Vistas book Chapter 1 The Third Level

Q1- Who is the author of The Third Level?

A)George Orwell
B) Agatha Christie
C) James Joyce
D) Jack Finney
Q2- What was Jack's full name?
A) Walter Braden Jack Finey
B) Stephen Jone Jack
C) Ray Douglas Bradbury
D) None
Q3- Why was the author renamed?
A) to change his name
B) Priest's suggestion
C) to honor his mother
D) as an honor to his father
Q4- What are the author's best known works?
A) English and Science fiction
B) Science and history fiction
C) Science fiction and nature
D) Science fiction and thrillers
Q5- What is the meaning of 'Waking dream wish fulfillment"?
A) a pleasant wish that makes one forget the present
B) a pleasant wish that takes one to the future
C) A pleasant wish which inspires to work
D) a pleasant wish that makes one forget the present
Q6- What is the theme of the lesson?
A) human tendency of escapism because of the harsh realities of the present
B) time travelling
C) theory of escapism
D) a dialogue between a patient and a psychiatrist
Q7- How does the story begin?
A) in a jovial manner
B) in an aggressive manner
C) on a happy note
D) in a serious manner
Q8- What does the Third level signify?
A) a human tendency to escape from the harsh realities of the present to past happy times
B) A third way on Grand Central station
C) A third gate on Grand Central Station
D) None
Q9- What is 'Waking dream wish fulfillment" according to the psychiatrist in the lesson?
A) Charles finding of a Third level at Grand Central Stationand realization of his wish to visit Galesberg Illinois
B) Charles escapism
C) Charles escapism from realities
D) None
Q10- Who was Charles' wife?
A) a woman
B) a woman with bright top
C) A woman at The Third Level
D) Louisa
Q11- What is Sam's letter to Charles represent?
A) A blend
B) an acceptance to visit
C) a proof of his fantasy
D) a blend of reality with fantasy
Q12- What is Sam's letter testimony to in the lesson proving?
A) his acceptance to travel
B) his refusal to travel
C) Sam accompanying Charles
D) Charles' tendency of escapism from the realities
Q13- In what way do we try to overcome the insecurities of the present harsh times
A) by engaging ourselves in practical activities
B) by talking to friends and family
C) reading good books
D) All these
Q14- What is the significance of 1894 in the lesson?
A) it was past
B) Authors' parents were alive
C) Author's childhood time
D) representing a peaceful , romantic living time
Q15- Who was same in The Third Level?
A) a doctor
B) a friend
C) a psychiatrist and a friend of Charley
D) None
Q16- Why did Charley visit Sam?
A) To consult the incident of Third level incident at Grand Central Station
B) To invite him
C) to invite him to accompany at Galesburg
D) To guide him in Galesburg
Q17- Does the Third Level really exist at Grand Station?
A) Yes
B) yes, there were 3 levels
C) No, there were only two levels at the station
D) None
Q18- What unusual thing the narrator sees at the Grand Central Station?
A) Trees
B) motorcars
C) Third Level
D) All these
Q19- Why was the narrator seeing this Third Level?
A) as a wish to visit Galesburg
B) wanted to meet his friends
C) wanted to take a break from office
D) As a result of stress and anxiety in his mind
Q20- What does the Psychiatrist explain to Charlie?
A) Third level is a beautiful place
B) Third level is worth seeing
C) Third level is well maintained
D) That it was the result of stress and anxiety of his mind
Q21- How did Charlie reach the Third Level?
A) In his fantasy he takes a subway or a corridor faster than a bus
B) in a superfast train
C) in jet ways
D) in an escalator
Q22- What was the Third Level?
A) a third tier on the station
B) a third storey on the station
C) an imaginary discovery of the narrator's mind
D) none
Q23- What did Charley see at the Third Level?
A) flickering gas lights and people with funny mustaches
B) brass spittoons
C) men wearing a tan gabardine suit and a straw
D) All these
Q24- Why was Louisa,Charley's wife worried?
A) Knowing the incident of Third Level
B) for not getting tickets
C) tickets were delayed
D) Sam was scaring
Q25- Why does Charley want to visit Galesburg?
A) to escape from the troublesome world
B) to enjoy
C) to see the beautiful landscape
D) to meet his old friends
Q26- Why do you think the Third Level was an escape for Charley?
A) Because it existed at the third storey
B) Because Sam knew about it
C) Because he shared it with Sam
D) Because it existed only in his fantasy and not in reality
Q27- What is First Day Cover?
A) A new stamp gets the Postmark and date
B) A gift
C) A gift wrapper
D) A gift wrapped in a beautiful wrapper
Q28- How does the story interweave fantasy and reality?
A) For Charles’s tendency to treat harsh realities with his imaginary Third Level
B) It presents imagination
C) imagination happens on Central Station
D) None
Q29- What specific difference did Charley notice at the Third Level of Central Station?
A) Everything was weird
B) Everything was old styled and smaller in size
C) everything was too big
D) everything was shining
Q30- Where was Charley ducked on Central Station?
A) into a room
B) into an office
C) into an arched door heading for subway
D) into a store
Q31- What was the strangest thing at The Third Level?
A) Beards
B) Mustaches
C) dresses
D) The corridor that led him into the past.
Q32- Where was Charley often lost?
A) from a train
B) from the footpath
C) from an escalator
D) from a subway faster than bus at The Central Station
Q33- What did Charley find in his stamp collection?
A) old addresses
B) hair styles
C) old letters
D) First day cover
Q34- What happens when Charley enters the Grand Central Station?
A) He finds a huge tree like Station
B) new staircases, corridors and tunnels
C) tree keeps spreading its roots throwing rooms and windows
D) All of these
Q35- What convinced Charly that he had reached the Third Level Grand Central Station and not the second
level?
A) A different world of gas lights and brass spittoons
B) beards and mustaches of 1894
C) newspaper with a date June11, 1894
D) All of these
Q36- Who had sent that 'First Day cover and when?
A) Sam's father
B) Sam's uncle
C) Sam's friend
D) Sam a psychiatrist in 1894

Q37- Whose signatures were there on the letter?

A) Charle's teacher
B) Charle's friend
C) Sam
D) None
Q38- What did the letter state?
A) That everything is okay
B) that Sam is joining them
C) Third level do exist and Charle was advised to keep looking at this worthseeing place
D) None
Q39- What was Sam invited for according to the letter?
A) for a party
B) for a tea party
C) for a bachelor's party
D) for a lemonade party
Q40- What kind of appearances people had at Third level and why did the clerk refuse to accept money?
A) funny and clerk refused to accept money because it was currency of modern times
B) weird and notes were big
C) weird and notes were torn
D) weird and notes were wet

ANSWER KEY
1 D 11 D 21 A 31 D
2 A 12 D 22 C 32 D
3 C 13 D 23 D 33 D
4 D 14 D 24 A 34 D
5 A 15 C 25 A 35 D
6 A 16 A 26 D 36 D
7 D 17 C 27 A 37 C
8 A 18 C 28 A 38 C
9 A 19 D 29 B 39 D
10 D 20 D 30 C 40 A
 Vistas book Chapter 2 The Tiger King
Q1- Who is the author of The Tiger King?
A) Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy
B) Charles Dickens
C) Kamladas
D) None
Q2- What is author's pen name?
A) chalki
B) Balki
C) Kalki
D) None
Q3- From where did the author derive his name?
A) from the prefix of his name
B) from the suffix of his name
C) from the suffix of his wife's name
D) from the suffix of his and his wife's name
Q4- What is the theme of the story?
A) birds
B) animals
C) birds and animals live on the planet
D) All birds and animals have an important role to maintain the ecological balance
Q5- On which issue is the story The Tiger King a satire on?
A) on people
B) on animals
C) on birds
D) on the false pride, ego and stubbornness of the powerful people
Q6- About which time is the story based?
A) ancient times
B) modern times
C) medieval times
D) time of autocratic kings
Q7- Under whose rule were the kings living?
A) sovereign rule
B) queen's rule
C) king's rule
D) Under the thumb rule of the British
Q8- What does Durai mean in the story?
A) Chief leader in bengal
B) Chief leader in andhra
C) chief leader in Tamil
D) none
Q9- Who was Duraisani?
A) an old lady
B) a young lady
C) a greedy woman ,wife of a high rank British officer
D) none
Q10- Who is The Tiger King in the story?
A) Sir Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur
B) M.A.D
C) A.C.T.C.
D) C.R.C.K.
Q11- What did the astrologer predict?
A) the boy will be a king
B) the boy will visit the world
C) the king will be killed by 100th tiger
D) none
Q12- What did the king utter to astrologer's prediction?
A) let tigers watch
B) Let tigers beware
C) let tigers be careful
D) none
Q13- How did the child grow?
A) drinking goat's milk like other royal children
B) drinking buffalo's milk like other royal children
C) drinking cow's milk like other royal children
D) none
Q14- Who brought up the king?
A) a nanny
B) an English tutor
C) An English nanny
D) None
Q15- At what age the boy crowned as king?
A) 30
B) 15
C) 22
D) 20
Q16- How did the king challenge the prediction of the astrologer?
A) by killing the first tiger
B) by killing the 100th tiger
C) by killing all the tigers in the state
D) none
Q17- When did the Prince marry?
A) at the age of 20
B) when he killed the first tiger
C) After killing all the tigers in the State
D) None
Q18- Whom did the King marry?
A) to a girl
B) to a princess
C) to a princess whose father had many tigers
D) all
Q19- What is the theme of the story?
A) Desire of power
B) Desire to have power for one's selfish interests and not for the welfare of the people
C) desire to help others
D) none
Q20- Why did the King decide to marry?
A) to buy tigers
B) to own tigers
C) to tame tigers
D) to achieve his target of killing 100 tigers
Q21- What became the cause of King's death?
A) a tiger
B) a tiger from his wife's forest
C) a tiger in his state
D) the wooden tiger from the toyshop
Q22- What pierced Maharaja's right hand?
A) the slivers on toy tiger's body
B) tiger's leg
C) tiger's teeth
D) none
Q23- Who actually shot the 100th tiger?
A) one of the hunters who accompanied the king
B) a soldier
C) king's guest
D) British high officer
Q24- Why was the king called The Tiger King?
A) he was fond of tigers
B) he kept many tigers
C) he tamed many tigers
D) because he killed 100 tigers
Q25- Why did Maharaja put a ban on Tiger hunting in his state?
A) to prove the priest's prediction wrong
B) to prove his power
C) to show his love for animals
D) his kindness towards the animals
Q26- What does Kalki trying to show in this story?
A) The futility of going against the destiny
B) kings shallowness
C) false pride and ego
D) none
Q27- What is the irony in the story?
A) kings desire to prove predictions wrong
B) king's desire to marry
C) king's desire to kill tigers
D) The king killed 99 tigers and died because of a toy tiger
Q28- Why was the king in danger of losing his kingdom?
A) because he prohibited British officer from killing a tiger
B) because he killed all the tigers
C) because he killed tiger in the forest
D) All
Q29- What did the Maharaja do to ensure his safety?
A) He owned tigers
B) married a princess
C) prohibited British officer to enter his territory
D) He killed tigers
Q30- How did the 100th tiger take its revenge?
A) a silver on toy tiger's body pricked his finger
B) by being fainted
C) by being killed by a hunter
D) by putting him in danger
Q31- Why was the Maharaja so anxious to kill 100th tiger?
A) to ensure his safety and to prove prediction wrong
B) to prove his hunting skills
C) to prove his power
D) none
Q32- Why did the Maharaja double the tax?
A) In his rage against the disappearance of the sheep and to find 100th tiger
B) to raise the funds
C) to increase the income of the state
D) none
Q33- Why did the king send rings to British official's wife?
A) to save his state and to please The British
B) to invite them for hunting
C) to invite them for a feast
D) to find more tigers
Q34- What proved the Dewan's resourcefulness?
A) his wits
 B) his intelligence
C) his ability to manage a tiger in Madras
D) none
Q35- What birthday gift did the Maharaja present to his 3 years old son?
A) a toy
B) gold coins
C) forests
D) a toy tiger
Q36- What is the moral of the story?
A) Power
B) Power makes us powerful
C) Power is meaningless before destiny
D) All
Q37- What literary device has been used in the story?
A) metaphorical expressions
B) Irony
C) sarcasm
D) All
Q38- How has the writer has proved the futility of king's desire?
A) by showing him a victim of a toy tiger
B) by showing him as a powerful king
C) by making the king kill 99 tigers
D) All
Q39- What shows the false ego and pride of the king in the story?
A) his killing of tigers and no concern for nature
B) his desire to marry
C) his orders from time to time
D) None
Q40- Why did The King not permit British officer to click a picture with the dead tiger?
A) to prove his might
B) he was scared of the British
C) because it was against the rules of his state
D) None
ANSWER KEY
1 A 11 C 21 D 31 A
2 C 12 B 22 A 32 A
3 D 13 B 23 A 33 A
4 D 14 C 24 D 34 C
5 D 15 D 25 A 35 D
6 D 16 B 26 A 36 C
7 D 17 C 27 D 37 B
8 C 18 C 28 A 38 A
9 C 19 B 29 D 39 A
10 A 20 D 30 A 40 C
 Vistas book chapter 3 Journey to the end of the Earth
Q1- Who is the author of the lesson?
A) Tishani Doshi
B) Kamla Das
C) Jane Austen
D) Chitra Das
Q2- What does the lesson revolve around?
A) It revolves around the world
B) tourism
C) children and their tour
D) the world’s most preserved place, Antarctica
Q3- What is the purpose of The Journey to the world’s most preserved place, Antarctica?
A) to tour the world
B) to see the beauty of the earth
C) to know the geography more closely
D) to sensitize the young minds towards climatic change
Q4- How will the geographical phenomena help us to know the history of mankind?
A) by telling the age of existence of human beings on the earth
B) by showing the global warming
C) by showing the impacts of global warming
D) none
Q5- Why is a visit to Antartica important to understand the effect of global warming?
A) because here one can see quickly melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves
B) because it is filled with snow
C) because it is away from urban rush
D) None
Q6- What is there in Antarctica?
A) man's history
B) snow's history
C) geographical history
D) Geological history
Q7- Which programme aimed to take high school students to the end of the world?
A) The author's delight
B) Teachers delight
C) School program
D) Geoff Green's 'Students on Ice' programme
Q8- Why did Geoff decide to take high school students on the journey?
A) to make them tour the world
B) to make them enjoy
C) to make them feel relaxed
D) to make them understand their planet and respect it.

