CBSE Class 10 English Amanda! MCQs Set 03

Question. Who is the poet of the poem “Amanda”?
(a) Leslie Norris
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Carolyn Wells
(d) Robin Klein
Answer: (d) Robin Klein

Question. What could Amanda do if she were a mermaid?
(a) be in the green sea
(b) lead a relaxing life
(c) both a and b
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) both a and b

Question. Name the literary devices used in the line “Stop that slouching and sit up straight”.
(a) Anaphora
(b) Assonance
(c) Metaphor
(d) Alliteration
Answer: (d) Alliteration

Question. Name the literary device used in the line:
“Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!
Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!”
(a) Anaphora
(b) Enjambment
(c) Metaphor
(d) Alliteration
Answer: (a) Anaphora

Question. Name the literary device used in the line “freedom is sweet”
(a) Anaphora
(b) Enjambment
(c) Metaphor
(d) Alliteration
Answer: (c) Metaphor

Question. What does she imagine being when she pictures herself in a tower?
(a) Mermaid
(b) Orphan
(c) Rapunzel
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) Rapunzel

Question. What does she picture herself as in the last stanza?
(a) Mermaid
(b) Orphan
(c) Rapunzel
(d) None of the options
Answer: (d) None of the options

Question. What will Amanda’s behaviour make people think?
(a) her mother loves her
(b) her mother harasses her
(c) her mother is understanding
(d) both a and c
Answer: (b) her mother harasses her

Question. What made Amanda sulk and become moody?
(a) When she had to complete her homework
(b) When her mother gives her too many instructions
(c) When she has to clean her shoes
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) When her mother gives her too many instructions

Question. Why should Amanda not eat chocolate?
(a) it causes heart disease
(b) it will damage liver
(c) it causes acne
(d) it causes cancer
Answer: (c) it causes acne

Question. If Amanda is an orphan, what will she do?
(a) She will roam about in the streets
(b) She will tease everyone in the streets
(c) She will not complete her homework
(d) All of the options
Answer: (a) She will roam about in the streets

Question. What should Amanda not to do to her soldiers?
(a) Straight
(b) Hunch
(c) Ring
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) Hunch

Question. What does the speaker ask Amanda not to do to her nails?
(a) wash it
(b) bite it
(c) hurt it
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) bite it

Question. What is the meaning of “slouching”?
(a) Bend
(b) Sit in a lazy way
(c) lie down
(d) bend backwards
Answer: (b) Sit in a lazy way

Question. Rapunzel is a character from a _____ fairy tale.
(a) German
(b) Irish
(c) English
(d) Indian
Answer: (a) German

Question. How should Amanda sit?
(a) Long Sit
(b) Side Sit
(c) Straight
(d) Ring Sit
Answer: (c) Straight

Question. What does she want to do as an orphan?
(a) walk freely in the streets
(b) play in dust with bare feet
(c) both a and b
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) both a and b

Question. Amanda is a _____.
(a) Little girl
(b) Little boy
(c) Puppy
(d) Name of a cat
Answer: (a) Little girl

Question. Amanda’s mother instructed her not to eat _____ for her acne.
(a) Oil
(b) Sweets
(c) Chocolate
(d) Fast food
Answer: (c) Chocolate

Question. What was Amanda to finish?
(a) her homework
(b) her hair
(c) her bath
(d) catch the fishes
Answer: (a) her homework

Question. Amanda’s mother stopped her from biting
(a) the back of the pencil
(b) other friends
(c) nail
(d) hands
Answer: (c) nail

Question. Meaning of ‘hunch’ is
(a) Bend
(b) Sudden attack
(c) Bite
(d) Laugh
Answer: (a) Bend

Question. Emerald sea means _____ coloured sea.
(a) Blue
(b) Black
(c) Green
(d) Red
Answer: (c) Green

Question. Amanda imagined herself as a _____ of emerald sea.
(a) Flower
(b) Mermaid
(c) Island
(d) Fish
Answer: (b) Mermaid

Question. Amanda’s mother instructed her to clean up her room as well as
(a) Shoes
(b) Clothes
(c) Bed
(d) Table
Answer: (a) Shoes

Question. After getting tired from her mother’s interference Amanda wanted to be
(a) Mermaid
(b) Rapunzel
(c) Cinderella
(d) High tower
Answer: (d) High tower

Question. Amanda wanted _____ like Rapunzel.
(a) Soft heart
(b) Long hair
(c) Magic stick
(d) Bright face
Answer: (b) Long hair

Question. Amanda thinks that she’ll never let down her
(a) white hair
(b) bright hair
(c) yellow hair
(d) bronze hair
Answer: (b) bright hair

Question. She is being instructed to
(a) clean her room
(b) clean her uniform
(c) wash the dress
(d) lit the candle
Answer: (a) clean her room

Question. What does Amanda wish to do in the sea?
(a) catch the fishes
(b) hunt various animals
(c) watch soft-moving waves
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) watch soft-moving waves

Question. Who is asked to stop sulking?
(a) Amanda
(b) Poet
(c) Amanda’s mother
(d) Poet’s friend
Answer: (a) Amanda

Question. How is silence described?
(a) Golden
(b) Silver
(c) Platinum
(d) Love
Answer: (a) Golden

Question. She is instructed to
(a) eat meals
(b) take tea
(c) blow the fire out
(d) sit up straight
Answer: (d) sit up straight