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CBSE Class 12 English - MCQ and Online Tests - Vistas - Unit 3 - Journey to the End of the Earth

CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Vistas – Unit 3 – Journey to the End of the Earth

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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Vistas – Unit 3 – Journey to the End of the Earth

Question 1.
Which program was the author a part of?
(a) Tour Program
(b) Research Program
(c) Students on Ice Program
(d) None

Answer

Answer: (c) Students on Ice Program

Question 2.
The synonym of ‘ubiquitous’ is __________.
(a) abstract
(b) complex
(c) omnipresent
(d) simple

Answer

Answer: (c) omnipresent

Question 3.
Gondwana existed roughly around ___________.
(a)110 million years ago
(b)450 million years ago
(c)250 million years ago
(d) 650 million years ago

Answer

Answer: (d) 650 million years ago

Question 4.
The geographical phenomena is going to help us to know the history of mankind_________
(a) by showing the global warming
(b) by showing the imapacts of global warming
(c) by telling the age of existence of human beings on the earth
(d) by exploring the world of ice

Answer

Answer: (c) by telling the age of existence of human beings on the earth

Question 5.
Who is the author of the lesson Journey to the end of the Earth?
(a) Tishani Doshi
(b) Kamla Das
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Chitra Das

Answer

Answer: (a) Tishani Doshi

Question 6.
What is the meaning of ‘epiphany’?
(a) a moment of shock
(b) a moment of great sadness
(c) cacophony
(d) a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization

Answer

Answer: (d) a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization

Question 7.
What was the name of the Southern Super continent?
(a) Asia
(b) Asia Pacific
(c) Northern pole
(d) Gondwana

Answer

Answer: (d) Gondwana

Question 8.
How does visit to Antartica help to understand the effect of global warming?
(a) here one can see quickly melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves
(b) it is filled with snow
(c) it is away from urban rush
(d) it has hidden treasures.

Answer

Answer: (a) here one can see quickly melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves

Question 9.
The name of the programme that takes high school students to the end of the earth is ________.
(a) Students of Ice
(b) Students for Ice
(c) Students above Ice
(d) Students on Ice

Answer

Answer: (d) Students on Ice

Question 10.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) because of non-existence of humans

Question 11.
The Drake Passage was created because of _________.
(a) India drifting northwards
(b) South America drifting off to join North America
(c) North America drifting off to join South America
(d) India’s collision with Asia

Answer

Answer: (b) South America drifting off to join North America

Question 12.
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

Answer

Answer: (c) Study of Antarctica Continent

Question 13.
What does the author mean by “In that short amount of time, we’ve managed to create quite a ruckus”?
(a) progress made by human race
(b) destruction and disturbance caused by human race
(c) stunning achievements of human race
(d) None of the above

Answer

Answer: (b) destruction and disturbance caused by human race

Question 14.
What used to flourished on Antarctica years back?
(a) Animals
(b) Tigers
(c) Humans
(d) Fauna and flora

Answer

Answer: (d) Fauna and flora

Question 15.
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

Answer

Answer: (a) Geoff was a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and The Explorers Club.

Question 16.
What kind of atmosphere does Antarctica have?
(a) coldest
(b) driest
(c) windiest
(d) All these

Answer

Answer: (d) All these

Question 17.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) All these

Question 18.
What was the center of the Gondwana Supercontinent?
(a) Asia
(b) Pacific
(c) Antarctica
(d) All these

Answer

Answer: (c) Antarctica

Question 19.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) to enable them to think differently to save the planet

Question 20.
How were the Himalayas formed?
(a) by a collapse in the Gondwana supercontinent
(b) by evolution
(c) by deforestation
(d) All these

Answer

Answer: (a) by a collapse in the Gondwana supercontinent

Question 21.
How has the man created ruckus on the earth?
(a) by travelling
(b) by encroaching the earth
(c) by visiting the iceland
(d) none

Answer

Answer: (b) by encroaching the earth

Question 22.
The narrator was aboard on the ship named ______
(a) World carrier
(b) Academic Discovery
(c) Akademik Shokalskiy
(d) Denim Explorer

Answer

Answer: (c) Akademik Shokalskiy

Question 23.
What disturbed the silence of the continent?
(a) The birds
(b) the animals
(c) the humans
(d) Avalanches

Answer

Answer: (d) Avalanches

Question 24.
What was Gondwana?
(a) An ancient tourist place
(b) an ancient city in Antarctica
(c) An ancient super continent
(d) None

Answer

Answer: (c) An ancient super continent

Question 25.
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.
(d) All these

Answer

Answer: (c) crosses nine time zones, six checkpoints, three water bodies and many ecospheres to reach there.

CBSE Class 12 English - MCQ and Online Tests - Vistas - Unit 2 - The Tiger King

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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Vistas – Unit 2 – The Tiger King

Question 1.
What literary device has been used in the story?
(a) metaphorical expressions
(b) Irony
(c) sarcasm
(d) All

Answer

Answer: (b) Irony

Question 2.
The 100th tiger had __
(a) been shot dead
(b) fainted
(c) disappeared
(d) been set free

Answer

Answer: (b) fainted

Question 3.
The frustrated Tiger King asked the Dewan——–
(a) to resign
(b) to go to far off places in search of a tiger
(c) to invite the British Officer
(d) to get a tiger from the Madras zoo

Answer

Answer: (a) to resign

Question 4.
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

Answer

Answer: (a) to ensure his safety and to prove prediction wrong

Question 5.
Maharaja on not finding the last tiger __
(a) went to the Madras zoo
(b) terminated the services of many officers
(c) went to live in the jungle
(d) gave up the idea completely

