NCERT English Class 11 | Chapter 3 | Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues | MCQs |

1. When did Tut pass away?

A. 10000 years ago

B. 16000 years ago

C. 22000 years ago

D. More than 33000 years ago

Answer: (D) More than 33000 years ago.


2. What does the abbreviation CT scan mean?

A. Car Topology

B. Computed Telegraphy

C. Computer Technology

D. Computed Tomography Scan

Answer: (D) Computed Tomography Scan.


3. What was in the first coffin?

A. gold, wealth, bronze razor, games, clothes, cases of food and wine

B. garlands of olives, lotus petals, and cornflowers

C. flowers and coins

D. It was empty

Answer: (B) garlands of olives, lotus petals, and cornflowers.


4. What was discovered in Tutankhamun's tomb?

A. Gold, wealth, bronze razor, games, clothes, cases of food and wine

B. Gold

C. Egyptian Gold Coin

D. Nothing

Answer: (A) Gold, wealth, bronze razor, games, clothes, cases of food and wine.

 

5. What was Amenhotep IV's new name?

A. Akhenaten

B. Amenhotep III

C. Amarna

D. Atul

Answer: (A) Akhenaten


6. When and who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb?

A. Howard Carter in 1930

B. Sam Shaw in 1890

C. Adam Cooper in 1901

D. Howard Carter in 1922

Answer: (D) Howard Carter in 1922


7.  Who is Osiris?

A. God of afterlife

B. God of seasons

C. God of universe

D. God of nature

Answer: (A) God of afterlife


8. Who was Tutankhamun?

A. A scientist

B. an Egyptian king

C. A historian

D. A Geologist

Answer: (B) An Egyptian king.


9. After the CT scan, when was Tut's body returned to his tomb?

A. after a day

B. after 3 hours

C. after 5 hours

D. after 12 hours

Answer: (B) After 3 hours


10. When did the anatomy professor examine the mummy in X-Ray?

A. In 1948

B. In 1968

C. In 1986

D. In 1989

Answer: (B) In 1968


11. How did Carter cut Tut's body?

A. First leg and then head

B. First legs, head and then limbs

C. First head and then every limb

D. limb, hand only

Answer: (C) First head and then every limb.


12. When the mummy was X-Rayed in 1968, what details were revealed?

A. his breast bone and front ribs were missing

B. his feet bone was missing

C. his hip bone was missing

D. his several possessions were missing

Answer: (A) his breast bone and front ribs were missing.


13. What is the Cemetery of Tut called?

A. Valley of the Kings

B. Tut’s Resting Place

C. Resting Peace

D. Valley of Flowers

Answer: (A) Valley of the Kings


14. What has changed in archaeology over the years?

A. focusses on time factors more

B. focusses more on treasure

C. focusses more on physical findings

D. focusing less on treasure and more on the fascinating details of life and mysteries of death

Answer: (D) focusing less on treasure and more on the fascinating details of life and mysteries of death.


15. Who made the statement “The mummy is in very bad condition because of what Carter did in the 1920s”?

A. Carter

B. Zahi Hawass

C. an anatomy professor

D. an Egypt Historian

Answer: (B) Zahi Hawass


16. What words would you use to describe Tutankhamun's tomb?

A. Rock-cut

B. Wall paintings with gold plate

C. Gold-plate

D. rock-cut, 26 feet underground, which had wall paintings

Answer: (D) rock-cut, 26 feet underground, which had wall paintings.


17. What was Tut lavished with?

A. expensive clothing

B. gold, silver, flowers

C. lots of jewels

D. “glittering goods: precious collars, inlaid necklaces, and bracelets,

rings, amulets, a ceremonial apron, sandals, sheaths for his fingers and toes all of pure gold”

Answer: (D) “glittering goods: precious collars, inlaid necklaces and bracelets,

rings, amulets, a ceremonial apron, sandals, sheaths for his fingers and toes all of pure gold”.


18. Who made the statement “The mummy is in very bad condition because of what Carter did in the 1920s”?

A. Carter

B. Zahi Hawass

C. an anatomy professor

D. an Egypt Historian

Answer: (B) Zahi Hawass

 

Poem: The Laburnum Top                                by Ted Hughes

1. What happened to the Laburnum tree's leaves?

A. new leaves growing

B. fallen down

C. turned yellow

D. they were green

Answer: (C) turned yellow


2. In the poem 'The Laburnum Top,' how did the poet describe the top of the Laburnum tree?

A. Silent and Motionless

B. Still and Silent

C. Moving and Angry like

D. None of the above

Answer: (B) Still and Silent


3. What was the condition of the tree in September?

A. green and happy

B. still and death-like

C. still and green

D. alive

Answer: (B) still and death-like.


4. When did the tree that seemed like death turn to life?

A. by the arrival monsoon season

B. by the arrival of the Goldfinch bird

C. by the arrival of sparrows

D. in the month of March

Answer: (B) by the arrival of the Goldfinch bird.


5. Why did the Goldfinch come so close to the tree?

A. to make a nest

B. to feed her younger ones

C. to rest

D. None of the above

Answer: (B) to feed her younger ones.


6. Where have all the Goldfinch chicks gone?

A. they were never there

B. On the thickness of the branch

C. On the top of the tree

D. On other tree

Answer: (B) On the thickness of the branch.


7. What role does the tree play for the Goldfinch bird?

A. As a supporter

B. As a means to feed her family

C. As a resting place

D. As a shelter

Answer: (D) As a shelter


8. How did the bird get from one side of the branch to the other?

A. Smoothly

B. By flying

C. Slowly

D. Like a lizard

Answer: (D) Like a lizard


9. How did the bird get to the tree's other branch?

A. flew away and then arrived at the branch

B. never arrived at other branch

C. with a chirping sound

D. silently

Answer: (C) with a chirping sound.


10. What happened after she had fed her children?

A. she took some rest in the nest

B. she stayed there

C. she flew away

D. she flew to the other side of the branch

Answer: (D) she flew to the other side of the branch.


11. In the poem, what does the word ‘sleek' mean?

A. Bird

B. Branch

C. Top of the tree

D. Lizard

Answer: (D) Lizard


12. What is described as ‘engine’ in the poem?

A. Lizard

B. Machine

C. Laburnum Tree

D. None of the above

Answer: (C) Laburnum Tree


13. What does the phrase “her barred face identity mask” mean?

A. because she was brown in colour

B. due to her dark coloured yellow body

C. bird’s face became her identity and symbol of recognition

D. None of the above

Answer: (C) bird’s face became her identity and symbol of recognition.


14. What instance of Alliteration has been used in the poem ‘The Laburnum Top’ out of the following options?

A. engine of her family

B. her barred face

C. Sleek as a lizard

D. September sunlight

Answer: (D) September sunlight


15. Why was Goldfinch’s body barely visible?

A. due to her dark coloured yellow body

B. because she was small

C. because of the height of the tree

D. because she was brown in colour

Answer: (A) due to her dark coloured yellow body.


16. Which figure of speech is used in ‘Sepember sunlight’?

A. Simile

B. Oxymoron

C. Personification

D. Alliteration

Answer: (C) Personification


17. Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup

A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end.

Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,

She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up

Of chitterlings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings —

The whole tree trembles and thrills.


What does the word ‘Chittering’ mean?

A. High-pitch noise

B. High-pitch silence

C. Low-pitch silence

D. Low-pitch noise

Answer: (A) High-pitch noise.


18. Who creates the noise on the laburnum tree?

A. Younger ones of Goldfinch

B. Elder ones of Goldfinch

C. Goldfinch

D. All of the above

Answer: (A) Younger ones of Goldfinch.


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