This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 8 > English > The Tsunami > Class 8 English Chapter 2 The Tsunami – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 8 English Chapter 2 The Tsunami Quiz 2 (52 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF INEVITABLE A) THAT CANNOT BE AVOIDED. B) WITHOUT PLAN OR ORDER. C) SHOWN. D) PUZZLES. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) THAT CANNOT BE AVOIDED. 2. Who was lucky to escape death in the tsunami? A) Meghna. B) Almas Javed. C) Tilly Smith. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. What was the reason behind very few animals being victims of the tsunami? A) They possess a sixth sense that helps them predict. B) They have acute hearing abilities. C) People saved them. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 4. Sanjeev was a ..... A) Barber. B) Chef. C) Policeman. D) Thief. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Policeman. 5. The word 'acute' means A) Small. B) Sharp. C) Good. D) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sharp. 6. Where did the Smith family and the others on the beach go to escape from the tsunami? A) The Smith family and the others ran towards the hotel, and sought refuge on its third floor. B) They sought refuge under a large rock. C) They went to the airport to escape from the tsunami. D) The Smith family and several others went outside the hotel to escape from the tsunami. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Smith family and the others ran towards the hotel, and sought refuge on its third floor. 7. WHAT DO THE PEOPLE WANT FOR THEIR SETTLEMENT? A) WATER. B) SAND. C) WOOD. D) MONEY. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) WATER. 8. Ignacious his family rushed out of the house because A) They heard the noise. B) They feared the coming of tsunami. C) They just wanted to go our. D) They felt an earthquake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They felt an earthquake. 9. NAME OF THE SRILANKAN GENTLEMAN ..... WHO SAID THAT HIS TWO DOGS REFUSED TO GO ON THE BEACH. A) GALLE. B) TILLY SMITH. C) ALMAS. D) SANJEEV. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) GALLE. 10. They ran in the opposite direction because of A) His parents. B) Confusion. C) Chaos. D) Tsunami. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Confusion. 11. Tilly Smith was a ..... school girl. A) French. B) British. C) Lankan. D) Thai. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) British. 12. ..... year old Meghna was swept away along with her parents and ..... other people A) 13 & 70. B) 10 & 77. C) 10 & 70. D) 13 & 77. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 13 & 77. 13. Two of Ignacious's children died because A) They were separated from their parents. B) Ingnacious could not hold their hands. C) They had gone in the opposite direction. D) They remained sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They had gone in the opposite direction. 14. ....What do people say about the elephants of Yala National Park? A) People say that the elephants of the park started behaving in a strange way as tsunami hit. B) People reported to have seen three elephants running away from the Patanangla beach about an hour before tsunami came. C) It was told about the elephants of the park that they all lined up together at the beach. D) The elephants were observed to start destroying the trees in the park. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People reported to have seen three elephants running away from the Patanangla beach about an hour before tsunami came. 15. These lines have been taken from the lesson named A) The Summit Within. B) Tsunami. C) This is Jody's Fawn. D) The best Christmas present in the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tsunami. 16. What were the warning signs that both Tilli and her mother saw? A) Tilli and her mother saw the sea slowly rise, start to foam and bubble and form whirlpools. These were the warning signs of a Tsunami. B) They saw a few dead people lying on the beach and got warned of the coming danger. C) They saw red flags posted all along the beach as signs of warning. D) They saw that the sea had become unusually quiet and all the whales were coming to the shore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tilli and her mother saw the sea slowly rise, start to foam and bubble and form whirlpools. These were the warning signs of a Tsunami. 17. Which of the following reaction of the sea was noticed by Tilly? A) The sea slowly rise. B) Start to foam. C) Form whirlpools. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. The building where Tilly Smith and family found refuge withstood ..... huge waves A) Two. B) Three. C) Four. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three. 19. Tilly Smith was from A) Thailand. B) England. C) London. D) Us. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) England. 20. The word " nami" means ..... A) Wave. B) Harbour. C) Rock. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wave. 21. ALMAS 'S MOTHER RAHILA 'S HOME WAS IN ..... ISLAND. A) NANCOWRY. B) Patnangala. C) YALA. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NANCOWRY. 22. How many people and animals died in Yala National Park? A) 60 people got washed away off the Patanangala beach in the park and carcasses of water buffaloes were found. B) No human or animal died in the park . C) There were 12 people and several birds found dead after the tsunami in the Yala National Park. D) Every living being inside the Yala National Park died. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 60 people got washed away off the Patanangala beach in the park and carcasses of water buffaloes were found. 23. MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT ANIMALS POSSES A ..... SENSE AND KNOW WHEN THE EARTH IS GOING TO SHAKE. A) Chin. B) 5TH. C) 8TH. D) An offer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chin. 24. On what date did the tsunami hit Thailand and parts of India A) 26 December 2004. B) 25 December 2005. C) 24 December 2004. D) 24 December 2006. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 26 December 2004. 25. The word 'acute' in the passage means A) Sharp. B) Hard. C) Thin. D) Big. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sharp. 26. On which date, a tsunami hit Thailand and parts of India such as Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Tamil Nadu coast. A) 26 December, 2002. B) 26 December, 2004. C) 26 December, 2003. D) 26 December, 2001. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 26 December, 2004. 27. Meghna was saved by a relief helicopter. State whether the statement is TRUE or FALSE. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 28. Two of Ignesious's children died because A) They were separated from their parents. B) Ignesious could not hold their hands. C) They had gone in the opposite direction. D) They remained sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They had gone in the opposite direction. 29. Katchall is an island A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. A tsunami is a ..... word. A) American. B) Japanese. C) Arabic. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Japanese. 31. TILLY SMITH AND HER FAMILY WERE Christmas at a beach resort in ..... A) NORTHERN. B) WESTERN. C) SOUTHERN. D) EASTERN. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) SOUTHERN. 32. In the chaos and confusion, two of his children caught hold of the hands of their mother's father and mother's brother, and rushed in the opposite direction. He never saw them again. His wife was also swept away. Only the three other children who came with him were saved.-(Page 25) These lines have been taken from the lesson named A) This is Jody's Fawn. B) The Summit Within. C) The best Christmas present in the world. D) Tsunami. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tsunami. 33. The little girl who was saved many leaves during the tsunami rage was A) Penny Smith. B) Tilly Smith. C) Meghna. D) Almas Javed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tilly Smith. 34. Parents of Tilly Smith A) Penny and Colin Smith. B) Penny and Edmund Smith. C) Susan and Colin Smith. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Penny and Colin Smith. 35. Ignesious anticipated it to be a tsunami A) True. B) False. C) Not sure. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 36. But the fact is that the giant waves that rolled through the ..... killed more than 150, 000 people in a dozen countries A) Atlantic Ocean. B) Indian Ocean. C) Arctic Ocean. D) Pacific Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indian Ocean. 37. Who believe animals have acute hearing A) Astronauts. B) People. C) Experts. D) Scientists. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Experts. 38. How many people were washed away from the Patanangala beach? A) 50. B) 70. C) 60. D) 80. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 60. 39. Where did Ignesious work? A) Yala National park. B) Cuddle. C) Katchall. D) Kamorta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Katchall. 40. Who had seen a video of tsunami in her geography class? A) Meghna. B) Almas Javed. C) Tilly Smith. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tilly Smith. 41. Her mother and aunts were washed away with the tree that they were holding on to. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. How did Tilly become aware of the upcoming calamity? A) The video is tsunami. B) Through a friend. C) Through books. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The video is tsunami. 43. A National Park in Sri Lanka is mentioned in the chapter. Which one is it? A) Nami National Park. B) Patnangala national park. C) National Sri Lankan Park. D) Yala National Park. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yala National Park. 44. Penny is describing a scene from? A) India. B) England. C) America. D) Thailand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thailand. 45. Where did the Smith family actually belong to? A) India. B) England. C) Thailand. D) Sri Lanka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) England. 46. The tsunami came because of earthquakes under the ..... ocean A) ATLANTIC. B) PACIFIC. C) INDIAN. D) ARTIC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) INDIAN. 47. "The water was swelling and kept coming in, " Penny Smith remembered. "The beach was getting smaller and smaller. I didn't know what was happening." (Page 27) The water referred to in the above lines is A) The boiling water in a pot. B) The water of a river. C) The sea water. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sea water. 48. According to experts, animals possess an acute ..... power. A) Eating. B) Hearing. C) Watching. D) Sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hearing. 49. According to many people, which sense do the animals possess? A) Sixth. B) First. C) Fourth. D) Tenth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sixth. 50. ..... -'s father realized a tsunami was going to hit the island A) Meghana. B) Almas. C) Tilly. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Almas. 51. Whose children were they A) Ignesious. B) Javed's. C) Almas's. D) Sanjeev's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ignesious. 52. Ignesious was the manager of of a cooperative society in A) Katchall. B) Port Blair. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Katchall. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesEnglish QuizzesClass 8 QuizzesClass 8 English Chapter 2 The Tsunami Quiz 1 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books