VISHWA BHARTI PUBLIC SCHOOL

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
CLASS -XII
SUBJECT – ENGLISH
FLAMINGO ( MCQ BASED QUES FOR PRACTICE)
1.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Poor man! It was in honour of this last lesson that he had put on his fine Sunday
clothes, and now I understood why the old men of the village were sitting there in
the back of the room. It was because they were sorry, too, that they had not gone
to school more. It was their way of thanking our master for his forty years of faithful
service and of showing their respect for the country that was theirs no more.
(A) Why does the narrator refer to M. Hamel as “Poor man!"?
(a) He empathises with M. Hamel as he had to leave the village.
(b) He believes that M. Hamel’s “fine Sunday clothes” clearly reflected that he was
not rich
(c) He feels sorry for M. Hamel as it was his last French lesson.
(d) He thinks that M. Hamel’s patriotism and sense resulted in his poverty.
(B) Which of the following idioms might describe the villagers' act of attending the
last lesson most accurately?
(a) ‘Too good to miss
(b) ‘Too little, too late'
(c) ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth'
(d) ‘Too cool for school'
(C) Choose the option that might raise a question about M. Hamel's "faithful
service".
(a) When Franz came late, M. Hamel told him that he was about to begin class
without him.
(b) Franz mentioned how cranky M. Hamel was and his "great ruler rapping on the
table".
(c) M. Hamel often sent students to water his flowers, and gave a holiday when he
wanted to go fishing.
(d) M. Hamel permitted villagers to put their children "to work on a farm or
at the mills" for some extra money
D) Choose the option that most appropriately fills in the blanks, for the following
description of the given extract.
The villagers and their children sat in class, forging with their old master a (i) ……..
togetherness. In that moment, the class room stood (ii) .......... It was France itself,
and the last French lesson a desperate hope to (iii) ……….. to the remnants of what
they had known and taken for granted. Their own........(iv).
(a) (i) graceful; (ii) still; (ii) hang on; (iv) country
(b) (i) bygone; (i) up; (ii) keep on; (iv) education
(c) (i) beautiful; (ii) mesmerised; (iii) carry on; (iv) unity
(d) (i) forgotten; (i) transformed; (iii) hold on; (iv) identity

2. Then, from one thing to another, M. Hamel went on to talk of the French language,
saying that it was the most beautiful language in the world - the clearest, the most
logical that we must guard it among us and never forget it, because when people
are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to
their prison. Then he opened a grammar and read us our lesson. I was amazed to
see how well I understood it. All he said seemed so easy, so easy! I think, too that I
had never listened so carefully, and that he had never explained everything with so
much patience, It seemed almost as if the poor man wanted to give us all he knew
before going away, and to put it all into our heads at one stroke.
A) The first line of this extract means that M. Hamel spoke about the French
language that day:
(a) because it was his last day and this idea was on his mind.
(b) because he was asked to speak on it by the mayor.
(c) because he believed that everyone should learn French.
(d) because he spoke about it on a regular basis.
(B) Choose the word that DOES NOT mean 'enslaved':
(a) captive
(b) liberated
(c) subjugated
(d) bound
(D) The figure of speech ‘in one stroke’ means:
(a) One at a time
(b) Pay close attention
(c) Be on time
(d) At the same time
3.I started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding,
especially because M. Hamel had said that he would question us on participles, and
I did not know the first word about them. For a moment I thought of running away
and spending the day out of doors. It was so warm, so bright! The birds were chirping
at the edge of the woods; and in the open field back of the sawmill the Prussian
soldiers were drilling. It was all much more tempting than the rule for participles,
but I had the strength to resist, and hurried off to school.
(A) Franz was scared about going to school because he would be quizzed on……..
participles.
(a) English
(b) Prussian
(c) French
(d) German
(B) From the extract, it can be inferred that the days in Alsace were and bright.
(a) often
(b) rarely
(c) sometimes
(d) all the time
(C) Choose the two meanings of the word 'drill' from the options.
(1) A sharp sound or noise that is unpleasant
(2) To make a hole in something using a tool
(3) To practise something again and again
(4) A state of feeling extreme excitement
(a) (1) and(2) (b) (1) and (4)
(c) (3) and(4) (d) (2) and (3)
(D) From the passage which adjective best describe Franz?
(a) carefree
(b) studious
(c) diligent

(d) bookish

Q1 - `Who is the author of The Last Lesson?

