Children at work MCQs with Answers

Question-1. What did Velu eat within two days?

1. A piece of breed
2. Peanuts
3. A piece of jaggery
4. Both (b) & (c)

Question-2. What was the girl collecting from the platform?

1. Books
2. Money
3. Plastic cups
4. Papers

Question-3. 'If you're still hungry, you'll have to wait for them to finish

1. Breakfast
2. Lunch
3. Dinner
4. None of these

Question-4. Where did Velu's father spend all their money?

1. Buying groceries
2. Eating food
3. On drink
4. Buying woods

Question-5. Velu's bare feet burned. It was not like walking on a

1. Cement road
2. Mud road
3. Beach side
4. None of the above

Question-6. If you stand around in the middle of the road like that, you'll be

1. Chutney
2. Salad
3. Vanished
4. A shake

Question-7. What was the girl wearing?

1. Dress
2. Frock
3. Banian
4. Shirt and pants

Question-8. The lesson Children at work is written by

1. Gita Wolf
2. Anushka Ravishankar
3. Orijit Sen
4. All of the Above

Question-9. Who was fighting over a banana leaf?

1. Goats
2. Velu and Jaya
3. Velu and a goat
4. Jaya and a goat

Question-10. What did Velu feel when he was on the platform?

1. Good and relaxed
2. Refreshed and active
3. Miserable but active
4. Miserable and exhausted

Question-11. 'If was still morning but the sun blasted down on the far and Velus…...........burned

1. Hand
2. Head
3. Nect
4. Bare foot

Question-12. Velu ran after Jaya because

1. he had no idea where to go
2. he had liked the girl
3. Jaya had asked him to do so
4. he wanted to give jaya to police

Question-13. Why did he decide to follow the strange girl?

1. He liked her
2. He wanted work
3. He had nowhere else to go
4. All of the Above

Question-14. Jaya had to drag Velu to the other side because

1. he was a disabled person
2. he kept hesitating to cross
3. Velu was her younger brother
4. she did not want to lose Velu

Question-15. 'The noise was

1. High
2. Wired
3. Terrible
4. All of these

Question-16. What felt wobbly when he stood on the platform?

1. Legs
2. Arms
3. Head
4. Floor

Question-17. What was there behind the big hall?

1. Market
2. Big field
3. Garbage bin
4. All of these

Question-18. What were the huts made of?

1. Metal sheets
2. Tyres and bricks
3. Wood and plastic
4. All of the above

Question-19. The scene of the railway platform reminded Velu

1. of the village fair
2. of the Kumbh Mela
3. that this city was so different from his village
4. that he was alone in the big crowd

Question-20. What did he carry in his small bundle?

1. Pants, shirt and towel
2. Shirt, towel and comb
3. Shirt, towel and teddy
4. Towel, comb and money

Question-21. What did Jaya collect?

1. Paper
2. Plastic
3. Glass
4. All of the Above

Question-22. What was the girl picking up from the platform?

1. Plastic cups
2. Newspapers
3. Money
4. None of the above

Question-23. What was the only work Velu ever did?

1. Ploughing
2. Weeding
3. Taking cows to graze
4. Both (a) & (c)

Question-24. What work had Velu done before?

1. Ragpicking
2. Cow gazing at farm
3. In a factory
4. None of the above

Question-25. What did they do with all the stuff?

1. Sell it to a factory
2. Sell it to Jam Bazaar Maggu
3. Sell it to Mam Bazaar Jaggu
4. Sell it to Jam Bazaar Jaggu

Question-26. How old was Velu?

1. Ten
2. Eleven
3. Twelve
4. Fourteen

Question-27. 'Oy, out of the way!, who said this

1. The girl
2. Porter
3. Velu
4. Passengers

Question-28. The girl grinned and pointed at a huge building.' Which building did she point at?

1. The stores
2. Central station
3. Sri Rajarajeshwari Prasanna Kalyana Mandapam
4. Central Jail

Question-29. Velu had run away from home because

1. there was no food at home
2. there was no work in the village
3. he was an orphan
4. he could not stand his father?s beatings

Question-30. Where did he reach by train?

1. Thiruvananthapuram
2. Chennai
3. Mumbai
4. Karnataka

Question-31. 'Aiy! What, new to town ch? ' Who said this?

1. Ticket collector
2. A girl
3. Porter
4. Velu

Question-32. Velu reached Chennai Central

1. to meet Jaya
2. having run away from home
3. because he had got a job there
4. to see Chennai

Question-33. What made his head spin?

1. Traffic
2. Noises
3. Smoke and dust
4. The strange girl

Question-34. 'He could have eaten at least…...............times more

1. Two
2. Five
3. Seven
4. Ten

Question-35. I only take--------------foo

1. Used
2. Leftover
3. Untouched
4. Covered

Question-36. What did Velu find that kept coming and never stopped for anymore?

1. Vehicles
2. Trains
3. People
4. The girl

Question-37. 'We are in Triplicane now, See, that's Buckingham Canal…..................Who said this?

1. Velu
2. Jaya
3. Jaya's friend
4. None of these

Question-38. Jaya recognised at once that

1. Velu was hungry
2. she had seen Velu earlier
3. Velu was a run-away from home
4. Velu was looking for her

Question-39. Tick the correct sentence ?

1. We sell it to jam bazaar Jaggu
2. We buy it from jam Bazaar Jaggu
3. We sell it to Ram bazaar Jaggu
4. We sell it to Jam market Jaggu

Question-40. Velu got into the train

1. with a ticket for Chennai Central
2. without a cricket
3. and was caught by the TTI
4. and got safely to the Chennai central because he had a ticket

Question-41. Did Velu get enough sleep on the train?

1. Yes
2. No
3. Maybe
4. Not mentioned in the story