Answer

Answer: (b) terminated the services of many officers

Question 6.
Each time the Maharaja visited his father-in-law, he killed ___ tigers
(a) 1-2
(b) 5-6
(c) 9-10
(d) 12-13

Answer

Answer: (b) 5-6

Question 7.
How many surgeons were summoned to attend the king?
(a) 3
(b) 7
(c) 9
(d) 13

Answer

Answer: (a) 3

Question 8.
In 10 years of hunting expeditions, the Maharaja killed ___ tigers
(a) 30
(b) 50
(c) 70
(d) 90

Answer

Answer: (c) 70

Question 9.
Identify the literary device in ‘like quills all over it’.
(a) Metaphor
(b) Simile
(c) Alliteration
(d) Personification

Answer

Answer: (b) Simile

Question 10.
What character trait of the prince is revealed when he utters the words, ‘Let Tigers Beware’?
(a) Humility
(b) Arrogance
(c) Pride
(d) Will-power

Answer

Answer: (b) Arrogance

Question 11.
How old was the Prince when he ridiculed the astrologer?
(a) 10 days
(b) 10 weeks
(c) 10 months
(d) 10 years

Answer

Answer: (a) 10 days

Question 12.
Maharaja and Dewan ___ the British Officer to save the kingdom
(a) entertained
(b) bribed
(c) pacified
(d) confronted

Answer

Answer: (b) bribed

Question 13.
The wooden tiger was carved by
(a) A master craftsman
(b) An unskilled carpenter
(c) The shopkeeper himself
(d) A British carpenter

Answer

Answer: (b) An unskilled carpenter

Question 14.
____ became the King’s main occupation
(a) English
(b) Justice
(c) Governance
(d) Tiger hunting

Answer

Answer: (d) Tiger hunting

Question 15.
The original cost of the present was
(a) 2 annas and a quarter
(b) 2 annas and a half
(c) One and a half annas
(d) 3 annas

Answer

Answer: (a) 2 annas and a quarter

Question 16.
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

Answer

Answer: (a) to save his state and to please The British

Question 17.
A high ranking British officer wished to go on
(a) a tiger hunting expedition
(b) to the jungle
(c) and investigate the decrease in tiger population
(d) and remove the Tiger King

Answer

Answer: (a) a tiger hunting expedition

Question 18.
The astrologer stated that he would ___ if the king killed the 100th tiger
(a) leave the state
(b) kill himself
(c) cut his hair
(d) denounce the world

Answer

Answer: (c) cut his hair

Question 19.
The old tiger had been brought from____
(a) Calcutta Park
(b) Business Park
(c) Leisure Park
(d) People’s Park

Answer

Answer: (d) People’s Park

Question 20.
The state astrologer predicted that no harm would come to the Tiger King till the killing of ___ tigers
(a) 89
(b) 99
(c) 79
(d) 100

Answer

Answer: (b) 99

Question 21.
The Maharaja of ____ is the hero of the story.
(a) Ramnagar
(b) Pratibandapuram
(c) Paltipuram
(d) Preetamgarh

Answer

Answer: (b) Pratibandapuram

Question 22.
How old was the King’s son?
(a) One year old
(b) Three years old
(c) Five years old
(d) Seven years old

Answer

Answer: (b) Three years old

Question 23.
Kalki, the author of ‘The Tiger King’ has used as a background, days of ___ kings dominating their subjects.
(a) just
(b) brave
(c) eccentric
(d) gullible

Answer

Answer: (c) eccentric

Question 24.
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

Answer

Answer: (a) his killing of tigers and no concern for nature

Question 25.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) a toy tiger

CBSE Class 12 English - MCQ and Online Tests - Vistas - Unit 1 - The Third Level

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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Vistas – Unit 1 – The Third Level

Question 1.
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

Answer

Answer: (a) flickering gas lights and people with funny mustaches

Question 2.
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 jetways
(d) in an escalator

Answer

Answer: (a) In his fantasy he takes a subway or a corridor faster than a bus

Question 3.
Why was the narrator seeing this Third Level?
(a) as a wish to visit Galesberg
(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

Answer

Answer: (d) As a result of stress and anxiety in his mind

Question 4.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) for a lemonade party

Question 5.
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

Answer

Answer: (c) No, there were only two levels at the station

Question 6.
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

Answer

Answer: (c) to honor his mother

Question 7.
Who was sam in The Third Level?
(a) a doctor
(b) a friend
(c) a psychiatrist and a friend of Charley
(d) None

Answer

Answer: (c) a psychiatrist and a friend of Charley

Question 8.
Whose signatures were there on the letter?
(a) Charle’s teacher
(b) Charle’s friend
(c) Sam
(d) None

Answer

Answer: (c) Sam

Question 9.
What did Charley find in his stamp collection?
(a) old addresses
(b) hair styles
(c) old letters
(d) First day cover

Answer

Answer: (d) First day cover

Question 10.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) All these

Question 11.
What was the strangest thing at The Third Level?
(a) Beards
(b) Mustaches
(c) dresses
(d) The corridor that led him into the past.

Answer

Answer: (d) The corridor that led him into the past.

