CBSE Class 12 English Going Places MCQs Set B

Question: What kind of girl is Sophie ?
a) a happy go lucky kind
b) Day dreamer
c) a realistic
d) a naughty child
Answer: b

Question: Why does Jansie discourage Sophie to dream big?
a) because it requires a lot of money
b) because it is not practical
c) because it is unrealistic
d) all these
Answer: d

Question: What was Sophie’s reply to Jansie?
a) That she will go door to door to collect money
b) She will open a boutique
c) she will open an office
d) she will become an actress or a manager to realize her dream.
Answer: d

Question: Why does Sophie feel jealous of her brother?
a) because he keeps silent
b) because he is a mechanic
c) because he reveals his secret
d) because of inability to reach unknown areas of his mind
Answer: d

Question: What is the significance of the subject discussed in the lesson?
a) it tells how to deal with friends
b) it tells how to behave smartly
c) immediate relevance to the life of school leavers
d) it tells how to behave with elderly
Answer: c

Question: Why does Sophie want to be an actress?
a) to earn a lot of money and open a boutique to be famous fashion designer.
b) to be famous
c) to be a fashion designer
d) to earn money
Answer: a

Question: Who are Sophie and Jansie?
a) teenagers who are friends and classmates
b) neighbourers
c) colleagues
d) actors
Answer: a

Question: What are the advantages and disadvantages of fantasising?
a) helps in dreaming big
b) helps in achieving big
c) develops creative imagination and disadvantage is that it makes people self obsessed.
d) none of these
Answer: c

Question: What are the literary devices used in the lesson?
a) metaphorical expressions and slangs
b) similes
c) irony
d) none
Answer: a

Question: When does Sophie and her family go to watch the football match?
a) Sunday morning
b) Saturday
c) Sunday afternoon
d) Sunday evening
Answer: b

Question: Explain. “On Saturday they made their weekly pilgrimage to the United.”
a) repairing stove
b) repairing a car
c) went to the United dutifully with a lot of devotion
d) repairing a cooler
Answer: c

Question: What story does Sophie make up in front of her brother?
a) She will become an actress
b) she will become a manager
c) she will be a famous beautician
d) Casey will come to meet her.
Answer: d

Question: Why is Jansie not able to support Sophie’s view?
a) because he is a happy go lucky man
b) because his imagination is poor
c) because he is a realistic and believes in practicality
d) because he is unable to believe
Answer: c

Question: What does Jansie tell Sophie?
a) talk unrealistic
b) be sensible and not to dream big
c) be practical
d) she will become an actress or a manager to realize her dream.
Answer: b

Question: What is the sub theme of the story?
a) Relationships, family and friends
b) friends
c) family members
d) adolescents
Answer: a

Question: What is the meaning of the words: “nosey”, “gawky”?
a) “nosey” meaning inquisitive and “gawky” meaning awkward, ungainly.
b) noisy and beautiful
c) noisy and useful
d) noisy and gainful
Answer: a

Question: Where does Sophie visit to meet Casey in her imagination?
a) a football ground
b) in the match
c) in a hotel
d) a secret place near canal
Answer: d

Question: What is the meaning of the word “chuffed”?
a) meaning not happy
b) meaning delighted or very pleased
c) meaning frustrated
d) none
Answer: b

Question: Why is Sophie attracted to Danny and does she meet him in reality?
a) Because he is a heroic footballer and she meets him in imagination only
b) because he earns well
c) because he plays football
d) because he is smart
Answer: a

Question: The story “Going Places” revolves around whom?
a) a fat boy
b) an old couple
c) a teenage girl Sophie, her family and friends
d) none
Answer: c

Question: Why did Sophie like her brother Geoff more than anyone else?
a) he keeps silent
b) because he keeps her secret
c) because she can confide in him
d) all these
Answer: d

Question: What kind of person is Sophie’s father ?
a) a kind hearted
b) a loving and caring
c) a hard core realistic
d) carefree
Answer: c

Question: Why did their favourite team win the match?
a) because of the goal made by Casey
b) they were united
c) they planned well
d) Because they played well
Answer: a

Question: What does Geoff’s silence symbolise in Sophie’s view?
a) wandering of his mind to distant places
b) his vague personality
c) his jovial nature
d) distant places
Answer: a

Question: Who is A. R. Barton?
a) A modern writer
b) author of Going Places
c) lives in Zurich and writes in English
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: Which game are Sophie and her family fans of ?
a) cricket
b) Badminton
c) football
d) volleyball
Answer: c

Question: What does Jansie ask Sophie?
a) about Danny Casey
b) about Mary Quaint
c) about her dream
d) the reality behind her meeting with Danny Casey
Answer: d

Question: Where is Sophie lost?
a) in her imagination
b) in her dreams
c) in her words
d) in her imagination and dream of owning a boutique shop to become a famous fashion designer
Answer: d

Question: What is the turning point in the story?
a) when she thinks of meeting Danny Casey — a famous football player
b) when her father gets angry
c) when her brother reveals her story
d) when she fights with her brother
Answer: a

Question: What secret did Sophie share with her brother?
a) She met Mary Quaint a famous fashion designer
b) She met Prime Minister
c) She met Christopher
d) She met Danny Casey a famous footballer
Answer: d

Question: Why does Sophie get angry with her brother?
a) Because he revealed her secret to Jansie’s brother
b) he doesn’t speak to her
c) because of his silence
d) none
Answer: a

Question: What is Sophie in reality?
a) a dreamer
b) a fighter
c) a worker at Biscuit factory
d) none
Answer: c

Question: Why does Sophie feel choked in the house?
a) because of stove’s steam and dirty dishes
b) because of foul smell
c) because of smoke
d) because of no air
Answer: a

Question: Explain — “Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of a ground.”
a) it was difficult to speak to him
b) it was difficult to locate him in a shop
c) it was difficult to get information out of him
d) it was difficult to locate him in factory
Answer: c

Question: Who is Sophie’s elder brother?
a) Jansie
b) Geoff — a trainee mechanic
c) Dany Casey
d) none
Answer: b

Question: What theme does Barton explore in this story?
a) theme of children’s happiness
b) theme of adolescent fantasising and hero worship
c) theme of elderly people’s happiness
d) theme of individual happiness
Answer: b

Question: What does Sophie dream about?
a) Becoming an actor
b) becoming a manager
c) a sophisticated person
d) becoming rich and sophisticated
Answer: d

Question: Who is Sophie’s younger brother?
a) Geoff — a trainee mechanic
b) Casey
c) Derek
d) Frank
Answer: c

Question: Which country did Danny play for?
a) Netherland
b) Ireland
c) Switzerland
d) New Zealand
Answer: b

Question: Sophie’s dreams and disappointments are all in her mind?
a) they all represent her imagination and nothing in reality
b) they represent her nature
c) they explain her personality
d) they tell us her future
Answer: a