A Short Monsoon Diary MCQs with Answers

Question-1. Who came along with the minivets?

1. A pair of drongos
2. Some birds Some
3. Insects
4. butterflies

Question-2. Insectivorous birds are happy in the monsoon season

1. as they get plenty of food
2. because they breed in this season
3. because they love water
4. as the weather is to their liking

Question-3. Fearing whom does the leopards run away?

1. Bijju
2. Bijju?s sister
3. Bijju?s grandmother
4. Bijju?s mother

Question-4. How dose Bijjus cow get saved?

1. By gunshot
2. By thunders
3. The approach of Bijju?s grandmother
4. cow hit at it

Question-5. How did he describe the early monsoon rain?

1. Cold and humid
2. Cold and breezy
3. Warm and humid
4. Warm and breezy

Question-6. Monsoon rain is

1. cold and unpleasant
2. very small
3. warm and humid
4. hot

Question-7. 'And the first '- rears its head from the ferns as I walk up to the bank and post office.

1. Coneflower
2. Cobra lily
3. White Water lily
4. None of these

Question-8. Which late monsoon flowers began to appear by August 12?

1. Dahlias
2. Ground orchids
3. Wild balsam
4. All of the Above

Question-9. The sound of the falling rain on tin roof

1. disturbs the author in his reading
2. helps the author to read
3. annoys the author
4. makes the author leave that place

Question-10. Who did the seasonal visitor lift from near the servant's quarters?

1. Dog
2. Cat
3. Leopard
4. All of the above

Question-11. Which birds cannot conceal themselves?

1. Drongo
2. Scarlet minivet
3. Cuckoo
4. None of the above

Question-12. Which female birds are yellow mentioned in this story?

1. Drongo
2. Cuckoo
3. Scarlet minivet
4. Dove

Question-13. For how many days they have not seen the sun?

1. For to five
2. Eight to nine
3. Ten to fifteen
4. Seven to eight

Question-14. The author cannot see Bijju because

1. he is not in the line of his eyes
2. it is misty
3. it is night
4. he is blind.

Question-15. During rains, for whom there is no dearth of food?

1. Herbivorous insects
2. Carnivorous birds
3. Insectivorous
4. All of these

Question-16. Name the arrival of some seasonal visitors heralded by the rain.

1. Leopard
2. Wild bears
3. Thousand leeches
4. Both (a) & (c)

Question-17. Who are the obnoxious visitors that arrive at the hill station?

1. Leopards and leeches
2. Drongos and minivets
3. Drongos and leopards
4. Leopards and minivates

Question-18. When was the first day of monsoon mist mentioned in this story?

1. May 20
2. July 12
3. Aug 5
4. June 24

Question-19. Perhaps that's what makes the mist so?

1. Melancholy
2. Beautiful
3. Exciting
4. Dreadful

Question-20. This Diary is written by

1. Michael Morpurgo
2. S.D. Sawant
3. Satyajit Ray
4. Ruskin Bond

Question-21. 'The blackest cloud I've even squatted over '

1. Mussorie
2. Gulmarg
3. Darjeeling
4. Gangtok

Question-22. The ?good sound? is produced by

1. rain only
2. tin roofs only
3. rain and tin roofs
4. rain and leaks.

Question-23. What do you mean by the word 'ravine'?

1. Rain
2. Devine
3. Plateau
4. valley

Question-24. 'Even as I write, I see a…...................forming.

1. Rainbow
2. Cloud
3. Storm<
4. None of these

Question-25. The hillsides are lush because of the appearance of flowers during

1. Rarly monsoon
2. mid monsoon
3. late monsoon
4. end of monsoon

Question-26. are lucky…....................They bring money!

1. Rats
2. Cockroach
3. Lizard
4. Chuchundars

Question-27. Name the most famous diary published as a book.

1. Robert Scotts Captains Log
2. Samuel Pepy?s Secret Diary
3. The Bunker Diary
4. The Diary of Anne Frank

Question-28. The passage is written by

1. Satyajit Ray
2. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. Ruskin Bond.

Question-29. In his Diary the author is describing

1. Shimla
2. Mussoorie
3. Nainital
4. Ooty

Question-30. The drongos

1. sing like minivets
2. are very beautiful
3. are there in all seasons
4. charge the minivets away

Question-31. All night thes has been drumming on the corrugated tin roof?

1. Storm
2. Rain
3. Thunder
4. Lightning

Question-32. Where do we go straight from monsoon season?

1. Summer rain
2. Spring
3. Winter rain
4. None of these

Question-33. The author could hear Bijju but could not see him because of

1. the distance
2. the wall
3. the mist
4. the fact that he was not in the line of his vision

Question-34. What happened on the first day of monsoon?

1. There was a lot of rain
2. There was snow everywhere
3. Mist had covered the hills
4. A cold wind was blowing

Question-35. Here, the author is praising

1. tin roofs
2. rain
3. springing
4. leaks.

Question-36. "Ground orchids, mauve lady's slipper and the white butterfly orchids put on a fashion display on the grassy slopes of __________"

1. Valley
2. Mussoorie
3. Landour
4. None of the above

Question-37. Who was chopping up sticks?

1. Woman
2. Girl
3. Man
4. Farmer

Question-38. 'The seeds of the cobra lily are turning…..................., signifying that the rains are coming to an end.'

1. Yellow
2. Black
3. Red
4. Blue