Q9- Why is the Antarctica the right place to understand the past, present and future?
A) because half million-year-old carbon records are trapped in its layers of ice.
B) because of layers of ice
C) because of cold
D) none
Q10- Why did the author visit Antarctica?
A) to have a better understanding of the planet
B) to see the white expanse
C) to enjoy the cold weather
D) none
Q11- Why has the author called her journey as Journey to the End of the Earth'?
A) Because it was too far
B) because no human race or plants exist
C) crosses nine time zones, six checkpoints, three water bodies and many ecospheres to reach
there. The
D) All these
Q12- Why is Antarctica a restricted place?
A) because it's too cold
B) because of no life
C) because of snow
D) to protect the environment
Q13- Who was Geoff Green?
A) Geoff was a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and The Explorers Club.
B) A scientist
C) A traveller
D) A tourist guide

Q14- How many years back were India and Antarctica part of the same landmass?
A) 100 million years back
B) 300 million years ago
C) 200 million years ago
D) 400 million years ago
Q15- What was Gondwana?
A) An ancient tourist place
B) an ancient city in Antarctica
C) An ancient super continent
D) None
Q16- What wondered Tishani Doshi?
A) Beauty of the place
B) white expanse
C) Beauty of balance on the earth
D) None
Q17- What was the objective of the Students on the Ice program?
A) to make them travel
B) to make them see snow
C) to make them see white expanse in the form of ice
D) to enable them to think differently to save the planet
Q18- What are the important indications of the future of human kind?
A) melting glaciers
B) depleting ozone layer
C) increasing global warming
D) All these
Q19- Why was Tishani Doshi filled with relief and wonder when she first set his foot on the
continent?
A) to see its white expanse
B) to see its vastness and immense white expanse
C) to see the isolation from the rest of the world
D) All these
Q20- What were the writer's feelings on reaching the continent?
A) of relief and amazement
B) tired and fatigued
C) sad
D) none
Q21- What disturbed the silence of the continent?
A) The birds
B) the animals
C) the humans
D) Avalanches
Q22- Why was the program ‘Students on Ice ' a great success?
A) because of its arrangements
B) good travel facilities
C) good food arrangements
D) because of the life changing exposure to the youngsters
Q23- How has the man created ruckus on the earth?
A) by travelling
B) by encroaching the earth
C) by visiting the Iceland
D) none
Q24- What is phytoplankton?
A) Oceans
B) Southern oceans
C) Microscopic grasses
D) None
Q25- How were the Himalayas formed?
A) by a collapse in the Gondwana supercontinent
B) by evolution
C) by deforestation
D) All these
Q26- What does the author compare the running and stretching of crabs to?
A) to melting glaciers
B) to avalanches
C) to stray dogs
D) None
Q27- What was the center of the Gondwana Supercontinent?
A) Asia
B) Pacific
C) Antarctica
D) All these
Q28- What are the reasons of increasing global tempratures?
A) cutting of trees
B) human activities
C) increasing pollution
D) All these
Q29- What kind of atmosphere does Antarctica have?
A) coldest
B) driest
C) windiest
D) All these
Q30- How old are the records trapped in the layers of ice on Antarctica?
A) 1 million year old
B) 2 million years old
C) half million-year-old carbon records
D) All these
Q31- What used to flourish on Antarctica years back?
A) Animals
B) Tigers
C) Humans
D) Fauna and flora
Q32- Where does 90% of earth's total ice exist?
A) Pacific region
B) Southern oceans
C) Northern pole
D) Antarctica Continent
Q33- Why is Antarctica completely pure?
A) Because of ice
B) because of avalanches
C) because of melting glaciers
 D) because of non-existence of humans
Q34- Where is the world's geological history trapped?
A) on southern pole
B) On Northern Pole
C) on Asia Continent
D) On Antarctica Continent
Q35- Which program was the author a part of?
A) Tour Program
B) Research Program
C) Students on Ice Program
D) None
Q36- Which program was a life changing program?
A) Tour and Travels
B) Know Antarctica
C) Know your earth
D) Students on Ice
Q37- What gives us an insight into the world's geological history?
A) Study of Northern Pole
B) Study of Southern Pole
C) Study of Antarctica Continent
D) None
Q38- How does the geographical phenomena help us?
A) how small changes cause big things to happen
B) it makes us study
C) it helps us to watch everything closely
D) none
Q39- What was the name of the Southern Super continent?
A) Asia
B) Asia Pacific
C) Northern pole
D) Gondwana
Q40- If we want to know our earth ,the human race and its past,present,and future where
should we go?
A) Northern Pole
B) Southern Pole
C) Gondwana
D) Antarctica Continent
ANSWER KEY
1 A 11 C 21 D 31 D
2 D 12 D 22 D 32 D
3 D 13 A 23 B 33 D
4 A 14 B 24 C 34 D
5 A 15 C 25 A 35 C
6 D 16 C 26 C 36 D
7 D 17 D 27 C 37 C
8 D 18 D 28 D 38 A
9 B 19 D 29 D 39 D
10 A 20 A 30 C 40 D
 Vistas book chapter 4 The Enemy
Q1- Who is the author of the lesson The Enemy?
A) Pearl S. Buck
B) Dickens
C) D.H.Lawrence
D) None
Q2- Why did Dr Sadao treat the soldier when he was from enemy's nationality?
A) He was a doctor
B) It was against his professional ethics
C) as a doctor he could not let anyone die
D) All
Q3- Who was Dr. Sadao?
A) An Iranian Doctor
B) An American doctor
C) A Japanese doctor
D) None
Q4- How did Hana help Dr. Sadao?
A) By assisting him
B) by giving him money
C) by giving him tools
D) by working as a nurse
Q5- Why did the General not pass orders to arrest Dr. Sadao for giving space to a
Whiteman?
A) because he trusted him
B) because he needed him
C) General was not in good health and needed his services
D) None
Q6- Why did Dr become irritatable and impatient with his patients?
A) because of his inability to leave the white man to help his distressed wife
B) because of many patients
C) because of General's pressure
D) All these
Q7- Why did Dr.'s wife feel distressed?
A) seeing many patients
B) Seeing General's reaction
C) Seeing the orders
D) Seeing Whiteman's blood
Q8- Why did the surgeon speak sharply to his wife?
A) to get things he needed
B) to get her help
C) to stop any disturbance that could lead to harm the wounded man.
D) None
Q9- What was Hana's reaction over her husband's words?
A) She held her mouth with her hands and vomited outside the operation room
B) she shouted
C) she cried
D) she stopped helping him
Q10- Why did Hana wash the wounded man herself?
A) Because of her servants
B) because her servants ran away
C) because her servants refused to help an American enemy soldier
D) none
Q11- Why did the servants refuse to help ?
A) out of fears
B) because of superstitions
C) because he was an American Soldier
D) All these
Q12- How did Dr. ensure that the American Soldier had left safely?
A) by escorting him
B) by seeing no signal of flashlight
C) by giving him a call
D) none
Q13- Why did Sadao marry a Japanese girl only?
A) because he liked Japanese
B) he didn't like any other nationality
C) Because of his father's fear
D) because he didn't want to upset his father
Q14- What kind of person was Sadao's father?
A) a serious
B) a jolly good man
C) very strict
D) A true patriot and traditional person
Q15- Why did the messenger come to the doctor?
A) to meet him
B) for checkup
C) to inform about the General's pain
D) All these
Q16- Seeing the messenger, what was Hana's reaction?
A) She got frightened
B) she thought he has come to arrest her husband
C) General's man
D) All these
Q17- What kind of person The General was?
A) a kind hearted
B) a wise man
C) a selfish man
D) none
Q18- Why did General spare the White American soldier?
A) to spare his own life
B) he himself was in pain
C) needed Dr Sadao's help
D) All these
Q19- How did Dr get rid of the American Soldier?
A) by giving him instructions
B) by giving him flashlight to use in times of distress
C) by asking him to row to the island
D) All these
Q20- Why was Dr. Sadao not sent to the battlefield?
A) because he had no interest
B) he didn't love his country
C) he was supposed to offer his services to the General who was in pain
D) All these
Q21- Why did Dr. Give his flashlight to the enemy soldier?
A) to help him
B) to show him the way in the dark
C) so that he could send him signal in case of any distress
D) All these
Q22- What was General's plan for American soldier?
A) he wanted him to reach safely
B) will inform his country
C) will get him assassinated by some private assassins
D) none
Q23- Why did the servants leave Dr.'s House?
A) Because he was wounded
B) because he was dirty
C) Because he was an American Soldier and they didn't like him
D) All
Q24- Where did Dr find American soldier?
A) in the park
B) in the battlefield
C) outside his house
D) none
Q25- Why did Dr. help an enemy soldier?
A) because he was an ethical and sincere doctor
B) because he was his friend
C) because he knew him
D) none
Q26- What conflicting ideas disturb Dr.'s mind after he brought American soldier?
A) duty of a doctor and loyalty towards nation
B) his wife's health and general's health
C) patient's health and servants
D) servants' behavior
Q27- How did Dr emerge successfully out of all the conflicts?
A) by throwing the patients out of his house
B) by sending his servants out of the house
C) by succumbing before the general
D) By saving soldier's life as a sincere doctor and helping him to escape
Q28- What kind of person Dr Sadao was?
A) an excellent doctor
B) a compassionate human being
C) Sincere and responsible citizen
D) All these
Q29- What idea do you form of Dr after reading the lesson?
A) an excellent doctor
B) a compassionate human being
C) Sincere and responsible citizen
D) All these
Q30- What were the dominant traits of Dr.'s personality?
A) expertise in his profession and compassion as a human
B) obstinate
C) doesn't like to obey anyone
D) rude
Q31- Why did Dr. Sadao go to America?
A) to meet the soldiers
B) to meet his friends
C) to travel
D) to study surgery and medicine which was his father's wish
Q32- What did Dr give to the soldier?
A) his boat
B) food to eat
C) flashlight to use in distress
D) All these
Q33- What does this chapter revolve around?
A) war
B) war between Israel and America
C) war between Malaysia and America
D) war between Japan and America
Q34- What does the narrator speak about in the beginning of the chapter?
 A) the war
B) the General
C) Dr. Sadao’s childhood and his father.
D) the servants and Dr 's wife
Q35- Where did Dr. meet Hana?
A) in Japan
B) in his neighbor
C) in the battlefield
D) at professor Harley's house in America
Q36- Why did Dr feel alone at the beach?
A) for not bringing his wife with him
B) for not listening to General
C) for saving an American soldier's life
D) none
Q37- At what age Dr. Sadao went to America?
A) 22
B) 32
C) 12
D) 42
Q38- At what age he came back to Japan?
A) 20
B) 40
C) 50
D) 30
Q39- How many children Dr. Sadao has?
A) 4
B) 5
C) 3
D) 2
Q40- What does Dr. Sadao remember towards the end of the story?
A) five American faces which had a lion’s share in his
B) which had a lion’s share in his life
C) his first landlady, who was full of prejudice, yet saved his life when he was suffering
from influenza.
D) All these
ANSWER KEY
1 A 11 D 21 C 31 D
2 D 12 B 22 C 32 D
3 C 13 D 23 C 33 D
4 D 14 D 24 C 34 C
5 C 15 C 25 A 35 D
6 A 16 D 26 A 36 C
7 D 17 C 27 D 37 A
8 C 18 D 28 D 38 D
9 A 19 D 29 D 39 D
10 C 20 C 30 A 40 D
 Vistas book chapter 5 Should Wizard hit the Mommy?
Q1- Who is the author of the lesson?
A) John Updike
B) John Donne
C) William Blake
D) John Williams
Q2- What is this story about?
A) Worldview of a little girl and her curious questions to her father
B) worldview of children
C)world of wizards
D) All these
Q3- How did the wizard help Roger Skunk?
A) by using magic wand
B) by chanting
C) by helping him get rid of foul smell
D) All these
Q4- What did the Wizard ask Roger?
A) what did he want to have
B) what did he want to eat
C) what did he want to smell like?
D) None
Q5- How did Jo want the story of Roger Skunk to end?
A) wanted to punish Roger's mother
B) wanted to hit her
C) wanted to kill her
D) wanted to beat her
Q6- Who hit whom in the original story?
A) roger hit his mom
B) Roger hit the wizard
C) Wizard hit Roger's mom
B) Roger's mom hit the wizard
Q7- Why does Jo call Roger's mom stupid?
A) because she doesn't listen
B) because she is stupid
C) because it is because of her action that Roger start smelling bad again
D) none
Q8- Why did Jo think that Roger Skunk was better with new smell off?
A) because she was able to bear him now
B) she was able to be with him now
C) because of pleasant smell now people were able to be friends with him
D) All these
Q9- What did Roger want to smell like?
A) marigold
B) Sunflower
C) Jasmine
D) Rose
Q10- What kind of end Jo did want for Roger's story?
A) pathetic
B) sad
C) Happy note
D) All these
Q11- How could Roger find so many new friends to play happily?
A) because of new dishes
B) because of new clothes
C) because of new appearance
D) because of new rosy smell
Q12- Why was Roger's Mom angry with him?
A) because of new rosy smell
B) because of new dress
C) because of new appearance
D) none
Q13- Why does Roger's mother not want him to smell like a rose?
A) because she didn't like it
B) because she is allergic to it
C) because he is a skunk and he should smell bad
D) none
Q14- What did Roger's mother decide finally?
A) to take him back to awful wizard and get his bad smell back
B) to take him with her
C) to get him new smell
D) none
Q15- How does Jo want the wizard to behave with Roger's mother?
A) nicely
B) politely
C) rudely
D) She wants the wizard to hit her
Q16- Why does Jo want the Wizard to hit Roger's mother?
A) because she speaks rudely
B) because she behaves rudely
C) because she doesn't let her son have new smell
D) none
Q17- What idea does Jo not approve?
A) Roger's mother have rosy smell
B) Wizard hit Roger's mother
C) Roger's mother hit the wizard
D) None
Q18- Why did Roger Skunk visit the owl?
A) to be his friend
B) to talk to him
C) to learn the art of flying
D) to seek his advice to solve his problem
Q19- What advice did the wise owl give to Roger Skunk?
A) to visit his friends
B) to think deeply
C) to consult his mother
D) to consult the wizard
Q20- What did the wizard demand to make Roger smell like a rose?
A) 10 pennies
B) 4 pennies
C) 5 pennies
D) 7 pennies
Q21- How many pennies did Roger have to pay?
A) 7 pennies
B) 6 pennies
C) 8 pennies
D) 4 pennies
Q22- Where did the wizard suggest Roger to get rest three pennies?
A) from a tree
B) from a river
C) from the ocean
D) from a magic well
Q23- What part of the story did Jack himself enjoy the most?
A) when mother hits the wizard
B) when Roger finds pennies from the magic well
C) when at the wizard's house, Roger imitates wizard's voice
D) none
Q24- Why did Jack enjoy Roger's imitation of wizard's voice?
A) he recalls his past
B) he recalls his childhood
C) he relates his own childhood experiences with it
D) none
Q25- Why did Roger visit the wizard?
A) to learn magic
B) to gossip
C) to get rid of his mother
D) to seek advice to get rid of foul smell
Q26- Who advised Roger to go to the wizard?
A) His mother
B) Jo
C) Jack
D) Owl
Q27- Why does Jo want her father to tell her story in a different way?
A) to give the story a sad ending
B) to understand the story better
C) to complete the story
D) to give the story a happy ending with an adult and mature understanding
Q28- What kind of a person is Roger's mother is in Jo's opinion?
A) wise
B) pleasing
C) wicked and stupid
C) All these
Q29- Where does Jo prefer to live?
A) in the world of friends
B) in the school of swings
C) in her world of dreams and fantasies
D) none
Q30- Why does Jo's father want to punish the wizard?
A) as a mature person he thinks that wizard has tried to interfere with nature so it must be
punished
B) because he doesn't like the wizard
C) he thinks that wizard spoil children
D) none
Q31- Why did Roger want to change his smell?
A) because no one liked him
B) none was ready to play with him
C) he smelt very badly and it made people cry
D) All these
Q32- Why did Mother Skunk want her son to retain his identity?
A) she is an adult
B) has a mature thinking
C) wanted her son to be accepted as it is
D) All these
Q33- Why does Jo's father has a different opinion from Jo?
A) because Jo is a child
B) because he has a mature thought
C) he doesn't go by facial expression
D) All these
Q34- What is different about Roger's story ?
A) Jo had a different opinion from her father
B) this was more interesting
C) it had a wizard
D) none
Q35- Why did Jo have a different opinion from her father?
A) because she was a child
B) because she was unable to see beyond facial expressions
C) because she wanted a happy ending
D) All these
Q36- What is the moral of the story?
A) Parents are wise and know what is best for them
B) mothers should not interfere in their children's affairs
C) mothers are cruel
D) children are cute and right
Q37- Who is Jo?
A) A 4 years old girl who is curious to find unknown aspects of the stories told by her
father
B) a girl child
C) a naughty girl
D) A 4 years old girl who is curious to find unknown aspects of the stories told by her
fathe
Q38- Why did Jack start finding storytelling telling ritual a chore ?
A) because it became a routine to make Jo sleep
B) because it was becoming interesting day by day
C) friends were liking it
D) none
Q39- What does a 4 year old child symbolise in the story?
A) innocence
B) smartness
C) obstinacy
D) none
Q40- What do adult people signify in the story?
A) maturity and experience
B) wise words
C) cruelty
D) indifference
ANSWER KEY

