This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > English > The Fun They Had > Class 9 English Chapter 1 The Fun They Had – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 English Chapter 1 The Fun They Had Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What type of school will be there in future? A) Virtual Classroom. B) Robotic teacher. C) Learning through computers. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 2. What was the book about? A) Televisions. B) Geography. C) School. D) Animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) School. 3. What was Margie's mechanical teacher giving her? A) Test in mathematics. B) Test in geography. C) A sound beating. D) Test in geography. E) Good marks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Test in geography. 4. What does Tommy find that surprises Margie? A) A video game. B) A digital book. C) A printed book. D) A new computer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A printed book. 5. How long ago were the old schools around? A) Centuries ago. B) Fifty years ago. C) Thousands of years ago. D) 10 years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Centuries ago. 6. How old Tommy is? A) 12 years. B) 14 years. C) 13 years. D) 11 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 13 years. 7. Tommy walked away with the ..... book beneath his arm. A) Torn. B) Dusty. C) Imaginary. D) Both (b) and (c). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dusty. 8. How did Margie and Tommy describe the "REAL BOOK" ? A) Yellow and Smelly. B) Yellow and Crinkly. C) Beautiful. D) Pale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yellow and Crinkly. 9. Who was teaching the students in the modern era as mentioned in 'The Fun They Had'? A) A mechanical robot teacher. B) Computer. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A mechanical robot teacher. 10. What was the part in her school that Margie hated the most? A) Slot where she had to put homework and test papers. B) The way of writing the answer in Punch code. C) Big screen of her robot teacher. D) Geography tests. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slot where she had to put homework and test papers. 11. How where the words in the book? A) Moving. B) Steady. C) Getting on printed after reading. D) None of these. E) Steady. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Steady. 12. What did Tommy and Margie mean by regular teacher? A) A male teacher. B) A mechanical teacher. C) A female teacher. D) A good teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A mechanical teacher. 13. What did Margie learn in arithmetic A) Subtraction of proper fraction. B) Addition of proper fraction. C) Multiplicatiom. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Addition of proper fraction. 14. What does 'real book' mean in the line, "TodayTommy found a real book!" ? A) Encyclopedia. B) Telebook. C) Scripture. D) Printed book. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Printed book. 15. Opposite of joyfully is ..... A) Easily. B) Sorrowfully. C) Angrily. D) Happily. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sorrowfully. 16. How does Asimov describe the County Inspector? A) Round, little man, red face. B) Strong, tall man, with a mustache. C) Round, little woman, red hair. D) Strong, tall woman, with purple clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Round, little man, red face. 17. In what subject was Margie doing poorly? A) History. B) Geography. C) Science. D) Math. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geography. 18. Name the author of the chapter The Fun They Had A) Issac Asimov. B) M.K.Gandhi. C) Anton Chekhov. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Issac Asimov. 19. Which of the following sentences contains an action verb? A) Eduardo is enthusiastic about science. B) Shawna memorized math facts last night. C) Li appears upset about the broken crystal vase. D) John and Marcy may be happy with that new movie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shawna memorized math facts last night. 20. Today's many ways of learning may show society's ..... , or improvement. A) Progress. B) Calculated. C) Dispute. D) Centuries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Progress. 21. Which sector was completely blanked A) History. B) Geography. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) History. 22. What did Tommy find?A) an old book with yellow crinky pagesB) a yellow pages bookC) a brand new bookD) a diary A) C. B) D. C) B. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. 23. Question 4The County Inspector had a whole box of A) Tools and chocolates. B) Tools with dials and wires. C) Pins. D) Both (a) and (c). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tools with dials and wires. 24. What nightmare did Kezia have? A) A giant with a knife. B) A butcher with a knife and rope. C) An accident across the countryside. D) A dreadful smile of the Macdonalds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A butcher with a knife and rope. 25. Kezia was beaten up with a ruler by her father because A) SHE DISAGREED TO SLEEP ALONE. B) SHE TORN DOWN THE PAPERS OF HER FATHER'S SPEECH. C) SHE WENT TO ICE CREAM PARLOUR. D) SHE FAILED IN HER EXAM. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) SHE TORN DOWN THE PAPERS OF HER FATHER'S SPEECH. 26. How old was Margie? A) Eleven years. B) Eleven years. C) Twelve years. D) Ten years. E) Thirteen years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eleven years. 27. The County Inspector had a whole box of A) Tools and chocolates. B) Tools with dials and wires. C) Pins. D) Both (a) and (c). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tools with dials and wires. 28. County Inspector means A) Here, Human teacher. B) Here mechanical teacher. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Here mechanical teacher. 29. Based on details in the text, it can be inferred that Tommy and Margie are A) Brother and sister. B) Neighborhood friends. C) Cousins. D) Friends who live far apart from each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neighborhood friends. 30. Where did Tommy find the book A) Basement. B) Attic. C) Library. D) Shelf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Attic. 31. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn? A) Geography. B) History. C) English. D) Both A & B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A & B. 32. Margie had to write out her homework in ..... A) In Malayalam. B) In Tamil. C) In Urdu. D) In Big Punch code. