology and less human con-
tact A. study different things.

C. more homework less free time B. study with other kids.

D. more education and less physical activ- C. study the same.

ity D. study what the robots like.

53. Where did Tommy find the book? 58. What type of teacher did Margie have?
A. In the attic A. Smart
B. In the school B. Ugly
C. In a shop C. Mechanical
D. In a library D. Intimidating

50. C 51. C 52. B 53. A 54. B 55. B 56. B 57. A 58. C 59. C
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59. Which part of the mechanical teacher does 64. Which of these serious themes is most
Margie hate the most? clearly conveyed in “The Fun They Had”?

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A. The teacher’s size A. Humanity is in danger of becoming ex-
B. How quickly the teacher grades tinct.
Margie’s homework B. All human beings need to think for
C. The teacher’s slot for homework and themselves.
test papers
C. Learning about the past is important
D. The homework that the teacher as- because it shows change
signs
D. none of above
60. In “The Fun They Had” why does Margie’s
mother have the county inspector visit? 65. How do readers first learn that the story
A. to reprogram Margie’s teacher is set in future?
B. to punish Margie for her poor grades A. Tommy’s comment about the utility of
C. to explain what Margie needs to learn telebooks as compared to books printed
on paper
D. to give Margie personal instruction in
geography B. By Margie’s first mention of her me-
chanical teacher
61. The mechanical teacher had been giving
her test after test in geography, and she C. By Margie’s thought that her grand-
had been doing worse and worse until her father’s grandfather was the last to use
mother had shaken her head sorrowfully books printed on paper
and sent for the county inspector. What D. By the date of Margie’s diary entry
type of context clue do we get here?
A. Antonym 66. Why does the author have Margie and
Tommy talk about the old book?
B. Defintion
C. Inference A. to show that the book is boring
D. Synonym B. to show how schools have changed

62. What happens with words in telebooks? C. to show that Tommy is older than
Margie
A. They jump out of the page
D. to show why Tommy does not like to
B. They move
read
C. They have different colours
D. You can touch them 67. Why does Margie think human teachers
can’t teach as well as mechanical teach-
63. Margie had to write her homework and ers?
test papers in
A. They aren’t as smart as machines
A. a digital diary.
B. a punch code they made her learn B. They can’t understand their students
when she wassix years old. C. They make their students take too
C. the old traditional way. many tests
D. None of these D. They can’t teach all the subjects

60. A 61. C 62. B 63. B 64. C 65. D 66. B 67. A

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68. Why does Margie’s mother have the C. not showing much interest or enthusi-
county inspector visit? asm; carelessly
A. to explain what Margie needs to learn D. monotonously
B. to punish Margie for her poor grades
73. In All Summer in a Day, most children are
C. to give Margie personal instruction in on Venus because
geography
A. it rains
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B. they do not know any different
69. The story says that Tommy answered C. they know their time on Venus will end
Margie nonchalantly as he walked away. soon
What does nonchalantly mean?
D. their parents have made it a fun place
A. disagreeably to live
B. curiously
74. The short story is a part of a genre known
C. casually as?
D. reluctanly A. fantasy
70. What happened to Margie’s mechanical B. science fiction
teacher? C. horror
A. It was not set properly and the inspec- D. non fiction
tor repaired it
B. It broke down and her mother repaired 75. At the beginning of “The Fun They Had, “
it what has caused Margaret to hate school
even more than before?
C. It was too old and they threw it away
A. learning about real teachers instead of
D. It broke down and they threw it away
teaching machines
71. Which of these serious themes is most B. reading an old book that Tommy has
clearly conveyed in the science-fiction found in his attic
story “The Fun They Had”?
C. doing poorly on test after test in geog-
A. Humanity is in danger of becoming ex- raphy
tinct.
D. having no friends in school anymore
B. All human beings need to think for
themselves. 76. In “The Fun They Had” in what way is
C. We must stop wasting natural re- Margie’s education more personal than the
sources before it’s too late. education of students her age in most
schools today?
D. People often fail to appreciate things
until they no longer have them. A. Her teacher is a caring human being
who focuses on only one student.
72. Which one of these is the correct meaning B. Her schoolwork is programmed to suit
of ‘nonchalantly’? her own specific learning abilities.
A. angrily C. She is able to decide when to take
B. swiftly tests and how difficult they should be.

68. D 69. C 70. A 71. D 72. C 73. B 74. B 75. C 76. B

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D. She is able to connect with other stu- C. Real teacher

dents who are studying the same subjects D. All of these
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82. In both stories, children are
77. Where does Tommy find the real book and
how is it different than the books they are A. expected to go to school
used to? B. happy with their lives
A. in his car and it plays music C. treated like adults
B. in his basement and the words don’t D. geniuses
move
83. In “The Fun They Had” the teachers are
C. in his backpack and it plays music
A. machines
D. in his attic and the words don’t move
B. TV’s
78. Which of these words best matches the C. girls
use of “scornful” as it is used in paragraph
D. children
10?
A. sad 84. Which of the following is Margie’s mother
most likely to say?
B. annoyed
A. Children learn best if they choose
C. happy when to go to school.
D. jealous B. All students should be taught the exact
79. Why where the pages of the book yellow same thing.
& crinkly? C. Teachers should never adjust their
A. It was a very old book lessons to fit the students’ needs.

B. Its color was yellow D. Each child learns differently, so teach

them differently.
C. They where yellow because written in
yellow ink 85. Why does Margie think school “from a
long time ago” must have been fun?
D. None of these
A. The students never had to take tests.
80. Which question does the author MOST
B. The teachers were human.
likely want the reader to think about?
C. The grading system was easier.
A. Should children read books?
D. There was no floccinaucinihilipilifica-
B. Where will families live in the future?
tion going on.
C. Why do children need to learn geogra-
phy? 86. What had once happened to Tommy’s
teacher?
D. Are human beings better teachers
than computers are? A. The History sector had blanked out
completely.
81. What do you mean by a mechanical B. He had developed a technical problem
teacher? in Geography.
A. Television C. He was not able to assess Tommy’s
B. Teacher who teaches with interest performance.

77. D 78. B 79. A 80. D 81. A 82. A 83. A 84. D 85. B 86. A
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D. The calculation in arithmetic had gone A. are written in punch code

awry.
B. have words which move on a screen
87. On which date did Margie make an entry C. must be played on a tape recorder
in her diary about schools?
D. are books that have been made into
A. 17 May 2156 movies
B. 17 May 2157
92. Why was Margie doing so poorly in
C. 17 May 2158

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school?
D. 17 May 2159 A. The material was introduced too
quickly.
88. In “The Fun They Had, “ how is Margie’s
teacher different from the teachers that B. The teacher gave too many tests.
most students who attend school today C. The teacher was on vacation and ab-
have? sent for a month.
A. Margie’s teacher has been told very lit-
D. The teacher was dumb and taught in-
tle about her.
correct information.
B. Margie’s teacher is a person at a re-
mote location 93. In The Fun They Had, the story suggests
that the same activity may seem pleasant
C. Margie’s teacher is her mother.
or unpleasant depending on
D. Margie’s teacher is a machine.
A. a person’s point of view
89. How is the old book that Tommy finds DIF- B. how many friends you have
FERENT from the books that the children
usually read? C. how much money it costs

A. The old book is nonfiction. D. how many times you have done it
B. The old book is harder to read. 94. What was the book about?
C. The old book is printed on paper. A. televisions
D. The old book changes each time it is B. geography
read.
C. school
90. What is the theme of the story?
D. It was her grandfather’s diary
A. School is better in the future, because
there is a robot teacher. 95. In both stories, characters long for
B. Tommy should share his book, so A. to be young as long as possible
Margie can learn about old schools. B. school to be over
C. Learning about the past is important,
C. the way things used to be
because it shows change.
D. control of their lives
D. Learning without technology provides
more social interaction. 96. Why did Margie have regular days and
hours for school?
91. Telebooks differ from regular books be-
cause they A. She liked learning that way.

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B. Her mother believed that little girls D. Five minutes

learned betterif they learned at regular
hours. 101. At the end of “The Fun They Had” what

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does Margie think of the schools she has
C. It was the condition laid down by the
learned about from Tommy’s book?
teacher.
A. Those schools must have been enjoy-
D. All of these
able.
97. Which word best describes the mood of the B. Those schools must have been very un-
story? pleasant.
A. fearful C. Those schools seem like a complete
B. sympathetic waste of time.
C. optimistic D. Those schools seem very similar to her
D. cheerful own schooling.

98. Re-read paragraph 16. If Tommy is speak- 102. Tommy looked at her with very superior
ing “loftily” that means that he is being eyes. “Because it’s not our kind of school,
stupid. This is the old kind of school that
A. rude they had hundreds and hundreds of years
ago.” He added loftily, pronouncing the
B. thoughtful word carefully, “Centuries ago.”Which of
C. snobby the following does not give us a clue about
D. kind what “loftily” means.
A. He looked at her with superior eyes.
99. Unlike “The Fun They Had”, in the story
“All Summer in a Day” the setting is B. He calls her “stupid.”
A. on a different planet C. He says:”This is the old kind of school
that they had hundreds and hundreds of
B. the basement
years ago.”
C. in the past
D. He pronounced the words very care-
D. at night fully.
100. How long does it take for the County In- 103. When does this story take place?
spector to put the teacher back together
again? A. 1492
A. Two or so hours B. 2018
B. Three days C. 1990
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1. Who played Shahnayi at King’s palace? C. a singer
A. a barber D. a courtsman
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A. father 8. What did Ron Forbes advise Evelyn?

B. friend A. forget music
C. mother B. listen to music
D. Ron Forbes C. feel music with her body
3. Name the two languages that Evelyn D. none
speaks flawlessly in addition to her Scot-
9. Beethoven Fund is an organization for
tish lilt.

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A. Blind children
A. French and Japanese
B. physically handicapped
B. French and German
C. Deaf children
C. German and Japanese
D. none of above
D. none of above
10. When did Bismillah get his first big break
4. Where did Bismillah give his first break
as a Shehnai performer?
through his performance?
A. in 1983, when All India Radio came
A. at the Red Fort
into existence
B. at Varanasi
B. 1945
C. at All India Radio
C. 1987
D. U.S.A
D. 1989
5. How old was Evelyn when she went to
Royal Music academy? 11. Who all were present on the event of 15th
August?
A. 17 years old
A. Nehru
B. 18 years old
B. Gandhi
C. 19 years old
C. All eminent people
D. Below 17
D. all
6. What happened with Evelyn at the age of
eight? 12. From where did Shahnai get its name?
A. She played Xylophone for the first A. From barber (Nai in Hindi)-+ King
time. (Shah in Hindi)
B. Ron Forbes discovered her potential. B. From a Barber
C. Her hearing disability was noticed by C. King gave its name
her mother for the first time. D. none
D. none of above
13. What was the source of inspiration for Bis-
7. what problem did Evelyn face in her life? millah?
A. she was mentally disabled A. Red Fort
B. she was Blind B. Royal Palaces
C. She was Broke C. Ganga Ghats
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14. Who helped Evelyn to continue with her 20. Who was deaf in the lesson?
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A. her mother B. Ron Forbes
B. father C. Bismillah Khan
C. teacher
D. Evelyn’s mother
D. Ron Forbes
21. What did she prove to the world?
15. Who was the first Indian to represent
A. all humans are equal and all must be
the his/her nation with his musical instru-
given a chance
ment?
B. global peace is a must
A. Barber
C. determination is needed to achieve
B. Elveyn Glennie
any goal in life
C. Bismillah Khan
D. It’s okay if you fail yet don’t try again
D. None of this ad just give up
16. Why was playing Pungi in Aurangzeb’s 22. Where was the Royal music Academy?
palace banned?
A. U.S
A. it had a sharp sound
B. Birmingham
B. it wasn’t good
C. Paris
C. it was unpleasant
D. London
D. all
23. Which languages does Evelyn know?
17. Shehnai is a refined version of which in-
strument? A. japanese, chinese, korean
A. musical instrument B. spanish, english, german
B. mouth organ C. tamil, english, japanese
C. Guitar D. japanese, english, french
D. Pungi 24. How much did Evelyn score in the Royal
18. what languages does evelyn know? Academy of Music?
A. japanese, chinese, english A. Highest marks in the history of
academy
B. spanish, english, german
B. Average marks
C. tamil, english, japanese
C. Lowest marks
D. japanese, english, french
D. none of above
19. Who thought of improving the sound of the
Pungi? 25. What was life for Evelyn?
A. a musician A. dance
B. a singer B. nature
C. a barber C. music
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26. Why did Bismillah refuse to go to the 32. Bismillah Khan always yearned for Be-
U.S.A.? naras, and .
A. because the Shehnai had no future A. Canada and U.S.A
there
B. Dumraon and River Ganga
B. he didn’t like the place
C. Delhi and Agra
C. because of his love for Banaras and
D. None of the above
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D. all 33. Which places had Evelyn worked for?
27. What did Evelyn want to spread through A. poor children
her music? B. prisons and hospitals
A. message of love, peace and happiness C. schools
B. music is not difficult D. none
C. music is not difficult for deaf people
34. When was Evelyn’s deafness noticed?
D. deaf people can learn music
A. when she was 18
28. What was Evelyn most interested in?
B. when she was 19
A. piano
C. When she was 8
B. drums
D. none
C. xylophone
D. guitar 35. Where was the Shehnai played tradition-
ally?
29. What does Evelyn admit?
A. In temples
A. She is Determined
B. in wedding ceremonies
B. She is a workaholic
C. auspicious ceremonies
C. she is respected
D. All
D. she will change
36. Why was the event of Shehnai Playing on
30. Who changed the perception of the 15th August a historic one?
Shehnai?
A. Bismillah became popular
A. Tansen
B. people appreciated his performance
B. Evelyn
C. Bismillah Khan C. it was Independence day

D. All D. all

31. How did Evelyn hear music? 37. Where did Bismillah play the Shehnai on
15th August 1947?
A. through drums
A. at Ganga Ghat
B. through fingers
B. in Banaras
C. by feeling vibrations through her
diffrent parts of body-fingers, hair, feet C. near Red Fort
D. none D. at Kaashi

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38. Evelyn Glennie was when her deafness 44. What did Aurangzeb ban in his palace?
came to light. A. playing of Pungi

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A. 11 year old B. playing Sitar
B. 8 year old C. playing music
C. 17 year old D. none
D. 18 year old
45. Bismillah Khan’s feelings about migrating
39. Where does Evelyn get enrolled? to the U.S.A
A. Royal Academy of London A. Positive
B. The musical Institute B. Negative

C. International Centre for Arts C. Neutral

D. The Institute of Performing Arts D. None of the above

40. When was Evelyn’s deafness confirmed? 46. Apart from the regular concerts, where
does Evelyn give free concerts?
A. by the age of 5
A. schools and colleges
B. by the age of 6
B. prisons and hospitals
C. by the age of 8
C. Old age homes
D. by the age of 11
D. none of above
41. who is this chapter revolving around
47. what is the meaning of determination
A. Evelyn Glennie
A. An achieved goal
B. Evelyn Keyes B. A dream
C. Evelyn Nesbit C. the satisfaction achieved only through
D. Evelyn Waugh hard work
D. hardwork
42. What did Evelyn want to pursue?
A. fashion 48. Evelyn Glennie is a famous
B. study A. multi-percussionist
C. music B. pianist
D. none C. violinist
D. none of above
43. Why did people discourage Evelyn to pur-
sue music? 49. Who helped her in learning music?
A. it was not considered good A. Micheal Glennie
B. it was difficult B. Thomas Watson
C. it was expensive C. James Blade
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50. How did Evelyn feel the vibrations of the B. By leaning against the drums
drums? C. Higher drum from the waist up and the
A. By striking drum sticks hard on the lower one from the waist down.
drums. D. none of above

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1. What did Kezia’s father do in the drawing 5. What did Kezia think of her father?
room on Sunday afternoons? A. he is a very good father
A. Reading newspaper B. he loves children
B. Taking tea C. he is very harsh
C. Talking to her mother D. all
D. Sleep on the sofa
6. Who suggested Kezia to make a gift for
2. what was her nightmare? her father?

A. butcher with a knife A. her mother

B. her grandmother
B. war
C. Mr. Macdonald
C. ghost
D. her friend
D. dragon
7. This chapter portrays
3. Who said to whom:”I often have night-
mares and then Grannie takes me into her A. A beautiful vacation
bed-I can’t stay in the dark-it all gets B. A hard phase of life
‘whispery’ “
C. Relationship between a little girl with
A. Kezia to Father her parents
B. Kezia to Mother D. How to be brave
C. Kezia to Grandmother 8. Who suggested Kezia to talk to her Father
D. Kezia to Alice and Mother?
A. Macdonalds
4. Why did the grandmother suggest Kezia to
make a pin cushion? B. Alice

A. It was to be a birthday gift for her fa- C. Grandmother

ther’s birthday. D. Kezia herself
B. It was to be a birthday gift for her 9. Who did kezia always saw reading
mother’s birthday.
A. Father
C. The grandmother had a hobby of col-
lecting pin cushions. B. Mother

D. The grandmother was nurturing C. Grandmother

Kezia’s creativity. D. Alice

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10. On the night of hue and cry, after Kezia D. she had torn his important speech pa-
was put to bed, she watched pers

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A. Evening light making sad little patterns
16. what is the story all about
on the floor
B. A cartoon A. Children

C. The mood through the window B. Fears of children

D. A nightmare of a giant C. A little girl’s feelings for her father

11. Who was the cook? D. Teachers

A. Alice 17. What is the central idea of, “The Little

B. Alicia Match Girl”?
C. Alexa A. Wishing on a falling star made the little
girls dreams come true.
D. Alia
B. The little poor girl never gave up hope.
12. What does ‘hue and cry’ mean?
C. Having food and warmth is what saved
A. a nice conversation
the little girl.
B. an argument
D. Poor children don’t have the same lux-
C. angry protest uries as rich children.
D. a meal
18. Kezia screamed out “Grandma!
13. Where was Kezia’s mother taken to? Grandma!” at night and found
A. Park A. Her grandmother beside her bed
B. Museum B. Alice with an icecream
C. Hospital C. Her mother with a candle
D. Nowhere
D. Her father beside her bed with a can-
14. After reading the line below, where did dle
this story take place?”Most terribly cold
it was; quite dark, and evening-the last 19. What was the gift
evening of the year.” A. Pin cushion
A. On a cold New Years eve night. B. Bag
B. In a small town at night. C. Toy
C. On a cold new years day. D. Towel
D. During a warm summers day.
20. In the end Kass remarks that her father
15. Why did Kezia’s efforts to please her fa- has a big
ther irritated him?
A. Head
A. he was a rude man
B. Heart
B. he was unhappy
C. Mouth
C. didn’t know how to speak to the chil-
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21. What made Kezia’s father punish her? C. Sister, brother, father
A. She used to stutter before him. D. Cousin, father, sister
B. She was staring at him while he was 27. How did kezia realize that her father has
asleep. a big heart?
C. She had torn down sheets of paper A. Because he could not play with her like
which contained his speech for the port Mr. Mcdonald.
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D. She had refused to remove his shoes.
C. Because he used to get irritated with
22. What did Kezia’s father do on Sundays? her.
A. he used to have sound sleep to take D. Because even though she tore his
rest. speech papers unknowingly, he com-
B. he went for movies forted her when she had a bad dream.
C. he used to visit his friends 28. Who is the author of this story?
D. gossip A. Isaac Asimov
23. Who would Kezia call out during her night- B. Ruskin Bond
mare? C. Deborah Cowley
A. Grandmaa D. Katherine Mansfield
B. Father
29. What did Kezia think of her father when
C. Mother he used to yawn?
D. Alice A. she compared him to Mr. Macdonald
24. What is the story about? B. she compared him to god
A. children C. She compared him to a giant
B. fears of children D. none of the above
C. childhood fears 30. Name the people in Kezia’s family.
D. a little girl and her feeling for her fa- A. father
ther
B. mother
25. Where did grandmother send Kezia on Sun- C. grand mother
day afternoons?
D. all
A. To the playground
B. To the temple 31. What was the lesson that her father
wanted to teach Kezia by punishing her?
C. To her friend’s house
A. She should not give surprise gifts.
D. To her father and mother in the draw-
ing room B. Pin-cushions should not be given as
birthday gifts.
26. Who were the people in kezia’s family? C. She should not touch those things that
A. Father, mother, grandmother do not belong to her.
B. Father, mother sister D. None of these

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32. What did Kezia’s father do before going to 38. Who did the little girl see reading all the
his office? time

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A. instructed his driver A. Father
B. instructed his wife B. Mother
C. instructed Kezia to be nice to everyone C. Grandmother
D. Kissed Kezia
D. none of above
33. At the end of the chapter what impression
of her father does Kezia have? 39. Kezia used to in front of her father.

A. A giant A. be mum
B. A man mocking her B. stammer
C. A man lacking feelings C. talk a lot
D. A man of big heart D. be naughty
34. What would happen to Kezia whenever 40. What was Kezia’s father’s routine before
she saw her father? going to work?
A. Jump joyfully
A. He would come into her room and give
B. Shutter frighteningly her a casual goodbye kiss.
C. Cry sorrowfully B. He would ask for his boots.
D. Hugged lovingly C. He would ask for a newspaper.
35. To the little girl he was a figure to be D. He would request for a cup of tea.
feared and avoided. Who is ‘he’ here?
A. Grandfather 41. Why did Kezia use to stutter only before
her father?
B. Brother
A. Because of his fear, she was trying so
C. Father hard to say things properly and so she
D. MacDonald stuttered.
36. Kezia’s father brought her in his room dur- B. She did it intentionally to irritate him.
ing night and C. Her father’s appearance made her
A. Tucked up his child stutter.
B. Switched on the music system D. All of these
C. Readout a book to his child
42. “She had not sold any matches and could
D. Gave her Mathematics lessons not bring a farthing of money home.”
What does farthing mean in this sentence?
37. What kept Kezia indoors one day?
A. A cold A. The least possible amount of money.

B. a fever B. A large sum of money.

C. a toothache C. A fake amount of money.
D. a headache D. Any additional monetary items.

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43. What kind of a father was Mr. Macdon- B. The matches represented the fear she
ald? had going home without any money for her
A. Jovial natured family.

B. Very strict C. Each match is a vision of her hopes and

dreams.
C. Rude
D. Each match represents her family
D. Harsh members,

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44. What would father say on seeing Kezia 49. Why did Kezia tear the papers?
looking at him?
A. to play
A. He would say she looked like a fairy
B. to clean her room
B. she looked like a little brown owl
C. to fill the cushion
C. that she looked like a fool
D. to put in dustbin
D. that she looked like a clever cat
50. What does ‘laboriously’ mean?
45. What did the Father do after he carried
A. with ease
Kezia to his room?
B. with a lot of effort or difficulty
A. lay her on the bed and tucked her care-
fully. C. with care
B. asked her to rub her legs against his D. with pleasure
to keep warm.
51. How did Kezia feel when she had to speak
C. none of the above to her father?
D. both 1 and 2 A. joyful
46. When did kezia feel relief? B. confident
A. When the father came back home C. she would stutter while speaking to
him
B. When the father went to sleep
D. none
C. When she heard the noise of the car-
riage growing fainter 52. Who came into Kezia’s nighmare?
D. All of the above A. Joker
47. Who lived next door B. Ghost

A. The MacDonalds C. Kezia’s Father

B. The Papa Johns D. Butcher

C. The Johns 53. What was Mcdonald playing with his chil-
D. The McDonalds dren?
A. Rugby
48. What did the visions represent to the little
match girl each time she lite a match? B. Chess

A. Each match represented the cold C. Cricket

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54. Who instructed to take off father’s boots? C. Her grandmother was not there to
A. father guide her.

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B. mother D. She got confused the midway.

C. grandma 60. How many children does Mr. Macdonald’s

D. mother and father both have?
A. Five
55. Who used to calm the little girl when she
got a nightmare?(usually, not at the end B. Four
of the story) C. Three
A. Mother D. Two
B. Grandmother 61. What is the name of Kezia’s maid?
C. Father A. Mary
D. none of above B. Ruth
56. why was Kezia afraid of her father? C. Alice
A. as he was so strict D. Midge
B. he was so kind and generous 62. what was Kezia thinking to gift her dad
C. as he was so big as a gaint on his birthday?
D. as he hurted a pet with a stick A. file

57. What would Kezia find her mother do- B. flower

ing on Sunday afternoons in the drawing C. pen
room? D. pin cushion
A. Talking to her father
63. What did Kezia’s mother ask her to make?
B. Busy in her work
A. A) chapati
C. Reading
B. B) snacks
D. nothing
C. C) a gift of pin cushion
58. What was Kezia trying to prepare for Fa- D. none
ther’s birthday?
A. Cake 64. what was the filling of the pillow

B. Dress A. Cotton bought from the shepherd

C. Pin cussion B. Father’s important property docu-

ments
D. She forgot her Father’s birthday
C. Father’s speech
59. After stitching three sides of the pin cush- D. none of above
ion what problem did Kezia face?
A. She faced the problem of what to fill it 65. What did Kezia wish for?
with. A. She wished her father to be happy like
B. She did not have enough silk to com- Mcdonald
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C. To run here and there 71. How do you know the little girl is poor?
D. None of the above A. She saw a delicious roast goose in a
window through the candle light.
66. What changed Kezia’s perception about
B. At home it was cold too, above her
her father?
the roof, through which the wind whistled,
A. his scolding the largest cracks were stopped up with
B. her grandmother straw and rags.
C. Her little hands were numbed with

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C. her mother
cold.
D. the night she got a nightmare he com-
forted her D. She carried a quantity of matches in an
old apron.
67. What was Kezia’s father’s routine after
72. Why did the young girl sell matches?
coming back from his office?
A. To save up money to buy new slippers.
A. He would ask for the newspaper and
tea after coming back from his office. B. To earn money to help support her
poor family.
B. He would ask for cold coffee
C. To earn enough money to buy a christ-
C. He would ask for glass of water mas tree.
D. none of above D. To buy a roast goose.
68. Where did Kezia sit in the drawing room? 73. Who was Mcdonald?
A. On the sofa A. kezia’s uncle
B. On a chair B. kezia’s teacher
C. On a stool C. kezia’s grandfather
D. On a bed D. Kezia’s Neighbor

69. Why did grandmother send Kezia to her 74. How did Kezia see the Macdonalds play-
father in the drawing room Sunday? ing?
A. to make her comfortable with her fa- A. (a) In her TV
ther B. Through a gap in the fence
B. to make her understand her father bet- C. While returning from school
ter D. From the terrace
C. to help her have a nice talk with him
75. Which one of these is NOT TRUE with re-
D. all gard to Kezia’s Sunday afternoons?
70. What did Kezia learn after seeing Macdon- A. The grandmother used to send her to
alds? the drawing room to have a nice little talk
with Father and Mother.
A. All fathers are alike.
B. She would find her mother reading
B. There are different sorts of fathers.
something.
C. She is unlucy C. She would find her father sleeping
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D. The grandmother would rock her in the 81. Kezia can’t stay in the dak because it gets
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76. What is the theme of, “ The Little Match B. Whispery
Girl”? C. Sultry
A. Learn to take care of yourself. D. Cold
B. Greed is necessary to survive.
82. Kezia’s father asked her to rub her feet
C. Never lose hope because it can guide against his legs to make them
you and help solve your problems.
A. Small
D. Conflict makes you stronger. B. Big
77. Which among the following is a character- C. Warm
istic trait of Kass’s mother D. Cold
A. Loving and Caring
83. Kezia felt her father was harder than her
B. Distant and Aloof
A. Grandmother
C. Considerate
B. The Port Authority
D. Compassionate C. The police inspector
78. What does the falling star represent? D. Headmistress
A. The upcoming snow storm. 84. What is this story about?
B. Her soul going to heaven. A. children
C. The lights on the tall Christmas tree B. fears of children
she envisioned.
C. childhood fears
D. It is close to sunrise.
D. a little girl and her feelings for her fa-
ther
79. Kezia was punished with a
A. stick 85. What would Kezia’s father do after com-
ing back from his office?
B. ruler
A. He would play with Kezia
C. slap
B. he would go out withKezia and her
D. belt mother
80. How did kezia’s grandmother encourage C. he would go to sleep in his roon
her to get to know her father better? D. he would sit in the drawing room, have
A. (i) By sending her to the drawing room tea and read newspaper
to talk to her parents
86. When did Kezia decide that there were dif-
B. (ii) To make a beautiful cushion out of ferent sorts of fathers?
yellow silk
A. When her father punished her.
C. Only (i)
B. When she saw Mr. Macdonald playing
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C. When her father made fun of her stut- 92. Why did Kezia start feeling lonely?
tering. A. because of her grandmother
D. All of these B. because of Macdonalds
87. Kezia saw with a knife and a rope in C. because her mother fell sick
her nightmare. D. None
A. a priest
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B. a butcher A. Phoebe cary
C. a chef B. Katherine Mansfield
D. a vegetable vendor C. Coates Kinney
88. Who is the author of ‘The Little Girl’? D. Robert frost
A. Katherine Mansfield 94. How was the pattern?
B. Ruskin Bond A. Energetic
C. J K Rowling B. Sad
D. Hermione Granger C. Happy
D. Angry
89. Kezia was punished because
A. her father was very rude 95. Thinking about father was like thinking
about a/an
B. she had torn his important speech
A. elf
C. she refused to obey him
B. king
D. she compared him with Mr. Mcdonald
C. giant
90. What was Kezia’s father’s routine On Sun- D. prince
days
96. What does it mean, “with her grand-
A. On Sundays, he would take rest. He mother she had entered on the joys of a
would enjoy sound sleep on the sofa new year”?
B. On Sundays, he would take rest. He A. It was morning and the little girl was
would enjoy going to the park no longer cold,
C. He would go for shopping B. The little girl died and entered heaven
D. none of above with her grandmother.
C. Her grandmother found her and took
91. What is the figure of speech used in the her home.
line, “Thinking about him alone was like
thinking about a giant.”? D. The little girl feel asleep and someone
gave her a blanket to stay warm.
A. Metaphor
97. What does Kezia’s father compare her
B. Simile
to?(A) a cat (B) a fox(C) a sparrow (D)
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B. A fox 103. What would Kezia do while talking to her

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C. A sparrow

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A. She would stammer
D. An owl arts
B. she would cry
98. What kind of feeling Kezia had after her
C. she would speak loudly
father slept off?
D. she would run away in fear
A. Anxious
B. Funny 104. What did kezia’s Father use to ask for
after returning from work?
C. Scared
A. Tea
D. Relived
B. Newspaper
99. What is the figure of speech used in the
C. Slippers
line, “What a big heart you’ve got, Father
dear.”? D. All of these
A. Alliteration 105. Why did Kezia use to feel a glad sense of
B. Pun relief when the noise of the carriage would
grow fainter?
C. Simile
A. Because she hated the sound of the
D. Personification
carriage.
100. What did father remove in his bed? B. She was afraid of her father as she
used to do a lot of mischief.
A. Newspaper
C. She was afraid of her father. So his
B. Phone
moving away from her brought her relief.
C. Ball
D. All of these
D. Pad
106. Why did the father beat kezia?
101. How many children did Mcdonald have?
A. She back-answered
A. five
B. She did not do the task assigned to her
B. three
C. She misbehaved
C. two
D. kezia tore the fathers speech to make
D. one a gift for him

102. Who was the one person who loved her 107. After getting beaten up, when next time
but was now no more? she saw her father, she quickly
A. Her sister A. Runaway
B. Her mother B. Sat down in silence
C. Her Grandmother C. Put both hands behind her back
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108. Why did Kezia put her hands behind her A. window, tag
back next time she saw her father? B. window, hopscotch
A. Because her hands were dirty C. fence, tag
B. Because she had drawn something on D. fence, hopscotch
her hands
C. Because her father hit her with a ruler 114. By what was kezia hit with?
on her hands A. Rod

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D. None of the above B. Spoon

109. What was the nightmare that haunted C. Ruler

Kezia? D. Wood
A. Her father looking at her like a giant 115. The pieces of fine paper that Kass tore
B. Her father making fun of her stuttering into pieces for making a pincushion was ac-
C. Her father punishing her with a ruler tually

D. The butcher with a knife and a rope A. A speech prepared by her father for
coming nearer and nearer with the dread- the harbour board meeting
ful smile B. Important official documents

110. Why would Kezoa ‘ s mother encourage C. Confidential file

her to talk to her father? D. Pieces of scraps
A. So that she could learn new things 116. Why was the little girl making a pillow?
B. so that she could explain her problems A. For her grandmother’s birthday
to her
B. For her friends’s birthday
C. To keep him company
C. For her father’s birthday
D. so that she could know him better
D. For her grand father’s birthday
111. For whom was the speech?
117. Why was the little girl asked to make a
A. Port present for her father?
B. Police A. his birthday was approaching next
C. Air port week
D. Army B. he was going on a tour

112. Who was Mac Donald? C. his anniversary was coming

A. Kezia’s uncle D. he was going to retire

B. Kezia’s teacher 118. How did the little girl feel when her fa-
C. Kezia’s grandfather ther looked at her from the spectacles?