1 A 11 C 21 D 31 D
2 A 12 A 22 D 32 D
3 D 13 C 23 C 33 D
4 C 14 A 24 C 34 A
5 A 15 D 25 D 35 D
6 D 16 C 26 D 36 A
7 C 17 C 27 D 37 D
8 C 18 D 28 C 38 A
9 D 19 D 29 C 39 A
10 C 20 D 30 A 40 A
 Vistas book chapter 6 On the Face of it
Q1- Who has written On The Face Of It?
A) Susan Hill
B) William Sydne
C) Salman Rushdie
D) Chetan Bhagat
Q2- What is this play featuring?
A) an old man and a small boy meeting in old man's garden
B) gossip of old man
C) old man's woes
D) brave acts of a small boy
Q3- Who is Mr. Lamb?
A) a young man
B) a middle-aged man
C) an old man
D) none
Q4- What were Derry and Mr. Lamb victims of?
A) vision impairment
B) Physical impairment
C) war
D) none
Q5- Why did Mr. Lamb help Derry?
A) because both were victims of war
B) both were sad
C) both were victims of physical impairment
D) because he wanted Derry to change his view of life.
Q6- Who is Derry?
A) Derek- a boy of 14 and has acid burnt on his face
B) a small boy
C) a boy
D) a young boy
Q7- What unites Mr. Lamb and Derry?
A) their age
B) their woes
C) their life stories
D) their physical impairment
Q8- How does Mr. Lamb keep himself busy?
A) by reading books
B) by chatting with people
C) by pulling down the ripe crab apples of his garden
D) All these
Q9- Why did Derry go to Mr. Lamb's garden?
A) to steal apples
B) to speak to Mr. Lamb
C) to help the old man
D) to feel that place
Q10- How did Derry enter the garden?
A) from the front gate
B) from the side gate
C) from back gate
D) by climbing the garden wall
Q11- Why did Mr. Lamb keep the door of his garden open?
A) to keep an eye over his garden
B) to be safe
C) to chat with the people and the children who come there to take fruit
D) none
Q12- Why did children call Mr. Lamb Lamey Lamb?
A) because he stopped them from taking apples
B) he spoke rudely
C) they didn't like him
D) because of his broken leg in a bomb explosion
Q13- Why didn't Mr. Lamb feel hurt by children’s comments?
A) because he thought that it suits him
B) he loves children
C) he likes them
D) he want them to play in his garden
Q14- What does Mr. Lamb grow in his garden?
A) cherry
B) peach
C) pomegranate
D) apples
Q15- How did Mr. Lamb pick apples?
A) bending down
B) with the help of his servant
C) with the help of children
D) using a ladder and a stick
Q16- How did Mr. Lamb use the apples?
A) made jam
B) made pickle
C) earned money
D) he used to make jelly with them
Q17- Why did Derry go to Mr. Lamb at the end?
A) because of his wish to live a free life
B) he wanted apples
C) he wanted to play in the garden
D) none
Q18- Why did Derry's mother stop him to stay with Mr. Lamb?
A) because he was not well
B) because he would scold him
C) because he talked too much
D) because she didn't want him to stay with a stranger
Q19- Why did Derry share his fear with Mr. Lamb?
A) because he had a garden
B) because he was old
C) because he understood him and was friendly
D) none
Q20- How did Mr. Lamb help Derry?
A) by giving him apples
B) by talking to him
C) by helping his mother
D) by giving him a positive outlook towards life
Q21- Why did Mr. Lamb call Derry blessed?
A) because he was young
B) because he had a mother
C) because he had friends
D) because except a burnt face he had a perfectly healthy body
Q22- Which story did Mr. Lamb narrate to Derry?
A) Cinderella
B) The snowman
C) The Dwarf man
D) the beauty of the beast
Q23- What kind of a garden did Mr. Lamb have ?
A) cherry
B) plum
C) peach
D) Apple garden
Q24- Where was Mr. Lamb's house?
A) on a tree
B) on the road
C) in a street
D) inside the garden
Q25- How did Derry burn his face?
A) in a fire
B) with a gas stove
C) hot water
D) acid burnt his face
Q26- Why even in spite of physical disability Mr. Lamb did not feel lonely?
A) because he was busy
B) because he had a garden
C) he had servants
D) because he never let himself to be alone and keep himself busy
Q27- Why did Mr. Lamb keep the door of his garden open?
A) to let the people come in
B) to get fresh air
C) to avoid opening the door again and again
D) to have fine contact with the outer world and enjoy
Q28- Why did Derry develop an inferiority complex?
A) he didn't have a big house
B) he didn't have much money
C) because of his burnt face
D) none
Q29- Why did Derry like to be alone?
A) because of burnt face
B) because he couldn't bear with people's comments
C) because of inferiority complex
D) All these
Q30- How the meeting With Mr. Lamb became a turning point for Derry?
A) h encouraged Derry to be friends with everyone and not to be bothered by their comments
B) he taught him to look at everything positively
C) he taught him to admire everything
D) All these
Q31- What did Derry learn from the fairy tale?
A) how to look beautiful
B) how to make friends
C) learnt to love and appreciate himself
D) All these
Q32- How was Mr. Lamb happy in spite of his disability?
A) because of his acceptance of it
B) because he was wise
C) because he had grown old
D) All these
Q33- Why did Derry always find a vacant place to live?
A) he liked to be alone
B) was scared of people
C) because of inferiority complex as he had a burnt face
D) All these
Q34- Why was Derry startled entering the garden?
A) because of trees
B) because of apples
C) because he expected no one else but seeing Mr.Lamb
D) none
Q35- What complex does Derry suffer from?
A) Superiority
B) Oedipus
C) inferiority
D) All these
Q36- Why did Mr. Lamb not have curtains in his house?
A) it's difficult to wash
B) too expensive
C) because he wanted visitors in his house
D) none
Q37- What did Mr. Lamb tell about himself?
A) he had a tin leg
B) still he was happy
C) he never mind even if children teased him
D) All these
Q38- What specific things about Mr. Lamb does Derry notice?
A) A man of firm resolution
B) always remains happy in spite of his deformity
C) had a positive outlook
D) All these
Q39- In what sense was friendship between Lamb and Derry was fruitful?
A) he gave him fruit to eat
B) his maturity
C) both were good companions and Lamb's mature experiences and words helped Derry to have a
positive view of life
D) none
Q40- What draws Derry towards Lamb?
A) his appearance
B) his grief
C) his positive outlook
D) All these
ANSWER KEY
1 A 11 C 21 D 31 D
2 A 12 D 22 D 32 D
3 C 13 A 23 D 33 D
4 B 14 D 24 D 34 C
5 D 15 D 25 D 35 C
6 A 16 D 26 D 36 C
7 D 17 A 27 D 37 D
8 D 18 D 28 C 38 D
9 D 19 C 29 D 39 C
10 D 20 D 30 D 40 C
 Vistas book chapter 7 Evans tries an O - Level
Q1-Name the author of the lesson.
A) William Blake
B) Sir Johnson
C) H.L.Hegde
D) Norman Colin Dexter
Q2- Why did Evan decide to take the O level exam?
A) to keep his hat on his head
B) to study
C) to add to his academics
D) to plan an escape from the prison
Q3- What kind of a person was Evans?
A) Kleptomaniac
B) pleasing personality and a tendency to mislead
C) stealing habit
D) All these
Q4- Why was Evans called 'Evans the break?
A) because of his pleasing personality
B) because he keeps hat on his head
C) for escaping from prison thrice
D) All these
Q5- Why did Evans drape a blanket around his shoulder?
A) to conceal his efforts of changing dress to look like McLeay
B) because he was feeling cold
C) to hide himself from the police
D) All these
Q6- What two purposes did the correction slip serve?
A) to give correct name of hotel to Evans and exact date and time of exam to Evans
B) to help Evan escape
C) to inform Evan Gang his plan of escape
D) All these
Q7- How did Evan escape from the jail?
A) by jumping the wall
B) by befooling the watchman
C) his friend Prison officer released him
D) all
Q8- What is Norman Colin Dexter known for?
A) for his writings
B) for his poems
C) for his plays
D) for his Inspector Morse series of novels
Q9- When was for his Inspector Morse series of novels written?
A) between 1975 -1999
B) between 1975 -1998
C) between 1975 -1997
D) between 1975 -1994
Q10- Who ordered Evans to take off his hat?
A) Jackson
B) Stephens
C) The Governor
D) None
Q11- Why was the Governor not ready to take risk?
A) to bring a good name
B) to stop Evan from taking exam
C) to avoid any bad name
D) none
Q12- Who checked the cell thoroughly?
A) The police
B) The Governor
C) Jackson and Stephens
D) Stephens
Q13- Why did Evans request not to take off his hat?
A) he was feeling cold
B) to give a smart look
C) he loved to wear
D) Evans considered it lucky for himself
Q14- Why couldn't Stephens identify Evans' trick?
A) because he was not trained
B) he was a new recruit
C) he was not experienced
D) none
Q15- How could Evans' plan of escape become a success?
A) because of his wits
B) because he keeps his hat on his head
C) because he was cunning
D) all
Q16- Who was Carter?
A) a policeman
B) watchman
C) Detective Superintendent
D) None
Q17- Who arrived first on the scene after Stephen found Mcleery?
A) Jackson
B) Stephens
C) Detective Superintendent Carter
D) None
Q18- Whom did Stephen actually catch?
A) Mcleerey
B) Evans
C) a thief
D) All
Q19- Who was Mc Leery?
A) Evan's friend
B) policeman
C) inspector
D) the invigilator who had been appointed by the Governor to invigilate
Q20- How did Evan outwit the Governor?
A) by taking exam
B) by putting his hat
C) by keeping a letter
D) by escaping again
Q21- How was the governor able to locate Evans?
A) by putting together 6 figures
B) by decoding
C) with the help of Ordnance survey map of oxford shire
D) All these
Q22- Where was Evan located?
A) in the middle east
B) in Japan
C) in the middle of chipping Norton
D) none
Q23- From where did they find the name of the hotel where Evan was staying?
A) from the police
B) from the people
C) secret agent
D) from the correction slip
Q24- What was the name of the hotel where Evans was staying?
A) Palampura
B) The Golden Palms
C) The Golden Era
D) The Golden Lion
Q25- What aided Evan's arrest?
A) his friends
B) his gang
C) secret agents
D) The clues Evan left
Q26- Where was the clues left?
A) on the table
B) in the cell
C) on the mobile
D) on the question paper
Q27- Why did Evans clip his hair short?
A) to aid his escape plan and to pass off as Mc Leery later
B) he was feeling hot
C) to give modern look
D) to give a young look
Q28- What was the purpose of the second call?
A) to take away Stephen so that Evan could give final touches to his makeup
B) to give time to Evan to run
C) to befool Stephen and Jack
D) none
Q29- From whom did the governor receive the first call?
A) Assistant Secretary
B) Joint Secretary
C) Assistant commissioner
D) All
Q30- How did the first call mislead the governor?
A) by demanding prison van for a remand case where as it was needed for Evan's escape
B) by giving wrong information
C) by calling him to CM office
D) none
Q31- What did the Governor want Carter to do?
A) he wanted him to check Evan
B) he wanted him to go with Evan
C) he wanted him to accompany him
D) he wanted him to accompany injured Mcleery
Q32- What was there in the small brown suitcase that Mcleery carried?
A) sealed question papers
B) yellow invigilation form
C) special authentication card
D) All these
Q33- What information did the governor receive from the detective Superintendent?
A) Mcleery had spotted Evan
B) Ean was seen near Elsfield way
C) chased Evan but lost him
D) All these
Q34- What did the Governor tell the Secretary of the examination Board?
A) Evan is a pleasing person
 B) can imitate stars and was star of Christmas concert
C) was a kleptomaniac
D) All these
Q35- How can we say that Evan could not get through the O Level German examination?
A) he is unable to understand even simple expression like Gutten Gluck
B) he didn't study
C) didn't attend any class
D) was behind the bars
Q36- Why was Evan keeping the hat on his head?
A) to cheat
B) to avoid cold
C) to give a smart look
D) to avoid being detected as he had clipped his hair short to look like Mcleery
Q37- What precautions did the authorities take to conduct the examination smoothly?
A) The Governor personally supervised security
B) Evan's cell was checked thoroughly
C) All belongings were taken away from Evan, The invigilator was frisked and a police officer was
posted to keep a vigil
D) All these
Q38- Why was the invigilator frisked?
A) to ensure that he had no objectionable material with him
B) to check his true identity
C) to check if he was a real man
D) none
Q39- What made Evan have his last laugh?
A) his friend a prison officer opened his handcuffs and helped him to escape
B) Evan was locked up
C) Evan was released
D) None
Q40- What should be the Governor's plan to bring Evan back to prison from the hotel?
A) He should have sent him by air
B) He should have sent him with more people
C) He himself should have travelled along
D) Non
ANSWER KEY
1 D 11 C 21 D 31 D
2 D 12 C 22 C 32 D
3 D 13 D 23 D 33 D
4 C 14 B 24 D 34 D
5 A 15 A 25 D 35 A
6 A 16 C 26 D 36 D
7 C 17 C 27 A 37 D
8 D 18 A 28 A 38 A
9 A 19 D 29 A 39 A
10 A 20 D 30 A 40 C
 Vistas book chapter 8 - Memories of childhood
Q1- Who is the author of the lesson Memories of childhood?
A) Zitkala-Sa and Bama
B) Emily Brontë
C) Charles Dickens
D) None
Q2- What does the story present?
A) An autobiography of the author
B) An autobiography of a man
C) An autobiographical episode from the lives of two women
D) None
Q3- What are the names of the two women?
A) Zitkala Sa a Native American and Bama Tamilian Dalit
B) Zitkala and Sa
C) Ba and Ma
D) Annan and Bama
Q4- What advice did Annan give to Bama?
A) to go away from the place
B) to leave the house
C) to study hard and progress to rise above all shackles of indignity
D) All
Q5- Who was Zitkala Sa?
A) A tamilian
B) A protester
C) A native American
D) None
Q6- What did Zitkala Sa find?
A) discrimination against native American culture and women
B) her dignity was in danger
C) women were in danger
D) all these
Q7- What did the cutting of long hair of Zitkala Sa symbolise in the lesson?
A) subjection to the rulers
B) her wish to dominate
C) her wish to get justice
D) her wish to look modern
Q8- Who is Bama's brother?
A) A boy
B) A young boy
C) Annan
D) None
Q9- How much time did Bama take to reach home?
A) 2 hours
B) 3hours
C) 4hours
D) 1 hour
Q10- What is the meaning of childhood memories?
A) memories with a child
B) memories of the times spent with a child
C) memories of olden times
D) memories formed during childhood period
Q11- Why did Bama reach home in one hour in place of 10 minutes?
A) she was watching shows on the road
B) she was stopping at every shop
C) she was enjoying all fun on the roads
D) all these
Q12- What did Zitkala Sa feel when her long hair was cut?
A) oppression and victimization
B) happy and delighted
C) relaxed
D) None
Q13- What was Bama victim of?
A) gender prejudice
B) violence
C) child abuse
D) caste system
Q14- What did Annan tell Bama?
A) Education is the only way to break the chains of caste system
B) running away is the only way out to solve the problem
C) keeping quiet is the only way to solve the issue
D) none
Q15- What did Zitkala mean by Eating By Formula?
A) Set pattern of sitting
B) set pattern of standing in lines
C) set pattern of rules
D) set pattern of eating decorum
Q16- Why did Zitkala not like her hair cut?
A) because her mother told her that mourners and cowards keep such hair.
B) she liked long hair
C) she wanted different style
D) she didn't like anyone to touch her hair
Q17- Who told Bama that untouchability is a crime?
A) her mother
B) Zitkala and Sa
C) her sister
D) Her brother Annan
Q18- What comic incident did Bama mention to her brother?
A) a man bringing vadas for his landlord by holding the Veda packet by a string.
B) a man bringing vadas in a basket
C) a man bringing vadas in a tiffin
D) all these
Q19- Which community does Bama belongs to?
A) rich
B) Brahmins
C) Untouchable low caste
D) None
Q20- What is the meaning of untouchability?
A) segregating a minority from the mainstream social group
B) not to touch anyone
C) keep distance from
D) none
Q21- Why did Zitkala find Eating by formula a hard trial?
A) because of her inability to follow the bell taps
B) because of too many rules
C) because of restrictions
D) none
Q22- What attracted Bama in the street?
A) monkeys
B) the cyclist
C) Pongal offerings
D) all these
Q23- Why did Zitkala feel oppressed in her new establishment?
A) because of indignities shown to her
B) because she didn't like the place
C) she wanted to be with her mother
D) none
Q24- When did Bama first come to know of social discrimination?
A) in class 1
B) when she was in class 3
C) when she was in class 2
D) when she was in class 4
Q25- Why did the Landlord's man ask Bama's brother on which street did they live?
A) to know his class
B) to know his background
C) to know his work
D) to know his caste
Q26- "I felt like sinking to the floors" why did Zitkala feel so?
A) because her blanket was stripped off from her shoulders and she felt uncomfortable
B) because she didn't like her short hair
C) because she didn't like her dress
D) because she felt cold
Q27- What did Judewin tell Zitkala?
A) A new dress is comimng
B) she will meet her mother
C) she will go to a new place
D) her hair would be cut
Q28- How did Bama earn respect of the people of higher class?
A) by shopping
B) by spending money
C) by studying hard and earning first position in her class
D) all these
Q29- What sort of shows attracted Bama?
A) shows by jugglers
B) shows by monkeys
C) shows by shopkeepers
D) shows by political people
Q30- Why was Zitkala in tears on her first day in the land of apples?
A) because of new environment
B) cultural differences
C) eating by formula and cutting of her hair
D) all these
Q31- What was common between Bama and Zitkala?
A) belonged to minority
B) victims of cultural differences
C) were struggling because of class
D) all these
Q32- Why did Zitkala start crying at the dining table ?
A) she didn't like the food
B) she was a stranger
C) because of eating by formula
D) all these
Q33- Why did Zitkala hide herself?
A) to save herself
B) to save herself from a woman
C) to save herself from other children
D) to stop people from cutting her hair
Q34- How did the scene in the market change Bama's life?
A) because of that she decided to study hard and stand against discrimination
 B) she became fearful
C) she became stubborn
D) she was irritated
Q35- What was the author's original name?
A) Zitkala
B) Zitkala sa
C) Zitkala Bama
D) Gertrude Simmons Boning
Q36- What did the story showcase?
A) Discrimination on the basis of casteism specially with Indians in western culture
B) difference of Indian and Western culture
C) views of minorities
D) none
Q37- What was the name of the school where Zitkala studied?
A) Carlisle Indian school
B) Carlisle Western school
C) Carlisle Indonesian school
D) Carlisle American school
Q38- What is Belfry?
A) part of a bell tower
B) part of a tower
C) part of a music tower
D) part of a silver tower
Q39- Which family did Bama belog to?
A) A jewish family
B) a rich family
C) a poor catholic family
D) all
Q40- What had hurt Bama in the society?
A) Political plays
B) class students
C) Road shows
D) Practice of untouchability
ANSWER KEY
1 A 11 D 21 A 31 D
2 C 12 A 22 D 32 C
3 A 13 D 23 A 33 D
4 C 14 A 24 B 34 A
5 C 15 D 25 D 35 D
6 A 16 A 26 A 36 A
7 A 17 D 27 D 37 A
8 C 18 A 28 C 38 A
9 D 19 C 29 D 39 C
10 D 20 A 30 D 40 D
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Chapter 1 The Last lesson

