Memories of Childhood MCQs with Answers NCERT Class 12 English Lesson 6

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“Memories of Childhood” MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 12 English Vistas Book Lesson 6

MCQs of Class 12 English Chapter 8, Memories of Childhood by Zitkala Sa and Bama have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 12 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 8- Memories of Childhood from NCERT Vistas book. Each question has four options followed by the correct answer. Students can also take a free test of the MCQs of Memories of Childhood. These MCQ Questions have been selected based on the latest exam pattern as announced by CBSE.

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1- Who is the author of the lesson Memories of childhood?
A) Zitkala-Sa and Bama
B) Emily Brontë
C) Charles Dickens
D) None

2- What does the story present?
A) An autobiography of the author
B) An autobiography of a man
C) An autobiographical episode from the lives of two women
D) None

3- What are the names of the two women?
A) Zitkala Sa a Native American and Bama Tamilian Dalit
B) Zitkala and Sa
C) Ba and Ma
D) Annan and Bama

4- What advice did Annan give to Bama?
A) to go away from the place
B) to leave the house
C) to study hard and progress to rise above all shackels of indignity
D) All

5- Who was Zitkala Sa?
A) A tamilian
B) A protester
C) A native American
D) None

6- What did Zitkala Sa find?
A) discrimination against native American culture and women
B) her dignity was in danger
C) women were in danger
D) all these

7- What did the cutting of long hair of Zitkala Sa symbolise in the lesson?
A) subjection to the rulers
B) her wish to dominate
C) her wish to get justice
D) her wish to look modern

8- Who is Bama’s brother?
A) A boy
B) A young boy
C) Annan
D) None

9- How much time did Bama take to reach home?
A) 2 hours
B) 3hours
C) 4hours
D) 1 hour

10- What is the meaning of childhood memories?
A) memories with a child
B) memories of the times spent with a child
C) memories of olden times
D) memories formed during childhood period

11- Why did Bama reach home in one hour in place of 10 minutes?
A) she was watching shows on the road
B) she was stopping at every shop
C) she was enjoying all fun on the roads
D) all these

12- What did Zitkala Sa feel when her long hair was cut?
A) oppression and victimization
B) happy and delidhted
C) relaxed
D) None

13- What was Bama victim of?
A) gender prejudice
B) violence
C) child abuse
D) caste system

14- Bama was a very rebellious person, and the idea of being oppressed by upper classes ___________.
A) infuriated her
B) provoked her to slap someone
C) made her abusive
D) made her want to murder someone

15- What did Zitkala mean by Eating By Formula?
A) Set pattern of sitting
B) set pattern of standing in lines
C) set pattern of rules
D) set pattern of eating decorum

16- Why did Zitkala not like her hair cut?
A) because her mother told her that mourners and cowards keep such hair.
B) she liked long hair
C) she wanted different style
D) she didn’t like anyone to touch her hair

17- Who told Bama that untouchability is a crime?
A) her mother
B) Zitkala and Sa
C) her sister
D) Her brother Annan

18- What comic incident did Bama mention to her brother?
A) a man bringing vadas for his landlord by holding the vada packet by a string.
B) a man bringing vadas in a basket
C) a man bringing vadas in a tiffin
D) all these

19- Which community does Bama belong to?
A) rich
B) Brahmins
C) Untouchable low caste
D) None

20- What is the meaning of untouchability?
A) segregating a minority from the mainstream social group
B) not to touch anyone
C) keep distance from
D) none

21- Why did Zitkala find Eating by formula a hard trial?
A) because of her inability to follow the bell taps
B) because of too many rules
C) because of restrictions
D) none

22- What attracted Bama in the street?
A) monkeys
B) the cyclist
C) Pongal offerings
D) all these

23- Why did Zitkala feel oppressed in her new establishment?
A) because of indignities shown to her
B) because she didn’t like the place
C) she wanted to be with her mother
D) none

24- When did Bama first come to know of social discrimination?
A) in class 1
B) when she was in class 3
C) when she was in class 2
D) when she was in class 4

25- Why did the Landlord’s man ask Bama’s brother on which street did they live?
A) to know his class
B) to know his background
C) to know his work
D) to know his caste