A) Jane Austen
B) Rabindra Nath Tagore
C) None
D) Alphonse Daudet

Q2- Alphonse Daudet was from which country?

A) India
B) France
C) England
D) New Zealand

Q3- The story ‘The Last Lesson’ highlights which human tendency?
A) Male Chauvinism
B) Procastination
C) Courage
D) Cowardice
Q4 - What were the things being taken for granted by the people of Alsace?
A) Teachers of the school
B) Time and school
C) People around
D) Money and power

Q5 - What does The Last Lesson symbolize?

A) Loss
B) Loss of freedom
C) Loss of language
D) Loss of language and freedom

Q6 - What does The Last Lesson signify?

A) Change of power
B) change of Government
C) change in life
D) Change of teachers

Q7- What do the marching soldiers under the windows represent?

A) The Dawn of Prussia in defeat of French people
B) The defeat of Prussia
C) The victory of French
D) None of these
Q 8-From where did the orders come to teach only German in the districts of
Alsace andLorraine?
A) France
B) Lorraine
C) Berlin
D) Germany

Q9- What do the effects this story speaks about?

A) Power
B)Money
C)Transition
D) people

Q10- Why was Franz reluctant to go to school?

A) wanted to enjoy warm Sunlight
B) wanted to see soldiers drill
C) wanted to enjoy outdoor
D) lesson on participles was not prepared

Q11- What did Franz find on reaching the school?

A) People were dancing
B) strange people
C) Police patrolling
D) strange quiteness

Q12- Who occupied the back benches in the class?

A) weak students
B) teachers
C) monitors of the class
D) village elders

Q13- Why was Franz surprised?

A) Because of villageelders
B) Because of police patrolling
C) because of students' behavior
D) because of M.Hamel's kind and polite behaviour

Q14- Why was Franz feeling regretful and sad?

A) for reaching late
B) for not learning participles
C) for change of theGovernment
D) for not learning his mother tongue

Q15- Whom did M.Hamel blame for not sending students to school?
A) Parents
B) Friends
C) teachers
D) watchman

Q16- What did Hauserbring?

A) sweets
B) children
C) friends
D) old Primer

Q17- What made Franz forget M.Hamel's ruler and crankiness?

A) Police Patrolling
B) Strange Quietness
C) Bustle on the streets
D) The idea of his going away

Q18- For how many years did M. Hamel serve the school?
A) 20 years
B) 35 years
C) 30 years
D) 40 years

Q19- Where did the parents send their children?

A) school
B) coaching
C) farms and mills
D) movies

Q20- Why were the parents sending their children to the farms and mills?
A) to play
B) to meet friends
C) to meet relatives
D) to earn money

Q21-Why did the villagers come to meet M. Hamel in the school?

A) to complain
B) to say goodbye
C) to gossip
D) to show gratitude

Q22- Why did Mr. M. Hamel call the French language the most beautiful?
A) Because it was the clearest and logical
B) Because it was his native language
C) Becayse people were fromFrance
D) None of these

Q23- What was Franz expected to be prepared for at school that day?
A) song
B) dance
C) essay writing
D) Participles

Q24- When people are enslaved, what key do they have to the prison, according
to M.Hamel?
A) their behaviour
B) power
C) aggressiveness
D) mother tongue
Q25- What did Franz notice that was unusual that day?
A) strange quiteness
B) soldiers in the school
C) crowd
D) all of these

Q26- What had been put up on the Bulletin Board that day?
A) Teach only French
B) Speak only English
C) Teach only German
D) Teach all these

Q27- What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?
A) hustle-bustle
B) people were happy
C) teachers were sad
D) strange quiteness andsadness

Q28- What changed Franz's feelings about M.Hamel and school?