D. Kezia’s neighbor A. Happy

B. Dancing
113. When Kezia looked through the , the
neighbour was playing with his chil- C. Joyful
dren. D. Terrified

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119. What did Kezia’s grandmother ask her to 124. What was the nightmare for kezia?
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A. a gift of pin cushion B. Ghost
B. a gift
C. Demon
C. buy a gift
D. Father
D. make a gift
125. When Kezia woke up shivering, she saw
120. How did Kezia’s grandmother help her to her father with a in his hand.
have a better relation with her father?
A. ruler
A. by sending her to spend time with him
in the drawing room B. lamp

B. by asking her to prepare tea for him C. candle

C. by praising her father all the time D. rope

D. none of above 126. Why does grandmother ask the little girl
to make a present for her father?
121. For father’s birthday, grandmother sug-
gested Kezia to make a A. his birthday was approaching next
week
A. birthday card
B. he was going on a tour
B. cake
C. his anniversary was coming
C. quilt
D. he was going to retire
D. pin-cushion
122. How did kezia’s father travel? 127. Who was ill?

A. Car A. Mother
B. Bike B. Grandmother
C. Carriage C. Father
D. Jeep D. Grandfather

123. What did kezia’s father do on sundays? 128. Kezia compared her Father with?
A. Stretched out on the sofa and slept A. A giant
B. Played with kezia B. Dwarf
C. Spent time with the family C. Enormous
D. Help kezia with school work D. Massive

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1. WHAT SOUNDS DOES YEATS YEARNED TO C. AUTOMOBILES
HEAR? D. MOBILE PHONES
A. SOUND OF BEES
2. In which subjects was Einstein gifted and
B. AEROPLANES intereted?

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A. English and History 8. WHAT KIND OF SCENE IS THERE AT NIGHT

AT INNISFREE?
B. Mathematics and Physics
A. DARK
C. Mathematics and Biology
B. GLOOMY
D. Physics and English
C. CHARMING AND GLIMMERING
3. What was the name of Einstein’s first D. NONE
wife?

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9. Einstein won the Nobel Prize for this:
A. Mileva
A. Theory of Relativity
B. Maja
B. Photoelectric Effect
C. Elsa C. Theory of gravity
D. Ilse D. Theory of time and space

4. Who wrote the poem “The Lake Isle of In- 10. Einstein was deeply shaken due to the de-
nisfree?” struction caused by
A. John Keats A. World War

B. W.B. Yeats B. Atomic Bomb explosions in Japanese

cities
C. P.B. Shelley
C. Political turmoil
D. None D. Terror attacks in America
5. Where was Einstein born? 11. What did Einstein call his desk drawer at
A. Munich, Germany the Patent Office?
A. The Bureau of Theoretical Physics
B. Berlin, Germany
B. The Bureau of Freedom
C. Berne, Germany
C. The Bureau of Patented Inventions
D. Ulm, Germany
D. The Bureau of Nuclear Fission
6. Who wrote the story “The Happy Prince “ 12. In E=mc2, E means?
A. Shakespeare A. Centimetres
B. Oscar Wilde B. Energy
C. Rabindranath Tagore C. Mass
D. None of the above D. Light

13. With which of the following theories is the

7. Einstein died in at the age of
formula E=mc2 most closely associated?
A. 1955, 76 A. Relativity
B. 1970, 76 B. Ohm’s Law
C. 1987, 64 C. Planck’s Law
D. 1921, 64 D. The Blackbody Effect

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14. What is the message of this lesson? 20. When Albert Einstein began speaking then
A. a beautiful mind not only creates beau- he spoke every word ?

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tiful ideas but also to use them for the wel- A. Twice
fare of the humanity
B. Once
B. always think big
C. be like Einstein C. Thrice

D. win a Nobel Prize D. None of the Above

15. How many times did Einstein utter a word 21. Who was the president of America at that
when he learnt to speak? time
A. thrice
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. four times
B. George Washington
C. once
D. twice C. Franklin D. Roosevelt
D. Herbert Hoover
16. Einstein died in at the age of 76.
A. 1956 22. Who has become synonymous with ge-
B. 1978 nius?
C. 1965 A. Einstein’s name
D. 1955 B. Gandhi’s name
17. Why did Einstein leave the school? C. Wright Brothers
A. for good
D. NONE
B. he had clash with the teachers
C. he didn’t like discipline and order in 23. After finishing graduation, Albert worked
the school as a?
D. All A. Mechanical engineer
18. Which of the following words best defines B. As a space scientist
Einstein?
C. As a Teaching Assistant
A. curious
D. As a technical expert
B. patient
C. careful 24. The rods or stakes interwoven with twigs
D. friendly or tree branches for making fences or
walls are called
19. Albert was also skilled in playing
A. Hive
A. Guitar
B. Wattles
B. Violin
C. Table C. Glade
D. Flute D. None

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25. Which of the following statements is not 30. When Einstein wrote his 1905 papers, he
true? was working as a:
A. Einstein was ridiculed as a child by his A. Private tutor.
friends and teacher. B. Engineer.
B. Einstein left Germany when Hitler C. Professor
came to power.
D. Patent Officer.
C. Einstein regretted writing to Roosevelt
31. What is the poetic form of “The Lake Isle

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to develop the atomic bomb.
of Innisfree?”
D. Einstein wrote to the United Nation
promoting world peace. A. Lyric
B. Sonnet
26. In which subject did Einstein receive Nobel
C. Ballad
Prize?
D. None
A. Physics
B. Mathematics 32. Why did Mileva come to the University at
Zurich?
C. Chemistry
A. it was the only university which gave
D. Literature degrees to women

27. The Americans developed the atomic bomb B. it was a good university
in a secret project of their own, and C. it was near her city
dropped it on the Japanese cities of D. she liked the place
in August 1945.
33. What did Albert’s mother think of him?
A. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A. he was a born genius
B. Hiroshima and Tokyo
B. he is intelligent
C. Tokyo and Nagasaki
C. he will rule the world
D. Yokohama and Nagasaki
D. Albert was a freak
28. WHIC PLACE DOES THE POET WANT TO
34. Why has the author referred to the late
VISIT?
speaking age of Einsten?
A. THE LAKE
A. to show that apparently his growth
B. THE MOUNTAINS rate was slower than the children of his
age
C. THE BEACH
B. to show that he was a slow learner
D. A PLACE OF NATURAL BEAUTY
C. To show his disability
29. Einstein was all of these EXCEPT a D. None
A. rebel
35. Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric got Di-
B. philistine vorced in year?
C. world citizen A. 1929
D. genius B. 1919

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C. 1918 41. Albert’s Family got shifted to when he

D. 1975 was 15 months old.

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A. Munich
36. Why did Albert Einstein write a letter to B. Milan
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939?
C. Berlin
A. to make peace with Germany
D. Hamburg
B. to begin building the atomic bomb
42. NAME THE THREE THINGS THAT THE POET
C. to ask him to stop building the atomic
WOULD LIKE TO DO AT INNISFREE?
bomb
A. PLANT 9 BEAN TREES
D. to ask for citizenship
B. MAKE HIVES FOR HONEY BEES
37. What did Einstein love to play with? C. MAKE A HOUSE OF CLAY AND WAT-
A. toys TELS

B. alone with mechanical toys D. ALL

C. friends 43. In 1921, he won the for physics.

D. none A. Oscar
B. Grammy
38. Yeats wishes to build a cabin with
C. Golden Globe
A. brick and mortar
D. Nobel Prize
B. clay and wattles
44. When was the atomic bomb dropped on Hi-
C. stucco roshima and Nagasaki?
D. logs A. In August 1940
39. What was it that put the American Physi- B. In August 1945
cists in an uproar? C. In August 1947
A. The discovery of the atomic bomb in D. In August 1950
Japan.
45. Albert’s work on General Theory of Rela-
B. The discovery of the atomic power in tivity was proclaimed by the newspapers
America as
C. The discovery of nuclear fission in A. A mysterious revolution
Berlin B. A scientific revolution
D. The discovery of atomic bomb by Ein- C. A musical revolution
stein
D. A technological revolution
40. When was Einstein born? 46. Albert knew to play the
A. on 14 March, 1879 A. Piano
B. on 10 March 1878 B. Guitar
C. on 14 March 1877 C. Violin
D. on 14 March, 1875 D. Saxophone

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47. According to the Special Theory of Relativ- B. 1918

ity and are not Absolute. C. 1920
A. Time and Speed D. 1921
B. Time and Distance
53. At what age did Einstein pass away?
C. Speed and Distance
A. 77
D. none of above
B. 76

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48. What did Einstein call his desk drawer at
C. 74
his patent office?
D. 78
A. The Bureau of freedom
B. The Bureau of Patented inventions 54. Happy Prince:Where did the swallow
want to go?
C. The Bureau of Theoretical physics
A. Spain
D. The Bureau of Nuclear Fission
B. Egypt
49. How did the job at the patent office help
Einstein? C. UK

A. He learned how to create new things. D. USA

B. He saw new ideas of others and re- 55. Why did Einstein decide to continue his
vised them. study in Switzerland?
C. He met people who helped him solve A. it ws a good city
his problems. B. it was more liberal than Munich
D. He had the freedom to work on his own
C. he liked the place
ideas.
D. all
50. WHAT KIND OF A HOUSE DID THE POET
WANT TO HAVE AT INNISFREE? 56. Why did Mileva Maric come to the Univer-
sity at Zurich?
A. A WELL FURNISHED
A. it was the only university which gave
B. A BIG HOUSE
degrees to women
C. A HOUSE MADE OF WOOD AND CLAY
B. it was a good university
D. NONE
C. it was near her city
51. The life of which place is full of tension & D. she liked the place
chaos
A. School 57. What does this lesson A Truly Beautiful
mind speak about?
B. College
A. beauty of the mind
C. City
B. beauty of the world
D. All of the above
C. the life of the greatest scientist Ein-
52. When did Einstein have his second mar- stein and his contributions to the field of
riage? science and world politics
A. 1919 D. none

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58. Which American President did Einstein C. International Brotherhood

write a letter to? D. No to Arms Buildup

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A. George Bush
64. In accordance to Albert Einstein, choose
B. Theodore Roosevelt the correct formula
C. Franklin D Roosevelt A. E = mc2
D. John F Kennedy B. E = c2m
59. Which of the following events happened C. c2m = E
first? D. None
A. Einstein won the Nobel Prize.
65. Einstein’s mother was bothered by the in-
B. Einstein wrote to Roosevelt. telligence of
C. Einstein became famous for his gen- A. Mileva
eral relativity theory. B. Einstein
D. Einstein left Germany and moved to C. Elsa
America.
D. Margie
60. Einstein was born in and died in the
year 66. NAME THE PLANTS THE POET WANTED TO
GROW AT INNISFREE?
A. 1879, 1955
A. GULMOHAR TREE
B. 1876, 1955.
B. PINE TREE
C. 1879, 1956.
C. BEAN PLANT
D. None of the above.
D. APPLE TREES
61. In order to protect and sell an invention,
67. Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
an individual must be granted a
A. The President of America
A. job
B. The Prime Minister of America
B. patent
C. The Chief scientist of America
C. Nobel Prize
D. The Commender of American Air force
D. award
68. WHERE WAS THE POET’S CHILDHOOD
62. With whom did Einstein fall in love? TIME SPENT?
A. a girl from Munich A. IN A TOWN
B. Mileva Maric B. IN A VILLAGE
C. a girl from German C. ON MOUNTAINS
D. none D. AT INNISFREE ISLAND
63. Einstein’s ideals included all of the follow- 69. WHAT KIND OF SOUNDS DID THE POET
ing EXCEPT: HEAR AT INNIFREE?
A. Fascism A. HORRIBLE
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C. PLEASING, BUZZING MUSIC LIKE 75. Einstein felt a special interest in a fellow
SOUNDS OF BEES student named , whom he found to be
D. NONE a “Clever Creature.”
A. Lily Elsie
70. Why does the world remember Einstein as
B. Rosa Parks
a”world citizen”?
C. Elsa
A. He supported peace and democracy
D. Mileva Maric
B. He was in favour of a world govern-

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ment 76. Whom did Albert want to marry right after
C. He wanted the world to function as one finishing studies?
unit A. Blair
D. All the above B. Mileva
71. Where does the poet want to go in this C. Mary
poem? D. Margie
A. Ireland 77. Einstein first started creating and becom-
B. England ing interested in how things worked when
C. Innisfree he was given this when he was 5 years
old-
D. None
A. thermometer
72. “EVENINGS FULL OF THE LINNET’S B. compass
WINGS” WHAT DO THESE WORDS MEAN?
C. toy car
A. THE NOISE OF FLYING INSECTS
D. camera
B. LINETS FLYING IN THE EVENING SKY
78. Whose genius still reigns after 50 years of
C. BUZZING BEES
his death?
D. NOISE OF INSECTS IN THE EVENING A. M.K. Gandhi
73. What did Einstein’s Headmaster said his B. Nehru
father? C. Stephen
A. He will be a Criminal D. Einstein
B. He will be a great Scientist
79. WHAT DID THE POET WANT TO CREATE
C. He will be a great person in future FOR HONEYBEES?
D. He will be never successful at anything A. TREES
74. WHAT KIND OF SEEN IS DESCRIBED AT IN- B. HIVES
NISFREE DURING NOON TIME? C. FLOWERS
A. GOLDEN HUE D. NONE
B. BRIGHT GREEN AND YELLOW LIGHTS 80. In what art was Einstein’s mother particu-
C. PURPLE GLOW CAN BE SEEN larly talented?
D. NONE A. Calligraphy

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D. Music B. Britain
C. Germany
81. Einstein won the Nobel Peace Prize for
this: D. France

A. Theory of Relativity 87. What is the theme of the poem “The lake
Isle of Innisfree?”
B. Photoelectric Effect
A. Nature
C. Theory of gravity
B. Civilization
D. Theory of time and space
C. War
82. is Albert’s sister. D. None
A. Maja
88. When did the famous paper of Einstein
B. Maya “ Special Theory of Relativity” get pub-
lished?
C. Maha
A. 1905
D. Maji
B. 1910
83. In Childhood Albert’s Friends called him C. 1901
as?
D. 1907
A. Rude
89. When was Einstein born?
B. Loving
A. on 14 March, 1879
C. Funny
B. on 10 March 1878
D. Boring
C. on 14 March 1877
84. What did the school headmaster say about D. on 14 March, 1875
Einstein?
90. When did Einstein Published his General
A. he would be a genius Theory of Relativity?
B. he is great A. 1915
C. he can’t get success at anything B. 1919
D. he would become a scientist C. 1916

85. The Happy Prince:Who said this to whom? D. 1918

“You must not lie here” shouted the to 91. Happy Prince:How may things did GOD
ask his angels to bring from the city?
A. Watchman to the 2 little boys A. 1
B. Seamstress to the 2 little boys. B. 2
C. Mayor to the 2 little boys. C. 3
D. Happy prince to the 2 little boys. D. 4

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92. At what age did Albert leave school? C. Zurich

A. 13 D. Ulm
B. 14 95. After Einstein finished schooling he decided
C. 15 to study at a University in
D. 20 A. Ulm
93. The Newspapers proclaimed Einstein’s B. Zurich
work as?

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C. Berlin
A. Green Revolution D. Dresden
B. Scientific Revolution
96. Which musical instrument did Einstein
C. Technological Revolution play?
D. White Revolution A. violin
94. Where was Albert Einstein’s job location? B. drums
A. Bern C. clarinet
B. Munich D. trumpet

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1. who removed the snake from the gable B. because of rats
(sloping roof)?? C. because of his dirty vest
A. police
D. because of his wife
B. his friend
5. Who all are the main character of the
C. the theifs
story?
D. the security
A. SNAKE
2. The narrator was single because B. MIRROR
A. his wife went to some village C. DOCTOR
B. his wife left him D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
C. he was an orphan
6. What is the profession of the main charac-
D. he was a bachelor ter?
3. What was the doctor’s room filled with? A. Football player
A. MEDICINES B. Homeopath
B. SMELL OF MEDICINES C. Actor
C. FULL OF RATS D. none of above
D. PEOPLE
7. WHAT WAS THE IMPORTANT POINT OF
4. How was the doctor’s life saved? THIS LESSON?
A. Because of the mirror A. NEVER BE ARROGANT AND PROUD.

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B. ALWAYS BE PROUD. 13. What kind of wife he wish to have?

C. ALWAYS BE ARROGANT. A. A woman doctor with a medical prac-
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D. none of above
B. A woman who has plenty of woman
8. What big quality he thought he had? C. A woman who is too fat to run after him
A. HANDSOME D. All of the above
B. BACHELOR 14. What was the name of the book which he
took beneath the table?
C. RICH
A. ‘’The Life of a Doctor”
D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
B. ‘’Living Alone in a Rented room”
9. How did the author react when the snake C. ‘’Materia Medica”
fell on him? D. ‘’History of Modern Surgery”
A. it cried a lot 15. The author of the story writes in 1 lan-
B. he called his freind guage. Name the language.
C. he sat like a statue and didnt cry or A. HINDI
tremble B. ENGLISH
D. he gave the snake a rat C. MALYALAM
D. NONE OF THE ABOVE
10. What type of text is this lesson
16. The narrator of the lesson “The snake and
A. Essay the Mirror” was
B. Narrative A. Edward Thomas
C. Description B. Vaikom Mohammad Basheer
D. Biography C. R K Narayan
D. William Shakespeare
11. WHAT WAS THE BOOK THAT THE DOC-
TOR OPENED WHEN HE CAME FROM THE 17. What was the change in doctor’s
RESTAURANT AFTER DINNER? thoughts?
A. From a proud man to a helpless, fool-
A. MATERIA MEDICA
ish man
B. ANIMALIA B. from a poor to rich man
C. PLANARARIA C. from a frown to smile
D. none of above D. from no mustache to mustache

12. The homeopath shared room with 18. The dull thud sound came as ..
A. the rats were running in the ceiling
A. dogs
B. the snake was moving towards the
B. cats writer
C. rats C. the snake fell on his shoulder
D. cattle D. the rat fell on his shoulder

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19. In which month does the story take place? 25. the fat woman can’t
A. Monsoon A. run as fast as the writer
B. Summer B. eat as fast as the writer
C. Winter C. be beautiful
D. none of above D. beat him

20. Homeopath made another earth shaking 26. what had been left behind one thing as a
final result?

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decision. The meaning of earth shaking is
A. coat
A. important B. mobile
B. dangerous C. vest
C. horrible D. suitcase
D. pleasant 27. The doctor made another earth shaking de-
cision. The meaning of earth shaking is
21. WHAT WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT WAS
LEFT IN HE DOCTORS HOUSE AFTER THE
ROBBERY? A. challenging
B. dangerous
A. HIS VEST
C. horrible
B. HIS BLACK COAT
D. pleasant
C. HIS MONEY
D. none of above 28. What was it that had fallen on the his
back?
22. Meaning of solitary is A. A RUBBER TUBE
A. unique B. A BIG RAT
B. expensive C. A FAT SNAKE
C. cheap D. A DEAD MOUSE
D. single 29. Why did the doctor call himself foolish and
23. What did the doctor realize? poor?
A. because of his inability to think of any
A. He was a handsome doctor
solution for the trouble he was caught in
B. He was a handsome bachelor
B. he had no money
C. He was smart C. no good house to live
D. He was poor and had nothing to boast D. no customers
24. The book took out by Homeopath is 30. THE AUTHORS NAME IS
A. Oxford dictionary A. VAIROM MOHAMMED BASHEER
B. Anthropology B. ISSAC ASIMOV
C. The Materia Medica C. MULK RAJ ANAND
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31. The belongings of the doctor were 37. Why did the snake leave the doctors arm?
A. sixty rupees A. becoz the snakes mother was calling

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him
B. Shirts and dhotis
B. because i saw the rat and it wants to
C. solitary black coat eat it
D. all the above C. saw its reflection in the mirror and
was fascinated by it
32. The earnings of the doctor were
D. none of above
A. more
38. What was it that had fallen at the narra-
B. plenty
tor’s back?
C. excess
A. A rubber tube
D. meagre B. A fat snake
33. How much cash did he have with him? C. A big rat
A. One hundred rupees D. the roof tile

B. Fifty rupees 39. The earnings of Homeopath were

C. Sixty rupees A. more
D. none of above B. plenty
C. excess
34. What happened when the doctor turned
around to see what had fallen there? D. meagre

A. A Fat Snake landed on his shoulder. 40. Who told this story to the writer?
B. A Fat Snake fell on back of his chair. A. His granny
C. A Fat Snake fell to the ground. B. his mother

D. None of the above. C. his father

D. a homeopathic doctor
35. WHAT KIND OF WIFE DID HE WISH FOR?
41. The book that he was reading was
A. FAT WIFE
A. The Winter Days
B. THIN WIFE
B. Principles of the life
C. NORMAL WIFE
C. Materia Medica
D. none of above
D. Material Medication
36. What time did he come to his house? 42. The main character decided to marry
A. 10’o clock in morning A. a young and rich women
B. 2’o clock in afternoon B. a young and rich actress
C. 6’o clock in evening C. a young and rich village girl
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43. WHAT DID HE THINK FIRST WHEN THE CO- 46. What are the two most important things
BRA FIRST COLIED IN HIS HANDS? in the story?
A. HE THOUGHT WHETHER IT WAS MALE A. snake and the mirror
OR FEMALE
B. doctor and rats
B. HE THOUGHT ABOUT THE MEDICINES
C. doctor and his wife
HE HAD TO TAKE IF IT BIT HIM
D. snake and the doctor
C. HIS MOTHER

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D. none of above 47. What important decision did he make?
44. WHAT WAS THE ANIMAL THAT SCARED A. To grow a thin moustache.
THE DOCTOR? B. To keep an attractive smile on his face
A. SNAKE always.
B. COBRA C. Both decisions
C. PYTHON D. None of the above
D. none of above 48. What was the change in doctor’s thoughts
45. “THE SOUND WAS FAMILIAR TO ME”- after the incident?
WHAT WAS THE SOUND? A. from a valuable man to a helpless and
A. THE SNAKES MOVE foolish man
B. THE CHATTERING OF THE MOUSE B. from a poor to rich man
C. THE RAIN C. from a frown to smile
D. none of above D. from no moustache to moustache

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1. Which seed did A.P.J Abdul Kalam collect A. Aravindan
during the second world war? B. Ramanadha Sastry
A. Guava seeds C. Sivaprakasan
B. Tamarind seeds D. none of the above
C. Flax seeds
4. Write briefly about his father.
D. Mango seeds
A. He was rich and had too much of
2. What is Dinamani? wealth
A. A magzine B. Had neither much formal education
B. A tamil Newspaper nor much wealth

C. A tamil Nesletter C. Too much formal comforts

D. A tamil gernal D. Lived luxuriously

3. Who was Abdul Kalam sitting with when 5. What does material security mean in the
the new teacher asked him to sit on the lesson?
last bench? A. all the basic necessities of life

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B. materialistic possessions B. Wings of Water

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D. riches D. Wings of Air
6. The name of the marriage site situated in 12. My father used to avoid all types of
the middle of the pond near to Abdul’s luxuries and inessential comforts
house was
A. Kind
A. Kalyan Mancha
B. Caring
B. Rama Tirtha
C. Tirtha Bharathi C. Austere

D. Rama Mandir D. Arrogant

7. What was Kalam’s age during the second 13. Abdul’s father Abdul for higher studies
world war?
A. Restricted
A. 9 years
B. Encouraged
B. 10 years
C. Gave money
C. 11 years
D. didn’t support
D. 8 years
14. How much money he got after selling
8. Who was Samsuddin?
tamarind seed?
A. Kalam’s brother
A. One rupee
B. Kalam’s friend
B. One paisa
C. Kalam’s neighbourer
C. Two anna
D. Kalam’s cousin
D. One anna
9. Kalam always sat in which row?
A. First 15. What bedtime stories did Abdul’s mother
and grandmother tell the children of the
B. Last family?
C. Front
A. Ramayana and Life of Prophet
D. Back
B. Mahabharatha and Ramayana
10. Kalam’s parents were? C. The Vedas
A. Smart and handsome
D. Panchatantra stories
B. Tall and handsome
C. Honest and arrogant 16. What did Kalam inherit from his mother

D. Kind and honest A. Sincerity

B. Respect and obedience
11. Which autobiography has this lesson been
taken from? C. Deep kindness and faith in God
A. Wings of Earth D. none of above

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17. What kind of person was Sivasubramania C. Because he opposed Islam and consid-
Iyer? ered Hinduism better.
A. orthodox brahmin D. Because he helped Ramanadha Sastry
B. calm and generous at the Temple and helped him carry out de-
votional duties .
C. believed in equality and wanted to
bring reforms in the society 23. Who was the high priest of Rameswaram
D. all Temple, & how was Kalam related to
him/her?

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18. Which symbol represented Abdul Kalam as A. Krishnamurthy Kalam ; Father’s
a muslim boy? Brother
A. he spoke urdu B. Gopalaswami Ramanujan; Maternal
B. he wore black clothes grandfather
C. he wore a scarf C. Pakshi Lakshmana ; Friend’s Father
D. none of these D. Chinnamurthy Swami ; Uncle

19. Kalam became President of India. 24. During Second World war who sold news-
paper in Rameswaram from Kalam’s fam-
A. 10 th
ily?
B. 11 th
A. Jainulabdeen
C. 12 th
B. Arvindan
D. 9 th C. Samsuddin
20. Where did Kalam sell seeds? D. Abdul Kalam
A. in a market 25. Second World War broke out in
B. to other children A. 1931
C. people of his society B. 1930
D. to provide them to a provision store on C. 1939
a mosque street
D. 1935
21. In which school Kalam studied?
26. How much did Kalam earn after collecting
A. Rameshwaram elementry School tamarind seeds for a day?
B. Rameshwaram Boys School A. 2 annas
C. Rameshwaram Prathmik Pathshala B. 1 anna
D. Rameshwaram Sanskrit Vidyalaya C. 1 rupee
22. Why did Abdul not mind socializing with D. 1 paisa
Hindu friends?
27. APJ’s house was built in
A. Because he didn’t know what religion A. 18th century
meant.
B. 19th century
B. Because he was born into a socio-
economic atmosphere that promoted Sec- C. 20th century
ularism . D. 21st century

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28. In what sense was Kalam’s childhood se- 34. What is “Dinamani”
cure? A. A magazine

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A. he was getting all the necessities of
B. A Tamil Newspaper
life like food, clothes, study
C. A Tamil Nesletter
B. parents’ love and support
D. A Tamil Journal
C. good society
D. all 35. ‘Broke out’ stands for
29. When was Kalam’s ancestral house built? A. was not able to tolerate
A. in 18th century B. assistance
B. in 19th century C. person with power to make decision
C. in the middle of 19th century D. began suddenly in a violent way
D. all 36. What does Prof. Kalam talk about in his
30. Who served food to Kalam on weekend? book Wings of Fire?
A. Lakshmana Sastry A. his childhood experiences
B. Ashiamma B. his parents
C. Ramanadha Sastry C. his friends
D. Sivasubramania Iyer D. all

31. Why did the teacher separate Kalam from 37. “Indians will build their own India”-Who
his friend? said this?
A. they were talking in the class A. SivasubramaniaIyer
B. they were not doing their work B. APJ Abdul Kalam
C. they were disturbing the class C. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
D. because of his own notion of social D. Mahatma Gandhi
ranking, religious discrimination
38. Who of the following was not Abdul
32. APJ Abdul Kalam had projects in Kalam’s close friend at school-
A. Space, Defense
A. Ramanadha Sastry
B. Nuclear technology
B. Aravindan
C. All of the above
C. Sivaprakasan
D. None
D. Samsuddin
33. What can resolve the hindrances in the
way of growth? 39. How was the wife of Abdul’s science
teacher initially?
A. mutual trust, and ease of communica-
tion A. Poor
B. Wings of Fire B. Rich
C. fighting C. Conservative
D. all D. Beautiful

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40. Which seeds did Kalam used to collect 46. Who was not the friend of Kalam?
A. Mango seeds A. Ramanadha
B. Turmeric seeds B. Sivaprakasan
C. apple seeds C. Aravindan
D. none of above D. Lakshman

41. Sivasubramania’s wife was 47. Abdul Kalam took his father’s permission

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A. modern to study at the headquarters of

B. conservative A. Rameswaram

C. accepting B. Kochi

D. liberal C. Ramanathapuram
D. Kolkata
42. APJ used to wear a which marked him
as a Brahmin. 48. Why did Abdul Kalam feel proud to earn
A. t-shirt his first wages?

B. pair of shoes A. fjewhvdfjbvh

C. thread B. jfhwjrfhejr

D. cap C. vjewhvjdevn
D. djchwjvbdj
43. Who had invited Kalam for a meal at his
home? 49. Why did Kalam feel sad once when he was
A. Lakshmana Sastry in 5th standard?

B. Ashiamma A. he didn’t do his homework

C. Ramanadha Sastry B. teacher scolded him

D. Sivasubramania Iyer C. his teacher didn’t let him sit with his
Hindu friend in the first row because he
44. In what sense was A.P.J Abdul Kalam’s was a Muslim
childhood secure? D. none of these
A. He was getting all the necessities of
life like food, clothes, study etc 50. Which religion did Abdul Kalam belong to?

B. Parent’s love and support A. Muslim

C. Good security B. Hindu

D. All C. Christian
D. Jewish
45. What did Kalam gain from Wings of Fire?
A. the great values he imbibed from his 51. What is Dinamani the name of?
parents, teachers and society A. Newspaper
B. his books B. Book
C. his study C. Shop
D. none D. Abdul Kalams’ friend

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52. In his autobiography, Kalam talks about 58. What kind of person was Sivasubrama-
his? nia?

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A. Mother and father A. orthodox brahmin
B. Childhood B. calm and generous
C. Friends C. believed in equality and wanted to
bring reforms in the society
D. All of the above
D. all
53. In which year did Kalam become India’s
11th President? 59. What did Kalam’s father teach him?
A. 2000 A. hatred
B. 2001 B. honesty and self discipline
C. 2003 C. to fight
D. 2002 D. to be arrogant

54. In which class a teacher sent Kalam on last 60. How did Abdul Kalam earn his first
bench? wages?

A. Class IV A. to sell tamerind seeds

B. Class V B. to collect newspaper bundle

C. to distribute newspaper
C. Class VI
D. to ask money from parents
D. Class III
61. Why did Kalam want to go to Ramanath-
55. What does APJ stand for in APJ Abdul
puram?
Kalam’ name?
A. for collecting newspaper
A. Abdul Pakir Jamal
B. for collecting tamerind seeds
B. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen
C. for selling newspaper
C. Akbar Pakir Jalal
D. for further studies
D. Amar Pakir Jamal
62. How old was Kalam when his sci-
56. How much money did Kalam earn after ence teacher taught him how birds fly?
selling seeds? (Hint:Look at the end of the chapter)
A. 2 anna A. 12
B. 3 anna B. 9
C. 1 anna C. 11
D. 4 anna D. 10
57. Full Form of the APJ Kalam 63. DINAMANI is the name of-
A. Abdul Pakir Jainulabdeen Kalam A. a book
B. Abdul Phakir Jainul Kalam B. a friend of Abdul Kalam
C. Abul Pakir Jainulabdeen Kalam C. a newspaper
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64. The first that earned money for Abdul C. Chief Justice
Kalam was
D. Army Chief
A. collecting and selling tamarind seeds
69. There was a sudden demand for when
B. collecting and delivering newspapers
the Second World War broke out in the
C. none of the above year 1939.
D. both (A) and (B) A. sesame seeds

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65. Abdul Kalam was born in state. B. wheat and rice
A. Karnataka C. tamarind seeds
B. Madras D. kerosene
C. Kerala
70. What is the message from this lesson?
D. Tamilnadu
A. Mutual trust, peace and harmony are
66. What was his job when he earning his first a must for a society to be happy and grow
wages and who helped in it? dynamically
A. Samson helped him in distributing the B. Live happily
magazines around.
C. Fight for your rights
B. Everyone was helpless
D. Have fire on your wings
C. Samsuddin helped him in distributing
newspapers 71. Who among these is not a friend of Kalam?
D. He was rich A. Ramanadha
67. Every child is born, with some inher- B. Sivaprakasan
ited characteristics, into a specific socio- C. Aravindan
economic and emotional environment, and
trained in certain ways by figures of au- D. Lakshman
thority. I inherited honesty and selfdisci-
72. SivasubramaniaIyer’s aim was to
pline from my father; from my mother, I
inherited faith in goodness and deep kind- A. Humiliate Abdul
ness9) Which of the following qualities
B. To break the social barriers that re-
best describe the person of the above ex-
stricted people to mingle
tract?
C. To fight in the second world war
A. Knowledgeable, negotiable and appre-
ciable D. To become rich
B. Appreciable, thankful and honest
73. Who was the father of Ramanadha Sas-
C. Maniac, negotiable and anticipator try?
D. Helpful, thankful and careful A. Rajkumar Sastry
68. Abdul Kalam became the 11th of India. B. Lakshmana Sastry
A. Prime Minister C. Aravindan Sastry
B. President D. Ramesh Sastry

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74. Where was APJ Abdul Kalam born? 80. Abdul’s father believed in?
A. Rameswaram A. Freedom of thoughts

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B. Dhanushkodi B. Communal difference
C. Colombo C. Cast system
D. Puducherry D. Supernatural power

75. What is essential for all round growth ac- 81. Abdul Kalam was born at-
cording to the lesson? A. Dhanuskodi
A. tolerance B. Rameswaram
B. acceptance C. New Delhi
C. brotherhood, happiness D. None of these
D. all 82. When did the SECOND WORLD WAR break
out??
76. What did Kalam do that the new teacher
could not stomach? A. 1999
B. 1969
A. He sat with a Hindu friend
C. 1939
B. He sat with a Muslim friend
D. 2000
C. He wore the peaked cap
D. He answered a lot of questions in class 83. Who distributed newspapers in Abdul
Kalam’s native village?
77. the name of Abdul kalam’s father was A. his father
A. Samsuddin B. his brother
B. vasitiddim C. his cousin
C. Jainulabdeen D. his brother-in-law
D. none of these 84. Where was Kalam’s house?
78. What does emotional security mean? A. near a cinema hall
A. balance in life B. near a park
B. balance of emotions C. on a mosque street
C. control over emotions D. none
D. love and care to lead a stress free life 85. What were the values Abdul Kalam learnt
from his parents?
79. “ Indians will build their own India. “Who
A. Father:Honesty and Self Discipline,
said the above words?
Mother:Faith in Goodness and Deep Kind-
A. Khalil Gibran ness
B. Sivasubramnia Iyer B. Father:Disrespect and Intolerant
C. Gandhiji C. None of the above
D. Kalam’s father D. All of the above

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86. Where did Kalam talk about his childhood? 92. Name of the district headquarter of
A. in his autobiography, Wings of Fire Rameshwaram

B. In his first speech A. Chennai

C. In his research papers B. Raghunathpuram

D. in his office C. Ramanathpuram

D. Dhanushkodi
87. Who was Kalam’s close friend?

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A. Ramanadha Sastri 93. Kalam was born in a family.