Question 12.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) a blend of reality with fantasy

Question 13.
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 June 11, 1894
(d) All of these

Answer

Answer: (d) All of these

Question 14.
What is ‘Waking dream wish fulfillment” according to the psychiatrist in the lesson?
(a) Charles finding of a Third level at Grand Central Station and realization of his wish to visit Galesberg Illinois
(b) Charles escapism
(c) Charles escapism from realities
(d) None

Answer

Answer: (a) Charles finding of a Third level at Grand Central Station and realization of his wish to visit Galesberg Illinois

Question 15.
Why does Charley want to visit Galesberg?
(a) to escape from the troublesome world
(b) to enjoy
(c) to see the beautiful landscape
(d) to meet his old friends

Answer

Answer: (a) to escape from the troublesome world

Question 16.
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

Answer

Answer: (a) flickering gas lights and people with funny mustaches

Question 17.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) in a serious manner

Question 18.
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

Answer

Answer: (b) Everything was old styled and smaller in size

Question 19.
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

Answer

Answer: (a) A new stamp gets the Postmark and date

Question 20.
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

Answer

Answer: (a) a pleasant wish that makes one forget the present

CBSE Class 12 English - MCQ and Online Tests - Poem - Unit 6 - Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 6 – Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Question 1.
The word ‘prance’ in the poem means
(a) to jump ahead
(b) to dance
(c) to eat
(d) to prowl

Answer

Answer: (a) to jump ahead

Question 2.
‘Still ringed’ means
(a) oppression will continue
(b) too many rings on her fingers
(c) ring of the bell
(d) quiet and peaceful

Answer

Answer: (a) oppression will continue

Question 3.
The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band is a subtle reference to
(a) male oppression
(b) suppression at the hands of her husband
(c) the heavy gold ring
(d) the huge gold wedding band makes her uncomfortable

Answer

Answer: (b) suppression at the hands of her husband

Question 4.
‘Denizens’ of a world of green means
(a) residents of forests
(b) residents of green buildings
(c) live in green cages
(d) live in green grasslands

Answer

Answer: (a) residents of forests

Question 5.
The rhyme scheme in stanza one is
(a) aabb
(b) abab
(c) ABC
(d) abbe

Answer

Answer: (a) aabb

Question 6.
Aunt Jennifer’s family consists of
(a) she and her husband
(b) she and her tigers
(c) she and her kids
(d) she and her servants

Answer

Answer: (a) she and her husband

Question 7.
‘Proud’ and ‘unafraid’. These two adjectives have been used for
(a) the uncle
(b) the males in the society
(c) the tigers on the forest
(d) the tigers on the panel

Answer

Answer: (d) the tigers on the panel

Question 8.
‘They pace’ is referred to
(a) the human beings
(b) Jennifer’s family members
(c) the tigers
(d) the lions

Answer

Answer: (c) the tigers

Question 9.
‘Massive’ means
(a) high
(b) huge
(c) minimum
(d) small

Answer

Answer: (b) huge

Question 10.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) they crushed her artistic personality

Question 11.
What do the Tigers do on the screen? They
(a) sing
(b) jump
(c) catch the prey
(d) prance

Answer

Answer: (d) prance

Question 12.
The attitude of the poet towards Aunt Jennifer is that of
(a) hatred
(b) love
(c) sympathy
(d) casual

Answer

Answer: (c) sympathy

Question 13.
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

Answer

Answer: (c) loss of freedom and burden as if she has put on a heavy band

Question 14.
She was mastered by is a reference made to the
(a) hardships and difficulties that Aunt Jennifer faced during her lifetime
(b) she was a slave
(c) he had a rude master
(d) her teacher taught her nothing

Answer

Answer: (a) hardships and difficulties that Aunt Jennifer faced during her lifetime

Question 15.
The poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’ is written by
(a) Elizabeth Arden
(b) Adrienne Rich
(c) Kamla Das
(d) Sarojini Naidu

Answer

Answer: (d) Sarojini Naidu

Question 16.
The word ‘chivalric’ in the context means
(a) timid
(b) arrogant
(c) honourable and brave
(d) malicious

Answer

Answer: (c) honourable and brave

Question 17.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) All these

Question 18.
Where are the tigers sleeping?
(a) on the trees
(b) on the mountain top
(c) in the cage
(d) in the caves

Answer

Answer: (d) in the caves

Question 19.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) All these

Question 20.
What is Aunt Jennifer doing with wool?
(a) she is embroidering a wall panel
(b) she is knitting a scarf
(c) she is making a ball of wool
(d) she is knitting a cap

Answer

Answer: (a) she is embroidering a wall panel

Question 21.
How are tigers described in the poem?
(a) as ferocious
(b) fearless
(c) chivalric
(d) All these

Answer

Answer: (d) All these

Question 22.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) heavy responsibilities of married life

Question 23.
What is the tone of the poem towards the end?
(a) happy moments
(b) resolving
(c) hopeful
(d) sad and tensed

Answer

Answer: (d) sad and tensed

Question 24.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) female existence and their fear of men

Question 25.
What does wedding ring represent?
(a) beauty
(b) expenses
(c) unnecessary pressures of her dominant husband and responsibilities of married life
(d) none

Answer

Answer: (c) unnecessary pressures of her dominant husband and responsibilities of married life

CBSE Class 12 English - MCQ and Online Tests - Poem - Unit 5 -A Roadside Stand

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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 5 – A Roadside Stand

CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 2 – Unit 5 -A Roadside Stand

Question 1.
What is the special quality of the city people or folk?
(a) They are connive
(b) They are smart
(c) They are snobbish
(d) know how to get benefits in a calculative manner

Answer

Answer: (d) know how to get benefits in a calculative manner

Question 2.
Who will soothe the rural poor?
(a) Government and Social agencies
(b) Government officials
(c) Promises made by the Government
(d) City people will soothe ‘out of their wits’

Answer

Answer: (d) City people will soothe ‘out of their wits’

Question 3.
Why didn’t the polished traffic stop at the roadside stand?
(a) they didn’t like that place
(b) their focus was their interest of earning huge benefits
(c) they were greedy
(d) all these

Answer

Answer: (d) all these

Question 4.
What news in the poem ‘A Roadside Stand’ is making rounds in the village?
(a) City people are connive
(b) Villagers will be given homes near theatre and shopping malls
(c) Rural folk is earning money
(d) None