A) Police Patrolling
B) Orders from Berlin
C) Strict words from M.Hamel
D) old Primer

Q29- What made Franz and people realize about the preciousness of their
mother tongue?
A) M. Hamel's words
B) School orders
C) Sudden orders from Berlin
D) School Principal
 Q30- Expression 'Thunder Clap" in thelesson means .
A) loud but not clear
B) loud and clear
C) startling and unexpected
D) unpleasant

LOST SPRING
Multiple Choice Questions based on an extract.
A. “I will learn to drive a car,” he answers, looking straight into my eyes. His dream
looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets that fill his town Firozabad, famous
for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles. It is
the centre of India’s glass-blowing industry where families have spent generations
working around furnaces, wielding glass, making bangles for all the women in the
land it seems. Mukesh’s family is among them. None of them know that it is illegal
for children like him to work in the glass furnaces with high temperatures, in dingy
cells without air and light; that the law, if enforced, could get him and all those
20,000 children out of the hot furnaces where they slog their daylight hours, often
losing the brightness of their eyes. Mukesh’s eyes beam as he volunteers to take
me home, which he proudly says is being rebuilt.
i) The simile ‘dream looms like a mirage amidst the dust of streets’ indicates that
his dream was
a) a reality, yet seemed distant.
b) lost in the sea of dust.
c) illusory and indistinct.
d) hanging in the dusty air.
ii) ‘I will learn to drive a car,’ he answers, looking straight into my eyes. This
sentence highlights Mukesh was
1. determined
2. fearless
3. hopeful
4. valiant
5. ambitious
6. stern
a) 1 & 5
b) 2 & 4
c) 2 & 5
d) 3 & 6
iii) Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE with reference to the extract?
a) Children work in badly lit and poorly ventilated furnaces.
b) The children are unaware that it is forbidden by law to work in the furnaces.
c) Children toil in the furnaces for hours which affects their eyesight.
d) Firozabad has emerged as a nascent producer of bangles in the country.

iv) Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in making bangles indicates that
a) bangle making is the only industry that flourishes in Firozabad.
b) the entire population of Firozabad is involved in bangle making.
c) majority of the population in Firozabad is involved in bangle making.
d) bangle making is the most loved occupation in Firozabad.

B. Set amidst the green fields of Dhaka, his home is not even a distant memory.
Then were many storms that swept away their fields and homes, his mother tells
him. That's why they left, looking for gold in the big city where he now lives.
(a) Who is 'his' here?
(I) Mukesh
(ii) Saheb
(iiI) Father
(iv) Author
b) Where is he from?
(i) Dhaka
(ii) Delhi
(iii) Firozabad
(iv) Seemapuri

(c)"That's why they left, looking for gold in the big city where he now lives. What is
'gold' referred to here?
(i) Ways of living
(ii) Means of earning
(iii) Yellow precious metal
(iv) None of these
(d) Which word from the following means the same as 'tween'?
(i) Swept
(ii) Amidst
(iii)Distant
(iv) Field
(e) What did his mother tell him?
(i) That they have to look for gold
(ii) That their home is in Dhaka
(iii) That there were many storms that swept away their fields and homes
(iv) None of these
(f) Where is Seemapuri situated?
(i) On the outskirts of Punjab
(ii) On the outskirts of Firozabad
(iii) On the outskirts of Delhi
(iv) On the outskirts of Dhaka

Q1- Who is the author of Lost Spring?

A) James Bond
 B) ArundhatiRoy
C) Sudha Murthy
D) Anees Jung

Q2- This story is an excerpt from which book of the author?

A) Lost Spring - Stories of stolen childhood
B) Unveiling India
C) Breaking the Silence
D) The Song of India

Q3- What does the author analyze in the story?

A) Rich people
B) garbage
C) Poor children and their exploitation
D) her works
Q4- What is the central theme of the story Lost Spring?
A) Pitiable Poor children and their lost childhood
B) garbage
C) Saheb and Mukesh
D) Spring Season

Q5- What forces the children to live a life of exploitation?

A) greed
B) Extreme Poverty
C) peers
D) parents

Q6- According to the author what was garbage for the parents?

A) Means of entertainment
B) means of joy
C) Means of sorrow
D) Means of survival
Q7- According to the author what was garbage for the children ?
A) Means of entertainment
B) Means of timepass
C) Means of playing
D) a wonder
A) Q8- Who was Saheb?
B) a shopkeeper
C) a servant
D) a ragpicker
E) all
Q9- What was Saheb looking for?
A) eggs
B)gold
C)coins
D) toys

Q10- Is Saheb happy working at the tea stall?

A) yes
B) yes, he earns money
C) no earning
D) no, earning but nofreedom

Q11- Why did Saheb E Alam not go to school?

