This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 8 > English > English Supplementary > Class 8 English Supplementary Chapter 2 Children At Work – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 8 English Supplementary Chapter 2 Children At Work Quiz 3 (54 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What that girl doing at station? A) Picking up dirty plastic cups from floor. B) Roaming around. C) Playing with her friends. D) Both A and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Picking up dirty plastic cups from floor. 2. Find an instance from from the text that denotes Velu physical being while he was there in the platform? A) Velu's legs were quivery while standing in the platform. B) Velu's legs were firmly planted in the ground when he was in the platform. C) Velu's leg felt freezing while he was standing on the platform. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Velu's legs were quivery while standing in the platform. 3. What did Jaya warn Velu about? A) The dangers of the city. B) Getting caught by the police. C) The importance of hard work. D) Avoiding strangers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Getting caught by the police. 4. What road were they walking on when they went for food? A) Tar road. B) Mud road. C) Cement road. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tar road. 5. Why do some children have to work according to the text? A) To play with other children. B) To travel to different cities. C) To avoid going to school. D) To help their family make a livelihood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To help their family make a livelihood. 6. What do you mean by Glumsy? A) Happy. B) Worry. C) Gloomy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gloomy. 7. What was the girl collecting? A) Garbage. B) Bottles, papers, plastic. C) Scrap. D) Debris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bottles, papers, plastic. 8. Synonym to "brutal" A) Calm. B) Inhuman. C) Kind. D) Exhausting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inhuman. 9. What is panicked? A) Was very worried. B) Was very happy. C) Was not very worried. D) Was not happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was very worried. 10. In what year did a law was introduced forbidding the use of boys for sweeping chimneys but was ignored? A) 1832. B) 1883. C) 1884. D) 1831. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1832. 11. Where there laws to protect working children? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 12. How he managed to arrive at Chennai? A) Walked from Kanpur. B) Bought ticket. C) Slept on the floor. D) Both A and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and C. 13. 5 What were the huts made of? A) Metal Sheets. B) Tyres and bricks. C) Wood and plastic. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 14. Fortunately, public awareness of the problem is increasing. A) Hours a person works. B) Money people are paid. C) Number of days a person gets off from work. D) Knowledge of something. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Knowledge of something. 15. Who asked this to whom? '' What do you think you're doing? Grazing cows? A) The girl questioned the other boys. B) The girl questioned velu. C) Velu questioned the girl. D) Father to velu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The girl questioned velu. 16. What were the huts made of? A) Metal Sheets. B) Tyres and Bricks. C) Wood and plastic. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 17. Jaya had to drag Velu to the other side because A) He kept hesitating to cross. B) Velu was her younger brother. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He kept hesitating to cross. 18. Where did the little girl take Velu to, for food? A) A hotel. B) Her hut. C) Behind a huge hall. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Behind a huge hall. 19. The story begins with a boy named Velu from- A) Chennai. B) Kanyakumari. C) Kanur. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kanur. 20. Velu pressed his stomach A) He has disease. B) Hungry. C) Insect bite him. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hungry. 21. Where was Jaya's hut situated? A) In south Chennai. B) In triplicane. C) In Kanyakumari. D) In north Chennai. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In triplicane. 22. Which of the following steps should not be followed for the eradication of child labour? A) Strict laws should be adopted to stop child labour. B) Awareness programmes should be conducted to stop child labour. C) Employment of children at shop or factories should be discouraged. D) Children should be deprived of basic education. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Children should be deprived of basic education. 23. What is the name of the young boy in the story? A) Velu. B) Ravi. C) Jaya. D) Kumar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Velu. 24. Velu didn't wanted to tell any strange girl what he had done A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. Who did Jaya sell the rubbish to? A) Jordan Lang. B) Jam Bazaar Jaggu. C) Xian Woo. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jam Bazaar Jaggu. 26. Velu's family in village was A) Middle class. B) Poor. C) Lower middle class. D) Rich. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poor. 27. Spell the correct word A) Achiplago. B) Archipelago. C) Archpelago. D) Arhipelago. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Archipelago. 