ALL SUMMER IN A DAY – MCQ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS – ICSE CLASS 9 AND 10 ENGLISH

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1. How long had it been raining?

1. Four hundred days
2. Seven years
3. Six months
4. Eighty weeks

2. What does ‘drum and gush of water’ mean?

1. Loud noise of a waterfall
2. Fast flowing water
3. Still water
4. Loud flow of water

3. Where is the plot of the story set in?

1. A small village
2. A different planet (Venus)
3. A fictional city of Salem
4. A different galaxy

4. What has happened as a result of constant rainfall for so many years?

1. Forests have been crushed and have grown again
2. Unlimited floods
3. Destruction of crops and agricultural land
4. Forests have been destroyed totally

5. What were the children looking at?

1. The hidden sun
2. Constant rainfall
3. A strange animal
4. The hidden moon

6. “Will it happen today, will it?”- What event is being signified by ‘it’?

1. The rainfall stops after every five months
2. The sun sets after every sixty days
3. The sun shines after every seven years on this planet
4. Rainfall starts after every three years

7. Why did most of the kids not recall how it feels when the sun shines?

1. Most kids were five years old, and hence has never seen the sun shine
2. The kids do not remember anything that happened before three years
3. They never noticed that the sun was not shining
4. Most kids were nine years old. They do not recall the feeling of seeing the sun shine, since they were too young

8. For how long does the sun shine?

1. Three days
2. Ten hours
3. An hour or two
4. One day

9. “It’s like a penny”- Find the figure of speech.

1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Alliteration
4. Personification

10. “I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.”- Who wrote this poem?

1. Margot’s teacher
2. An unidentified person
3. William
4. Margot

11. How has the author described Margot?

1. A new freshly clicked photograph
2. A cheerful little girl
3. An old photograph dusted from an album
4. Sad and disturbed

12. Why did the kids not play with Margot?

1. She would not move when tagged, she was always lost
2. She was rude to the other kids
3. She was way younger to the other kids
4. The other kids disliked her

13. Where did Margot originally live?

1. Ohio
2. London
3. Brisbane
4. Maryland

14. “… She remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was…”- How did Margot remember the sun, while the other kids did not?

1. She has seen the sun in her dreams many times
2. She had come from the Earth just a year back
3. She was a middle-aged woman, and has seen the sun quite a few times before
4. She had come to Venus only five years back from Earth

15. How did Margot describe the sun to the other kids?

1. She would write poems about sun and read them to the kids
2. She would tell them stories about sunshine
3. She used similes to describe the sun
4. She would talk about the sun all the time

16. Which of these did the kids NOT do when they saw the sun come out?

1. They ran among the trees and pushed each other
2. They were playing hide-and-seek, and listening to Margot’s stories about the sun
3. They felt the sunshine was better than sun lamps
4. They were running and turning their faces up to the sky to feel the sun’s warmth

17. “In the midst of their running one of the girls wailed.”- Why did the girl wail?

1. She felt a single raindrop on her palm, and realised that it would start raining soon
2. She fell down, and hurt her knees
3. She got scared by the thunder
4. She was lost in the forests that covered Venus

18. “Then one of them gave a little cry”- Why did the kid give a cry?

1. The kid got scolded by the teacher for locking Margot in the closet
2. The kid was sad that the sun was behind the clouds again
3. The lightning and thunder startled the kid
4. The kid realised that Margot was still locked in the closet

19. What was Margot doing when the sun came out?

1. Margot was dancing around and singing
2. Margot was writing poems about the sun
3. Margot was locked in the closet by the other kids
4. Margot was playing with the other kids

20. What did the author compare the jungle to?

1. A nest of octopi with great arms of flesh-like weed
2. An old photograph
3. A film concerning an avalanche or a tornado
4. A strange creature with long tentacles

Answers:

1. B) Seven years.
2. D) Loud flow of water.
3. B) A different planet (Venus).
4. A) Forests have been crushed and have grown again.
5. A) The hidden sun.
6. C) The sun shines after every seven years on this planet.
7. D) Most kids were nine years old. They do not recall the feeling of seeing the sun shine, since they were too young.
8. C) An hour or two.
9. B) Simile.
10. D) Margot.
11. C) An old photograph dusted from an album.
12. A) She would not move when tagged, she was always lost.
13. A) Ohio.
14. D) She had come to Venus only five years back from Earth.
15. C) She used similes to describe the sun.
16. B) They were playing hide-and-seek, and listening to Margot’s stories about the sun.
17. A) She felt a single raindrop on her palm, and realised that it would start raining soon.
18. D) The kid realised that Margot was still locked in the closet.
19. C) Margot was locked in the closet by the other kids.
20. A) A nest of octopi with great arms of flesh-like weed.