CBSE Class 10 English Amanda! MCQs Set A

Don’t bite your nails, Amanda ! 
Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda !
Stop that slouching and sit up straight,
Amanda !

Question. The speaker wants Amanda to learn ................... .
(a) good habits
(b) bad habits
(c) pleasing habits
(d) no habits

Answer :  A

Question. Who is the speaker ?
(a) Amanda’s grandfather
(b) Amanda’s teacher
(c) Amanda’s mother
(d) Amanda’s father

Answer :  C

Question. Pick out the word from the passage which means same as 'erect'.
(a) hunch
(b) slouching
(c) bite
(d) straight

Answer :  D

Question.Name the poet ?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Robin Klein
(d) William Butler Yeats

Answer :  C

There is a languid, emerald sea,
where the sole inhabitant is me—
a mermaid, drifting blissfuly.

Question Who is 'me’ in these lines ?
(a) Amanda’s mother
(b) Amanda’s sister
(c) Amanda’s friend
(d) Amanda herself

Answer :  D

Question. Amanda’s desire was to be a mermaid, living in the .................... sea.
(a) blue
(b) green
(c) yellow
(d) red

Answer :  B

Question. Emerlad also means ..................... .
(a) green
(b) red
(c) blue
(d) yellow

Answer :  A

Question. Find out the word from the extract which also means ‘relaxed’.
(a) emerald
(b) blissfully
(c) languid
(d) inhabitant

Answer :  B

Did you finish your homework, Amanda ? 
Did you tidy your room, Amanda ?
I thought I told you to clean your shoes,
Amanda

Question. According to the narrator, Amanda is a very .................. girl.
(a) cute
(b) responsible
(c) naughty
(d) careless

Answer :  D

Question.  Amanda is asked to finish her ................... .
(a) homework
(b) milk
(c) meal
(d) playing

Answer :  A

Question. .................... is talking to Amanda.
(a) Both the parents
(b) One of the parents
(c) Her mother
(d) Her father

Answer :  B

Question. I told you to clean your ...................... .
(a) room
(b) shoes
(c) table
(d) book shelf

Answer :  B

I am an orphan, roaming the street. 
I Pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.
(a) The speaker makes design with her ...................... .
(a) pencil
(b) bare feet
(c) hands
(d) sketch pen

Answer : B

Question. Which word in the passage means the same as ‘naked’.
(a) pattern
(b) bare
(c) hushed
(d) roaming

Answer : B

Question. Where does she make pattern on ?
(a) on sketch book
(b) on paper
(c) on table
(d) on soft dust

Answer : D

Question. She is not an orphan, but she ................... to be one.
(a) wants
(b) wishes
(c) imagines
(d) longs

Answer : C

Question- Who is the poet of the poem "Amanda"?
(a) Leslie Norris
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Carolyn Wells
(d) Robin Klein

Answer :   D

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

Answer :   A

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

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

Answer :   C

Question. What could Amanda do if she were a mermaid?
(a) be in the green sea
(b) lead a relaxing life
(c) All of the above
(d) None of the above

Answer :   C

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 1 and 3

Answer :   B

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

Answer :   C

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

Answer :   C

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

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 Above

Answer :   B

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

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

Answer :   C

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

Answer:   A

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

Answer :   D

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

Answer :   A

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

Answer :   C

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

Answer :   A

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 Above

Answer :   A