CBSE Class 10 English Bholi MCQs

Then she began to cry and tears flowed from her eyes in a helpless flood. She kept her head as she sat in her corner, not daring to look up at the girls, who, she knew were still laughing at her.

Question : Who is ‘she’?
(a) Bholi’s teacher
(b) Bholi’s mother
(c) Sulekha
(d) Bholi’s friend

Answer :   C

Question : Why were the girls laughing at her?
(a) Because she had made mistake
(b) Because she could not solve the sum given by her teacher
(c) Because she did not come in proper uniform
(d) Because she had stammered while seeing her name when asked by the teacher

Answer :   D

Question : What does the word ‘daring’ mean?
(a) Wanting
(b) Showing
(c) Teasing
(d) Seeking

Answer :   A

Question : What is the opposite of ‘laughing’?
(a) Smiling
(b) Crying
(c) Complaining
(d) Teasing

Answer :   B

Question : What do you mean by the word "simpleton"?
(a) simple
(b) foolish
(c) basic
(d) none of the above

Answer :   B

Question : What was Bholi’s reaction when Ramlal ask her to go to school for the first time?
(a) she was not given new clothes
(b) I she was excited
(c) she cried with fear
(d) none of the above

Answer :   C

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

Question : Who was her father?
(a) Village Numberdar
(b) Village Sarpanch
(c) Village Tehsildar
(d) none of the above

Answer :   A

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

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 above

Answer :   B

Question : How did Ramlal’s wife react about sending her girls to school?
(i) she laughed
(ii) she got angry
(iii) no reaction
(iv) she cried 

Answer :   D

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 above

Answer :   D

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

Answer :   A

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

Answer :   B

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

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 above

Answer :   D

Question : Why did the girls laugh at Bholi?
(a) at her dress
(b) at her looks
(c) at her stammering
(d) all of the above

Answer :   C

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 above

Answer :   B

Question : What happened when she was two years old?
(a) falling off a cot
(b) falling off the stairs
(c) falling off a verandah
(d) small-pox

Answer :   D

Question : —— Marriage had also been settled.
(a) Sulekha
(b) Mangla
(c) Radha
(d) Champa

Answer :   B

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 above

Answer :   D

Question : Who was Lakshmi?
(a) Bholi’s friend
(b) Bholi’s classmate
(c) Bholi’s sister
(d) Bholi’s cow

Answer :   D

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

Answer :   A

Question : Bishamber was near about —– years old.
(a) 45/50
(b) 40/45
(c) 50/60
(d) 30/35

Answer :   A

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

Answer :   D

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

Answer :   D

Question : Who is the real artist in the story ‘Bholi’?
(a) the teacher
(b) Ramlal
(c) Bholi
(d) Bishamber Nath

Answer :   A

Question : Whose paintings did she see in the classroom wall?
(a) cow
(b) goat
(c) parrot
(d) all of the above 

Answer :   D

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

Question : The real name of Bholi was –
(a) Sulekha
(b) Sumedha
(c) Suricha
(d) Samridhi

Answer :   A

Question : Little Sulekha could not —— till she five –
(a) Listen
(b) Walk
(c) Speak
(d) Sit

Answer :   C

The lady teacher who was in class was saying something to the girls but Bholi could understand nothing.
Question : Where was Bholi?
(a) Bholi was in the principal’s room in the village school
(b) Bholi was in her house
(c) Bholi was in the playground
(d) Bholi was in the classroom in the village school

Answer :   D

Question : Why could she understand nothing?
(a) because the teacher was not teaching properly
(b) because it was her second day at school
(c) because it was her first day at school
(d) because the teacher was teaching in English and she did not know English

Answer :   C

Question : What is the opposite word of ‘everything’ in the extract?
(a) something
(b) nothing
(c) anything
(d) none of these

Answer :   B

Question : The opposite of ‘lady teacher’ would be
(a) male teacher
(b) Professor
(c) lady teacher
(d) guest teacher

Answer :   A