A) not interested
B) no bucks to payfees
C) wants to go formovie
D) wants to earn
Q12- What is the meaning of Saheb E Alam?
A) Owner
B) Rich man
C) Poor man
D) Lord of the Universe
Q13- Where was Sahebemployed?
A) at a tea stall in Seemapuri
B) at a saree shop
C) at a jewellery shop
D) at a sweet shop
Q14- Why is author calling garbage as 'gold' in the story?
A) Because of jewels init
B) Because of gems init
C) because of gold init
D) Because of its encashment

Q15- What do the boys appear like to the author in the story?
A) Morning crows
B) Evening crows
C) Morning birds
D) Evening Birds

Q16- Name the birth place of the author.

A) U.S.A
B) Callifornia
C) Kochi
D) Rourkela
Q17- What does the title 'Lost Spring' symbolise?
A) lost blooming childhood
B) autumn season
C) lost money
D) lost age
Q18- Saheb hailed from which place?
A) Delhi
B) Seemapuri
C) Greenfields of Dhaka
D) None
Q19- Why did Saheb go through garbage dumps?
A) to find silver coin
B) a rupee
C) a ten rupee note
D) all these

Q20- Why did Saheb leave his house?

A) Because storm swept away his house and field
B) to enjoy a life of leisure
C) to find friends
D) to go to college

Q21- What forced Saheb to be a ragpicker?

A) hard work
B) Destiny
C) People arpund him
D) Acute poverty
Q22- Where is Seemapuri?
A) In Noida
B) South Delhi
C) North Delhi
D) East Delhi
Q23- Why did Saheb leave Dhaka?
A) Because of lack of resources
B) Because of lack of enough food
C) Because of friends
D) Because of parents
Q24- Who are responsible for the poor condition of bangle makers in Firozabad?
A) Parents
B) Society
C) Bureaucrats
D) All

Q25- What efforts can help Mukesh materialise his dream of becoming a car
driver?
A) Hard work
B) going to garage
C) guidance of his owner
D) all these

Q26- What are the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry?
A) Poor health
B) impaired vision
C) miserable life
D) All of these

Q27- Who employs the local families of Firozabad?

A) Bureaucrats
B) Merchants
C) Politicians
D) The glass blowing industry
Q28- What is the function of glass blowing industry?
A) to make windows
B) to make doors
C) to mould glass
D) to mould glass and make colorful bangles

Q29- What makes the working condition of the children worst in the glass
industry?
A) Dark dingy cells without light and air
B) dazzling and sparking of welding light
C) high temprature
D) All these

Q30- What excuse do the rag pickers give for not wearing chappals?
A) mothers don't give
B) no interest
C) a tradition
D) All these

31- Who isMukesh?

A) student
B) worker
C) ragpicker
D) ragpicker
Q32- What are the reasons for the migration of people from villages to city in
thelesson?
A) Sweeping of houses and fields by storms
B) poverty
C) education and unemployment
D) safety

Q33- What compels the workers in bangle industry of Firozabad to poverty?

A) cast and ancestral profession
B) Karam theory and society
C) Bureaucrats and politicians
D) All these

Q34- The city of Firozabad is famous for what?

A) For casteism
B) For ragpickers
C) for poverty
D) for bangles

Q35- Firozabad is the centre of which industry?

A) cotton industry
B) furniture industry
C) textile industry
D) glassblowing industry
Poem 1 My Mother at Sixty Six

Q1- Who is the poet of this poem?

A) John Keats
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) William Wordsworth
D) Kamladas

Q2- What is her work known for?

A) for their originality, versatility and flavour of the soil
B) for theitr popularity
C) for their style
D) for the expressions used

Q3- What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
A) Losing her mother
B) heart attack
C) headache
D) children screaming at her

Q4- In which languages has Kamla Das written stories and novels?
A) English and Tamil
B) English and Hindi
C) English and urdu
D) English and Malayalam

Q5- Name the poetic devices used in the poem.

A) metaphor
B) similie
C) alliteration
D) all these

Q6- What is the significance of the title My Mother at Sixty Six?

A) Poets fear of losing her old mother
B) poets fear of moving fast
C) poets inability to express her feelings
D) All these

Q7- Which poetic device is Trees sprinting ?

A) metaphor
B) simile
C) alliteration
D) Personification

Q8- What is the distinctive feature of the poem?

A) its metaphors
B) simile used
C) alliteration used
D) narrative style using a single sentence in a set of 14 lines

Q9- What does this narrative style of the poem signify?

A) differing thoughts
B) many thoughts
C) contrasting thoughts
D) a single thread of thought mixed with harsh realities

Q10- What is the main idea of the poem?

