Question

These are few English class 10 MCQ's I'm having doubt with. Please help
1. Chief Joyi was angry with the white people as they had ……………

a) brought a white queen to rule over their tribe

b) caused a rift between the people of their tribe.

c) given the Thembus a true white chief.

d) taken the Thembus across the ocean to meet their queen.



2. The word abelungu refers to …………………..

a) the African people

b) the great white queen

c) the white people

d) the people of Chief Joyi's tribe


3. The word abantu refers to ……………………….

a) the fire-breathing weapons of the white men

b) the name of a tribe in Africa.

c) the chief of the Xhosa tribe

d) the friendship of the various tribes


4. The white people came to Africa as they wanted ………….

a) land

b) weapons

c) horses

d) people to rule over


5. The British did not study the history of the African tribes as ………..

a) they felt the real history of South Africa began with the landing of Jan Van Riebeeck

at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.

b) they thought the account of African history given by the African people was not

always so accurate.

c) they did not consider the African people important enough to study their history.

d) they did not know of the lakes and green plains and valleys that the Bantu-speaking

peoples came from.


6. The young seagull was alone on his ledge because________________________________.

a) he had no family of his own

b) he had not made his nest

c) his parents, brothers and sister had flown away except him as he was afraid to fly

d) he was too young to start flying


7. In order to encourage the young seagull to fly, his parents _________________________.

a) scolded him and threatened to let him starve unless he flew

b) showed him how to fly

c) came around and persuaded him to fly

d) yelled at him


8. But he kept calling plaintively….

In the above line 'plaintively' means__________________

a) cheerfully

b) sadly

c) joyfully

d) nostalgically


9. But when she was opposite to him, she halted her wings motionless…

Mother of the seagull halted because_______

a) she wanted to take rest as she had been flying for long

b) she wanted to fly back

c) she wanted to offer the piece of fish she was carrying to the seagull's brother

d) she wanted the young seagull to make an effort to fly himself


10. Before his first flight the young seagull was very ________________________.

a) nervous

b) afraid

c) happy

d) excited


11. The narrator remarks - …it was an easy flight. He means to say that __________________.

a) there were no problems on the flight

b) it is an easy task to fly an aeroplane

c) the flight was an easy one

d) the situation was under control


12. I was very happy to go behind the strange aeroplane like an obedient child. The literary

device used in the above line is _________________.

a) metaphor

b) personification

c) simile

d) alliteration


13. The narrator says, 'The radio was dead too.' The radio was dead because _____________.

a) it had been switched off

b) it was not working properly

c) the radio connection had snapped.

d) it was night time and there were no signals at that time


14. The narrator wanted to reach England at the earliest because_____________________.

a) he had to attend an important meeting

b) a storm seemed to gather in the sky

c) he was competing with his friend

d) he was excited about being there with his family


15. The narrator was greatly ________________ when he saw another aeroplane in the

storm.

a) shocked

b) relieved

c) petrified

d) astounded


16. 'An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy.' This line shows

a) the boy's sadness at losing the ball.

b) The intensity of the feeling of the boy.

c) The enormity of the loss itself.

d) The over sensitive nature of the boy.


17. The poet rejects two suggestions that people normally make to pacify a boy who has lost

a ball. These are:

a) Loss of a ball is natural and no use crying over it

b) Losses make us stronger and we must learn from our experience.

c) The lost ball can be replaced and it is very cheap.

d) Whatever is lost cannot be bought back and feeling sad for a loss is of no use.

Answer 1

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2nd answer African people