Mock Test From Chapter 2- Clouds
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Class VIII
1) The boy's mother was thankful to -
2) It rained when the boy -
3) Nearing his village, the boy discovered the roads to be -
4) The thing that scrubbed the Jamun tree was -
5) The boy saw a grass cutter coming -
6) The farmer could not make -
7) The boy wandered far in search of the clouds till -
8) He walked on until he -
9) In search of the clouds the boy reached -
10) The boy met a grass cutter who had -
11) The grass cutter was so amazed as if -
12) The boy saw that the roads were dusty. [ ]
13) The boy saw that the rain had changed nothing. [ ]
14) Everybody could give him a satisfactory answer about where the clouds were. [ ]
15) The grass cutter was surprised by the boy's question. [ ]
16) He had reached an oasis in the middle of a desert in reality . [ ]
17) He had shelter in the shade of a large tree. [ ]
18) He did not find even a single patch of cloud. [ ]
19) The boy sat on a wall by the Persian wheel. [ ]
20) According to the boy, everybody got to know that the clouds were their last night. [ ]
21) The boy went back using the same dirt track that he had taken to come to the Persian wheel. [ ]
22) What did he see as he neared the village?
23) How did the Jamun tree in the courtyard look?
24) Where from is the above text taken?
25) Why was the boy disappointed?
26) Where did the boy find the Persian wheel?
27) Why was his throat dry?
28) How did he feel when he walked between the fields?
29) What did he do after reaching the shelter of the tree?
30) What was he looking for?
31) Where did the boy wandered about?
Answers
1) God ( the Almighty)
2) was away from home
3) drenched (wet)
4) rain
5) from the other direction, a bundle of freshly cut grass balanced on his head
6) sense of the question
7) he reached the old mud hut
8) came upon a farmer ploughing his field
9) the old mud hut
10) a bundle of freshly cut grass balanced on his head
11) he had been asked the most peculiar question
12)F , S.S: As he neared his village, he saw the roads were wet.
13) F, S.S: When he got home, he saw that the rain had changed everything.
14) F, S.S: But no one could give him a satisfactory answer .
15) T, S.S: The grass cutter was amazed, as though he had been asked the most peculiar question.
16) F, S.S: It was like he had reached an oasis in the middle of a desert.
17) T, S.S: He reached the shelter of a tree... .
18) T, S.S: He looked up once again at the skies. Not a single patch of cloud.
19) F, S.S: An old man sat on a wall by the Persian wheel.
20) F, S.S: But the clouds were here but last night no one got to know.
21) T, S.S: He went back by the same dirt track he had taken to come there.
22) As he neared his village he saw the roads were wet and the trees looked freshly bathed.
23) The jamun tree in the courtyard looked clean and scrubbed with freshly showered.
24) The above text is taken from the short story ' Clouds ' . The writer of this short story is Intizar Hussain.
25) The boy was disappointed because he saw that the grass cutter was mystified on listening the boy's question.
26) After crossing several fields, the boy saw a large tree in whose shade there was a Persian wheel.
27) The sun beat down on his head from a clear sky. In the middle of fierce heat, he walked between the fields. His body was on fire, his throat dry.
28) When he walked between the fields, he felt that his body was on fire and his throat was dry.
29) He reached the shelter of the tree and splashed the cool water from the Persian wheel on his dusty feet . Then he washed his hands and face and drank his fill.
30) He was looking for the clouds.
31) The boy wandered about winding paths and alleys.