26- “I felt like sinking to the floors” why did Zitkala feel so?
A) because her blanket was stripped off from her shoulders and she felt uncomfortable
B) because she didn’t like her short hair
C) because she didn’t like her dress
D) because she felt cold

27- What did Judewin tell Zitkala?
A) A new dress is comimng
B) she will meet her mother
C) she will go to a new place
D) her hair would be cut

28- How did Bama earn respect of the people of higher class?
A) by shopping
B) by spending money
C) by studying hard and earning first position in her class
D) all these

29- What sort of shows attracted Bama?
A) shows by jugglers
B) shows by monkeys
C) shows by shopkeepers
D) shows by political people

30- Why was Zitkala in tears on her first day in the land of apples?
A) because of new environment
B) cultural differences
C) eating by formula and cutting of her hair
D) all these

31- What was common between Bama and Zitkala?
A) belonged to minority
B) victims of cultural differences
C) were struggling because of class
D) all these

32- Why did Zitkala start crying at the dining table ?
A) she didn’t like the food
B) she was a stranger
C) because of eating by formula
D) all these

33- Why did Zitkala hide herself?
A) to save herself
B) to save herself from a woman
C) to save herself from other chidren
D) to stop people from cutting her hair

34- How did the scene in the market change Bama’s life?
A) because of that she decided to study hard and stand against discrimination
B) she became fearful
C) she became stubborn
D) she was irritated

35- What was the name of the school where Zitkala studied?
A) Carlisle Indian school
B) Carlisle Western school
C) Carlisle Indonesian school
D) Carlisle American school

36- What is Belfry?
A) part of a bell tower
B) part of a tower
C) part of a music tower
D) part of a silver tower

37- What had hurt Bama in the society?
A) Political plays
B) class students
C) Road shows
D) Practice of untouchability

38- “We have to submit because they are strong.” The speaker of these words was ______.
A) Zitkala-Sa
B) Judewin
C) Marry-Ann
D) Christine

39- In the author’s tribe, only _________ had short hair.
A) mourners
B) old people
C) young kids
D) elderly women

40- The entire classroom of students _____________ as the bell rang.
A) sat on the floor
B) drew a chair from under the table
C) sat on the stools
D) knelt down on the ground

41- The Indian girls wore ______________.
A) clinging dresses
B) nightgowns
C) trousers
D) skirts

42- Zitkala-Sa was a victim of ____________.
A) racial prejudice
B) serious crime
C) rape
D) a car accident

43- Bama’s brother advised her that she needed to _________ if she wanted to advance.
A) learn to cook
B) study
C) learn to stitch and knit
D) learn to drive

44- Bama’s elder brother was studying at _____________.
A) school
B) college
C) university
D) medical colleg

45- One day the author was drawn by the sight of _______________.
A) two riders on a horse
B) a monkey performing tricks
C) cattle treading out the grain from straw
D) dogs fighting with cats

46- There would always be some kind of entertainment ________________.
A) in the school
B) in the church
C) in the bazaar
D) in the house

47- The author, Bama, believed she had already endured shame as a result of ______.
A) dark skin
B) short height
C) poverty
D) untouchability

48- Everyone were staring at the author, and she felt uncomfortable because _________.
A) looked pretty
B) looked terrible
C) had suffered extreme indignities
D) looked like a model

49. Bama had mistakenly assumed that the man carrying the bag was just a ______________.
A) making a game out of carrying the parcel
B) trying to make her laugh
C) obeying orders
D) not touching it because it was hot

50- Which family did Bama belong to?
A) A jewish family
B) a rich family
C) a poor catholic family
D) all

 

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ANSWER KEY

1 A 26 A
2 C 27 D
3 A 28 C
4 C 29 D
5 C 30 D
6 A 31 D
7 A 32 C
8 C 33 D
9 D 34 A
10 D 35 A
11 D 36 A
12 A 37 D
13 D 38 B
14 A 39 A
15 D 40 B
16 A 41 A
17 D 42 A
18 A 43 B
19 C 44 C
20 A 45 C
21 A 46 C
22 D 47 D
23 A 48 C
24 B 49  A
25 D 50  C

 

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