B. Samsuddin A. rich

C. his father B. poor

D. none C. middle-class
D. gangster
88. Which year was APJ Abdul Kalam born in?
A. 1921 94. The story “My Childhood” is an

B. 1918 A. Autobiography

C. 1931 B. Biography

D. 1932 C. Both of the options

D. None of the above
89. Who said this:you should not spread the
poison of social inequality and communal 95. What is the theme of the story My child-
intolerance in the minds of innocent chil- hood?
dren. A. children are precious
A. Lakshmana Sastry B. childhood is a treasure
B. Sivasubramania Iyer C. society must be in harmony
C. Abdul Kalam D. society, environment and childhood ex-
D. Kalam’s father periences shape one’s life.

90. What was Kalam’s age at the start of the 96. Where was Kalam born?
second world war? A. at island town of Rameswaram in
A. 9 years Madras State.
B. 10 years B. in Tamilnadu
C. 11 years C. in Karnatka
D. 8 years D. in Chennai

91. What did Kalam’s family do for a living? 97. Abdul Kalam’s house was
A. Make boats A. a hut
B. Make tables B. a pucca house
C. Arrange tables C. a building
D. Arrange boats D. a tiled house

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98. Who were his three friends? 104. Who gave emotional and material secu-
A. Ramanandha Sastry rity to A.P.J Abdul Kalam?

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B. Aravindan A. His society

C. Sivaprakashan B. His friends

D. All of the above C. His teacher’s

D. His parents
99. Name three friends of Kalam.
A. Ramanadha, Jainulabdeen, Aashima 105. What caste did Sivasubramania Iyer be-
long to?
B. Lakshamana, Aravindan, Ramananda
A. Nair
C. Sivaprakasan, Aravindan, Ramanadha
B. Iyer
D. Sivaprakasan, Lakshamana, Jainulab-
deen C. Nambiar
D. Brahmin
100. Sivasubramania Iyer was the teacher of
. 106. APJ Abdul Kalam was born
A. Math A. 15.10.1931
B. Science B. 14.10.1931
C. English
C. 15.10.1939
D. Social Studies
D. 15.10.1930
101. APJ was a
107. Abdul’s friend Sivapraasan became
A. tall and handsome boy
A. A teaching assistant
B. tall boy with distinguished looks
B. A newspaper distributor
C. short boy with undistinguished looks
C. Catering contractor of Southern Rail-
D. tall boy with undistinguished looks ways
102. The house of A.P.J. Kalam was made of D. A scientist

108. oposite of coherent

A. Bricks and Cement
A. incoherent
B. Bricks and Mud
B. imcoherent
C. Stone and Limestone
C. uncoherent
D. Bricks and Limestone
D. discohernt
103. In which class a teacher was send him at
last bench? 109. Which seeds Kalam used to sell?
A. Class IV A. Tamarind
B. Class V B. Tamaearind
C. Class VI C. Tamerind
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110. Which author’s lines did Abdul’s father B. Horrified

quote in the end of the Chapter? C. Compliant
A. Rabindranath Tagore D. Disgusted
B. Khalil Gibran
116. Who invited Abdul over to dine with
C. Paul Coelho his/her family, and what was his/her mo-
D. AzharSamsuddin tive?
A. Sivasubramania Murthy; For extra

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111. Why did Sivasubrahmania?
studies.
A. to avoid any disturbance becoz of bi-
ased behavior of his conservative wife B. Sivasubramania Iyer ; To break social
and to show equal respect for everybody barriers of Religious Differences.
B. becoz he wanted to prove himself C. Sivasubramania Kalam ; For a family
great gathering.
C. to demoralize his wife D. Sivasubramania Goswami ; For Eid-ul-
Fitr.
D. none
117. How old was Abdul Kalam when the sec-
112. What was his father’s name?
ond world war broke out in 1939
A. Sher shah
A. eleven years
B. Mohan
B. nine years
C. Saif Ali
C. ten years
D. Jainulabdeen
D. eight years
113. In which Class Kalam was studying when
118. APJ used to wear a which marked
he was discriminated against by a new
him as a Muslim.
teacher?
A. t-shirt
A. Class IV
B. pair of shoes
B. Class V
C. thread
C. Class VI
D. cap
D. Class III
119. Who spoke Khali Gibran’s words:Your
114. Who said this:Indians will build their own
children are not “?
India.
A. Sivasubramania
A. Lakshmana Sastry
B. Kalam’s father B. Samsuddin

C. Abdul Kalam C. Kalam’s father

D. None of these D. None

115. What was Sivasubramnia Iyer’s wife’s 120. Which seeds did Kalam collect during the
reaction to Kalam entering her kitchen for second world war?
the first time? A. guava seeds
A. Angry B. tamarind seeds

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C. A strong opinion or belief.
121. Abdul Kalam became the 11th of In-
dia. D. When proven guilty.
A. President 127. When did A.P.J Abdul Kalam become In-
B. Prime Minister dia’s 11th President?

C. Chief Justice A. 2000

B. 2001
D. Missile Man
C. 2003
122. Where was Abdul Kalam born?
D. 2002
A. Rameswaram, Madras
128. Why did the new teacher separate Abdul
B. Dublin, Ireland and Ramanadha?
C. Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu A. Because they were misbehaving, &
D. Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala hence wanted to separate them.
B. Because she was homophobic, &
123. Kalam’s bedtime stories included events
hence wanted to separate them.
from the
C. Because they were muddilng he class,
A. Mahabharatha
& hence wanted to separate them.
B. Bible D. Because she was discriminatory, &
C. Ramayana hence wanted to separate them.
D. Saints 129. Who was Sivasubramania Iyer?
124. What did Kalam inherit from his father? A. The priest
A. Kindness and goodness B. Ramandha’s father
B. Honesty and self-discipline C. The new teacher
C. Hatred D. Kalam’s science teacher

D. none of above 130. What did Samsuddin do?

A. distributed newspapers in Rameswaram
125. What did Kalam think and say about his
parents?
B. helped collecting seeds
A. they were tall
C. helped getting money
B. handsome
D. helped in selling seeds
C. wise
131. In which class, a teacher sent Kalam at
D. all
the last bench?
126. “The strong sense of conviction Lak- A. Class IV
shmana Sastry conveyed ultimately re- B. Class V
formed this young teacher.” In this ex-
cerpt, what does the word “conviction” C. Class VI
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132. Abdul Kalam was born in a 138. Who warned the teacher not to spread
A. rich family communal intolerance?
A. Aravindan
B. poor family
B. Lakshamana Sastry
C. middle-class family
C. Jainulabdeen
D. political family
D. Ramanandaha Sastry
133. Abdul described his science teacher as a 139. What was Dinamani?

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A. Handsome man A. a precious stone
B. An orthodox man B. a semi-precious stone
C. A poor man C. a newspaper
D. A rebel D. a worthless stone

134. Who spoke Khali Gibran’s words:Your 140. Who was the brother in law of Kalam?
children are not They are the sons and A. Samsuddin
daughters of Life’s longing for itself.? B. Jainulabdin
A. Sivasubramania C. Jallaluddin
B. Samsuddin D. Jainaluddin
C. Kalam’s father 141. Why did Kalam feel sad when he was in
D. None 5th standard in an elemantary school?
A. he didn’t do his homework
135. What is the name of the mother of Kalam
B. teacher scolded him
A. Jainula C. his teacher didn’t let him sit with his
B. Jahanara Hindu friend in the first row because he
was a muslim
C. Ashiamma
D. none
D. Amina
142. Whom did Kalam’s father say these
136. Who became contractor in Southern Rail- wordsKhali Gibran’s words:Your children
way? are not ?
A. Sivaprakashan A. to Kalam
B. Aravindan B. to Samsuddin
C. Ramanadha Shashtri C. to his wife
D. Subramania D. to Mr. Iyer
143. How did Mr. Iyer change his wife’s no-
137. The Second World war broke out in..
tion?
A. 1938 A. by force
B. 1939 B. by showing her eyes
C. 1940 C. by lecturing her
D. 1941 D. by his own example and behavior

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144. Which of the following is correct? C. Aravindan

A. Aravindan was a catering contractor. D. Sivaprakasan

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B. Ramanadha Shastri was into the busi- 150. What was the name of Abdul’s science
ness of arranging transport teacher?
C. Sivaprakasan was a priest A. Ramanujan Iyer
D. None of these B. MadhavanIyer
145. Wife of Abdul’s science teacher was hor- C. SivasubramaniaIyer
rified with the D. MukheshIyer
A. Communal violence
151. Where did Kalam pursue his higher stud-
B. Idea of Muslim boy invited to dine with ies?
them
A. Ramanathapuram
C. Terror of second world war
B. Rameswaram
D. The flood disaster
C. Dholakpur
146. In which ceremony Kalam’s family D. Ramadhanapuram
araanged boats?
152. What subjects did Abdul Kalam study?
A. Shri Sri Rama Kalyanam Ceremony
A. Physics and Aerospace Engineering
B. Shri Sita Ji Kalyanam Ceremony
B. Science
C. Shri Ram Janki Kalyanam Ceremony
C. Social Studies
D. Shri Sita Rama Kalyanam Ceremony
D. Mathematics
147. What kind of a person was Kalam as a
child? 153. Full name of APJ Kalam is

A. enterprising and hardworking A. Abdul Pakir jainalabdeen Kalam

B. Abul pakir Jainalubdeen Kalam
B. naughty
C. Abdul Phakir Jainul Kalam
C. caring
D. Abul Pakir Jainul Kalam
D. none
154. Which word in the lesson means unneces-
148. How did the new teacher ascertain Abdul
sary?
to be a Muslim boy?
A. inessential
A. Because he was wearing a Taqiyah.
B. innecessity
B. Because he was offering Namaz.
C. essential
C. Because he was talking in Urdu.
D. none
D. Because he was talking to his friends
about Islam. 155. Where did kalam on his first wages?
149. Who became the catering contractor for A. Collecting bundles of newspaper
Southern Railways? B. Selling fruits
A. Ramanandha Sastry C. Teaching children
B. Abdul Kalam D. Washing clothes

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156. What kind of a person was Kalam’s fa- 161. Who influenced Prof. Kalam?
ther? A. his society people
A. kind B. his friends
B. generous and dynamic C. his father
C. wise D. none
D. All
162. Who declared that ‘Indians will build

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157. Which one was not friend of Kalam? their own India’?
A. Ramanadha A. Abdul Kalam

B. Sivaprakasan B. Jawaharlal Nehru

C. Aravindan C. Narendra Modi

D. Lakshman D. Mahatma Gandhi

163. One day when I was in the fifth standard

158. How did APJ Abdul Kalam earn his first
at the Rameswaram Elementary School, a
wage of 1 Anna?
new teacher came to our class. I used to
A. By selling newspapers in his neigh- wear a cap which marked me as a Muslim,
bourhood. and I always sat in the front row next to
B. By selling Tamarind Seeds at the Ramanadha Sastry, who wore the sacred
Rameswaram . thread.16) The author wearing a cap indi-
cates that
C. By selling Tamarind Seeds at Mosque
Street . A. He likes the Nehru jacket and cap style

D. By helping his friend Ramanadha Sas- B. He is an orthodox Hindu

try carry out devotional duties in the Tem- C. He respects the culture and practice
ple. associated with his religion

159. What was Kalam’s father’s name? D. The new teacher compels the students
to wear cap
A. Avul
164. Where did Kalam want to study?
B. Jainulabdeen
A. Rameshwaram
C. Pakir
B. Foreign
D. Abdul
C. Kolkata
160. From where has this chapter ‘My Child- D. Ramanathapuram
hood’ been taken?
A. from childhood memories 165. During Second World War who sold news-
paper in Rameshwaram?
B. from Prof A.P.J Kalam’s book ‘Wings on
Fire’ A. Jainulabdeen

C. from famous writer Khushwant B. Aravindan

Singh’s Book C. Samsuddin
D. none D. Abdul Kalam

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166. Name of the autobiography written by D. That Abdul will become lthy rich
APJ Abdul Kalam
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A. My experiment with truth
me stories about the War which I would
B. Fire of Wings later attempt to trace in the headlines in
C. Wings of Fire Dinamani. Our area, being isolated, was
D. My autobiography completely unaffected by the War.5) Wars
have adverse impact on lives of people
167. Which seeds did Kalam collect during the though unintentionally it provides some
Second World War? persons to come out of their comfort zones
A. guava seeds and be brave. What qualities do you think
APJ had learnt while living in times of
B. tamarind seeds war?(a) Diligent(b) Hard working(c) Pride
C. flax seeds in own work(d) Honesty(e) Courageous (f)
D. mango seeds Forgetful
A. (a), (b), (c) and (e)
168. Which community did Abdul Kalam’s
friends belong to? B. (a), (b) and (f)
A. Jainism C. (a), (e), and (f)
B. Christian D. All of the above
C. Buddhist
173. In which standard, Abdul was, when the
D. Orthodox Brahmin new teacher with a conservative mind had
169. Why did Kalam collect tamarind seeds? come to his class?
A. to grow plants A. 4 standard
B. to eat them B. 5 standard
C. to earn good money C. 5 standard
D. none D. 6 standard
170. How much did Kalam earn by selling
174. Which subject the teacher taught who in-
tamarind seeds?
vited Kalam for a meal?
A. 10 aana
A. Tamil
B. 100 anna
B. English
C. 1/2 anna
C. Maths
D. 1 anna
D. Science
171. Sivasubramania’s expectations from Ab-
dul Kalam was 175. What was the name of mother of Kalam?
A. That Abdul will become the president A. Jainula
B. That Abdul will become the Prime Min-
B. Jahanara
ister
C. Ashiamma
C. That Abdul will be equal to the highly
educated people of big cities D. Amina

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176. Whom did Kalam’s father say these 181. Wings of Fire is a/an
words:” Your children are not your chil- A. Novel
dren. They are the sons and daughters of
life’s longing for itself “? B. Science Fiction

A. to Kalam C. Autobiography
D. Biography
B. to Samsuddin
C. to his wife 182. Broke out stands for

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D. to Mr. Lyer A. was not able to tolerate
B. assistance
177. How much money did he get after selling
tamarind seed? C. person with power to make decision
D. began suddenly in a violent way
A. One rupee
B. One paisa 183. “Once you decide to change the sys-
tem, such problems have to be con-
C. Two anna fronted.”Who said these words?
D. One anna A. Kalam’s father
178. When did Kalam become India’s 11th B. Lakshmana sastry
President? C. Sivasubramania Iyer
A. 2000 D. Ramanadh Sastry
B. 2001 184. Where did A.P.J Abdul kalam talk about
C. 2003 his childhood?
D. 2002 A. In his, autobiography, Wings of Fire
B. In his first speech
179. What was the name of the newspaper
during his time? C. In his research papers

A. Dhanuskodi D. In his office

B. Dinumani 185. Who gave emotional and material secu-

rity to Kalam?
C. Diamond
A. His society people
D. Dinamani
B. His friends
180. Why did Kalam’s father say Khali C. His teachers
Gibran’s words:Your children are not
D. his parents
?
A. to boast 186. How did Kalam earn his first wages?
B. to ask his wife not to stop their young A. To sell tamarind seeds
son from going out B. To collect newspaper bundle
C. to be generous C. To distribute newspaper
D. all D. To ask money from parents

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187. Broke out means C. My Autobiography

A. Was not able to tolerate D. Wings of Science

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B. Assistance 192. What is full form of APJ
C. Person with power to make decision A. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen
D. Began suddenly in a violent way B. Avul Pakir Jalaluddin
188. Abdul Kalam’s family was C. Both
A. rich D. None
B. poor 193. What was Kalam’s brother-in-law’s
C. middle class name?
D. upper-middle class A. Jainulbadeen
B. Jallaluddin
189. Name of Autobiography written by APJ
Abdul kalam C. Samsuddin

A. My Experiment with Truth D. Aravindan

B. Fire of Wings 194. In which year Kalam became the Presi-

C. Wings Of Fire dent of India?

D. My Autobiography A. 2001
B. 2002
190. Who helped Kalam in getting his first
C. 2003
wages?
D. 2004
A. his neighbourer
B. his parents 195. Sivasubramania lyer expectations from
Abdul Kalam was?
C. teachers
A. That Abdul will become the president
D. his cousin Samsuddin
B. That Abdul will become the Prime Min-
191. The name of the book written by Abdul ister
Kalam is- C. That Abdul will be go for his higher ed-
A. Wings of Fire ucation in ramanathapuram
B. My Childhood D. That Abdul will become filthy rich

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1. What are Sharapova’s hobbies? 2. What is considered the roof of the world?
A. Fashion, Dancing A. sky
B. Singing B. stars
C. Reciting C. top of Mt Everest
D. (Both (a) and (b)) D. all of the above

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3. Name Maria’s parents. 9. Maria is a

A. Yuri and Yelena A. Tennis player
B. Yuri and Mitchell B. Cricket player
C. Adrian and Yelena C. Boxer
D. None of the above D. Hockey player

4. What was Sharapova’s father’s name? 10. According to Santosh, if she chose a ratio-

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A. Michael nal path; then who had to change?

B. Yelen A. Maria Sharapova

C. Jimmy B. Others around her

D. Yuri C. Santosh herself

D. Her family
5. Where did Santosh gone for studies after
her high school examination? 11. What happened when Santosh scaled up
A. Jaipur the mount Everest for the second time?

B. Karnataka A. she became the only woman to scale it

twice
C. Punjab
B. she became happy
D. Delhi
C. she won the game
6. The woman who has scaled the Mt. Ever- D. she shouted aloud
est twice is
A. Maria Sharapova 12. The meaning of name Santosh means?

B. Pheobe Carey A. Disappointment

C. Santosh Yadav B. Contentment

D. PV Sindhu C. Relative
D. Emptiness
7. How did Santosh feel after reaching the
top of the world? 13. Why did senior climbers praise Santosh?
A. it was a spiritual and proud moment A. for being helpful to teammates
B. tired B. physical fitness and mental strength
C. exhausted C. climbing skills
D. fatigued D. all

8. How much garbage did Santosh bring 14. What was the most important thing for
down from the Himalayas? Maria?
A. 200kg A. to earn money
B. 300 kg B. to do a good business
C. 400 kg C. to become number one in the world
D. 500 kg D. all of the above

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15. What led Maria to the path of success and C. 2.5 years
why couldn’t her mother accompany her? D. 3 months
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visa 21. Which title did Maria win in 2004?
A. restrictions A. Wimbledon
B. her habits B. Australian open
C. her play C. American open
D. her mother D. all of the above

16. How much garbage did Santosh Yadav 22. Why was Santosh sent to a local school?
bought with herself from the Himalayas? A. they were rich
A. 400 B. because of the prevailing trend
B. 200 C. they were poor
C. 1000 D. were not able to afford to send to a
D. 500 good school

17. How many brothers were Santosh living 23. Maria wad packed off in training in
with? A. UK
A. 2 B. USA
B. 4 C. Australia
C. 5 D. New Zealand
D. 6 24. Name her college.
18. At what age girls were forced to marriage A. Maharani College
in Santosh village? B. Uttarkashi’s Nehru institute of moun-
A. 18 taineering
B. 16 C. She didn’t go to college
C. 20 D. None of the above
D. NONE 25. In 2004 maria won
19. For what did Santosh train herself in Ut- A. Wimbledon
tarkashi? B. Us open
A. mountaineering C. French open
B. acting D. Australian open
C. swimming 26. In which society was Santosh born?
D. skating A. where the birth of a son was a blessing
20. How long was the separation for her B. where the birth of a daughter was a
mother when Maria went to the US? blessing
A. 3 years C. both and
B. 2 years D. none of the above

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27. Where was Maria sent to learn tennis? 33. What was her age when she packed off to
A. the United States the train in in the United States?

B. England A. 16

C. England B. 8

D. Germany C. 4
D. 9
28. Which talent of Maria reached her to the

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top 34. In what words did Santosh express her
A. Talent feeling at the summit of her Everest climb?

B. Sacrifice A. fabulous

C. Desire to be no.1 B. indescribable

D. All of these C. fantastic

D. none
29. What’s Sharapova’s mantra for success?
A. Being competitive 35. Maria Sharapova reached the world no
one position in?
B. Working hard
A. 2001
C. Respecting her job
B. 2008
D. All of the above
C. 2005
30. How old was Maria when she went out D. 2003
for training
A. 9 36. While staying with other pupils made
Maria
B. 10
A. Mentally tough
C. 11
B. Mentally weak
D. 12
C. Lose interest in tennis
31. Maria Sharapova reached the summit of D. Angry and suffocated
women’s tennis when she was barely
A. 17 37. What did Santosh fight against?

B. 18 A. traditional irrational system

C. 19 B. her parents

D. 20 C. society
D. people of village
32. What did Santosh write to her father after
finishing her college? 38. Santosh was fully equipped with:
A. a letter A. an iron will
B. a telegram B. physical endurance
C. a message C. mental toughness
D. an apology letter D. all of the above

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39. what is the name of santosh yadav’s vil- 45. Why was the holy man who gave bless-
lage ings to Santosh’s mother surprised?

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A. Joniyawas A. because grandmother was seeking
blessing for a daughter against the com-
B. hariyawas
mon trend of son
C. beriyawas
B. because he saw her first time
D. jennawas C. because he had never seen such a
woman
40. Maria’s reason for motivation is
D. none
A. Money
B. To be no.1 46. After finishing college why did Santosh
write a letter of apology to her father?
C. To have a high life
A. because she ran away
D. None of these
B. because she left her house
41. Which incident showed that Santosh was C. because she enrolled herself for an
concerned about her team mates? institution of mountaineering without his
A. giving artificial respiration to them permission

B. help during climbing D. none

C. giving sticks during climbing 47. What made Santosh’s parents ready to
pay her school fees at Delhi?
D. greeting during climbing
A. her plan to work part time to pay her
42. Maria’s father was working hard to school fee to get education
A. Make a living B. her shouting
B. Buy a house C. her tears
C. Keep her tennis training going on D. her obstinacy
D. Go back to Russia 48. What was considered a blessing in the vil-
lage at the time of Santosh’s birth?
43. Maria Sharapova was born in .
A. having lot of wealth
A. Siberia
B. birth of a daughter
B. Russia
C. birth of twins
C. Algeria
D. birth of a son
D. Poland
49. What led Maria to the path of success and
44. Santosh’s parents were why couldn’t her mother accompany her?
A. Teachers A. Her trip to U.S for playing tennis.Her
mother couldn’t accompany because of
B. Mountaineers
visa restrictions
C. Affluent landowners
B. Her habits. Her mother was unwell
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C. Her interest in music. Her mother did C. 2011

not want to go to USA D. None of the above
D. Her Academics. Her mother was busy
56. What did Santosh watch from her hostel
50. During her training period, as a young ten- Kasturba room?
nis player, Maria went to bed at A. scenic beauty
A. 7pm B. crowd
B. 9pm

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C. villagers climbing up the Aravali hill
C. 8:30pm and vanishing
D. 8pm D. none

51. How old was Maria when went for her 57. How was Santosh attracted to mountain
training climbing?
A. 9 A. her neighbours prompted her
B. 10 B. seeing her friends
C. 11 C. her classmates prompted her
D. 12 D. watching some people going up the Ar-
avali hills from her hostel room
52. Maria is associated with
58. When did Santosh leave home for Delhi?
A. Serbia
A. at the age of 10
B. Siberia
B. at the age of 14
C. Moscow
C. at the age of 15
D. Paris
D. at the age of 16
53. Maria’s father worked her to
59. From where did Santosh do her gradua-
A. To earn more and more tion?
B. To feed his kids well A. Rewari
C. To support Maria’s training financially B. Delhi
D. To plan a great vacation C. Jaipur
54. Who refused to pay for Santosh’s fee? D. Mumbai
A. her grandmother 60. Why was Santosh sent to the local school?
B. her family A. Because there was no other school
C. her parents nearby
D. none B. To be in line with the custom prevailing
in the family
55. When did Maria bag the women’s singles C. Because her parents could not afford
crown at Wimbledon? to educate her in a better school
A. 2000 D. Because Santosh was not interested in
B. 2009 studies

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61. Maria Sharapova was born in D. She wants to go back to Russia and
A. Siberia doesn’t like America

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B. Russia 67. How was Santosh different from other
C. Algeria girls?
D. Poland A. she was prettier

62. Maria felt lonely during her B. she was slim

A. Time in russia C. She didn’t like and do any traditional
things rather always did things of her
B. Training
choice
C. Later years
D. None
D. None of these
68. Which district of Haryana does Santosh be-
63. During her training period, other pupils long?
would come in at 11 pm and order Maria
to A. Bhiwani
A. To clean the room B. Mahendragarh
B. To cook for them C. Rewari
C. To make them desserts D. Jhajjar
D. All of the above
69. Her mother’s name was
64. In the society what do people seek as a
A. Sussane
blessing?
B. Rossana
A. blessing for son
B. blessing for daughter C. Yelena

C. blessing for children D. Gloria

D. none 70. Whom did Santosh save with artificial res-
65. what does ‘santosh’ mean piration?

A. contentment A. Rohan Singh

B. discontentment B. Sohan Singh
C. greed C. Mohan Singh
D. firm D. All

66. What shows Maria’s love for her nation? 71. Maria’s father worked to
A. She endorses many American brands A. to earn and more
proudly
B. to feed his kids well
B. If given a chance she is willing to play
at Olympics for America C. to support Maria’s tennis training fi-
nancially
C. She is proud of her Russian citizenship
and is willing to play Olympics for Russia D. to plan a great vacation

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72. When did Santosh scale Mt Everest for the 78. She was awarded with
first time?
A. Padma Bhushan
A. in 1992
B. Padma Shri
B. in 1993
C. Arjuna award
C. in 1994
D. None of the above
D. in 1995
79. What was Maria mother’s name?

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73. Santosh Yadav was the born child in
her family. A. Yelena
A. 6th B. Sussane
B. 3rd C. Rossana
C. 5th D. Gloria
D. 4th
80. What were her plans to pay her school fee
74. Who has made this quiz in Delhi?

A. A ghost A. Getting a full time job

B. a vampire B. Working part time
C. someone that i don’t know C. All the above
D. a girl D. None of the above

75. Maria belongs to which country 81. What was Maria’s father’s name
A. USA A. Michele
B. Germany B. Yelen
C. Russia C. Jimmy
D. France D. Yuri
76. Maria proudly speaks that her blood is to- 82. Santosh was born as sister to how many
tally brothers?
A. American
A. 2
B. Russian
B. 6
C. Polish
C. 4
D. British
D. 5
77. Maria Sharapova achieve the number one
position in women’s tennis on 83. What did other tennis pupils do to Maria?
A. 22 December 2008 A. Gave her gifts
B. 17 June 1994 B. Made her clean the room
C. 12 September 2006 C. Let her sleep
D. 22 August 2005 D. None of the above

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84. What proved that Santosh was an environ- 90. Santosh brought down kilograms of
mentalist? garbage from Himalayas.

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A. collection of 500kg garbage and bring- A. 50
ing it down from the Himalayas
B. 120
B. she planted trees
C. 500
C. she always used dustbin
D. 1500
D. none
91. Some Hobbies of Maria are
85. Maria got her training in
A. Singing
A. Usa
B. Dancing
B. Germany
C. Drinking orange juice
C. Russia
D. All of these
D. France
92. Maria Sharapova belongs to
86. What did Santosh prefer to wear?
A. England
A. shorts
B. Russia
B. suits
C. Germany
C. sarees
D. America
D. long kurta
93. When did maria became the number one in
87. why was santosh under pressure
tennis
A. she had to study
A. 22 August 2005
B. her parents were asking her to get
married B. 21 August 2005

C. she wanted to work C. 22 August 2006

D. none of the above D. 22 August 2004

88. Santosh has scales Mt Everest 94. Santosh Yadav’s room in Kasturba Hostel
faced the .
A. once
A. aravlis
B. twice
B. himalyas
C. thrice
C. shiwalik
D. four times
D. palani
89. Maria Sharapova expresses her desire to
play for: 95. What was her mother’s name
A. America A. Yelena
B. India B. Sussane
C. England C. Rossana
D. Russia D. Gloria

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96. What did the holy man assume? C. Mumbai

A. They wanted a son D. Delhi
B. They wanted a daughter
102. Why was Santosh recorded in the Record
C. They were worried about the educa- book both times after scaling Everest?
tion of the child
A. for being the youngest achiever
D. None of the above
B. for being a woman

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97. How did the senior tennis players in the
United States training centre treat her? C. for being fastest

A. badly D. for her physical fitness

B. sympathetically 103. At what age she scaled the Mt. Everest?
C. lovingly
A. 20
D. encouragingly
B. 21
98. What happened when Santosh scaled up C. 18
the mount Everest for the first time?
D. 19
A. she won
B. she hoisted the flag 104. Maria had to experience a heart wrench-
C. she became the youngest woman to ing separation from her mother because of
achieve the feat.
D. None A. Visa restrictions
B. Financial issues
99. Santosh left home to get herself enrolled
in: C. None of the above
A. Rewari D. All the above
B. Delhi
105. Depressing treatment in the U.S made
C. Gurgaon Maria:
D. Faridabad A. weak
100. At what age did Santosh scale Mt Everest B. nervous
for the first time?
C. timid
A. eighteen
D. tough
B. nineteen
C. twenty 106. Who motivated Santosh to take up moun-
taineering?
D. twenty one
A. Her parents
101. Where did Santosh enrolled herself for
studies? B. Her trachers
A. Jaipur C. Her friends
B. Kerala D. A group of climbers

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107. Maria put up all the humiliations and in- 113. Name the climber who was saved by San-
sults during her training period to tosh Yadav by sharing oxygen.

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A. To pursue her education A. HPS Ahluwalia
B. To pursue her music B. Edmund Hillary
C. To pursue her dream for tennis C. Poorna Malawat
D. To be the richest tennis player in the D. Mohan Singh
world
114. What found a special place in the hearts
108. What did Santosh prefer when other girls of fellow climbers?
wore traditional dresses? A. Concern for others
A. Jeans B. Desire to work together
B. Shorts C. Both a and b
C. Party wear D. None of the above
D. Traditional dresses 115. At what age did the girls get married in
109. What kind of girl was Santosh? Santosh’s village?

