A Visit to Cambridge MCQs with Answers

Question-1. Why the author felt guilty Everytime he spoke to Mr. Hawking?

1. Because he was being rude
2. Because he was not well
3. Because he was tapping the buttons with his hand and trying to find words on his computer.
4. All of these

Question-2. How did he bid him good bye?

1. By shaking hand with him
2. By waving his hand
3. By touching his hand
4. By touching on his shoulder

Question-3. The author says 'Cambridge was my metaphor for England'. It means that for him

1. Cambridge was as important as England
2. England was more important than Cambridge
3. Cambridge was the only important thing in England
4. Cambridge and England were the same.

Question-4. Both of them moved around in a

1. Car
2. Bus
3. Wheelchair
4. Bicycle

Question-5. Where did the author rush after the walking tour was done?

1. Church
2. Phone both
3. Hotel
4. None of these

Question-6. What advice did Stephen Hawking give to differently abled people?

1. Concentrate on what they are good at
2. Always learn new things
3. Do nothing
4. Victimise themselves

Question-7. Which word in the passage means 'symbol'.

1. embodiment
2. wheeled
3. bravest
4. waving

Question-8. Who is the writer of the story 'A Visit to Cambridge'?

1. Firdaus Kanga
2. Stephen Hawking
3. Satyajit Ray
4. None of the above

Question-9. How is the first glimpse of Stephen Hawking?

1. Good
2. Shocking
3. Negative
4. All of the above

Question-10. Kanga felt guilty everytime he spoke to Hawking because

1. Hawking had to work hard to respond
2. he was wasting his own time
3. he was wasting Hawking?s time
4. Hawking had asked him to keep quiet

Question-11. Why did he wish to meet Hawking?

1. Hawking was a living genius.
2. Hawking was too depressed.
3. Hawking had called him.
4. Hawking was on his death bed.

Question-12. What did the speaker gleefully do ?

1. he played on the guitar
2. he threw the guiter away
3. he broke the strings of the guitar
4. he became quiet

Question-13. What were the author's feelings when he had to leave?

1. He wanted to leave
2. He wanted to talk to Stephen Hawking
3. He felt veiy attached to Stephen Hawking
4. None of these

Question-14. The speaker in these lines is talking of

1. himself
2. Stephen Hawking
3. Hawking?s assistant
4. disabled people.

Question-15. Who did call from the phone booth?

1. His mother
2. His frien
3. His guide
4. Stephen hawking

Question-16. Where had the writer come from?

1. India
2. China
3. Japan
4. Sri Lanka

Question-17. Stephen Hawking is a successor to

1. Issac Newton
2. Richard Dawkins
3. Galileo Galilei
4. None of these

Question-18. How long did the meeting last?

1. Less than an hour
2. More than an hour
3. Two hours
4. For hours

Question-19. Whom did the speaker go to see?

1. Mr. Brown'a politician
2. Mr. Hawking'a lawyer
3. Stephen Hawking?a famous scientist
4. Stephen'a doctor

Question-20. One feels inspired and confident when one finds someone in the same or worse circumstances

1. needing his help
2. living a decent life
3. doing something great
4. earning much money.

Question-21. What was the disadvantage of his voice synthesiser?

1. No inflection
2. No shades of voice
3. No tone of voice
4. All of the Above

Question-22. Firdaus Kanga is a

1. scientist
2. journalist
3. friend of Hawking
4. politician

Question-23. Hawking was a

1. scientist
2. journalist
3. friend of Kanga
4. politician

Question-24. Growing up disabled, what's the only thing that makes you stronger?

1. Seeing people like you failing
2. Seeing people like you
3. Seeing people
4. Seeing people like you achieve something big

Question-25. 'The body, almost irrelevant, exists only like a case made of '

1. Shadows
2. Light
3. Dark
4. Loneliness

Question-26. A disabled person is fed up when people

1. show sympathy
2. give him charity
3. try to help him
4. ask him to be brave

Question-27. "I remembered the years I'd spent trying to play a _______ considerably."

1. Spanish guitar
2. Violin
3. Flute
4. Drams

Question-28. Name the author of the story 'A visit to Cambridge'.

1. Stephen Hawking
2. Oscor wilde
3. Issac Newton
4. Firdaus Kanga

Question-29. What made Stephen Hawking silent?

1. Sun
2. Moon
3. Tea
4. coffee

Question-30. Hawking felt amused when people

1. sympathized with him
2. Patronised him
3. disturbed him
4. loved him

Question-31. How long did the writer expect to be allowed to meet the scientist?

1. Ten minutes
2. Half an hour
3. One hour
4. Two hours

Question-32. What was the scientist deadly against?

1. The Disabled Olympics
2. The Spanish Guitar
3. Swimming
4. Writing

Question-33. What did the writer wish to do when he was leaving Hawking's residence?

1. The writer wanted to kiss Hawking and cry.
2. The writer wanted to hug Hawking.
3. The writer wanted to run away.
4. The writer wanted to say kind words to Hawking.

Question-34. The advice given by Hawking to other disabled people was

1. To concentrate on what they were good at
2. To master the art of writing
3. To learn to smile and laugh at their sufferings
4. To not meet any people

Question-35. What was the good thing about being disabled according to Stephen hawking?

1. To discover kindness in the world
2. To watch the cruelty in the world
3. To understand everyone
4. None of these

Question-36. The writer was fed up with certain people because they are

1. too sympathetic
2. too persuasive
3. too discouraging
4. too interfering

Question-37. The phrase 'reach out' means

1. Walk
2. move your hand
3. go out
4. try to get