“My Childhood” MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 9 English Beehive Book Chapter 6
My Childhood MCQs of Class 9 English Chapter 6, by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam [an extract from Wings of Fire] have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 9 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 6 My Childhood from NCERT Beehive book. Each question has four options followed by the correct answer. Students can also take a free test of My Childhood MCQ Question Answers Quiz. These MCQ Questions have been selected based on the latest exam pattern as announced by CBSE.
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Class 9 English Beehive My Childhood Lesson 6 Multiple Choice Questions
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are a type of objective assessment in which a person is asked to choose one or more correct answers from a list of available options. An MCQ presents a question along with several possible answers.
Q1- When did Kalam become India’s 11th President?
A) 2000
B) 2001
C) 2003
D) 2002
Q2- Where did Kalam talk about his childhood?
A) In his autobiography, Wings of Fire
B) In his first speech
C) In his research papers
D) In his office
Q3- Where was Kalam born?
A) Rameswaram, Madras State.
B) In Tamilnadu
C) In Karnataka
D) In Chennai
Q4- From where has this chapter ‘My Childhood’ been taken?
A) From childhood memories
B) From Prof A.P.J Kalam’s book ‘Wings on Fire’
C) From famous writer Khushwant Singh’s Book
D) None
Q5- What does Prof. Kalam talk about in his book Wings of Fire?
A) His childhood experiences
B) His parents
C) His friends
D) All
Q6- Who influenced Prof. Kalam?
A) His society people
B) His friends
C) His father
D) None
Q7- What did Kalam’s father teach him?
A) Hatred
B) Honesty and self discipline
C) To fight
D) To be arrogant
Q8- What did Kalam gain from Wings of Fire?
A) The great values he imbibed from his parents,teachers and society
B) His books, fame, success
C) knowledge and discipline
D) None
Q9- What is the theme of the story My childhood?
A) Children are precious
B) Childhood is a treasure
C) Society must be in harmony
D) Society, environment and childhood experiences shape one’s life.
Q10- What is the message of this lesson?
A) Mutual trust, peace and harmony are a must for a society to be happy and grow dynamically
B) Live happily
C) Fight for your rights
D) Have fire on your wings
Q11- What is essential for all round growth according to the lesson?
A) Tolerance
B) Acceptance
C) Brotherhood, happiness
D) All
Q12- What can resolve the hindrances in the way of growth?
A) Mutual trust, and ease of communication
B) Wings of Fire
C) Fighting
D) All
Q13- In what sense was Kalam’s childhood secure?
A) He was getting all the necessities of life like food, clothes,study
B) Parents’ love and support
C) Good society
D) All
Q14- What does material security mean in the lesson?
A) All the basic necessities of life
B) Love and warmth
C) Wealth
D) Riches
Q15- What does emotional security mean?
A) Balance in life
B) Bank Balance
C) Control over emotions
D) Love and care to lead a stress free life
Q16- Who gave emotional and material security to Kalam ?
A) His society people
B) His friends
C) His teachers
D) His parents
Q17- Which seeds did Kalam collect during the second world war?
A) Guava seeds
B) Tamarind seeds
C) Flax seeds
D) Mango seeds
Q18- Why did Kalam collect tamarind seeds?
A) To grow plants
B) To eat them
C) To earn good money
D) None
Q19- Where did Kalam sell seeds?
A) In a market
B) To other children
C) People of his society
D) To provide them to a provision store on a mosque street
Q20- How much money did Kalam earn after selling seeds?
A) 2 anna
B) 3 anna
C) 1 anna
D) 4 anna
Q21- What kind of a person was Kalam as a child?
A) Enterprising and hardworking
B) Naughty
C) Caring
D) None
Q22- Who was Samsuddin?
A) Kalam’s brother
B) Kalam’s friend
C) Kalam’s neighbourer
D) Kalam’s cousin
Q23- What did Samsuddin do?
A) Distributed newspapers in Rameswaram
B) Helped to collect seeds
C) Helped getting money
D) Helped in selling seeds
Q24- Who helped Kalam in getting his first wages?
A) His neighbourer
B) His parents
C) Teachers
D) His cousin Samsuddin
Q25- Why did Kalam feel sad when he was in 5th standard in an elementary school?
A) He could not go to school because his parents could not afford the fees
B) Teacher scolded him because he did not do his work
C) His teacher didn’t let him sit with his Hindu friend in the first row because he was a muslim
D) None
Q26- Who was Kalam’s close friend?
A) Ramanadha Sastri
B) Samsuddin
C) His father
D) None
Q27- Why did the teacher separate Kalam from his friend?