A) eternal painful old age and its fears
B) mother and daughter love
C) helplessness of a daughter
D) lack of strength

Q11- What did the poet realize with the pain?

A) her mother's appearance like a corpse with growing age
B) she is helpless
C) old age is painful
D) she has duties

Q12- What is the familiar ache?

A) her childhood fear of losing her mother
B) her mother's weak health
C) her duties
D) her helplessness

Q13- Why are the trees described as sprinting?

A) their running appearance and to show fast moving change of human life
B) to show their running appearance
C) to tell how trees look from a running car
D) to show the speed of the car

Q14- What do the running trees signify?

A) fast moving appearance
B) speed of the moving car
C) fast moving change of human life from childhood to old age
D) none
Q15- What does 'ashen face ' signify?
A) to show the poet's fears
B) to tellaging is painful
C) Pale and lifeless face of poet's mother
D) to show old age

Q16- What does the poet notice in the outer world ?

A) sprinting trees and running roads
B) schools and roads
C) other vehicles
D) many people on the road

Q17- What do the parting words "See you soon Amma" signify?
A) her helplessness
B) Her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness
C) her hope
D) her helplessness and cheerfulness

Q18- What does the poet's smile signify in the poem?

A) Her assurance to mother and helplessness inside
B) she has a responsibility
C) she has to do her duty first
D) she is a loving daughter

Q19- Why are the trees described as sprinting?

A) their running appearance and to show fast moving change of human life
B) to show their running appearance
C) to tell how trees look from a running car
D) to show the speed of the car
Q20- What do the running trees signify?
A) fast moving appearance
B) speed of the moving car
C) fast moving change of human life from childhood to old age
D) none

Q21- What does 'ashen face ' signify?

A) to show poet's fears
B) to tellaging is painful
C) Pale and lifeless face of poet's mother
D) to show old age

Q22- What does the poet notice in the outer world ?

A) sprinting trees and running roads
B) schools and roads
C) other vehicles
D) many people on the road

Q23- What do the parting words "See you soon Amma" signify?
A) her helpless ness
B) Her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness
C) her hope
D) her helplessness and cheerfulness

Q24- What does poet's smile signify in the poem?

A) Her assurance to mother and helplessness inside
B) she has a responsibility
C) she has to do her duty first
D) she is a loving daughter
Q25- What is the universality of the theme of the poem?
A) death is a truth
B) Death is a reality
C) everyone can feel the pain and loss associated with death
D) All these

Q26- What worried the poet when she looked at her mother?
A) her face
B) her loving face
C) her loving words
D) her declining poor health

Q27- Why did the poet look at her mother again?

A) because of her love
B) because of her care
C) because of her duties
D) because of fear and insecurity

Q28- Why has the poet used the imagery of merry children spilling out of their
homes?
A) to show hope
B) to show happiness
C) to show youthfulness of her age
D) to show lost hope and happiness of youth

Q29- Which Rhyming scheme used in the poem?

A) couplet
B) monorhyme
C) sonnet style
D) free verse

Q30- Quote an example of a simile used in the poem.

A) familiar ache
B) like that of a corpse
C) wan and pale
D) the merry children

Q31- Quote an example of a metaphor used in the poem.

A) as a late winter's moon
B) childhood's fears
C) Driving from my parent’s home
D) None

Q32- Whose house the poet was leaving?

A) her friend's house
B) in-law's house
C) her husband's house
D) her parents' house

Q33- What was the poet's childhood fear?

A) Parting from her husband
B) Parting from her friends
C) Parting from her siblings
D) losing her mother

Q34- What were the words she used while parting from her mother?
A) See you soon Ba
B) See you soon beeji
C) See you soon mata ji
D) See you soon, amma

Q35- What pangs did she feel when she looked at her mother?
A) Pangs of headache
B) Pangs of stomachache
C) Pangs of knee pain
D) Pangs of heartache

Poem - Keeping Quiet

Q1- What does the title of the poem suggest?

A) Inactivity
B) noise
C) unhappiness
D) Maintenance of silence

Q2- What does the poem speak about?

A) the necessity to be happy
B) the necessity to introspect , understand and have feelings of brotherhood
C) the necessity to work quietly
D) none

Q3- What does counting upto 12 signify and how will it help?
A) hours of the day
B) months of a year
C) it will help to create peace and harmony
D) all

Q4- What is poet's pen name?

