Updated on 24/08/2023
Ch.7 Glimpses of India
Part-I A Baker from Goa
1. Who is the author of 'A Baker from Goa'?
(A) Lokesh Abrol
(B) Lucio Rodrigues
(C) Adrienne Rich
(D) Arup Kumar Datta
Answer
(B) Lucio Rodrigues
2. What is the baker called in Goa?
(A) Pader
(B) Kabai
(C) Bread seller
(D) Portuguese
Answer
(A) Pader
3. What was the peculiar dress of the baker?
(A) sweater
(B) jacket
(C) kabai
(D) lungi
Answer
(C) kabai
4. What were the 'bol'?
(A) sweet fruit
(B) sweet bread
(C) sweet cake
(D) sweet dish
Answer
(B) sweet bread
5. How many times did the baker come daily?
(A) once
(B) twice
(C) three times
(D) four times
Answer
(B) twice
6. What type of people are bakers?
(A) poor
(B) very poor
(C) thin
(D) prosperous
Answer
(D) prosperous
7. When were the bills collected by the bakers?
(A) at the end of the year
(B) at the end of the day
(C) at the end of the week
(D) at the end of the month
Answer
(D) at the end of the month
8. Who ruled over Goa?
(A) Chinese
(B) Portuguese
(C) British
(D) Japanese
Answer
(B) Portuguese
9. How are baker in their physique?
(A) thin
(B) slim
(C) plump
(D) weak
Answer
(C) plump
10. How is the entry of the baker described?
(A) boring
(B) silently
(C) slowly
(D) musical
Answer
(D) musical
11. About which things the elders are nostalgic in Goa?
(A) loaves of bread
(B) old Portuguese days
(C) both (a) and (b)
(D) none
Answer
(C) both (a) and (b)
12. What is a kabai?
(A) a type of sari
(B) a type of frock
(C) a type of jacket
(D) a type of coat
Answer
(B) a type of frock
13. The pader was an important person in the vilage in old times.
(A) correct
(B) incorrect
(C) both
(D) none
Answer
(A) correct
14. Which items are must for Christmas?
(A) sweet bread
(B) sandwich
(C) cakes and bolinhas
(D) biscuit
Answer
(C) cakes and bolinhas
15. What is the meaning of 'peculiar'
(A) feast
(B) chardm
(C) greet
(D) strange
Answer
(D) strange
Updated on 20/11/2022
Part-II Coorg
1. Who is the author of 'Coorg'?
(A) Lokesh Abrol
(B) Lucio Rodrigues
(C) Adrienne Rich
(D) Arup Kumar Datta
Answer
(A) Lokesh Abrol
2. Where is Coorg situated?
(A) Haryana
(B) Punjab
(C) Karnataka
(D) Mumbai
Answer
(C) Karnataka
3. From which river do coorgies get water?
(A) Ganga
(B) Yamuna
(C) Kaveri
(D) Krishana
Answer
(C) Kaveri
4. What is Mahasheer?
(A) snake
(B) fish
(C) crocodile
(D) monkey
Answer
(B) fish
5. What is Nisargadhama?
(A) a sea
(B) a river
(C) an island
(D) a lake
Answer
(C) an island
6. What is the headquarter of Coorg?
(A) Chanderi
(B) Madikeri
(C) Caveri
(D) Bikaner
Answer
(B) Madikeri
7. Who was the first chief of Indian Army?
(A) Major Dhyan Chand
(B) Major Prem Shukla
(C) General Cariappa
(D) General Bipin Ratore
Answer
(C) General Cariappa
8. Which is the best season to visit Coorg?
(A) January to March
(B) September to March
(C) August to September
(D) April to July
Answer
(B) September to March
9. Coorgs are descents of -
(A) Arabs
(B) Greeks
(C) both (a) and (b)
(D) none
Answer
(C) both (a) and (b)
10. How much area of Coorg is covered by evergreen forests?
(A) 10 per cent
(B) 20 per cent
(C) 30 per cent
(D) 40 per cent
Answer
(C) 30 per cent
11. What is the distance between Bangalore and Coorg?
(A) 160 km
(B) 260 km
(C) 360 km
(D) 460 km
Answer
(B) 260 km
12. Which crops grow in Coorg in plenty?
(A) Coffee
(B) Spices
(C) both (a) and (b)
(D) none
Answer
(C) both (a) and (b)
13. Which hills are found in Coorg?
(A) Sawangiri
(B) Brahmagiri
(C) Ratnagiri
(D) Heeramani
Answer
(B) Brahmagiri
14. How do we feel at the Tibetan settlement at Bylakuppe?
(A) calm
(B) joyful
(C) both (a) and (b)
(D) none
Answer
(C) both (a) and (b)
15. for what are coorgie famous?
(A) for hospitality
(B) for cleverness
(C) for selfishness
(D) none
Answer
(A) for hospitality
Updated on 24/08/2023
Part-III Tea from Assam
1. Where did Rajvir and Pranjol study?
(A) Mumbai
(B) Delhi
(C) Assam
(D) Haryana
Answer
(B) Delhi
2. Who is the author of 'Tea From Assam'?
(A) Lokesh Abrol
(B) Lucio Rodrigues
(C) Adrienne Rich
(D) Arup Kumar Datta
Answer
(D) Arup Kumar Datta
3. What is the best season for tea?
(A) Jan to March
(B) May to July
(C) Sep to Oct
(D) Nov Dec
Answer
(B) May to July
4. When was tea drunk first in China?
(A) 1700 BC
(B) 2700 BC
(C) 3700 BC
(D) 4700 BC
Answer
(B) 2700 BC
5. Which state did Pranjol belong to?
(A) Punjab
(B) Haryana
(C) Assam
(D) Goa
Answer
(C) Assam
6. Where was Tea first drunk in?
(A) India
(B) China
(C) USA
(D) England
Answer
(B) China
7. How did Pranjol and Rajvir go to Assam?
(A) by car
(B) by bus
(C) by train
(D) by aeroplane
Answer
(C) by train
8. In which century did tea come to Europe?
(A) 15th
(B) 16th
(C) 17th
(D) 18th
Answer
(B) 16th
9. Where was Pranjol's father Tea Estate situated?
(A) Chanderi
(B) Madikheri
(C) Dhekiabari
(D) none
Answer
(C) Dhekiabari
10. Who cut off his eyelids?
(A) Maharaja
(B) Bodhidharma
(C) King Somsen
(D) Ratan Sen
Answer
(B) Bodhidharma
11. How many cups of tea are drunk across the world daily?
(A) eighty
(B) eighty thousand
(C) eighty lakh
(D) eighty crore
Answer
(D) eighty crore
12. Which state did Pranjol belong to?
(A) Delhi
(B) Haryana
(C) Assam
(D) Punjab
Answer
(C) Assam
13. Assam is famous for.........
(A) coffee
(B) tea
(C) mango
(D) none
Answer
(B) tea
14. What was Pranjol's father?
(A) a school teacher
(B) a bank manager
(C) a tea garden manager
(D) a scientist
Answer
(C) a tea garden manager
15. Tea is mainly drunk in Europe as:
(A) soft drink
(B) cold drink
(C) medicine
(D) none