Updated on 1/08/2023
1. The Lost Child
1. Who is the writer of the story ‘The Lost Child’?
(A) Issac Asimov
(B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Megh Raj Anand
Answer
(B) Mulk Raj Anand
2. Where does a child go with his parents?
(A) to a fair
(B) to market
(C) to city
(D) to doctor
Answer
(A) To a fair
3. At what point in the fair did the child lose his parents?
(A) near the field
(B) near the roundabout
(C) near the snake charmer
(D) near the sweet shop
Answer
(B) At the roundabout
4. What was the child first fascinated by?
(A) sweet
(B) toys
(C) snake charmer
(D) roundabout
Answer
(B) toys
5. What did the child want to have at the flower shop?
(A) a garland of roses
(B) a garland of gulmohar
(C) a garland of marigold
(D) a garland of jasmine
Answer
(B) a garland of gulmohar
6. What did the child say as they passed by sweet-shop?
(A) He said, ‘I want that jalebi.’
(B) He said, ‘I want that rasgulla.’
(C) He said, ‘I want that gulabjamun.’
(D) He said, ‘I want that burfi.’
Answer
(D) He said, ‘I want that burfi.’
7. What shop was there at the entrance of the fair?
(A) a balloon shop
(B) a sweet shop
(C) a flower shop
(D) a vegetable shop
Answer
(B) a sweet shop
8. Who said to the child, “Come, child, come, come on to the footpath.”?
(A) mother
(B) father
(C) brother
(D) sister
Answer
(A) mother
9. What did the parents say when the child lagged behind?
(A) Go and play
(B) Go and sing
(C) Come, child, come.’
(D) Buy things
Answer
(C) Come, child, come.’
10. Who was the little boy going with?
(A) with his parents
(B) with his sister
(C) with his brother
(D) with his uncle
Answer
(A) with his parents
11. What did the child want to eat at the fair?
(A) Rasgulla
(B) Gulabjamun
(C) Jalebi
(D) Burfi
Answer
(D) Burfi
12. What did the mother ask the boy to look?
(A) to sugarcane field
(B) to vegetable field
(C) to mustard field
(D) all of the above
Answer
(C) to mustard field
13. Where did the child reach at last in search of his parents?
(A) a temple
(B) a masjid
(C) a gurudwara
(D) a shrine
Answer
(D) a shrine
14. What things did the child come across on the way to the fair?
(A) sweet shop
(B) snake charmer
(C) roundabout, balloons
(D) all of the above
Answer
(D) all of the above
15. How did the flowering mustard-field look?
(A) red like roses
(B) pale like melting gold
(C) white like melting silver
(D) all of the above
Answer
(B) pale like melting gold
16. What did the lost child say when a man asked him, 'Whose baby are you?'
(A) The Child said, "I want my father, I want my mother."
(B) The Child said, "I want my grandfather, I want my grandmother."
(C) The Child said, "I want my brother, I want my sister."
(D) The Child said, "I want my uncle, I want my aunt."