This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > English > Kathmandu > Class 9 English Chapter 10 Kathmandu – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 English Chapter 10 Kathmandu Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the Boudhnath stupa known for? A) Being a popular tourist spot. B) Being a busy marketplace. C) Being a religious pilgrimage site. D) Being a haven of quietness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Being a haven of quietness. 2. The flutes on the pole of fruit seller are compared to A) A beehive. B) A bunch of oranges. C) Guills of a porcupine. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Guills of a porcupine. 3. Who were trying to get the priest's attention at Pashupatinath's temple? A) Monkeys. B) Worshippers. C) Flute seller. D) Hawkers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Worshippers. 4. What is the synonym of protrudes? A) Swells. B) Expands. C) Shrinks. D) Stands out. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stands out. 5. What will happen when the small shrine on the Bagmati river bank will emerge fully? A) Bagmati river will thy out. B) The evil period of the Kaliyug will end. C) A new god will appear. D) The new era will start. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The evil period of the Kaliyug will end. 6. Choose the antonym for the word 'vibrant' A) Dull. B) Lively. C) Bright. D) Colorful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dull. 7. Where did the author see an immense white dome? A) In the street. B) In the Buddhnath stupa. C) At Pashupatinath temple. D) On the road. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the Buddhnath stupa. 8. What is a flute? A) A log piece with holes in it. B) A toy. C) A basic musical instrument. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A basic musical instrument. 9. Choose the antonym for the word 'obscure' A) Ambiguous. B) Vague. C) Uncertain. D) Clear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clear. 10. What did the writer buy? A) A bar of marzipan. B) Corn cooked on charcoal fire. C) Comics and a Reader's Digest. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 11. Name the different sounds that the author heard? A) Film songs from the radios. B) Car horns and bicycle bells. C) Vendors shouting and flute music. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 12. Complete the sentence:All this I wash down with Coca Cola and a nauseating orange drink, and much the ..... for it. A) Inferior. B) Better. C) Best. D) Worse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Best. 13. What did the author see at the Buddhnath Stupa? A) Awhite dome ringed by a road. B) Small shops. C) Tibetan prints and silver jewellery and no crowd. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 14. What is the Japanese shakuhachi? A) A Japanese toy. B) A kind of flute. C) A Japanese player. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A kind of flute. 15. According to the author what was incidental for the flute seller? A) Flute selling. B) Talking to fellow vendors. C) Playing flute. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flute selling. 16. Why does the author find himself unable to tear away from the square? A) He was buying flutes. B) The flute music was very sweet. C) There were many things to eat. D) He was watching a magic show. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The flute music was very sweet. 17. Which of the following is a synonym for the word 'hustle'? A) Laze. B) Rest. C) Bustle. D) Relax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bustle. 18. Which flute was he selling? A) The reed neh. B) The recorder. C) The Japanese Shakuhachi. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. "It weaves its own association" . Here 'it' refers to: A) The act of selling things. B) Guitar. C) Selling of flutes. D) Flute music. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flute music. 20. What is Kaliyug as per Hindu Mythology? A) Yug of future. B) Modern era. C) Era of sins. D) Advanced era. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Era of sins. 21. How did the author return to Delhi from Nepal? A) By train. B) By water route. C) By bus. D) By plane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By plane. 22. The streets of Kathmandu are A) (a) narrowest. B) (b) busiest. C) (c) both (a) and (b). D) D) none of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) (c) both (a) and (b). 23. The narrator is in a dilemma about: A) The route to his home. B) The means of transport. C) The day of destination. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The route to his home. 24. Kathmandu is the capital city of: A) Nepal. B) Bhutan. C) China. D) Bangladesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nepal. 25. What did the author indulge in while in Kathmandu? A) Local street food. B) Traditional Nepalese music. C) Shopping for souvenirs. D) Western snacks and drinks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Western snacks and drinks. 26. What does the writer Vikram Seth like very much? A) Talking. B) Scenic beauty. C) Travelling. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Travelling. 27. What was looking like the quills of a porcupine? A) Flute sellers stock of flutes. B) Flute sellers hair. C) The group of hawkers. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flute sellers stock of flutes. 28. What atmosphere is there around the Baudnath Stupa? A) A sense of stillness. B) Febrile confusion. C) Excitement and noises. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A sense of stillness. 29. What type of room did the author rent in? A) Air conditioned. B) Expensive. C) Cheap. D) Nota. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cheap. 30. Meaning of meditatively is A) Thoughtfully. B) Intended. C) Wares. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thoughtfully. 31. Why were the saffron-clad westerners struggling to enter Pashupatinath temple? A) The police men were not convinced that they were Hindus (only Hindus were allowed to enter). B) They wanted to take bribe. C) Because they were corrupted. D) NOTA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The police men were not convinced that they were Hindus (only Hindus were allowed to enter). 