A. a hard working girl with a strong mind A. at the age of 14

B. a brat B. at the age of 15

C. at the age of 17
C. arrogant
D. at the age of 16
D. none
116. Maria won the Woman’s Single Crown at
110. Sharapova loved reading novels of
Wimbledon in
A. Sydney Sheldo
A. 2004
B. Charles Dickens B. 2005
C. William Shakespeare C. 2006
D. Arthur Conan Doyle D. 2007
111. Who went to the United States with 117. What’s the dream that keeps Sharapova
Maria? going?
A. her mother A. To become the wealthiest tennis
B. her father player
C. her grandmother B. To become number one in the world
D. her teacher C. To become an inspiration for many
D. To travel round the world
112. Which game is Maria Sharapova attached
to? 118. What does ‘Santosh’ mean?
A. tennis A. contentment
B. badminton B. discontentment
C. hockey C. greed
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119. When was little Maria packed off to U.S A. Joniyawas

and for what purpose and with whom? B. Hariyawas
A. at the age of 9 C. Bariyawas
B. at the age of 14 D. Jenna was
C. at the age of 15
123. Maria reads novels by
D. at the age of 10 for training in tennis
with her father A. William Shakespeare

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B. Ruskin bond
120. When did Maria Sharapova get the world
number one position in women’s tennis? C. Conan doyle

A. 22 August 2004 D. Enid blyton

B. 22 August 2005 124. In which year she climbed Mt. Everest?

C. 22 August 2006 A. 1990
D. 22 August 2007 B. 1991

121. Sharapova has expressed to play the C. 1992

for Russia if allowed D. 1993
A. Wimbledon 125. Why was Santosh under pressure?
B. Olympics A. she had to study
C. National League B. her parents were asking her to get
D. National League married

122. What is the name of Santosh Yadav’s vil- C. she wanted to work
lage? D. none

1.8 Kathmandu
1. What did the writer mean by saying ‘All D. Rick Riordan-Percy Jackson and the
this I wash down with Coca Cola.”? labyrinth
A. All the eatables he ate while reading 3. What did the writer Vikram Seth describe
books with cocacola in his book Heaven Lake?
B. he spilled coaca cola over the books A. a long journey
C. he spilled coca cola B. from China to India, via Tibet and
D. none Nepal.
C. a journey to Pashupatinath temple
2. Who is the author of this travelogue and
this excerpt is taken from which book? D. none
A. Vikram Seth-Heaven lake 4. What does one need to play a flute soul-
B. Ruskin Bond-Delhi is not far fully?
C. Robert Frost-Stopping by woods on a A. need to learn music
snowy evening B. need to learn the art of playing it

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C. need to breathe life into it 10. The author feels good by drinking
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B. orange juice
5. Which two temples did the writer visit?
C. coca cola
A. Doleshwar Mahadev
D. none of above
B. Pashupati Nath and Budhnath Stupa
C. Gokarna Mahadev Temple 11. Why does the author find himself unable
to tear away from the square?
D. Santaneshwor Mahadev Temple
A. the flute music was very sweet
6. According to the narrator, how does the B. there were many things to eat
flute seller, feel about his profession?
C. he was watching a magic show
A. very happy
D. he was buying flutes
B. satisfied
12. Tell the other names of the Flute.
C. off handed
A. Bansuri
D. proud
B. Reed
7. Meaning of shrine: C. Murli, Shakuhachi, and Neh
A. to reflect upon D. All
B. a place of worship
13. What type of room did the author rent in?
C. historic place
A. expensive
D. NOTA
B. cheap
8. What is the belief at Pashupatinath re- C. air conditioned
garding the end of Kaliyug?
D. Nota
A. if the water recedes at the banks of the
river and Goddess is exposed that will be 14. Who were trying to get the priest’s atten-
end of Kaliyug tion at Pashupatinath’s temple?
B. if floods are there kaliyug will be ended A. hawkers
C. too many sin will be end of kaliyug B. flute seller
D. if Dooms clock come to 0 Hour that will C. worshippers
be end of Kalyug D. monkeys

9. What is the Japanese shakuhachi? 15. The narrator is in a dilemma about:

A. a Japanese toy A. the route to his home
B. a Japanese player B. the means of transport
C. a kind of flute C. the day of destination
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16. How did the author return to Delhi from C. vendors shouting
Nepal? D. all
A. by bus
22. What is a flute?
B. by train
A. a log piece with holes in it
C. by water route
B. a toy
D. by plane
C. a basic musical instrument

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17. How were the hawkers selling their D. all
things?
23. What kind of environment was there at
A. by talking to the people
Budhnath Stupa?
B. by giving pamphlets
A. chaotic
C. by shouting
B. noisy
D. none
C. full of calm and quiet meditataions
18. What kind of streets are there in Kath- D. none
mandu?
24. What is Kaliyug as per Hindu Mythology?
A. wide
A. era of sins
B. well furnished
B. yug of future
C. narrow and full of life
C. modern era
D. clean
D. advanced era
19. The flutes on the pole of fruit seller are
compared to 25. Name the different sounds that the author
heard?
A. a beehive
A. film songs from the radios
B. a bunch of oranges
B. car horns and bicycle bells
C. Guills of a porcupine
C. vendors shouting and flute music
D. none of the above
D. All
20. The flute seller makes a sale:
26. Which flute was he selling?
A. enthusiastically
A. the reed neh
B. by showing too much interest in doing
B. the recorder
so
C. the Japanese Shakuhachi
C. by not showing too much interest in do-
ing so D. all of the above
D. none of these 27. Which river flows through Kathmandu?
21. What were the most universal sounds that A. Kosi
the author heard? B. Bagmati
A. sound of flute playing C. Gandak
B. sound of diffrent musics D. Khalsa

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28. What does Febrile confusion mean? 34. Why were the saffron-clad westerners
A. a situation struggling to enter Pashupatinath temple?

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B. an unknown situation A. The police men were not convinced
that they were Hindus (only Hindus were
C. complete chaos allowed to enter)
D. none B. They wanted to take bribe
29. Who is the author of the lesson ‘Kath- C. Because they were corrupted
mandu’? D. NOTA
A. Vikram Seth
35. Which of the following is situated in Kath-
B. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam mandu?
C. Kenneth Anderson A. Pashupatinath temple
D. Jerome K. Jerome B. Boudhanath temple
30. Kathmandu is the capital city of: C. both
A. China D. none of the above
B. Nepal 36. What did the writer buy?
C. Bhutan A. a bar of marzipan
D. Bangladesh B. corn cooked on charcoal fire
31. What was there at the banks of river Bag- C. comics and a Reader’s Digest.
mati? D. All
A. a church
37. Where has this lesson been taken from?
B. a mosque
A. from Panchtantra
C. a submerged temple
B. an extract from Heaven Lake by
D. none Vikram Seth
32. What did the author find at Pashupatinath C. old Melodies
temple? D. none
A. Chappiness
38. What will happen if the shrine which is half
B. peace protruded near the Pashupatinath temple
C. chaos and noise emerges fully?
D. All A. The Kalyug will end on the Earth
B. Everyone will be dead
33. What did the author see at the Buddhnath
Stupa? C. the ozone layer will get depleted
A. Awhite dome ringed by a road D. NOTA
B. small shops 39. Why did the author not take a adventur-
C. Tibetan prints and silver jewellery and ous route to return to his home?
no crowd A. he was exhausted and home sick
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C. he doesn’t like travelling 45. In what way was the flute seller different
from the hawkers in author’s opinion?
D. All of the above
A. hawkers were shouting and the flute
40. The streets of Kathmandu are seller was engrossed meditatively into
the playing of flute
A. narrowest
B. hawkers were not smartand flute
B. busiest
seller was smart
C. both

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C. hawkers were not goodlooking and the
D. none of the above flute seller was goodlooking
D. None
41. The author likes Baudhanth Stupa because
of:
46. Where did the author see an immense
A. Its stillness white dome?
B. Its structure A. at Pashupatinath temple
C. Both a and b B. in the street
D. Nota C. on the road
D. In the Buddhnath stupa
42. Cite an example of Febrile confusion image
drawn by the author in the lesson. 47. What was there along the street roads of
A. a group of saffron-clad Westerners Kathmandu?
struggling to enter the main gate A. temples with colorful deities
B. a fight between two monkeys B. hawkers and vendors
C. royal Nepalese princess for whom ev- C. cacophony
eryone makes way.
D. all
D. All
48. Pashupatinath temple represents a picture
43. What kind of a place is Kathmandu? of:
A. very dirty and corrupted A. febrile confusion
B. very dangerous B. stillness
C. vivid, mercenary and religious C. corrupted
D. NOTA D. all of these

44. Entrance in Pashupatinath temple is al- 49. What does the writer Vikram Seth like
lowed only for very much?
A. Hindus A. talking
B. Bandhs B. scenic beauty
C. Foreigners C. travelling
D. All of the above D. all

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50. What will happen when the small shrine on B. flute sellers
the Bagmati river bank will emerge fully? C. hawkers of postcards

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A. the evil period of the Kaliyug will end D. all of the above
B. the new era will start
55. What was looking like the quills of a por-
C. a new god will appear cupine?
D. Bagmati river will thy out A. Flute seller’s stock of flutes
51. In what way has the author shown febrile B. Flute seller’s hair
confusion in the lesson? C. the group of hawkers
A. by drawing powerful word imagery D. none
and pictures
56. “It weaves its own association”. Here ‘it’
B. by showing pictures
refers to:
C. by showing stickers
A. guitar
D. none
B. selling of flutes
52. Who were fighting outside Pashupatinath C. the act of selling things
temple?
D. flute music
A. two men
57. According to the author what was inciden-
B. two women
tal for the flute seller?
C. hawkers
A. flute selling
D. two monkeys
B. talking to fellow vendors
53. What atmosphere is there around the C. playing flute
Baudnath Stupa?
D. none
A. a sense of stillness
58. At Pashupatinath, who among the follow-
B. febrile confusion
ing make the atmosphere of ‘febrile confu-
C. excitement and noises sion’?
D. all of the above A. priests

54. Who do you find in the streets of Kath- B. hawkers

mandu? C. devotees
A. fruit sellers D. all of these

1.9 If I were You

1. What was the criminal’s intention? 2. What does the intruder say about his spe-
A. A) To steal money ciality?
B. To have food A. Thief
C. To kill Gerrard and take on his identity B. kidnapping
D. None C. jewel robbery

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D. all of the above C. The idea of stabbing.

3. surround D. The idea of robbing.

A. rodear 9. What is the name of the protagonist?

B. sonido A. Gerard
C. redondo B. Gerund
D. none of above C. Gerrard

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4. Who did the intruder want to get informa- D. Gararrd
tion? 10. instead of
A. Gerrard A. en lugar de/ en vez de
B. The Police B. parecerse a
C. Himself C. encima
D. all of the above D. none of above
5. How did the intruder come inside the 11. Where did Gerrard park his car?
house?
A. At his friend’s place.
A. from the window
B. In the garage round the corner.
B. from the front door
C. He didn’t possess a car.
C. from the back door
D. None of the above.
D. from the vent (kinda sus)
12. Check the correct meaning of the
6. As soon as Gerrard realized that the In- words.1.Seem
truder was a criminal, he
A. ser
A. Informed the police
B. parecer
B. Freaked out
C. ver
C. Remained calm and extended the con-
versation D. none of above

D. Pushed the intruder into the cupboard 13. Where did the intruder see Gerrard for the
first time?
7. Who was the intruder?(a) a thief(b) a crim-
inal(c) a priest(d) a soldier A. New York

A. a thief B. Aylesbury

B. a criminal C. Washington

C. a priest D. Essex

D. a soldier 14. a breath

8. “A little harsh, Isn’t it?”. What was a A. un suspiro

little harsh? B. un bostezo
A. The idea of stealing. C. un respiro
B. The idea of killing. D. none of above

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15. Who did Gerrard live with? C. murder

A. his wife D. kidnapping

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B. his son 22. How did Gerrard behave to see the in-
C. his mother truder with a gun in his hand?
D. alone A. he started crying
16. What did Gerrard do to the intruder? B. he remained calm
A. he killed him C. he was nervous
B. he knocked him down D. he has fainted
C. he locked him up in a cupboard 23. realize
D. all of the above A. percatarse, darse cuenta
17. Why did Intruder want to kill Gerrard? B. realizar
A. to take revenge C. librar
B. to take on his identity D. none of above
C. to gain freedom 24. What was Gerrard’s full name?
D. Both b and c A. Vincent Bill Gerrard
18. Who was cleverer? B. Vincent William Gerrard
A. Gerrard C. Vincent Henry Gerrard
B. Intruder D. Vincent Charles Gerrard
C. Sergeant 25. How was Intruder similar to Gerrard?
D. none of the above A. similar appearance
19. What does ‘dandy’ mean? B. similar nature
A. blunt C. identical face
B. ugly D. identical field of crime
C. excellent 26. “Oh, Don’t be a fool.” Who is being a
D. dark fool?
A. Intruder
20. Who was the intruder?
A. a thief B. Gerrard

B. a criminal C. Sergeant

C. a priest D. none of above

D. a soldier 27. Where did the intruder live and in what?

21. What was the intruder already wanted A. Aylesbury, in a flat

for? B. Essex, in a flat
A. theft C. Aylesbury, in a cottage
B. robbery D. Essex, in a cottage

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28. According to Gerrard, The jewels were far 31. above

in the wilds of A. abajo
A. New Hampshire
B. arriba
B. Ethiopia
C. en frente
C. Essex
D. none of above
D. England
32. unless
29. complain

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A. uno menos
A. felicitarse
B. a menos que
B. con un plan
C. menos
C. quejarse
D. none of above D. none of above

30. in one blink of an eye 33. to rain on my parade

A. parpadeando A. desanimarme, ser un aguafiestas
B. parpado B. llover en mi desfile
C. en un abrir y cerrar de ojos C. desfilar en la lluvia
D. none of above D. none of above

1.10 The Road Not taken

1. What is one important effect of the rhyme not travel bothAnd be one traveler,
scheme of the poem? A. The speaker thinks both paths are
A. It focuses the reader on the most im- equally good.
portant words in the poem. B. The speaker is only one person and
B. It helps the reader visualize the prob- cannot go down two roads at the same
lem the speaker experiences. time.
C. It creates a rhyme that emphasizes C. The speaker would rather travel with
the quick actions in the poem. someone, so they could each explore a
path.
D. It helps explain the sound of the leaves
crunching under foot. D. The speaker regrets not taking the
other road at the start.
2. What is the definition of the word “under-
growth”? 4. The poet felt sorry because
A. covered with grass A. he could not travel on both the roads.
B. forest B. he could not see the roads well.
C. turn C. he did not know the directions.
D. small bushes D. none of above

3. What do the following lines from “The 5. What is one likely theme of this poem?
Road Not Taken” mean?And sorry I could A. Make sure your path is a grassy one

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B. The path less traveled on is the better 11. Which thing decides a person’s future ac-
one cording to this poem?

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C. It’s best to choose a path, any path A. the path one chooses to walk
D. Yellow paths are the best B. the path one leaves behind

6. Which road did the traveler take? C. the regrets

A. The one less traveled by. D. the success

B. The one which bent in the under- 12. What does diverge mean?
growth.
A. to be separated and taking a different
C. The fair one. turn
D. none of above B. to be torn
7. Who is the poet of “the road not taken”? C. to break
A. Emily Dickson D. all
B. Robert Frost 13. The poet depicts
C. Jerry Trainor A. problems we face in life
D. Nathan Kress B. choices we make in life
8. At the beginning of “The Road Not Taken, C. conflicts
“ what decision does the speaker face? D. none of above
A. which road to take
14. Why does the speaker include the last two
B. where to eat lunch
lines of the poem
C. whether to go forward or turn back
A. He is unhappy because the roads di-
D. whether to keep walking or stop and verged
rest
B. The speaker would have liked to do
9. The poet is standing at:- things differently

A. At a crossing C. The speaker is happy with the choices

made in life
B. Where two roads cross
D. He would like to go back and make a
C. At a crossing in autumn different choice
D. In a forest
15. What does diverge mean?A) to be sepa-
10. Frost uses the image of two diverging rated and taking a different turnB) to be
roads to symbolize tornC) to breakD) all
A. sorrow and regret A. A
B. life’s choice B. B
C. the love of nature C. C
D. the spirit of independence D. D

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16. What is the rhyme scheme of the first 22. What feeling does the speaker express in
stanza? stanza two, “Then took the other, just as
A. abaab fair, “ “Yet knowing how way leads to
way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
B. ababa
A. anxiety about the choice made
C. abbabb B. excitement about the adventures that
D. abcba may come
C. finds either road the same

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17. fair
D. Sadness that he has blackened the
A. to change something
leaves.
B. equal to, the same, pretty
23. Based on the poem, the reader can con-
C. to guide in direction clude that the speaker is
D. feeling sorrow or regret A. indecisive.

18. The poet took the road B. being creative.

C. making choices
A. to the right
D. polite.
B. to the left
C. the one less traveled by 24. Why did the poet choose the second road?

D. none of above A. because it was well built

B. because it was beautiful
19. At the end of the poem, we understand C. because it was not used by many peo-
that ple and was appealing to the poet
A. the traveler ia happy about his choice D. all
B. the traveler regrets his choice
25. What words help the reader understand
C. the traveler doesn’t give a clear an- what the word trodden means in stanza
swer about his choice three
D. the traveler is sad about his choice A. black
B. step
20. Where does the poet find himself?
C. first
A. on the road
D. another
B. on a bus
26. According to the speaker, what “has made
C. on a muddy road
all the difference?” (Line 20)
D. on a fork
A. He or she took the first of the two
21. The poet stood at the intersection of roads.

A. a wood painted yellow B. He or she took the road less traveled.

C. He or she took the road that bent in the
B. trees with bright flowers
undergrowth.
C. an autumn forest D. He or she chose a road after looking
D. a painting as far down it as possible.

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27. What does the poem speak about? 33. bent

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B. about the people upon heavily
C. about two roads B. divided, went in different directions
D. about the choices made by people C. curved; crooked
D. the same
28. The speaker in “The road not taken” is
most clearly which type of person? 34. What does the choice of the road signify?
A. A person lost in the woods A. Too many things
B. A person who made a decision B. Two paths
C. A person now standing at a fork C. Toughness of a choice and decision in
D. A person who likes to take risks life
D. Signifies your future
29. sigh
A. low-growing trees and bushes of a for- 35. Which words from the poem helps the
est reader understand the meaning of the
word trodden?
B. someone who goes to places far away
A. black
C. emit a long, deep, audible breath ex-
pressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or a B. leaves
similar feeling C. another day
D. feeling sorrow or regret D. step
30. Why was the poet able to travel one road 36. Why is the poet asking to be wise while
only? choosing a pathway?
A. because he had to walk alone A. because there is no Going Back option
B. because he had no vehicle B. Because it is the only one road
C. because he was one person C. because it is one sided road
D. all D. None
31. What is meant by ‘yellow wood ‘ 37. The road in the poem is symbol for
A. a jungle with yellow trees A. a long, tedious journey
B. a jungle with yellow flowers B. a person’s life
C. a jungle in the month of autumn C. challenges
D. none of these D. forward movement
32. What has made all the difference in the 38. What does the poet’s decision of taking
poet’s life? less travelled road signify?
A. by not choosing any road A. poet’s risk taking habit
B. choosing the road B. arrogance of the poet
C. choosing the road less travelled by C. poet’s curiosity
D. by not being weak D. poet’s negligence

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39. His desire at the moment was to:- 45. What do the “two roads” represent in
A. Cross the road “The Road Not Taken”?

B. Travel on both roads A. people who affect our lives

C. Travel further B. paths that are hidden in secret

D. See the forest C. the beginnings of new phases in life

D. important decisions we make in life
40. The poet uses figurative language in the

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poem to show the speaker’s 46. Who is the character in the poem?
A. determined to make a choice. A. The traveler
B. anxious to make a choice. B. The writer
C. satisfied with his choice. C. The author
D. eager to make a choice. D. none of these
41. the poet doubted if 47. The Road Not Taken is an example of what
A. he could ever finish his journey figurative language
B. he could join his friends A. metaphor
C. he could ever come back to travel the B. hyperbole
other road,
C. personification
D. he could meet his family ever again
D. idiom
42. “Should ever come back” show that poet
48. “Undergrowth” is
was:-
A. Rocks and dirt
A. Confident
B. optimistic B. Roots underground

C. In dilemma C. Shrubs and plants

D. Pessimistic D. Crushed leaves

43. The author of this poem is 49. How old is the traveler?

A. Walt Whitman A. 0-19 years old

B. Ponyboy Curtis B. 20-39 years old

C. Robert Frost C. 40-59 years old
D. Anne Frank D. 60 or older

44. The entire poem is 50. ’Road’ is a metaphor for?

A. a simile A. Travelling wisely
B. a personification B. Choices in life
C. a metaphor C. Good health
D. a hyberbole D. Morning walks

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51. What does Yellow woods mean? C. conformed

A. falling leaves D. unequaled

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B. forest with yellow leaves in the au-
tumn season 57. Who is the poet of this poem?
C. wood yellow in color A. James
D. none B. William James
52. Why is the poet asking to be wise while C. William Wordsworth
choosing a pathway?A) because there is
no Going Back optionB) Because it is the D. Robert Frost
only one roadC) because it is one sided
roadD) None 58. How many stanzas are there in the poem?
A. A A. Three
B. B B. Two
C. C
C. Five
D. D
D. Four
53. Who is the poet of the poem ‘The Road
Not Taken’ 59. How many roads the poet could travel?
A. William Bacon A. one
B. William Wordsworth
B. two
C. Robert Frost
C. three
D. Robert Dahl
D. all the roads
54. The poet doubted if:-
A. He could ever finish his journey 60. Which words from the poem helps the
B. He could meet his family again reader understand the meaning of the
word diverged?
C. He could join his friends
A. looked down
D. He could ever come back to travel first
road B. one traveler
55. What do yellow woods represent? C. two roads
A. people D. long I stood
B. older people
61. How was one path different from the
C. poets
other?
D. choice
A. One was greener
56. Which of the following words is closest in
meaning to the word diverged? B. one had more grass

A. divided C. it seemed less used

B. presented D. all of the above

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62. The speaker of the poem wishes that he or 67. Poet decision to take the other road indi-
she did not have to make a choice between cates that he is:-
the roads. What lines from the poem sup-
A. Adventurous
port this statement?
B. Opportunist
A. And sorryI could not travel both/And
be one travler, long I stood C. Calculative
B. Thought as for that, the passing D. Careful
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same 68. Based on the information in the poem,
why might the second road have “wanted
C. And both that morning equally lay/In
wear” and been “grassy?”
leaves no step had trodden black
A. because the second road was close to
D. none of above
a stream that ran through the woods
63. Infer the season. B. because the second road received a lot
A. Autumn of sunlight
B. Winter C. because many people had taken the
C. Spring second road

D. Summer D. because few people had taken the sec-

ond road
64. Which line supports the inference that the
speaker is making a permanent choice? 69. What does grassy mean in the poem?
A. then took the other as just as fair A. the road which is not used by anyone
B. I doubted if I should ever come back B. the comfortable road
C. to where it bent in the undergrowth C. te road with all the luxuries
D. It was grassy and wanted wear D. well-built road
65. And that has made all the 70. What is the difference between the roads
A. look in the “The Road Not Taken?”
B. difference A. One road is a bit wider.
C. style B. One road is more shady.
D. way for me C. One road is less traveled.
66. What decision does the speaker have to D. One road has a better view.
make in the poem?
71. What does Poet’s long stare at the path
A. He needs to put on a jacket. signify?
B. He needs to decide to go back to the
A. the time taken by people to decide and
beginning of the path and choose a differ-
making a choice
ent route.
B. poet loves nature
C. He has to decide to take a walk later.
C. idling away of time
D. He has to decide which road to travel
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72. sorry 77. Which thing decides to choose a persons

future according to this poem?
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A. The path one chooses to walk
B. emit a long, deep, audible breath ex-
pressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or a B. The path one leaves behind
similar feeling C. The regrets
C. to be uncertain about D. The success
D. none of above 78. The word “diverged” means went in dif-
ferent directions.”What is a line in the
73. What is the setting of this poem? poem that provides a clue to the meaning
A. the beach of “diverged”?
B. a meadow in the spring A. To where it bent in the undergrowth;

C. a quiet street on the edge of town B. Because it was grassy and wanted
wear;
D. a forest with two roads in it
C. Had worn them really about the same
74. What does Yellow woods mean?A) falling D. none of above
leavesB) forest with yellow leaves in the
79. The word “trodden” means
autumn seasonC) wood yellow in colorD)
none A. something that has been walked on
A. A B. something that has been chosed

B. B C. someone that is tired

D. someone that has regret
C. C
D. D 80. What do the road signify in the poem?
A. the path or choice that was left or was
75. Why was the poet able to travel one road not chosen to tread
only?A) because he had to walk aloneB)
B. The pathway
because he had no vehicleC) because he
was one personD) all C. pathway on the roadside
A. A D. a road with two turns

B. B 81. What is the difference between the two

roads in “The Road Not Taken”?
C. C
A. one road is a bit wider
D. D
B. one road has a better view
76. Who wrote the poem ‘The Road Not C. one road is slightly less traveled
Taken’?
D. one road is slightly less shady
A. Robert Lee Frost
82. What idea does the poet convey in the line,
B. Robert Brown “I shall be telling this with a sigh”?
C. Robert Hooke A. That he is upset with his choice.
D. Sir Jan Evangelista Purkinje B. That he is relieved with his choice.

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C. That he is conflicted with his choice. C. it has been tested before

D. That he is ashamed of his choices. D. it looked bad

83. Which line states that the two roads lookd 89. On the surface, “The Road Not Taken” is
similar in the morning? about a walk in the woods. On a deeper
level, what is the poem about?
A. “Oh, I kept the first for another day.”
A. The poem is about how other people
B. “Yet knowing how way leads to way.”
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C. “I doubted I should ever look back.”
B. The poem is about loving nature and
D. “Both that morning equally lay in protecting natural habitats.
leaves no step had trodden back.”
C. The poem is about the conflicts people
84. “Way leads on to way” means face when making important choices.
A. There are many roads ahead. D. The poem is about the importance of
exercise and enjoying the outdoors.
B. It is an uphill road.
C. The road may be a dead end. 90. Did he regret his choice?

D. There will be a sign further down the A. Yes

road B. We don’t know.
C. No.
85. Second road has the better claim as:-
D. none of above
A. It had been laying waste
B. It was attractive with green grassy 91. The poet uses the phrase, “ grassy and
carpet wanted wear” to help the reader under-
stand
C. It needed to be explored
A. that one path had not been walked on.
D. It was full of surprises
B. that the grass was green.
86. “Road” is a metaphor for: C. that he wanted to wear the grass.
A. choices we make in life D. that the grass was long.
B. morning walks
92. What is the meaning of the last two lines
C. travelling wisely of the poem-“I took the one less traveled
D. good health by And that has made all the difference.”
A. The speaker regrets his choice.
87. What did the poet see in the yellow wood?
B. The choice has changed his life for the
A. Paths diverging in different directions.
worse.
B. trees in the forest
C. The choice has made him what he is-a
C. green grass famous poet.
D. none of above D. None of these.
88. the poet didn’t take the first road as 93. What is the speaker in the poem doing?
A. it looked shabby A. taking a walk on a spring morning.
B. it was expected for him B. delivering a package in the woods.

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C. Standing in front of two roads 99. The repetition of “Two roads diverged”
emphasizes the idea that
D. Getting ready for a trip.

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A. the speaker enjoys walking.
94. What shows that the road has not been B. the speaker is trying to make a choice.
used by many people?
C. the speaker wants to drive on a road.
A. the green and untrampelled grass on
D. the speaker is going on a trip.
it
B. the mud on it 100. What does the speaker encounter?
A. a fork in the road
C. the broken stones on it
B. a dragon
D. All
C. a path full of black leaves
95. What does “that” refer to in the last line D. a maze
of the poem?
101. What does the choice of road signify?
A. It means he chose good over evil.
A. too many things
B. It refers to his decision to take the
B. two paths
other road.
C. toughness of a choice and decision in
C. It meant he took the narrow road. life
D. none of the above D. none

96. How many roads are mentioned in the 102. What does the speaker mean in these
poem‘The Road Not Taken ‘ lines?Oh, I kept the first for another
day!Yet knowing how way leads on to
A. Two
way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
B. four A. After choosing the first road, the
C. three speaker will return and go down the other
road.
D. five
B. The speaker does not like to travel in
97. What was the colour of the woods? the same part of the woods more than
once.
A. Green
C. The speaker likes to walk in the woods
B. Blue alone and knows the way very well.
C. Red D. After choosing the first road, the
speaker will not return to go down the
D. Yellow
other road.
98. What is the theme of this poem? 103. What is the message of this poem?A) be
A. giving up hope wise while choosing and taking decisionsB)
two roads are confusingC) road is nothing
B. making a choice but a pathwayD) all
C. enjoying the present moment A. A
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C. C 109. What do the words ‘Long I stood’ mean

D. D in the poem?
A. poet’s dilemma
104. Why was the poet looking at the path? B. poet was in relaxing mood
A. to decide whether it was suitable for C. poet was enjoying the nature
him
D. poet was thinking
B. to see how long it was
110. What is the message of this poem?

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C. to check the road
A. be wise while choosing and taking de-
D. none cisions
B. two roads are confusing
105. In the first stanza, the word diverged
means C. road is nothing but a pathway
A. increased D. all

B. parted 111. Meaning of hence?

C. came together A. Here, in the future
B. Had not been used
D. straightened
C. Dense growth of plants and bushes
106. What is the dilemma of the poet? D. Separated and took a different direc-
A. whether he will be able to come back tion
to the second road or not
112. What do yellow woods represent?A)
B. whether he will get time for himself peopleB) older peopleC) poetsD) choice
C. whether he will be successful A. A
D. whether he will be able to walk B. B
C. C
107. trodden
D. D
A. low-growing trees and bushes of a for-
est 113. Which of the following best describes a
theme of the text?
B. needed to be walked on (it wasn’t used
A. Sometimes one must make a choice
before)
without knowing if it will be best and live
C. forest with the consequences.
D. crushed or broken by being stepped B. There will always be decisions in life,
upon heavily but one can return and make the decision
differently if one makes a mistake.
108. The poet is most likely comparing the two C. Following one’s heart is easier than
roads in the poem to following one’s head, but since decisions
A. choices in life don’t really matter it is best to follow
B. obstacles one’s heart.
D. Making the most common or popular
C. a grassy road vs a yellow road
decisions ensures that one will take the
D. a road in spring to a road in autumn correct path through life.

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1. Which word means the same as ‘frail’? 7. Which word in the poem means ‘to pros-
A. Weak per’?

B. Strong A. keep going

C. Determined B. flourish
C. keep moving
D. Soft
D. proper
2. the speaker doesn’t want the shutter’s of
the windows to be broken because: 8. Name the poet of this poem?
A. it protects from robbers A. O.Henry
B. it protects from criminals B. Robert Frost
C. it protects from storm and rain C. Subramania Bharati
D. it protects from wild animals D. Arthur Conan Doyle

3. The poet said, “We can make true friend- 9. Which one is not a literary device used in
ship with the wind if we are the poem?

A. True A. Personification

B. Strong B. Repetition
C. Rhyming
C. Devoted
D. Alitreation
D. Honest
10. What does the wind poke fun at?
4. Find a synonym for loyal from the poem.
A. Weak houses and weak doors.
A. firm
B. Weak rafters and weak wood.
B. strong
C. Weak hearts and weak bodies.
C. steadfast
D. Any living or non-living thing that is
D. none weak and crumbling.
5. What does the word prosper mean in the 11. Who are affected by the wind?
poem?
A. weak
A. keep going
B. strong
B. flourish
C. people
C. keep moving
D. things
D. proper
12. What sort of houses does the poet ask us
6. Antonym of Foolish is to make?
A. clever A. Strong Houses
B. wise B. Luxury Houses
C. cunning C. Weak Houses
D. all of the above D. Huts

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13. Winnowing means- 19. In the lines ‘ Don’t break the shutters of
the windows. Don’t scatter the papers.
A. cleaning
Don’t throw down the books on the shelf.
B. sorting ‘ The word don’t is in the starting of all
C. supporting these lines . what is the poetic device
used?
D. holding
A. alliteration
14. what is the “simili” found in stanza 1? B. anaphora

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A. Like birds in the sky C. personification
B. Like ladies’ skirts across the grass D. repetition

C. Like a kite up high 20. Who does ‘you’ refer to in the line, “you
threw them all down.”?
D. As high as a kite
A. The poet
15. What should we do to be friends with the B. Wind
wind? C. The poet’s friend
A. Build strong homes D. The poet’s younger brother
B. Practice to firm the body 21. Whom does the poet make a request to
C. Do not come out of the houses and address?
D. Both option 1 and 2 A. the people
B. his children
16. What is winnowing called?
C. wind
A. cleaning process D. all
B. sorting process
22. What is the poet addressing ‘wind’ as?
C. Barsana A. Weak
D. None B. Wind god

17. Which word has been repeated in the C. Evil

poem? D. none of above
A. Steadfast 23. Who are mainly affected by the wind?
B. Crumbling A. Weak
C. Strong B. Strong

D. Crushes C. People
D. Things
18. What Is the theme of the lesson ‘Wind’?
24. Who is the original poet of this poem?
A. Be scared by the wind
A. Maya Angelou
B. Make your heart stronger B. Subramania Bharati
C. Never face your challenges C. A.K. Ramanujan
D. none of above D. M.K. Gandhi

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25. What is the moral of this poem? 31. Whom does wind God befriend?
A. be firm and strong and never be de- A. weak people

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feated by any obstacle B. who talks to it
B. pray to the wind C. strong people
C. don’t be weak D. none
D. request the wind 32. The figure of speech used in the poem are:
26. whom does the god like? A. Anaphora, Alliteration, Similie
A. weak people B. Anaphora, Personification, Onam-
atopoia
B. who talks to it
C. Anaphora, Personification, Alliteration
C. strong people
D. none of above
D. none
33. The central idea of the poem is
27. Which figure of speech has been used in A. be firm, strong and determined and
the poem? you will be able to face any obstacle that
A. alliteration comes your way
B. anaphore and metophoric B. pray to the wind

C. personification C. dont be weak

D. all D. request the wind to stop blowing

34. Whom does the poet make a request to?

28. Who has translated the poem to english?
A. People
A. Subramania Bharati
B. Animals
B. A.K. Ranaujan
C. Wind
C. Isaac Asimov
D. The nature
D. Bismillah Khan
35. What does the poet suggest to be friends
29. the speaker in this poem talks to with the wind?
A. hail A. build strong homes
B. storm B. close the doors firmly

C. rain C. have strong bodies and mind

D. all
D. wind
36. What does the wind symbolise in this
30. Who are affected by the wind the most? poem?
A. the strong A. Life
B. the weak B. Opportunities
C. Both strong and weak C. Difficulties
D. none of the above D. None of these

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37. A.K ramanujam is well known for his trans- 43. What does the wind not do?
lation of
A. tear the pages
A. classical poetry
B. bring rain
B. bengali poetry
C. break the doors of the window
C. ancient poetry
D. build strong houses
D. Kannada and Tamil poetry
44. Which figure of speech is used in the line-

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38. What is the effect of the wind on weak ”Wind, come softly.”?
fires?
A. Simile
A. makes them stronger
B. Metaphor
B. blow them out
C. Apostrophe
C. let them burn as before
D. all the options are correct D. Pun

39. What does the poet want the wind to do? 45. What does ‘crumbling hearts’ refer to?

A. don’t throw down the books A. old persons

B. don’t break the shutters of windows B. weak persons
C. don’t scatter the papers C. rich and strong persons
D. all the above D. despondent persons

40. Suggest a word that stands for to fix. 46. Identify the poet of the poem ‘The Wind’-
A. settle A. Subramania Bharti
B. make correct B. Robert Frost
C. Join C. Ruskin Bond
D. All D. William Wordsworth
41. According to the poet, who will be our 47. Who is the poet of the poem?
friend if we are strong?
A. Subramania Bharti
A. The Fire
B. Robert Frost
B. The Wind
C. The Snow C. Ruskin Bond

D. None of the above D. William Wordsworth

42. What could be a better title for this poem? 48. Who is the author of the poem ‘Wind’?
A. The Invisible Song A. Mahatma Gandhi
B. The Wind Blows B. Subramania Bharathi
C. the boy and the wind C. Deborah cowley
D. wind outside D. Isaac Asimov

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49. How can we be friends with the wind? 55. Wind is a symbol of
A. by building strong homes A. adversities in life

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B. having strong body B. strong fire
C. having a strong heart C. weak fire
D. all D. an enemy

50. How does the poet want the wind to 56. Define the term ‘Winnowing’
come? A. Cleaning
A. Fastly B. Sorting out
B. slowly C. Mixing
C. Turbulenty D. None of the above
D. Calmly
57. The speaker is asking the wind to come?
51. ‘Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, A. Scornfully
, crumbling lives, crumbling hearts’-
Identify the poetic device used here B. Softly
A. repetition C. Vigorously
B. alliteration D. Hastily
C. refrain 58. the wind god winnows.Poetic device is
D. none
A. simile
52. What does ‘all’ refer to in the line, “you
threw them all down.”? B. metaphor
A. The shutters of the windows C. personification
B. The papers D. alliteration
C. The books 59. The narrator cannot see the wind, but ac-
D. All of these cording to stanza 2 how can he tell the
wind is there?
53. Why do people winnow the grain? A. it blows his hat off
A. to clean the dust B. it hurts his ears
B. to remove straws C. he felt its push and heard it
C. to take out chauff D. none of the above
D. All
60. a renowned Indian poet in English,
54. who wrote the poem “Wind”? translated the poem WIND into English.
A. A.K Ramanujan A. R K Narayan
B. Subramania Bharati B. A. K. Ramanujan
C. Amrita Pritam C. K R Narayanan
D. Sugathakumari D. Bharathiyar

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61. Who is blown out by the wind? 67. What message does the poet want to con-
A. trees vey through these lines, “The wind blows
out weak fires.He makes strong fires roar
B. strong fire and flourish.”?
C. papers A. The wind is cruel.
D. weak fire B. Weak fires are meant to be extin-
62. Don’t break the shutters of the win- guished.

