The Dear Departed MCQs with Answers CBSE Class 10 English Communicative Chapter 12

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The Dear Departed MCQ

 

The Dear Departed MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 10 English Literature Reader (Communicative) Book Chapter 12

 

The Dear Departed MCQs of Class 10 English Chapter 12, by Stanley Houghton have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 10 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 12 The Dear Departed from CBSE Class 10 English Literature Reader (Communicative) Book. Each question has four options. 

For Correct Answers, see the answer key given at the end of the post.

 

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Q1. “Be off now, and change your dress before your Aunt Elizabeth and your Uncle Ben come. It would never do for them to find you in colours.”
‘Be off’ means-
A. switch off
B. go away
C. die
D. cry

Q2. “Be off now, and change your dress before your Aunt Elizabeth and your Uncle Ben come. It would never do for them to find you in colours.”
‘In colours’ means-
A. wearing a colourful dress
B. watching colour TV
C. Being happy
D. none of these

Q3. Pearson’s Weekly is a type of ________
A. book
B. magazine
C. newspaper
D. none of these

Q4. Which of the following best represents a tailcoat?

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Q5. How are Elizabeth and Amelia related?
A. cousins
B. sisters
C. neighbours
D. Sisters-in-law

Q6. What is the full name of Victoria?
A. Victoria Slater
B. Victoria Jordan
C. Victoria Henry
D. None of these

Q7. What is in the parcel that Henry gets?
A. a book
B. an apple pie
C. shoes
D. hat

Q8. Find a synonym for ‘trifles’.
A. toys
B. trinkets
C. trunks
D. toils

Q9. ‘Daft’ means-
A. intelligent
B. clever
C. cunning
D. foolish

Q10. “Are we pinching it before Aunt Elizabeth comes?”
What does ‘pinching it’ mean?
A. to steal something
B. to admire something
C. to copy something
D. to get rid of something

Q11. What do the Slaters pinch?
A. utensils
B. a mirror and a pen
C. a clock and a bureau
D. a chair and a bed

Q12. What do they knock off while getting the bureau downstairs?
A. a painting from the wall
B. the plaster from the wall
C. both A and B
D. None of these

Q13. What is ‘Tit-Bits’?
A. a snack
B. trinkets
C. magazine
D. none of these

Q14. Which of the following rightly describes Victoria?
A. thin, warm woman with a spiritual attitude
B. stout, complacent woman with an impassive face
C. short, weak woman with an aging face
D. tall, fat woman with a wrinkled, freckled face

Q15. Who has a bright, chirly little voice?
A. Henry
B. Amelia
C. Victoria
D. Ben

Q16. How many kids do the Jordans have?
A. 2 sons
B. 1 daughter
C. 2 daughters
D. 1 son

Q17. How old is Abel?
A. 70
B. 71
C. 72
D. 75

Q18. Amelia gives her father’s ________ to Henry?
A. shirt
B. socks
C. slippers
D. coat

Q19. The doctor’s name is ______
A. Dr Jingle
B. Dr Mingle
C. Dr Pringle
D. Dr Doolittle

Q20. How is Victoria related to Jimmy?
A. siblings
B. cousins
C. friends
D. neighbours

Q21. What had Abel promised to Jimmy?
A. his clock
B. his property
C. his gold watch
D. none of these

Q22. Ring-o-Bells is a _________
A. school
B. pub
C. cafe
D. hospital

Q23. Who maintained Ring-o-Bells?
A. John Shorrock
B. John Shorrock’s widow
C. Amelia
D. Elizabeth

Q24. What does Amelia accuse her father for, when she realizes that he didn’t pay the insurance?
A. murder
B. theft
C. swindling
D. none of these

Q25. Who first notices Abel getting up?
A. Amelia
B. Henry
C. Victora
D. All of them

Q26. Who said: And you, too. Are you such a poor creature that you must do every dirty thing she tells you?
A. Elizabeth
B. Amelia
C. Ben
D. Victoria

Q27. What does Abel plan to do?
A. go abroad
B. get divorced
C. get married
D. none of these

Q28. What does Able call his daughters as?
A. Amelia, Elizabeth
B. Melia, Beth
C. Melia. Lizzie
D. None of these

