Class 12 English Flamingo book Chapter 8 Going Places MCQs

1- Who is A. R. Barton?
A) A modern writer
B) author of Going Places
C) lives in Zurich and writes in English
D) All these

2- What theme does Barton explore in this story?
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

3- What is the sub theme of the story?
A) Relationships- family and friends
B) friends
C) family members
D) adolescents

4- What is the significance of the subject discussed in the lesson?
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

5- What are the literary devices used in the lesson?
A) metaphorical expressions and slangs
B) similes
C) irony
D) none

6- What is the meaning of the word “chuffed”?
A) meaning delighted or very pleased
B) meaning not happy
C) meaning frustated
D) none

7- What is the meaning of the words :“nosey”, “gawky”?
A) “nosey”, meaning inquisitive and “gawky”, meaning awkward, ungainly.
B) noisy and beautiful
C) noisy and useful
D) noisy and gainful

8- The story Going Places revolve around whom?
A) a fat boy
B) an old couple
C) a teenage girl Sophie, her family and friends
D) none

9- What kind of girl is Sophie?
A) a happy go lucky kind
B) a realistic
C) Day dreamer
D) a naughty child

10- What is Sophie in reality?
A) a dreamer
B) a fighter
C) a worker at Biscuit factory
D) none

11- What does Sophie dream about?
A) Becoming an actor
B) becoming a manager
C) a sophisticated person
D) becoming rich and sophisticated

12- What is the turning point in the story?
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

13- What story she make up in front of her brother?
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.

14- Who are Sophie and Jansie?
A) teenagers who are friends and classmates
B) neighbourers
C) colleagues
D) actors

15- Explain – Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of a ground.
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

16- Where is Sophie lost?
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

17- What does Jansie tell Sophie?
A) talk unrealistic
B) be wise
C) be practical
D) be sensible and not to dream big

18- Why does Jansie discourage Sophie 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

19- What was Sophie’s reply to Jansie?
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.

20- Why does she want to be an actress?
A) to earn money
B) to be famous
C) to be a fashion designer
D) to earn a lot of money and open a boutique to be famous fashion designer.

21- Why is Jansie not able to support Sophie’s view?
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

22- Why does Sophie feel choked in the house?
A) because of stove’s steam and dirtydishes
B) because of foul smell
C) because of smoke
D) because of no air

23- Who is Sophie’s elder brother?
A) Geoffe – a trainee mechanic
B) Jansie
C) Dany Casey
D) none

24- Explain- On Saturday they made their weekly pilgrimage to the United
A) repairing stove
B) repairing a car
C) repairing a cooler
D) went to the United dutifully with a lot of devotion

25- What secret did Sophie share with her brother?
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

26- When does Sophie and her family go to watch the football match?
A) Sunday morning
B) Sunday evening
C) Sunday afternoon
D) Saturday

27- Which game are Sophie and her family fans of?
A) cricket
B) Badminton
C) volleyball
D) football

28- Why did their favourite team win the match?
A) Because they played well
B) they were united
C) they planned well
D) because of the goal made by Casey

29- Who is Sophie’s younger brother?
A) Geoffe – a trainee mechanic
B) Casey
C) Frank
D) Derek

30- What does Jansie ask Sophie?
A) about Danny Casey
B) about Mary Quaint
C) about her dream
D) the reality behind her meeting with Danny Casey

31- Why does Sophie get angry with her brother?
A) Because he revealed her secret to Jansie’s brother
B) he doesn’t speak to her
C) because of his silence
D) none

32- Where does Sophie visit to meet Casey in her imagination?
A) a football ground
B) in the match
C) in a hotel
D) a secret place near canal

33- Sophie’s dreams and disappointments are all in her mind?
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

34- What are the advantages and disadvantages of fantasising?
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

35- What kind of person is Sophie’s father?
A) a kind hearted
B) a loving and caring
C) a hard core realistic
D) carefree

36- Why did Sophie like her brother Geoff more than anyone else?
A) he keeps silent
B) because he keeps her secret
C) because she can confide in him
D) all these

37- What does Geoff’s silence symbolise in Sophie’s view?
A) distant places
B) his vague personality
C) his jovial nature
D) wandering of his mind to distant places

38- Which country did Danny play for?
A) Netherland
B) New Zealand
C) Switzerland
D) Ireland

39- Why does Sophie feel jealous of her brother?
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

40- Why is Sophie attracted to Danny and does she meet him in reality?
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

41- Danny had a freckled nose and the colour of his eyes was
A) grey
B) green
C) blue
D) brown

42- Outside the pub, Sophie saw something. It was
A) her dad’s bicycle
B) her brother’s car
C) her mother’s motorcycle
D) Derek’s tricycle

43- According to Sophie, the place she had chosen to meet Danny was
A) a hidden alley
B) a perfect place
C) behind the walls
D) near the trees

44- Sophie told Jansie that her father if he got to know about her meeting with Danny would
A) agree to their marriage
B) murder her
C) ask her to call him over for dinner
D) ask to be introduced to him

45- The match on Saturday was witnessed by
A) the whole family
B) only father and Sophie
C) Geoff alone
D) Sophie, father, Derek and Geoff

46- Danny Casey was a player in the football team of
A) Ireland
B) Finland
C) England
D) Denmark

47- Sophie told Geoff that Danny was unable to sign an autograph for her because
A) his secretary did not allow it
B) he didn’t have paper or pen
C) he said he’d do it later
D) he was in a hurry to go horrie

48- What did Sophie tell Geoff one day that made him look surprised?
A) she had seen a ghost
B) she had met her principal
C) she had got a job
D) she had met Danny Casey

49- Geoff never took Sophie out with him because he thought she was
A) immature
B) badly behaved
C) too young
D) too restless

50- What was Sophie’s father keen to buy if Sophie ever came into money?
A) a luxury car
B) a decent house
C) a yacht
D) a shop