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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducts board exams every year in which, the English portion contains 100 marks. In English, Multiple Choice questions and objective questions contain a majority part in the literature section. So students need to practice questions as much as possible to achieve mastery, so that they’ll be able to give answer to each question asked. In this post, we have posted MCQ questions with answers of the first chapter of story section, Two Stories about flying. You can also download these questions as PDF in the end.
MCQ Questions of Two Stories about Flying CBSE Class 10 Chapter 3
1. Who wrote the story, “His First flight”?
2. Who is the writer of the story, ‘The Black Aeroplane’ ?
a) Robert Frost
b) Liam O’ Flaherty
c) Paul Coelho
d) Fredrick Frosyth
Answer: d
3. Choose the reason behind the pilot not turning the airplane back towards Paris ?
a) He wanted to meet the family
b) He wanted to go on a vacation
c) He did not want to miss breakfast
d) He did not have a liking for Paris
Answer: c
4. What urged the seagull to make his first flight?
a) hunger
b) sight of fish
c) courage
d) Both (a) and (b)
Answer: d
5. Assertion: The young seagull’s family was celebrating in sorrow.
Reason: He took his first flight.
a) Both assertion and reason are correct and the reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
b) Both assertion and reason are correct but the reason is not the
correct explanation of assertion.
c) Assertion is true and the reason is false.
d) Assertion is false and the reason is true.
Answer: d
6. When the pilot of the black airplane asked the narrator to follow him, in which direction did he turn the airplane?
7. “The Black Aeroplane'” is a title, based on:
a) the airplane that helped the pilot.
b) the pilot’s airplane.
c) airplane in the stormy sky.
d) None of the above
Answer: a
8. The sight of ________ maddened the seagull.
a) his brothers flying
b) his siblings enjoying without him
c) fish
d) All of the above
Answer: c
9. Assertion: The young seagull’s family was celebrating in sorrow.
Reason: He took his first flight.
a) Both assertion and reason are correct and the reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
b) Both assertion and reason are correct but the reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
c) Assertion is true and the reason is false.
d) Assertion is false and the reason is true.
Answer: d
10. Only_________ was looking at the young seagull.
a) his father
b) his friend
c) his mother
d) his sister
Answer: c
11. The narrator was ____ km from Paris when he saw the dark clouds.
a)110
b) 120
c)160
d)150
Answer: d
12. _____helped the young seagull overcome his fear of flying up in the sky.
a) His parents
b) His courage
c) His siblings
d) His fear itself
Answer: b
13. Concerning the story, which instrument had stopped working at first?
a) Voice box
b) The compass
c) The radar
d) all the instrument were working perfectly
Answer: d
14. Name the one who gave fish to the young seagull:
a) Mother seagull
b) Father Seagull
c) none of the above
d) brother seagull
Answer: a
15. Name the reason as per the story, for which the call to the Paris control did not go through:
a) To have knowledge about the air traffic
b) To gain knowledge about the right direction
c) To know the details about landing
d) None of the Above
16. He just felt a bit dizzy. Then he flapped his wings once and he soared upwards. “Ga, ga, ga, Ga, ga, ga, Gaw-col-ah,” his mother swooped past him, her wings making a loud noise. He answered her with another scream. Then his father flew over him screaming. He saw his two brothers and his sister flying around him curveting and banking and soaring and diving. Then he completely forgot that he had not always been able to fly, and commended himself to dive and soar and curve, shrieking shrilly.
Pick the most appropriate reason why the young seagull felt dizzy.
a) He hadn’t eaten anything for a day.
b) He was dizzy with excitement.
c) He was wary of heights.
d) He was flying for the first time.
Answer: d
17. Why was the airplane twisting in the air?
a) As it was night
b) As it was a stormy night
c) Due to lightning
d) None of the above
Answer: b
18. He turned his airplane slowly to the north, in front of my Dakota, so that it would be easier for me to follow him. I was very happy to go behind the strange airplane like an obedient child. After half an hour the strange black airplane was still there in front of me in the clouds. Now there was only enough fuel in the old Dakota’s last tank to fly for five or ten minutes more. I was starting to feel frightened again. But then he started to go down and I followed through the storm.
Who turned his airplane towards the north?
a) The pilot of another plane
b) The mysterious pilot
c) The co-pilot of the other plane
d) None of the above
Answer: b
19. ______________ is the synonym of ‘twisted’
a) curled
b) simple
c) even
d) straight
Answer: a
20. What are they threatening to do if he doesn’t listen ?
a) Starve him
b) Abandon him
c) Scold him
d) Push him
Answer: a
Conclusion
We believe that, this post will be definitely helpful for students who are preparing for CBSE Board exams. These questions will improve their confidence over the chapter undoubtedly. We have also posted MCQs of other chapters as well. You can check other posts to go through other chapters of English.
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