Q29. “I’ll trouble you for another cup of tea, ‘Melia; two lumps and plenty of milk.” What does ‘lumps’ refer to?
A. Salt
B. Sugar
C. Biscuit
D. none of these

Q30. Who said – “It didn’t take you long to start dividing my things between you.”
A. Elizabeth
B. Abel
C. Ben
D. Amelia

Q31. “(sobbing) Grandfather, you’ll not be hard on me.”
‘Hard on me’ means-
A. to wait
B. to teach
C. to play
D. to punish severely

Q32. What is Henry talking of when he says – It’s a bit of a lottery-like?
A. The visit by the Jordans
B. Abel’s false death
C. Abel’s will
D. Victoria’s behaviour

Q33. What was the matter of quarrel between Amelia and Elizabeth?
A. father’s stay
B. father’s possessions
C. father’s will
D. none of these

Q34. Both the sisters wanted to get rid of the father. How did this attitude change?
A. when they suffered at the hands of their children
B. when they came to know of the father’s will
C. when their husbands cheated on them
D. none of these

Q35. What did Abel propose to be in the will?
A. to give half share to each daughter
B. to give the entire share to the one with whom he would be living at the time of his death
C. to donate everything
D. to sell away everything

Q36. Who said – “It’s a bit late to say it, now. You neither of you cared to put up with me.”
A. Elizabeth
B. Abel
C. Ben
D. Amelia

Q37. What out of the following is NOT a part of Abel’s plan for Monday?
A. visit the lawyer
B. alter his will
C. buy a new Mercedes car
D. pay the insurance premium

Q38. Who has plans to get married?
A. Elizabeth
B. Abel
C. Victoria
D. Amelia

Q39. Abel plans to move out with Mrs Shorrocks and live at ________
A. Jingle Bells
B. Ring-o-Bells
C. Sing-o-Bells
D. None of these

Q40. Identify the writer of the play
A. Anton Chekov
B. William Houghton
C. William Shakespeare
D. None of these

Q41. Who suggests to add poetry in the newspaper announcement?
A. Henry
B. Amelia
C. Victoria
D. Ben

Q42. Who said – “No, it’s more for the look of the thing.”
A. Elizabeth
B. Abel
C. Victoria
D. Amelia

Q43. Henry reads the following lines from a _______________
‘Despised and forgotten by some you may be, But the spot that contains you is sacred to we.’
A. book
B. magazine
C. he creates it
D. newspaper

Q44. “as merry as a sandboy” means-
A. worried
B. extremely happy
C. gloomy and sad
D. all of these

Q45. “If he did take a drop too much at times, we’ll not dwell on that, now.” What is being talked of?
A. alcohol
B. medicine
C. honey
D. none of these

Q46. BEN : (chirpily) Now, Amelia, you mustn’t give way. We’ve all got to die some time or other. It might have been worse.
What was Amelia doing that Ben said these words to stop her?
A. she was screaming
B. she was dancing
C. she was crying
D. none of these

Q47. MRS. SLATER : We’ve ordered ours, you may be sure. (Acidly) I never could fancy buying ready-made things.
Fancy means-
A. hate
B. like
C. imagine
D. all of these

Q48. “Pringle attended him when he was alive and Pringle shall attend him when he’s dead. That’s professional etiquette.” Who is Pringle?
A. caretaker
B. doctor
C. nurse
D. friend

Q49. Abel asked _________ to take his boots off.
A. Amelia
B. Henry
C. Victoria
D. None of these

Q50. Who gets the tea ready?
A. Henry Slater
B. Victoria Slater
C. Ben Jordan
D. Amelia Slater

 

Answer key

 

1 B 26 A
2 A 27 C
3 B 28 C
4 D 29 B
5 B 30 B
6 A 31 D
7 B 32 C
8 B 33 A
9 D 34 B
10 A 35 B
11 C 36 B
12 B 37 C
13 C 38 B
14 B 39 B
15 D 40 B
16 D 41 A
17 C 42 A
18 C 43 D
19 C 44 B
20 B 45 A
21 C 46 C
22 B 47 C
23 B 48 B
24 C 49 B
25 C 50 D

 

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