CBSE Class 8 English Geography Lesson MCQs

Question. What happens when the Jet reached ten thousand feet?
(a) The cities where the rivers ran
(b) Valleys were populated too
(c) Both (a) & (b)
(d) None of these

Answer:  C

Question. The logic of geography is –
(a) Land and wind attracted man
(b) Land and water attracted man
(c) Rivers attracted
(d) All of them

Answer:  B

Question. What was clear when the jet rose six miles high?
(a) The earth was round
(b) The valleys were populated
(c) The earth had more sea than land
(d) Both (a) & (b)

Answer:  D

Question. Who hate other on the earth?
(a) Animals
(b) Men
(c) Birds
(d) All of them

Answer:  B

Question. “There seemed an inevitability about what on ground had looked haphazard”. What do you mean by the word “haphazard”?
(a) That cannot be avoided
(b) That can be avoided
(c) Without plan or order
(d) With plan or order

Answer:  C

Question. ‘Seeing it scaled —– inches to the mile,’
(a) Two
(b) Four
(c) Eight
(d) Six

Answer:  D

Question. “There seemed an inevitability about what on ground had looked haphazard”. What do you mean by the word “inevitability”?
(a) That cannot be avoided
(b) That can be avoided
(c) Without plan or order
(d) With plan or order

Answer:  A

Question. What became clear when the jet reached ten thousand feet?
(a) Why cities ran along the river
(b) Why valleys are populated
(c) Logic of geography
(d) All of the Above

Answer:  D

Question. What was the logic of geography?
(a) Land and water attracted man
(b) Open sky attracted man
(c) Sand and land attracted man
(d) None of the above.

Answer:  A

Question. What is the meaning of ‘ delineated in this poem?
(a) Decided
(b) Treated
(c) Planned
(d) Shown

Answer:  D

Question. What was not clear from the sky?
(a) Why men on earth found causes to hate each other
(b) Why men on earth built walls to divide cities
(c) Why men on earth kill each other
(d) All of the Above

Answer:  D

Question. Who is the poet of the poem “Geography Lesson”?
(a) Zulfikar Ghose
(b) Zulfikar Khosla
(c) Aesop
(d) Roald Dahl

Answer:  A

Question. What sprang into the sky?
(a) Rocket
(b) Helicopter
(c) Jet
(d) None of these

Answer:  C

Question. How far the Jet reaches from the ground?
(a) Ten thousand feet
(b) One hundred feet
(c) Five hundred feet
(d) Six hundred feet

Answer:  A

Question. When did it become clear as to why the city had developed the way it is?
(a) At a height of ten thousand miles
(b) At a height of six miles
(c) At a height of six inches to the mile
(d) At a height of six thousand miles

Answer:  C

Question. What can we view from the sky?
(a) River
(b) City
(c) Bridge
(d) House

Answer:  B

Question. How were the valleys?
(a) Beautiful
(b) Clean
(c) Populated
(d) None of these

Answer:  C

Question. Name the poet of the poem ‘Geography Lesson’
(a) John Keats
(b) Zulfikar Ghose
(c) Robert Burns
(d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer:  B

Question. What is the meaning of ‘ delineated in this poem?
(a) Decided
(b) Treated
(c) Planned
(d) Shown

Answer:  D

Question. Name the lesson.
(a) Macavity: The Mystery Cat
(b) Geography Lesson
(c) The Duck and the Kangaroo
(d) None of these

Answer:  B

Question. The meaning of ‘inevitable’ —-
(a) Cannot be harmed
(b) Cannot be reached
(c) Cannot be avoided
(d) Can be harmed

Answer:  B

Question. From that height the poet saw that
(a) the earth is full of people
(b) the earth has hills and deserts
(c) the earth has much water
(d) the earth has much land.

Answer:  C

Question. The cities are developed
(a) in the open space
(b) on the hill-side
(c) by the river-side
(d) in the deserts.

Answer:  C

Question. Where have the cities been developed?
(a) On shallow land
(b) Near river banks
(c) On platform above land
(d) Under water

Answer:  B

Question. ‘It was clear the —– was round’
(a) Sun
(b) Moon
(c) Earth
(d) Land

Answer:  C

Question. What was the “logic of geography”?
(a) Land and water attracted man
(b) Why valleys were populated
(c) Why cities ran along the river
(d) How cities are developed

Answer:  A

Question. Name the poem.
(a) Geography Lesson
(b) The Last Bargain
(c) Macavity: The Mystery Cat
(d) The Ant and the Cricket

Answer:  A

Question. What looked interpretable?
(a) The city looked haphazard
(b) The city looked unplanned
(c) The city looked without style
(d) All the above

Answer:  D

Question. Give the opposite of ‘developed’.
(a) undeveloped
(b) development
(c) underdeveloped
(d) developing

Answer:  A