Answer

Answer: (b) Villagers will be given homes near theatre and shopping malls

Question 5.
What does the speaker or narrator call the thought of the owner of the stand?
(a) A chid like longing
(b) a very good thought
(c) a wise thought
(d) A childish longing in vain

Answer

Answer: (d) A childish longing in vain

Question 6.
Why are the city people called beasts of prey?
(a) because of their selfishness and tendency to dupe others for it
(b) because they are well dressed
(c) they know how to earn money
(d) all these

Answer

Answer: (a) because of their selfishness and tendency to dupe others for it

Question 7.
What is the poet’s call to the polished traffic passing ahead?
(a) he admires this
(b) he is indifferent to this
(c) he condemns this indifferent attitude of the city folk and feels the pain of the rural folk
(d) all these

Answer

Answer: (c) he condemns this indifferent attitude of the city folk and feels the pain of the rural folk

Question 8.
Who are the greedy Doers?
(a) the government
(b) old people
(c) The Rural people
(d) The polished city folk

Answer

Answer: (d) The polished city folk

Question 9.
Who made roadside stand and where?
(a) The sarpanch made in the village
(b) The government made in the village
(c) social agencies made in the village
(d) The poor rural people made in the village

Answer

Answer: (d) The poor rural people made in the village

Question 10.
What does Frost’s poem deal with?
(a) human tragedies, fears and their solutions
(b) humans
(c) nature
(d) buildings

Answer

Answer: (a) human tragedies, fears and their solutions

Question 11.
Why was the childish longing in vain ?
(a) because it was useless
(b) because they were shifting
(c) because their wish of earning from city folk couldn’t be realized or fulfilled
(d) none

Answer

Answer: (c) because their wish of earning from city folk couldn’t be realized or fulfilled

Question 12.
What does I stand for in the poem?
(a) owner of the stand
(b) city flower who stopped on the stand
(c) Poet of the poem-Robert Frost

Answer

Answer: (d) None

Question 13.
What would be the state of poor rural folk at new location ?
(a) tension free as their needs will be looked after
(b) they will be able to visit city malls
(c) they will enjoy traveling malls and cinema halls
(d) they will be happy

Answer

Answer: (a) tension free as their needs will be looked after

Question 14.
What was the news?
(a) City people will give money
(b) city people will help the poor
(c) Relocation and resettlement of the rural folk to make them tension free by the government
(d) None

Answer

Answer: (c) Relocation and resettlement of the rural folk to make them tension free by the government

Question 15.
What is being sold on roadside stand?
(a) furniture
(b) cosmetics
(c) Diesel
(d) wild berries, golden squash and some other similar products

Answer

Answer: (d) wild berries, golden squash and some other similar products

Question 16.
Who wanted to feel the money at hand and from whom?
(a) The rural folk from the government
(b) The rural folk from the social agencies
(c) The rural folk from the government officials
(d) The rural folk from the city people

Answer

Answer: (d) The rural folk from the city people

Question 17.
Why was roadside stand built?
(a) so that people can wait there
(b) to make it a bus stop
(c) to earn money from polished city traffic
(d) none

Answer

Answer: (c) to earn money from polished city traffic

Question 18.
What does Frost describe in the poem?
(a) the feelings of the owners of a roadside shed
(b) the feelings of passengers
(c) the feelings of people on footpath
(d) none

Answer

Answer: (a) the feelings of the owners of a roadside shed

Question 19.
Who is the poet of A Roadside Stand?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Lord Byron
(d) Percy Shelley

Answer

Answer: (b) Robert Frost

Question 20.
What is the open prayer from near the open window?
(a) For money to fall from the sky
(b) for more number of people to stop
(c) for getting money from the government
(d) for the sound of coming cars to stop at the road stand to help the owner to earn money from them

Answer

Answer: (d) for the sound of coming cars to stop at the road stand to help the owner to earn money from them

Question 21.
Who are the ‘pitiful kin’ in the poem?
(a) social agencies
(b) government officials
(c) city people with cars
(d) The poor rural folk and farmers

Answer

Answer: (d) The poor rural folk and farmers

Question 22.
Who went and waited in the lines?
(a) The rural folk to hear the government’s declaration
(b) The rural folk to talk to the social agencies
(c) The rural folk to have a word with the government officials
(d) The rural folk went to hear the sound of stopping cars

Answer

Answer: (d) The rural folk went to hear the sound of stopping cars

Question 23.
Why is the word pathetic used for road side stand?
(a) for city people’s attitude
(b) for government’s declaration
(c) for city people’s behavior
(d) for poor condition of the owner of the stand

Answer

Answer: (d) for poor condition of the owner of the stand

Question 24.
Why did a stopping car react?
(a) to point out at the wrongly marked N and S directions
(b) to buy some items
(c) to appreciate their hard work
(d) to soothe the villagers

Answer

Answer: (a) to point out at the wrongly marked N and S directions

Question 25.
What does support the flow of cities?
(a) travelling
(b) rural people
(c) government
(d) flow of money

Answer

Answer: (d) flow of money

CBSE Class 12 English - MCQ and Online Tests - Poem - Unit 4 - A Thing of Beauty

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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 4 – A Thing of Beauty

Question 1.
‘Sheep’ could also be a reference to
(a) mountainous animals
(b) human beings
(c) harmless creatures
(d) animals of prey

Answer

Answer: (b) human beings

Question 2.
From our dark spirits’ is a reference to
(a) our dampened and demoralized spirits
(b) dark coloured ghosts
(c) unhappy moments
(d) the happy side of our personality

