The Fun They Had MCQs with Answers

Question-1. How long (approx.) did the inspector take to fix the mechanical teacher?

1. 1 hour
2. 3 hours
3. 4 hours
4. 2 hours

Question-2. How much time was taken to repair Tommy's teacher?

1. 25 days
2. 20 days
3. one month
4. 5 days

Question-3. The section of which subject was completely deleted from Tommy?s computer?

1. History
2. Social Studies
3. Geography
4. English

Question-4. To which world does the story take the readers to?

1. past world
2. present World
3. future world where computers will play a major role
4. future world

Question-5. What did Tommy find?

1. a yellow pages book
2. a brand new book
3. a diary
4. an old book with yellow crinky pages

Question-6. What is a telebook?

1. an electronic book
2. book stored in a computer
3. all
4. an e-book

Question-7. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?

1. Science
2. Geography
3. All
4. Mathematics

Question-8. Who are Margie and Tommy?

1. brother sister
2. friends
3. neighbors
4. cousins

Question-9. Who is the main character of the story?

1. children
2. Margie
3. Tommy
4. parents

Question-10. Who went to school?

1. Tommy
2. Teachers
3. Margie and Tommy?s ancestors
4. Margie

Question-11. Why did Margie hate school?

1. no fun was there
2. no new things
3. All
4. because of machine work

Question-12. Why did Margie's mother call the County Inspector?

1. to talk to Margie
2. to talk to Tommy
3. to check the fault in Margie?s teacher in the Geography section
4. to repair a leakage

Question-13. According to Margie, in an older time, the schools were

1. Brown
2. Funny
3. Stupid
4. Big

Question-14. According to Tommy, the real book was

1. A waste
2. Wrong
3. Fiction
4. Boring

Question-15. After fixing the mechanical teacher, the big screen displayed

1. All the lessons and questions asked
2. A real book
3. None of the above
4. Margie's face

Question-16. How many subjects are mentioned in this chapter

1. 3
2. 4
3. 1
4. 2

Question-17. How much time was taken to repair Tommy?s teacher?

1. 25 days
2. 20 days
3. one month
4. 15 days

Question-18. How old is Margie?

1. 11 years old
2. 12 years old
3. 13 years old
4. 10 years old

Question-19. How old is Tommy?

1. 13 years old
2. 15 years old
3. 12 years old
4. 10 years old

Question-20. Margie had to write out her homework

1. In Punch code
2. In English
3. None of the above
4. In Russian

Question-21. Margie was disappointed because they

1. They didn?t take away the mechanical teacher
2. Asked Margie to leave the house
3. Asked Tommy to go and study
4. They took away the mechanical teacher

Question-22. Margie was scornful-

1. Knowing that the real book detailed about school
2. About Tommy?s scores
3. About festivals
4. About her geography scores

Question-23. Margie was writing the diary on ?

1. 17th May 2158
2. 16th May 2057
3. 17th May 2157
4. 17th June 2157

Question-24. The County Inspector had a whole box of

1. Tools with dials and wires
2. Pins
3. Both (a) and (c)
4. Tools and chocolates

Question-25. The kids in the old schooling pattern went home together

1. During afternoon breaks
2. During festivals
3. At the end of the day
4. In between classes

Question-26. The writer of the story 'The fun they had'

1. Arthur Rimbaud
2. Shakespeare
3. Gieve Patel
4. Isaac Asimov

Question-27. Tommy got old book forms ?

1. Library
2. Margie's house
3. Friend's house
4. His own house

Question-28. Tommy walked away with the…..............book beneath his arm

1. Dusty
2. Imaginary
3. Both (b) and (c)
4. Torn

Question-29. What did the County Inspector do to help Margie?

1. he changed the module
2. changed the teacher
3. changed the syllabus
4. he reset the teacher to Margie?s level

Question-30. What did the teacher in the real book do?

1. Gives lessons online
2. Taught and gave questions in person
3. Mailed them the lesson
4. Teaches through computer

Question-31. What is a Debate?

1. contest to fight
2. contest to prove better
3. none
4. a contest to show ability in arguement between two people

Question-32. What is Virtual Reality?

1. imaginary world
2. reality created by computer software
3. none
4. heavenly world

Question-33. What was the diffrence between old schools and modern schools/

1. old schools had human teachers and modern schools had robots
2. old schools had playgrounds and modern school had only computers
3. All
4. old schools had many friends and modern school had no fellows

Question-34. Where did Tommy and Margie read various books?

1. in the school
2. on a computer screen
3. none
4. in the library

Question-35. Where did Tommy find the book?

1. in a library
2. in his house
3. on the roadside
4. in a public library

Question-36. Where was Margie's school?

1. in a city outskirt
2. in her own house
3. in a room in her house where a computer was set up
4. in a village

Question-37. While inserting her homework in the proper slot, Margie was thinking about

1. Vacation in Turkey
2. Old schools
3. Tommy
4. Desserts

Question-38. Who is the author of this lesson?

1. Isaac Asimov
2. Milton
3. None
4. Charles Dickens

Question-39. Who was teaching the students in the modern era?

1. parents
2. computer
3. a mechanical robot teacher
4. a teacher

Question-40. Who was the regular teacher who taught the lessons?

1. computer teacher
2. who teaches
3. mechanical robot teacher who teaches Margie and Tommy
4. human teacher

Question-41. Whose father knew as much as a teacher?

1. Margie
2. Blair
3. Evelyn
4. Tommy

Question-42. Why did Margie find the old schools interesting?

1. because of human teachers
2. because of many friends
3. all
4. because of the fun

Question-43. Why did Margie hate school now more than ever

1. Because of her scores in Geography which gets worse and worse
2. Because she never gets off
3. Because she dislikes to sit near the mechanical teacher
4. Because of her mother