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dows.Don’t scatter the papers.What is the C. We should make ourselves strong and
poetic device used? steadfast.
A. alliteration D. All of these
B. metaphor 68. the speaker does not want the wind to
C. simile break the
D. anaphora A. doors and windows
B. shutter’s of windows
63. Whom does the wind make fun of?
C. shutter’s of doors
A. Weak people
D. none of the above
B. Strong people
C. Poor people 69. Which word/phrase means the same as
‘crumbling’?
D. None of the above
A. Breaking down
64. Why did the author put such large indents
B. Surging
in the last two lines of each stanza?
C. Improving
A. to show repetition of those lines
D. Strengthening
B. It was a mistake when he was typing
C. He wanted to be different 70. How can you make friends with the wind?
D. to show a new paragraph A. By being brave and facing challenges
B. By feeling scared
65. What should the people do to save their
homes? C. By prasing the wind everyday
A. use good cement D. None of these
B. build strong homes and close the 71. In the line, “You tore the pages of the
doors firmly books”, who is ‘you’ referring to?
C. consult a good architect A. The poet
D. none B. The wind
66. The poem ‘Wind’ is written by C. Animals
A. Robert Frost D. Dog
B. Ruskin Bond 72. Name the things the wind had done.
C. Subramania Bharati A. brought rain
D. Rabindranath Tagore B. torn the pages

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C. broke the doors of the window 79. the wind god winnows and crushes them
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73. Who are badly affected by the wind? A. alliteration
A. the weak
B. anaphora
B. the strong
C. personification
C. friends
D. repeatition
D. none
80. Find a synonym for ‘steadfast’ as used in
74. Tell a word in the poem which is the the poem
antonym of foolish?
A. sure
A. clever
B. happy
B. wise
C. firm and unwavering
C. cunning
D. unsteady
D. all
81. Who broke the doors of the window?
75. What does the wind do to the shutters of
the window? A. children
A. closes softly B. a boy
B. breaks C. a naughty boy
C. bangs D. wind
D. opens 82. The speaker is asking wind to come
76. Wind has been compared to A. vigorously
A. Fire B. softly
B. Flood C. hastily
C. Earthquake D. scornfully
D. God 83. In the poem wind .. the word ‘wind’ sym-
77. Whom does wind God like? bolize which of the following
A. weak people A. happiness in our life
B. who talks to it B. solutions in our life
C. strong people C. the problems in our life
D. none D. sorrows in our life

78. Find a word from the poem for “thrown in 84. “He won’t do what you tell him “ who is
different directions” he in these lines?
A. scatter A. The Author
B. thrown B. The children
C. blown C. Wind
D. none D. God

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85. What type of houses the poet asks us to 88. What does ‘ANAPHORA’ mean?
make? A. The same letter repeats in the alter-
A. Luxury Houses nate line
B. Small Huts B. The same word repeats in the same
line
C. Strong houses
C. The same word repeats in the begin-
D. Weak houses ning of the next line

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86. How does wind behave with stronger D. The word doesn’t repeat at all
fires?
89. What does the word ‘winnows’ in the
A. Frightens them poem mean?
B. Befriend’s them A. Sort grains
C. Crushes them B. Clean rooms
D. none of above C. Blows strongly
D. None of the above
87. Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors,
crumbling rafters What is the poetic device 90. “He won’t do what you tell him”Who is
used? he in this line?
A. Anaphora A. God
B. Repetition B. Wind God
C. personification C. wind
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1. What does starry spheres mean? C. METAPHOR
A. places where stars are born D. ASSONANCE
B. sky filled with stars 4. What figure of speech is used in the ex-
C. star groups in the sky pression humid shadows?
D. all A. Simile
2. Who comes in the poet’s memory? B. Personification
A. Rain C. Metaphor
B. His father D. Alliteration
C. His mother 5. As she used in years agone,
D. His friends A. PERSONIFICATION
3. “When the humid shadows hover” B. REPETITION
A. ALLITERATION C. ASSONANCE
B. SIMILIE D. NONE OF THE ABOVE

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6. What does ‘refrain’ refer to in the poem? 12. And the melancholy darkness
A. a repeated song A. ONOMATOPOEIA

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B. the repeated sound of the rain that B. METAPHOR
sounds like a song
C. TRANSFERRED EPITHET
C. to stay away
D. PERSONIFICATION
D. the rain
13. And lie listening to the patter
7. Which literary device has been used in this
A. ALLITERATION
poem?
A. alliteration & personification B. SIMILIE

B. metaphorical C. REPETITION

C. anaphora D. ONOMATOPOEIA

D. none 14. To regard the darling dreamers

8. What poetic device does the poet use in A. METAPHOR
melancholy darkness? B. REPETITION
A. Alliteration C. SIMILIE
B. Personification D. NONE OF THE ABOVE
C. Metaphor
15. Identify the figure of speech in the line
D. Assonance ‘What a bliss to press the pillow’
9. Wht is bliss in the poem for the poet? A. ASSONANCE
A. his memories B. PERSONIFICATION
B. his mother C. METAPHOR
C. listening to the sound of rainfall D. ALLITERATION
D. All
16. What is the significance of the underlined
10. Who are the darling dreamers in the poem, word-‘And lie listening to the patter’
“Rain on the Roof”? A. METAPHOR
A. Poet’s siblings B. REPETITION
B. Poet’s parents C. RHYME
C. Poet’s friends D. ONOMATOPOEIA
D. Raindrops
17. What are the humid shadows doing in the
11. Where does the poet’s mother live? sphere?
A. In another town A. Sleeping
B. In a village B. Resting
C. With the poet C. Floating in the air
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18. What is the memory that comes to the 24. What revives the sweet memories in the
poet’s mind repeatedly? poet’s mind?
A. his mother A. busy schedule
B. his friends B. daily routine
C. his siblings C. raindrops falling on the roof
D. none D. none

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19. Into busy being start, 25. Weave their air-threads into woof
A. ALLITERATION A. REPETITION
B. ASSONANCE B. PERSONIFICATION
C. REPETITION C. ALLITERATION
D. PERSONIFICATION D. NON OF THE ABOVE
20. Who is the poet of the poem. “Rain on the 26. Now in memory comes my mother,
Roof”?
A. PERSONIFICATION
A. Katherine Mansfield
B. ALLITERATION
B. Coates Kinney
C. ASSONANCE
C. James Kirkup
D. NONE OF THE ABOVE
D. Robert Frost
27. Identify the figure of speech in the line
21. What haunts the poet in the poem?
‘Over all the starry spheres’
A. his friends
A. SIMILIE
B. sounds of rainfall
B. METAPHOR
C. his mother’s memory
C. ONOMATOPOEIA
D. none
D. ALLITERATION
22. Identify the figure of speech in the line ‘Ev-
ery tinkle on the shingles’ 28. Of the rain upon the roof.

A. REPETITION A. PERSONIFICATION

B. RHYME B. SIMILIE
C. ONOMATOPOEIA C. ALLITERATION
D. NONE OF THE ABOVE D. NONE OF THE ABOVE

23. And a thousand dreamy fancies 29. Every tinkle on the shingles
A. PERSONIFICATION A. REPETITION
B. SIMILIE B. RHYME
C. TRANSFERRED EPITHET C. ONOMATOPOEIA
D. NONE OF THE ABOVE D. NONE OF THE ABOVE

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30. What is the favourite activity of the poet 36. What makes an echo in the poet’s mind?
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A. listening to the music B. His success
B. eating snacks C. The music of pattering rain
C. roaming on the roof
D. All these things
D. lie on the bed and listen to the pitter-
patter sound of the rain 37. Why has darkness been termed as melan-
choly in the poem, ‘Rain on the Roof’?
31. Which figure of speech is used in ‘patter’
A. The overcast sky reminds him of his
and ‘tinkle’?
mother
A. Onomatopoeia
B. The spell of rain makes him nostalgic
B. Personification
C. He loves the sound of the rain and re-
C. Alliteration members his mother
D. Simile D. All of these
32. Identify the figure of speech in the line 38. Identify the figure of speech used in ‘into
“When the humid shadows hover” busy being start’.
A. ALLITERATION A. Alliteration
B. SIMILIE B. Personification
C. METAPHOR
C. Metaphor
D. PERSONIFICATION
D. Transferred epithet
33. What is a bliss for the poet?
39. What does this poem talk about?
A. Bathing in the rain
A. about rain
B. Getting a lot of money
B. rain falling
C. Going to the office in rain
C. rainfall and disturbance
D. Lying on the bed in a joyful mood
D. healing powers of the rain
34. In the poem, “Rain on the Roof”, what ad-
jective does the poet attach to darkness? 40. What a bliss to press the pillow
A. Joyful mood A. ASSONANCE
B. Sadness B. PERSONIFICATION
C. Pleasant C. METAPHOR
D. Soothing D. ALLITERATION

35. What is the major memory that comes to 41. What does the poet attach the darkness
the poet’s mind? with?
A. his mother A. Joyful mood
B. his friends B. Sadness
C. his siblings C. Pleasant
D. none D. Soothing

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42. What weaves the air thread into woofs? C. Bells

A. Droplets of rain D. Silver bangles
B. A breezy day 49. Which memories of the poet are revived
C. An echo in the heart with the pitter patter sound of rainfall?
D. A thousand recollections A. college days
43. In the poem, “Rain on the Roof”, what B. young age
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A. Joyful mood D. childhood memories
B. Sadness 50. What is the figure of speech used in the
C. Pleasant given line-”Now in memory comes my
D. Soothing mother”
A. PERSONIFICATION
44. What is considered as a bliss by the poet?
B. ALLITERATION
A. Dancing in the rain
C. ASSONANCE
B. Pressing the pillow and listening to the
patter of rain D. NONE OF THE ABOVE
C. Looking outside the window 51. Who weeps in the form of rainy tears?
D. looking at the starry night A. Clouds
45. Who are darling dreamers in the poem? B. People
A. children who miss their mothers C. Darkness
B. mothers D. Poet
C. hard working mothers 52. Over all the starry spheres
D. poet’s memories A. SIMILIE
46. Identify the figure of speech used in B. METAPHOR
‘dreamy fancies’. C. ONOMATOPOEIA
A. Alliteration D. ALLITERATION
B. Personification
53. What is the predominant mood of the
C. Metaphor poem?
D. Transferred epithet A. Melancholia
47. By the patter of the rain. B. Reflection
A. PERSONIFICATION C. Nostalgia
B. METAPHOR D. All of the above
C. ONOMATOPOEIA 54. What is bliss in the poem for the poet?
D. NONE OF THE ABOVE A. his memories
48. What tinkles on the shingles? B. his mother
A. Raindrops C. listening to the sound of rainfall
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1. Why did the poet want to go to Innisfree? B. WILLIAM BLAKE YEATS
A. he wanted to relive his past C. WILLIAM BURMINGHAM YEATS
B. to enrich his spirit and feel light away D. NONE
from the noise of the city
7. What thing will the poet not do on the In-
C. to have a change of mood nisfree land?
D. to explore something new A. build a restaurant
2. Where is the poet at the time of the writ- B. build a small cabin
ing of the poem? C. plant nine bean rows
A. In London. D. build a hive for the honeybee
B. In Paris.
8. What does the poet hear night and day in
C. In Switzerland. the core of his heart?
D. In Innisfree. A. The sound of the lake water lapping
against the shore of Innisfree.
3. Figure of speech used in “I hear lake water
lapping with low sound by the shore” B. The cries of his children telling him to
come back home.
A. Hyperbole
C. The cries of his countrymen to fight for
B. Onomatopoeia his country
C. Imagery D. The cries of birds and animals to come
D. Metaphor and live with them in the forest

4. WHAT SOUNDS DOES THE POET HEAR 9. What is the figure of speech used in “A
EVEN WHEN HE IS AWAY FROM INNIS- hive for the honeybee?”
FREE? A. Alliteration
A. SOUNDS OF CARS B. Repetition
B. NOISE OF THE CITY C. Metaphor
C. SOUNDS OF LAKE WATER D. Simile
D. ALL
10. What did the poet want to create for hon-
5. What sounds does Yeats yearned to hear? eybees?
A. sound of bees A. Trees
B. aeroplanes B. Hives
C. automobiles C. Flowers
D. mobile phones D. Cage

6. WRITE FULL NAME OF THE POET 11. When do the crickets sing?
W.BYEATS? A. in the morning
A. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS B. in the evening

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C. in the rainy season C. Charming and glimmering

D. they never sing D. Dull
12. Name the plants the poet wanted to grow 18. Where will he stay there?
at Innisfree?
A. At a friend’s house
A. gulmohar tree
B. At a hotel.
B. pine tree
C. At a big house of his own.

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C. bean plant
D. In a small cabin that he will build with
D. apple trees his own hands.
13. HOW DID THE POET WANT TO LIVE AT IN- 19. What is the best thing about Innisfree?
NISFREE?
A. It is a big modem city.
A. WITH FRIENDS
B. It is a place of many big industries.
B. WITH PARENTS
C. It has many places of historical inter-
C. WITH SIBLINGS AND CHILDREN
est.
D. ALL ALONE
D. It is a place of great natural beauty.
14. Who else will live on Innisfree with the
poet? 20. HOW MANY ROWS OF BEANS DOES THE
POET WANT TO PLANT?
A. his mother
A. 7 ROWS
B. his father
B. 8 ROWS
C. his friends
C. 9 ROWS
D. he will live alone
D. 10 ROWS
15. How does the poet find Innisfree Island?
21. Lake water lapping with low sounds’what
A. simple, natural place
image do these words draw in the mind?
B. full of beauty
A. flowing stream
C. full of peace
B. sound of flowing stream
D. all options are correct
C. low soft sound of lake’s water washing
16. What sounds does the poet hear even the shore
when he is away from Innisfree? D. none
A. sounds of cars
22. WHY DID THE POET WANT TO GO TO IN-
B. noise of the city
NISFREE?
C. sound of lake water
A. HE WANTED TO RELIVE HIS PAST
D. all
B. TO ENRICH HIS SPIRIT AND FEEL
17. What kind of scene is there at night at In- LIGHT AWAY FROM THE NOISE OF THE
nisfree? CITY
A. Dark C. TO HAVE CHANGE OF MOOD
B. Gloomy D. TO EXPLORE SOMETHING NEW

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23. What kind of a house did the poet want to 29. How did the poet want to live at Innis-
have at Innisfree? free?

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A. A well furnished. A. With friends
B. A bog house B. With family
C. A house made of wood and clay C. With siblings and children
D. None
D. all alone
24. WHO IS THE POET OF THIS POEM?
30. What kind of music will he get to hear?
A. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
A. The humming of bees.
B. W.B YEATS
C. JAMES WILLIAMS B. The song of the cricket.

D. NONE OF THE ABOVE C. Both a and b.

D. Neither a nor b.
25. Which place does the poet want to visit?
A. the lake 31. How many lines are there in this poem?
B. the mountains A. 14 lines
C. the beach B. 13 lines
D. a place of natural beauty-Innisfree Is-
C. 12 lines
land where he spent his childhood.
D. 11 lines
26. What kind of a scene is described at Innis-
free during noon time? 32. What kind of land is Innisfree?
A. Golden hue A. stormy and dusty
B. Bright green and yellow lights B. peaceful and loving
C. Purple glow can be seen
C. very hot and humid
D. None
D. unfit for human habitation
27. WHAT KIND OF PLACES WAS INNISFREE?
33. Where will the poet have peace?
A. A CROWDY
B. A PLACE FULL OF NATURAL BEAUTY, A. in his home
CALM, SERENE AND SOULFUL B. in heaven
C. A MUDDY PLACE AWAY FROM THE C. in Innisfree land
CITY
D. in a lake
D. A PLACE FULL OF NOISE
34. How many rows of beans does the poet
28. Name the three things that the poet would
want to plant?
like to do at Innisfree.
A. plant 9 bean trees A. 7 rows

B. make hives for honey bees B. 8 rows

C. make a house of clay and wattles C. 9 rows
D. all D. 10 rows

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35. What beautiful sight will he get to see 41. Write full name of the poet W. B. Yeats.
there? A. William Butler Yeats
A. The glimmer of midnight stars. B. William Blake Yeats
B. The linnets flying about in the evening C. William Burmingham Yeats
C. The purple glow of the noon. D. None
D. All the above
42. What does the poet hope to get there?

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36. Where does the poet want to go? A. Peace
A. To London B. Wealth
B. To Paris C. Friends
C. To Innisfree D. Name and fame
D. To Switzerland
43. LAKE WATER LAPPING WITH LOW
37. What kind of sounds did the poet hear at SOUNDS WHAT IMAGE DO THESE WORDS
Innisfree? DRAW IN THE MIND?
A. Horrible A. FLOWING STREAM
B. Noisy B. SOUND OF FLOWING STREAM
C. Pleasing, buzzing music like sounds of C. LOW SOFT SOUND OF LAKE’S WATER
bees WASHING THE SHORE
D. Silent D. NONE

38. Where was the poet’s childhood time 44. With what will the poet make his house?
spent? A. bricks and cement
A. In a town B. clay and wattles
B. In a village C. bamboo
C. on a mountain D. wooden slates
D. at Innisfree Island
45. What kind of place was Innisfree?
39. What does the poet see in Innisfree land? A. a crowdy
A. glimmering midnight B. a place full of natural beauty, calm,
B. purple noon serene and soulful
C. the evening full of linnet’s wings C. a muddy place away from the city
D. all the options are correct D. a place full of noise

40. HOW MANY LINES ARE THERE IN THIS 46. “Evenings full of the linnet’s wings” what
POEM? do these words mean?
A. 14 LINES A. the noise of flying insects
B. 10 LINES B. linnets flying in the evening sky
C. 8 LINES C. buzzing bees
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47. Name the poet of The Lake Isle of Innis- B. W.B Yeats
free’. C. James Williams

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A. James Kirkup. D. None
B. Robert Frost
50. Where is Innisfree?
C. W.B. Yeats
A. England
D. Phoebe Cary
B. Canada
48. How long the poet will live at the Lake Isle C. Ireland
of Innisfree?
D. Italy
A. forever
51. What does the poet hear at Innisfree Is-
B. for a night and day
land?
C. for two days
A. the sound of raindrops
D. none of these options
B. the noise of the wind
49. Who is the poet of the poem, “The Lake C. the lapping low sounds of the lakewa-
Isle of Innisfree”? ter
A. William Wordsworth D. none of these three options

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1. What kind of days and nights are there in B. to enhance their impact
Northland during winters? C. to add rhythm
A. very short days and long nights D. all
B. very shorts nights and long days
4. The look like bear cubs.
C. very pleasant days and windy nights
A. people
D. uncomfortable days and comfortable
nights B. men
C. women
2. Why did the poet call the story “curious”?
D. children
A. because the story makes the reader
question reality 5. Where did the story of this poem occur?
B. because the poet is confused about the A. Switzerland
sequence of events
B. Scotland
C. because the poet has manipulated it to
C. Northland
simplify it
D. because she didn’t believe it was en- D. Netherland
tirely true 6. Why did the poet use alliteration in the
3. Why the words like away, boring and poem?
rolled have been repeated? A. to add pun to it
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C. to make it lyrical B. She thought it was too small for the

D. none holy man.
C. She thought the holy man won’t like it.
7. what did Saint Peter asked the lady for?
D. She thought the cake was not tasty.
A. cake
13. Into which bird was the old lady trans-
B. juice
formed into after being cursed by the
C. fruit saint?

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D. all A. Kingfisher
8. Which bird did the St.’s curse change the B. Woodpecker
woman into? C. Penguin
A. a sparrow D. none of above
B. a crow
14. Where is Northland situated?
C. a parrot
A. It is near Scotland.
D. a woodpecker
B. It is in Holland.
9. Identify the important expression that has C. It is an island of New Zealand.
been taken from the poem. D. It is an island of Ireland.
A. Greedy woman
15. What curse did Saint Peter pronounce on
B. They tell them the curious story the selfish woman?
C. Saint peter cursed the woman A. That she shall build her shelter as birds
D. black as coal do.
B. That she shall bore hard, dry wood for
10. what do these people use to move in snow
her scanty food.
A. husky dogs
C. That she shall keep boring all day.
B. horses
D. All the above.
C. reindeer
16. Where is the poem set in?
D. all
A. Netherland
11. What was the little woman doing when
B. Switzerland
Saint Peter went to her?
C. Scotland
A. She was eating cakes.
D. Northland
B. She was giving away cakes to the poor.
C. She was making and baking cakes. 17. For she said, “My cakes that seem too
small When I eat of them myself Are yet
D. She was putting cakes on the shelf. too large to give away.” So she put them
12. The little woman baked a cake for Saint Pe- on the shelf.What does this Stanza reveal
ter. Then why did she not give it to him? about the Woman’s character?

A. She thought it was too big to give A. She was judgmental and biased
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C. She was a good baker who didn’t un- 23. What made St. Peter angry with the
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D. She was kind but didn’t want to help A. her cakes
the Saint
B. she made a thin cake for him
18. Who was the preacher of the poem? C. her greedy actions
A. Saint Peter D. All
B. Saint John
24. How did he punish her?
C. Saint Jesus
A. He blessed her
D. Saint Bishop
B. He cursed her and made her a rabbit
19. Which idiom best describes the behaviour C. He cursed her and made her a wood-
of the Saint towards the Woman? pecker.
A. ”Greedy Pig” D. He blessed her to a good life
B. ”Fly of the Handle”
25. What is anaphora?
C. ”hungry as a wolf”
A. 2 or more lines starts with same word
D. ”Devil’s Advocate”
B. Repetition of same word in a line
20. What does the Poem Convey? C. Both A and B
A. To be a disciple of Christ D. None of these
B. To be gentle
26. The lady’s body turned black because
C. To be Selfless
A. she liked to take black color
D. To serve Saints
B. her clothes were burned
21. What did Saint Peter ask for from the little
C. she was a black lady
woman?
D. none
A. A single cake.
B. A dozen cakes. 27. What is the rhyming scheme of the poem?
C. A loaf of bread. A. 4-lined stanzas with abcd rhyming
D. Something to eat. scheme
B. 3 lined stanzas with aabc
22. what did the saint say about the woman?
C. 5 lined stanzas with abbcc
A. the saint said about her that she was
kind. D. None

B. the saint said about her that she was 28. Legend is
selfish.
A. A old house
C. the saint said about her that she was
B. An old traditional food
generous.
D. the saint said about her that she was C. An old traditional story
lucky. D. An old animal

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29. The most commonly used Poetic Device in A. (ii) ; (iv) ; (i) ; (ii)
the Poem is . B. (i) ; (ii) ; (iii) ; (iv)
A. Repetition C. (ii) ; (iii) ; (iv) ; (i)
B. Alliteration
D. (iv) ; (i) ; (ii) ; (ii)
C. Imagery
35. How do the children wearing furry clothes
D. Simile
look?

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30. What message does this poem convey? A. They look like little pups.
A. be greedy B. They look like foxes.
B. don’t help the poor C. They look like fawns.
C. don’t be greedy and help the poor and D. They look like bear’s cubs.
hungry people
D. All 36. why are the people unable to sleep
through the night
31. Quote examples of Alliteration used in the A. because they want to party at night
poem.
B. because the night are too long
A. tell the tales to you
C. because the night is too cold
B. faint with fasting
D. because they sleep during the day
C. cakes that seem too small
D. all 37. Why can’t people sleep the winter nights
through in Northland?
32. What happened to the old woman’s
A. Because the nights are too short there.
clothes?
B. Because the nights are too long there.
A. They were burnt black as she went up
through the chimney. C. Because it is all the time night there.
B. They were lost in the wood. D. Because there is no night there.
C. They were taken away by the thieves. 38. Why has the poet mentioned that “the chil-
D. They were torn by the wild animals. dren look like bear’s cubs”?

33. What is the mode of Transportation in A. because they were extremely obese.
Northland? B. because they wore a bear costume.
A. Sledges pulled by Snow Dogs C. because they wore furry clothes
B. Skis D. because Northland was a natural habi-
C. Sledges Pulled by Reindeers tat of bears
D. Snowmobiles 39. What did the woman make?
34. Choose the correct sequence of events:(i) A. She made a big cake for Saint Peter.
The Saint turned the woman into a wood- B. She made a heavy cake for Saint Peter.
pecker(ii) The Saint asked the woman for
food(iii) The Woman baked a cake for the C. she made a small cake for Saint peter.
Saint(iv)The Saint got Triggered D. She made delicious for saint peter.

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40. Who is the author of the poem? 46. What made Saint Peter angry?
A. Robert Frost A. The woman’s greed.

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B. William wordsworth B. The woman’s selfishness.
C. Phoebe Cary C. The woman’s pride.
D. John Milton D. The woman’s kindness.

41. What did the Saint say about the woman? 47. Which type of poem is ‘A Legend of the
A. The Saint about her that she was kind. Northland’?
B. The Saint said about her that she was A. Sonnet
selfish. B. Elegy
C. The Saint said about her that she was C. Ballad
generous.
D. Song
D. The Saint said that she was lucky.
48. When do people go for sledging?
42. This poem is a
A. in summers
A. Sonnet
B. During vacations
B. Ballad
C. when snow falls
C. Song
D. All
D. Blank verse
49. Why are days too short and nights too
43. Saint Peter finally came to a
long
A. city
A. because of cold climate
B. door of a cottage
B. because of hot climate
C. palace
C. both
D. shop
D. none
44. What did Saint ask the old lady for?
50. Who was on fast?
A. for shelter
A. The little woman was on fast.
B. for a piece of cake
B. the big lady was on fast.
C. to stay at night
C. the woodpecker was on fast.
D. for delicious food
D. the saint was on fast.
45. Saint Peter cursed the lady to become a
51. Legend is
A. sparrow A. an old house
B. woodpecker B. an old traditional food
C. kingfisher C. an old traditional story
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52. Which place does the poem refer to C. Both A and B

A. North America D. None of these
B. Canada
55. How did she go up?
C. Northland
D. India A. She went up through the door.
B. She went up through the chimney.
53. This poem is a
C. She went up through the window.

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A. Sonnet
B. Blank verse D. She went up through the ventilator.
C. Song
56. Who is the poetess of the poem?
D. Ballad
A. Robert Frost
54. What is the main moral of the story?
B. William Butler Yeats
A. We should not be greedy.
C. William Wordsworth
B. We should share our things with oth-
ers D. Phoebe Cary

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1. How is man’s vision clouded? B. It pollutes the air
A. by hate and narrow thinking C. It leads to economic loss
B. by other people D. All of these
C. by other countries
5. We should never
D. none
A. Hate the foreigners
2. In the end the poet tells us that we all shall B. Like the foreigners
lie in what?
C. Trust the foreigners
A. Air
D. none of above
B. Water
C. Fire 6. ‘No Men Are Foreign’ is written by
D. Earth A. Robert Frost
B. James Kirkup
3. A single body breathes beneath all
C. Shakespeare
A. uniforms
D. Wordsworth
B. souls
C. heads 7. What are all people aware of?
D. all of the above A. sun

4. Why should there be no war? B. air

A. It causes a lot of destruction and C. water

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8. “They, too, aware of sun and air and wa- B. Truth

ter, Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s
C. Honesty
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D. Money
A. God has given peace and equal oppor-
tunities to everyone
14. “ in which we all shall lie “-This phrase
B. Sun, air and water are essential to sur- denotes
vive
A. Life after death
C. Sun, air and water along with peaceful
crops need to be distributed B. Lying on the land
D. God is generous to the modest people C. Lying down after success

9. How do we pollute the earth according to D. Embracing life

the poet?
15. What are humans doing to the earth?
A. by throwing waste
A. Defiling
B. by hating and killing others
B. Saving
C. by cutting plants
C. Decorating
D. all
D. None of the above
10. A single body breathes beneath all
A. souls 16. What message this poem conveys?
B. heads A. Equality and Brotherhood
C. uniforms B. Individuality of everyone
D. all C. Everyone is different
11. What is this poem emphasising? D. All the above
A. All people are equal
17. During when the harvest is peaceful as
B. All people are different mentioned in the poem ‘No Men Are For-
C. different people live in different coun- eign’?
tries A. Period of harsh winter
D. none
B. Period of long winter
12. Complete the sentenceBeneath all uni- C. Period of cultivation and peace
forms, a singe body
D. Period of war
A. Dances
B. Breathes 18. Who are fed by peaceful harvests in the
poem No Men Are Foreign?
C. Writes
D. Eats A. The poet
B. The readers
13. What can be won by love according to the
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19. “They, too, aware of sun and air and 25. Who have created borders and countries
water”-Who are they? according to the poet?
A. Soldiers of the country A. nature
B. People of another country B. God
C. People of Northland C. people themselves

D. The living beings D. all

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26. In what ways are people alike?
20. According to the poet, strength can we
won by? A. all are born same
A. Love B. all breathe to live and die in the same
way
B. Weapons
C. all wear clothes
C. Money
D. all
D. Education of people
27. “Like ours:the land our brothers walk
21. In the poem, dispossess means upon”-Who are ‘brothers’ here?
A. Deprive A. Soldiers
B. Disadvantage B. Poet’s cousins

C. Disguise C. The readers

D. Delocate D. None of the above

28. According to the poet James Kirkup, why

22. In the poem, war has been compared to are no men strange?
A. Summer A. Because they live on the same land
B. Autumn B. Because they are fighting at the same
C. Rain warfront
D. Winter C. Because they are citizens of country
D. Because all are human
23. We should we hate?
29. When we are told to hate our brothers?
A. our brothers
A. During a war
B. our enemies
B. Always
C. decorating
C. While living in harmony
D. we should hate none
D. None of the above
24. We should have for all men 30. By ‘our country’ the poet means
A. Love A. The earth
B. Respect B. Our own country
C. Brotherly feelings C. Our neighboring countries
D. All of the above D. All of the above

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31. Who is the poet of the poem ‘No Men Are C. Carefree
Foreign’?
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A. James Kirkup
B. W.B.Yeats 37. What are the similar things in all the coun-
tries?
C. Robert Frost
A. Sun, earth
D. Phoebe Cary
B. air, sky
32. ‘Beneath all uniforms ‘ What does
poet mean by uniforms? C. water and plants

A. the political parties D. all

B. school 38. What does the title of the poem convey?
C. human body
A. all the people belong to the same earth
D. military forces of different countries
B. people belong to one country
33. “Let us remember, whenever we are C. all people should live in one country
told”-Here “us” means
D. none
A. Citizens of poet’s country
B. Citizens of the North 39. What is the tone of the poem in the last
C. The readers stanza?

