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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-6. People climb mountains because they

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-14. A climber bows down to God

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

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

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

Question-16. Ahluwalia says that mountains are

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-21. People climb mountains because they

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

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

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

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

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

Question-24. The change which comes makes the man

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

Question-25. The climber is full of thankfulness to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question-33. You firm in.' means that

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

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

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