CBSE Class 7 English Three Days to See MCQs Set 01

Answer: (D) Eye

Explanation:
1. Eyes show what a person feels inside.
2. Looking into someone's eyes shows their true feelings.
3. That is why Helen Keller calls the eye the window of the soul.

Answer: (B) would not have seen

Explanation:
1. Three days is a very short time.
2. There are too many things to see in this world.
3. So, she could not have seen everything she wanted.

Answer: (C) Admiring

Explanation:
1. Helen touches nature with great love and wonder.
2. She feels amazed by the beauty of leaves and birds.
3. This shows an admiring tone.

Answer: (C) fingertips

Explanation:
1. Helen Keller cannot see with her eyes.
2. She uses her fingers to touch people's faces.
3. Her fingertips help her feel their shape and smile.

Answer: (B) Value of sensory experiences

Explanation:
1. Senses include seeing, hearing, and touching.
2. Helen Keller tells us to appreciate our senses every day.
3. Therefore, the main theme is the great value of our senses.

Answer: (D) All of the above

Explanation:
1. She feels happy when she sees people smiling.
2. She feels proud when people show hard work and courage.
3. She feels kind and caring when people are hurt.
4. So, all the given statements are correct.

Answer: (A) Arrival of spring

Explanation:
1. Plants and trees rest during cold winter.
2. When spring comes, nature wakes up and looks green again.
3. This line describes the coming of spring season.

Answer: (A) sight

Explanation:
1. The sense of sight comes from the eyes.
2. Helen Keller calls the eyes the window of the soul.
3. So, the sense of sight is the window of the soul.

Answer: (B) Use their senses as if they might lose them tomorrow

Explanation:
1. People who can see and hear often take it for granted.
2. Helen says we should imagine going blind or deaf tomorrow.
3. This makes us value everything we see and hear today.

Answer: (D) all of these

Explanation:
1. Helen Keller can feel the changes on people's faces.
2. She feels when people are happy and laughing.
3. She also feels when they are sad or feeling strong emotions.
4. Therefore, she can detect all of these feelings.

Answer: (A) Understand challenges of visual impairment

Explanation:
1. Braille uses raised dots for reading and writing.
2. Blind people use Braille by touching the dots.
3. Trying it helps students know how blind people read and write.

Answer: (B) three

Explanation:
1. The essay is named "Three Days to See".
2. Helen imagines having sight for three days.
3. She divides her time into three equal daily parts.

Answer: (C) People who have made her life worth living

Explanation:
1. Helen Keller loves her kind teacher and friends the most.
2. On day one, she wants to look directly at their kind faces.
3. These people brought light and joy into her dark world.

Answer: (D) all of the above

Explanation:
1. Helen touches the smooth bark of birch trees.
2. She touches the rough bark of pine trees.
3. She searches for fresh plant buds on tree branches.
4. Hence, all the options are correct.

Answer: (C) Sight

Explanation:
1. Helen Keller cannot see any colors or shapes.
2. She thinks sight is the most wonderful sense of all.
3. Sight shows the beauty of the whole world instantly.

Answer: (C) unseen

Explanation:
1. After three days, her blindness would return.
2. She would then remember how many things she missed.
3. There would still be a lot left unseen.

Answer: (D) Knowledge

Explanation:
1. Words like experience, tale, and adventure describe exciting events.
2. 'Thrilling' means causing great excitement.
3. 'Knowledge' is facts and information, so it does not match.

Answer: (A) sleeping earth.

Explanation:
1. The sun comes up in the early morning.
2. The morning light wakes up the quiet world.
3. The author calls this waking the 'sleeping earth'.

Answer: (B) Observe the sunrise and visit museums

Explanation:
1. Helen Keller plans her second day carefully.
2. She wants to see the morning sun rise in the sky.
3. Then she wants to visit museums to see human history and art.

Answer: (A) stricken blind

Explanation:
1. Many people do not notice the beauty around them.
2. Helen tells everyone to look around carefully.
3. Act like you will lose your sight tomorrow, so you enjoy it today.

Answer: (B) Hellen keller

Explanation:
1. Helen Keller wrote this famous story.
2. She was blind and deaf.
3. She shared her thoughts with the world.

Answer: (c) Touch

Explanation:
1. Helen could not see or hear.
2. She used her hands to feel things around her.
3. Touch helped her know everything.

Answer: D. vision

Explanation:
1. Vision means the power to see.
2. Helen Keller was blind.
3. So, she did not have the sense of vision.

Answer: (c) Sight, since it reveals the beauty of the world.

Explanation:
1. Sight lets people see beautiful trees, skies, and faces.
2. Helen thought sight gives the greatest joy.
3. It shows all the wonders of the world.

Answer: C. 3

Explanation:
1. Helen Keller made a wish in her essay.
2. She wished to have eyesight for just three days.
3. She planned what she would see on each day.

Answer: (b) Rough, shaggy texture

Explanation:
1. Helen liked to touch trees with her fingers.
2. The outer skin of a pine tree is not smooth.
3. It feels rough and uneven to touch.

Answer: B. Companions

Explanation:
1. Companions are close friends and helpers.
2. Helen loved her friends very much.
3. She wanted to look into their warm eyes.

Answer: (c) She recognises them by touching their faces.

Explanation:
1. Helen could not see with eyes.
2. She placed her gentle fingers on people's faces.
3. This is how she knew who they were.

Answer: C. Dawn

Explanation:
1. Dawn is the early morning when the sun comes up.
2. Helen wanted to get up very early.
3. She wanted to see the first morning light.

Answer: (c) By feeling their faces with fingertips

Explanation:
1. When people smile or cry, their face muscles move.
2. Helen felt these small moves with her fingertips.
3. This helped her know if a friend was happy or sad.