This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 10 > English > Supplementary > The Making Of A Scientist > Class 10 English Supplementary Chapter 6 The Making Of A Scientist – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 English Supplementary Chapter 6 The Making Of A Scientist Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How did Richard's mother help him through his journey in science? A) Took him on trips. B) Bought him telescopes and microscopes. C) Encouraged him to learn. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 2. Francis Crick helped discover the structure of DNA and believed we came from ..... A) Chimpanzee. B) Whales. C) Elephants. D) Alien. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alien. 3. Ebright got a hint of what real science is when he entered a county science fair and A) Won. B) Lost. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lost. 4. What is the blueprint of life according to Ebright? A) Gametes. B) Alleles. C) Genes. D) DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) DNA. 5. What did Ebright discover in the later years of life, as in the chapter, 'The making of a Scientist'? A) How a cell could read the blueprint of its DNA. B) How do butterflies reproduce. C) How to study planetary movements. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How a cell could read the blueprint of its DNA. 6. Where did he spend his summer after graduation? A) Harvard University. B) University of Toronto. C) U.S. Department of Agriculture. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) U.S. Department of Agriculture. 7. Which butterflies do not taste good to birds, as per Ebright in the chapter 'The making of a Scientist'? A) Monarch butterflies. B) Viceroy butterflies. C) Colourful butterflies. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monarch butterflies. 8. Maria lives in Boston. Before she ..... (move) here, she ..... (live) in Seattle for three years. A) Moved-has lived. B) Has moved-lived. C) Have moved-lived. D) Moved-lived. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moved-lived. 9. What ..... like last week? A) Has the weather been. B) The weather has been. C) Was the weather. D) The weather was. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was the weather. 10. Which of the following is a part of the life cycle of butterflies? A) Egg. B) Caterpillar. C) Pupa. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 11. Which of the following is a type of butterflies? A) Viceroy. B) Monarch. C) Both (A) and (B). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both (A) and (B). 12. ..... is the blueprint of life A) Oxygen. B) DNA. C) Cell. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) DNA. 13. For his eighth grade project, Ebright tried to find the cause of a viral disease that killed all monarch ..... A) Butterflies. B) Locusts. C) Grasshoppers. D) Caterpillars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Caterpillars. 14. Which of these is a quality of a good scientist? A) Pretty. B) Skeptical. C) Tall. D) Handsome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skeptical. 15. Which theory is discovered by Ebright? A) How cells work. B) How motion works. C) How the digestion system works. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How cells work. 16. What was Ebright awarded for during school & college days, as in the chapter 'The making of a Scientist'? A) Doing experiments. B) Conducting researches. C) Writing theories. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Doing experiments. 17. DNA determine the ..... and ..... of the cell. A) Development and growth. B) Form and formation. C) Composition and function. D) Form and function. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Form and function. 18. What did the book 'The Travels of Monarch X' describe, as in the chapter 'The making of a Scientist'? A) How monarch butterflies migrate to Northern America. B) How monarch butterflies migrate to Central America. C) How monarch butterflies migrate to Southern America. D) How monarch butterflies migrate to Western America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How monarch butterflies migrate to Central America. 19. Ebright's theory was published in a journal named ..... , as in the chapter 'The Making of a Scientist'. A) Young Scientists. B) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. C) Science & Scholars. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 20. Which butterfiles copied monarchs to prevent being eaten by birds?A) vice presidentB) viceroyC) viceprincipalD) vices A) VICEPRINCIPAL. B) VICEROY. C) VICES. D) VICE PRESIDENT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) VICEROY. 21. He tried to grow ..... in the presence of beetles. A) Illegal plants. B) Caterpillars. C) Butterflies. D) Snakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caterpillars. 22. Ebright's major interest was in which insect, as in the chapter 'The making of a Scientist'? A) Grasshopper. B) Wasps. C) Caterpillar. D) Butterflies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Butterflies. 23. To strike or bite with beak or teeth. A) Principle. B) Bacteria. C) Friction. D) Pecking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pecking. 24. Apart from scientist research Ebright had a keen interest in ..... A) Travelling. B) Drawing. C) SST. D) Debate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Debate. 25. Name Ebright's college roommate. A) John Bing Chilling. B) James R. Wong. C) John R. Wong. D) John A. Wong. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James R. Wong. 26. What was Ebrights' hobby as a kid, as in the chapter 'The making of a Scientist'? A) Collecting books. B) Collecting things. C) Collecting stamps. D) Collecting currency. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Collecting things. 27. She ..... yesterday. A) Didn't phoned. B) Have phoned. C) Phoned. D) Has phoned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phoned. 28. Which step of the process of scientific inquiry is shown in the following quote? "Because there are lice bothering it" A) Engaging in a process to answer those questions. B) Developing an explanation based on those conclusions. C) Asking questions. D) Drawing conclusions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drawing conclusions. 29. Before you do a close read on a text, what is the first thing you should do? A) Set up your notebook. B) Number the paragraphs. C) Write BWA on your paper. D) Read the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Read the text. 30. What was Feynman's father trying to teach his son when they were playing with the bathoom tiles? A) Addition. B) Elementary mathematics. C) Math is fun. D) How to be a scientist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elementary mathematics. 