Q1 - `Who is the author of The Last Lesson?
A) Jane Austen
B) Rabindra Nath Tagore
C) None
D) Alphonse Daudet
Q2- Alphonse Daudet was from which country?
A) India
B) France
C) England
D) New Zealand
Q3- The story ‘The Last Lesson’ highlights which human tendency?
A) Male Chauvinism
B) Procrastination
C) Courage
D) Cowardice
Q4 - What were the things being taken for granted by the people of Alsace?
A) Teachers of the school
B) Time and school
C) People around
D) Money and power
Q5 - What does The Last Lesson symbolize?
A) Loss
B) Loss of freedom
C) Loss of language
D) Loss of language and freedom
Q6 - What does The Last Lesson signify?
A) Change of power
B) change of Government
C) change in life
D) Change of teachers
Q7- What do the marching soldiers under the windows represent?
A) The Dawn of Prussia in the defeat of French people
B) The defeat of Prussia
C) The victory of French
D) None of these
Q 8-From where did the orders come to teach only German in the districts of Alsace and Lorraine?
A) France
B) Lorraine
C)Berlin
D) Germany
Q9- What does effects this story speaks about?
A) Power
B)Money
C)Transition
D) people
Q10- Why was Franz reluctant to go to school?
A) wanted to enjoy warm Sunlight
B) wanted to see soldiers drill
C) wanted to enjoy outdoor
D) lesson on participles was not prepared
Q11- What did Franz find on reaching the school?
A) People were dancing
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B) school was closed

C) Police patrolling
D) strange quietness
Q12- Who occupied the back benches in the class?
A) weak students
B) teachers
C) monitors of the class
D) village elders
Q13- Why was Franz surprised?
A) Because of village elders
B) Because of police patrolling
C) because of students' behavior
D) because of M.Hamel's kind and polite behaviour
Q14- Why was Franz feeling regretful and sad?
A) for reaching late
B) for not learning participles
C) for change of the Government
D) for not learning his mother tongue
Q15- Whom did M.Hamel blame for not sending students to school?
A) Parents
B) friends
C) teachers
D) watchman
Q16- What did Hauser bring?
A) sweets
B) children
C) friends
D) old Primer
Q17- What made Franz forget M.Hamel's ruler and crankiness?
A) Police Patrolling
B) Strange Quietness
C) Bustle on the streets
D) The idea of his going away
Q18- For how many years did M. Hamel serve the school?
A) 20 years
B) 35 years
C) 30 years
D) 40 years
Q19- Where did the parents send their children?
A) school
B) coaching
C) farms and mills
D) movies

Q20- Why were the parents sending their children to the farms and mills?
A) to play
B) to meet friends
C) to meet relatives
D) to earn money
Q21-Why did the villagers come to meet M. Hamel in the school?
A) to complain
B) to say goodbye
C) to gossip
D) to show gratitude
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Q22- Why did Mr. M. Hamel call the French language the most beautiful?
A) Because it was the clearest and logical
B) Because it was his native language
C) Because people were from France
D) None of these
Q23- What was Franz expected to be prepared for at school that day?
A) song
B) dance
C) essay writing
D) Participle
Q24- When people are enslaved, what key do they have to the prison, according to M.Hamel?
A) their behaviour
B) power
C) aggressiveness
D) mother tongue
Q25- What did Franz notice that was unusual that day?
A) quietness in the school
B) soldiers in the school
C) crowd in school
D) all of these
Q26- What had been put up on the Bulletin Board that day?
A) Teach only French
B) Speak only English
C) Teach only German
D) Teach all these
Q27- What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?
A) hustle-bustle
B) people were happy
C) teachers were sad
D) strange quietness and sadness
Q28- What changed Franz's feelings about M.Hamel and school?
A) Police Patrolling
B) Orders from Berlin
C) Strict words from M. Hamel
D) old Primer
Q29- What made Franz and the people realize about the preciousness of their mother tongue?
A) M. Hamel's words
B) School orders
C) Sudden orders from Berlin
D) School Principal
Q30- Expression 'Thunder Clap" in the lesson means _______.
A) loud but not clear
B) loud and clear
C) startling and unexpected
D) unpleasant
Q31- What did Mr. Hamel bring for his class on his last day in the school?
A) new pens
B) new notebooks
C) sweets
D) story books
Q32 "The Last Lesson" story was written in which year?
A) 1869 - 1870
B) 1870 - 1871
C) 1872- 1873
D) 1870 - 1872
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Q33- Don't go so fast, you will get to your school in plenty of time means ___
A) getting late
B) very early
C) not early
D) early enough
Q34- What was there in front of the Bulletin Board?
A) children
B) police
C) hawkers
D) a crowd
Q35- What bad news used to come from the Bulletin Board?
A) lost battles
B) the draft
C) orders of commanding officers
D) All of these
Q36- Whlich language would the students study from the next day?
A) English
B) German
C) Dutch
D) Spanish
Q37- What does the expression "in great dread of scolding" mean?
A) to be happy about it
B) very badly scared of scolding
C) To be indifferent
D) None of these
Q38- Why was Franz was shocked to see M. Hamel?
A) Because of his formal dress
B) because he gave sweets
C) because he had a flower in his hand
D) all of these
Q 39- What attitude of M.Hamel surprised Franz?
A) soft and kind
B) rude
C) firm and strict
D) none of these
Q40- Who was M.Hamel?
A) a spy
B) language teacher
C) soldier
D) School Principal

ANSWER KEY
1 D 11 D 21 D 31 B
2 B 12 D 22 A 32 B
3 B 13 D 23 D 33 D
4 B
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Flamingo book Chapter 2 Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood

Q1- Who is the author of Lost Spring?
A) James Bond
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Sudha Murthy
D) Anees Jung
Q2- This story is an excerpt from which book of the author?
A) Lost Spring - Stories of Stolen Childhood
B) Unveiling India
C) Breaking the Silence
D) The Song of India
Q3- What does the author analyze in the story?
A)Rich people
B) Garbage
C) Poor children and their exploitation
D) Her works
Q4- What is the central theme of the story Lost Spring?
A) Pitiable Poor children and their lost childhood
B) Garbage
C) Saheb and Mukesh
D) Spring Season
Q5- What forces the children to live a life of exploitation?
A) Greed
B) Extreme Poverty
C) Peers
D) Parents
Q6- According to the author what was garbage for the parents?
A) Means of entertainment
B) Means of joy
C) Means of sorrow
D) Means of survival
Q7- According to the author what was garbage for the children ?
A) Means of entertainment
B) Means of timepass
C) Means of playing
D) A wonder
Q8- Who was Saheb?
A) A shopkeeper
B) A servant
C) A rag picker
D) All
Q9- What was Saheb looking for?
A) Eggs
B) Gold
C) Coins
D) Toys
Q10- Is Saheb happy working at the tea stall?
A) Yes
B) Yes, he earns money
C) No earning
D) No, earning but no freedom
Q11- Why did Saheb -e- Alam not go to school?
A) Not interested
B) Had no money to pay fees
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C) Wanted to go for movie

D) Wanted to earn money
Q12- What is the meaning of Saheb -e- Alam?
A) Owner
B) Rich man
C) Poor man
D) Lord of the Universe
Q13- Where was Saheb employed?
A) At a tea stall in Seemapuri
B) At a saree shop
C) At a jewellery shop
D) At a sweet shop
Q14- Why is the author calling garbage as 'gold' in the story?
A) Because of jewels in it
B) Because of gems in it
C) Because of gold in it
D) Because of its encashment value
Q15- What do the boys appear like to the author in the story?
A) Morning crows
B) Evening crows
C) Morning birds
D) Evening Birds
Q16- Name the birthplace of the author.
A) U.S.A
B) California
C) Koch
D) Rourkela
Q17- What does the title 'Lost Spring' symbolise?
A) Lost blooming childhood
B) Autumn season
C) Lost money
D) Lost age
Q18- Saheb hailed from which place?
A) Delhi
B) Seemapuri
C) Greenfields of Dhaka
D) None
Q19- Why did Saheb go through garbage dumps?
A) To find a silver coin
B) A rupee
C) A ten rupee note
D) All of these
Q20- Why did Saheb leave his house?
A) Because the storm swept away his house and field
B) To enjoy a life of leisure
C) To find friends
D) To go to college
Q21- What forced Saheb to be a ragpicker?
A) Hard work
B) Destiny
C) People around him
D) Acute poverty
Q22- Where is Seemapuri?
A) In Noida
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B) South Delhi
C) North Delhi
D) East Delhi
Q23- Why did Saheb leave Dhaka?
A) Because of lack of resources
B) Because of lack of enough food
C) Because of friends
D) Because of parents
Q24- Who are responsible for the poor condition of bangle makers in Firozabad?
A) Parents
B) Society
C) Bureaucrats
D) All of these
Q25- What efforts can help Mukesh materialise his dream of becoming a car driver?
A) Hard work
B) Going to garage
C) Guidance of his owner
D) All these
Q26- What are the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry?
A) Poor health
B) Impaired vision
C) Miserable life
D) All of these
Q27- Who employs the local families of Firozabad?
A) Bureaucrats
B) Merchants
C) Politicians
D) The glass blowing industry
Q28- What is the function of glass blowing industry?
A) To make windows
B) To make doors
C) To mould glass
D) To mould glass and make colorful bangles
Q29- What makes the working conditions of the children worst in the glass industry?
A) Dark dingy cells without light and air
B) Dazzling and sparking of welding light
C) High temperature
D) All of these
Q30- What excuse do the rag pickers give for not wearing chappals?
A) Mothers don't give
B) No interest
C) A tradition
D) All these
31- Who is Mukesh?
A) Student
B) Worker
C) Bangle maker
D) Ragpicker
Q32- What are the reasons for the migration of people from villages to city in the lesson?
A) Sweeping of houses and fields by storms
B) No money
C) Education and unemployment
D) Safety
Q33- What compels the workers in bangle industry of Firozabad to poverty?
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A) Cast and ancestral profession

B) Karam theory and society
C) Bureaucrats and politicians
D) All of these
Q34- The city of Firozabad is famous for what?
A) For casteism
B) For ragpickers
C) For poverty
D) For bangles
Q35- Firozabad is the centre of which industry?
A) Cotton industry
B) Furniture industry
C) Textile industry
D) Glassblowing industry
Q36-How is Mukesh's attitude different from that of his family?
A) Being daring, firm and clear
B) Being a fighter
C) Being a coward
D) Not clear
Q37- What is the means of survival in Seemapuri?
A) Work
B) Merchandising
C) Education
D) Ragpicking
Q38- What is the metaphorical symbol of Seemapuri in the lesson?
A) Poverty
B) Exploitation
C) Enjoyment
D) A little hell
Q39- What is Mukesh's dream?
A) To be a doctor
B) To be a merchant
C) To be a rogue
D) To be a motor- mechanic
Q40- What change did Anees Jung see in Saheb when she saw him standing by the gate of the
neighbourhood club?
A) As if lost his freedom
B) Lost ownership
C) Lost joy
D) All of these
ANSWER KEY
1 D 11 B 21 D 31 C
2 A 12 D 22 D 32 A
3 C 13 A 23 B 33 D
4 A 14 D 24 D 34 D
5 B 15 C 25 D 35 D
6 D 16 D 26 D 36 A
7 D 17 A 27 D 37 D
8 C 18 C 28 D 38 D
9 B 19 D 29 D 39 D
10 D 20 A 30 D 40 D
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Flamingo book Chapter 3 Deep Water MCQs

Q1- Who is the author of Deep Water?
A) William Shakespeare
B) William George Bernard Shaw
C) William Wordsworth
D) William Douglas
Q2- In which subject has the author graduated?
A) English and History
B) English and Science
C) Science and Social studies
D) English and Economics
Q3- For how many years had the author taught in high school in Yakima?
A) 2 years
B) 4 years
C) 3 years
D) 5 years
Q4- After the author was fed up with teaching , he decided to opt for which career?
A) Medical
B) Gardening
C) Engineering
D) A legal career
Q5- What is the story Deep Water speaking about?
A) Fear of water and the way to overcome it
B) Fear of people
C) Fear of dogs
D) Fear of swimming
Q6- How did the author's fear vanish?
A) With courage, guidance and determination
B) With care
C) With mother's words
D) With guidance
Q7- Y.M.C.A stands for?
A) Young Men's Christian Authority
B) Young Men's Christopher Association
C) Young Men's Christian Army
D) Young Men's Christian Association
Q8- Where is Yakima located?
A)In New zealand
B)In California
C)In Washington
D)None of these
Q9- Where did the writer go when he was 3 or 4 years old in the story?
A) Washington
B) New Zealand
C) California
D) Canada
Q10- Why did he develop a fear of water?
A) Because of knocking down by waves at a beach
B) Because of a young boy
C) Because of instructor
D) Because of his mother
Q11- What is haunting the author?
A) Terrible experience in the pool
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B) Ghosts
C) His mother's words
D) A push by a young boy
Q12- How did the author learn swimming?
A) With the help of a rope
B) With the help of a friend
C) With the help of his mother
D) With the help of a swimming instructor
Q13- What did William O Doughlas desire for?
A) Visit to California
C) To be a judge
C) To learn swimming
D) To be with his mother
Q14- What did the author realize while drowning in the pool?
A) Terror in fear of death
B) Swimming was fun
C) The lifeguard did not come to his rescue
D) All of these
Q15- What is the theme of the story Deep Water?
A) Victory in facing the fear
B) Being fearful
C) To learn swimming
D) All
Q16- Deep water is an excerpt from which book?
A) Fear of water
B) Of Men and Mountains
C) How to Swim
D) Fearless
Q17- What does Deep Water signify?
A) Beauty
B) Depth of Sea
C) Depth of ocean
D) Fear
Q18- Who threw Douglas into the swimming pool?
A) A young boy
B) Instructor
C) Mother
D) Watchman
Q19- What was the fear in Douglas' mind?
A) To be defeated
B) To be pushed
C) Being drowned
D) None
Q20- At the age of 3 or 4 Douglas visited the beach with his father. What caused a terror in his heart
then?
A) The sight of the sea waves
B) The overpowering force of the waves
C) The colour of the water
D) All of these
Q21- What were the series of emotions and fears that Douglas experienced when he was thrown into the pool?
A) Fear
B) Confidence
C) Overconfidence
D) Mixed feelings of confidence and fear
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Q22- What plans did he make to come to the surface of the pool?
A) Triled to jump and push himself up
B) Shouted
C) Cried aloud
D) Shouted "help"
Q23- How did this experience affect the author?
A) Became fearless
B) Confident
C) Overconfident
D) Became hydrophobic
Q24- What lesson did Douglas learn from his experience of drowning learning to swim?
A) Learnt swimming
B) Love for swimming
C) Swimming is not difficult
D) Face the fear
Q25- How did the instructor make Douglas a good swimmer?
A) Planning
B) With the help of ropes
C) By pushing him into the pool
D) With the help of ropes and belts
Q26- What plan did Douglas make to learn swimming?
A) Planned to get an instructor
B) Planned to swim more
C) Planned to watch swimmers
D) Planned to jump
Q27- What does Douglas do to save himself in the pool?
A) Used his mind and pushed himself up
B) Shouted aloud
C) Called people
D) Shouted help help
Q28- Why did Douglas fail to come to the surface of the pool as he hoped to?
A) Because of fear of swimming
B) Because of fear
C) Because of inability to move
D) Because of fear and inability to move
Q29- What was the impact of the pool incident?
A) Developed fear
B) Became confident
C) Became overconfident
D) Hydrophobia was revived
Q30- How many times did Douglas try to come to the surface of the pool?
A) Twice
B) Once
C) Five times
D) Thrice
Q31- Why did Douglas hate to walk with bare legs?
A) Ugly looking legs
B) Fat legs
C) Because of skin color
D) Because of skinny legs
Q32- Why did Douglas' mother recommend that he should learn swimming at the Y. M.C.A swimming pool?
A) Because it was local
B) Because it was safe
C) Because it was shallow
D) Because it was shallow and safe
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Q33- Why did Douglas hire an instructor?