D. Poet’s leaders A. blessing

B. cursing
34. What does harvest mean?
A. Gathering crops C. warning

B. Sew D. peace

C. Sowing seeds 40. How did the poet prove that there are no
D. Knitting foreign countries?

35. What things are common in all the people? A. with the help of people

A. all are born and brought up in same B. with the same way of living and dying
way C. with the help of nature
B. all sleep to take rest D. None
C. all breathe and eat to live and die in
the same way 41. Which of the following things are men-
tioned to be similar in all humans in any
D. all
land?
36. According to the poet James Kirkup, be- A. eyes, sleep.strength and love
longing to a different country doesn’t
make one B. eyes & sleep
A. Violent C. sleep & strength
B. Different D. love and war

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42. What are the things in nature that a man 48. “A labour not different from our own”-
needs to live with? Who is the labour here?
A. sun A. A worker from poet’s native
B. air B. A worker from different country
C. water and plants
C. A worker from the islands
D. all
D. A worker from small town
43. Does the poet encourage hatred for broth-

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ers in the poem ‘No Men Are Foreign’? 49. In the poem ‘No Men Are Foreign’ the poet
A. Yes emphasizes that we should not consider
anyone as our
B. No
C. Only for soldiers at warfront A. Brother

D. For the greedy ones B. Soldier

44. “Remember, we who take arms against C. Enemy

each other”-Here ‘each other’ means D. Beloved
A. Among different countrymen
50. How do we pollute the earth according to
B. Among the allies of north and south
the poet? (According to the poem)
C. Among West and east
A. by throwing waste
D. Between poet and the reader
B. by hating and killing others
45. Choose the antonym of the word domestic
C. by cutting plants
A. Peaceful
D. all
B. Beneath
C. Condemn 51. What does hate do?
D. Foreign A. kills enemy
46. In the poem ‘No Men Are Foreign’, when B. proves power
anyone tells us to hate others, then we
ourselves C. spreads more hate and divides every-
thing
A. Deprive
D. none
B. Uplift
C. Cheat 52. “Remember, no men are strange, no coun-
D. Both Deprive and Cheat tries foreign”-What does this line mean?

47. Which word below means ‘to express com- A. There should not be any borders that
plete disapproval’? separate countries and their people
A. abide B. Every person has the right to live his
B. praise life in his own ways

C. condemn C. All men look up to the God

D. seize D. None of the above

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53. Condemn means 59. In the poem, what does one need to recog-
A. Criticize nise and understand?

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B. Denounce A. That man is mortal

C. Castigate B. Its good to be humble

D. All of the above C. Love is all we need

D. Life is common in every land
54. This poem is very much in today’s
world 60. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
A. Relevant A. aabb
B. Irrelevant B. abcd
C. Inappropriate C. aabc
D. Wrong D. no rhyme scheme, it is free verse

55. What should be discouraged according to 61. How can we understand common life on
the poem? every land?
A. the practice of love and brotherhood A. By hating
B. equality B. By proving ourselves powerful
C. ill practice of hatred and discrimina- C. By leaving narrow thinking and hatred
tion D. None of the above
D. None
62. No Men are Foreign was written by
56. The poet is speaking against A. James Golding
A. Peace B. James Kirkuo
B. War C. James Kirkup
C. Money D. James Saunders
D. Technology
63. “ a single body breathes”-What does
57. The poet want to tell people that we this mean?
should live in harmony A. Living beings breathe
A. True B. We all breathe in the same way
B. False C. God created men
C. Can’t say D. One life one wish
D. none of above
64. in which we all shall lie’Where shall
58. What is the central theme of the poem? we all lie?
A. universal brotherhood A. In the Earth
B. equality B. In the sky
C. discrimination C. At our homes
D. poverty D. In the water

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65. What causes war? 71. According to the poet, during long winters
A. hatred people from every country are compelled
to?
B. love
A. To fight
C. religion B. To stay silent
D. countries C. To look out for loved ones
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in mind in the last stanza? 72. “To hate our brothers, “ Who are
A. to hate more “brothers” here?
B. to be powerful A. Fellow citizens
C. not to pay attention to the words of B. Poet’s acquaintances
hate by selfish people C. Natives of Ireland
D. all D. People from other countries

67. We should not regard any country as 73. “by war’s long winter starv’d”-What
does the poet mean by this?
A. Foreign
A. Winter is too harsh to survive
B. Own B. Winter brings peaceful harvests
C. Similar C. Every man starves during winter in a
D. None of these same way. No one’s an exception
D. Man is too weak to starve during win-
68. The poem spreads the message od ters. Hence one needs to harvest.
A. Universal brotherhood
74. The poet wants to promote the idea of
B. Hatred A. Development of Economy
C. Violence B. Universal brotherhood
D. None of these C. Development of nuclear weapons

69. “Like ours:the land our brothers walk D. Development of spaceships

upon”-What does ‘land’ mean here? 75. What do we do when we hate others ac-
A. The war front cording to the poet?
B. Farmland A. we hate ourselves
B. we protect ourselves
C. Country
C. we save ourselves
D. Mother Earth
D. we love ourselves
70. Who is the poet?
76. What should we not do to others?
A. James Kirkup A. love
B. James Wilson B. hate
C. James Owen C. care
D. James Wright D. meet

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77. Who have created border, discriminations 80. Who instigates the ordinary people to
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A. God A. religion
B. Nature B. God
C. People of Earth C. selfish people for their personal inter-
D. All the above ests

78. What does starve mean? D. none

A. To live in poverty 81. Remember, no men are strange, no coun-
B. To live without food tries foreignBeneath all uniforms, a single
C. To live without shelter body breathesLike ours:the land our broth-
ers walk uponIs earth like this, in which
D. To live without happiness we all shall lie.Which line from the above
79. Find the word that describes “Cheat” has ALLITERATION in it?

A. Betray A. Line 3
B. Fool B. Line 2
C. Take away C. Line 4
D. None of the above D. Line 1

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1. What does the tree symbolise in this C. Feeding upon its crust absorbing years
poem? of sunlight.
A. Prosperity D. It takes much time to kill a tree
B. Greenary 4. Can we kill a tree with a simple jab of the
C. Deep Rooted Evil knife?
A. yes
D. None
B. no
2. What killed the tree? C. maybe
A. scorching and chopping D. not known
B. floods 5. Which statement about the. Tree is true?
C. irresponsible behaviors A. The bleeding barks of the tree will heal
D. All the tree of the tree is getting any damage
.
3. Which among the lines describe the life B. The tree was there before a hundred
source of the tree years
A. So hack and chopBut this alone won’t C. That tree was planted by a child
do it
D. The tree was laying towards a river
B. Which if unchecked will expand again which has a lot of crocodiles .

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6. How do the trees die? C. fruit

A. when they don’t get water D. flowers
B. when they don’t get manure 12. Where does the strength of the tree lie?
C. when their roots are uprooted A. in leaves
D. when we cut it with knife or jab B. in fruits
7. Who is the poet of the poem ‘On Killing a C. in its roots
Tree’?

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D. All
A. Edward Lear
13. What helps the tree to grow?
B. Gieve Patel
A. Earth
C. W.W.E. Ross
B. Air
D. William Wordsworth
C. Gardener
8. What can alone kill a tree?
D. None
A. hacking
14. What does the poet equate killing trees
B. chopping
with?
C. hacking and chopping
A. killing animals
D. none of the above
B. killing insects
9. What happens to a tree’s bleeding bark? C. killing human beings
A. it heals soon D. None
B. it heals in a big time
15. Chocking is done in the absence of .
C. it never heals
A. Earth
D. a tree’s bark never bleed
B. Air
10. According to the poet, how does nature C. Water
(here, the tree) renew itself after an at-
D. Sunlight
tack by man?
A. After cutting the tree, it will start grow- 16. The strength of the tree is exposed’ what
ing leaves. do these words convey?
B. It will start growing after rainwater A. roots of the tree taken out of the earth
feeds the roots B. roots are withered
C. The different parts of the tree like bark, C. tree is withered
twigs will grow to their former size if left
unchecked. D. All

D. Answer option 3 17. What do you mean by ‘sprouting leaves’?

11. What will again expand to a tree’s full A. Discoloured leaves

size? B. Grown up leaves
A. roots C. Growing up leaves
B. green twigs D. Attractive leaves

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B. Because the wood cutter is not well C. Chopping
C. Because the tree is in standing posi- D. None
tion
21. What does leperous hide mean here?
D. Because, by consuming the Earth, the
tree is very strong A. Discoloured bark
B. Grown up branches
19. Sam is a woodcutter.He blows his axe and
cuts a branch from a mango tree.Which C. Powerful tree
words do narrate the tree’s condition ex- D. Weak root
actly?
22. What does this poem speak?
A. Broken twigs
A. merciless, thoughtless and callous be-
B. Uprooted tree havior of humans towards trees
C. Grown-up branches B. save plants
D. Bleeding bark C. human behavior
20. What does the tree consume to grow? D. None

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1. What was the poet taking for granted? 4. What does Lucy move with
A. his beloved’s life A. rocks
B. everything B. stones
C. life C. trees
D. all
D. all of the above
2. what literary/ figurative device is used in
the title of the poem “A Slumber did my 5. What was Lucy doing after her death?
Spirit Seal”? A. coming to poet’s dreams
A. alliteration B. was disturbing
B. allegory
C. moving here and there in the in the
C. allusion earth’s course of rotation
D. imagery D. all
3. what theme is revolving around in the
6. What does Slumber mean in the poem?
poem?
A. love A. harsh realities of life

B. death B. death
C. fear C. sleep
D. sadness D. all of the above

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7. The unidentified girl 11. What is this poem about?

A. cannot go away A. It is about life and death
B. has gone far away B. It is about poet’s beloved
C. cannot hear or see C. It’s about love
D. cannot feel anymore D. none of the above

8. What sealed the poet’s spirit? 12. What can’t Lucy do now?

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A. a joke A. feel
B. a victory B. hear
C. a slumber C. see
D. a prize D. all of the above

9. Who is ‘She’ in the poem ‘A Slumber Did 13. How did the poet feel after his beloved’s
My Spirit Seal’? death?
A. the poet’s wife A. grief stricken
B. the poet’s daughter B. happy
C. an imaginary child named Lucy C. burden free
D. none of the above D. all of the above

10. Who is the poet of the poem ‘A Slumber 14. Does Lucy feel the touch of earthy life
Did My Spirit Seal’? now?
A. Edward Lear A. yes
B. Gieve Patel B. no
C. W.W.E. Ross Ms C. maybe
D. William Wordsworth D. not known

1.18 The Lost Child

1. How were the people going to the festival D. A garland of Lillis
A. Going on foot
3. What did the parents do when they
B. Riding on horses reached a shady grove?
C. Carried on Bamboos and Bullock carts A. They collected some flowers for the
D. All of the above child.
B. They lay down to rest for sometime.
2. What did the child wanted at the flower-
shop? C. They sat down at the edge of the well.
A. A garland of Roses D. They listened to the cooing of the
doves.
B. A garland of Voilets
C. A garland of Gulmohar 4. Name the characters in the lesson .

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A. parents 10. What was it that attracted the child at the

B. generous man footpath?

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C. The Lost Child A. The Butterflies
D. All B. The Dragonflies

5. Why did the child keep moving without C. The Doves

getting any answers? D. The little insects and worms
A. because of distractions
11. Why did the child lose his interest in all the
B. because of too many attractions
things he was interested earlier?
C. because of his experience and as-
A. because of separation from his par-
sumed notions about his parents
ents and losing his way
D. none
B. because of no response from his par-
6. Which word means the same as, ‘very un- ents
happy and unable to be comforted’?
C. because his interest was changed
A. disconsolate
D. can’t say
B. strain
C. wintry 12. Which word means the same as ‘go or
move back or further away from a previ-
D. irresistible
ous position’?
7. What did the mother do when the child A. linger
asked, “I want that toy.?”
B. recede
A. She said, “look, child what is there be-
fore you?” C. suppress
B. She asked father to buy that toy for the D. plead
child
C. She looked at the child red-eyed 13. Who is the author of the lesson “The Lost
child”?
D. She said they had no money for the toy
A. Sudha Murthy
8. At what price did grandfather sell Toto
back its first owner? B. Mulkh Raj Anand

A. Rs.10/- C. Amrita Pritam

B. Rs.9/- D. All
C. Rs.7/-
14. What did the lost child say when a man
D. Rs.3/- asked him, “Whose baby are you?
9. Who is the writer of the story? A. The child said, “I want my father, I
A. Lewis Caroll want my mother.”

B. J K Mehta B. The child said, “I want to go home.”

C. R K Narayan C. The child said, “I live in a village.
D. Mulk Raj Anand D. The child said, “I am feeling hungry.

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15. What does the story show? 21. Why was the childing Sobbing?
A. working of a fair A. Because he fell down
B. working of a village B. Because he didn’t want to go to school
C. village people are good C. Because he got lost
D. working of a child’s mind D. Because the parents didn’t buy the
child any sweets and toys
16. The child asked for burfi but then he moved
22. How do the illustrations help show that

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on without waiting for an answer.Why?
the passage is science fiction?
A. He knew his plea would not be heeded. A. They show a futuristic world.
B. He knew his parents were poor. B. They show children reading a book.
C. He knew his parents had no money. C. They accurately portray historical
D. He knew it was bad to be greedy. events.
D. They show realistic houses and cloth-
17. What was the child’s favourite sweet? ing.
A. Gulab Jamun
23. Why did grandfather take Toto along with
B. Rasgulla him at Saharnpur?
C. Barfi A. because he missed him
D. Jalebi B. no one was at home
C. to save other animals
18. What did the child do when he realized
that he had lost his way? D. because he was mischievous so to give
relief to other animals
A. cried and ran here and there
B. felt happy 24. How were the people dressed for the fair?
A. Shabbily.
C. reported to the office
B. Carelessly
D. none
C. Gaily.
19. Who is the author of the lesson “ The Ad- D. Scantily
ventures of Toto”?
25. Why was Toto kept secretly?
A. Khushwant Singh
A. to save from other animals
B. Ruskin Bond
B. because grandmother disliked animals
C. Jane Austen
C. because he was naughty
D. W.B.Yeast
D. None
20. Who said to the child, “Come, Child, come, 26. How were the people dressed for the fes-
come on the footpath.”? tival?
A. Father A. Carelessly
B. Mother B. Scantily
C. Both Father and Mother C. Daily
D. Neither father nor mother D. Shabbily

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27. Name the things that the child saw on his C. He was sure to be refused by his par-
way to the fair? ents

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A. toys D. The quality of the burfi was not up to
the mark.
B. sweets and garlands
C. balloons 33. The child met the kind hearted person
D. all A. Near the eatable stall in the fair
B. In the crowd of the fair
28. At what point in the fair did the child lose
C. Near the shrine in the fair
his parents?
D. Near the temple in the fair
A. At the sweet-meat shop.
B. At the flower shop. 34. Who took the child to the fair?

C. At the balloon-seller’s place. A. parents

B. kind man
D. At the roundabout.
C. friends
29. The rescuer of the lost child took him to D. none
several stalls to
35. Name the author (writer) of the story ‘The
A. Buy things for him
Lost Child’.
B. reunite the child to his parents
A. Ruskin Bond
C. make him forget his parents
B. R.K.Laxman
D. make him stop crying first C. Mulk Raj Anand
30. How was the little boy feeling while going D. Oscar Wilde
to the fair?
36. Nana was a
A. Nervous
A. monkey
B. Frightened B. tortoise
C. Sad and unhappy C. dog
D. Full of life and laughter. D. donkey
31. What did the father do when the child said, 37. Receding:
“I want that toy.”? A. Side By Side
A. He at once bought the toy for the child. B. a small group of trees
B. He said, “Look, child, what is before C. gradually diminishing
you.”
D. crowd
C. He looked at the child red-eyed.
38. What festival were people going to cele-
D. He began to beat the child. brate??
32. I want a burfi’, the child does not wait to A. The Festival of Holi
be treated with a burfi because B. The Festival of Diwali
A. His father would scold him C. The Festival of Eid
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39. The child felt when he got lost 44. What did the parents say when the little
boy lagged behind?
A. Scared
A. ‘Come, we are getting late’
B. Afraid and insecure
B. ‘Come, have these toys’
C. Confused and upset
C. ‘Come, child, come’
D. all the three
D. ‘Come, or you’ll be lost’
40. How did the generous man try to calm 45. What did the child do when he realized

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down the child? that he was not with his parents?
A. showing him different toys A. cried and ran here and there
B. taking him to rides B. felt happy
C. talking to him and diverting his atten- C. reported to the office
tion D. none
D. All
46. The grandfather travelled from to Sa-
haranpur to collect his pension.
41. Why did the ticket collector call Toto a
dog? A. Dibrugarh
A. because he was peeping out of the bag B. Nainital

B. because of his dog like looks C. New Delhi

D. Dehra Dun
C. to fix fare
D. All 47. What festival were the people celebrat-
ing?
42. Why was Toto kept in a little closet on his A. The festival of lights
first day at home?
B. The festival of Spring
A. The grandson wanted the monkey for C. The festival of Dussehra
himself.
D. The festival of Holi
B. Other animals did not like the new
monkey. 48. Why did the child know that his that his
plea of burfi would not be heeded?
C. Grandmother disapproved of bringing
new animals. A. because his parents would say he was
greedy.
D. Toto was so naughty that he would hurt
others. B. because his parents would say it was
a cheap sweet.
43. Why were the parents holding the hand of C. because his parents would say he was
their child? too old to demand such things.
A. to protect him from the crowd D. All of these
B. because of their fears 49. What did the child realize?
C. to help him A. The fair was charming
D. None B. the toys were attractive

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C. that parents are the most valuable as- 55. The father of the story The Lost Child was
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D. None B. A dictator
C. A rude person
50. What was the color of Toto the monkey?
D. A frustrated man
A. black
56. The story tells about
B. brown
A. A child
C. white
B. A child and his parents
D. red C. A child and his parents visiting a fair
D. The child parent bond
51. Where did the child go with his parents?
A. village fair 57. The other animals in grandfather’s private
zoo were at who’s mercy?
B. cinema hall
A. grandfather’s
C. circus B. writer’s mercy
D. All C. grandmother’s
D. Toto’s mercy
52. Who is the poet of the poem “The Lost
Child”? 58. What kind of water did Toto like to take a
bath in?
A. Enid Blyton
A. cold water
B. Mulk Raj Anand
B. ice water
C. Ruskin Bond
C. snow water
D. Charles Dickens D. warm water

53. hundreds of years of time 59. What did the child start doing when a
shower of young flowers fell on him?
A. centuries
A. He started collecting the flowers from
B. average the ground.
C. calculated B. He started gathering the raining petals
in his hands.
D. progress
C. He started dancing with joy.
54. The child was attracted by the music of the D. He started climbing up the flowering
snake-charmer, yet he moved on. Why? tree
A. His parents had forbidden him to hear 60. What was the child attracted by as he en-
such coarse music. tered the grove?
B. The child did not want to be left behind. A. worms and insects
C. His parents were saying, “Come, child, B. a shower of young flowers
come.” C. dragon-flies
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61. How was the child saved from being tram- C. Pale like melting gold.
pled underfoot?
D. Lovely like a rainbow.
A. He shrieked at the highest pitch of his
voice and a man heard his cry and lifted 67. What happened as the child entered the
him up. grove?
B. He prayed to the God who rescued him. A. A shower of young flowers fell on him.
C. His parents arrived right at that time B. A dove flew above his head.

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and saved him.
C. His mother collected some flowers for
D. He quickly moved away showing the
him.
presence of mind.
D. His father started shouting at him.
62. What did the child speak repeatedly after
losing his parents? 68. List the things that the generous man did
A. I want my father I want my mother after picking up the child?
B. I want ride A. asked his name
C. I want toys B. consoled & offered many attractive
D. I want swings things

63. Name the things Toto destroyed at the C. asked his parents’ names
writer’s home? D. all
A. wall papers and clothes
69. In what manner the snake was in the bas-
B. curtains
ket?
C. dishes
A. Coiled up
D. all
B. Dead
64. Who was playing a flute to a snake?
C. Trying to bite
A. A snake man
D. Of yellow colour
B. A snake catcher
C. A snake charmer 70. The Lost Child is written by
D. A musician A. Mulk Raj Anand
65. Why did grandfather buy the monkey? B. RK Narayan
A. to have a companion C. Arunduthi Roy
B. to help him D. Ruskin Bond
C. to add to the collection of animals in
zoo at his home 71. improvement
D. None A. progress

66. How did the flowering mustard-field look? B. inspector

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B. Red like rose. D. insert

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72. The child desired for almost everything C. because he was crying
in the fair but got only what his parents
D. all
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A. Overlooked 78. What did the child do when he didn’t find
B. Suppressed his parents with him?

C. Considered A. He cried, ‘Father, Mother.’

D. Fulfilled B. He ran here and there in all directions.

73. How did Toto check the warmth of the wa- C. Both A and B
ter? D. Neither A or B
A. with writer’s help
79. “He was filled with an overwhelming de-
B. by touching it outside sire to possess them all.” In this line ‘all’
C. by putting his hand in it refers to .
D. None A. sweets
74. What is the figure of speech used in the B. toys
line, “It was a flowering mustard-field, C. balloons
pale like melting gold.”?
D. flowers
A. Simile
B. Metaphor 80. From where did grandfather buy the mon-
C. Personification key?

D. Apostrophe A. from the market

B. from a shop
75. What shop was there at the entrance of
the fair? C. from the jungle
A. A toy shop D. from a tonga driver
B. A balloon shop
81. What had made the child lag behind for the
C. A sweet meat shop first time?
D. A flower shop A. a butterfly
76. Who is the Author of the poem The Lost B. worms and insects
Child?
C. cooing of doves
A. Mulk Raj Anand
D. toys
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Sara Teasdale 82. Which one of these means the same as
‘emerged’?
D. Arushi Lakhanpal
A. dispersed
77. Why did the child lag behind his parents?
B. came out
A. because of the stops he took to look
closely at his favourite things C. disappeared
B. because he was walking slow D. jumped

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83. Why did the child say “No” to all the C. to move away
things he was earlier crying for?
D. crowd
A. lost interst
B. his interst was changed 89. What did the parents say when the child
lagged behind?
C. because being with parents was more
important A. ‘Come fast, we are gettting late.’

D. none B. ‘Come, child, come.’

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C. ‘Come and have these sweets.’
84. Why was Toto called pretty?
D. ‘Let’s walk fast.’
A. because of shining mischievous eyes
B. Because of red color 90. Why was the little boy brimming over
C. because of his pearly white teeth with life and laughter?

D. All A. because his parents had promised him

toys.
85. How did the flowering mustard feild look?
B. because he had seen his favorite
A. White lite silver sweet.
B. Red like roses C. because he was going to a fair with his
C. Like melting gold parents.
D. Lovely like a rainbow D. All of these

86. The child was forbidden to hear the flute 91. How was the little child feeling while go-
music of the snake charmer because ing to the fair?
A. His parents thought that the snake A. nervous
would harm him
B. sad and unhappy
B. His parents considered the flute music
coarse and cheap C. full of life and laughter

C. The music was scary and inauspicious D. frightened

D. The parents did not like the looks of the 92. Where was Toto kept?
snake charmer
A. in a cupboard
87. What does the child want to eat at the B. in the zoo
fair?
C. in the field
A. Pastry
D. in the garden
B. Burfi
C. Jalebi 93. Which festival is going on in the chapter?
D. Ladoo A. Monsoon
88. Flushed: B. Spring
A. Red Face C. Holi
B. a holy place D. Autumn

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94. What did the child do when his parents 100. Name the author of the story ‘The Lost
said, ‘Come, child, come’? Child’?

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A. He refused to move. A. Ruskin Bond
B. He looked at them angrily. B. R.K.Laxman
C. He hurried towards them. C. Mulk Raj Anand
D. He began to cry. D. Oscar Wilde

95. What was the sweetmeat seller selling? 101. Where did the child get lost?
A. Burfi A. At home

B. Gulab Jamun, Rasagulla, Burfi, Jalebi. B. At the mall

C. Balloons C. At school

D. Cotton Candy D. Village Fair

102. Disconsolate:
96. What was the price that grandfather paid
to buy the monkey? A. repeated
A. Rs.10/- B. convincingly
B. Rs.7/- C. unhappy
C. Rs.5/- D. request
D. Rs.6/- 103. When did the child finally make a bold re-
quest?
97. How did the ticket collector fix the fare for
Toto? A. when he saw a garland of gulmohur

A. By calling him a dog B. when he saw burfi

B. By asking other passengers C. when he heard the music of the snake-

charmer
C. By giving him a seat
D. when he saw a roundabout in full
D. By following his rule book swing
98. The protagonist in the story 104. What does the child’s refusal to all the
A. is a little boy attractive things show towards the end?

B. is a little girl A. child lost his interest

C. is a child B. child’s obstinacy

D. none of the above C. bond of love between child and parents

is above evrything.
99. How was Toto taken to Saharanpur? D. None
A. In an iron cage
105. When did the child realize that he had lost
B. In a jute bag his way?
C. In a canvas bag A. while running
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C. when he turned to take permission 109. What festival were the people going to
from his parents to take a ride on a round- celebrate?
about A. The festival of Holi
D. none B. The festival of Spring
106. How did the mother distract the child C. The festival of Dussehra
from the toy? D. The festival of Diwali
A. By dragging him away.

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110. What did the child want to eat at the
B. By showing him the mustard field. fair?
C. By showing him flying beetles. A. Burfi
D. By buying him an ice-cream. B. pastry
107. What did the child say as they passed by C. ladoo
sweetmeat-shop? D. jalebi
A. He said, ‘I want that burfi.’
111. Who wrote the story ‘The Lost Child’?
B. He said, ‘I want that jalebi.’
A. Ruskin Bond
C. He said, ‘I want that rasagulla
B. R.K.Laxman
D. He said, ‘I want that gulab jamun
C. Mulk Raj Anand
108. What did the child do as they passed by D. Oscar Wilde
the mustard-field?
A. He collected some flowers. 112. Meaning Of the word:Intercepting

B. He ran after butterflies and caught A. A Cruel Ruler

some of them. B. Showy
C. He would catch dragonflies as one of C. Side By Side
them settled down to rest there. D. Stopping somebody/something from
D. He lay down to rest there. reaching their destination

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1. Toto was brought from a Tonga-Driver for C. Jane Austen
a sum of how much rupees? D. W.B.Yeast
A. 3 rupees
3. From whom does grandfather brought
B. 2 rupees toto?
C. 5 rupees A. a tango driver
D. 10 rupees B. from zoo

2. Who is the author of this lesson? C. old man

A. Khushwant Singh D. a animal seller

B. Ruskin Bond 4. The tonga-driver used to keep the little red

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monkey tied to 10. Why did grandfather sell Toto back to its
A. a chain first owner?

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A. because he was missing him
B. to the tonga
B. They were not well to do and were un-
C. a feeding-trough
able to afford mischievous Toto
D. to a peg
C. because he didn’t like him
5. The author of the chapter is D. none
A. Roald Dhal
11. Toto’s what part of the body served as his
B. Ruskin Bond third-hand?
C. Mulk Raj Anand A. His Mouth
D. Rabindranath Tagore B. His Tail
C. His Leg
6. What did the ticket-collector guessed Toto
as? D. His Teeth
A. A Tortoise 12. The text highlights
B. A Dog A. the need to be aware of animal needs.
C. A Rat B. the need to adopt pets.
D. A Squirrel C. the importance of a monkey as a pet.
7. The author of this text is D. the need to maintain a zoo.

A. Khushwant Singh 13. Grandfather purchased the monkey

B. Ruskin Bond A. to give him company.
C. James Bond B. to help him.
D. Jane Austen C. to add to his collection of animals.
D. to present it to his wife as a gift.
8. GRANDFATHER bought Toto from a tonga-
driver for the sum of 14. Grandfather took and to Saharan-
A. five rupees pur with him.
B. 2 rupees A. toto, nana
C. 1 rupee B. toto, tortoise
D. 2.5 rupees C. nana.hare
D. rabbits, toto
9. What did Toto love in cold winter
evenings? 15. Grandfather bought Toto from a
A. A spicy samosa A. rickshaw puller
B. A dish of pullao B. bus driver
C. A warm bath C. tonga driver
D. A cup of tea D. servant

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16. After grandmother agreed where was C. Delhi

Toto given a comfortable home? D. Mumbai
A. In grandfather’s room
22. First the Grandfather thought where to
B. Along with all other animals in the sta- put this monkey?
ble
A. In the Public Zoo
C. A special room made by grandmother
B. In the Circus
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D. In the portico
D. In the house of his Neighbor
17. Meaning of the word-scooping
23. Toto’s teeth were
A. a hook
A. white
B. friendly
B. pearly white
C. jumping
C. silver white
D. lifting
D. silvery
18. Who had taught Toto to take a bath?
24. Toto was taken to Saharanpur in
A. writer
A. a jute bag
B. writer’s friend
B. a hand bag
C. his first owner
C. a canvas bag
D. grandmother
D. an iron cage
19. Meaning of the word-fastened
25. Who is the author of the story The Adven-
A. tied tures of Toto?
B. run fast A. Mark Twain
C. pull out B. Mulk Raj Anand
D. none of above C. Ruskin Bond
20. Why did the ticket-collector not charge D. Anton Chekov
Grandfather for carrying a tortoise with
26. What item did Toto use to make a rope?
him?
A. Grandfather’s shirt
A. Because the tortoise was not a
quadruped. B. School Blazer
B. Because the tortoise was not a mon- C. A Function Suit
key. D. Grandmother’s Salwar
C. Because the tortoise was not a dog. 27. Toto had bright eyes that sparkled with
D. Because the tortoise was not a human
being. A. enthusiasm
21. Where did the writer’s Grandfather live? B. joy
A. Saharanpur C. ntelligence
B. Dehradun D. mischief

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28. Toto and which domestic animal in their 34. Toto’s eyebrows were
stablle never became friends? A. hollow

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A. The Tortoise B. deep set
B. The Dog C. wise
C. The Donkey D. mischievous
D. The Rabbit
35. Toto’s bright eyes sparkled with what?
29. They had another animal in their house A. Mischief
named Nana. What is that animal?
B. Jovial
A. Rabbit
C. Contented
B. Donkey
D. Discipline
C. Tortoise
D. Monkey 36. Toto took from the table and polished
it off sitting on the jackfruit tree.
30. The tone of the text is A. a plate of vegetable
A. Humourous B. pulav
B. Witty C. bananas
C. Persuasive D. crisps
D. Informative
37. What was grandfather’s reaction on see-
31. Who sold the monkey to Grandfather? ing toto’s clever performance?
A. A veterinarian doctor A. Happy
B. A tonga-driver B. Angry and Sad
C. An animal hunter C. Amazed and Surprised
D. A poacher D. Pleased

32. How did Toto prove to other animals? 38. What was the colour of the canvas kit-bag
A. friendly in which Toto was taken?

B. troublesome A. White

C. soothing B. Black

D. careful C. Brown
D. Crimson
33. What would Grandmother do when Grand-
father brought home some new bird or an- 39. The ticket collector categorized Toto as a
imal? dog as
A. She always fussed. A. he looked like a dog.
B. She felt very happy. B. he wanted his ticket fare.
C. She would start crying. C. he disliked monkeys.
D. She started playing with it. D. he wanted to earn money.

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40. What sort of relationship was there be- C. grandfather

tween Toto and Nana? D. none
A. they were fast friends
45. What did Toto do with the writer’s school
B. they never became friends
blazer?
C. they enjoyed their relation a lot
A. He threw it out of the window.
D. none of these options
B. He tore it into shreds.
41. Grandfather believed that added to

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C. He wore it on his back.
anybody’s good looks.
D. He used it as his bedding.
A. a nose.
B. a tail. 46. All of these prove that Toto was a pretty
monkey, except
C. a tall body.
A. He had bright sparkling eyes.
D. a fair complexion.
B. He had deep-set eyebrows.
42. The grandfather traveled from where to
where to collect his pension. C. He had dried up hands.

A. Nagpur to Sharanpur D. He had pearly white teeth.

B. Nainital to Dibrugarh 47. What fare did the ticket-collector charge
C. New Delhi to Nainital from Grandfather as the ticket of Toto?
D. Sharanpur to Dehradun A. 5 rupees
B. 4 rupees
43. What did Toto take to the jackfruit tree?
A. A jackfruit C. 3 rupees

B. A dish of pullao D. 2 rupees

C. A glass of water 48. Which of the following trait was not ex-
D. A cup of coffee hibited by Toto?
A. enthusiasm
44. Who used to give a bowl of warm water
to Toto? B. intelligence
A. writer C. consideration
B. grandmother D. playful

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1. How was the mad elephant breaking the 2. After eating, he would read for a while be-
walls? fore dozingoff.Who is ‘he’ here? What did
A. like toys he read usually?

