Memories of Childhood MCQs with Answers NCERT Class 12 English Lesson 6

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“Memories of Childhood” MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 12 English Vistas Book Lesson 6

MCQs of Class 12 English Chapter 8, Memories of Childhood by Zitkala Sa and Bama have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 12 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 8- Memories of Childhood from NCERT Vistas book. Each question has four options followed by the correct answer. Students can also take a free test of the MCQs of Memories of Childhood. These MCQ Questions have been selected based on the latest exam pattern as announced by CBSE.

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1- Who is the author of the lesson Memories of childhood?
A) Zitkala-Sa and Bama
B) Emily Brontë and Jane Bronte
C) Charles Dickens and Mark Twain
D) None of these

2- What does the story present?
A) The story of a little girl
B) The biography of an old man
C) Autobiographical episodes from the lives of two women
D) None of these

3- What are the names of the two women?
A) Zitkala Sa, a Native American and Bama, a Tamilian Dalit
B) Zeenat, an Anglo-Indian and Banjo, a West Indian
C) Ba and Ma
D) Annan and Bama

4- What advice did Annan give to Bama?
A) to go away from the place to the city
B) to leave the house and run away
C) to study hard and progress to rise above all shackles of indignity
D) All of these

5- Who was Zitkala Sa?
A) A Tamilian
B) A protester
C) A native American
D) None of these

6- What did Zitkala Sa find?
A) prejudice towards native American culture and women
B) discrimination on gender basis
C) discrimination on the basis of wealth
D) all these

7- What did the cutting of the long hair of Zitkala Sa symbolise in the lesson?
A) subjugation to the rulers
B) her wish to dominate
C) her wish to get justice
D) her wish to look modern

8- Who is Bama’s brother?
A) A boy named Anna
B) An old man named Aman
C) Annan
D) None of these

9- How much time did Bama take to reach home that day?
A) 2 hours
B) 3 hours
C) 4 hours
D) 1 hour

10- What is the meaning of childhood memories?
A) memories of time spent with a child
B) memories of a group of chidlren
C) memories of ancient period
D) memories formed during childhood period

11- Why did Bama reach home in one hour in place of the usual duration of 10 minutes?
A) she was watching shows on the road
B) she was stopping at every shop
C) she was enjoying all the fun on the roads
D) all these

12- What did Zitkala Sa feel when her long hair was cut?
A) oppression and victimization
B) happy and delighted
C) relaxed
D) None of these

13- What was Bama a victim of?
A) gender prejudice
B) violence
C) child abuse
D) caste system

14- Bama was a very rebellious person, and the idea of being oppressed by upper classes ___________.
A) infuriated her
B) provoked her to slap someone
C) made her abusive
D) made her want to murder someone

15- What did Zitkala mean by Eating By Formula?
A) A set pattern fixed for the manner of sitting
B) A set pattern for the manner of standing in lines
C) A set pattern of rules for talking to others
D) A set pattern of eating decorum

16- Why did Zitkala not like her hair to be cut?
A) because her mother told her that mourners and cowards keep such hair.
B) she liked long hair
C) she wanted a different style
D) she didn’t like anyone to touch her hair

17- Who told Bama that untouchability is a crime?
A) her mother
B) Zitkala Sa
C) her sister, Aji
D) Her brother Annan

18- What comic incident did Bama mention to her brother?
A) a man bringing vadas for his landlord by holding the vada packet by a string.
B) a man bringing vadas in a basket made of leaves
C) a man bringing vadas in a tiffin box
D) all these

19- Which community does Bama belong to? 
A) rich
B) Brahmins
C) Untouchable low caste
D) None of these

20- What is the meaning of untouchability?
A) segregating a minority from the mainstream social group
B) one who should not be touched because one is suffering from a communicable disease
C) the practise of social distancing
D) none of these

21- Why did Zitkala find ‘Eating by formula’ a hard trial?
A) because of her inability to follow the bell taps
B) because of too many rules
C) because of restrictions
D) none of these

22- What attracted Bama in the street?
A) monkeys
B) the cyclist
C) Pongal offerings
D) all these

23- Why did Zitkala feel oppressed in her new establishment?
A) because of indignities shown to her
B) because she didn’t like the place
C) she wanted to be with her mother
D) none of these

