Date – 10.01.

’22 LEARNING TREE (MDG) Class – 9

Name - Nilay Sangle REV TEST (LIT)
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ON KILLING A TREE – WEATHERING THE STORM IN ERSAMA

Q.1) Choose the correct option (MCQ) – 9/10 C-CORRECT
Note - Choose the correct option and make it Bold.
Eg. i) tea ii) coffee iii) sugar iv) water
i)Who is the poet of “On Killing a Tree”?
a) Amitav Ghosh
b) Gieve Patel
c) Robert Frost
d) Ruskin Bond
ii)What does the strength of a tree lie in?
a) leaves
b) trunk
c) stems
d) roots
iii)What can alone kill a tree?
a) hacking
b) chopping
c) hacking and chopping X
d) none C
iv)What does a tree consume to grow?
a) earth
b) air
c) water
d) soil
v)How do the trees die?
a) when they don’t get water
b) when they don’t get manure
c) when the roots are uprooted
d) when they jab the trunk
vi)What calamity hit Orissa?
a) cyclone
b) earthquake
c) drought
d) flood
vii)Whom did the flood victims send signals to for food help?
a) government officials
b) military helicopters
c) NGOs
d) volunteers
viii)What was the name of Prashant’s village?
a) Ersama
b) Kallikuti
c) Kalikuda
d) Odisha
ix)How did Prashant clean the filth?
a) with the help of Red Cross staff
b) with the help of volunteers
c) with the help of army men
d) none
x)How did Prashant reach his village?
a) travelling on foot
b) swimming through water
c) boating with uncle’s friends
d) i)a & b
ii)a & c

Q.2.Extract Based Questions –

a) Prashant decided to step in as leader of his village, if no one else did. He organized a group
of youths and elders to jointly pressurize the merchant to part with his… 3/4
i)How did Prashant as a leader help the villagers?
a) formed a group and got rice for them
b) cleaned the shelter
c) guided the women to work for the government
d) a & b
ii)How old was Prashant when he decided to be a leader?
a) 18
b) 20
c) 19
d) none
iii)Prashant is a good leader because –
a) he took charge of the situation
b) he used his energy to help his family
c) he gathered others to handle the situation
d) a & c
iv)Prashant and his group compelled the merchant to –
a) to give food to the flood victims X
b) to give them tender coconuts
c) to build houses for them
d) to give them rice C
b) So, hack and chop
But, this alone won’t do it.
Not so much pain will do it.
The bleeding bark will heal
And from close to the ground
Will rise curled green twigs,
Miniature boughs 3/4
i)Humans _______ the bark of trees into many pieces.
a) cut and chop
b) chop
c) give pain
d) bleed
ii)The barks that are cut will bleed and soon –
a) grow up
b) heal up
c) rise up
d) curl up
iii)Which word in the above stanza means “branches” –
a) bark
b) twigs X
c) miniature
d) boughs C
iv) “do it” means –
a) injure it
b) kill it
c) harm it
d) bleed it

Q.3. Short Answers – 2.5/8 (You had to answer all the questions)
a) What is the message conveyed by the poet?
Ans: The message conveyed by the poet is that human beings are not caring about
nature. They have a destructive attitude towards it. Mother nature cannot be destroyed
easily. It has the power to regenerate and regrow. Also, the tree teaches us that simply
physical assault cannot ruin us. As long as our roots are strong we cannot be destroyed.
b) What is the meaning of ‘anchoring earth’ and ‘earth cave’?
Anchoring Earth: It means that the earth protects the tree by holding the roots of the tree
firmly, to give it support to stand upright just like a ship is anchored to keep it steady
and stable.
Earth Cave: It means the deep and dark area inside the earth which holds the roots and keeps
it sheltered for years. It is firmly attached to this and a cave like hollow is created when
the root is pulled out. help the tree to stand upright.

c) What did Prashant see when he reached his village?