A) To be confident in swimming
B) To compete with others
C) To flaunt
D) To overcome his fear of water and learn swimming
Q34- “I crossed to oblivion, and the curtain of life fell”. What does oblivion mean?
A) spavilion
B) changing room
C) unconsciousness
D) death
Q35- Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?
A) because he wanted to swim in the waters of the Cascade
B) because his friend had challenged him
C) because he had a bet on it
D) because he wanted to win a medal
Q36- What was stopping Douglas to get into the waters of Cascade?
A) Memories of Washington
B) Memories of California
C) Instructions given by the instructor
D) Memories full of terror in the pool
Q37- How did Douglas make sure that he had conquered the old terror?
A) By visiting California
B) By jumping into the waters
C) By taking a lesson from the instructor
D) By swimming into the lake Wentworth
Q38- What distance Douglas covered while swimming across the lake Wentworth?
A) 4 miles
B) 3 miles
C) 5 miles
D) 2 miles
Q39- Where was the lake Wentworth?
A) In New Hampshire
B) in Washington
C) in California
D) in Washington D.C
Q40- At first, why was the writer not much frightened when he was thrown into the pool?
A) Because he was sleeping
B) Because he was intoxicated
C) Because he thought that the lifeguard would come to his rescue
D) Because of confidence
ANSWER KEY
1 D 11 A 21 D 31 D
2 D 12 D 22 A 32 D
3 A 13 C 23 D 33 D
4 D 14 A 24 D 34 C
5 A 15 A 25 D 35 A
6 A 16 B 26 A 36 D
7 D 17 D 27 A 37 D
8 C 18 A 28 D 38 D
9 C 19 C 29 D 39 A
10 A 20 D 30 D 40 D
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Flamingo book Chapter 4 The Rattrap MCQs

Q1- Who is the author of The Rattrap?
A) Selma Lagerlof
B) Thomas B. Allen
C) Howard Phillips
D) Sudha Murthy
Q2- Which country does the author belong to?
A) Singapore
B) Sydney
C) Sweden
D) Switzerland
Q3- Where has the story been set up?
A) Jewellery shops
B) Forests of Sweden
C) Roads of Sweden
D) Mines of Sweden
Q4- Sweden Mines are rich in which ore?
A) Brass
B) Copper
C) Steel
D) Iron ore
Q5- In what manner has the story been narrated?
A ) Non-fictious style
B) Realistic manner
C) Fairy tale manner
D) None of these
Q6- What is the message of the story?
A) Love and kindness are powerful reformers.
B) Kindness is powerless
C) Kindness encourages thieves
D) Thieves need reprimand
Q7- This story revolves around whom?
A) Around Crofter and his daughter
B) Around crofter
C) Around ironman
D) Around peddler- the Rattrap seller
Q8- What does the rattrap seller have to do to make his both ends meet?
A) Peddling
B) Selling
C) Begging
D) Thievery and begging
Q9- Why does the peddler knit up various kind of thoughts?
A) Because of greed
B) Because of travelling
C) Because of loneliness and poverty
D) None
Q10- In peddler's view, what does the world look like?
A) A Rat
B) A Jungle
C) A Jigsaw
D) A Rattrap
Q11- According to the seller what leads us to various miseries?
A) Attractions
B) People
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C) Friends
D) Wishes and greed of comfort
Q12- Why did the peddler have to take shelter?
A) Because of his wishes
B) Because he wants to steal
C) Because he wants to be with his friends
D) Because he had no home
Q13- Who offered shelter to the Peddler?
A) A beggar
B) A friend
C) A milkman
D) An old Crofter
Q14- What made the Peddler finally change his ways?
A) Edla's beauty
B) His mistaken identity
C) His greed
D) Kindness and care
Q15- What does the metaphor Rattrap in the lesson signify?
A) Humans
B) Thieves
C) Attractions
D) Human greed and distractions
Q16- What lightens the seriousness of the lesson?
A) Peddler's greed
B) Peddler's gossip
C) Peddler's tricks
D) Peddler's sense of humour
Q17- What earns the sympathy of the reader towards the peddler?
A) His actions
B) His stories
C) His face
D) His sense of humour and innocent acceptance
Q18- From where did the Peddler get the idea of the world being a Rattrap?
A) From his friends' situation
B) From Crofter's behavior
C) From Edla's words
D) From his circumstances and miserable life condition
Q19- Why was he amused by his idea of a rattrap?
A) It was a bad joke
B) It was a good comparison
C) It was the exact situation and was humorous
D) None
Q20- Why was the ironmaster so talkative and friendly with the Peddler?
A) Because he knew him.
B) He was his friend
C) He was his neighbour
D) Because of his resemblance to one of his old friend
Q21- Why did Elda bring the Peddler to her house for Christmas cheer?
A) Because she knew him
B) He was very funny
C) He was good looking
D) Because of his resemblance to her father's old friend
Q22 -Why did the Peddler leave the stolen money in a Rattrap?
A) Because of his plan
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B) To deceive them
C) Because his heart was changed with Edla’s kindness
D) None
Q23- How is the Peddler influenced by meeting the Crofter and Edla?
A) He was encouraged to steal money
B) He became a rattrap seller
C) His heart was changed
D) None of these
Q24- Why did Edla have doubts about the Peddler?
A) His behavior
B) His words
C) His fear and appearance
D) None
Q25- Why did the Peddler not reveal his true identity?
A) Because of fear
B) He didn't want to hurt them
C) In the greed of getting money
D) None of these
Q26- Why did the Peddler feel that he had fallen into the Rattrap?
A) Because he fell into a pit
B) Because he fell in love with Edla
C) Because his heart is changed
D) Because of his greedy action and pitiable circumstances
Q27-Why did Crofter show 30 Kronor to the Peddler?
A) To show him down
B) To flaunt
C) Because he is sad
D) To share his feelings of pride
Q28- Why did the Peddler have to resort to begging and thievery?
A) He was habitual of it
B) Miserable life
C) Because of non-profitability of his business
D) None of these
Q29- Who used to make rattraps?
A) Crofter
B) Edla
C) Ironmaster
D) Peddler
Q30- From where did the Peddler get the material to make rattraps?
A) Shops
B) Roads
C) Streets
D) Stores
Q31- How did Crofter treat the Peddler?
A) Very rudely
B) In a strange manner
C) Friendly manner
D) None of these
Q32- Why did Peddler sign himself as Captain Von Stahle?
A) He didn't want to hurt them
B) Because he forgets his name
C) Because he wants to meet Edla’s expectations of him being an armyman
D) None of these
Q33- When does the ironmaster realise his mistake?
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A) when the peddler speaks

B) when he sees an old photograph
C) when the peddler changes clothes and cleans his face
D) All of these
Q34- What made the Peddler finally change his heart?
A) Edla's words
B) Edla's appearance
C) Edla's father
D) Edla's goodness and care
Q35- What was the Peddler's profession and who he was?
A) Selling, traveler
B) Begging, traveler
C) Stealing, thief
D) None of these
Q36- Why did the Peddler feel like stealing?
A) has to repay a loan
B) has to buy a drink
C) habitual of it
D) due to others' indifference to his needs
Q37- How did the Crofter tempt the Peddler to steal his money?
A) By his kindness
B) By his warm care
C) By showing him money
D) None of these
Q38- Why did the Peddler decline the invitation?
A) Because he had stolen money
B) He wanted to run
C) He wanted to hide money
D) He wanted to remain at the mill
Q39- How much money had the peddler stolen from Crofter?
A) 20 kronors
B) 10 kronors
C) 40 kronors
D) 30 kronors
Q40- Why did Edla plead her father not to send the Vagabond away?
A) Because of her father
B) Because he resembled her father's friend
C) Because she liked him
D) Because of sympathy and his poor life condition

ANSWER KEY
1 A 11 D 21 D 31 C
2 C 12 D 22 C 32 C
3 D 13 D 23 C 33 C
4 D 14 D 24 C 34 D
5 C 15 D 25 C 35 C
6 A 16 D 26 D 36 D
7 D 17 D 27 D 37 C
8 D 18 D 28 C 38 A
9 C 19 C 29 D 39 D
10 D 20 D 30 D 40 D
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Flamingo book Chapter 5 Indigo

Q1- Who is the author of Indigo?
A) Louis Fischer
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Mark Twain
D) Charles Dickens
Q2- Where was the author born?
A) in Philadelphia.
B) In Yugoslavia
C) In Scotland
D) None
Q3- When did the author serve in the British army?
A) 1918 - 1920
B) 1909 - 1910
C) 1912-1913
D) 1900-1902
Q4- Which University was the author a member of?
A) Harvard University
B) Princeton University
C) University of Columbia
D) Oxford University
Q5- Indigo is an excerpt from which book of the author?
A) Men and Politics
B) Life of Lenin
C) The Life of Mahatma Gandhi.
D) None
Q6- What is the message conveyed in the lesson Indigo?
A) Efficient lawyers
B) Speak aloud
C) Wise and courageous leadership can resolve any problem.
D) None
Q7- Why did M.K. Gandhi fight in Champaran?
A) To secure justice for the oppressed
B) To get popularity
C) To show power
D) To boast of his intelligence
Q8- What does Gandhi's fight in Champaran signify?
A) The power of effective leadership
B) The power of lawyers
C) The power of farmers
D) The power of money
Q9- Why was Motihari back with peasants?
A) Because of people's rights
B) Because of the oppression of the British
C) Because their champion was in trouble
D) None
Q10- How did Gandhi address the actions of the people of Motihari ?
A) As liberation from the fear of the British
B) By calling them courageous
C) By chiding the lawyers
D) None
Q11- What was Gandhiji's demand from the British landlords?
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A) 30% refund as repayment

B) 40% refund as repayment
C) 50% refund as repayment
D) 10% refund as repayment
Q12- How much did Gandhi ji ask the Indigo planters to pay to the farmers?
A)20%
B) 40%
C) 30%
D) 50%
Q13- How much did Indigo planters offer to pay?
A) 30%
B) 10%
C) 25%
D) 40%
Q14- What was the condition of the Sharecroppers?
A) Were forced to give 10% of land for Indigo plantation
B) Were forced to give 20% of land for Indigo plantation
C) Were forced to give 15% of land for Indigo plantation
D) Were forced to give 5% of land for Indigo plantation
Q15- How did Gandhiji help peasants of Champaran?
A) By fighting and securing justice for them
B) By hiring lawyers for them
C) By educating them
D) By teaching them cleanliness
Q16- What problems were faced by the Champaran Indigo sharecroppers?
A) Poverty
B) Were forced to grow Indigo
C) Unable to raise voice
D) Illiteracy
Q17- Why did Gandhiji decide to go to Muzaffarpur?
A) To have detailed information of the sharecroppers of Champaran
B) To have information about lawyers
C) To know different capacities of the people
D) To have a personal bond with the people
Q18- Who briefed Gandhiji at Muzaffarpur?
A) Government officers
B) Politicians
C) Farmers
D) Lawyers
Q19- Who was Raj Kumar Shukla?
A) A lawyer
B) A government official
C) A politician
D) A poor peasant
Q20- Where was the annual congress party session held?
A) At Varanasi
B) At Mumbai
C) At Bangalore
D) At Lucknow
Q21- Why did Raj Kumar Shukla come to Lucknow at Annual Congress party session?
A) To be rich
B) To be famous
C) To fight and get money
D) To complain against injustice of landlord system in Bihar
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Q22- Why did Mr. Shukla meet Gandhiji?

A) to seek his guidance for his own upliftment
B) to get ideas to be famous
C) to learn the art of speaking
D) to seek his help for the poor sharecroppers
Q23- Why is Champaran famous?
A) For fighting
B) For Indigo
C) Because Gandhiji visited
D) For the first Satyagrah movement in 1917
Q24- Why was Satyagrah Movement launched in Champaran?
A) For Gandhiji's upliftment
B) For raising funds
C) For getting business
D) For the upliftment of the farmers
Q25- Where was Champaran?
A) In Lucknow
B) In Delhi
C) In Uttar Pradesh
D) A district of Bihar in British India
Q26- What did the peasants pay the British landlords?
A) 10% of landholding and 15% of harvest
B) 20% of landholding and 15% of harvest
C) 10% of landholding and 25% of harvest
D) 15% of landholding and entire Indigo harvest
Q27- Why did the British want the peasant to pay compensation?
A) Because they freed them
B) Because they got orders from the British headquarters
C) Because they were leaving India
D) They gave 15% of landholding and entire Indigo harvest
Q28- Why did Gandhiji agree to the planter's offer of 25% refund to the farmers?
A) Because of money
B) Because of fear of loss
C) Because of fear of power
D) Because more than money, prestige of farmers was important
Q29- Who was Sir Edmund in the lesson Indigo?
A) A British lawyer
B) A british Businessman
C) A British Politician
D) An Administrator in Indian Civil Services
Q30- Where was Sir Edmund posted?
A) In East India
B) In Purvanchal
C) In Uttarpradesh
D) At Bihar & Orissa Province in Bengal Presidency of British India
Q31- What was the statement that Gandhiji read pleading himself guilty?
A) That he was a law breaker
B) That he wanted to command respect
C) He was not a law breaker and came to render humanitarian and national service
D) None
Q32- Why did Gandhiji protest at Motihari court house?
A) To be famous
B) To show his power
C) To humiliate the British
D) To protest the court's order to postpone the trial
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Q33- Why did Gandhi consider the Champaran episode a turning point?
A) Its voice spread far and wide
B) It became famous
C) The British were scared
D) To protest the courts' order to postpone the trial
Q34- How did Kasturba help Gandhiji?
A) By speaking to the people
B) By walking with him
C) By moving here and there
D) By teaching Ashram rules and cleanliness
Q35- What was the attitude of the average Indian in smaller localities towards advocates of home rule?
A) Very welcoming
B) Very courageous
C) Pleasing
D) Very fearful and indifferent
Q36- What was the purpose of the advocates of home rule?
A) To get money
B) To be popular
C) To instigate the people
D) To encourage people to participate in the freedom movement
Q37- What was the condition of the peasants in Champaran?
A) Very happy
B) Independent
C) Very rich
D) Terror stricken and oppressed
Q38- Whom did Gandhiji send a telegram to ?
A) Sir Edmund
B) British Government
C) Peasants
D) Prof. J.B Kriplani
Q39- Where did Gandhiji stay for two days?
A) At a peasant's house
B) At a lawyer's house
C) In a guest house
D) At Prof. Malkani's house
Q40- Why was the government baffled?
A) Because of lawyer's power
B) Because of farmers
C) Because of sharecroppers
D) Because of the success of Satyagrah movement by peasants
ANSWER KEY
1 A 11 C 21 D 31 C
2 A 12 D 22 D 32 D
3 A 13 C 23 D 33 A
4 B 14 C 24 D 34 D
5 C 15 A 25 D 35 D
6 C 16 B 26 D 36 D
7 A 17 A 27 D 37 D
8 A 18 D 28 D 38 D
9 C 19 D 29 D 39 D
10 A 20 D 30 D 40 D
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Flamingo book Chapter 6 Poets and Pancakes