Answer

Answer: (a) our dampened and demoralized spirits

Question 3.
Beautiful things never ‘pass into nothingness’ means that they
(a) never increase
(b) never fade away
(c) always bring unhappiness
(d) create unpleasantness between friends

Answer

Answer: (b) never fade away

Question 4.
‘Of all the unhealthy’ means
(a) ill-health
(b) pain
(c) neglect
(d) suffering

Answer

Answer: (a) ill-health

Question 5.
‘Spite of despondency’ refers to
(a) sadness and depression
(b) health and well-being
(c) suffering and pain
(d) hatred and greed

Answer

Answer: (a) sadness and depression

Question 6.
Every morning, we all are
(a) brushing our teeth
(b) having breakfast
(c) wreathing a flowery band
(d) getting ready to go to work

Answer

Answer: (c) wreathing a flowery band

Question 7.
What is ‘sprout a shady boon for sheep’?
(a) human beings
(b) creepers
(c) trees new and young
(d) trees old and young

Answer

Answer: (d) trees old and young

Question 8.
The ‘endless fountain’ gets its immortal drink from
(a) the river banks
(b) the tap
(c) the waterfall
(d) heaven’s brink

Answer

Answer: (d) heaven’s brink

Question 9.
‘Full of sweet dreams’ means
(a) pleasant and peaceful sleep
(b) disturbed sleep
(c) nightmares
(d) wishes coming true

Answer

Answer: (a) pleasant and peaceful sleep

Question 10.
According to the poet, a thing of beauty is
(a) never joyful
(b) creates sadness
(c) a joy forever
(d) horrible to look at

Answer

Answer: (c) a joy forever

Question 11.
‘Immortal drink’ of the endless fountain is a reference to
(a) the continuous flow of sacred or holy water
(b) water of Ganges
(c) water from the Yamuna
(d) water from the tap

Answer

Answer: (a) the continuous flow of sacred or holy water

Question 12.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) All these

Question 13.
What is inhuman in life?
(a) human inside a river
(b) human inside caves
(c) human on trees
(d) self centred tendency and inability to rise above shallow circles

Answer

Answer: (d) self centred tendency and inability to rise above shallow circles

Question 14.
The poet talks about ‘grandeur’. Whose grandeur is he talking about?
(a) dooms of mighty dead
(b) tombs of our ancestors
(c) grand palaces
(d) grand towers

Answer

Answer: (a) dooms of mighty dead

Question 15.
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

Answer

Answer: (c) immense joy and happiness

Question 16.
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

Answer

Answer: (b) it will never pass into nothingness

Question 17.
What makes for itself a cooling covert against the hot season?
(a) the sheep
(b) the daffodils
(c) the dogs
(d) the clear rills

Answer

Answer: (d) the clear rills

Question 18.
‘Clear rills’ are the
(a) clean windows
(b) streams of clear water
(c) clear thoughts
(d) clear solutions

Answer

Answer: (b) streams of clear water

Question 19.
What does morrow mean?
(a) morning time
(b) present time
(c) noon time
(d) the next day

Answer

Answer: (d) the next day

Question 20.
What are the things that are read or heard by us?
(a) plays and classical music
(b) novels and songs
(c) lovely tales
(d) poetry and western music

Answer

Answer: (c) lovely tales

Question 21.
Which figure of speech is used in the words-Some shape of beauty?
(a) Alliteration
(b) simile
(c) metaphor
(d) all

Answer

Answer: (c) metaphor

Question 22.
What removes pall from our life?
(a) dark spirits
(b) Trees old, and young
(c) all the unhealthy things
(d) Nature’s beauty

Answer

Answer: (d) Nature’s beauty

Question 23.
What does immortal mean?
(a) ever flowing
(b) evergreen
(c) forever beautiful
(d) never ending or endless

Answer

Answer: (d) never ending or endless

Question 24.
What is the endless fountain of immortal drink?
(a) rivers
(b) flowing streams
(c) Sunlight
(d) All the things of beauty

Answer

Answer: (d) All the things of beauty

Question 25.
How does beauty help us when we are grief stricken?
(a) By giving a ray of hope
(b) sprouting a shady boon
(c) by giving daffodils
(d) none

Answer

Answer: (a) By giving a ray of hope

CBSE Class 12 English - MCQ and Online Tests - Poem - Unit 3 - Keeping Quiet

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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 3 – Keeping Quiet

CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem -Unit 3 – Keeping Quiet

Question 1.
The poet advocates the balance of nature to be
(a) maintained
(b) destroyed
(c) temporarily disturbed
(d) ignored

Answer

Answer: (a) maintained

Question 2.
Where would they be walking?
(a) in the park
(b) along the river
(c) in the shade
(d) on the road

Answer

Answer: (c) in the shade

Question 3.
The poet uses conversational style and personal pronouns as ‘you’, ‘we’ and `I’ because
(a) he wants to be intimate with mankind
(b) he tries to read out to the readers
(c) he wants to establish contact easily
(d) third person is ineffective

Answer

Answer: (b) he tries to read out to the readers

Question 4.
The types of wars the poet talks about are
(a) green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
(b) verbal wars
(c) technological warfare
(d) nuclear wars

Answer

Answer: (a) green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire

Question 5.
Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm
(a) seahorses
(b) mermaids
(c) whales
(d) tortoises

Answer

Answer: (c) whales

Question 6.
The last line of the poem is
(a) and later proves to be alive
(b) life is what it is about
(c) I want no truck with death
(d) and you keep quiet and I will go

Answer

Answer: (d) and you keep quiet and I will go

Question 7.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) Nature and earth

Question 8.
What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent
(a) terrible
(b) painful
(c) exotic
(d) unforgettable

Answer

Answer: (c) exotic

Question 9.
‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device
(a) personification
(b) transferred epithet
(c) metaphor
(d) alliteration

