The Summit Within MCQs with Answers

Question-1. As i look back at life after climbing Everest cannot help remarking about the other Summit?. What is the ?other Summit? here?

1. The Summit of heart
2. The Summit of brain
3. The Summit of mind
4. None of these

Question-2. For whom 'me' is used here.

1. the organiser.
2. Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
3. the climber
4. the editor

Question-3. Give the meaning of 'obstacles'.

1. hindrances
2. spectacles
3. situation
4. conditions

Question-4. Give the verb form of 'humality'

1. humble
2. humiliation
3. humiliate
4. humiliating

Question-5. How long does the joy of climbing the Summit of Everest last?

1. Lifetime
2. 20 years
3. For some months
4. None of these

Question-6. People climb mountains because they

1. have nothing better to do
2. get much money and name
3. feel happy in overcoming obstacles
4. are paid for it

Question-7. The author had a Tinge of sadness. what was it?

1. There would be nothing higher to climb
2. All roads here after would lead down
3. Both (i) & (ii)
4. None of these

Question-8. What did Phu Dorji leave a relic of on Everest?

1. Lord Krishna
2. Buddha
3. Guru Nanak
4. Goddess Durga

Question-9. What had the author's experience as an Ever ester provided him?

1. Energetic to life
2. Inspiration to face life?s ordeals
3. Motivated
4. Proud

Question-10. What has been the narrator's glorious achievement?

1. Conquest of Mount Kailash
2. Conquest of Mount Everest
3. Conquest of Mount K2
4. None of these

Question-11. What is the simplest answer of why people climb mountains?

1. People love to climb
2. Because it is adventurous
3. It makes physically strong
4. Because it is there

Question-12. Who cuts the steps in the hard ice?

1. Another climber
2. The author
3. Rope
4. None of these

Question-13. Who was a member of the first successful India expedition to Mount Everest in 1965?

1. Phu Dorji
2. Edmud Hillary
3. H.P.S Ahuwalia

Question-14. A climber bows down to God

1. when he starts climbing
2. when he reaches the top
3. when he finds great difficulties
4. when he sees the beauty around

Question-15. According to Ahluwalia the man who returns after climbing the mountains is a

1. changed man
2. sick man
3. great man
4. proud man

Question-16. Ahluwalia says that mountains are

1. necessary for rains
2. nature at its best
3. things to be worshipped
4. essential for our life

Question-17. He cuts the steps…............... means

1. he cuts his feet
2. he prevents others from walking
3. he cuts the ice to make foot-holds
4. he lifts his feet high.

Question-18. How does the experience of the other summit change one completely?

1. It makes the writer more conscious and aware.
2. it makes the write proud.
3. it makes the writer jubilant.
4. It makes the writer compassionate.

Question-19. In a typical climb, the rope is shared so that

1. the rope is cut into two
2. the climbers hold the rope together
3. the two hold one end of the rope each
4. they throw the rope with force.

Question-20. Name the mountain where the writer had climbed.

1. Mount Everest
2. Kanchenjunga
3. Nanda Devi
4. Kamet

Question-21. People climb mountains because they

1. have nothing better to do
2. get much money and name
3. feel happy in overcoming obstacles
4. are paid for it

Question-22. Seeing a mountain peak from a distance Ahluwalia feels that

1. it looks very beautiful
2. its beauty is great
3. it offers a challenge which is difficult to resist
4. it brings fear to the mind

Question-23. Standing on Everest, Ahluwalia was filled with the emotion of

1. great pleasure
2. much excitement
3. great pride
4. much humility

Question-24. The change which comes makes the man

1. proud
2. happy
3. humble
4. courageous

Question-25. The climber is full of thankfulness to

1. God
2. friends
3. Mountain
4. other climbers.

Question-26. What all emotions does the author experience on realizing both the summits?

1. Emotions on realizing
2. Humility and sorrow
3. Confidence
4. All of these

Question-27. What are the three necessary qualities to reach the summit?

1. Endurance, persistence and willpower
2. Endurance, persistence and obstacles
3. Hindrance, obstacles and blockage
4. Courage, jubilation and hard work

Question-28. What is considered as toughest challenge in climbing a mountain?

1. Social
2. Physical
3. Emotional
4. Financial

Question-29. While climbing the mountains, the climbers get inspiration from

1. the beautiful nature
2. difficulties of climbing
3. thinking of God
4. each other

Question-30. Why does man take delight in overcoming obstacles?

1. Adventurous
2. Daring
3. To overcome hundles
4. All of these

Question-31. Why is the climber filled with gratitude?

1. For having reached the summit safely
2. For having reached the summit first
3. For having become victorious
4. For having left everyone behind

Question-32. Why is the person who has been to the mountains never the same again?

1. The experience changes him completely.
2. He gets hurt.
3. The experience makes him proud.
4. He goes mad.

Question-33. You firm in.' means that

1. you are resolved
2. you put your feet firmly on the ground
3. you improve yourself
4. you become strong.

Question-34. You' in the passage can be replaced by

1. the author
2. the climber
3. the reader
4. Rawat.