The Fun They Had MCQs with Answers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-5. What did Tommy find?

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

Question-6. What is a telebook?

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

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

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

Question-8. Who are Margie and Tommy?

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

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

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

Question-10. Who went to school?

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

Question-11. Why did Margie hate school?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-18. How old is Margie?

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

Question-19. How old is Tommy?

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

Question-20. Margie had to write out her homework

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

Question-21. Margie was disappointed because they

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

Question-22. Margie was scornful-

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

Question-23. Margie was writing the diary on ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-27. Tommy got old book forms ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-31. What is a Debate?

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

Question-32. What is Virtual Reality?

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

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

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

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

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

Question-35. Where did Tommy find the book?

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

Question-36. Where was Margie's school?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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