24- When did Bama first come to know of social discrimination?
A) in class 1
B) when she was in class 3
C) when she was in class 2
D) when she was in class 4

25- Why did the Landlord’s man ask Bama’s brother on which street did they live?
A) to know his name
B) to know his background
C) to know his work
D) to know his caste

26- “I felt like sinking to the floors”. Why did Zitkala feel so?
A) because her blanket was stripped off from her shoulders and she felt uncomfortable
B) because she didn’t like her short hair
C) because she didn’t like her dress
D) because she felt cold

27- What did Judewin tell Zitkala?
A) A new dress is coming
B) she will meet her mother
C) she will go to a new place
D) her hair would be cut

28- How did Bama earn Tthe respect of the people of higher class?
A) by shopping
B) by spending money
C) by studying hard and earning the first position in her class
D) all these

29- What sort of shows attracted Bama?
A) shows by jugglers
B) shows by monkeys
C) shows by political persons
D) All of these

30- Why was Zitkala in tears on her first day in the land of apples?
A) because of new environment
B) cultural differences
C) eating by formula and cutting of her hair
D) all these

31- What was common between Bama and Zitkala Sa?
A) belonged to a minority
B) victims of cultural differences
C) were struggling because of their class
D) all these

32- Why did Zitkala start crying at the dining table?
A) she didn’t like the food
B) she was a stranger
C) because of eating by formula
D) all these

33- Why did Zitkala hide herself?
A) she was playing hide and seek
B) to save herself from a woman
C) to save herself from other children
D) to stop people from cutting her hair

34- How did the scene in the market change Bama’s life?
A) because of that she decided to study hard and stand against discrimination
B) she became fearful
C) she became stubborn
D) she was irritated

35- What was the name of the school where Zitkala studied?
A) Carlisle Indian school
B) Carlisle Western school
C) Carlisle Indonesian school
D) Carlisle American school

36- What is Belfry?
A) part of a bell tower
B) part of a tower
C) part of a music tower
D) part of a silver tower

37- What had hurt Bama in the society?
A) Political plays
B) class students
C) Road shows
D) Practice of untouchability

38- “We have to submit because they are strong.” The speaker of these words was ______.
A) Zitkala-Sa
B) Judewin
C) Marry-Ann
D) Christine

39- In the author’s tribe, only _________ had short hair.
A) mourners
B) old people
C) young kids
D) elderly women

40- The entire classroom of students _____________ as the bell rang.
A) sat on the floor
B) drew a chair from under the table
C) sat on the stools
D) knelt down on the ground

41- The Indian girls wore ______________.
A) clinging dresses
B) nightgowns
C) trousers
D) skirts

42- Zitkala-Sa was a victim of ____________.
A) racial prejudice
B) serious crime
C) rape
D) a car accident

43- Bama’s brother advised her that she needed to _________ if she wanted to advance.
A) learn to cook
B) study
C) learn to stitch and knit
D) learn to drive

44- Bama’s elder brother was studying at _____________.
A) school
B) college
C) university
D) medical college

45- One day the author was drawn by the sight of _______________.
A) two riders on a horse
B) a monkey performing tricks
C) cattle treading out the grain from straw
D) dogs fighting with cats

46- There would always be some kind of entertainment ________________.
A) in the school
B) in the church
C) in the bazaar
D) in the house

47- The author, Bama, believed she had already endured shame as a result of ______.
A) dark skin
B) short height
C) poverty
D) untouchability

48- Everyone were staring at the author, and she felt uncomfortable because _________.
A) looked pretty
B) looked terrible
C) had suffered extreme indignities
D) looked like a model

49. Bama had mistakenly assumed that the man carrying the bag was just  ______________.
A) making a game out of carrying the parcel
B) trying to make her laugh
C) obeying orders
D) not touching it because it was hot

50- Which family did Bama belong to?
A) A jewish family
B) a rich family
C) a poor catholic family
D) all

 

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ANSWER KEY

1A26A
2C27D
3A28C
4C29D
5C30D
6A31D
7A32C
8C33D
9D34A
10D35A
11D36A
12A37D
13D38B
14A39A
15D40B
16A41A
17D42A
18A43B
19C44C
20A45C
21A46C
22D47D
23A48C
24B49 A
25D50 C

 

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