31. I could not find him. He was hiding ..... the door. A) Between. B) Under. C) On. D) Behind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Behind. 32. He had a great hunger for learning, who is "he" being referred to here? A) Robber I. Bright. B) Richard H Ebright. C) Robert W. Peterson. D) Robert L. Peterson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Richard H Ebright. 33. A force that opposes motion A) Friction. B) Relative. C) Principle. D) Bacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friction. 34. How many paragraphs are in "The Making of a Scientist" ? A) 10. B) 28. C) 15. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 30. 35. Richard H. Ebright was famous: A) Engineer. B) Doctor. C) Singer. D) Scientist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scientist. 36. He tried to grow ..... in the presence of betties A) Snakes. B) Rats. C) Caterpillar. D) Butterflies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caterpillar. 37. WHICH BUTTERFLIES WERE NOT EATEN BY BIRDS? A) VICEROY. B) MONARCH. C) ALL OF THE ABOVE. D) NONE OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) MONARCH. 38. Who wrote "The Making of a Scientist" ? A) Sinclair Lewis. B) Robert W. Peterson. C) Guy de Maupassant. D) H. G. Wells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robert W. Peterson. 39. Most of Ebright's experiments were on ..... , as in the chapter 'The making of a Scientist'. A) Flowers. B) Butterflies. C) Worms. D) Insects. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Butterflies. 40. Which word means ' to visit to other places'. A) Move. B) Transport. C) Migrate. D) Transform. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Migrate. 41. Which book did Ebright's mother give him to? A) Travels of Viceroy X. B) Travels of Dr Urquhart. C) Travels of Ebright. D) Travels of Monarch X. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Travels of Monarch X. 42. What did Ebright start searching in the 2nd year of high school, as in the chapter 'The making of a Scientist'? A) An unknown hormone in the red spots of monarch butterflies. B) An unknown hormone in the green spots of leaves. C) An unknown hormone in the different species of butterflies. D) An unknown hormone in the gold spots of butterflies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An unknown hormone in the gold spots of butterflies. 43. DNA is the substance in the nucleus of a cell that controls ..... A) Heredity. B) Human body. C) Cell function. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heredity. 44. Archimedes popularized the term, " ..... !" when he discovered the principle of displacement. A) Marvel. B) Eureka. C) Miracle. D) Revelation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eureka. 45. You better hurry since you must get there ..... seven o'clock. A) At. B) In. C) By. D) On. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At. 46. What is the blueprint of life? A) Oxygen. B) DNA. C) Cell. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) DNA. 47. What is an invention that was created by both Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton? A) Telescope. B) Glasses. C) Bicycle. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Telescope. 48. The book 'The Travels of Monarch X' was gifted to Ebright by ..... , as in the chapter 'The making of a Scientist'. A) His father. B) His mother. C) The writer. D) His teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His mother. 49. HE TRIES TO GROW ..... IN THE PRESENCE OF BETTIES? A) RATS. B) BUTTERFLIES. C) SNAKES. D) CATTERPILLAR. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) CATTERPILLAR. 50. The most important discovery of Ebright was- A) Cell life. B) Chemical structure of Hormone. C) Atomic Structure. D) Viceroy butterfly copies Monarch butterfly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cell life. 51. En "The Making of a Scientist, " Feynman's father teaches him four lessons using tiles, dinosaurs, birds, and a wagon. Which one showed an example of movement and laws of motion? A) Dinosaurs. B) Tiles. C) Birds. D) Wagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wagon. 52. Do you think Ebright's success has a major contribution of his mother, as in the chapter 'The making of a Scientist'? A) May be. B) No. C) Yes. D) May be not. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yes. 53. "Thus, DNA is the blueprint for life" , is another way of saying that the DNA contains a genetic ..... A) Takeaway. B) Ultimatum. C) Experiment. D) Plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plan. 54. The cells from the monarch's wings would divide and develop into normal butterfly wing scales only if they were fed hormone from the ..... A) Gold strips. B) Gold spots. C) Black spots. D) Black strips. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gold spots. 55. In paragraph 23 of the text, what is the meaning of the word principle? A) A kind manner. B) An entertaining story. C) A general rule. D) A confusing idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A general rule. 56. En "The Making of a Scientist, " Feynman's father teaches him four lessons using tiles, dinosaurs, birds, and a wagon. Which one showed an example of observation? A) Tiles. B) Dinosaurs. C) Wagon. D) Birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Birds. 57. Ebright became a champion debater and public speaker while he was a high school student. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 58. All of Richard Ebright's achievements started with ..... A) Coins. B) Fossils. C) Rocks. D) Butterflies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Butterflies. 59. Ebright graduated from A) Harvard. B) London. C) Oxford. D) Toronto. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harvard. 60. What did Ebright do to raise a flock of butterflies, as in the chapter 'The making of a Scientist'? A) He would catch a female monarch and take her eggs. B) He would raise them in his basement from egg to caterpillar to pupa to adult butterfly. C) Then he would tag the butterflies' wings and let them go. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. Next →Related QuizzesSupplementary QuizzesEnglish QuizzesClass 10 English Supplementary Chapter 6 The Making Of A Scientist Quiz 2Class 10 English Supplementary Chapter 6 The Making Of A Scientist Quiz 3Class 10 English Supplementary Chapter 6 The Making Of A Scientist Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books