CBSE Class 10 English The Sermon at Benares MCQs Set 03

Question. Who is the writer of the lesson “The Sermon At Benares”?
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Betty Renshaw
(c) Carolyn Wells
(d) Robin Klein
Answer: (b) Betty Renshaw

Question. Why was Kisa Gotami sad?
(a) Her only son had died.
(b) Her all property was snatched.
(c) She was beaten up.
(d) None of the options
Answer: (a) Her only son had died.

Question. Where did Buddha preach his first sermon?
(a) Haridwar
(b) Benares
(c) Chennai
(d) Patliputra
Answer: (b) Benares

Question. What is the world afflicted with?
(a) Love
(b) Diseases
(c) Death and decay
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) Death and decay

Question. What does the ripe fruit fear?
(a) Someone will eat them
(b) They will rot
(c) Falling down
(d) None of the options
Answer: (c) Falling down

Question. Where did Buddha sit?
(a) Peepal Tree
(b) Fig Tree
(c) Mango Tree
(d) Deodar cedar
Answer: (b) Fig Tree

Question. According to Buddha, what is an inscrutable kind of suffering?
(a) Loss of a loved one
(b) Beating
(c) Hatred
(d) Verbal abuse
Answer: (a) Loss of a loved one

Question. Those who do not grieve are _____.
(a) arrogant
(b) proud
(c) happy
(d) wise
Answer: (d) wise

Question. Who is free from sorrow?
(a) Who overcomes sorrow
(b) Who does not see sorrow
(c) Who remains happy
(d) Who gives sorrow to others
Answer: (a) Who overcomes sorrow

Question. What did Kisa ask for to bring her son back to life?
(a) Medicine
(b) Money
(c) Doctor
(d) Prayers
Answer: (a) Medicine

Question. He got enlightenment after how many days?
(a) 10
(b) 15
(c) 7
(d) 1
Answer: (c) 7

Question. “The wise do not _____, knowing the terms of the world”.
(a) laugh
(b) smile
(c) grieve
(d) All of the options
Answer: (c) grieve

Question. What does Kisa search for from house to house in the first place?
(a) Mustard seed
(b) A medicine to bring her son back to life
(c) Pumpkin seeds
(d) None of the options
Answer: (b) A medicine to bring her son back to life

Question. Both young and adults, fools and wise fall into the power of _____.
(a) life
(b) death
(c) food
(d) All of the options
Answer: (b) death

Question. What did the flickering lights made her realise?
(a) She is being selfish
(b) Death is common to all
(c) Men are mortals
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options

Question. What was the condition imposed upon the source of the seeds?
(a) To be borrowed from a man
(b) To be borrowed from a woman
(c) To be borrowed from a child
(d) None of the options
Answer: (d) None of the options

Question. What did he name the tree?
(a) Bodhi tree
(b) Buddha tree
(c) Gautama tree
(d) Siddhartha tree
Answer: (a) Bodhi tree

Question. For how many years did he wander?
(a) 7
(b) 8
(c) 9
(d) 6
Answer: (a) 7

Question. What was Gautama Buddha’s early name?
(a) Sidhha
(b) Sadhu
(c) Siddhartha
(d) Sidhanth
Answer: (c) Siddhartha

Question. What moved him to seek out enlightenment?
(a) A sick man
(b) An aged man
(c) A monk begging
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options

Question. Where did he vow to stay until his enlightenment came?
(a) His palace
(b) Under peepal tree
(c) Under banyan tree
(d) Under a tree
Answer: (b) Under peepal tree

Question. Which seed did Buddha ask Kisa to bring?
(a) Pumpkin seeds
(b) Mustard seeds
(c) Sunflower seeds
(d) Seesame seeds
Answer: (b) Mustard seeds

Question. How did Kisa feel at first on being unable to find such seeds?
(a) weary
(b) hopeless
(c) Motivated
(d) Both a and b
Answer: (d) Both a and b

Question. What did Buddha tell her about life?
(a) It is troubled
(b) It is brief
(c) Combined with pain
(d) All of the options
Answer: (d) All of the options