A) They were talking in the class
B) They were not doing their work
C) They were disturbing the class
D) Because of his own notion of social ranking, religious discrimination
Q28- What kind of person was Sivasubramania?
A) Orthodox brahmin
B) Calm and generous
C) Believed in equality and wanted to bring reforms in the society
D) All
Q29- Why did Sivasubramania serve Kalam himself and sat with him to eat?
A) to avoid any disturbance because of biased behavior of his conservative wife and to show equal respect for everybody
B) Because he wanted to prove himself great
C) To demoralize his wife
D) None
Q30- What kind of a person was Kalam’s father ?
A) Kind
B) Generous and dynamic
C) Wise
D) All
Q31- Who spoke Khali Gibran’s words:Your children are not….”?
A) Sivasubramania
B) Samsuddin
C) Kalam’s father
D) None
32- What did Kalam think and say about his parents?
A) They were tall
B) Handsome
C) Wise
D) All
Q33- Why did Kalam’s father say Khali Gibran’s words: Your children are not…?
A) To boast his knowledge
B) To ask his wife not to stop their young son from going out
C) To be generous
D) All
Q34- Whom did Kalam’s father say these words – “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself…..”?
A) To Kalam
B) To Samsuddin
C) To his wife
D) To Mr. Iyer
Q35- Where was Kalam’s house?
A) Near a cinema hall
B) Near a park
C) On a mosque street
D) None
Q36- How did Mr. Iyer change his wife’s notion?
A) By force
B) By showing her eyes
C) By lecturing her
D) By his own example and behavior
Q37- Which word in the lesson means unnecessary?
A) Inessential
B) Innecessity
C) Essential
D) None
Q38- When was Kalam’s ancestral house built?
A) In 18th century
B) In 19th century
C) In the middle of 19th century
D) All
Q39- What was Kalam’s age during the second world war?
A) 9 years
B) 10 years
C) 11 years
D) 8 years
Q40- Name three friends of Kalam.
A) Ramanadha Sastry
B) Aravindan
C) Sivaprakasan
D) All
Q41- Sivasubramania’s expectations from Abdul Kalam was _____________.
A. That Abdul will become the president
B. That Abdul will become the Prime Minister
C. That Abdul will be just as intelligent as people who live in large cities
D. That Abdul will become filthy rich
Q42- Which author’s lines did Abdul’s father quote at the end of the chapter?
A. Rabindranath Tagore
B. Khalil Gibran
C. Paul Coelho
D. Azhar Samsuddin
Q43- Abdul’s father believed in ____________.
A. Freedom of thoughts
B. Communal difference
C. Cast system
D. Supernatural power
Q44- “Indians will build their own India- Who said this?
A. Sivasubramania Iyer
B. APJ Abdul Kalam
C. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
D. Mahatma Gandhi
Q45- Sivasubramania lyer’s aim was to _____________.
A. Humiliate Abdul
B. To remove social constraints that prevented people from interacting
C. To participate in the Second World War
D. To become rich
Q46- Wife of Abdul’s science teacher was shocked by the ___________.
A. Communal violence
B. Idea of Muslim boy invited to dine with them
C. Terror of second world war
D. The flood disaster
Q47- What are the characteristics of the wife of Abdul’s science teacher?
A. Poor
B. Rich
C. Conservative
D. Beautiful
Q48- Who cautioned the teacher about inciting racial tension?
A. Lakshmana Sastry
B. Ramanadha Sastry
C. Ramesh Sastry
D. The principle of the school
Q49- Dinamani is the name of ___________.
A. a newspaper
B. a book
C. a train
D. a friend of Abdul Kalam
Q50- When the new teacher instructed Abdul Kalam to sit on the last bench, who was he seated with?
A. Aravindan
B. Ramanadha Sastry
C. Sivaprakasan
D. none of the above
ANSWER KEY
1 | D | 26 | A |
2 | A | 27 | D |
3 | A | 28 | D |
4 | B | 29 | A |
5 | D | 30 | D |
6 | C | 31 | C |
7 | B | 32 | D |
8 | A | 33 | B |
9 | D | 34 | C |
10 | A | 35 | C |
11 | D | 36 | D |
12 | A | 37 | A |
13 | D | 38 | C |
14 | A | 39 | D |
15 | D | 40 | D |
16 | D | 41 | C |
17 | B | 42 | B |
18 | C | 43 | A |
19 | D | 44 | D |
20 | C | 45 | B |
21 | A | 46 | B |
22 | D | 47 | C |
23 | A | 48 | A |
24 | D | 49 | A |
25 | C | 50 | B |
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