Q1- Who is the author of Poets and Pancakes?
A) Asokamitran (1931), a Tamil writer
B) Charu Nivedita
C) Jayakanthan
D) Balakumaran
Q2- What does his book “My Years with Boss” talk of ?
A) his job
B) explain the nature of his boss
C) explains his environment
D) impact of movies on every aspect of life in India.
Q3- When was Gemini studio set up?
A) 1920
B) 1930
C) 1910
D) 1940
Q4- What was the brand name of the make up material that Gemini studio bought?
A) Pancake
B) Mancake
C) Fancake
D) latin cake
Q5- Who was Greta Garbo?
A) A Swedish actress- an Oscar winner
B) a german actress
C) a French actress
D) a bengali actress
Q6- What was Asokamitran's job in the studio?
A) to arrange pancakes
B) to arrange make up kits
C) to serve water
D) cut out newspaper clippings on a wide variety of subjects and store them in files.
Q7- What has Asokamitran brought up through this write up?
A) topics of film industry
B) topics of make up industry
C) topics of gossip
D) topics of heroines
Q8- What does he bring to the notice of readers through this write up?
A) movies and different roles
B) heroines and their tantrums
C) heroines and make up
D) Independent India and its infancy
Q9- Who was the founder of Gemini studio?
A) Mr. S.S Vasan
B) English man
C) a Tamil boy
D) a director
Q10- What has been the make up room compared to?
A) make up company
B) a Parlour
C) a jewellery shop
D) hair-cutting salon
Q11- For whom was Gemini studio making films?
A) for English people
B) for illiterate
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C) for elderly peole

D) for simple Tamilians who have no interest in English poetry
Q12- Why is the Englishman's visit referred as unexplained mystery?
A) because of his appearance
B) because of his dress
C) because of his hairstyle
D) because of his unfamiliarity and baffled looks
Q13- Who was the Englishman?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) D.H Lawrence
C) George Orwell
D) Stephen Spender- Editor of a British Periodical The Encounter
Q14- Why did he visit the studio?
A) to deliver a speech
B) to gossip with the workers
C) to check the workers
D) to know the film making
Q15- What was MRA?
A) British Army
B) The Moral Rearmament Army- a counter movement to International Communism
C) a wing of Indian Army
D) A drama company
Q16- Why was MRA invited to Gemini studio?
A) To show their play
B) Because of political affiliations
C) because of political infuence
D) none
Q17- Why did everybody in the studio think of giving some work to the author?
A) because of the idle appearance of his work
B) because he was an office boy
C) because he was a helper
D) none
Q18- Why did the office boy in the make up room come to the author?
A) because he was unemployed
B) because of his interest in literary arts and film making
C) to earn money
D) to do make up
Q19- Why was the author praying for crowd shooting at all times?
A) to attract the crowd
B) to avoid people
C) to avoid epical narrations
D) none
Q20- Who was Subbu's enemy?
A) no one
B) the author
C) actors
D) The boy in the makeup room
Q21- The boy in the make up room was jealous of whom?
A) actors
B) author
C) the visitor
D) Subbu's success and his closeness to the boss
Q22- What qualities was Subbu admired for ?
A) acting, writing filmmaking skills and the management skills
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B) acting and writing

C) flattery
D) gossips
Q23- Why was Subbu considered number 2 at Gemini studio?
A) because of his flattery
B) because of his abilities
C) because of creative skills
D) none
Q24- Which plays were presented by MRA in Madras?
A) Macbeth
B) Othello
C) A doll's house
D) Jetham Valley and The Forgotten Factors
Q25- Who imitated the scenes of Sunset and Sunrise of Jotham Valley?
A) Police
B) Scouts of Madras
C) Social Workers
D) All Tamil Plays
Q26- How was the Gemini studio influenced by the plays staged by MRA?
A) They imitated their styles
B) They imitated their dialogues
C) They imitated their story
D) They imitated their sets and costumes
Q27- What is the example of National Integration in Poets and Pancakes?
A) Make up department of Gemini
B) rehersal room
C) office of Gemini studio
D) none
Q28- Why was author's work appeared nothing at Gemini?
A) Because of no direct relation to filmmaking
B) because of cutting- pasting
C) because he sits idle
D) because he does nothing
Q29- How does the author come to know that English author was Stephen Spender?
A) From a painting
B) From the newspaper
C) from a television show
D) from a book- The God that failed
Q30- Why was the office boy disappointed with his job in Gemini studios?
A) because of his behavior
B) because of his boss
C) because of his intimacy with boss
D) because of his inability to be a star
Q31- How was Kothamanglam Subbu treated in the Gemini studio?
A) with hatred
B) rudely
C) disrespectfully
D) with high respect
Q32- Why was Subbu termed as 'many sided genius'?
A) his flattery
B) gossip style
C) interaction with others
D) ability to create and manage things
Q33- In this lesson, what is the purpose of humor and satire used by the author?
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A) to highlight human abilities

B) to show capabilities
C) to show varied capacities
D) to show and highlight human infancies and flaws
Q34- How many people were there in MRA group?
A) 150
B) 180
C) 140
D) 200 people from 20 nationalities
Q35- When did MRA visit Madras?
A) 1942
B) 1922
C) 1932
D) 1952
Q36- What things attracted the audience in the plays staged by MRA?
A) their jewellery
B) their make up
C) their dialogues
D) their sets and costumes
Q37- Why was Subbu a trouble shooter?
A) because of his gossip style
B) because of his flattery
C) ability to mix up with everyone
D) because of his problem resolving quality
Q38- What does the expression ' fiery misery' mean?
A) the glow of lights
B) the bright lights
C) the bright colorful dresses of heroines
D) discomfort to the actors in the makeup room
Q39- Who was heading the make-up department?
A) a Madrasi
B) A tamilian
C) A bengali
D) A Bengali and later was succeeded by a Maharashtrian
Q40- What does the expression 'made to look ugly' refer to ?
A) make up done to look presentable before camera
B) faces made by actors
C) faces made by office boy
D) arrangements in the makeup room

ANSWER KEY
1 A 11 D 21 D 31 D
2 D 12 D 22 A 32 D
3 D 13 D 23 C 33 D
4 A 14 A 24 D 34 D
5 A 15 B 25 D 35 D
6 D 16 B 26 D 36 D
7 A 17 A 27 A 37 D
8 D 18 B 28 A 38 D
9 A 19 C 29 D 39 D
10 D 20 D 30 D 40 A
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Flamingo book Chapter 7 The Interview

Q1- Who is the author of the lesson ‘The Interview’?
A) Christopher Priest
B) Christopher Silvester (1959)
C) J.B. Priestley
D) Alfred John Churchley
Q2- What does V.S. Naipaul feel about interviews?
A) horror
B) happy
C) wounded
D) none
Q3- What does Naipaul present in his travel books?
A) his feelings
B) his feelings about interviews
C) impression of the country of his ancestors that is India
D) none
Q4- The excerpt -The Interview has been taken from which book?
A) Christopher's introduction to The Penguin Book of Interviews
B) Features for Vanity Fair
C) The name of the Rose
D) none
Q5- What did he present in this book?
A) varied opinions of politicians
B) varied opinions of civilians
C) varied opinions of army men
D) varied opinions of celebrities regarding an interview
Q6- According to an old saying what happens when perceptions are made about a person?
A) Person feels happy
B) person becomes popular
C) Person feels irritated
D) The original identity of his soul is lost
Q7- How does Umberto Eco find so much time to write so much?
A) using early morning time
B) using his office time
C) using his family time
D) using using empty spaces (free times) like waiting for someone, break time
Q8- What was distinctive (special) about Eco's academic writing style?
A) His realistic narrative style with trial and errors
B) his interrogative style
C) his monotonous unrealistic style
D) fictitious imaginative style
Q9- What is the reason for huge success of the novel The Name of The Rose?
A) mystic
B) metaphysics and medieval history period used
C) detective style and theology
D) All these
Q10- What are some of the positive traits of of interviews?
A) brings out the truth and gives vivid impression of contemporaries
B) helps finding hidden talents
C) useful medium of communication
D) All these
Q11- Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?
A) they don't like journalists
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B) unwarranted intrusion in their life

C) their privacy is hurt
D) none
Q12- At what age was Eco's book published?
A) at the age of 20
B) at the age of 25
C) at the age of 22
D) at the age of 26
Q13- At what age did he start writing novels?
A) at the age of 55
B) at the age of 52
C) at the age of 57
D) at the age of 50
Q14- What days did he used to write novels?
A) Saturday night
B) Friday night
C) every evening
D) Sundays
Q15- Why do the celebrities feel embarrassed most often?
A) because of question attacks during interviews
B) because of interviewer's gestures
C) because of interviewer's appearance
D) none
Q16- What is the primitive view about being photographed?
A) person's soul is stolen
B) part of personality is lost
C) person can be commanded
D) All these
Q17- What do you understand by the expression 'Thumbprints on his windpipes"?
A) creating excessive pressure on throat
B) creating excessive pressure on vocal chords
C) creating excessive pressure and tension for someone
D) none
Q18- What in today's world our main source of information?
A) social media
B) newspapers
C) short screens
D) Interviews and interactions
Q19- What satisfied Umberto's taste for narration?
A) stories
B) children's works
C) interviews
D) Novels
Q20- What does writing novels on Sundays signify?
A) writing novels- his passion
B) writing novels- his need
C) writing novels- his casual job
D) writing novels- his interest
Q21- Enumerate 'An Interview is a supremely serviceable medium of communication?
A) a medium to gossip
B) a medium to be the talk of the town
C) a medium to prosper
D) a noble medium of interaction and introspection
Q22- What is an interview?
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A) a medium of talking to the people

B) a medium to spread rumors
C) a medium to be the talk of the town
D) a medium of interaction and introspection
Q23- Explain 'Denis Brain's statement "Almost everything of moment reaches us through one man
asking questions of others.'
A) The interviewer has the power
B) The interviewer has status
C) The interviewer can elicit the truth and has the power to influence
D) All these
Q24- What impression is formed of Umberto after reading the lesson- The Interview?
A) A person of substance
B) a person of character
C) a person of words
D) A person of vision and firm convictions
Q25- What do his works for children speak about ?
A) his passion for children
B) children are nuisance
C) children love to be happy
D) non-violence and peace
Q26- While interview being interviewed by Mukand, Umberto speaks about his philosophy and
novel, What does he point out at ?
A) he loves writing
B) he loves to be in spotlight
C) at the universe and its workings
D) at empty spaces in the universe- Interstices
Q27- How many novels has Umberto written?
A) 10
B) 8
C) 15
D) 5
Q28- How many scholarly works are to his credit?
A) more than 5
B) more than10
C) more than 20
D) more than 40
Q29- What facts are being showcased in the interview held between Eco and Padamnabhan?
A) he takes pride in being an academician, a university Professor first
B) Being a novelist is a secondary thing for him
C) uses his free time for writing novels
D) All these
Q30- What ideas do you form of Umberto's personality after his interview with Mukand?
A) a very rigid person
B) a boastful and arrogant
C) an illusionary vision
D) an academician with philosophical and ethical interest
Q31- Why did Umberto start writing novels?
A) to avail an opportunity
B) to be in limelight
C) to share his views
D) to make best use of empty spaces means free time
Q32- According to Umberto what will happen to the world if we eliminate empty spaces from the universe?
A) The world will becaome beautiful
B) The world will be completely ours
C) The world will shrink and will become as big as a fish.
D) The world will be round
Q33- Which period of history do Umberto's novels deal with?
A) Renaissance
B) dark age
C) modern era
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D) Medieval period
Q34- Why does Eco call the success of his book a mystery?
A) because of its success
B) because of its popularity
C) because of many factors
D) because of many factors and many other books were written on the same medieval period
Q35- What was Lewis Caroll's opinion of interviews and autographs?
A) wonder
B) terror
C) horror
D) none
Q36- Who has written Alice in Wonderland?
A) Christopher
B) Mukand
C) Rudyard Kripling
D) Lewis Caroll
Q37- Why were the journalists and publishers puzzled by the success of The Name of the Rose?
A) because readers like trash and it was a serious novel
B) because it was becoming popular
C) because of its highrated success
D) none
Q38- In what way interviews have become a commom place of journalism?
A) because of its power, influence and medium of communication
B) because of its pomp
C) because of its glory
D) because of its rapport
Q39- What do Rudyard Kipling and his wife express about interviews?
A) immoral
B) not good
C) very bad
D) immoral and offensive crime against a person
Q40- What kind of a novel was The Name of The Rose?
A) hilarious
B) fiction
C) non-fiction
D) a serious one
ANSWER KEY
1 B 11 B 21 D 31 D
2 C 12 C 22 D 32 C
3 C 13 D 23 D 33 D
4 A 14 D 24 D 34 D
5 D 15 A 25 D 35 C
6 D 16 D 26 D 36 D
7 D 17 C 27 D 37 A
8 A 18 D 28 D 38 A
9 D 19 D 29 D 39 D
10 D 20 C 30 D 40 D
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Flamingo book Chapter 8 Going Places

Q1- Who is A. R. Barton?
A) A modern writer
B) author of Going Places
C) lives in Zurich and writes in English
D) All these
Q2- What theme does Barton explore in this story?
A) theme of children's happiness
B) theme of adolescent fantasising and hero worship
C) theme of elderly people's happiness
D) theme of individual happiness
Q3- What is the sub theme of the story?
A) Relationships- family and friends
B) friends
C) family members
D) adolescents
Q4- What is the significance of the subject discussed in the lesson?
A) it tells how to deal with friends
B) it tells how to behave smartly
C) immediate relevance to the life of school leavers
D) it tells how to behave with elderly
Q5- What are the literary devices used in the lesson?
A) metaphorical expressions and slangs
B) similes
C) irony
D) none
Q6- what is the meaning of the word “chuffed”?
A) meaning delighted or very pleased
B) meaning not happy
C) meaning frustrated
D) none
Q7- what is the meaning of the words :“nosey”, “gawky”?
A) “nosey”, meaning inquisitive and “gawky”, meaning awkward, ungainly.
B) noisy and beautiful
C) noisy and useful
D) noisy and gainful
Q8- The story Going Places revolve around whom?
A) a fat boy
B) an old couple
C) a teenage girl Sophie, her family and friends
D) none
Q9- What kind of girl is Sophie ?
A) a happy go lucky kind
B) a realistic
C) Day dreamer
D) a naughty child
Q10- What is Sophie in reality?
A) a dreamer
B) a fighter
C) a worker at Biscuit factory
D) none
Q11- What does Sophie dream about?
A) Becoming an actor
B) becoming a manager
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C) a sophisticated person
D) becoming rich and sophisticated
Q12- What is the turning point in the story?
A) when she fights with her brother.
B) when her father gets angry.
C) when her brother reveals her story.
D) when she thinks of meeting Danny Casey- a famous football player
Q13- What story she make up in front of her brother?
A) She will become an actress
B) she will become a manager
C) she will be a famous beautician
D) Casey will come to meet her.
Q14 Who are Sophie and Jansie?
A) teenagers who are friends and classmates
B) neighbors
C) colleagues
D) actors
Q15- Explain - Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of a ground.
A) ii was difficult to speak to him
B) it was difficult to locate him in a shop
C) it was difficult to locate him in factory
D) it was difficult to get information out of him
Q16- Where is Sophie lost?
A) in her imagination
B) in her dreams
C) in her words
D) in her imagination and dream of owning a boutique shop to become a famous fashion
designer
Q17 What does Jansie tell Sophie?
A) talk unrealistic
B) be wise
C) be practical
D) be sensible and not to dream big
Q18- Why does Jansie discourage Sophie to dream big?
A) because it requires a lot of money
B) because it is not practical
C) because it is unrealistic
D) all these
Q19- What was Sophie's reply to Jansie?
A) That she will go door to door to collect money
B) She will open a boutique
C) she will open an office
D) she will become an actress or a manager to realize her dream.
Q20- Why does she want to be an actress?
A) to earn money
B) to be famous
C) to be a fashion designer
D) to earn a lot of money and open a boutique to be famous fashion designer.
Q21- Why is Jansie not able to support Sophie's view?
A) because he is a happy go lucky man
B) because his imagination is poor
C) because he is unable to believe
D) because he is a realistic and believes in practicality
Q22- Why does Sophie feel choked in the house?
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A) because of stove's steam and dirty dishes

B) because of foul smell
C) because of smoke
D) because of no air
Q23- Who is Sophie's elder brother?
A) Geoffe - a trainee mechanic
B) Jansie
C) Dany Casey
D) none
Q24- Explain- On Saturday they made their weekly pilgrimage to the United
A) repairing stove
B) repairing a car
C) repairing a cooler
D) went to the United dutifully with a lot of devotion
Q25- What secret did Sophie share with her brother?
A) She met Mary Quaint a famous fashion designer
B) She met Prime Minister
C) She met Christopher
D) She met Danny Casy a famous footballer
Q26- When does Sophie and her family go to watch the football match?
A) Sunday morning
B) Sunday evening
C) Sunday afternoon
D) Saturday
Q27- Which game are Sophie and her family fans of ?
A) cricket
B) Badminton
C) volleyball
D) football
Q28- Why did their favourite team win the match?
A) Because they played well
B) they were united
C) they planned well
D) because of the goal made by Casey
Q29- Who is Sophie's younger brother?
A) Geoffe - a trainee mechanic
B) Casey
C) Frank
D) Derek
Q30- What does Jansie ask Sophie?
A) about Danny Casey
B) about Mary Quaint
C) about her dream
D) the reality behind her meeting with Danny Casey
Q31- Why does Sophie get angry with her brother?
A) Because he revealed her secret to Jansie's brother
B) he doesn't speak to her
C) because of his silence
D) none
Q32- Where does Sophie visit to meet Casey in her imagination?
A) a football ground
B) in the match
C) in a hotel
D) a secret place near canal
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Q33- Sophie's dreams and disappointments are all in her mind?