A) Neruda
B) Pable
C) Pablo
D) Pablo Neruda

Q5- What does the style of the poem symbolise, that the poet used to write
with?
A) desires
B) happiness
C) hope
D) desire and hope

Q6- What is the original language of the poem ?

A) English
B) French
C) Pali
D) Spanish

Q7- What is the essence or message of the poem ?

A) introspection and retrospection to be more peaceful and be in harmony
B) to prosper
C) to be happier
D) to reach out more people

Q8- What does the poet feel is needed to be at peace?

A) meeting with people
B) talking with people
C) interaction with the people
D) Soul searching

Q9- According to the poet what creates barriers?

A) interactions
B) reactions
C) fighting
D) languages

Q10- Why does the poet ask people not to speak?

A) because it creates noise
B) he doesn't like noise
C) it makes things unpleasant
D) because it creates barriers or obstacles in the form of misunderstanding
amongst people

Q11- What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem?

A) enclosed rhyme
B) Monorhyme
C) sonnet
D) Free verse

Q12- How is keeping quiet related to life and can change attitude?
A) it helps to think and search soul
B) helps to scratch one's soul
C) helps to develop new thinking process
D) All these
Q13- How will keeping quiet protect our environment?
A) by creating peace and brotherhood feelings
B) no noise will be there
C) people will not fight
D) none

Q14- What is destroying the environment?

A) unthoughtful actions
B) violent actions
C) speaking without thinking
D) All

Q15- What does number 12 represent?

A) hours of the day and months of a year
B) earth
C) clock
D) cricket players

Q16- What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?

A) how to maintain silence
B) not to make noise
C) speaking creates noise
D) To be peaceful , thoughtful and have feelings of brotherhood

Q17- Not move our arms' what does this expression refer to?
A) sit quietly
B) stand quietly
C) to be inactive
D) sitting still without any movement
Q18- Why is silence treated as a big issue?
A) it helps to search our soul
B) helps us to analyze our actions
C) helps us to be thoughtful and find our true self
D) All these

Q19- What should not be confused with total inactivity or death?

A) no movement
B) a statue
C) talking people
D) Stillness and silence

Q20- What can be a cure or an antidote to violent actions?

A) speaking practice
B) wise words
C) polished language
D) Practice of silence

Q21- What is the sadness in the poem that the poet speaks about ?
A) violence because of unthoughtfulness of the people
B) unnecessary movements
C) speaking aloud
D) fighting

Q22- What does the earth symbolise?

A) perseverence and new beginning from seemingly stillness
B) stillness
C) greenery
D) prosperity

Q23- What is always alive even when everything seems to be dead or still?
A) mountains
B) rivers
C) Sun
D) Earth and nature are always alive

Q24- Why does the poet request people to keep quiet?

A) to maintain silence
B) to avoid noise
C) to be friendly
D) in the hope of becoming more thoughtful and peaceful

Q25- What does the poet want people to do for one second?
A) to sing
B) to close eyes
C) to stand quietly
D) to be silent and motionless

Q26- How can the moments of no activity help people?

A) they will be healthy
B) they will be happy
C) they will work easily
D) to relax and be more thoughtful

Q27- What will happen if there are no engines and no crowd?

A) noise will be lessened
B) no crowd on roads
C) no traffic rush
D) it will create a perfect, happy moment

Q28- Why is the moment of silence called Exotic?

A) because of the beautiful scenery around
B) because of the gathering
C) because of large gathering
D) because of perfect peace and harmony

Q29- What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?

A) happy
B) content
C) dancing
D) strange blissful oneness

Vistas (MCQ BASED QUES )

1 The Third Level
Q1- Who is the author of The Third Level?
A) George Orwell
B) Agatha Christie
C) James Joyce
D) Jack Finney

Q2- What was Jack's full name?

A) Walter Braden Jack Finey
B) Stephen Jone Jack
C) Ray Douglas Bradbury
D) None

Q3- Why was the author renamed?

A) to change his name
B) Priest's suggestion
C) to honor his mother
D) as an honor to his father

Q4- What are the author's best known works?

A) English and Science fiction
B) Science and history fiction
C) Science fiction and nature
D) Science fiction and thrillers

Q5- What is the meaning of 'Waking dream wish fulfillment"?