28. What did Jaya do with the flower garland from the car? A) Ate it. B) Threw it away. C) Sold it. D) Stuck it in her hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stuck it in her hair. 29. Why did Velu's head spin? A) Because he was in hunger. B) Because of Smoke & Dust. C) Because he was tired. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because of Smoke & Dust. 30. " If you stand around in the middle of the road like that, you'll be ..... " A) Chutney. B) Salad. C) Fruit. D) Vanished. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chutney. 31. Velu stood on the platform but he felt "as if he was still on a moving train" . Why? A) He was uncomfortable standing on the crowded platform. B) He felt sleepy. C) He was used to crowded places. D) He loved railway stations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was uncomfortable standing on the crowded platform. 32. Where did Velu reach by train? A) Chennai. B) Thiruvananthapuram. C) Mumbai. D) Karnataka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chennai. 33. Velu came to Chennai by which train A) Kanyakumari Express. B) Konkan Express. C) Kerala Express. D) Chennai Express. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kanyakumari Express. 34. Did Velu get enough sleep on the train? A) I don't know. B) May be. C) Yes. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No. 35. What mode of transportation did Velu use to leave his town? A) Walking. B) Bus. C) Bicycle. D) Kanyakumari Express. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kanyakumari Express. 36. Where did he reach by train? A) Thiruvananthapuram. B) Mumbai. C) Chennai. D) Karnataka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chennai. 37. Who were employed as "coal bearers" ? A) Aged 5 children. B) Younger children. C) Older children. D) Middle aged children. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Older children. 38. The houses stood crookedly and looked as if the will fall any moment.What is the meaning of crookedly in this sentence? A) Strong. B) Not straight. C) Rigid. D) Small. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not straight. 39. The name of the girl who helped Velu in Chennai was A) Maya. B) Jaya. C) Saya. D) Kaya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jaya. 40. Velu's father was a A) Theif. B) Drunkard. C) Mechanic. D) Farmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drunkard. 41. Who said hey to Velu? A) Old Gentleman. B) Businessman. C) Boy. D) Girl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Girl. 42. Besides working very hard, what's another disadvantage faced by child laborers? A) They have to wear ugly uniforms. B) The factory owners don't feed them. C) Their families spend all of heir money. D) Because they can't go to school, they can't learn how to improve their lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because they can't go to school, they can't learn how to improve their lives. 43. Who is the author of "Children At Work" ? A) Gita Wolf. B) Anushka Ravishankar. C) Orijit Sen. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of them. 44. Why did Velu decide to follow "the strange girl" ? A) He knew no one else there and he thought she might give him something to eat. B) He wanted her sack. C) He liked her. D) She was rich. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He knew no one else there and he thought she might give him something to eat. 45. What was the name of the bride that was written outside the marriage hall? A) Vani. B) Mani. C) Rani. D) Sani. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rani. 46. Did he have money to buy the ticket? A) May be. B) Not mentioned in the story. C) Yes. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No. 47. What had Velu eaten before running away? A) Peanuts and Jaggery. B) Banana and a Vada. C) He had eaten nothing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peanuts and Jaggery. 48. Who was forced to work at a very young age to help support their families? A) Children. B) Poor Victorian children. C) Victorian children. D) Rich Victorian children. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poor Victorian children. 49. 1 What had Velu eaten before running away? A) A. peanuts and jaggery. B) B. banana and a vada. C) None of the above. D) He had eaten nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. peanuts and jaggery. 50. Sewing, washing, cooking and cleaning are ..... A) Factory workers. B) Special jobs. C) School subjects. D) Household chores. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Household chores. 51. What work did Jaya do? Think of a one-word answer. A) Plumbing. B) Teaching. C) Business. D) Ragpicking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ragpicking. 52. What did Velu think about working as a ragpicker? A) He enjoyed it. B) He would do it until he finds a better job. C) He found it easy. D) He would never do it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He would do it until he finds a better job. 53. How did Velu describe the platform A) People were walking in a systematized manner. B) People with suitcases were walking in the boisterous platform. C) People were waiting for the train. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People with suitcases were walking in the boisterous platform. 54. How did Velu escape the ticket collector's attention? A) The collector had weak eyesight. B) The ticket collector didn't come to the unreserved compartment where he was. C) He hid himself behind the luggage. D) He moved to the other compartment. 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