Ch 2: Two stories about Flying

Q1- Who is the author of "His First Flight"?

A) Liam O' Flaherty
B) Frederick Forsyth
C) Roal Dahl
D) Paulo Coehlo
 

Q2- Who is the author of "Black Aeroplane"?

A) Liam O' Flaherty
B) Frederick Forsyth
C) Roal Dahl
D) Paulo Coehlo
 

Q3- The lesson "His First Flight" is about a ______

A) pilot
B) seagull
C) parrot
D) pigeon
 

Q4- Why was he afraid to fly?

A) he was a coward
B) he was afraid his wings will not support him
C) he was afraid that everyone would judge him
D) both 1 and 2
 

Q5- What did his parents threaten him with if he didn't flew away?
A) to never talk to him
B) to punish him
C) to starve him
D) to abandon him
 
Q6- What were his parents teaching his brothers and sisters?
A) to perfect the art of flying
B) to skim the waves
C) to dive for fish
D) all of the above
 

Q7- The sight of ________ maddened him.

A) his brothers flying
B) his siblings enjoying without him
C) food
D) all of the above
 

Q8- What urged him to make his first flight?

A) hunger
B) sight of fish
C) courage
D) both 1 and 2
 

Q9- Why did his mother stop midway while giving him the fish?
A) she was mad at him
B) to push him to fly out of hunger
C) she didn't want to give him the fish
D) she got tired
 

Q10- The title "Black Aeroplane" is based on?

A) the aeroplane that helped the pilot
B) the pilot's aeroplane
C) aeroplane in the stormy sky
D) none of the above
 
Q11- The pilot was flying from _____ to _____.
A) England, France
B) England, India
C) France, England
D) France, India
 

Q12- What was the pilot looking forward to?

A) to reach his destination
B) to meet his family
C) his holiday
D) both 2 and 3
 

Q13- Which control station did he contact on his way?

A) Paris
B) India
C) England
D) he didn't contact any
 

Q14- "They looked like black mountains standing in front

of me across the sky". What looked like black mountains?
A) Black mountains
B) Storm clouds
C) tall buildings
D) black plateau
 

Q15- What risk did the pilot take?

A) flying back to Paris
B) missing the breakfast he desired
C) he took no risk
D) flying his old Dakota straight into the storm
 
Q16- What instruments had stopped working during the storm?
A) compass
B) radio
C) both of them
D) none of them
 

Q17- What was the pilot not sorry about?

A) missing his holiday
B) driving the plane into the storm
C) risking the lives of fellow passengers
D) both 2 and 3
 

Q18- What did the seagull pretend was happening to him so that he could take
his first flight?
A) he was unconscious
B) he was falling down the cliff
C) he was falling asleep
D) He lost his balance
 

Q19- What food did the seagull's mother get for it?
A) earthworms
B) fish
C) insects
D) rodents
 

Q20- How far was the narrator from Paris when he saw dark clouds in the sky?
A) 200 km
B) 100 km
C) 50 km
D) 150 km
 
Q21- Which of the pilot's intruments stopped working first?
A) compass
B) radio
C) both stopped together
D) both were working
 

Q22- When the pilot of the black aeroplane asked the narrator to follow him, in
which direction did he turn the aeroplane?
A) south
B) north
C) east
D) west
 

Q23- Why didn't the pilot turn the aeroplane back towards Paris?
A) He wanted to meet his family
B) He wanted to go on a holiday
C) He did not want to miss the breakfast
D) He did not like Paris
 

Q24- What was the name of the aeroplane that the pilot was flying?
A) Airbus
B) Boeing
C) Dakota
D) Minesotta
 

Q25- The pilot was not able to ___ anything

A) see
B) hear
C) speak
D) all of them