Ans: There was water everywhere. He had to use stick to locate the road. At Some places, the
water was till his waist and sometimes when he was lost he had to swim. After some time he
saw his 2 friends and his uncle. They decided to move forward together. They had to puch
away many dead human bodies floating on the water. X
When Prashant reached his village, he saw that his house was not there. Only the
remains of its roof and some belongings were caught in the branches of a tree. He feared
that his family must have died in the super cyclone.
(Read question carefully)
d) Why was it difficult for Prashant to travel back to his village?
Ans: It was difficult for Prashant to travel back to his village because a cyclone had hit his
village and many other places and almost lasted almost till 36 hours. The speed of the wind
was 350km/hr. It destroyed many houses, uprooted trees, created floods. It was not even
possible to walk.
There was water everywhere. He had to use stick to locate the road. At some places, the water
was till his waist and sometimes when he was lost he had to swim. After some time, he saw
his 2 two friends and of his uncle. They decided to move forward together. They had to push
away many dead human bodies floating on in the water

Q.4. Long Answers – 7.5/10

a) What relationship does the tree have with the earth?
Ans: A tree has a very deep relation with the earth. each other. First, the seed germinates
inside the Earth. Then, there’s a small plant which then extracts nutrients for the soil of the
Earth. The tree draws nourishment from the earth through its roots. Then when the tree
becomes big, Earth helps it to stand upright. Earth protects the roots from getting destroyed.
Hence, Earth helps the tree right from its birth till the time it is pulled out from earth’s
cave and left to wither and die. 3.5/5

b) What role did Prashant play to organize the youth to help the cyclone-affected people in
Ersama?
Ans: After massive damage due to a cyclone. Prashant decided to help his own family and
others. He organized a group of youths. They pressurized the local merchants to give them
rice. They burnt fire to cook rice. Next, he had to clean up the place of shelter that was full
of dirt, urine, dead bodies, etc. They gave first aid to those who were injured. On the fifth
day, the helicopter dropped some food but it never returned. So, to attract the helicopter he
placed some children with empty utensils in their hands and one hand on their stomach for
them to understand that they were hungry and it also worked and they dropped food
regularly. Shelters were put up for orphans and the elders were motivated to look after
them. Widows were encouraged to take part in food-for-work programme set up by the
NGO. In this way, with the help of youth Prashant was able to help the cyclone victims
to get back to normalcy. 4/5

Q.5.Read the passage carefully – 5/5

Leaked reports from a top-secret agency indicate that Government scientists are planning for
UK citizens to be replaced entirely by perfect robot replicas within the next ten years.
According to a report in The Sun, the leaked report says that the MIT (Ministry of
Information Technology) will soon see the development and sale to the public of mechanical
representations of humans called ‘surrogate’, which are operated through mind control. It
says that the UK population will be cajoled by a huge public marketing campaign into
purchasing their own ‘surrogates’ and a special operating device – called a “stim chair” – that
they attach themselves to in the safety of their own home.
The mind pattern impulses sent through diodes on the “stim chair” then activate the
individual “surrogates” who take to the streets to tackle the day-to-day grind of the
individual. The startling technology logical advance will be billed to the UK as a necessary
step in an increasingly violent and terrorist threatened world. The white paper goes into
credible detail about creating a world where crime, pain and fear don’t exist because the
British Public live a “utopian existence” with the “surrogates” taking all the risks.
I. Choose the correct option –
1.Which of the following statements are ‘TRUE’?
i) In UK, citizens have been replaced by robot replicas
ii) The UK public are coaxed to buy their own ‘surrogates’
iii) ‘Surrogates’ are the mechanical form of humans
iv) The robot replicas will not help in doing day-to-day work
v) With the advent of these robots, crime will increase
vi) Such technology is needed as terrorism is increasing
a) ii, iii, vi b) i, ii, iii c)ii, iv, vi d) i, iii, v
2. Which word in the passage stands for “a thing that is considered as a substitute for other”?
a) Cajoled b) Impulse c) Surrogate d) Startling
3. Match the following –
(i) Grind (a) Coaxed
 (ii) Replica (b) Astonishing
(iii) Cajoled (c) Copy
(iv) Startling (d) Work
a) (i) – (d); (ii) – ©; (iii) – (a); (iv) – (b)
b) (i) – ©; (ii) – (b); (iii) – (a); (iv) – (d)
c) (i) – (d); (ii) – (b); (iii) – (a); (iv) - (c)
d) (i) – (a); (ii) – (b); (iii) – (c); (iv) – (d)
4. “Stim chair” –
a) is a special operating chair
b) a safety mechanism
c) activates the actual ‘surrogate’
d) i & ii
5. The passage is about a world where -
a) crime, fear and pain do not exist
b) everything exists
c) crime exists
d) pain and fear exists

