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Extracts-2

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"One day they came back to complain."

Who does 'they' tefer to?

a)

Don Anselmo

b)

Author

c)

Old man

d)

Americans

2.

" I didnot sell them because I could not. They are not mine."

Who, according the speaker did the trees belong to?

a)

Dark young boy

b)

Children of Rio-en -Medio

c)

Author

d)

Americans

3.

" I argued with him. But it was useless."

Who argued with him?

a)

Don Anselmo

b)

Story teller

c)

Americans

d)

None of the above

4.

" I sold them my property, because I knew they were goo people."

Who are the 'Good people' here?

a)

Story teller

b)

Americans

c)

Don Anselmo

d)

Children of Rio en Medio

5.

"He had an insatiable thirst for books."

Who is the 'He' here?

a)

Dr B R Ambedkar

b)

Nehru

c)

Mahatma Phule

d)

Gandhiji

6.

What does 'insatiable' mean?

a)

Eager for knowledge

b)

that cannot be satisfied

c)

voracious

d)

control

7.

" He built brick by brick the magnificient edifice."

What is the magnificient edifice here?

a)

Constituition

b)

Fundamental duties

c)

Fundamental rights

d)

A big building

8.

" They brought about a veritable revolution in the social thought."

Who are they 'They' here?

a)

Buddha ana Avvai

b)

Gandhiji and MahathmaPhule

c)

Gandhiji and Ambedkar

d)

Nehru and Ambedkar

9.

" Shall I sing of the clear dawn with its pure gold streaks?"

Who is the speaker addressing?

a)

The poet

b)

Prophets and seers

c)

Mother India

d)

Beggars and lepars

10.

" Sing of the wrinkled face Indexing ignorance."

Who should sing this?

a)

Mother India

b)

Poet

c)

both the poet and the Mother India

d)

None of these

11.

What does 'Indexing ignorance' refer to?

a)

condition of beggars and lepars

b)

Plight of India

c)

The old and illiterate people of the country

d)

None of the above

12.

"Is there no song that I can sing of you?"

What feeling the speaker express here?

a)

Angry

b)

Nervous

c)

Eager

d)

Querulous

13.

" Is there no song that I can sing of you?"

Why does the speaker feel so?

a)

Mother India enjoys his appreciation

b)

Mother India is not interested in his song.

c)

Mother India is accepting his appeal

d)

Mother India is rejecting all the appeals of the poet

14.

" Nervous, yet I would ask, deeming it my task."

What would the speaker yet ask?

a)

To praise her

b)

To write a story about Mother India

c)

TO sing a song for her

d)

None of the above

15.

"Shall I sing of your rock cut temples, epics in stone?"

Who is the listener of this line?

a)

The poet

b)

Readers

c)

Mother India

d)

All of the above

16.

" A song bathed in the stainless blue unvapouring in the void?"

Who is the speaker here?

a)

The Poet

b)

Mother India

c)

Readers

d)

None of the above

17.

"He was the symbol of Revolt"

Who made this statement?

a)

Ambedkar

b)

Mahatma Phule

c)

Mahatma Gandhi

d)

Nehru

18.

" I have no doubt whether we agree with him or not in many matters, that perseverance."

When did Nehru made this statement

a)

When India became Independent

b)

When Ambedkar was made Law minister

c)

At the time of Ambedkar's death

d)

When Ambedkar returned to India.

19.

" One day they came back to complain."

Who did they complain about?

a)

Don Anselmo

b)

Americans

c)

Author

d)

Children of Rio en Medio

20.

" I argued with him, but it was useless."

Why was it useless?

a)

The old man accepted to take additional amount

b)

Don Anselmo didn't sell his land to Americans

c)

Don Anselmo Refused to take additional amount

d)

The old man returned the 1200 dollars of money to the story teller