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In Big Punch code. 33. What had once happened to Tommy's Teacher? A) English sector had blanked out completely. B) Maths sector had blanked out completely. C) Geography sector had blanked out completely. D) The history sector had blanked out completely. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The history sector had blanked out completely. 34. The story takes place in the year ..... A) 2156. B) 1957. C) 2057. D) 2157. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2157. 35. Margie and Tommy are realistic characters in an imagined world. Which words describe them? A) Lazy and complacent. B) Timid and shy. C) Heroic and courageous. D) Curious and opinionated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Curious and opinionated. 36. Which sector of the robotic teacher had geared up a little too quick? A) Mathematics. B) History. C) Civic. D) Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geography. 37. How did the book look? A) Very well bounded with bright pages. B) Yellow and crinky. C) Torn and tattered. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yellow and crinky. 38. Which word in the story means the same as 'humorus' A) Crinkly. B) Funny. C) Loftily. D) Tommy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Funny. 39. Where was Margie's schoolroom? A) Next to hall. B) Next to drawing room. C) Next to her bedroom. D) Below the attic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Next to her bedroom. 40. What was the page of Margie's diary headed? A) 2157. B) 17 May. C) Today, Tommy found a real book. D) Tommy's discovery. E) 17 May 2157. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 17 May 2157. 41. Why does Margie think school "from a long time ago" must have been fun? A) Students laughed & studied together. B) The students never had to take tests. C) The teachers were human. D) The grading system was easier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Students laughed & studied together. 42. How old is Margie?A) 10 years oldB) 11 years oldC) 12 years oldD) 13 years old A) B. B) A. C) D. D) Use. E) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B. 43. Meaning of ..... Waste? A) Untied. B) Unconscious. C) Unusual. D) Useless. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Useless. 44. Where had Tommy found the book? A) From the backyard. B) From the garden. C) From the attic. D) From the room of his grandfather. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) From the attic. 45. What was the topic of Margie's lesson? A) It was on Geography. B) Arithmetic lesson on the addition of proper fractions. C) It was on Science. D) It was on History. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arithmetic lesson on the addition of proper fractions. 46. When did the story take place A) 2156. B) 2157. C) 2158. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2157. 47. Margie's mom was? A) Mrs Jones. B) Mrs Peter. C) Mrs Williams. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mrs Jones. 48. How does Margie's perspective on education differ from Tommy's? A) Margie dislikes her mechanical teacher, while Tommy enjoys his. B) Margie prefers telebooks, while Tommy prefers physical books. C) Margie values communal learning, while Tommy prefers individualized learning. D) Margie believes in the importance of history, while Tommy does not. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Margie values communal learning, while Tommy prefers individualized learning. 49. What is a Virtual Classroom?A) class outside classroomB) class in the gardenC) class in the fieldD) where learning done is through computer software and internet A) B. B) A. C) D. D) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) D. 50. What kind of teachers they both ( Margie & Tommy ) had? A) Mechanical teacher. B) Human teachers. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mechanical teacher. 51. Margie's school was not on which two days? A) Sunday and Monday. B) Friday and Saturday. C) Saturday and Sunday. D) Monday and Thursday. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saturday and Sunday. 52. Who has found the real book? A) Mother. B) Margie. C) County Inspector. D) Tommy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tommy. 53. The date mentioned by Margie in her diary is ..... A) 17 May 2157. B) 17 May 2175. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 17 May 2157. 54. "He was a round little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires." What does the term 'red face' mean here? A) Embarrased, or angry face. B) Jolly face. C) Fat face. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 55. How old was Tommy? A) Thirteen years. B) Ten years. C) Fourteen years. D) Eleven years. E) Thirteen years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thirteen years. 56. "Why would anyone write about school?" Who said this? A) Tommy. B) Margie. C) Mother. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Margie. 57. What did the County Inspector do to help Margie? A) He adjusted the level of the mechanical teacher to to anaverage ten-year level. B) He convinced her mother that she will work hard to improve her performance. C) He took the teacher away for a month. D) He replaced the mechanical teacher with another one. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He adjusted the level of the mechanical teacher to to anaverage ten-year level. 58. Why does Margie's mother have the county inspector visit? A) To explain what Margie needs to learn. B) To reprogram Margies teacher. C) To punish Margie for her poor grades. D) To give Margie personal instruction in geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To reprogram Margies teacher. 59. Who is the author of this lesson 'The Fun they Had'? A) Charles Dickens. B) Isaac Asimov. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Isaac Asimov. 60. How Old Is Margie? A) 11. B) 24. C) 4. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 11. Next →Related QuizzesEnglish QuizzesClass 9 QuizzesClass 9 English Chapter 1 The Fun They Had Quiz 2Class 9 English Chapter 1 The Fun They Had Quiz 3Class 9 English Chapter 1 The Fun They Had Quiz 4Class 9 English Chapter 1 The Fun They Had Quiz 5Class 9 English Chapter 1 The Fun They Had Quiz 6Class 9 English Chapter 1 The Fun They Had Quiz 7 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books