Question

1 ) Read the following passage carefully and choose the correct answer from the given options:

It was Monday morning. Swaminathan was reluctant to open his eyes. He considered Monday specially unpleasant in the calendar. After the delicious freedom of Saturday and Sunday, it was difficult to get into the Monday mood of work and discipline. He shuddered at the very thought of school; that dismal yellow building; the fire-eyed Vedanayagam , his class- teacher , and the Head Master with his thin long cane. By eight he was at his desk in his ‘room’, which was only a corner in his father’s dressing room. He had a table on which all his things , his coat, cap, slate, ink-bottle, and books, were thrown in a confused heap. He sat on his stool and shut his eyes to recollect what work he had for the day: first of course there was Arithmetic– those five puzzles in Profit and Loss; then there was English- he had to copy down a page from his English Lesson, and write dictionary meanings of difficult words; and then there was Geography. And only two hours before him to do all this heap of work and get ready for the school! Fire-eyed Vedanayagam was presiding over the class with his back to the long window. Through its bars one saw a bit of the drill ground and a corner of the veranda of the Infant Standards. There were huge windows on the left showing vast open grounds bound at the other extreme by the railway embankment.

i) Monday was the most unpleasant day for Swaminathan because.

(a) There was no game period on this day

(b) There was no computer class on this day

(c) It marked the beginning of work and discipline

(d) There was no class of his favourite teacher on this day

ii)The colour of the school building was.

(a) Red

(b) Blue

(c) Yellow

(d) White

iii) Vedanayagam was Swaminathan’s

(a) Class teacher

(b) Art teacher

(c) Head master

(d) P.T. teacher

iv) By which time Swaminathan was at his desk
in his ‘room’?

(a) By seven

(b) By eight

(c) By six

(d) By five

v) Swaminathan kept all the things .

(a) In a cupboard

(b) On a bench

(c) In a suitcase

(d) On a table

vi ) From the way of keeping his things , it was clear that Swaminathan was .

(a) Disciplined

(b) Casual

(c) Tidy

(d) Serious

vii ) The above passage makes it clear that Swaminathan.

(a) was very interested to go to school

(b) was very regular in doing homework

(c) didn’t want to go to school

(d) loved his class teacher

viii ) Swaminathan couldn’t see through his classroom window because .

(a) It was closed

(b) His class teacher was standing with his back to it

(c) A thick curtain was hanging over it

(d) A fat boy was sitting near it

ix) The word ‘dismal’ means.

(a) Happy

(b) Active

(c) Sad

(d) Slow​

Answer 1

Answer:

I) (c)

ii) (c)

iii) (a)

iv) (b)

v) (d)

vi) (c)

vii) (c)

viii) (b)

ix) (c)