B. like kettles A. Mahendra, Iswaan’s stories

C. like puppets B. Iswaran, Tamil stories
D. like matchsticks C. Mahendra, Tamil novels

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D. Iswaran, Tamil thrillers 9. Iswaran was fond of reading

A. Tamil thriller
3. Whose story did Iswaran tell Mahendra?

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B. Novel
A. leopard’s
C. Biography
B. lion’s
D. none of above
C. mad elephants
D. none 10. Iswaran said that a horrible ghost of a
woman appeared
4. What kind of story teller Iswaran was? A. always on a new moon night.
A. good B. off and on at midnight during the full
B. very good moon
C. master storyteller C. always on a full-moon night.
D. none D. none of above

5. was the junior supervisor of a firm. 11. In his imaginative story Iswaran imagined
the hug tree as a
A. Narendra
A. Elephant
B. Ramesh
B. Beast
C. Ganesh
C. Crocodile
D. Mahendra
D. none of above
6. Name the writer of the story, ‘Iswaran
12. Who is the writer of this lesson?
the Storyteller’.
A. R.K LAXMAN
A. Mulk Raj Anand.
B. R.K NARAYANAN
B. Laxman.
C. MULK RAJ ANAND
C. Ruskin Bond.
D. RUSKIN BOND
D. A.K. Ramanujan.
13. How does Iswaran describe a fallen tree?
7. Iswaran was a of Mahendra.
A. a huge mountain
A. Caretaker
B. a huge building
B. Friend
C. an enormous bushy beast
C. Cook
D. a small thing
D. Servent
14. Why did Mahendra want to shift from his
8. What kind of person was Iswaran? workplace?
A. curious learner A. he didn’t like the place
B. dedicated, loyal and obedient worker B. weather didn’t suit him
C. multitalented full of positive traits C. because of the fear of ghosts
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15. But one asset he had was his cook, C. Speaker

Iswaran.What does ‘asset’ mean?
D. none of above
A. A cook
B. A family member 21. Where did the elephant enter?
C. A close friend A. room
D. a valuable thing or person. B. house
16. How did Iswaran say he brought down the C. school ground

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mad elephant? D. none
A. By hitting at its tusk.
B. By hitting at its trunk. 22. Where did the school boys hide themselves
to see the mad elephant?
C. By hitting at its third toenail.
A. on trees
D. By hitting at its back with a stick.
B. in their houses
17. “How did you bring down the
beast?”What was Iswaran’s answer to C. in their classrooms
this question? D. in the Headmaster’s room
A. Yoga
23. Mahendra was employed as
B. Kung-fu
A. An engineer
C. Karate
D. none of above B. A cook
C. A junior supervisor
18. What was it about Iswaran’s bk stories
that Mahendra enjoyed? D. A doctor
A. The basic reality of his stories.
24. Iswaran had an amazing capacity. What
B. The moral lesson of his stories. was it?
C. His way of narration. A. falling down big trees
D. His art of prolonging his stories.
B. producing vegetables and cooking in-
19. What did Mahendra see from the win- gredients
dow? C. telling lies
A. A cat running after a mouse
D. cheat shopkeepers
B. dark cloud like form holding a bundle
C. a mouse 25. What was Iswaran fond of reading?
D. a friend A. books

20. Iswaran was a good B. comics

A. Painter C. fiction
B. Story teller D. popular Tamil thrillers

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1. Why did guru decide to leave the place? 6. What did the guru tell his disciple?
A. because of some urgent work A. the people were innocent
B. he had a message to leave the place B. the city was full of surprises
C. king ordered to leave the place
C. behaviour of foolish is unpredictable
D. because he thought that it was not and it was not safe to live with them
safe to be with fools for a long time
D. none
2. Which one is correct?
7. Whom did the goldsmith blame?
A. The king was a fool
B. The Guru was a fool A. The merchant

C. The king as well as his minister were B. A rich woman

fools C. The Wife of the merchnat
D. The minister was wise but the king was
D. The disciple
a fool

3. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF BAILIFF 8. The king and the minister did not want
A. A LAW OFFICER WHO MAKES SURE A. to run things like other things
THAT THE DESCRIPTION OF A COURT ARE B. to change night into day
OBEYED
C. to change day into night
B. A LAW OFFICER WHO MAKES SURE
THAT THE DECISIONS OF A COURT ARE D. to make people work at night
OBEYED
9. I had given some gold to the goldsmith to
C. A DIFFICULT SITUATION THAT ONE
make some jewellery for me. He was a
HAS GOT INTO
lazy scoundrel. Who is the lazy scoundrel
D. NONE mentioned here?
4. Whom did the merchant blame for the A. the owner of the house
falling of the wall?
B. Gold smith
A. His father
C. bricklayer
B. His wife
D. rich merchant
C. The mason who build the wall
D. His son 10. WHEN DOES THE DISCIPLE REMEMBER
GURU’S WORDS
5. The merchant said that his wall fell be-
cause A. WHEN HE’S ARRESTED
A. the thief tried to break it B. WHEN HE’S SLEEPING
B. the wall was old and weak C. WHEN HE’S EATING
C. the hole made in it was too big D. WHEN HE DECIDES TO LEAVE THE
D. the bricklayer didn’t built it right PLACE

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11. The wall of the old house collapsed when 17. Who visited the kingdom?
the theif was A. a guru and his disciple
A. making a hole in it B. a king from another kingdom
B. carrying out his loot through the hole C. a merchant
C. trying to hide under the wall D. a princess
D. punching the wall
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12. THE KING EXECUTED HIMSELF BECAUSE A. KINGS
A. HE FELT GUILTY B. KINGS AND THEIR MINISTERS
B. THE GURU TOLD HIM TO C. A KINGDOM RULED BY A FOOLISH
C. HE WANTED TO REBORN AS A KING KING AND HIS SILLY MINISTER
D. HE WAS GUILTY D. ALL

13. What did the guru and his disciple find at 19. Who did the king decide to execute in place
the grocery shop? of the merchant?
A. many beautiful things A. A MAN WHO BECAME FAT BECAUSE OF
B. same price for all the things EATING

C. a duddu B. POOR MAN

D. none C. MERCHANT S REALTIVE

D. NONE
14. WHAT IS THE SUMMARY OF THIS LES-
SON? 20. What was the price of all things during the
A. KINGDOM IS FOOLS foolish king’s rule?

B. KINGDOM OF FOOLS A. 5 DUDDU

C. FOOLISH PEOPLE B. 10 DUDDU

D. NONE C. 1 DUDDU
D. none of above
15. Who did the merchant hold responsible for
the thief’s death and saved his own life? 21. ACCORDING TO THE GURU WHOSE BE-
A. Dancing girl HAVIOUR IS UNPREDICTABLE?

B. the mason who built the wall A. KINGS

C. his forefathers B. PEOPLES

D. none of above C. FOOLISH PEOPLES

D. DISCIPLES
16. How did the king and his men make the
guru and his disciple free? 22. The dancing girl put the blame on
A. BY DISGUISING THEM AS CRIMINALS A. the brick layer
B. BY PAASING ORDERS B. the goldsmith
C. NONE C. the rich merchant
D. none of above D. the rich merchant’s father

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23. IN WHOSE HOUSE DID THE THEIF BREAK B. IF HE COULD ORDER WITHOUT THINK-
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A. THE MINISTER C. IF OLD LAWS ARE CHANGED
B. THE DISCIPLINE D. NONE
C. A RICH MERCHANT 29. What is the meaning of “dozen”?
D. THE GOLDSMITH A. A group or set of 10
24. The disciple didn’t want to leave the town B. A group or set of 5
because C. A group or set of 12
A. The king was so kind there D. none of above
B. The people were very nice 30. What is the meaning of “scoundrel”?
C. Everything was very cheap there A. A person who does robbery
D. His guru lived there B. A dishonest person
25. Who visited the town? C. The culprit
A. A merchant D. none of above
B. A guru with his disciple 31. IN THE KINGDOM OF FOOLS
C. A dancer girl A. KING WAS A FOOL
D. A robber B. MINISTER WAS FOOL
C. BOTH KING AND MINISTER WERE
26. WHO WROTE THIS STORY
FOOLS
A. A.K RAMANUJAN
D. none of above
B. R.K NARAYAN
32. How did the guru save the people of the
C. ARUNDHATI ROY
kingdom?
D. MAHASWETA DEVI A. by flattering the king
27. The bricklayer could not bild the wall right B. making the king believe that the new
because stake will bring fortune
A. a dancing girl kept looking at him all C. by helping the kingdom getting rid of
day the foolish king and his silly minister
B. a dancing girl kept talking to him all D. all
day
33. “Poor thing, she’s absolutely right, “
C. a dancing girl kept going up and down thought the king, weighing the evidence.
the street all day “We’ve got the real culprit at last.Who is
D. a girl was dancing in the nearby the poor thing in these lines?
A. The dancing girl
28. ON WHAT CONDITION DID THE GURU
AGREED TO BE THE NEXT KING? B. The rich merchant

A. IF HIS DISCIPLE WOULD BE A MINIS- C. The owner of the house

TER D. Bricklayer

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34. Everything in the kingdom cost C. THE FOOLISH PEOPLE’S

A. a duddu D. none of above
B. a rupee
40. WHOM DID THE CHEIFS BROTHER BLAME
C. a dollar FOR THE DEATH OF THE THEIF?
D. five rupees A. DESTINY
35. What argument did the king present to B. PEOPLE
punish the merchant?

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C. MERCHANT
A. He inherited his father’s sin in the D. ALL
same way as he inherits his wealth
B. He must sacrifice for his father’s sake 41. Who were the idiots?
C. He must accomplish his father’s half A. king and his minister
done works B. people
D. None C. gurus
36. WHO DISTRACTED THE BRICKLAYER D. all
A. DANCER 42. What was the complaint of the thief’s
B. FOOD SELLER brother?
C. GOLDSMITH A. His brother had died while performing
D. DISCIPLE an ancient trade because a wall fell on him
B. His brother was killed by a woman
37. Identify the order in which people were whom he loved
blamed:
C. His brother died because the merchant
A. Merchant, bricklayer, dancing girl,
killed his brother for committing a theft
goldsmith.
D. A merchant killed his brother in sleep
B. Merchant, bricklayer, dancing girl,
for his property
goldsmith.
C. Disciple, goldsmith, merchant, brick- 43. On what condition did the guru agree to be
layer the next king?
D. King, minister, guru, disciple. A. if his disciple would be a minister

38. Can foolish people be dangerous? B. if he could order without thinking

A. Yes C. if old laws are changed

B. No D. none
C. not sure 44. WHO ACCORDING TO THE KING WAS THE
D. none of above REAL CULPRIT OF THE CRIME?
A. MERCHANT
39. According to the guru whose behavior is
unpredictable? B. DANCING GIRL
A. THE KING’S C. GOLDSMITH
B. THE DISCIPLE’S D. none of above

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45. WHAT DID THE KING SUMMON FOR THE 51. Who broke into the merchant’s house?
FIRST TIME? A. king

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A. THE DISCIPLINE
B. a thief
B. THE THEIFS BROTHER
C. minister
C. THE MERCHANT
D. guru
D. THE MASON
52. What does this story speak about?
46. What does this story throw light upon?
A. kings
A. foolish people and the dangers they
pose B. kings and their ministers
B. kings and their ministers C. a kingdom ruled by a foolish king and
his silly minister
C. always be happy
D. D) wise people D. all

47. How was the night changed with day? 53. What did the king and his minister decide
to change?
A. people would work at night and sleep
during day A. people
B. by decorating everything B. customs
C. by lighting the kingdom C. night with day
D. none D. all

48. WHY DID THE GURU INTIALLY HAPPY? 54. WHO LEFT THE CITY?
A. BECAUSE OF THE CAPACTITY OF BUY- A. DISCIPLE
ING ALL THINGS AT A NOMINAL PRICE
B. GURU
B. BECAUSE OF THE CHANGES SYSTEMS
C. SILLY MINISTER
C. BECAUSE OF THE FOOLISH PEOPLE
D. KING
D. ALL
55. WHAT DID THE GURU AND HIS DISCIPLE
49. It was decided to hang the disciple in place FIND AT THE GROCERY SHOP?
of the merchant because
A. MANY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
A. He was the real culprit
B. SAME PRICE FOR ALL THE THINGS
B. He had not followed his guru’s advice
C. He was living in the town illegally C. A DUDDU

D. He was fat enough to fit the stake D. NONE

50. WHAT WAS THE PRICE OF ALL THINGS 56. HOW DID THE THEIF ENTER THE MER-
DURING THE FOOLISH KINGS RULE? CHANTS HOUSE?
A. 5 DUDDU EACH A. JUMPING THE WALL
B. 4 DUDDU EACH B. FROM THE BACKDOOR
C. 1 DUDDU EACH C. BY MAKING A HOLE INTO THE WALL
D. 2 DUDDU EACH D. NONE

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57. The guru and his disciple on reaching the 63. Why was the merchant called to court?
kingdom found that A. To listen to his crimes.
A. everyone was asleep in the day
B. To thank the king
B. everyone was working in the day
C. to pay for the death of a thief.
C. everyone was sleeping at night
D. the king wanted to punish him.
D. everyone was moving about in the hot
sun 64. Whom did the mason blame (which dis-

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tracted him while making the wall)?
58. Who left the city?
A. A donkey who continuously brayed
A. disciple
B. The jingling anklets of a dancing girl
B. guru
C. A cat who continuously mewed
C. silly minister
D. king D. A little boy was crying

59. Whom did the dancing girl blame? 65. WHEN DID THE GURU AND HIS DISCIPLE
REACH THE CITY?
A. A merchant
A. BY MIDNIGHT
B. The king
B. BROAD DAYLIGHT
C. The mason
C. COLD EVENING
D. A goldsmith
D. none of above
60. In the Kingdom of Fools,
A. The king was an idiot 66. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR
B. The minister was an idiot A. AJ KALAM
C. Both the king and the minister were id- B. OSCAR WILDE
iots C. AK RAMANUJAN
D. Neither the king nor the minister was D. BILL BRYSON
an idiot
67. The king and the minister warned, that
61. How were the people made to obey the anyone who disobeyed their orders
king’s orders?
A. Would be turned out of the kingdom
A. by threatening to kill
B. would be put into the prison
B. by speaking to them
C. by showing them sword C. would be punished with death

D. none D. would be given lashes on the back

62. To whom did the sanyasi pray in his heart 68. Whom did the thief’s brother blame for the
before being executed? death of the thief?
A. GOD A. DESTINY
B. GURU B. PEOPLE
C. MINISTER C. MERCHANT
D. none of above D. ALL

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69. WHO VISITED THE KINGDOM? 73. THE DISCIPLE’S DIET DID NOT INCLUDE
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B. A KING FROM ANOTHER KINGDOM B. RICE

C. A MERCHANT C. HONEY
D. GHEE
D. A PRINCESS
74. TO WHOM DID THE KING DECIDE TO EXE-
70. WHAT KIND OF STORY IS THIS? CUTE IN THE PLACE OF THE MERCHANT?
A. A FOLKTALE A. A MAN WHO BECAME FAT BECAUSE OF
EATING
B. A MOCKTALE
B. A POOR MAN
C. A HUMOROUS
C. MERCHANTS REALTIVE
D. A SERIOUS
D. NONE
71. What made the king and his silly minister 75. Why was the guru’s disciple initially
go for the stake first? happy?
A. THEIR GREED A. because of the capacity of buying all
B. THEIR FOOLISHNESS things at a nominal price

C. BOTH B. because of the change systems

C. because of the foolish people
D. none of above
D. All
72. Who was made the king after king’s exe-
76. Who is the author of “The Kingdom of
cution
Fools”?
A. The guru A. R.K. Laxman
B. The disciple B. A.K. Ramanujan
C. The minister C. Ruskin Bond
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1. Why do the townspeople think that the 2. At what point does the prince stop help-
Happy Prince is beautiful? ing the needy townspeople in The Happy
Prince?
A. Because he was beautiful in his former
life. A. Not until the townspeople drag the
statue down.
B. Because he is helpful to the people.
B. Not until he has given up his sword.
C. Because he is helpful to the people.
C. Not until he has given all he has to give.
D. Because he is adorned with gold and
jewels. D. Not until the swallow dies.

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3. The real reason that the Happy Prince’s 8. To whom did the Prince gave the ruby to?
lead heart breaks is: A. to the swallow
A. the frost snaps it into two pieces. B. to the writer
B. The Swallow dies. C. to the match-girl
C. The city leaders melt the statue. D. to the seamstress
D. none of above 9. What was done after the Prince’s death?

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4. Which of the following best describes the A. His statue was made
way the Happy Prince looks at the start of B. he was forgotten
the story? C. people cried
A. old and worn out D. people became corrupt
B. bright and shiny
10. What do yo call the first paragraph of the
C. lost and confused short story?
D. none of above A. Climax
B. Resolution
5. The Mayor and the Town Councillors de-
cided to pull down the statue of the Happy C. Orientation
Prince because: D. Rising action
A. He was an obstacle on the road 11. The prince was covered with
B. He was no longer beautiful and useful A. dust and mud
C. He helped all the people B. gold and jewels
D. Many birds died at the feet of the C. silver
statue D. jewels
6. In return for his generosity, the Happy 12. What were the two things which the GOD
Prince receives: considered the most precious things on
A. the thanks of those he helps. Earth?
A. The swallow and his friends
B. jewels from the Sparrow.
B. The leaden heart and the dead swal-
C. nothing except for the good feelings he
low
experiences for helping others.
C. The Mayor and the town Councillor
D. none of above
D. The seamstress and the writer
7. How is the end of the story?
13. In “The happy prince”, what did the prince
A. The Prince and the swallow lived eter- not know during his life?
nally in heaven A. Wisdom
B. The swallow died miserably B. Joy
C. The villagers killed the swallow C. Fun
D. The swallow left the prince alone D. Sorrow

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14. What did the Happy Prince have on his 19. Why did the swallow decide to stay with
sword hilt? the Happy Prince always?

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A. Two big pearls A. because the Happy Prince had lot of
gold
B. Two big sapphires
B. because the Happy Prince looked very
C. A big ruby sad now.
D. None of the above C. because the Happy Prince had become
blind.
15. Why was the Prince called the “Happy
D. none of above
Prince”?
A. That’s what he was named when he 20. Why does the swallow agree to stay by
was born. the prince after the first night in The Happy
Prince?
B. He was sad all the time, so that was
A. Because the prince offers him shelter.
his nickname.
B. Because he has nowhere else to go.
C. He was always happy when he was
alive, so that is what people began to call C. Because he feels warm after doing a
him. good deed
D. Because his true love has left him
D. He asked people to call him that.
21. Point of view (POV) is the angle from
16. Why were Prince and the Swallow so pre- which the story is told. What is the type of
cious? POV use in The short story of The Happy
A. because of their kindness and selfless- Prince?
ness A. First person point of view
B. because of their services B. Second person point of view
C. because they had many possessions C. Third person point of view, limited
D. they were rich D. Third person point of view, omniscient
22. The Happy Prince asks the Swallow to
17. Which was the first item taken from the
prince? A. delay the trip to Egypt to keep him com-
pany.
A. Hat
B. be his messenger for one night.
B. Shoes
C. return him to the Palace of Sans-Souci.
C. Ruby
D. Skin D. none of above
23. Whom did the Happy Prince send the Ruby
18. The Hail sits on the Selfish Giant’s
to?
A. Chair
A. Seamstress-a poor woman
B. Wall B. a man
C. Flower bed C. a beggar
D. Roof D. Swallow

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24. said that now, the statue of the Happy 30. What did the swallow notice while flying
Prince did not look beautiful and was not over the city?
useful anymore A. plight of the poor and greed of the rich
A. The mayor
B. many poor people
B. The councillors
C. many waste things
C. The king
D. None of the above
D. The Art professor of the University

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31. Name the writer of the story ‘The happy
25. Who did Happy Prince send the second sap- prince’.
phire for?
A. Oscar Wilde
A. Poor Match Girl
B. R.K Laxman
B. Poor Seamtress
C. Ruskin Bond
C. Poor Playwright
D. Mayor D. Mulk Raj Anand

26. The statue was made of leaves. 32. the body of Prince Statue was covered in
A. orange
A. Twinkle Bronze
B. golden
B. Gorgeous Metal
C. silver
C. Bright Silver
D. ivory
D. Shiny Gold
27. What did the swallow see when he looked
up? 33. How did the prince help the writer?
A. He saw the eyes of the Happy Prince A. by writing the story for him
filled with tears.
B. by giving him food
B. He saw tears running down the golden
C. by giving his wealth
cheeks of the Happy Prince.
C. Both A and B above D. by giving his other eye

D. Neither A nor B 34. Who did God bring into heaven?

28. Why did Swallow die? A. the little girl
A. Because of Prince B. the little boy
B. Because of people’s behavior C. the poor people
C. because of growing cold D. the prince and the bird
D. All 35. These are the characteristics of the Happy
29. Where did the bird rest? Prince, except
A. On the statue’s head A. Kind-hearted
B. On the statue’s shoulder B. Warm
C. On the statue’s sword C. Selfish
D. Between the statue’s feet D. Gentle

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36. Why did the Prince become ugly? 41. How many people that had been helped by
the Happy Prince?
A. Because he did not have any clothes
A. 3 people

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B. Because the bird said he was ugly
B. 5 people
C. Because the Prince got too old
C. All of people in the world
D. Because the Prince gave his jewels D. 10 people
and gold to the poor people
42. The swallow asked The Happy Prince why
37. The Statue of the Happy prince was situ- was he ?
ated A. weeping
A. On a pillar in the nearby town B. laughing
B. On a tall building close to the palace C. sleeping
C. On a tall pillar at a high place in the city D. none of above

D. On a tall pillar at a high place in the 43. What happens when the Swallow dies?
town A. Leaden Heart of the Prince was broken
into two pieces
38. What did people call the statue?
B. Prince cried
A. The Happy Prince C. Prince cried
B. The Happy Princess D. People cried
C. The Happy Statue 44. What did the swallow do before he fell
D. The Happy King down dead?
A. He kissed the Happy Prince.
39. What did the young playwright think
B. He told the Happy Prince that he was
when he found a beautiful sapphire on the
going to the House of Death
withered violets?
C. Both option1 and 2
A. He thought it was from a great admirer
of his plays. D. none of above

B. He thought it was a gift from the Happy 45. The Happy Prince asked the swallow to
Prince. take to the poor seamstress.

C. He thought someone had put it there A. a ruby from his sword hilt
by mistake B. a sapphire from his sword
D. none of above C. a sapphire from his eyes
D. none of above
40. And he sank into a delicious slumber.(what
does slumber mean?) 46. The Mayor’s men take the statue to a fur-
nace to metal.
A. night
A. Put
B. day B. See
C. awake C. Make
D. Sleep D. none of above

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47. The Happy Prince statue had precious gem- 52. How did the prince helped the match-girl?
stone in his A. by giving her his wealth
A. eyes B. by giving her new matches
B. hair C. by giving one of his eyes
C. hands D. by giving her new clothes to wear
D. fingers
53. How did the swallow feel when he saw
the beautiful face of the happy prince and

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48. Why do the city leaders not see the Happy
Prince’s true beauty? the tears in his eyes?
A. They don’t know how the Happy Prince A. He was filled with pity.
once looked. B. He was filled with anger.
B. They see him as a beggar, and they C. He was deeply shocked.
don’t care about beggars. D. He became very nervous.
C. They are too busy feeding the home-
less and the hungry of the city. 54. Where did the location of the prince statue
stand?
D. none of above
A. In front of the castle
49. The happy Prince sends his ruby for B. In the park
A. The beggars who were sitting at the C. In the middle of town square
gates
D. In the swallow’s house
B. The starving children lying in the dark
lanes 55. Why was the Swallow not ready to move
to Egypt?
C. The playwright who was tired and hun-
gry A. Because Happy Prince became blind
D. The seamstress who was poor B. because of kindness of Happy Prince
C. Because Happy Prince would be alone
50. Why did the Happy Prince cry?
D. None
A. Because he was touched because the
swallow accompanied him all the time 56. The swallow looked up when the drop
B. Because he was in pain of water fell on him.

C. Because he wanted to go back to his A. the first

palace, but he couldn’t B. the second
D. Because he was sad. He saw some C. the third
misery and sorrow D. the fourth
51. Who is the main character of the short 57. The Happy prince’s heart is too for the
story? furnace.
A. The Swallow A. Strong
B. The Prince B. Weak
C. The girl who sells something C. Happy
D. The angel D. Kind

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58. Answer questions 1 through 7 about the B. to teach a moral lesson through a story
book The Selfish Giant:1. When the Giant of The Happy Prince
is away, children play in his

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C. to explain how the Happy Prince help
A. House the people
B. Street D. to retell the experience of the Happy
C. Garden Prince and the Swallow
D. Shop 64. What made the Seamstress’s child re-
laxed?
59. Where was the bird flying before he
landed on the statue? A. Ruby
A. To a warmer place. B. Happy Prince
B. To a cooler place. C. Swallow
C. To his hometown. D. Fanning by the Swallow
D. Nowhere
65. What did Swallow do to be with Happy
60. Name the author of the story, ‘The Happy Prince?
Prince’
A. helped him flying here and there
A. Barbara Cooney
B. stopped flying to distant places
B. Oscar Wilde
C. sacrificed his trip to Egypt
C. Ruskin Bond
D. All
D. none of above
66. How did the Prince’s attitude change after
61. Why is the Happy Prince still able to see he became a statue?
after giving away his eyes?
A. He was still happy, because people still
A. He gets replacement eyes.
loved him.
B. He can see from where his eyes once
B. He was angry that he was dead.
were.
C. The Swallow sees for him. C. He wanted his statue to be moved
somewhere else.
D. none of above
D. He was sad, because he had seen all
62. What did the Prince do to make the people the ugliness and sorrow in the city and he
of his city happy? couldn’t do anything about it.
A. told them stories
67. As the swallow settled down, a drop of
B. gave away all his precious gems and water fell on his head. What exactly was
stones the drop of water?
C. talked to people A. the tears of Happy Prince
D. made Swallow fly here and there B. the rain
63. What is the social function of the story? C. the drool of the prince
A. to describe the life of Happy Prince D. the splash of water

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68. What happened when the swallow pre- C. USA

pared to sleep between the feet of the D. Germany
Happy Prince?
A. It started raining heavily 74. Why did Happy Prince give away all his
assets?
B. A large drop of water fell on him
A. to eradicate misery and sorrow from
C. He heard the cry of the prince his city
D. He saw the Happy Prince crying B. to show his power

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69. Where was the statue of happy prince put C. to show his richness
up? D. None
A. In a temple
75. To help a poor woman buy oranges for her
B. In the town hall sick boy, the prince asked the swallow to
C. In the centre of a public garden take a ruby out of his
D. High above the city, on atall column A. Sword hilt
B. Board kilt
70. How many jewels were on his body and
sword in total? C. Ford shield

A. One D. none of above

B. Two 76. Why doesn’t the Swallow leave the city

and the Happy Prince in order to go to
C. Three
Egypt?
D. Five
A. The Swallow cares about the Happy
71. Who was the swallow in love with? Prince and the people in the city.
A. the reed B. The Swallow never really wanted to go
to Egypt.
B. the match girl
C. The Swallow chooses to look for his
C. the seamstress wife the Reed.
D. none of above D. none of above
72. The boy has large and dreamy eyes means 77. Who is sleeping near the river?The
A. He does not sleep for a long time A. Monkey
B. He suppose to see dream with eyes B. Dog
wide open
C. Crocodiles
C. The boy is very ambitious and hard
D. Swallow
working
D. none of above 78. In the end of the story, the God wanted
the most beautiful thing in the world.
73. In the story The Happy Prince, the swal- What are they?
low was flying to A. The kindness heart of the prince
A. Australia B. The swallow’s heart and the prince’s
B. Egypt heart

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C. The gemstone and the gold of the 84. “I am beginning to be appreciated “ means
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D. The Swallow and The Prince’s heart sent a gift for him.
B. The happy prince send a gift for him.
79. People give importance to outer
beauty?(which character in the story re- C. The swallow send a gift for him.
flect this?) D. None of the above
A. The seamstress 85. What fruit did the woman’s son ask for?
B. The young writer A. Cherries
C. The Town councillor B. Bananas
D. The mayor C. Oranges
80. What did the bird find the Prince doing D. Apples
when he landed on him? 86. What colour did the prince turned to?
A. Sleeping. A. Black
B. Crying. B. White
C. Laughing. C. Grey
D. Singing. D. Purple
81. Where was the swallow going? 87. Where did the swallow decide to spend the
A. Southhall night?
A. In a tree near the statue of the happy
B. Egypt
prince.
C. Europe
B. On the shoulder of the happy prince.
D. America
C. Between the feet of the happy prince.
82. What made the Happy Prince cry? D. Under the column where the statue
A. The misery of his country stood.

B. Because he was dead 88. Why was the Prince called happy?
C. Because he couldn’t play with his A. because he never cried
friends B. because he was very lucky
D. Because he was not able to move C. because he had everything

83. Answer questions 8 through 15 about the D. because he always smiled and was liv-
book The Happy Prince:8.The happy Prince ing in palace of happiness
cries, because he sees all the sad and ugly 89. Which type of bird is refered to in the
of his city. story?
A. Column A. Swallow
B. Swallow B. Eagle
C. Things C. Quai
D. Gold D. Sparrow

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90. after running out of all the gemstones, the 95. Where did the Swallow die?
prince helped his people with A. in the city
A. Giving his crown to the people B. under the fountain
B. Giving the shiny golden leaf to the peo- C. at the feet of the Statue
ple
D. in a house
C. Giving encouragement for the people
D. Giving the swallow to the people 96. Name the most precious things in the story
that the angel took to give to God.

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91. What were the little boys doing under the A. leaden heart of Happy Prince and the
archway of a bridge? dead Swallow
A. They were lying in each other’s arms B. Prince and his assets
to keep themselves warm.
C. Ruby, sword and sappire
B. They were waiting for the swallow to
bring them some gold. D. All
C. They were hungry and begging for 97. What moved Swallow’s heart?
food. A. Happy Prince
D. none of above B. Happy Prince’s kindness
92. What is the moral value of “The Happy C. Happy Prince’s assets
Prince”? D. All
A. We must give all we have to make the
others happy 98. Whom didn’t the Prince help in the story?

B. The true happiness is when we can A. A writer.

make others happy B. A mother.
C. If we are happy, the others will be C. A dying bird.
happy D. A match-girl.
D. Be helpful, then you will be helped
99. One of the message that we get from the
when u need
chapter is
93. What did the Happy Prince think was the A. The disparity and sorrow in society can
greatest mystery? be overcome by compassion, generosity
A. Death and sharing.
B. Misery B. It is useful to mount statues with gold
C. Life and jewels when the people are hungry.
D. none of above C. Live life to the fullest
D. None of the above
94. Who is the writer of the Happy Prince
story? 100. Why did the Swallow die?
A. Khushwant Singh A. because of growing cold
B. R.K. Laxman B. Because of Prince
C. Oscar Wilde C. Because of Prince
D. Ruskin Bond D. All of the above

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101. The Happy Princes weeps in the story be- 106. The beautiful flower goes back under the
cause ground when it sees

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A. he wishes he were still alive and in the A. Spring blossom
Palace of Sans-Souci. B. Some golden apples
B. he does not like when swallows sleep C. A perfume shop
under him.
D. Paradise
C. he is able to witness for the first time
all the ugliness and misery in his city. 107. In “The Happy Prince, “ what happens to
the statue at the end?
D. none of above
A. It is altered.
102. Why did the prince never cried? B. It left as it is.
A. He was always happy and was very C. It is pulled down.
rich
D. It is improved.
B. He was always happy and had every-
thing 108. What did the happy prince had on his
sword-hilt?
C. He never cried
A. Two big pearls
D. He was always happy
B. Two big sapphires
103. Coarse meaning C. A big ruby
A. Tight D. Two big rubies
B. Rough 109. In “The Happy Prince, “ the people the
C. Loose Prince wants to help include all the follow-
ing EXCEPT?
D. None of the above
A. Playwright
104. Why does the Swallow initially stop on
B. Poor children
the Happy Prince?
C. A woman with a dying son
A. He wants a place to rest on his way to
Egypt. D. A prisoner

B. The Swallow wants to steal the Happy 110. Where was the Prince’s statue situated
Prince’s jewels. A. In front of the castle
C. The Swallow knows that the Happy B. In the park
Prince is kind and caring.
C. In the middle of town square
D. none of above D. In the swallow’s house
105. What did Swallow become to help the 111. Name the writer of the story “The Happy
Prince? Prince.”
A. His messenger A. Oscar wilde
B. His friend B. R.K Laxman
C. His Minister C. Ruskin Bond
D. His Assistant D. none of above

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112. What is the Happy Prince in The Happy 117. what is the conflict of the short story en-
Prince? titled “The Happy Prince”
A. A robot A. The swallow died after giving the gem-
stone to the girl
B. A little boy
B. The prince only had one eye but he
C. A bird
wanted to give a gemstone to his people.
D. A statue It made the swallow felt sorry and con-
fused

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113. Which was the first item given from the
prince? C. He was Happy Prince but he always
cries when he saw the sadness
A. Gold
D. The swallow left the Happy Prince
B. Sapphires alone
C. Ruby
118. He swooped past the matchgirl
D. Sword swooped meaning?
114. How does helping the Happy Prince make A. Fly very low
the Swallow feel? B. Fly very high
A. warm C. Flapping of wings.
B. annoyed D. Both b and c
C. sad
119. Where did the town want to send the
D. none of above prince to?
115. The kisses the Giant. A. Forges
A. Little boy B. Egypt
B. Blue bird C. Algastan
C. Beautiful flower D. Mumbai
D. Autumn 120. Why didn’t the bird leave before it was
too late?
116. What did the Prince do to help the family
who have a sick child? A. It was too cold.
A. Asked the swallow to take the gem- B. He was too tired.
stone on the dagger and gave it to the fam- C. He loved the Prince too much.
ily.
D. none of above
B. Asked the swallow to call the doctor
and took the sick child to the hospital im- 121. Where did the swallow want to go?
mediately.
A. Egypt
C. Asked the swallow to give much money
B. France
to the family.
C. Rome
D. Asked the swallow to take the gem-
stone on one of Prince’s eye D. none of above

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B. Rubies D. stone pelting
C. Diamonds 126. Where did the swallow died?
D. Gold leaves A. At the Temple
123. Whom did the Prince send the sapphire B. Egypt
to? C. Way to Egypt
A. matchgirl D. Between the feet of The statue of
B. Young writer happy prince
C. Poor lady 127. What was the statue of the Happy prince
D. matchgirl and young writer across the covered with?
city. A. Thick leaves of silver
124. Why did Happy Prince send the sapphire B. Thin leaves of fine gold
to a young writer and the matchgirl? C. Thick leaves of platinum
A. to send hope and make them happy D. Sapphires and rubies
B. to show them power
128. Where was the bird flying to?
C. to surprise them
A. USA
D. to help them B. Dubai
125. What made Happy Prince blind? C. Iran
A. Giving away two saphires D. Egypt

1.23 The Last Leaf

1. What does Johnsy think will happen to her 3. What is Johnsy’s illness, and how can it be
when the last leaf falls? cured?
A. She will get better. A. Pneumonia. Medicines.

