CBSE Class 10 English Bholi MCQs Set 03

Question. Who is the author of the story “Bholi”?
(a) KA Abbas
(b) Guy De Maupassant
(c) Mark Twain
(d) Sinclair Lewis
Answer: (a) KA Abbas

Question. Who is the artist’s work of art?
(a) Bholi’s friend
(b) Bholi
(c) Bholi’s cow
(d) Bholi’s teacher
Answer: (b) Bholi

Question. What did he demand as dowry?
(a) money
(b) refrigerator
(c) television
(d) All of the options
Answer: (a) money

Question. What was in her eyes when the veil was pulled down the second time?
(a) hate
(b) fear
(c) contempt
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) contempt

Question. What is the meaning of the word “envious”?
(a) jealous
(b) looking down on someone
(c) hatred
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) jealous

Question. Why did Bholi’s parents accept Bishamber’s marriage proposal?
(a) he has a big shop
(b) he has a house
(c) he has good bank balance
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options

Question. How did she leave school on the first day?
(a) sad
(b) with a ray of hope for new life
(c) depressed that she’ll stay where she is
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) with a ray of hope for new life

Question. Who comforted Bholi?
(a) her friends
(b) her father
(c) her mother
(d) her teacher
Answer: (d) her teacher

Question. What did it take for Bholi to believe she was being taken to a place better than home?
(a) clean dress
(b) hair oiling
(c) a bath
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options

Question. Why did she suggest they send Bholi to school?
(a) there was little chance of her getting married
(b) her husband couldn’t disobey Tehsildar’s orders
(c) she took it to teachers at school to worry about her
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options

Question. What did the Tehsildar ask Ramlal to do?
(a) drop him back to the city
(b) have dinner with him
(c) send his daughters to school
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) send his daughters to school

Question. How is the situation of the house described?
(a) poor
(b) miserable
(c) prosperous
(d) fine
Answer: (c) prosperous

Question. At what age did she begin to speak?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 1
Answer: (b) 5

Question. What damaged some part of her brain?
(a) falling off a cot
(b) falling off the stairs
(c) small-pox
(d) falling off a verandah
Answer: (a) falling off a cot

Question. How many siblings did Bholi have?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 6
Answer: (d) 6

Question. What do you mean by the word “simpleton”?
(a) simple
(b) foolish
(c) basic
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) foolish

Question. What did Bishamber demand as dowry?
(a) two thousand rupees
(b) five thousand rupees
(c) ten thousand rupees
(d) twenty thousand rupees
Answer: (b) five thousand rupees

Question. How did Bholi find the teacher on her very first day in the school?
(a) cruel
(b) hard
(c) kind and loving
(d) All of the options
Answer: (c) kind and loving

Question. Who was Lakshmi?
(a) Bholi’s mother
(b) Bholi’s cow
(c) Bholi’s teacher
(d) Bholi’s classmate
Answer: (b) Bholi’s cow

Question. How was Bholi treated in the family?
(a) she was not given new clothes
(b) none cared to wash her clothes
(c) none cared to comb her hair
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options

Question. How many children did Ramlal have?
(a) four
(b) five
(c) six
(d) seven
Answer: (d) seven

Question. How many daughters did Ramlal have?
(a) one
(b) two
(c) three
(d) four
Answer: (d) four

Question. What was Bholi’s real name?
(a) Champa
(b) Radha
(c) Mangla
(d) Sulekha
Answer: (d) Sulekha

Question. Who was her father?
(a) Village Numberdar
(b) Village Sarpanch
(c) Village Tehsildar
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) Village Numberdar

Question. Why did she talk very little?
(a) she stammered
(b) other kids mimicked her and made fun of her
(c) she was an introvert
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) other kids mimicked her and made fun of her

Question. What was the purpose of the Tehsildar’s village visit?
(a) to inaugrate a girl’s school
(b) to address complaints of the village
(c) to meet the people of the village
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) to inaugrate a girl’s school

Question. How did Ramlal’s wife react about sending her girls to school?
(a) she laughed
(b) she got angry
(c) no reaction
(d) she cried
Answer: (d) she cried

Question. What was Bholi’s first reaction on hearing that she was going to school?
(a) she cried with tears of joy
(b) she cried with fear
(c) she screamed
(d) she was excited
Answer: (b) she cried with fear

Question. Why did the girls laugh at Bholi?
(a) at her dress
(b) at her looks
(c) at her stammering
(d) All of the options
Answer: (c) at her stammering

Question. Whose paintings did she see in the classroom wall?
(a) cow
(b) goat
(c) parrot
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options

Question. What according to you, was wrong in Bishamber marrying Bholi?
(a) his age
(b) his limbs
(c) another village
(d) All of the options
Answer: (a) his age

Question. How did he react on seeing Bholi’s face?
(a) got frightened
(b) asked for compensation
(c) both of these
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) asked for compensation

Question. How does she describe her prospective husband?
(a) mean
(b) greedy
(c) coward
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options

Question. Who is referred to as the “artist” in the lesson?
(a) Bholi’s friend
(b) Bholi
(c) Bholi’s cow
(d) Bholi’s teacher
Answer: (d) Bholi’s teacher

Question. Who came to marry Bholi?
(a) Bishamber Nath
(b) Hari Nath
(c) Pran Nath
(d) Deena Nath
Answer: (a) Bishamber Nath

Question. Who was Ramlal’s eldest daughter?
(a) Radha
(b) Rama
(c) Megha
(d) Champa
Answer: (a) Radha

Question. Which post did Ramlal hold in the village?
(a) Sarpanch
(b) Tehsildar
(c) Numberdar
(d) Headmaster
Answer: (c) Numberdar

Question. Of the four daughters of Ramlal, who was sent to school?
(a) Radha
(b) Mangla
(c) Champa
(d) Bholi
Answer: (d) Bholi

Question. How old was Bholi when she suffered an attack of smallpox?
(a) 2 years old
(b) 3 years old
(c) 4 years old
(d) 5 years old
Answer: (a) 2 years old

Question. What transformation did education bring in Bholi?
(a) She became fearless
(b) She became courageous
(c) She became confident
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options

Question. Why was Bholi always discriminated in the chapter ‘Bholi’?
(a) She had pock-marks on her face
(b) She stammered
(c) She was a simpleton
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options

Question. Why was Ramlal very worried about Bholi?
(a) She was neither good looking nor intelligent
(b) She was too cunning
(c) She was too talkative and outgoing
(d) All of the options
Answer: (a) She was neither good looking nor intelligent