Section A: Multiple Choice Questions (1 mark each)
1. The Big Half Moon looked lovely during: (a) spring, (b) summer ✅, (c) autumn, (d) winter
2. The narrator of the text is: (a) Dick, (b) Mimi, (c) Philippa ✅, (d) Claude
3. Claude learnt the art of making kite from: (a) an artist, (b) a boy in the mainland ✅, (c) his sister, (d) his father
Or, A boy showed Claude how to: (a) fly kites, (b) play with kites, (c) make kites ✅, (d) make sand caves
4. The letter was from Father's sister: (a) Philippa, (b) Claude, (c) Mimi, (d) Esther ✅
5. Father had quarrelled with his: (a) mother, (b) father, (c) sister, (d) brother ✅
6. Total number of members in the narrator's family at present is: (a) 3, (b) 4, (c) 5, (d) 6 ✅
7. The colour of the kite they flew was: (a) white, (b) yellow, (c) red ✅, (d) blue
8. The kite was patched with the letter written by: (a) Philippa to Claude, (b) Esther to her husband, (c) Father to her sister, (d) Esther to her brother ✅
9. Father of Claude and Philippa got reunited with his: (a) uncle, (b) aunt, (c) both, (d) none of them ✅
10. The game played by Claude and the narrator was: (a) hide and seek, (b) merry-go-round, (c) musical chair, (d) pirate caves ✅
11. When the children asked their father about relatives, he became: (a) embarrassed, (b) happy, (c) irritated, (d) sorrowful ✅
12. The part of the narrator's body that went through the kite was his: (a) elbow ✅, (b) ankle, (c) knee, (d) fingers
13. They were crazy about: (a) all, (b) kites ✅, (c) nothing, (d) paper boats
14. After getting the letter, Father brought his sister to his house: (a) the next day ✅, (b) after two days, (c) after three days, (d) on that day
15. Philippa was narrator's: (a) mother, (b) aunt, (c) grandmother ✅, (d) sister
16. The number of siblings the narrator's father had was: (a) two ✅, (b) three, (c) four, (d) five
17. Father could not meet his brother again because: (a) his brother was missing, (b) his brother was admitted to a hospital, (c) his brother went abroad, (d) he had died ✅
18. When the weather is fine, the harbour looks: (a) grey and calm, (b) grey and stormy, (c) blue and calm ✅, (d) grey and turbulent
19. They were pitied by the people of the: (a) mainland ✅, (b) island, (c) lighthouse, (d) park
Or, Mainland people always: (a) loved, (b) made fun of, (c) hated, (d) pitied ✅
20. The narrator and Claude used to quarrel with the mainland children in: (a) autumn, (b) spring, (c) winter ✅, (d) summer
21. The keeper of the lighthouse is: (a) Claude, (b) Claude's father ✅, (c) Claude's aunt, (d) Claude's grandfather
22. The age of the narrator is: (a) ten, (b) eleven ✅, (c) twelve, (d) nine
23. Claude was standing there looking foolish because: (a) the kite was snapped, (b) the kite had sailed to the mainland, (c) the kite was torn, (d) both (a) and (b) ✅
24. The big kite was covered with: (a) green paper, (b) red paper ✅, (c) yellow paper, (d) multicoloured paper
Or, The big kite was covered with: (a) lovely paper, (b) lovely red paper ✅, (c) lovely gold paper, (d) red paper
25. The family moved over to the mainland in: (a) summer, (b) winter ✅, (c) autumn, (d) spring
26. The narrator is: (a) one year senior to Claude, (b) one year junior to Claude ✅, (c) of the same age, (d) much junior to Claude
27. This extract is from a story written by: (a) R.K. Narayan, (b) Nayantara Sehgal, (c) Lucy Maud Montgomery ✅, (d) Ted Hughes
28. Philippa was the name of Aunt Esther's: (a) friend, (b) mother ✅, (c) sister-in-law, (d) mother-in-law
29. The kite was mended with a: (a) red paper, (b) letter ✅, (c) leaflet, (d) newspaper
30. 'Shipwrecked mariners' is a: (a) ship, (b) mariner, (c) game ✅, (d) hobby
31. Tinsel is: (a) a strip, (b) material used in decoration, (c) shining material, (d) all of these ✅
32. The narrator and his playmates pretended to be: (a) robbers, (b) adventurers, (c) mountaineers, (d) shipwrecked mariners ✅
33. Father left home because he: (a) did not like his home, (b) quarrelled with his brother ✅, (c) wanted a new life, (d) got a new job at Big Half Moon
34. The colour of the kite they flew was: (a) white, (b) yellow, (c) red ✅, (d) blue
35. The part of the narrator's body that went through the kite was his: (a) elbow ✅, (b) ankle, (c) knee, (d) fingers
Section C: True / False (T/F)
1. Claude was Esther's father's name. T
2. Aunt Esther always lived on the island Big Half Moon. F
3. In summer the island is rough and windy. F
4. People felt that Claude and the narrator were lonesome. T
5. The names of Claude and Philippa were written on the kite. T
6. The old letter was lying on the bookcase in the sitting room. T
7. The narrator tripped and fell over the kite. T
8. The children of the island enjoyed a good relationship with the children of the mainland. F
9. Dick and Mimi were crazy about kites. F
10. The narrator's father had siblings. T
11. Aunt Esther, Dick and Mimi made the narrator's life miserable. F
12. Aunt Esther found the names of her parents written on the kite. T
13. No one played with the children in the island. T
14. Claude and I quarelled. F
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