A) a pleasant wish that makes one forget the present
B) a pleasant wish that takes one to the future
C) A pleasant wish which inspires to work
D) a pleasant wish that makes one forget the present
Q6- What is the theme of the lesson?
A) human tendency of escapism because of the harsh realities of the present
B) time travelling
C) theory of escapism
D) a dialogue between a patient and a psychiatrist
Q7- How does the story begin?
A) in a jovial manner
B) in an aggressive manner
C) on a happy note
D) in a serious manner

Q8- What does the Third level signify?

A) a human tendency to escape from the harsh realities of the present to past
happy times
B) A third way on Grand Central station
C) A third gate on Grand Central Station
D) None

Q9- What is 'Waking dream wish fulfillment" according to the psychiatrist in the
lesson?
A) Charles finding of a Third level at Grand Central Stationand
realization of his wish to visit Galesberg Illinois
B) Charles escapism
C) Charles escapism from realities
D) None
Q10- Who was Charles' wife?
A) a woman
B) a woman with bright top
C) A woman at The Third Level
D) Louisa
Q11- What is Sam's letter to Charles represent?
A) A blend
B) an acceptance to visit
C) a proof of his fantasy
D) a blend of reality with fantasy

Q12- What is Sam's letter testimony to in the lesson proving?

A) his acceptance to travel
B) his refusal to travel
C) Sam accompanying Charles
D) Charles' tendency of escapism from the realities

Q13- In what way do we try to overcome the insecurities of the

present harsh times
A) by engaging ourselves in practical activities
B) by talking to friends and family
C) reading good books
D) All these

Q14- What is the significance of 1894 in the lesson?

A) it was past
B) Authors' parents were alive
C) Author's childhood time
D) representing a peaceful , romantic living time
 Q15- Who was sam in The Third Level?
A) a doctor
B) a friend
C) a psychiatrist and a friend of Charley
D) None

Q16- Why did Charley visit Sam?

A) To consult the incident of Third level incident at Grand Central Station
B) To invite him
C) to invite him to accompany at Galesberg
D) To guide him in Galesberg

Q17- Does the Third Level really exist at Grand Station?

A) Yes
B) yes, there were 3 levels
C) No, there were only two levels at the station
D) None

Q18- What unusual thing the narrator sees at the Grand Central
Sation?
A) Trees
B) motorcars
C) Third Level
D) All these

Q19- Why was the narrator seeing this Third Level?

A) as a wish to visit Galesberg
B) wanted to meet his friends
C) wanted to take a break from office
D) As a result of stress and anxiety in his mind
 Q20- What does the Psychiatrist explain to Charlie?
A) Third level is a beautiful place
B) Third level is worthseeing
C) Third level is well maintained
D) That it was the result of stress and anxiety of his mind

Q21- How did Charlie reach the Third Level?

A) In his fantasy he takes a subway or a corridor faster than abus
B) in a superfast train
C) in jetways
D) in an escalator

Q22- What was the Third Level?

A) a third tier on the station
B) a third storey on the station
C) an imaginary discovery of the narrator's mind
D) none

Q23- What did Charley see at the Third Level?

A) flickering gas lights and people with funny mustaches
B) brass spittoons
C) men wearing a tan gabardine suit and a straw
D) All these

Q24- Why was Louisa,Charley's wife worried?

A) Knowing the incident of Third Level
B) for not getting tickets
C) tickets were delayed
D) Sam was scaring
 Q25- Why does Charley want to visit Galesberg?
A) to escape from the troublesome world
B) to enjoy
C) to see the beautiful landscape
D) to meet his old friends

Q26- Why do you think the Third Level was an escape for Charley?
A) Because it existed at the third storey
B) Because Sam knew about it
C) Because he shared it with Sam
D) Because it existed only in his fantasy and not in reality

Q27- What is First Day Cover?

A) A new stamp gets the Postmark and date
B) A gift
C) A gift wrapper
D) A gift wrapped in a beautiful wrapper

Q28- How does the story interweave fantasy and reality?

A) For Charle's tendency to treat harsh realities with his imaginary Third
Level
B) It presents imagination
C) imagination happens on Central Station
D) None

Q29- What specific difference did Charley notice at the Third Level of Central
Station?
A) Everything was weird
B) Everything was old styled and smaller in size
C) everything was too big
 D) everything was shining

Q30- Where was Charley ducked on Central Station?

A) into a room
B) into an office
C) into an arched door heading for subway
D) into a store

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