R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | NCERT Class 10 MCQ Questions for Class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 8 Going Places.

Danny had a freckled nose and the colour of his eyes was

1. grey
2. green
3. blue
4. brown

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Outside the pub, Sophie saw something. It was

1. her dad’s bicycle
2. her brother’s car
3. her mother’s motorcycle
4. Derek’s tricycle

✅ Correct Answer: 1

While Sophie waited for Danny, she realized that

1. Danny would come
2. Danny would not come
3. she was hungry
4. she was thirsty

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to Sophie, the place she had chosen to meet Danny was

1. a hidden alley
2. a perfect place
3. behind the walls
4. near the trees

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Sophie told Jansie that her father if he got to know about her meeting with Danny would

1. agree to their marriage
2. murder her
3. ask her to call him over for dinner
4. ask to be introduced to him

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Geoff had told about Sophie’s meeting with Danny Casey to

1. the entire neighbourhood
2. Frank
3. Jansie
4. the teachers in school

✅ Correct Answer: 2

‘I wish he was an Englishman’. These words were spoken with reference to

1. Geoff
2. Derek
3. Danny Casey
4. a passenger in the bus

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The match on Saturday was witnessed by

1. the whole family
2. only father and Sophie
3. Geoff alone
4. Sophie, father, Derek and Geoff

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Danny Casey was a player in the football team of

1. Ireland
2. Finland
3. England
4. Denmark

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Sophie told Geoff that Danny was unable to sign an autograph for her because

1. his secretary did not allow it
2. he didn’t have paper or pen
3. he said he’d do it later
4. he was in a hurry to go home

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Sophie told Geoff that Danny was unable to sign an autograph for her because

1. his secretary did not allow it
2. he didn’t have paper or pen
3. he said he’d do it later
4. he was in a hurry to go home

✅ Correct Answer: 2

When Sophie told her father that Danny had met her and told her that he was going to buy a shop, father

1. called her a liar
2. asked her if it was another of her wild stories
3. disbelieved her outright
4. asked Geoff to verify facts

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The father talked about a man who knew

1. Pele
2. Beckham
3. Tom Finney
4. Jeffrey, Archer

✅ Correct Answer: 3

After describing Danny’s appearance, Sophie chose not to tell Geoff about

1. Danny’s qualification
2. Danny’s address
3. his teeth
4. his car

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What did Sophie tell Geoff one day that made him look surprised?

1. she had seen a ghost
2. she had met her principal
3. she had got a job
4. she had met Danny Casey

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Geoff never took Sophie out with him because he thought she was

1. immature
2. badly behaved
3. too young
4. too restless

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Sophie felt bad because of her brother

1. never spoke much
2. laughed a lot
3. teased her a lot
4. never took her out for dinner

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Geoff had been out of school for a period of

1. three years
2. five years
3. one year
4. two years

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What was Sophie’s father keen to buy if Sophie ever came into money?

1. a luxury car
2. a decent house
3. a yacht
4. a shop

✅ Correct Answer: 2

She wanted to be a designer like

1. Calvin Klein
2. Versace
3. Armani
4. Mary Quant

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Sophie’s best friend was

1. Derek
2. Geoff
3. Jansie
4. Danny

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What does Geoff’s silence symbolise in Sophie’s view?

1. distant places
2. his vague personality
3. his jovial nature
4. wandering of his mind to distant places

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What kind of person is Sophie’s father ?

1. a kind hearted
2. a loving and caring
3. a hard core realistic
4. carefree

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Sophie’s dreams and disappointments are all in her mind?

1. they all represent her imagination and nothing in reality
2. they represent her nature
3. they explain her personality
4. they tell us her future

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who is Sophie’s younger brother?

1. Geoffe – a trainee mechanic
2. Casey
3. Frank
4. Derek

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who is Sophie’s elder brother?

1. Geoffe – a trainee mechanic
2. Jansie
3. Dany Casey
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Why is Jansie not able to support Sophie’s view?

1. because he is a happy go lucky man
2. because his imagination is poor
3. because he is unable to believe
4. because he is a realistic and believes in practicality

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was Sophie’s reply to Jansie?

1. That she will go door to door to collect money
2. She will open a boutique
3. she will open an office
4. she will become an actress or a manager to realize her dream.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Explain – Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of a ground.

1. ii was difficult to speak to him
2. it was difficult to locate him in a shop
3. it was difficult to locate him in factory
4. it was difficult to get information out of him

✅ Correct Answer: 4

what is the meaning of the words :“nosey”, “gawky”?

1. “nosey”, meaning inquisitive and “gawky”, meaning awkward, ungainly.
2. noisy and beautiful
3. noisy and useful
4. noisy and gainful

✅ Correct Answer: 1