A) they all represent her imagination and nothing in reality
B) they represent her nature
C) they explain her personality
D) they tell us her future
Q34- What are the advantages and disadvantages of fantasizing?
A) helps in dreaming big
B) helps in achieving big
C) develops creative imagination and disadvantage is that it makes people self
obsessed.
D) none of these
Q35- What kind of person is Sophie's father ?
A) a kind hearted
B) a loving and caring
C) a hard core realistic
D) carefree
Q36- Why did Sophie like her brother Geoff more than anyone else?
A) he keeps silent
B) because he keeps her secret
C) because she can confide in him
D) all these
Q37- What does Geoff's silence symbolise in Sophie's view?
A) distant places
B) his vague personality
C) his jovial nature
D) wandering of his mind to distant places
Q38- Which country did Danny play for?
A) Netherland
B) New zealand
C) Switzerland
D) Ireland
Q39- Why does Sophie feel jealous of her brother?
A) because he keeps silent
B) because he is a mechanic
C) because he reveals his secret
D) because of inability to reach unknown areas of his mind
Q40- Why is Sophie attracted to Danny and does she meet him in reality?
A) Because he is a heroic footballer and she meets him in imagination only
B) because he earns well
C) because he plays football
D) because he is smart
ANSWER KEY
1 D 11 D 21 D 31 A
2 B 12 D 22 A 32 D
3 A 13 D 23 A 33 A
4 C 14 A 24 D 34 C
5 A 15 D 25 D 35 C
6 A 16 D 26 D 36 D
7 A 17 D 27 D 37 D
8 C 18 D 28 D 38 D
9 C 19 D 29 D 39 D
10 C 20 D 30 D 40 A
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Flamingo book Poem 1 My Mother at Sixty Six

Q1- Who is the poet of this poem?
A) John Keats
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) William Wordsworth
D) Kamala Das
Q2- What is her work known for?
A) for its originality, versatility and flavour of the soil
B) for its popularity
C) for its style
D) for the expressions used
Q3- What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
A) Losing her mother
B) heart attack
C) headache
D) children screaming at her
Q4- In which languages has Kamla Das written stories and novels?
A) English and Tamil
B) English and Hindi
C) English and Urdu
D) English and Malayalam
Q5- Name the poetic devices used in the poem.
A) metaphor
B) similes
C) alliteration
D) all of these
Q6- What is the significance of the title My Mother at Sixty Six?
A) Poet’s fear of losing her old mother
B) Poet’s fear of moving fast
C) Poet’s inability to express her feelings
D) All of these
Q7- Which poetic device is used in "Trees sprinting-" ?
A) metaphor
B) simile
C) alliteration
D) Personification
Q8- What is the distinctive feature of the poem?
A) its metaphors
B) simile used
C) alliteration used
D) narrative style using a single sentence in a set of 14 lines
Q9- What does this narrative style of the poem signify?
A) differing thoughts
B) many thoughts
C) contrasting thoughts
D) a single thread of thought mixed with harsh realities
Q10- What is the main idea of the poem?
A) Painful old age
B) discoloration of skin
C) carelessness of a daughter
D) lack of strength
Q11- What did the poet realize with pain?
A) her mother's appearance like a corpse
B) she is inconsiderate
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C) old age is pleasant

D) she has duties
Q12- What is the familiar ache?
A) her childhood fear of losing her mother
B) her mother's weak health
C) her duties
D) her helplessness
Q13- What do the running trees signify?
A) fast moving appearance
B) speed of the moving car
C) fast moving change in human life from childhood to old age
D) none
Q14- Who lives at Cochin?
A) Poet
B) Her parents
C) Both A and B
D) None of them
Q15- What does 'ashen face ' signify?
A) colour of face
B) face is covered with ash
C) Pale and lifeless face of poet's mother
D) to show ugly face
Q16- What does the poet notice outside the car ?
A) sprinting trees and running children
B) schools and roads
C) other vehicles
D) many people on the road
Q17- What do the parting words "See you soon Amma" signify?
A) her carelessness
B) Her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness
C) she bids goodbye like this
D) she is in a hurry
Q18- What does the poet's smile signify in the poem?
A) Her assurance to mother and helplessness inside
B) she has a responsibility
C) she has to do her duty first
D) she is a loving daughter
Q19- What is the universality of the theme of the poem?
A) death is a truth
B) Life is a reality
C) everyone is happy
D) to show old age
Q20- What worried the poet when she looked at her mother?
A) her face
B) her broken arm
C) her loving words
D) her declining age
Q21- Why did the poet look at her mother again?
A) because she was busy
B) because she was going away
C) because she wanted to stay back
D) because of fear and insecurity
Q22- Why has the poet used the imagery of merry children spilling out of their homes?
A) to show hope
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B) to show happiness
C) to show youthfulness of her age
D) to show hope and happiness in children
Q23- Which Rhyming scheme is used in the poem?
A) coupled rhyme
B) monorhyme
C) Alternate rhyme
D) free verse
Q24- Quote an example of a simile used in the poem.
A) familiar ache
B) like that of a corpse
C) wan and pale
D) the merry children
Q25- Quote an example of a metaphor used in the poem.
A) as a late winter's moon
B) ‘Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes’
C) Driving from my parent’s home
D) None
Q26- Quote an example of alliteration used in the poem.
A) like ashen
B) smile, smile and smile
C) Friday morning
D) None of these
Q27- Quote an example of personification used in the poem.
A) sprinting trees
B) home to cochin
C) airport's security check
D) All of these
Q28- Why does the poet feel scared?
A) Because of her duties and commitments
B) Because of her job
C) Bcause of her children
D) Because of her mother's deteriorating health
Q29- Why does the poet feel parted, upset and sad?
A) because of her fears
B) because she was getting late
C) fear of missing her flight
D) because of her duty towards mother and her own needs
Q30- What is the tone of the poem towards the end?
A) sad
B) hopeless
C) cheerful
D) resignation with acceptance
Q31- What does the narrative single sentence style of the poem highlight?
A) Poet's feelings
B) Poet's insecurities
C) poet's thoughts
D) poet’s intertwining thoughts
Q32- What does the poem revolve around?
A) poet's fears
B) poet's love for her mother
C) Theme of old age
D) All of these
Q33- What question arises from the complexity of the situation in the poem?
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A) what to do in old age

B) how to take care of one’s skin
C) how to drive
D) How to strike a balance between duties and responsibilities
Q34- How is the imagery of 'young trees and merry children’ a contrast to the mother?
A) mother is old in comparison to the trees and children
B) mother is like ash while the trees are green and children are happy
C) like spring and autumn season
D) Mother's health-hopelessness and trees and merry children- youthfulness and hope
Q35- What does the expression smile, smile and smile signify?
A) poet was going home and was elated
B) poet was happy
C) poet was hopeless
D) poet's desperate efforts to hide her fears
Q36- What was the expression of the poet's face while parting from her mother?
A) satirical
B) funny
C) sad
D) smiling
Q37- Whose house the poet was leaving?
A) her friend's house
B) in-law's house
C) her husband's house
D) her parents' house
Q38- What was the poet's childhood fear?
A) Parting from her husband
B) Parting from her friends
C) Parting from her siblings
D) losing her mother
Q39- What were the words she used while parting from her mother?
A) See you soon Ba
B) See you soon beeji
C) See you soon mata ji
D) See you soon, amma
Q40- What pangs did she feel when she looked at her mother?
A) Pangs of headache
B) Pangs of stomachache
C) Pangs of knee pain
D) Pangs of heartache

ANSWER KEY
1 D 11 A 21 D 31 D
2 A 12 A 22 D 32 D
3 A 13 C 23 D 33 D
4 D 14 A 24 B 34 D
5 D 15 C 25 B 35 D
6 A 16 A 26 D 36 D
7 D 17 B 27 A 37 D
8 D 18 A 28 D 38 D
9 D 19 A 29 D 39 D
10 A 20 D 30 C 40 D
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Flamingo book Poem 2 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

Q1- Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
A) Kipling
B) Wordsworth
C) Kamla nath
D) Stephen Spender
Q2- What theme did the poet concentrate on in the poem?
A) themes of social injustice and class inequalities.
B) theme of children and their happiness
C) theme of insecurities
D) none
Q3- What does the poet portray in the poem?
A) young minds
B) playfulness of the children
C) questions of young mind
D) the plight of young children in the slums
Q4- What does the poet compare in the poem?
A) between young and old
B) generation gaps
C) old age and childhood
D) rich (haves) and poor children (have not)
Q5- What kind of life the children living in slums have?
A) full of love
B) full of care and warmth
C) Hopeless and full of struggle
D) all these
Q6- What does the poet compare the color of walls with?
A) rotten fruits
B) stale chapattis
C) rotten vegetables
D) sour cream
Q7- What are the poetic devices used in the poem?
A) alliteration and simile
B) metaphor and imagery
C) synecdoche, and irony
D) All these
Q8- What do the words “Their future is painted with fog” convey?
A) no love and care
B) no warmth
C) no hardwork
D) no hope of improvement
Q9- What do the faces of children in the slum areas reflect?
A) happiness
B) their aspirations
C) their happiness
D) sadness and lack of enthusiasm
Q10- What is ironical about the wall hangings and donations in the classroom?
A) set up in very clean environment
B) completely opposite to the needs of the children in the classroom
C) set up in happy environment
D) set up in gloomy set up
Q11- What was the boy with rat's eyes trying to escape from?
A) bright light outside
B) openness of trees
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C) dim light of the class

D) children in the room
Q12- What is Tree Room in the poem?
A) Room outside the school
B) room on trees where squirrels play
C) room on trees where rats play
D) room on trees where pigeons play
Q13- What do Catacombs signify?
A) underground cemetery showing irrelevance of the map hanging on the wall of the
classroom
B) irrelevance of the classroom
C) irrelevance of the school
D) irrelevance of the children
Q14- Why are the pictures and maps meaningless?
A) they show beauty
B) they show hope
C) they show vastness -opposite to the world and needs of the chidren in the classroom
D) All these
Q15- How can powerful people help the poor children?
A) by fighting with the government
B) by fighting with the powerful
C) by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice
D) by fighting with the rich
Q16- What does the poem describe?
A) elementary school classroom in a slum
B) social setup
C) different mindsets
D) beauty of the surroundings
Q17- What does the poet wish for the children of the slums?
A) He wish them to be happy and healthy
B) He wishes a good change for them
C) he wants them to lead a healthy and happy life
D) All these
Q18- “Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces.
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor”:what do these words express?
A) poor plight of the ground
B) poor plight of children’s homes
C) poor plight of teachers
D) poor plight of the slum children
Q19- Why is the head of the tall girl 'weighed down'?
A)by the burden of studies
B) by the burden of work
C) by the burden of the world
D) All these
Q20- What is the meaning of 'The paper seeming boy , with rat eyes'?
A) rich people
B) rich children
C) powerful people and their influence
D) weak and malnutrition boy
Q21- What kind of look the faces and hair of the children give?
A) a rich and beautiful
B) organized
C) healthy
D) pale faces and scattered and undone hair
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Q22- His eyes live in a dream- what is the dream?

A) watching a movie
B) going abroad
C) eating ice-cream
D) dream of better times with games and open spaces
Q23- Who was sitting at the back of the dim class?
A) a girl
B) an old man
C) a teacher
D) an unnoticed young boy
Q24- Who is the unlucky heir and what will he inherit?
A) a fat boy and will inherit good health
B) a short boy and will inherit good height
C) an intelligent boy and will inherit intelligence
D) thin boy with rat's eyes and will inherit twisted bones from his father
Q25- What is the stunted boy reciting?
A) a happy song
B) a religious song
C) a sad song
D) a lesson from desk
Q26- What does the color of the classroom walls point out?
A) happy and poor state
B) happy and rich state
C) off-white (sour cream) color points out hopeless poor condition of the slum children
D) none
Q27- What does the expression 'Open handed map " show?
A) power of the poor
B) the poor are powerful
C) the poor are powerless
D) maps are drawn at the orders of the powerful people like hitler
Q28- Awarding the world its world' what do these words express?
A) the world is ours
B) the world is yours
C) the world belong to the poor
D) the world belong to the rich and powerful
Q29- In what sense are the slum chidren different?
A) their IQ
B) their wisdom
C) their dresses
D) because of no access to hope and openness of the world
Q30- What kind of future the slum children have?
A) very hopeful
B) bright
C) clear like water
D) hopeless and uncertain
Q31- What attracts the slum children?
A)The animals
B) The movies
C) ice-cream
D) All beautiful things like ship, Sun
Q32- What do the words 'From fog to endless night ' mean?
A) bright light outside
B) bright future
C) hopelessness
D) Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death
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Q33- Mention any two images used to explain the plight of the slum children.
A) open handed map
B) from his desk
C) belled,flowery
D) foggy slums and bottle bits on stones
Q34- What blots the maps of the slum children?
A) garbage
B) blockage
C) stones in the streets
D) Dirty slums
Q35- What does the poet show through expressions 'so blot their maps with slums as big as doom'?
A) his clot the street
B) enjoy the maps
C) big maps
D) poet's protest against social injustice and inequalities
Q36- What do the 'governor', inspector,visitor in the poem depict?
A) higher officials
B) Government officials
C) Political people
D) Powerful and influential people
Q37- What have the windows done to the children's lives in the poem?
A) shut the doors
B) blocked the passage
C) clocked the Sunlight
D) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth
Q38- What other freedom the poet wants the slum children to enjoy?
A) Freedom of roaming
B) freedom to spend money
C) freedom to eat
D) freedom of knowledge,wisdom and expression
Q39- What does the expression 'Break O break open' suggest?
A) barriers on the road
B) barriers of garbage heap
C) barriers of dirty environment must be broken
D) None
Q40- What does the poet want?
A) to send the children out of the slums
B) to send the children to America
C) to send the children to open fields
D) to send the children to a beach
ANSWER KEY
1 D 11 C 21 D 31 D
2 A 12 B 22 D 32 D
3 D 13 A 23 D 33 D
4 D 14 D 24 D 34 D
5 C 15 C 25 D 35 D
6 D 16 A 26 C 36 D
7 D 17 D 27 D 37 D
8 D 18 D 28 D 38 D
9 D 19 C 29 D 39 C
10 B 20 D 30 D 40 A
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Flamingo book Poem 3 Keeping Quiet