32. Entrance in Pashupatinath temple is allowed only for A) Hindus. B) Bandhs. C) Foreigners. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hindus. 33. What was there at the banks of river Bagmati? A) A church. B) A mosque. C) A submerged temple. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A submerged temple. 34. Choose the correct meaning of the Corpse is: A) Skeleton. B) Deceased person. C) Inanimate remains. D) Lifeless body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeleton. 35. Who is allowed to enter the Pashupatinath temple? A) Hindus only. B) Tourists only. C) Everyone. D) Buddhists only. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hindus only. 36. What can be found along the narrow and busy streets of Kathmandu? A) Shrines to flower-adorned deities. B) Bookstores and cafes. C) Art galleries and museums. D) Clothing stores and supermarkets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shrines to flower-adorned deities. 37. Tell the other names of the Flute. A) Bansuri. B) Reed. C) Murli, Shakuhachi, and Neh. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 38. What do you mean protrude? A) Extended beyond or above the surface. B) Venture. C) Recede. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extended beyond or above the surface. 39. What did the writer mean by saying 'All this I wash down with Coca Cola." ? A) All the eatables he ate while reading books with cocacola. B) He spilled coaca cola over the books. C) He spilled coca cola. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All the eatables he ate while reading books with cocacola. 40. The words written on the signboard outside Pashupatinath temple are: A) Entrance for hindus only. B) Entrance for Buddhists only. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Entrance for hindus only. 41. What is the synonym of "vermilion" ? A) Scarlet. B) Red. C) Crimson. D) Azure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red. 42. What does febrile confusion mean? A) A situation. B) An unknown situation. C) Complete chaos. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complete chaos. 43. Who were fighting outside Pashupatinath temple? A) Hawkers. B) Two men. C) Two women. D) Two monkeys. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two monkeys. 44. Where was the flute seller standing? A) In a corner. B) In left side. C) In right side. D) In front. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a corner. 45. What is the antonym of the word 'disorganized'? A) Messy. B) Chaotic. C) Orderly. D) Random. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Orderly. 46. Which two temples did the writer visit? A) Doleshwar Mahadev. B) Pashupatinath and Baudhnath Stupas. C) Gokarna Mahadev Temple. D) Santaneshwor Mahadev Temple. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pashupatinath and Baudhnath Stupas. 47. Spell the word 'Pashupatinath' correctly. A) Pashupatinath. B) Pashupatinat. C) Pashupatnath. D) Pashupatineth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pashupatinath. 48. What is the antonym of the word wilted? A) Rotten. B) Decayed. C) Dried. D) Fresh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fresh. 49. Which famous Hindu temple is situated in Kathmandu? A) Pashupatinath. B) Kedamath. C) Jagannath. D) Deenanath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pashupatinath. 50. Pashupatinath temple represents a picture of: A) Febrile confusion. B) Stillness. C) Corrupted. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Febrile confusion. 51. What did the writer Vikram Seth describe in his book Heaven Lake? A) A long journey. B) From China to India, via Tibet and Nepal. C) A journey to Pashupatinath temple. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A long journey. 52. What is the belief at Pashupatinath regarding the end of Kaliyug? A) If the water recedes at the banks of the river and Goddess is exposed that will be end of Kaliyug. B) If floods are there kaliyug will be ended. C) Too many sin will be end of kaliyug. D) If Dooms clock come to 0 Hour that will be end of Kalyug. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If the water recedes at the banks of the river and Goddess is exposed that will be end of Kaliyug. 53. Why did the author not take a adventurous route to return to his home? A) He was exhausted and home sick. B) He didn't want to waste money. C) He doesn't like travelling. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was exhausted and home sick. 54. According to the narrator, how does the flute seller, feel about his profession? A) Very happy. B) Satisfied. C) Off handed. D) Proud. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Off handed. 55. How does the flute seller plays his flute? A) Meditatively, slowly. B) Fast and in a hurry way. C) In a shouting manner. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meditatively, slowly. 56. What does it mean to be 'adaptable' in different situations? A) Being rigid and inflexible. B) Being unable to adjust to change. C) Being able to change according to the situation. D) Being resistant to change. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Being able to change according to the situation. 57. Meaning of shrine: A) NOTA. B) To reflect upon. C) A place of worship. D) Historic place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A place of worship. 58. What happens when the goddess inside the shrine on the river bank emerges fully? A) The river will flood. B) The Kaliyuga will end on earth. C) The goddess will disappear. D) The evil period will begin on earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Kaliyuga will end on earth. 59. What does it mean to be 'resilient' in the face of adversity? A) Being able to bounce back quickly from challenging situations. B) Being fragile and weak. C) Being unable to adjust to change. D) Being strong and inflexible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Being able to bounce back quickly from challenging situations. 60. How were the hawkers selling their things? A) By talking to the people. B) By giving pamphlets. C) By shouting. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By shouting. Next →Related QuizzesEnglish QuizzesClass 9 QuizzesClass 9 English Chapter 10 Kathmandu Quiz 2 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books