NCERT English Class 10 | Chapter 3 | Two Stories about Flying | MCQs |

1. Who threatened to let the young seagull starve on the ledge unless he flew away?

A. Father

B. Sister

C. Brother

D. Parents

... Answer: "D"

2. Soon after his first flight, the young seagull ________ amusedly.

A. sang

B. shrilled

C. cawed

D. cried

... Answer: "C"

3. ‘An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy’. What grief is the poet referring to?

A. The grief of losing a beloved one

B. The grief of losing a prized possession

C. The grief of being harassed

D. The grief of not being able to live a good life

... Answer: "B"

4. Which of the following animals is tawny?

A. Tiger

B. Leopard

C. Lion

D. Bear

... Answer: "C"

5. The narrator flew _________ the black clouds.

A. over

B. around

C. beneath

D. through

... Answer: "D"

6. Which of the following words means ‘scold’?

A. upbraid

B. broadside

C. spook

D. starve

... Answer: "A"

7. What did the young seagull feel before being able to fly?

A. That his wings would never support him

B. That he would die if he flew

C. That he was not like his siblings who could fly

D. That he would fall and get hurt of he tried flying

... Answer: "A"

8. What did the young seagull see his brother do?

A. Curvet the whole day

B. Catch his first herring and devour it

C. Feed fish to his sister

D. Fly higher than their parents

... Answer: "B"

9. Which of the following words means ‘tilting laterally’?

A. curveting

B. banking

C. righting

D. flitting

... Answer: "B"

10. When did the narrator feel he is finally safe?

A. When he could see the runway down below

B. When the black aeroplane appeared out of nowhere

C. When the pilot of the black aeroplane had asked to follow him

D. When he was just about to land

... Answer: "A"

11. A chameleon has been described as a

A. strange and long creature with no ears

B. small, lizard-like creature without wings and ears

C. clever creature that can easily camouflage

D. None of the above

... Answer: "B"

12. Which of the following animals given below caresses?

A. Lion

B. Crocodile

C. Hyena

D. Bear

... Answer: "D"

13. What do you understand by the word ‘plaintively’?

A. Hearteningly

B. Sorrowfully

C. Interestingly

D. Plainly

... Answer: "B"

14. In ‘The Ball Poem’, the material world is referred to as

A. The world of illusions

B. The world of possibilities

C. The world of belongings

D. The world of possessions

... Answer: "D"

15. How does one identify the Bengal Tiger?

A. It is a beast who has its hide peppered

B. It is a large and tawny animal that roars

C. It is a noble beast that black stripes on a yellow ground

D. It is an animal that hugs and caresses

... Answer: "C"

16. Which of the following words means ‘identify’?

A. show

B. stumble

C. delineate

D. discern

... Answer: "D"

17. Which of the following did young seagull love doing?

A. Curveting with his friends

B. Tearing food with his beak

C. Spend time in the sea

D. All of the above

... Answer: "B"

18. Why did the narrator get frightened once again while flying the Dakota?

A. Because he was going to crash into another aeroplane

B. Because he had lost control completely

C. Because the fuel was enough to keep the plane going for just some more minutes

D. Because he knew that the plane would blast if he did not land

... Answer: "C"