CBSE Class 8 English A Visit to Cambridge MCQs

Question. Why the author felt guilty Everytime he spoke to Mr. Hawking?
(a) Because he was being rude
(b) Because he was not well
(c) Because he was tapping the buttons with his hand and trying to find words on his computer.
(d) All of these

Answer : C

Question. Who is the writer of the story “A Visit to Cambridge”?
(a) Firdaus Kanga
(b) Stephen Hawking
(c) Satyajit Ray
(d) None of the above

Answer : A

Question. How is the first glimpse of Stephen Hawking?
(a) Good
(b) Shocking
(c) Negative
(d) All of the above

Answer : B

Question. Firdaus Kanga is a
(a) scientist
(b) journalist
(c) friend of Hawking
(d) politician

Answer : D

Question. Where did the author rush after the walking tour was done?
(a) Church
(b) Phone both
(c) Hotel
(d) None of these

Answer : B

Question. “The body, almost irrelevant, exists only like a case made of —–.”
(a) Shadows
(b) Light
(c) Dark
(d) Loneliness

Answer: A

Question. What were the author’s feelings when he had to leave?
(a) He wanted to leave
(b) He wanted to talk to Stephen Hawking
(c) He felt veiy attached to Stephen Hawking
(d) None of these

Answer : D

Question. Who did call from the phone booth?
(a) His mother
(b) His frien
(c) His guide
(d) Stephen hawking

Answer : D

Question. What was the good thing about being disabled according to Stephen hawking?
(a) To discover kindness in the world
(b) To watch the cruelty in the world
(c) To understand everyone
(d) None of these

Answer : A

Question. A disabled person is fed up when people
(a) show sympathy
(b) give him charity
(c) try to help him
(d) ask him to be brave

Answer : D

Question. How did he bid him good bye?
(a) By shaking hand with him
(b) By waving his hand
(c) By touching his hand
(d) By touching on his shoulder

Answer : C

Question. Which word in the passage means ‘symbol’.
(a) embodiment
(b) wheeled
(c) bravest
(d) waving

Answer : A

Question. What was the scientist deadly against?
(a) The Disabled Olympics
(b) The Spanish Guitar
(c) Swimming
(d) Writing

Answer : A

Question. What did the speaker gleefully do ?
(a) he played on the guitar
(b) he threw the guiter away
(c) he broke the strings of the guitar
(d) he became quiet

Answer : C

Question. Growing up disabled, what’s the only thing that makes you stronger?
(a) Seeing people like you failing
(b) Seeing people like you
(c) Seeing people
(d) Seeing people like you achieve something big

Answer : D

Question. The writer was fed up with certain people because they are
(a) too sympathetic
(b) too persuasive
(c) too discouraging
(d) too interfering

Answer : B

Question. Kanga felt guilty everytime he spoke to Hawking because
(a) Hawking had to work hard to respond
(b) he was wasting his own time
(c) he was wasting Hawking’s time
(d) Hawking had asked him to keep quiet

Answer : A

Question. Where did the author rush after the walking tour was done?
(a) Church
(b) Phone both
(c) Hotel
(d) None of these

Answer : B

Question. What made Stephen Hawking silent?
(a) Sun
(b) Moon
(c) Tea
(d) coffee

Answer : A

Question. “I remembered the years I’d spent trying to play a ——- considerably.”
(a) Spanish guitar
(b) Violin
(c) Flute
(d) Drams

Answer : A

Question. Stephen Hawking is a successor to ——-.
(a) Issac Newton
(b) Richard Dawkins
(c) Galileo Galilei
(d) None of these

Answer : A

Question. What was the disadvantage of his voice synthesiser?
(a) No inflection
(b) No shades of voice
(c) No tone of voice
(d) All of the Above

Answer : D

Question. Name the author of the story “A visit to Cambridge”.
(a) Stephen Hawking
(b) Oscor wilde
(c) Issac Newton
(d) Firdaus Kanga

Answer : D

Question. Both of them moved around in a _____.
(a) Car
(b) Bus
(c) Wheelchair
(d) Bicycle

Answer : C

Question. What advice did Stephen Hawking give to differently abled people?
(a) Concentrate on what they are good at
(b) Always learn new things
(c) Do nothing
(d) Victimise themselves

Answer : A

Question. What were the author’s feelings when he had to leave?
(a) He wanted to leave
(b) He wanted to talk to Stephen Hawking
(c) He felt veiy attached to Stephen Hawking
(d) None of these

Answer : D

Question. Whom did the speaker go to see?
(a) Mr. Brown—a politician
(b) Mr. Hawking—a lawyer
(c) Stephen Hawking—a famous scientist
(d) Stephen—a doctor

Answer : C

Question. How long did the meeting last?
(a) Less than an hour
(b) More than an hour
(c) Two hours
(d) For hours

Answer : A

Question. Who is the writer and journalist in the story ‘A visit to Cambridge’?
(a) Firdaus kanga
(b) Javed Anand
(c) Mihir Bose
(d) Vikram Chandra

Answer : A

Question. Write the verb of ‘advice’.
(a) advised
(b) to take care
(c) suggest
(d) advise

Answer : D