Q1- What does the title of the poem suggest?
A) Inactivity
B) noise
C) unhappiness
D) Maintenance of silence
Q2- What does the poem speak about?
A) the necessity to be happy
B) the necessity to introspect , understand and have feelings of brotherhood
C) the necessity to work quietly
D) none
Q3- What does counting upto 12 signify and how will it help?
A) hours of the day
B) months of a year
C) it will help to create peace and harmony
D) all
Q4- What is poet's pen name?
A) Neruda
B) Pable
C) Pablo
D) Pablo Neruda
Q5- What does the style of the poem symbolize, that the poet used to write with?
A) desires
B) happiness
C) hope
D) desire and hope
Q6- What is the original language of the poem ?
A) English
B) French
C) Pali
D) Spanish
Q7- What is the essence or message of the poem ?
A) introspection and retrospection to be more peaceful and be in harmony
B) to prosper
C) to be happier
D) to reach out more people
Q8- What does the poet feel is needed to be at peace?
A) meeting with people
B) talking with people
C) interaction with the people
D) Soul searching
Q9- According to the poet what creates barriers?
A) interactions
B) reactions
C) fighting
D) languages
Q10- Why does the poet ask people not to speak?
A) because it creates noise
B) he doesn't like noise
C) it makes things unpleasant
D) because it creates barriers or obstacles in the form of misunderstanding amongst people
Q11- What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem?
A) enclosed rhyme
B) Monorhyme
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C) sonnet
D) Free verse
Q12- How is keeping quiet related to life and can change attitude?
A) it helps to think and search soul
B) helps to scratch one's soul
C) helps to develop new thinking process
D) All these
Q13- How will keeping quiet protect our environment?
A) by creating peace and brotherhood feelings
B) no noise will be there
C) people will not fight
D) none
Q14- What is destroying the environment?
A) unthoughtful actions
B) violent actions
C) speaking without thinking
D) All
Q15- What does number 12 represent?
A) hours of the day and months of a year
B) earth
C) clock
D) cricket players
Q16- What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?
A) how to maintain silence
B) not to make noise
C) speaking creates noise
D) To be peaceful , thoughtful and have feelings of brotherhood
Q17- Not move our arms' what does this expression refer to?
A) sit quietly
B) stand quietly
C) to be inactive
D) sitting still without any movement
Q18- Why is silence treated as a big issue?
A) it helps to search our soul
B) helps us to analyze our actions
C) helps us to be thoughtful and find our true self
D) All these
Q19- What should not be confused with total inactivity or death?
A) no movement
B) a statue
C) talking people
D) Stillness and silence
Q20- What can be a cure or an antidote to violent actions?
A) speaking practice
B) wise words
C) polished language
D) Practice of silence
Q21- What is the sadness in the poem that the poet speaks about ?
A) violence because of unthoughtfulness of the people
B) unnecessary movements
C) speaking aloud
D) fighting
Q22- What does the earth symbolise?
A) perseverence and new beginning from seemingly stillness
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B) stillness
C) greenery
D) prosperity
Q23- What is always alive even when everything seems to be dead or still?
A) mountains
B) rivers
C) Sun
D) Earth and nature are always alive
Q24- Why does the poet request people to keep quiet?
A) to maintain silence
B) to avoid noise
C) to be friendly
D) in the hope of becoming more thoughtful and peaceful
Q25- What does the poet want people to do for one second?
A) to sing
B) to close eyes
C) to stand quietly
D) to be silent and motionless
Q26- How can the moments of no activity help people?
A) they will be healthy
B) they will be happy
C) they will work easily
D) to relax and be more thoughtful
Q27- What will happen if there are no engines and no crowd?
A) noise will be lessened
B) no crowd on roads
C) no traffic rush
D) it will create a perfect, happy moment
Q28- Why is the moment of silence called Exotic?
A) because of the beautiful scenery around
B) because of the gathering
C) because of large gathering
D) because of perfect peace and harmony
Q29- What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?
A) happy
B) content
C) dancing
D) strange blissful oneness
Q30- How long is the poet expecting everyone to stay still?
A) for 10 minutes
B) for 12 minutes
C) for 15 minutes
D) for 1 second till we count 12
Q31- Why is the poet asking everyone not to speak any language?
A) to avoid noise
B) to avoid loud voices
C) to avoid people
D) to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings
Q32- What is the poet expecting from fishermen?
A) to find more fish
B) to go deeper into the sea
C) to think and stop harming the fish
D) none
Q33- While gathering salt, what will happen to the man if he keep silent for a moment?
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A) he will stop dropping it

B) he will look at the ground
C) he will walk carefully
D) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands
Q34- What does hurt hand refer to ?
A) Growing needs of the man
B) growing greed of man
C) unfulfilled desires
D) growing insensitivity of man to pain
Q35- How will silence benefit the man and nature?
A) both will be friends
B) man will know nature better
C) man will be healthy
D) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves
Q36- Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or hate violence?
A) fishemen not harming whales
B) wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate
C) poet's refusal to deal with death
D) All these
Q37- What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping quiet is not total inactivity?
A) Sun
B) Soil
C) earth
D) Nature and earth
Q38- What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem?
A) War against humanity
B) War against nature
C) War with gases and fire
D) All these
Q39- What can human beings learn from nature?
A) beauty
B) keeping quiet
C) to be happy
D) working with silence
Q40- How does the poet perceive life?
A) as stillness
B) as silence
C) a noisy place
D) a continuous evolution of nature
ANSWER KEY
1 D 11 D 21 A 31 D
2 B 12 D 22 A 32 C
3 D 13 A 23 D 33 D
4 D 14 D 24 D 34 D
5 D 15 A 25 D 35 D
6 D 16 D 26 D 36 D
7 A 17 D 27 D 37 D
8 D 18 D 28 D 38 D
9 D 19 D 29 D 39 D
10 D 20 D 30 D 40 D
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Flamingo book Poem 4 A Thing of Beauty

Q1- What kind of a poet was John Keats?
A) a Realistic
B) Religious
C) Medieval
D) A romantic
Q2- Who is the poet of A thing Of Beauty?
A) John Donne
B) William Blakes
C) William Wordsworth
D) John Keats
Q3- From where has this poem A Thing Of Beauty been taken?
A) From Keats work- Endymion- A poetic Romance
B) Ode to a Nightingale
C) Ode on Melancholy
D) Ode on Indolence
Q4- Who is Endymion?
A) a worker
B) an office boy
C) a young child
D) a young shepherd
Q5- Where did the poet and Endymion live?
A) in a hut
B) on a hill
C) in a tree house
D) on mount Latmos
Q6- Whom did the enchanted youth resolve to seek?
A) God
B) nature
C) mentor
D) Cynthia-the moon goddess
Q7- What are the things of beauty mentioned in the poem?
A) Sun and Moon
B) Young trees and streams
C) flowers
D) All these
Q8- Which things cause suffering to human beings?
A) lack of virtues and inhuman acts
B) withering flowers
C) blooming flowers
D) flowing streams
Q9- What does Endymion do to seek goddess?
A) dances
B) sings songs
C) reads scriptures
D) wanders through forests
Q10-How is a thing of beauty joy forever?
A) because it is beautiful
B) because it is nature
C) because it is joyful
D) because its beauty never ends and leaves a lasting impact
Q11- What is the message of the poem?
A) Beauty never fades
B) beauty lifts spirits high
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C) beauty is a joy forever

D) All these
Q12- What does a thing of beauty do for us?
A) gives hope
B) gives happiness
C) removes pain and suffering
D) All these
Q13- What is the endless fountain and what is its effect?
A) Moving streams
B) The Sunlight
C) A thing of beauty is endless fountain and it gives happiness
D) None
Q14- What does a thing of beauty is a joy forever mean?
A) joy is in memory
B) joy is precious
C) joy is not sold
D) it will keep giving happiness for a longer time
Q15- What is Beauty in Keats' opinion?
A) a suffering
B) a cause of suffering
C) a cause of pain
D) a joy forever
Q16- What is the concept of beauty?
A) Beauty is a pleasure
B) beauty is cause of all happiness
C) beauty is nothing
D) a quality which always gives happiness
Q17- Do we experience things of beauty only for a short time ?
A) yes they are short lived
B) yes beauty is a temporary thing
C) it never lasts forever
D) no, they make a lasting impression of happiness
Q18- Who said that a thing of beauty is a joy forever?
A) John Millet
B) Christopher
C)a young shepherd
D) John Keats
Q19- How does a thing of beauty provide shelter and comfort?
A) By giving a sense of joy and happiness
B) by removing pain and suffering
C) like a bower
D) All these
Q20- Whose loveliness will keep on increasing?
A) of rivers
B) of mountains
C) of nature
D) of all beautiful things
Q21- Write the phrase which means 'it is immortal'
A) it will never fade
B) it will never pass into nothingness
C) it will never cease
D) it will keep giving happiness for a longer time
Q22- What is a bower?
A) a river
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B) a stream
C) a big tree
D) a shady tree
Q23- Why do we need sweet dreams , health and quiet breathing?
A) to have a healthy mind and body
B) to have sound sleep
C) to have peace and happiness
D) All these
Q24- What are 'mighty dead' in the poem?
A) dead people
B) dead relatives
C) dead plants
D) great respectworthy ancestors specially dead emperors
Q25- What is the endless fountain of immortal drink?
A) rivers
C) flowing streams
D) Sunlight
D) All the things of beauty
Q26- What does 'brink' mean?
A) roof top
B) a rocky space
C) mountain top
D) an edge at the top
Q27- What does immortal mean?
A) ever flowing
B) evergreen
C) forever beautiful
D) never ending or endless
Q28- What image does the poet use to convey that beauty is everlasting?
A) a bower quiet for us
B) Some shape of beauty
C) endless fountain of joy
D) sprouting a shady boon
Q29- What is the effect of immortal drink?
A) no one is thirsty
B) everyone is happy
C) immense joy and happiness
D) beauty never moves away
Q30- Pick the words from the poem which mean: stories, magnificence.
A) tales and grandeur
B) old,and young
C) green world and clear rills
D) sweet dreams and health
Q31- What removes pall from our life?
A) dark spirits
B) Trees old, and young
C) all the unhealthy things
D) Nature's beauty
Q32- What is the meaning of gloomy?
A) all the unhealthy things
B) dark spirits
C) dull and depressive
D) none
Q33- How does beauty help us when we are grief stricken?
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A) By giving a ray of hope

B) sprouting a shady boon
C) by giving daffodils
D) none
Q34- What does poet mean by Some shape of beauty?
A) beauty has no shape
B) beauty is abstract
C) beautiful object that gives happiness
D) All
Q35- Which figure of speech is used in the words-Some shape of beauty?
A) Alliteration
B) simile
C) metaphor
D) all
Q36- Why are our spirits referred as dark?
A) because of dark clouds
B) because of spirits around
C) because of shady trees
D) because of sadness and disappointments
Q37- What does morrow mean?
A) morning time
B) present time
C) noon time
D) the next day
Q38- Why do we need a flowery band?
A) to look beautiful
B) to smile
C) to be joyful
D) to have strength and joy inspite of all sadness
Q39- What is inhuman in life?
A) human inside a river
B) human inside caves
C) human on trees
D) selfcentred tendency and inacility to rise above shallow circles
Q40- What circumstances make man unhappy?
A) chilly cold waves on mountains
B) moisture of flowing rivers
C) crowded places
D) tendency of hopelessness

ANSWER KEY
1 D 11 D 21 B 31 D
2 D 12 D 22 D 32 C
3 A 13 C 23 D 33 A
4 D 14 D 24 D 34 C
5 D 15 D 25 D 35 C
6 D 16 D 26 D 36 D
7 D 17 D 27 D 37 D
8 A 18 D 28 C 38 D
9 D 19 D 29 C 39 D
10 D 20 D 30 A 40 D
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Flamingo book Poem 6 Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

Q1- Who is the poet of the poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?
A) Adrienne Rich
B) Jonathan Aaron
C) J. H. M. Abbott
D) Mark Abley
Q2- What is the poet known for?
A) She is widely known for her involvement in contemporary women’s movement as a poet and
theorist
B) for her beauty
C) for her philosophy
D) for her poems
Q3- How many volumes of poetry has she published?
A) 18
B) 29
C) 39
D) 19
Q4- What does echo through her work?
A) A strong resistance to racism and militarism
B) her love for poetry
C) her passion of essay writing
D) her wish to publish her work
Q5- What issue does the poem Aunt Jennifer's Tigers address?
A) constraints of women
B) constraints of married life a woman experiences
C) constraints of women as a poet
D) None
Q6- What do you understand by the words ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ in the poem?
A) The dominant and highly arrogant attitude of the wild animal-tiger
B) tiger is a wild animal
C) tiger is hungry
D) beauty of the tiger
Q7- Which words depict the dominant and arrogant attitude of the wild animal in the poem ?
A) dominant
B) arrogant
C) adorable
D) denizens and chivalric
Q8- What do aunt Jennifer's fluttering hands through her wool in the second stanza tell us?
A) the lost freedom and fear of Jennifer's mind because marital restraints
B) her old age
C) her love for embridery and knitting
D) her love for tigers
Q9- Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull?
A) because of fluttering fingers
B) because of trembling hands
C) because of her fears
D) because of the heavy weight of her marriage ring
Q10- What does the image 'massive weight of the wedding band ' mean?
A) wedding bond of hard married life
B) fatty structure of uncle
C) fatty body of aunty
D) heavy body of tiger
Q11- Of what or of whom is aunt Jennifer terrified of in the 3rd stanza?
A) of tigers
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B) of her death
C) of her old age
D) of her dominant husband
Q12- What are the ordeals aunt Jennifer is surrounded by?
A) wild animals
B) old people
C) a heavy crowd
D) heavy responsibilities of married life
Q13- What is the significance of the word ringed?
A) responsibilities
B) heavy duties
C) fatty people
D) responsibilities that formed circles like a ring eurrounding her finger
Q14- What is the meaning of the word 'ringed'?
A) circles of a ring
B) her wedding ring around finger
C) circles of responsibility of married life
D) none
Q15- What is the purpose of creating animals which are completely a contrast to aunt's
character?
A) to show her strength and ability of not giving up in the face of difficulties
B) her courage
C) her fears and strengths
D) none
Q16- What is the poet suggesting through the different nature of characters in the poem?
A) Diversity in nature
B) all are different and unique
C) simultaneous nature of fears and strengths of aunt. Though she has fears, yet she is not
defeated by them
D) all
Q17- Tell and interpret the meaning of 'Denizen of aworld of green'.
A) forest haters
B) forest lovers
C) forest dwellers
D) all
Q18- What is the attitude of the poet or speaker towards aunt Jennifer?
A) critic
B) very harsh and rude
C) indifferent
D) full of appreciation and sympathy
Q19- Does Aunt Jennifer need sympathy?
A) yes
B) no
C) no, more than sympathy she deserves praise
D) none
Q20- What is the wedding band?
A) ring
B) ring ceremony
C) marriage between uncle and aunt
D) All
Q21- What did marriage bring for Jennifer?
A) unhappiness
B) loss of freedom
C) loss of freedom and burden as if she has put on a heavy band
D) a heavy mountain
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Q22- What is still fresh in Jennifer's mind?

A) happy moments
B) early days of marriage
C) uncle's attitude
D) the old unhappy memories
Q23- What did ordeals or tough times do in Jennifer's life?
A) they made her a hard hearted person
B) she developed hatred
C) she became weak
D) they crushed her artistic personality
Q24- Where do aunt's tigers belong?
A) to a cage
B) zoo
C) mountains
D) world of green forests
Q25- What is the poet conveying through aunt Jennifer's tiger?
A) wild life
B) courageous tigers
C) tigers and their courage
D) female existence and their fear of men
Q26- Interpret terrified hands.
A) Physical condition of aunt
B) mental stae of aunt
C) tensed ,troubled physical and mental state of aunt Jennifer
D) fears of aunt
Q27- What is the tone of the poem towards the end?
A) happy moments
B) resolving
C) hopeful
D) sad and tensed
Q28- How are aunt Jennifer's tigers different from her?
A) aunt lives in a city and tigers in forests
B) aunt is old and tigers are young
C) tigers are courageous and carefree and aunt is terrified
D) none
Q29- What is aunt Jennifer loaded with?
A) weight of rings
B) weight of tigers
C) burden of household work
D) heavy responsibilities of married life
Q30- What lies heavily on aunt Jennifer's hand?
A) needles
B) embrideries
C) work pressure
D) wedding ring
Q31- What does wedding ring represent?
A) beauty
B) expenses
C) unnecessary pressures of her dominant husband and responsibilities of married life
D) none
Q32- How do the Prancing tigers look?
A) just like diamond
B) just like Topaz
C) just like coal
D) just like stone
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Q33- Why did aunt embroider tigers on the panel?

A) to express her suppressed feelings
B) to express her strengths
C) to express her fighting spirit of a warrior
D) All these
Q34- Why are tigers given the name Aunt Jennifer's tigers?
A) because she created them as an expression to her inner feelings
B) because she brought them
C) because she bought them
D) because she nurtured them
Q35- How are tigers described in the poem?
A) as ferocious
B) fearless
C) chivalric
D) All these
Q36- What is the meaning of the word 'Chivalric'?
A) ferocious
B) fearless
C) commanding and demanding high respect
D) None
Q37- What would Jennifer's terrified hands tell after her death?
A) story of her life
B) her constrained married life
C) her strength to find her ways and beat the fears
D) All these
Q38- What is presented through uncle's character?
A) Male strength
B)Man is powerful
C) man is like tigers
D) male chauvinism
Q39- Where are the tigers sleeping?
A) on the trees
B) on the mountain top
C) in the cage
D) in the caves
Q40- What is Aunt doing in the poem?

A. Cooking
B. Embroidery
C. Reading
D. Sleeping
ANSWER KEY
1 A 11 D 21 C 31 C
2 A 12 D 22 D 32 B
3 D 13 D 23 D 33 D
4 A 14 C 24 D 34 A
5 B 15 A 25 D 35 D
6 A 16 C 26 C 36 C
7 D 17 C 27 D 37 D
8 A 18 D 28 C 38 D
9 D 19 C 29 D 39 D
10 A 20 C 30 D 40 B