Tick (✔) the correct alternative: Multiple Choice Questions:
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The Passing Away of Bapu by Nayantara Sehgal
1. The last walk with Bapu was -
(a) pleasant
(b) painful
(c) strange
(d) delightful
2. According to the narrator, walking with Bapu was-
(a) a quite boring
(b) a usual affair
(c) not a commonplace affair (✔)
(d) meaningless
3. While walking, Bapu used to carry a -
(a) staff (✔)
(b) flag
(c) book
(d) bag
4. The narrator comments that to walk is to make-
(a) a tiresome journey
(b) no progress
(c) rapid progress
(d) slow progress
5. According to the narrator, walk required-
(a) a lot of money
(b) vehicle
(c) one's own body and energy (✔)
(d) a walking stick
6. When the narrator got the news it was-
(a) morning
(b) afternoon
(c) evening (✔)
(d) noon
7. In the evening of Gandhiji's death the narrator was -
(a) preparing tea
(b) serving tea
(c) drinking tea (✔)
(d) buying tea
8. The author was called to the Birla house by-
(a) a messenger telephone call
(b) a mobile phone
(c) a telephone call (✔)
(d) a telegram
9. When Gandhij breathed his last, the room became-
(a) silent (✔)
(b) noisy
(c) silent full of wails
(d) empty
10. The news of Gandhi's death spread through Delhi-
(a) slowly
(b) gradually
(c) like gentle wind
(d) very fast
11. The crowd collected around-
(a) Birla House
(b) Delhi
(c) prayer meeting
(d) narrator's house
12. The death news of Bapu was formally announced through-
(a) television
(b) radio (✔)
(c) newspaper
(d) Internet
13. Gandhiji's funeral was scheduled on -
(a) 30th January 1948
(b) 31st January 1948 (✔)
(c) 24th January 1948
(d) 1st February 1945
14. On the day of funeral people lined in-
(a) The Birla house
(b) the routes of procession
(c) the crematorium
(d) Delhi House
15. Padmasi, Mrs. Naidu's daughter, proposed that they would -
(a) sing
(b) walk (✔)
(c) cry
(d) chant
16. Gandhi's body was laid on a -
(a) car
(b) van
(c) truck
(d) helicopter
17. The wailing people were trying to touch -
(a) each other
(b) Gandhiji's clothes
(c) Gandhi's feet (✔)
(d) the truck
18. The narrator was moving in the procession-
(a) very fast
(b) rapidly
(c) slowly
(d) in haste
19. Gandhiji walked -
(a) with an umbrella in hand
(b) a stick in hand (✔)
(c) a walker
(d) a flag in hand
20. Bapa's figure was -
(a) huge
(b) gigantic
(c) small (✔)
(d) beautiful
21. Gandhiji transformed walking into -
(a) hard practice
(b) necessary practice
(c) joyful effort (✔)
(d) toilsome effort
22. A few days after his death Gandhiji's ashes were immersed in the -
(a) Ganges (✔)
(b) Yamuna
(c) Sabarmati
(d) Kaben
23. Ashes were taken to Allahabad -
(a) by train (✔)
(b) by car
(c) on foot
(d) in a truck
24. People accompanying the ashes of Bapu in the train compartment were -
(a) singing Rabindra Sangeet
(b) weeping bitterly
(c) singing Bhajans (✔)
(d) jostling with each other
25. During the immersion people crowded on the -
(a) streets
(b) railway platform
(c) river bank (✔)
(d) road
26. In song and prayer people felt the presence of -
(a) God
(b) holiness
(c) Gandhiji (✔)
(d) Delhi
27. After the immersion of ashes the narrator came back to-
(a) Allahabad
(b) Delhi
(c) Birla House
(d) Prayer hall
28. The narrator came back to Delhi-
(a) all alone
(b) with others (✔)
(c) after a long time
(d) separately
29. After her return from Allahabad the narrator felt very -
(a) confident
(b) delighted
(c) sad
(d) confused
30. With the disappearance of magic circle. the narrator felt-
(a) frustrated
(b) unbelieving
(c) unprotected
(d) happy
31. The narrator-
(a) was a single child
(b) had brothers
(c) had sisters
(d) had none
32. Gandhiji brought many people of India out of -
(a) insolence
(b) inefficiency
(c) indolence
(d) indifference
33. When the narrator wrote this memoir she was-
(a) young
(b) a child
(c) an aged woman
(d) old
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