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Class 7 English Chapter 4 The Ashes That Made Trees Bloom Quiz 2 (25 MCQs)

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1. How does the story reflect the concept of cosmic justice?

Correct Answer: B) Good deeds are rewarded and bad deeds punished.

2. What is the genre of the story?

Correct Answer: A) Japanese folktale.

3. What is the meaning of ' Daimios'

Correct Answer: C) Wealthy landowners.

4. The greedy neighbour .....

Correct Answer: C) Was beaten to death.

5. What is the meaning of carcass?

Correct Answer: D) Dead body.

6. What is the story "The Ashes That Made Trees Bloom" about?

Correct Answer: A) An honest and hardworking couple.

7. What did the covetous old man's sprinkling of ashes result in?

Correct Answer: A) It did not result in blossoming cherry trees instead it blew with wind and caused the daimio to sneeze and choke.

8. What happened to the wicked neighbour when they tried to imitate the act?

Correct Answer: A) He was beaten to death.

9. What did the kind old man do after the dog appeared in his dream?

Correct Answer: D) Followed the dog's advice.

10. Who said?Cut down the Pine tree over my grave and make from it a morter for your rice pastry and a mill for your bean sauce.

Correct Answer: C) Face.

11. How does the story reflect on the concept of karma?

Correct Answer: B) It shows karma as an immediate force.

12. What food did old couple gave him

Correct Answer: A) Gave him fish.

13. Soapy wished to dine luxuriously in

Correct Answer: B) In the glittering cafe.

14. The dog's spirit haunted him, The word means:

Correct Answer: A) Troubled.

15. The night the spirit of the dog appeared to him in a dream and said

Correct Answer: C) Cut down the pine tree over my grave and make from it a mortar for your rice pastry and a mill for your bean sauce.

16. Complete the line-"Cut down the pine tree ..... a mill for your bean sauce.

Correct Answer: A) Muko.

17. What did the wicked old man do to the dog?

Correct Answer: C) He killed it in anger.

18. The neighbours killed the dog out of .....

Correct Answer: B) Frustration.

19. Daimio was delighted to see

Correct Answer: C) The cheery tree blossomed.

20. The dog took the old man to a place and began ..... it.

Correct Answer: C) Scratching.

21. What lesson does the story teach about nature?

Correct Answer: B) Respect for nature brings rewards.

22. What deeper theme does the treatment of the dog by the two couples represent?

Correct Answer: C) The value of kindness vs cruelty.

23. When daimio's passed through everyone had to .....

Correct Answer: A) Kneel down.

24. The story is primarily about:

Correct Answer: B) The rewards of kindness and the consequences of greed.

25. Who is the author of the story "Ashes That Made Trees Bloom" ?

Correct Answer: C) William Elliot Griffis.

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