B. She will call the doctor. B. Pneumonia. He willingness to live.

C. Pneumonia. Sue’s encouragement.
C. She will cry.
D. None of the above.
D. She will die.
4. How did the sight of the last leaf affect
2. What does quaint mean? Johnsy?

A. unattractive A. It gave her faith that she would sur-

vive.
B. new style B. It made her sad.
C. attractively unusual or old fashioned C. It did not have any effect on her.
D. a type of bird D. None of the above.

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5. Why did Mr. Behrman paint the leaf? 10. Where is Sue going?
A. He wanted to paint a masterpiece and A. To get the doctor
protect Johnsy B. To get Johnsy’s parents
B. He had been working on painting a leaf C. To get the nurse
for many years
D. To get Behrman
C. He was retired and bored
11. What symptoms did Johnsy have when
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she got ill?
6. What is an alley? A. She felt very weak
A. a brick wall B. She coughed
B. a narrow path C. She had difficulty in breathing

C. an apartment D. All of the above

D. a window 12. Johnsy was so hopeless, she was only

waiting to
7. Disintegration, the ending of life
A. die
A. flibbertigibbet B. see the doctor
B. colony C. get better
C. dissolution D. speak to Mr. Behrman
D. consequences
13. What did Johnsy feel after seeing the last
leaf still on the tree at the last part of the
8. Which sentence best shows that Behrman
story?
cared about Johnsy?
A. She wanted to die.
A. “Didn’t you wonder why it never flut-
tered or moved when the wind blew?” B. She wanted to go outside and pick it.
B. ”Ah, darling it’s Behrman’s C. She wanted to paint it.
masterpiece-he painted it there the night D. She felt motivated.
the leaf fell.”
14. What does Sue ask Johnsy to do?
C. ”Sudie, someday I hope to paint the
Bay of Naples.” A. Look out the window
D. ”A man?” B. Get better
C. Don’t look out the window
9. What misconception had Johnsy developed
D. Take her medicine
in her mind?
A. she can’t be cured 15. What is Johnsy counting?
B. she was great A. The days

C. she would die with the fall of last the B. The clouds
leaf C. Sheep
D. all of the above D. The leaves

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16. The three main characters in the story are B. hope

C. ambition

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A. Sue, Johnsy and Behrman. D. hatred
B. Manhattan, Greenwich, and Naples.
22. Who are the characters in the story?
C. John, Behrman, and the doctor.
A. Sue and Johnsy
D. none of above
B. The two young women
17. After the doctor visits with Johnsy in ‘’The C. All the above
Last Leaf”, what course of treatment does D. None of the above
he suggest?
A. He recommends strict bed-rest. 23. Why was Sue making a painting?

B. He recommends sitting outside next to A. to present it to Behrman

the trees. B. to put it in her room
C. He recommends that she take an inter- C. to present it to Johnsy
est in a man or in the new winter fashions. D. to earn some money
D. He recommends that she enter hos-
24. Where does the story take place?
pice care.
A. Greenwhich Village
18. What was Mr Behrman’s dream? B. Green Street
A. get married C. Green Village
B. buy a new car D. Greenwich street
C. go on a long vacation
25. What did Johnsy wish to paint?
D. paint a masterpiece
A. The Bay of Naples
19. What symptoms did Joanna have when B. The Last Leaf
she got ill?
C. A romantic sunset
A. She felt very weak
D. The Mediterranean
B. She coughed
26. What does Sue ask Johnsy to promise her?
C. She had difficulty in breathing
A. Not to touch her
D. All of the above
B. not to eat all her dinner
20. What did Johnsy feel after seeing the last C. not to look at the leaves until she fin-
leaf still on the tree? ishes drawing
A. She wanted to die. D. not to die
B. She wanted to go outside and pick it.
27. Who is stranger who came to visit the
C. She wanted to paint it. city?
D. She felt motivated. A. The Old man Behrman
21. At the end of the story, what does the last B. Pneumonia
leaf symbolize? C. Joanna
A. love D. Johnsy

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28. What happens in November? C. She wanted to die.

A. Johnsy becomes very ill with pneumo- D. none of above
nia
34. How does the author humanize the ill-
B. Johnsy has an accident ness?
C. Johnsy and Sue falls in love A. He dresses the illness up
D. I have no idea B. He calls the illness Mr. Pneumonia
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the last leaf symbolize? D. He doesn’t
A. despair
35. Who is the author of “The Last Leaf”?
B. hope
A. Edgar Allan Poe
C. anger
B. Shakespeare
D. love
C. William Sydney Porter
30. Which sentence best states the main mes- D. Christopher Marlowe
sage in the story?
36. Why did the doctor not think that Johnsy
A. Life is like a leaf it fails when it is ready would live?
B. Sacrificing your life to save another A. Pneumonia kills everyone
C. Sickness is darkness so don’t get sick B. Johnsy had terminal cancer
D. None of the above C. Johnsy belived that she would die
31. What did Joanna realise when she looked D. All of the above
at the last leaf for a long time?
37. What is the significance of the leaf?
A. She was wrong.
A. It represents her life.
B. She was foolish.
B. It makes her want to die.
C. She wanted to live.
C. It is a metaphor.
D. All of the above
D. It has no significance.
32. What did Mr. Behrman always say regard-
38. A hungry cook
ing his work?
A. verbal irony
A. He will soon do his masterpiece.
B. dramatic irony
B. He will soon write a novel filled with
literary devices. C. situational irony
C. He will paint the Bay of Naples some- D. none of the above
day. 39. What can we learn from the story?
D. none of above A. Never lose hope even when all leaves
33. What did Johnsy feel after seeing the last fall
leaf stay longer? B. Be selfless and sacrifice for others
A. She wished to go outside and pick it. C. A friend in need is a friend indeed
B. She felt motivated. D. all of the above

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40. What was the disease that spread through 46. Where did the story take place?
the streets?
A. In the famous Bay of Naples, Italy

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A. Typhoid
B. In the brick building in the outskirts of
B. Influenza town
C. Cholera C. In a little district west of Washington
D. Pneumonia Square
D. none of above
41. Who was Johnsy?[With reference to the
story] 47. According to the doctors what was the
A. A young artist cure to her illness?

B. a healthy girl A. medicines

C. a sick girl B. strong medicines

D. Both (a) and (c) C. love and care

D. her own willingness to live
42. What happened to Mr Behrman?
A. He went to jail. 48. Why did doctors say that Johnsy could not
be cured with medicines?
B. He moved out of the apartment
A. because treatment was not available
C. He married Sue
B. because no competent doctor was
D. He died of pneumonia
available
43. What did Joanna dream about painting? C. because she lost her will to get well
A. the last leaf D. All
B. Sue
49. According to the doctors what was the
C. a bay in Italy cure to Johnsy’s illness?
D. her boyfriend A. medicines

44. Who was Behrman? B. love and care

A. A 60 years old painter C. strong medicines

B. a 50 years old man D. her own willingness to live

C. a 40 years old man 50. Which of these best describes Johnsy’s in-
D. a young boy ternal conflict in the story?
A. “At the top of a squatty, three-story
45. Smite means brick Sue and Johnsy had their studio.”
A. to hit hard or strike B. “A mite of a little woman “
B. to think deeply C. “The ivy leaf was still there.”
C. to spy secretly
D. “‘When the last one falls I must go,
D. to refuse to work too.”’

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51. What did Johnsy say regarding the C. Falling Ivy leaves
leaves? D. none of above
A. She will go away when the last leaf
57. Conduct a research on the internet to an-
falls.
swer this question. The setting of the
B. She will be healthy again when the last story is November 1899 in
leaf falls.
A. Washington.
C. She will die when the last leaf falls.
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D. none of above C. Dallas.
52. At the end of the story Mr. Behrman. a D. Texas.
painter who lives in the same building
58. What did she decided will happen when
A. becomes famous. the last leaf fall?
B. dies of pneumonia. A. She will get better
C. is taken to hospital. B. She will die
D. comes to visit the artists. C. She will go home
53. What is pneumonia personified as in the D. She will eat
story? 59. Sue cries and the goes into Johnsy’s bed-
A. a dragon room whistling, why?
B. a stranger A. To hide her feelings
C. a fire B. To make Johnsy laugh
D. a lion C. To get on the doctor nerves
D. To pass time
54. The short story was written by:
A. Stephen King. 60. What is Johnsy’s health problem?
B. O.Henry. A. Pneumonia

C. Mark Twain. B. Tuberculosis

C. Psoriasis
D. Edgar Allan Poe.
D. none of above
55. Which sentence foreshadows that Johnsy
will live? 61. What were the girls’ jobs?
A. “Couldn’t you draw in the other A. They were fashion designers.
room?” B. They were artists.
B. “I’d rather be here by you, “ said Sue. C. They were teachers.
C. “The ivy leaf was still there” D. They were students.
D. “Try to sleep, “said Sue. 62. A pilot with a fear of heights
56. What was Johnsy counting when Sue saw A. verbal irony
her? B. dramatic irony
A. Paintings C. situational irony
B. Growing Ivy leaves D. none of the above

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63. What kind of people live in Greenwich Vil- 69. Where did Sue and Johnsy stay?
lage? A. In a small flat on the 4th storey of an

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A. artists old house.
B. teacher B. In an apartment
C. doctors C. In their own house.
D. police officers D. In their friend’s house.
64. What is described as a “ not a nice old gen- 70. What happened to Johnsy?
tleman?”
A. She talked to a stranger
A. Berhman
B. She got Pneumonia
B. Johnsy
C. She painted a picture
C. Mr. Pneumonia
D. She found a tree
D. Susy
71. What is pnuemonia compared to?
65. Johnsy wants to paint
A. a dragon
A. The Bay of Naples
B. a stranger
B. Rome
C. a fire
C. Florida
D. a lion
D. The Leaning Tower of Pisa
72. Which of the following is not a theme of
66. The doctors said that she will die because
the story?
she
A. Ambition
A. can’t buy the medicine
B. misses her family B. Pessimism

C. lost the will to live C. Friendship

D. is too sick D. Self-sacrifice

67. What was Mr. Behrman’s masterpiece? 73. According to the doctor, what is Johnsy’s
chance of surviving?
A. the Bay of Naples
A. Fifty fifty
B. the Last Leaf
B. One in ten
C. the Monalisa painting
C. Ten to one
D. Starry Starry Night
D. none of above
68. What happened to Johnsy when she saw
Behrman’s masterpiece painting? 74. Who was Behrman? Did his dream come
true?
A. felt delighted
A. Grandfather. No.
B. she became confident that she could
be cured B. Uncle. Yes.
C. jumped out of bed C. Neighbour. Yes.
D. All of the above D. Neighbour. No.

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75. In the story “The Last Leaf, “ how do the 80. When was Behrman able to make his
ivy leaves symbolize Johnsy and her feel- dream true?
ings about life?
A. when he painted the last leaf on ivy
A. Johnsy is waiting to die, and she sees
B. when he died
herself as a tired leaf ready to fall down.
C. when he thought of Johnsy
B. Johnsy is recovering from sickness
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C. Johnsy is taking care of a sick friend 81. Why did Mr. Behrman die?
and the ivy leaves are a symbol of her
caretaking abilities. A. He painted the leaf and died because
of the cold.
D. none of above
B. He underwent chemotherapy but
76. There were a few leaves on the vine out- failed to survive cancer.
side the window because
C. He climbed the wall and fell.
A. the wind was blowing the leaves away.
D. none of above
B. people were picking the leaves.
82. What line shows the use of imagery?
C. vines only have a few leaves.
D. their neighbour was using the leaves A. When the last one falls I must go, too.
in a painting. B. His shoes and clothing were wet
through and icy cold.
77. At the end of the story Mr. Behrman a
painter who lives in the same building.. C. It is a sin to want to die.

A. a. becomes famous D. Your little lady has made up her mind

that she’s not going to get well.
B. b.dies of pneumonia
C. c. comes to visit the artist 83. Why did Behrman become sick?
D. None of the above A. He was old and his immune system
was weak.
78. Why was the last leaf called a master-
B. He stopped taking his medicine.
piece?
C. He became sick while painting the leaf
A. Because Behrman created it.
D. None of the above
B. Because Sue painted it for Johnsy.
C. Because it was the last leaf. 84. Which sentence is TRUE?
D. Because it looked very realistic. A. Sue painted pictures and earned a lot
of money.
79. Why had Behrman felt the need to paint
the leaf on the creeper? B. Sue paid for the rent by working as a
street artist.
A. He wanted to do so.
C. Sue drew pictures for children’s books
B. It was his dream to paint a leaf. to pay the rent.
C. He loved plants. D. Sue didn’t work. She looked after
D. In order to save Johnsy’s life. Joanna.

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85. Which sentence is true? C. To paint the Bay of Naples someday

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to pay the rent.
91. Where did Sue and Joanna live?
B. Sue didn’t work. She looked after
Joanna. A. Greenwich Park
B. Greenwich Village
C. Sue paid for the rent by working as a
street artist. C. Greenwich Tavern
D. none of above D. Greenwich Green Park

86. The setting of the story is November 1899 92. From the description in the passage,
in QUAINT means all except?
A. Washington. A. Attractive
B. New York. B. Small
C. Dallas. C. Charming
D. Texas. D. Old fashioned way

87. What did the police find in the alley? 93. Where did Johnsy and Sue first meet?
A. dangerous substances A. At a museum
B. stolen goods B. At a restaurant
C. a dead body C. At a doctor’s office

D. paint, brushes, and a ladder D. At a book store

88. In the story “The Last Leaf, “ what is the 94. Exclaiming “Oh great!” after failing an
theme of the story? exam

A. People should never give up. A. verbal irony

B. dramatic irony
B. People should give up because we all
have a life cycle like the ivy leaves. C. situational irony
C. People should take better care of D. none of the above
plants so the leaves don’t turn yellow.
95. What month/season was used to symbol-
D. none of above ize Johnsy and Sue’s blooming friendship?
89. How does the doctor think Johnsy might A. November-winter
get better? B. October-autumn
A. Focusing on things worth living for C. March-summer
B. Focusing on her friendship with Sue D. May-spring
C. Focusing on the leaves 96. Where did Sue and Johnsy live?
D. Taking her medicine A. Boston Common
90. What is Johnsy’s dream? B. Greenwich Village
A. To bake Belgian waffles someday C. Brooklyn
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97. What was Behrman’s masterpiece? 103. What is Sue’s reaction to Johnsy’s state-
A. painting a picture of a leaf ment?
A. By telling Johnsy a joke.
B. painting a picture of sue
B. By telling Johnsy she is silly
C. painting a picture of Johnsy
C. By giving Johnsy a hug.
D. all of the above
D. By not talking
98. In the movie, “Toy Story”, human charac-
104. How many leaves are there?

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ters are not aware that the toys speak and
move but the audience is. A. 1
A. verbal irony B. 3

B. dramatic irony C. 5
D. 7
C. situational irony
D. none of the above 105. Where did Behrman spend his night to
make his masterpiece?
99. What are the occupations of the two girls A. none
A. Students B. in a heavy storm
B. Artists C. on a mountain
C. Cooks D. in a hotel
D. Waitress 106. Which tree leaves did Johnsy keep count-
ing as they fell?
100. Which of the following is NOT a theme of
the short story? A. A maple tree.

A. Ambition B. An ivy vine tree.

C. A cedar tree
B. Pessimism.
D. An oak tree.
C. Friendship.
D. Self-sacrifice. 107. Why does the doctor give Johnsy only 1
and 10 chance of surviving?
101. How does Sue make a living? A. She has given up on life
A. Dancing B. She has decided to die
B. Writing C. All the above
C. Drawing D. Only the first choice
D. Singing 108. What metaphor was used for Mr.
Behrman and his relationship to the two
102. What did Sue and Joanna love to do? artists?
A. sleep A. cold stranger
B. bake B. mastiff-in-waiting
C. exercise C. flibertigibbet
D. paint D. none of above

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109. Why did Behrman paint the leaf? 111. Why was the ivy leaf painting a master-
A. Behrman wanted a paint a master- piece?

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piece and he wanted to protect Johnsy. A. because it was difficult to make out
B. Old Behrman had been working on whether it was a real leaf or a painting
painting of a leaf for many years. B. because it was very beautiful
C. Behrman was retired and he had free C. because it’s colours were very bright
time to paint the leaf. D. none
D. None of the above
112. O.Henry uses personification as one of
110. What did Behrman’s masterpiece do? his literary devices in ‘’The Last Leaf”.
A. made everyone happy What does he personify, and how?

B. saved Johnsy’s life by rekindling the A. The leaf, as ‘’Madame Leaf”

positive belief in her B. Pneumonia, as ‘’Mr. Pneumonia”
C. Behrman was rewarded C. A tree, as ‘’Mrs. Tree”
D. All D. The artist, as ‘’the leaf”

1.24 A House is not a Home

1. Why was the author ‘embarrassed by ev- C. sleeping
erything’ when he went to his new school D. eating
after the fire?
A. he was wearing his aunt’s tennis 4. Why did the narrator feel ‘isolated’ in high
shoes school?
B. he did not have his school bag and A. because he was a freshman
books B. all his friends went to other High
C. he was still wearing the clothes he Schools
was wearing on the day of the fire. C. because he was a freshman in his new
D. All school
D. All
2. Why did the author run to his neighbour’s
house? 5. Who used to wake up the cat?
A. to ask for help A. Zan’s mother
B. to call the fire department B. Zan’s aunt
C. to get water C. Zan
D. All D. None

3. What was author doing when fire broke 6. The word ‘closest is which degree of adjec-
out? tives?’
A. playing A. Positive
B. doing homework B. Comparative

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C. Superlative 12. What makes the matter worse?

D. None of the above A. He was new to school
B. The school was a big one
7. What is the story ‘A House is not a Home’
about? C. His friend joined different school

A. defines a home D. He did not make any new friends

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go.
C. None
A. lively
D. differentiates between a house and a
home B. suburb
C. residential area
8. Who did the author find missing after the
D. none of above
fire accident?
A. his dog 14. What is a house?

B. his mother A. a building which people use to live

B. a place
C. his monkey
C. a property
D. his cat
D. None
9. Who made a collection of money for the
15. Where did the author and his mother have
author?
to borrow money?
A. the students in the new high school
A. grandparents
B. the teachers in the old primary school B. neighbours
C. neighbours C. bank
D. social workers D. private financial institutions

10. In the begging how does the author fed in 16. Where did the author and his mother spent
the new high school? their night on the day of fire incident?
A. happy A. in the house of the grandparents
B. excited B. in the house of the neighbours

C. isolated C. in the house of the fire brigade build-

ing
D. all of the above
D. in the school of author
11. What did the author borrow from his aunt 17. On which day did the fire accident take
to go to school? Place?
A. tennis shoes A. Saturday
B. bag B. Sunday
C. uniform C. Monday
D. books D. Tuesday

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18. ‘I smelled something strange’ What was C. filling

strange? D. spreading

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A. The smell of some incense sticks
24. Who noticed the fire first?
B. The fire which broke out there
A. Zan’s friends
C. Something was burning
B. Zan’s mother
D. There was afire outside
C. Zan
19. I was the one responsible for giving her D. zan’s grandmother
‘the good life’Who is ‘I’?
25. How long did it take to blow out the fire?
A. Zan
A. 2 hours
B. the cat
B. 3 hours
C. Zan’s mother
C. 4 hours
D. no one
D. 5 hours
20. An area where people live outside the cen-
tre of a city: 26. MY first year of high school felt awkward.
After leaving junior high at the head of my
A. lively
class with all the seniority the upper grade
B. suburb levels could afford me, it felt strange start-
C. neighbourhood ing over as a freshman. The school was
twice as big as my old school, and to make
D. residential area matters worse, my closest friends were
21. What changed Zan’s perception of life and sent to a different high school. I felt very
made him accept his new life? isolated.Q. Why did the narrator feel awk-
ward at high school?
A. his new friends’ compassionate be-
haviour A. He was a freshman
B. He did not like the school
B. arrangement of all basic necessities
by his classmates C. He was shy by nature
C. when his new friends started inviting D. He was not interested
him to their place
27. Where did the author’s mother run and
D. All why?
22. Why was mother not feeling good? A. to the backyard of their house to save
few precious memories
A. She got burnt in the fire
B. to their neighbours
B. She was unconscious
C. to the roof
C. She was ill
D. none
D. She inhaled some smoke
28. What did the mother being out of the burn-
23. ‘pouring’ What does this word mean? ing house?
A. entering A. a metal box full of important docu-
B. coming ments

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B. some pictures of the author’s father 34. What did the cat do to entertain herself?
C. both (a) and (b) A. jump on the bed
D. none of the above B. would hit Zan’s pen with its tail

29. What is most precious according to this les- C. shout and cry meow
son? D. None
A. a well furnished house
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B. bond of love and care amongst the Home’ about?
members of a family
A. defines a home
C. a house
B. defines a house
D. None
C. None
30. Which words tell that Zan was able to D. Explains the difference between a
accept his new life and came out of his house and a home
gloom?
A. “My cat was back and so was I” 36. A part of town with a lot of houses or flats,
but no offices, big shops or factories:
B. I am happy
A. lively
C. I got a new life
B. suburb
D. All
C. neighbourhood
31. Who made a collection of money for Zan? D. residential area
A. the students in the new high school
37. My mother kept stoking the fire to keep
B. the teachers in the old primary school the house nice andwarm. Suddenly, I
C. neighbours smelled something strange, and then I no-
ticed it smoke pouring in through the
D. social workers
seams of the ceiling. The smoke began
32. Why was the author feeling shy in the to fill the room so quickly that we could
school? barely see.Q. Why did the mother keep
stoking the fire?
A. he was not wearing shoes
A. To keep the house nice and warm
B. because he did not have his school bag
and books B. To kill the mosquitoes of the house
C. his dress was casual C. To comfort the narrator
D. All D. To keep fire alive

33. Why did the fire fighter run back? 38. Why did the author cry after the fire?
A. To save the house A. because of smoke
B. To extinguish the fire in the house B. because he was not able to find his cat
C. To go to fire office C. because smoke choked his throat
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39. What is a home? 44. What did the teachers of the old school tell
Zan?
A. where people live together and share

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a bond of love and care A. gradually, he will adjust and accept his
new school
B. a house only
B. they will support him
C. a property
C. they will help him
D. None
D. none
40. Why did the author want to die?
45. What did the teachers of the old school tell
A. because he was not happy the author?
B. because his desires were not fulfilled A. gradually, he will adjust and accept his
new school
C. because he was not ready to face the
harsh miserable life state after the fire B. they will support him
D. none C. they will help him
D. none
41. The back fence looks like it could fall down.
It is 46. Who caught the author when he rushed af-
ter his mother in the burning house?
A. cramped
A. Police Man
B. substantial
B. Neighbour
C. impressive
C. Fireman
D. dilapidated
D. Friend
42. What did Zan notice while doing his home-
47. Why did the author just ‘want to curl up
work?
and die’?
A. cat was jumping
A. because he was not happy
B. cat was sleeping B. because his desires were not fulfilled
C. smoke pouring through the ceiling C. because he did not want to accept
D. None change.
D. none
43. “She’s going to be okay, “ said the fire-
man. “She justinhaled a little smoke.” 48. Where did the author run when the fire
And then he ran back to fight the fire while broke out?
my mother and I sat there dazed. I remem- A. to his neighbour’s house
ber watching my house burn down and
thinking that there was nothing I could do B. to his grandparents
about it.Who does ‘She’ refer to- C. on the roof
A. A woman D. all
B. His mother 49. What was Zan doing when fire broke out?
C. A neighbor A. was playing
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C. was sleeping D. all

D. was doing his homework 52. Why could the boy do something?
50. What did the author lose in the fire?’ A. He was a coward
A. school shoes B. He was not well
B. uniform C. He was a small boy
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D. all of the above 53. Why did the narrator feel strange in high
51. Mention the words which express the au- school?
thor’s embarrassment. A. because he was fresh
A. embarassed B. all his friends went to other places
B. geek and strange C. because he was all alone
C. weird and backpack D. All

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1. Who made the beggar lead a good life? A. Sergei
A. Olgy the cook B. Olga
B. Sergei C. Lushkoff
C. a music teacher D. None

D. none 5. How much did money Sergei pay to the

beggar for cutting wood?
2. Why did advocate Sergei had an expres- A. half a rouble
sion of disgust?
B. 40 Copecks
A. He did not like the appearance of the
C. 35 Copecks
beggar
D. 25 Copecks
B. He understood that the beggar was
telling a lie 6. On which street did Sergei say that he had
C. He hates beggar the met the beggar recently?
A. Sovetskaya street
D. All
B. Oktyabrskaya street
3. What is the theme of the lesson? C. Lenin street
A. be kind D. Sadovya street
B. don’t be kind 7. What did Sergei offer to Lushkoff?
C. kindness can transform anyone for the A. to come on every first day of the month
better
B. to come on every first day of the week
D. all
C. to come on every Sunday
4. What was the name of the cook? D. none of the above

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8. Lushkoff is in the habit of 14. Which currency is mentioned in the story?

A. stealing A. rupee

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B. telling lies B. euro
C. working hard C. dollar
D. making the excuse D. rouble

9. Why was Lushkoff not willing to work? 15. What did Sergei give to the beggar?
A. because of poor health A. food
B. because of his drunkenness B. milk
C. because he was hungry and weak C. work to chop the wood
D. all D. none
10. What work did lushkoff get later on the 16. Name the author of the story “The Beg-
chapter? gar”?
A. As a teacher A. Robert frost
B. As a newspaper editor B. El Bsor Ester
C. As a notary
C. Anton Chekhov
D. As a woodworker
D. None
11. What work was given to Lushkoff by
17. How did Olga help the beggar?
Sergei?
A. by giving him food
A. cooking
B. chopping wood B. giving him medicine

C. singing C. by chopping wood for him

D. all of these D. none

12. Who set Sergei actually on a right path? 18. What job did the beggar say that he had
when he met sergei
A. Sergei
A. Teacher
B. the police
B. singer
C. Lushkoff himself
C. writer
D. Olga
D. notary
13. Why did Lushkoff agree to work for Ser-
gai? 19. What was Lushkoff doing before begging?
A. Sergei trapped him A. dancing
B. because he was feeling ashamed B. singing
C. because of his own pride C. teaching
D. all D. none

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20. Who did not give alms to the beggar? C. to befool them
A. Sergai D. none
B. People on the road 27. What was Sergei?
C. Sergai’s maidservant A. advocate
D. None B. teacher
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A. Sergei D. dancer
B. Olga 28. Where did Sergei meet Lushkoff after two
C. both and years?
D. none of the above A. in his house
B. in his maid’s house
22. Who moved into another house?
C. outside a theatre
A. Lushkoff
D. none
B. Olga
C. Sergei 29. What is the synonym of the word “mendi-
cant”?
D. none of the above
A. Beggar
23. What was Lushkoff in his earlier life? B. Advocate
A. a village school teacher C. Maid
B. a student D. None
C. a Russian choir singer
30. What forced Lushkoff to be a beggar?
D. none of the above
A. choir group
24. Who is “I” in the first paragraph? B. his circumstances
A. The Beggar C. his employer
B. Advocate sergei D. none
C. Olga
31. What is the meaning of the word “Swin-
D. None dling”?
25. Meaning of roasting (In this chapter) A. Defamation
A. A way of cooking B. Perplexed
B. To make fun of C. Taken aback
C. Rebunking D. Cheating
D. Scarring 32. Who was Sergei?
26. Why was Lushkoff telling lies to the peo- A. an advocate
ple? B. a teacher
A. to seek sympathy C. a lecturer
B. to get alms D. none

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33. What currency is used in the chapter? 39. What was the profession of Sergei
A. Dollar A. Writer

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B. Pound B. Wood-Cutter
C. Rouble C. Advocate
D. Franc D. Journalist
34. Which incident became a turning point in 40. Where did Advocate Sergei see the beggar
Lushkoff’s life? previously?
A. Sergei’s offer to work A. Sadovya Street
B. Olgy’s help
B. Nearby School
C. removal from choir group
C. Russian choir
D. None
D. Bar
35. What lie did Lushkoff tell Sergei in
Sadovya Street 41. Who was Olga?

A. That he was a village Schoolteacher A. a beggar

B. That he was an expelled student B. Sergei’s cook
C. That he was a merchant that faced loss C. an advocate
D. That he was a lost sailor D. a wood chopper

36. For how long the beggar was a Village 42. How much was paid to the notary?
school teacher?(according to the beggar)
A. 30 roubles
A. 9 years
B. 35 roubles
B. 2 years
C. 40 roubles
C. 8 years
D. 10 roubles
D. 10 years
43. How much money Lushkiff was earning as
37. Did Lushkoff really want to chop wood? a notary?
A. yes
A. 25 roubles a month
B. no
B. 35 roubles a month
C. maybe
C. 45 roubles a month
D. not known
D. 20 roubles a month
38. Why was Lushkoff removed from the
choir? 44. Who became a beggar by circumstances?
A. due to his weakness A. Lushkoff
B. due to his drunkenness B. Sergei
C. weak body C. Holfa
D. poor health D. Goldy

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45. What profession did the beggar say that 51. What is the meaning of the word
he really had “Calumny”?
A. Teacher A. Suppliant
B. Student B. Disgust
C. Wood Cutter C. Irresolutely
D. Russian choir singer D. Defamation
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52. Define “Swindling”
beggar about his identity finally?
A. He was defamed by his employer A. Cheating

B. He did not want to work that is why B. Swinging

took to beg C. Walking clumsily
C. He sang in Russian choir and was sent D. Being Lazy
away for drunkenness
D. None 53. How did lushkoff earn money before meet-
ing the advocate
47. What is the name of the currency equiva-
A. By chopping wood
lent to one hundredth of a rouble
B. By begging and telling lies
A. paise
B. copecks C. By working hard

C. francs D. By working as a teacher

D. fils 54. Where did the beggar finally meet sergei
48. What work did Sergei give to Lushkoff? A. Train station
A. preparing notes for him B. Bank
B. chopping wood for him C. Theatre
C. making money by begging for him D. Near his home
D. watching his home
55. What was the name of the beggar?
49. “This is dishonesty, my dear sir!” Who
A. Mushkoff
said this
A. Lushkoff B. Chekhov

B. Sergei C. Lushkoff
C. Olga D. None
D. The Cook 56. What did Sergei give Lushkoff for chopping
50. Which one is the right answer wood?

A. This one A. a pound

B. Not this one B. a dollar
C. The left one C. a frank
D. The right one D. a rouble

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57. What does “Gait” mean? 60. Who called Lushkoff his godson?
A. Anything used to lure something A. Sergei

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B. To walk B. Olga
C. To lie C. both and
D. To sprint
D. none of the above
58. How was the beggar earning money?
61. What did Lushkoff become later?
A. by telling false stories
A. an advocate
B. by telling lies
C. by rousing sympathy in the listeners B. a bus conductor
D. all C. a doctor

59. What had the Beggar said earlier to Sergei D. a notary

when he had met him at Sadovya Street?
62. Find the synonym of mendicant
A. He was very poor
A. mender
B. He was a student
B. member
C. He was a student who had been ex-
pelled. C. beggar
D. He is ill D. shopkeeper

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