Answer

Answer: (b) transferred epithet

Question 10.
What does man threaten himself with?
(a) death
(b) birth
(c) robbery
(d) suicide

Answer

Answer: (a) death

Question 11.
The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet for
(a) twenty seconds
(b) 1 hour
(c) thirty seconds
(d) twelve seconds

Answer

Answer: (d) twelve seconds

Question 12.
According to the poet wars that are fought have no
(a) soldiers
(b) weapons
(c) fighter planes
(d) survivors

Answer

Answer: (d) survivors

Question 13.
What can human beings learn from nature?
(a) beauty
(b) keeping quiet
(c) to be happy
(d) working with silence

Answer

Answer: (d) working with silence

Question 14.
Man needs to learn a lesson from
(a) moon
(b) stars
(c) earth
(d) sun

Answer

Answer: (c) earth

Question 15.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves

Question 16.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) Earth and nature are always alive

Question 17.
What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?
(a) happy
(b) content
(c) dancing
(d) strange blissful oneness

Answer

Answer: (d) strange blissful oneness

Question 18.
Without rush, without engines’ refers to
(a) no noise
(b) no hurry to go to the office
(c) no travelling
(d) no holidaying

Answer

Answer: (a) no noise

Question 19.
What is the sadness in the poem that the poet speaks about ?
(a) violence because of unthoughtful ness of the people
(b) unnecessary movements
(c) speaking aloud
(d) fighting

Answer

Answer: (a) violence because of unthoughtful ness of the people

Question 20.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) it will create a perfect, happy moment

Question 21.
While gathering salt, what will happen to the man if he keep silent for a moment?
(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

Answer

Answer: (d) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands

Question 22.
The poet wants the entire humanity to
(a) keep talking
(b) keep running
(c) keep laughing
(d) keep still

Answer

Answer: (d) keep still

Question 23.
‘Have no truck with death’ means
(a) will not die of the truck accident
(b) remove poverty and illiteracy
(c) have no association or deal with death
(d) will not drive a truck

Answer

Answer: (c) have no association or deal with death

Question 24.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings

Question 25.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) to be silent and motionless

CBSE Class 12 English - MCQ and Online Tests - Poem - Unit 2 - An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 2 – An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

Question 1.
Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?
(a) in their cramped holes
(b) towards the sun
(c) towards the school
(d) towards the windows

Answer

Answer: (a) in their cramped holes

Question 2.
Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (b) metaphor

Question 3.
Shakespeare is wicked because he the children.
(a) educates
(b) tempts
(c) loves
(d) hates

Answer

Answer: (b) tempts

Question 4.
The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
(a) long
(b) short
(c) optimistic
(d) pessimistic

Answer

Answer: (c) optimistic

Question 5.
What attracts the slum children?
(a)The animals
(b) The movies
(c) icecream
(d) All beautiful things like ship, Sun

Answer

Answer: (d) All beautiful things like ship, Sun

Question 6.
What does the map represent?
(a) world of the rich and powerful
(b) world of the poor
(c) world of the slum school children
(d) world the poet wants for the slum children

Answer

Answer: (a) world of the rich and powerful

Question 7.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities

Question 8.
What is the stunted boy reciting?
(a) the lesson from his desk
(b) Shakespeare’s poetry
(c) leaves of nature
(d) his composition

Answer

Answer: (a) the lesson from his desk

Question 9.

Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (a) simile

Question 10.
The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of
(a) the beautiful world
(b) cleaner lanes
(c) the political structure
(d) the civil design

Answer

Answer: (a) the beautiful world

Question 11.
Identify the literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (b) metaphor

Question 12.
‘On sour cream walls. Donations’ suggests
(a) schools are well equipped
(b) schools are small but they try to impart education
(c) schools have a poor and ill-equipped environment
(d) schools meet the education requirements of the children through donations

Answer

Answer: (c) schools have a poor and ill-equipped environment

Question 13.
Who sits at the back of the class?
(a) a sweet and young pupil
(b) a paper seeming boy
(c) a tall girl
(d) a girl with hair like rootless weeds

Answer

Answer: (a) a sweet and young pupil

Question 14.
The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes’ means the boy is
(a) sly and secretive
(b) short and lean
(c) hungry and thin
(d) sad and depressed

Answer

Answer: (c) hungry and thin

Question 15.
Identify the literary device in ‘father’s gnarled disease’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (b) metaphor

Question 16.
Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (b) metaphor

Question 17.
Identify the literary device in `rat’s eyes’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (b) metaphor

Question 18.
Identify the literary device in ‘like roofless weeds’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (a) simile

Question 19.
What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
(a) slum children
(b) energetic children
(c) deceased children
(d) unhappy children

Answer

Answer: (b) energetic children

Question 20.
The colour of sour cream is
(a) white
(b) yellow
(c) off-white
(d) pale

Answer

Answer: (c) off-white

Question 21.
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

Answer

Answer: (c) barriers of dirty environment must be broken

Question 22.
‘Break O break’. What should they break?
(a) the donations
(b) all bathers
(c) the slums
(d) the schools

Answer

Answer: (b) all bathers

Question 23.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth

Question 24.
The imprisoned minds and lives of the slum children can be released from their bondage if they are given an experience of the outer world.
(a) never
(b) soon
(c) eventually
(d) magically

Answer

Answer: (d) magically

Question 25.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) foggy slums and bottle bits on stones

CBSE Class 12 English - MCQ and Online Tests - Poem - Unit 1 - My Mother at Sixty-six

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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 1 – My Mother at Sixty-six

Question 1.
When the narrator looked at her mother again she felt a pang of
(a) her familiar ache
(b) guilt
(c) heartache
(d) a headache