Q.6. You are Rakesh Sharma. You are one among the fifteen students who won the India’s
Bravery Award recently. The group was invited to visit the Rashtrapati. You went to the
Rashtrapati Bhavan to meet him. Write a diary entry expressing your joyous experience
there. 3/4

Monday,10th January 2022

10:00pm

Dear Diary,
Today was a very fabulous and proud day for me and my family. As you know I won the
India’s bravery award recently. So, we were invited to the Rashtrapati Bhavan to meet the
President, In Delhi. We went to Delhi and then went to our rooms to get fresh. We then went
to Rashtrapati Bhavan. There were so many things in there. We had a whole visit through the
Rashtrapati Bhavan. We saw many things it was so huge and so beautiful. There were
gardens, fountains, sculptures, and many more. Then we finally met the President we had a
lot of interaction with him. talk there. After such a fabulous experience we had to go back
and boarded our rooms train and from there we came back just now to our home. Had my
dinner and going to sleep now.
Nilay.

Q.7. Choose the correct option – 5/6

i)Rumi said, “We went out last night”. Rumi said –
a) that they went out the previous night
b) that they have gone out the previous night
c) that they had gone out the previous night
d) that they had gone out the last night
ii)Sushil said, “I was sleeping when Julie called”. Sushil said that –
a) he was sleeping when Julie had called
b) he had been sleeping when Julie called
c) he has been sleeping when Julie called
d) he were sleeping when Julie had called
iii) “I won’t see you tomorrow”, said Raman. Raman said that -
a)he won’t see me the following day
b) he wouldn’t see me tomorrow
c) he will not see me the following day
d) he wouldn’t see me the following day
iv)She said to me, “Did you go to the party yesterday?”
She asked me -
a) if I did go to the party yesterday
b) if I had gone to the party the previous day
c) if I went to the party the previous day
d) if I have gone to the party yesterday
v)He said, “What a terrible night it is!” He exclaimed -
a) it was a terrible night
b) that it was a terrible night
c) that it had been a terrible night
d) that it is a terrible night
vi)The policeman said to us, “Where are you going?” The policeman -
a) asked us where were we going X
b) asked us where we are going
c) implored to us where we were going
d) asked us where we were going C

Q.8. In the following passage one word has not been edited. Write the Incorrect and the
 Correct word in the space provided. 2/3
INCORRECT CORRECT
In Himalayas, the desert is turning green. a) the a) a
Climate change in an Indian region of b) No X an b) No X the
Ladakh has shrunk glaciers or has made rainfall c) or c)and
and temperature unpredictable. Water has d) has d)is
needed to irrigating the fields. e) irrigating e)irrigate
Farmers may require aid of the government. f) No X of f)No X from

Q.9.Choose the correct option to fill in the blanks – 4/6

i)The phone ______ while I was cooking dinner.
a) ringed
b) was ringing C
c) rang
d) is ringing

ii)How long _______ a social activist?

a) are you
b) have you been
c) were you
d) none
iii) I looked around but I _______ anyone.
a) didn’t found X
b) hadn’t found
c) didn’t find C
d) haven’t found
iv)The teacher ________ an interesting question in the class yesterday.
a) was asking
b) had asked
c) asks
d) asked
v)You were watching TV when I _______ for my exams.
a) am preparing
b) will be preparing
c) was preparing
d) were preparing
vi) I ___________ the exam hall before it started raining.
a) had reached C
b) reached X
c) have reached
d) will reach