This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > English > Supplementary The Lost Child > Class 9 English Supplementary Chapter 1 The Lost Child – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 English Supplementary Chapter 1 The Lost Child Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What did the child try to catch in the mustard field? A) Butterflies. B) Dragonflies. C) Birds. D) Bees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dragonflies. 2. What did the child want to eat at the fair? A) C) ladoo. B) Burfi. C) B) pastry. D) D) jalebi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Burfi. 3. What did the father do when the child said, "I want that toy." A) He at once bought the toy for the child. B) He said, "Look, child, what is before you. C) He began to beat the child. D) He looked at the child red-eyed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He looked at the child red-eyed. 4. What festival were the people going tp celebrate? A) Festival of Holi. B) Festival of Spring. C) Deepawali. D) Festival of Summer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Festival of Spring. 5. Name the author (writer) of the story 'The Lost Child'. A) Ruskin Bond. B) R.K.Laxman. C) Mulk Raj Anand. D) Oscar Wilde. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mulk Raj Anand. 6. Read the extract and answer the questions:1. As he came to where they had stopped to wait for him, he could not suppress the desire of his heart, even though he well knew the old, cold thirst in their eyes.Who is 'he' in the above extract? A) A mad boy. B) A big boy. C) A rag picker. D) A little boy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A little boy. 7. Who said to whom '' Look, child, what is before you ''? A) Father to Child. B) Mother to Child. C) Generous Man to Child. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mother to Child. 8. Name the things that the child saw on his way to the fair? A) Toys. B) Sweets and garlands. C) Balloons. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 9. At what point in the fair did the child lose his parents? A) At the sweetmeat-shop. B) At the flower-shop. C) At the balloon-sellers. D) At the roundabout. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) At the roundabout. 10. What did the stranger who rescued the child, try to do? A) He tried to soothe the child. B) He tried to kidnap the child. C) He left the child in a corner. D) He scolded the child. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He tried to soothe the child. 11. The author of the lesson is ..... A) Oscar Wilde. B) Mulk Raj Anand. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mulk Raj Anand. 12. What did the parents say when the child lagged behind? A) 'Come, child, come.'. B) 'Come, we're getting late.'. C) 'Come, have these toys.'. D) 'Come, or you'll be lost.'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 'Come, child, come.'. 13. What does the child's refusal to all the attractive things show towards the end? A) Child lost his interest. B) Child's obstinacy. C) Bond of love between child and parents is above everything. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bond of love between child and parents is above everything. 14. What did the child want to have at the flower shop? A) A garland of roses. B) A garland of violets. C) A garland of Gulmohar. D) A garland of lilies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A garland of Gulmohar. 15. What shop was there at the entrance of the fair? A) A toy shop. B) A balloon shop. C) A sweet meat shop. D) A flower shop. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A sweet meat shop. 16. What did the child realize? A) The fair was charming. B) The toys were attractive. C) That parents are the most valuable asset. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That parents are the most valuable asset. 17. How did the flowering mustard-field look? A) Pale like melting gold. B) White like silver. C) Red like a rose. D) Lovely like a rainbow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pale like melting gold. 18. When did the child realize that he had lost his way? A) While running. B) While eating icecream. C) When he turned to take permission from his parents to take a ride on a roundabout. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When he turned to take permission from his parents to take a ride on a roundabout. 19. Which sweet did the child demand? A) Gulag jamun. B) Rasgulla. C) Jalebi. D) Burfi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burfi. 20. What is the meaning of brimming? A) Lack of concern or interest. B) To be full of something. C) The feeling of wanting something very much. D) Joyful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To be full of something. 21. What did the child do as they passed by the mustard field? A) He collected some flowers. B) He ran after butterflies and caught some of them. C) He tried to catch dragonflies as one of them settled down to rest there. D) He lay down to rest there. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He tried to catch dragonflies as one of them settled down to rest there. 22. Read the extract and answer the questions:1. As he came to where they had stopped to wait for him, he could not suppress the desire of his heart, even though he well knew the old, cold thirst in their eyes.Why did the child lag behind his parents? A) Because he started playing with animals. B) Because he stopped at many places to look closely at his favourite things. C) Because he was walking slowly. D) Because he was crying. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because he stopped at many places to look closely at his favourite things. 23. What did the child want from the flower shop? The garland of ..... A) Roses. B) Violets. C) Gulmohar. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gulmohar. 24. Why did the child lose his interest in all the things he was interested earlier? A) Because of separation from his parents and losing his way. B) Because of no response from his parents. C) Because his interest was changed. D) Can't say. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because of separation from his parents and losing his way. 25. When did child didn't get any reply from parents?When the child was ..... A) At the roundabout. B) At flower stall. C) At sweetmeat Shop. D) Near the snakecharmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the roundabout. 26. What color of turban did the boy wear? A) No turban. B) Yellow. C) Blue. D) Black. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yellow. 27. What was the child's, favourite sweet? A) Sweet dish. B) Jalebi. C) Rasgulla. D) Burfi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burfi. 28. Which festival it was? A) Summer. B) Monsoon. C) Spring. D) Autumn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spring. 29. How were the people dressed for the festival? A) Scantily. B) Gaily. C) Shabbily. D) Poorly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gaily. 30. Why did the child lag behind his parents? A) Because of the stops he took to look closely at his favorite things. B) Because he was walking slow. C) Because he was crying. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because of the stops he took to look closely at his favorite things. 31. What did the boy want when he saw the flower seller selling flowers? A) Gulmohar garland. B) Jasmine Garland. C) Marigold Garland. D) Rose petals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gulmohar garland. 