Answer

Answer: (a) her familiar ache

Question 2.
The poetess says her mother looked pale like a
(a) corpse
(b) ghost
(c) malnourished child
(d) anaemic person

Answer

Answer: (a) corpse

Question 3.
‘Children spilling out’ is an
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) personification
(d) transferred epithet

Answer

Answer: (b) metaphor

Question 4.
The image of merry children has been brought out by the narrator in order to
(a) show energy and exuberance of young children
(b) to show the children playing
(c) to show the children playing pranks
(d) to compare with herself

Answer

Answer: (a) show energy and exuberance of young children

Question 5.
‘Trees sprinting’ is a poetic device. It is
(a) personification
(b) alliteration
(c) repetition
(d) simile

Answer

Answer: (a) personification

Question 6.
She soon put that thought out of her mind and
(a) smiled
(b) laughed heartily
(c) cried bitterly
(d) looked out of the window

Answer

Answer: (d) looked out of the window

Question 7.
The person in the car, beside the poetess, was,
(a) her aunt
(b) her niece
(c) her uncle
(d) her mother

Answer

Answer: (d) her mother

Question 8.
She was going to
(a) Goa
(b) Mumbai
(c) Cochin
(d) Kolkata

Answer

Answer: (c) Cochin

Question 9.
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

Answer

Answer: (b) ‘Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes’

Question 10.
Which Rhyming scheme is used in the poem?
(a) coupled rhyme
(b) monorhyme
(c) Alternate rhyme
(d) free verse

Answer

Answer: (d) free verse

Question 11.
The narrator again compared her mother too
(a) summer’s sun
(b) rain clouds
(c) late winter’s moon
(d) trees and plants

Answer

Answer: (c) late winter’s moon

Question 12.
Kamala Das was an
(a) Bengali
(b) Punjabi
(c) Keralite
(d) Gujarati

Answer

Answer: (c) Keralite

Question 13.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) See you soon, amma

Question 14.
The narrator is only using her smile to
(a) cover up her pain
(b) make herself happy
(c) to make her mother happy
(d) to make her father happy

Answer

Answer: (a) cover up her pain

Question 15.
She said to her mother
(a) goodbye
(b) au revoir
(c) good morning go.
(d) see you soon, Amma

Answer

Answer: (d) see you soon, Amma

Question 16.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) her parents’ house

Question 17.
The poem is made up of
(a) twenty lines
(b) a single sentence
(c) ten stanzas
(d) five stanzas

Answer

Answer: (b) a single sentence

Question 18.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) poet’s desperate efforts to hide her fears

Question 19.
Smile and smile and smile is
(a) alliteration
(b) repetition
(c) simile
(d) metaphor

Answer

Answer: (b) repetition

Question 20.
What question arises from the complexity of the situation in the poem?
(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

Answer

Answer: (d) How to strike a balance between duties and responsibilities

Question 21.
The mother’s old age and lack of energy is a depiction of
(a) the poet’s helplessness in old age
(b) joy and fun of old age
(c) bonding of mother with family members
(d) sickness and ill-health

Answer

Answer: (a) the poet’s helplessness in old age

Question 22
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

Answer

Answer: (d) poet’s intertwining thoughts

Question 23.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) because of her duty towards mother and her own needs

Question 24.
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

Answer

Answer: (a) sprinting trees

Question 25.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) because of fear and insecurity

CBSE Class 12 English - MCQ and Online Tests - Unit 8 - Going Places

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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Unit 8 – Going Places

Question 1.
‘I wish he was an Englishman’. These words were spoken with reference to
(a) Geoff
(b) Derek
(c) Danny Casey
(d) a passenger in the bus

Answer

Answer: (d) a passenger in the bus

Question 2.
After describing Danny’s appearance, Sophie chose not to tell Geoff about
(a) Danny’s qualification
(b) Danny’s address
(c) his teeth
(d) his car

Answer

Answer: (c) his teeth

Question 3.
The match on Saturday was witnessed by
(a) the whole family
(b) only father and Sophie
(c) Geoff alone
(d) Sophie, father, Derek and Geoff

Answer

Answer: (d) Sophie, father, Derek and Geoff

Question 4.
When Sophie told her father that Danny had met her and told her that he was going to buy a shop, father
(a) called her a liar
(b) asked her if it was another of her wild stories
(c) disbelieved her outright
(d) asked Geoff to verify facts

Answer

Answer: (b) asked her if it was another of her wild stories

Question 5.
The father talked about a man who knew
(a) Pele
(b) Beckham
(c) Tom Finney
(d) Jeffrey, Archer

Answer

Answer: (c) Tom Finney

Question 6.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) wandering of his mind to distant places

Question 7.
What did Sophie tell Geoff one day that made him look surprised?
(a) she had seen a ghost
(b) she had met her principal
(c) she had got a job
(d) she had met Danny Casey

Answer

Answer: (d) she had met Danny Casey

Question 8.
Danny had a freckled nose and the colour of his eyes was
(a) grey
(b) green
(c) blue
(d) brown

Answer

Answer: (b) green

Question 9.
She wanted to be a designer like
(a) Calvin Klein
(b) Versace
(c) Armani
(d) Mary Quant

Answer

Answer: (d) Mary Quant

Question 10.
Outside the pub, Sophie saw something. It was
(a) her dad’s bicycle
(b) her brother’s car
(c) her mother’s motorcycle
(d) Derek’s tricycle

Answer

Answer: (a) her dad’s bicycle

Question 11.
Danny Casey was a player in the football team of
(a) Ireland
(b) Finland
(c) England
(d) Denmark

Answer

Answer: (a) Ireland

Question 12.
Geoff never took Sophie out with him because he thought she was
(a) immature
(b) badly behaved
(c) too young
(d) too restless

