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๐Ÿ“– Prose Extracts – Year-wise MCQs (First Flight)

๐Ÿ“ Year 2025 – Extract

Early in the New Year of 1956 I travelled to southern Iraq. By then it had crossed my mind that I should like to keep an otter instead of a dog, and that Camusfearna, ringed by water a stone's throw from its door, would be an eminently suitable spot for this experiment.
1. The author travelled:
(a) U. S. A.
(b) Iraq
(c) Australia
(d) Japan
Answer: (b) Iraq
2. When did the author travel?
(a) 1947
(b) 1956
(c) 1999
(d) 1971
Answer: (b) 1956
3. The author wanted to keep an otter instead of a:
(a) dog
(b) cat
(c) monkey
(d) cow
Answer: (a) dog

๐Ÿ“ Year 2024 – Extract

The baker usually collected his bills at the end of the month. Monthly accounts used to be recorded on some wall in pencil. Baking was indeed a profitable profession in the old days. The baker and his family never starved. He, his family and his servants always looked prosperous.
1. Monthly accounts of the baker were recorded on:
(a) a note book
(b) the main door of the house
(c) some wall in pencil
(d) the floor
Answer: (c) some wall in pencil
2. Which word in the extract means 'a pleasant fat body'?
(a) plump
(b) prosperous
(c) profitable
(d) testimony
Answer: (a) plump
3. The baker and his family never starved because:
(a) they were doing some other business also
(b) baking was a profitable profession
(c) the village people used to feed them
(d) they were already very rich
Answer: (b) baking was a profitable profession

๐Ÿ“ Year 2023 – Extract

Wanda Petronski, most of the children in Room Thirteen didn't have names like that. They had names easy to say, like Thomas, Smith or Allen. There was only one boy named Bounce, Willie Bounce, and people thought that was funny, but not funny in the same way that Petronski was. Wanda didn't have any friends. She came to school alone and went home alone. She always wore a faded blue dress that didn't hang right.
1. Full name of Bounce was:
(a) Thomas Bounce
(b) Willie Bounce
(c) Allen Bounce
(d) Wanda Bounce
Answer: (b) Willie Bounce
2. No. of rooms in which Wanda studied:
(a) twelve
(b) fourteen
(c) six
(d) thirteen
Answer: (d) thirteen
3. Who went home alone?
(a) Wanda
(b) Peggy
(c) Miss Mason
(d) Maddie
Answer: (a) Wanda

๐Ÿ“ Year 2022 – Extract

The moon was coming up in the east behind me, and stars were shining in the clear sky above me. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. I was happy to be alone high up above the sleeping countryside. I was flying my old Dakota aeroplane over France back to England.
1. How was the weather when pilot started flying aeroplane?
(a) Clear
(b) Foggy
(c) Rainy
(d) Sunny
Answer: (a) Clear
2. Pilot was going to:
(a) France
(b) India
(c) USA
(d) England
Answer: (d) England
3. The above passage is taken from which lesson?
(a) His First Flight
(b) Black Aeroplane
(c) A Letter to God
(d) Glimpses of India
Answer: (a) His First Flight

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