32. When were the people going to fair? A) Summer. B) Winter. C) Outum. D) Spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spring. 33. What is the figure of speech used in the line, "It was a flowering mustard-field, pale like melting gold." ? A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Apostrophe. D) Metafar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 34. What did the child do when he realized that he had lost his way? A) Felt happy. B) Cried and ran here and there. C) Reported to the office. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cried and ran here and there. 35. What was the child attracted by as he entered the grove? A) Worms and insects. B) A shower of young flowers. C) Dragon-flies. D) Cooing of doves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A shower of young flowers. 36. The child met the kind hearted person A) Near the eatable stall in the fair. B) In the crowd of the fair. C) Near the shrine in the fair. D) Near the temple in the fair. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Near the shrine in the fair. 37. Where did the child go with his parents? A) Village fair. B) Cinema hall. C) Circus. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Village fair. 38. What di the child speak repeatedly after losing his parents? A) I want ride. B) I want toys and swings. C) I want sweets. D) I want my mother, I want my father. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I want my mother, I want my father. 39. Who was the little boy going with? A) His father. B) His mother. C) His father and mother. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His father and mother. 40. Where were the child's eyes lingering on? A) Receding toys. B) Sweets. C) Balloons. D) Flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Receding toys. 41. What did the child do when he didn't find his parents with him? A) He cried "Father, Mother" . B) He ran here and there in all directions. C) Both A and B are correct. D) Neither A or B is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both A and B are correct. 42. Read the extract and answer the questions:The child watched them intently and then he made a bold request: "I want to go on the roundabout, please, father, mother" .There was no reply. He turned to look at his parents.Q. Who are them? A) People buying sweets. B) Children playing with balloons. C) People buying the Gulmohar garland. D) People sitting on the roundabout. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People sitting on the roundabout. 43. What did the child want to have at the sweet shop? A) Barfi. B) Jalebi. C) Barota. D) Samosa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Barfi. 44. The protagonist in the story A) Is a little boy. B) Is a little girl. C) Is a child. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is a child. 45. Why were the parents holding the hand of their child? A) To protect him from the crowd. B) Because of their fears. C) To help him. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To protect him from the crowd. 46. The story tells about A) A child. B) A child and his parents. C) A child and his parents visiting a fair. D) The child parent bond. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A child and his parents visiting a fair. 47. How did the mother distract the child from the toy? A) By giving him sweets. B) By showing him the mustard field. C) By showing him balloons. D) By buying him an ice-cream. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By showing him the mustard field. 48. List the things that the generous man did after picking up the child? A) Asked his name. B) Consoled & offered many attractive things. C) Asked his parents' names. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 49. What did the child think his parents would say if he demanded the flower garlands? A) They were cheap. B) They were poisonous. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were cheap. 50. Read the extract and answer the questions:1. As he came to where they had stopped to wait for him, he could not suppress the desire of his heart, even though he well knew the old, cold thirst in their eyes. What is the desire of his heart? A) To sit somewhere. B) To eat sweets. C) To wait for his friends. D) To buy a toy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To buy a toy. 51. Which one of these DOES NOT express the anxiety of the child after he was lost in the fair? A) A full, deep cry rose within his dry throat. B) His flushed face was convulsed with fear. C) He saw people laughing and talking for the sake of laughing and talking. D) His cries were suppressed into sobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He saw people laughing and talking for the sake of laughing and talking. 52. Why did the child know that his that his plea of burfi would not be heeded? A) Because his parents would say he was greedy. B) Because his parents would say it was a cheap sweet. C) Because his parents would say he was too old to demand such things. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because his parents would say he was greedy. 53. Did the man in surging crowd gave the child to his parents A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 54. How were the people going to the festival? A) Going on foot. B) Riding on horses. C) Carried in bamboo and bullock carts. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 55. Does the child find his parents? A) YES. B) Don't know. C) Not applicable. D) NO. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NO. 56. The child was forbidden to hear the flute music of the snake charmer because A) His parents thought that the snake would harm him. B) His parents considered the flute music coarse and cheap. C) The music was scary and inauspicious. D) The parents did not like the looks of the snake charmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His parents considered the flute music coarse and cheap. 57. Why does the lost child lose interest in the things that he had wanted earlier? A) He did not trust the man who offered them to him. B) He is panic-stricken for being lost. Now he first wants his parents who become his priority. C) He was exhausted after running and so he lost the interest. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is panic-stricken for being lost. Now he first wants his parents who become his priority. 58. What was it that attracted the child at the footpath? A) The Butterflies. B) The Dragonflies. C) The Doves. D) The little insects and worms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The little insects and worms. 59. With whom the child was going? A) Friends. B) Uncle and Aunt. C) Mother and Father. D) Teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mother and Father. 60. Read the extract and answer the questions:The child watched them intently and then he made a bold request: "I want to go on the roundabout, please, father, mother" .There was no reply. He turned to look at his parents.Why is the request called 'bold'? A) Because he was shy. B) Because he had never sat on it. C) Because he knew the answer. D) Because he was afraid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because he was afraid. Next →Related QuizzesEnglish QuizzesClass 9 QuizzesClass 9 English Supplementary Chapter 1 The Lost Child Quiz 2Class 9 English Supplementary Chapter 1 The Lost Child Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books