CBSE Class 4 English Story Writing MCQs

Question. What are the stories, which have animal characters behaving like humans, called?
(a) Fable
(b) Tale
(c) Parable
(d) Short story

Answer: a

Question. Who wrote the famous Panchtantra?
(a) Aryabhatta
(b) Valmiki
(c) Vishnu Sharma
(d) Chanakya

Answer: c

Question. Who is the writer of the famous “Malgudi Days”?
(a) C.S. Lewis
(b) R.L. Stevenson
(c) J.K. Rowling
(d) R.K. Narayan

Answer: d

Complete the story by filling in the blanks and also identify the moral of the story.

A ___(1)___ boy was given the work by the villagers to take their sheep out for ___(2)___ daily in the morning and return back in the ___(3)___ . The boy gets bored of his ___(4)___ work and thought of pricking a joke to entertain himself. He shouted,”wolf! Wolf! Save me”, all the villagers leaving their work in the middle ___(5)___ to help the boy. But to their utter dismay there was no wolf. The boy ___(6)___ at them. Now he played the same joke again and again to ___(7)___. the villagers. After ___(8)___ day the villagers got ___(9)___ with him and understood his silly pranks. One day a wolf came in ___(10)___ , the boy shouted for help but none of the villagers turned up to help him. The wolf came and destroyed the whole flock of sheep. The boy somehow saved himself and cried for his mistakes.

Question.
(a) cobbler
(b) carpenter
(c) shepherd
(d) baker

Answer: c

Question.
(a) grazing
(b) amazing
(c) playing
(d) working

Answer: a

Question.
(a) night
(b) twilight
(c) evening
(d) dawn

Answer: c

Question.
(a) interesting
(b) useful
(c) amazing
(d) monotonous

Answer: d

Question.
(a) rushed
(b) slowed
(c) walked
(d) jumped

Answer: a

Question.
(a) cried
(b) laughed
(c) threw
(d) played

Answer: b

Question.
(a) entertain
(b) amuse
(c) harass
(d) joy

Answer: c

Question.
(a) few
(b) much
(c) lot of
(d) little

Answer: a

Question.
(a) happy
(b) entertained
(c) jovial
(d) angry

Answer: d

Question.
(a) real
(b) imagination
(c) fantasy
(d) movie

Answer: a

Question. What is the moral of this story?
(a) Playing pranks on others can harm you a lot.
(b) We must entertain others.
(c) We must help others.
(d) We must not make our elders angry.

Answer: a

Given below is a story, but its sequence has been jumbled, read carefully and choose the correct sequence from the options given below.

Question.

1. On the other hand the tortoise was moving slowly in its own pace and left the hare back.
2. Now the hare and the tortoise decided to run a race, to prove who was the fastest runner.
3. Both of them started from a certain point with their own speed.
4. One day when it was boasting of its speed among its friends, the tortoise challenged it.
5. As the hare leaped and jumped it reached the midway beforehand and thought of taking a short nap and fell asleep.
6. There was a rabbit that was very proud of himself because he was the fastest runner.
7. When the hare woke up it found that the tortoise had won the race, which teach us that ‘slow and steady wins the race.’
(a) 2.4.6.3.5.7.1.
(b) 6.4.2.3.5.1.7.
(c) 4.6.2.1.7.5.3.
(d) 1.3.5.7.2.4.6.

Answer: b

Suggest a suitable title and give the moral for the given stories.

A slave in ancient Europe had a cruel master. He ran away into a forest and slept that night in a cave. He woke up by terrible roar saw a lion coming into the cave.
Though terrified but the lion was quite gentle and held up wounded paw. The slave takes out a big thorn. The lion felt relieved, grateful and waged his tail. Now the slave and the lion lived together as friends. But one day the slave was caught by his master. He was condemned the judge to be thrown to lions. In the arena the lion rushes to attack him but when he saw the same slave he recognised and licked his feet. to the great astonishment of the slave it was the same lion. The judge heard the whole story and freed the slave and gifted the lion to him.

Question. What is the moral for this story?
(a) You must help others
(b) You must not hurt animals
(c) Gratitude should always be remembered
(d) You must love animals

Answer: c

Question. What can be the suitable title for this story?
(a) The Lion
(b) The slave and the lion
(c) The slave
(d) The lion in pain

Answer: b