Answer

Answer: (c) too young

Question 13.
While Sophie waited for Danny, she realized that
(a) Danny would come
(b) Danny would not come
(c) she was hungry
(d) she was thirsty

Answer

Answer: (b) Danny would not come

Question 14.
Sophie felt bad because of her brother
(a) never spoke much
(b) laughed a lot
(c) teased her a lot
(d) never took her out for dinner

Answer

Answer: (a) never spoke much

Question 15.
Geoff had been out of school for a period of
(a) three years
(b) five years
(c) one year
(d) two years

Answer

Answer: (a) three years

Question 16.
Sophie told Geoff that Danny was unable to sign an autograph for her because
(a) his secretary did not allow it
(b) he didn’t have paper or pen
(c) he said he’d do it later
(d) he was in a hurry to go home

Answer

Answer: (b) he didn’t have paper or pen

Question 17.
What was Sophie’s father keen to buy if Sophie ever came into money?
(a) a luxury car
(b) a decent house
(c) a yacht
(d) a shop

Answer

Answer: (b) a decent house

Question 18.
Sophie’s best friend was
(a) Derek
(b) Geoff
(c) Jansie
(d) Danny

Answer

Answer: (c) Jansie

Question 19.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) because of inability to reach unknown areas of his mind

Question 20.
According to Sophie, the place she had chosen to meet Danny was
(a) a hidden alley
(b) a perfect place
(c) behind the walls
(d) near the trees

Answer

Answer: (b) a perfect place

Question 21.
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

Answer

Answer: (a) Because he revealed her secret to Jansie’s brother

Question 22.
Sophie told Jansie that her father if he got to know about her meeting with Danny would
(a) agree to their marriage
(b) murder her
(c) ask her to call him over for dinner
(d) ask to be introduced to him

Answer

Answer: (b) murder her

Question 23.
What kind of person is Sophie’s father ?
(a) a kind hearted
(b) a loving and caring
(c) a hard core realistic
(d) carefree

Answer

Answer: (c) a hard core realistic

Question 24.
Geoff had told about Sophie’s meeting with Danny Casey to
(a) the entire neighbourhood
(b) Frank
(c) Jansie
(d) the teachers in school

Answer

Answer: (b) Frank

Question 25.
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

Answer

Answer: (a) they all represent her imagination and nothing in reality

CBSE Class 12 English - MCQ and Online Tests - Unit 7 - The Interview

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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Unit 7 – The Interview

Question 1.
How many novels has Umberto written?
(a) 10
(b) 8
(c) 15
(d) 5

Answer

Answer: (d) 5

Question 2.
According to Umberto what will happen to the world if we eliminate empty spaces from the universe?
(a) The world will become 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

Answer

Answer: (c) The world will shrink and will become as big as a fish.

Question 3.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) non-violence and peace

Question 4.
Who is the author of the lesson ‘The Interview’?
(a) Christopher Priest
(b) Christopher Silvester (1959)
(c) J.B. Priestley
(d) Alfred John Churchley

Answer

Answer: (b) Christopher Silvester (1959)

Question 5.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) All these

Question 6.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) a noble medium of interaction and introspection

Question 7.
What satisfied Umberto’s taste for narration?
(a) stories
(b) children’s works
(c) interviews
(d) Novels

Answer

Answer: (d) Novels

Question 8.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) immoral and offensive crime against a person

Question 9.
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

Answer

Answer: (c) creating excessive pressure and tension for someone

Question 10.
What facts are being showcased in the interview held between Eco and Padamanabhan?
(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

Answer

Answer: (d) All these

Question 11.
Why do the celebrities feel embarassed most often?
(a) because of question attacks during interviews
(b) because of interviewer’s gestures
(c) because of interviewer’s appearance
(d) none

Answer

Answer: (a) because of question attacks during interviews

Question 12.
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 high rated success
(d) none

Answer

Answer: (a) because readers like trash and it was a serious novel

Question 13.
What was Lewis Caroll’s opinion of interviews and autographs?
(a) wonder
(b) terror
(c) horror
(d) none

Answer

Answer: (c) horror

Question 14.
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

Answer

Answer: (c) impression of the country of his ancestors that is India

Question 15.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) at the age of 50

Question 16.
Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?
(a) they don’t like journalists
(b) unwarranted intrusion in their life
(c) their privacy is hurt
(d) none

Answer

Answer: (b) unwarranted intrusion in their life

Question 17.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) All these

Question 18.
Who has written Alice in Wonderland?
(a) Christopher
(b) Mukand
(c) Rudyard Kripling
(d) Lewis Caroll

Answer

Answer: (d) Lewis Caroll

Question 19.
Which period of history do Umberto’s novels deal with?
(a) Renaissance
(b) dark age
(c) modern era
(d) Medieval period

Answer

Answer: (d) Medieval period

Question 20.
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 empty spaces (free times) like waiting for someone, break time

Answer

Answer: (d) using empty spaces (free times) like waiting for someone, break time

Question 21.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) to make best use of empty spaces means free time

Question 22.
What did he present in this book?
(a) varied opinions of politicians
(b) varied opinions of civilians
(c) varied opinions of armymen
(d) varied opinions of celebrities regarding an interview

Answer

Answer: (d) varied opinions of celebrities regarding an interview

Question 23.
What kind of a novel was The Name of The Rose?
(a) hilarious
(b) fiction
(c) non-fiction
(d) a serious one

Answer

Answer: (d) a serious one

Question 24.
In what way interviews have become a common 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

Answer

Answer: (a) because of its power, influence and medium of communication

Question 25.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) because of many factors and many other books were written on the same medieval period

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