Class 12 English Flamingo book Chapter 8 Going Places MCQs

A) A modern writer
B) author of Going Places
C) lives in Zurich and writes in English
D) All these

A) theme of children’s happiness
B) theme of adolescent fantasising and hero worship
C) theme of elderly people’s happiness
D) theme of individual happiness

A) Relationships- family and friends
B) friends
C) family members
D) adolescents

A) it tells how to deal with friends
B) it tells how to behave smartly
C) immediate relevance to the life of school leavers
D) it tells how to behave with elderly

A) metaphorical expressions and slangs
B) similes
C) irony
D) none

A) meaning delighted or very pleased
B) meaning not happy
C) meaning frustated
D) none

A) “nosey”, meaning inquisitive and “gawky”, meaning awkward, ungainly.
B) noisy and beautiful
C) noisy and useful
D) noisy and gainful

A) a fat boy
B) an old couple
C) a teenage girl Sophie, her family and friends
D) none

A) a happy go lucky kind
B) a realistic
C) Day dreamer
D) a naughty child

A) a dreamer
B) a fighter
C) a worker at Biscuit factory
D) none

A) Becoming an actor
B) becoming a manager
C) a sophisticated person
D) becoming rich and sophisticated

A) when she fights with her brother.
B) when her father gets angry.
C) when her brorher reveals her story.
D) when she thinks of meeting Danny Casey- a famous football player

A) She will become an actress
B) she will become a manager
C) she will be a famous beautician
D) Casey will come to meet her.

A) teenagers who are friends and classmates
B) neighbourers
C) colleagues
D) actors

A) ii was difficult to speak to him
B) it was difficult to locate him in a shop
C) it was difficult to locate him in factory
D) it was difficult to get information out of him

A) in her imagination
B) in her dreams
C) in her words
D) in her imagination and dream of owning a boutique shop to become a famous fashion designer

A) talk unrealistic
B) be wise
C) be practical
D) be sensible and not to dream big

A) because it requires a lot of money
B) because it is not practical
C) because it is unrealistic
D) all these

A) That she will go door to door to collect money
B) She will open a boutique
C) she will open an office
D) she will become an actress or a manager to realize her dream.

A) to earn money
B) to be famous
C) to be a fashiondesigner
D) to earn a lot of money and open a boutique to be famous fashion designer.

A) because he is a happy go lucky man
B) because his imagination is poor
C) because he is unable to believe
D) because he is a realistic and believes in practicality

A) because of stove’s steam and dirtydishes
B) because of foul smell
C) because of smoke
D) because of no air

A) Geoffe – a trainee mechanic
B) Jansie
C) Dany Casey
D) none

A) repairing stove
B) repairing a car
C) repairing a cooler
D) went to the United dutifully with a lot of devotion

A) She met Mary Quaint a famous fashion designer
B) She met Prime Minister
C) She met Christopher
D) She met Danny Casy a famous footballer

A) Sunday morning
B) Sunday evening
C) Sunday afternoon
D) Saturday

A) cricket
B) Badminton
C) volleyball
D) football

A) Because they played well
B) they were united
C) they planned well
D) because of the goal made by Casey

A) Geoffe – a trainee mechanic
B) Casey
C) Frank
D) Derek

A) about Danny Casey
B) about Mary Quaint
C) about her dream
D) the reality behind her meeting with Danny Casey

A) Because he revealed her secret to Jansie’s brother
B) he doesn’t speak to her
C) because of his silence
D) none

Correct Answer: A

A) a football ground
B) in the match
C) in a hotel
D) a secret place near canal

A) they all represent her imagination and nothing in reality
B) they represent her nature
C) they explain her personality
D) they tell us her future

A) helps in dreaming big
B) helps in achieving big
C) develops creative imagination and disadvantage is that it makes people self obsessed.
D) none of these

A) a kind hearted
B) a loving and caring
C) a hard core realistic
D) carefree

A) he keeps silent
B) because he keeps her secret
C) because she can confide in him
D) all these

A) distant places
B) his vague personality
C) his jovial nature
D) wandering of his mind to distant places

A) Netherland
B) Newzealand
C) Switzerland
D) Ireland

A) because he keeps silent
B) because he is a mechanic
C) because he reveals his secret
D) because of inability to reach unknown areas of his mind

A) Because he is a heroic footballer and she meets him in imagination only
B) because he earns well
C) because he plays football
D) because he is smart