CBSE Class 8 English The Great Stone Face–I MCQs

Question. Name the lesson.
(a) A Visit to Cambridge
(b) The Summit Within
(c) A Short Monsoon Diary
(d) The Great Stone Face-I

Answer : D

Question. Who all were part of Ernest’s daily audience?
(a) A group of neighbours
(b) College Professors
(c) Doctors
(d) The Poet

Answer : A

Question. When Ernest’s work of the day was over he
(a) prayed to God for a long time
(b) read a lot
(c) helped the villagers
(d) would stand for hours before the Great Stone Face

Answer : D

Question. What was folly but pardonable?
(a) Ernest gazing at the valley
(b) Ernest living an unremarkable life
(c) Ernest being neighbourly
(d) Ernest being diligent and hard working

Answer : A

Question. Give the meaning of ‘prophecy’.
(a) prophet
(b) advice
(c) prediction
(d) suggestion

Answer : C

Question. ‘If i never see a man with such a ——, I should love him very much”
(a) Heart
(b) Face
(c) Colour
(d) Attitude

Answer : B

Question. Did Ernest want to live enough to see the prophecy come true?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Maybe
(d) Not mentioned in the story

Answer : A

Question. ‘There idea was that this was a folly, but pardonable, because Ernest was —-, —– and —-.
(a) Industrious
(b) Kind
(c) Neighbourly
(d) All of these

Answer : D

Question. What did Ernest do regularly at the end of each day?
(a) Gave lecture to people
(b) Counselled his friends
(c) Gazed upon the Great Stone Face
(d) Helped his mother

Answer : C

Question. What was Ernest doing when the man arrived?
(a) Working
(b) Gazing at the valley
(c) Waiting to welcome him
(d) Not mentioned in the story

Answer : B

Question. ‘Many still had faith in this —-‘
(a) Old prophecy
(b) God
(c) Themselves
(d) None of these

Answer : A

Question. Who was Ernest’s teacher?
(a) His mother
(b) Great Stone face
(c) His Grand mother
(d) All of these

Answer : B

Question. Who was Blood-and-Thunder?
(a) Commander
(b) Shopkeeper
(c) Farmer
(d) Teacher

Answer : A

Question. Was Ernest satisfied with the resemblance of Mr. Gather gold to the Great Stone Face?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Never
(d) May Be

Answer : B

Question. When did the rocks give the impression of a human face?
(a) On reaching near
(b) Through a hole
(c) With the help of camera
(d) From a distance

Answer : A

Question. Whom did the poet wish to meet?
(a) Commander
(b) General
(c) Ernest
(d) The author

Answer : C

Question. What did Mr. Gather gold decide to do of his native valley?
(a) To go back to his native valley
(b) End his last days there
(c) Both (a) & (b)
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. Ernest was much impressed by
(a) the fact that the poet resembled the Great Stone Face
(b) what the poet had written
(c) the thoughts of the poet about him
(d) the poet when he said that Ernest resembled the Great Stone Face

Answer : B

Question. What happened to Gather gold’s wealth after his death?
(a) Donated
(b) Buried
(c) Disappeared
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. “ But seen from a distance, the clouds clustering about it, the Great Stone Face seemed positively to be _____.”
(a) Alive
(b) Dead
(c) Sleeping
(d) awake

Answer : A

Question. Why did he wish to return to the native valley?
(a) To earn money
(b) To reflex
(c) To get medical treatment
(d) To fight in the war

Answer : B

Question. How could be great stone face seen from a proper distance?
(a) Feature of human face
(b) Seemed like positively alive
(c) Both (a) & (b)
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. Who prepared to welcome the renowned commander?
(a) In Habitants
(b) Old neighbours
(c) Grown up children
(d) All of these

Answer : D

Question. What brightened all it’s features?
(a) Torchlight
(b) Moonlight
(c) Sunlight
(d) snow

Answer: C

Question. What did Ernest do after finishing the work of the day?
(a) Go home
(b) Gaze at the Great Stone Face
(c) Play
(d) See his friends

Answer : B

Question. What were the mother and her little boy talking about?
(a) Great stone face
(b) Great stone head
(c) Great rock face
(d) Great marble fac

Answer : A

Question. Which word in the passage means ‘looked into’.
(a) beside
(b) gazed
(c) flung
(d) gifted

Answer : B

Question. Who was Ernest?
(a) A native of the valley
(b) A poet
(c) A General
(d) A businessman

Answer : A

Question. Find word in the passage which means the same as ‘to talk with’.
(a) unsought
(b) brighten
(c) to converse
(d) mild

Answer : C

Question. Was Ernest satisfied with the resemblance of Blood and thunder to the great Stone face?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Not at all
(d) May be

Answer : A