CBSE Class 4 English Boyhood Days Worksheet

Choose the correct answer/fill in the blanks/true or false:

1. Booker T Washington was born in ___________________
[a] USA
[b] USSR
[c] UAE

2. Slavery was completely abolished in the year _________
[a] 1856
[b] 1586
[c] 1865

3. Washington struggled to _______________
[a] study '
[b] work
[c] play

4. Washington’s________ got a book for him.
[a] mother
[b] father
[c] sister

5. Mother brought a copy of ________________
[a] Wista’s spell book
[b] Wester’s spell book
[c] Webster’s spell book

6. The spell book contained _______________
[a] numbers
[b] letters
[c] words

7. The ambition of older people was to learn ______________
[a] The Bible
[b] The Ten Commandments
[c] The Rosery

8. Men and Women of _______ years were found in the night school.
[a] fifty five-seventy five
[b] sixty five-eighty five
[c] fifty-seventy five

9. Washington was ______________________ to approach the white people.
[a] too confident
[b] too courageous
[c] too timid

10. Washington was working in ____________________ .
[a] salt furnace
[b] sugar furnace
[c] cement furnace

11. The number of people working in the furnace were _____________ people.
[a] one hundred
[b] one thousand
[c] more than hundred

12. Washington moved the clock hands from
[a] half past seven
[b] half past eight
[c] half past nine

13. The school children wore ______________ on their heads.
[a] caps
[b] veil
[c] helmets

14. Washington became an __________________.
[a] industrialist
[b] educationist
[c] archeologist

15. Give one word for the following:
[a] enclosed chamber containing very hot fire 
[b] to convince

16. The Blacks belong to the country ________________.
[a] Africa
[b] America
[c] Australia

17. Washington’s mother got two pieces of ________________ to make a cap.
[a] homespun
[b] silk
[c] wool

18. My boyish heart was set upon going to the day-school. (Circle the adjective)

19. Boyhood days is __________________.
[a] an autobiography
[b] a biography
[c] a documentary

20.________________ was opened in Kanawha Valley.
[a] An institute
[b] A factory
[c] A school

21. The root word of uncomfortable is _______________.
[a] comfort
[b] comfortable
[c] uncomfort

22. The Africans living in America are called as _____________.
[a] African American
[b] African Australian
[c] Africans

23. The author had great food to eat on ___________.
[a] Children’s day
[b] Teacher’s day
[c] Christmas day.

24. The author’s mother possessed great mental strength. [True/False]

25. Washington mastered a great portion of the alphabet in a few weeks. [True/False]

26. A boy who could read came from Malden to Ohio. [True/False]

27. Washington’s family settled in a new flat in West Virginia. [True/False]

28. The author dressed as decently as the other boys when he went to the school. [True/False]

29. The _________ of the furnace discovered that something was wrong with the clock.

30. The meaning of possessor is owner. [True/False]