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Are you preparing for CBSE Class 10 English "Two Stories About Flying"? This interactive MCQ quiz will help you revise key themes, characters, and important exam-based questions in a fun and engaging way!

About the Quiz

Chapter Name: Two Stories About Flying
Subject: Class 10 English (First Flight)
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Difficulty Level: Concept-Based & Exam-Oriented
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Why Take This Quiz?

✔ Covers both parts: “His First Flight” & “Black Aeroplane”
✔ Includes competency-based & high-order thinking (HOTs) questions
✔ Ideal for quick revision before CBSE board exams

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Two Stories About Flying

1 / 15

I was safe! I turned to look for my friend in the black aeroplane, but the sky was empty. There was nothing there. The black aeroplane was gone. I could not see it anywhere. I landed and was not sorry to walk away from the old Dakota near the control tower. I went and asked a woman in the control centre where I was and who the other pilot was. I wanted to say ‘Thank you’. She looked at me very strangely, and then laughed. “Another aeroplane? Up there in this storm? No other aeroplanes were flying tonight. Yours was the only one I could see on the radar.” So, who helped me…

Select the option that correctly tracks the progression of emotions experienced by the narrator in the given extract.

optimistic – lonely – calm – elated – appreciative

relieved – confused – curious – dejected – panic-stricken

triumphant – reassured– inquisitive – thankful – uncertain

excited – surprised – relieved – grateful – perplexed

2 / 15

He just felt a bit dizzy. Then he flapped his wings once and he soared upwards. “Ga, ga, ga, Ga, ga, ga, Gaw-col-ah,” his mother swooped past him, her wings making a loud noise. He answered her with another scream. Then his father flew over him screaming. He saw his two brothers and his sister flying around him curveting and banking and soaring and diving. Then he completely forgot that he had not always been able to fly, and commended himself to dive and soar and curve, shrieking shrilly.

The extract refers to the many movements of the young gull’s brothers and sister. Choose the option that correctly sequences these movements.

The young gull’s brothers and sister flew by plunging headfirst, making darting movements, titled their wings, and rose high.

The young gull’s brothers and sister flew with darting movements, titled their wings, rose high, and plunged headfirst.

The young gull’s brothers and sister flew by rising high, plunging headfirst, making darting movements, and tilting their wings.

The young gull’s brothers and sister flew by tilting their wings, rose high, made darting movements, and plunged headfirst.

3 / 15

The narrator exclaimed that he was “safe”. Which of the following represented the most immediate threat to the narrator’s safety?

Being lost due to non-functioning equipment

The black mountain-like storm cloud

The depletion of fuel in the last fuel tank

The old rattling Dakota aeroplane

4 / 15

In the line given below from 'Black Aeroplane', when the writer refers to the clouds as black mountains, what is he referring to?

They looked like black mountains standing in front of me across the sky.

his hopelessness due to imminent death

his fear of their enormous size

his excitement to fly over them

his despair for having to take a detour

5 / 15

Everything was going well — it was an easy flight. Paris was about 150 kilometers behind me when I saw the clouds. Storm clouds. They were huge. They looked like black mountains standing in front of me across the sky. I knew I could not fly up and over them, and I did not have enough fuel to fly around them to the north or south. “I ought to go back to Paris,” I thought, but I wanted to get home. I wanted that breakfast. ‘I’ll take the risk,’ I thought and flew that old Dakota straight into the storm.

Based on the given extract, choose the option that lists the meme which would be the most appropriate response to “…it was an easy flight”?

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Option (ii)

Option (i)

Option (iv)

Option (iii)

6 / 15

Filled with questions, the narrator decides to place an advertisement in the local newspaper to look for his “friend”.

Read the advertisement given below and select the option that includes the most appropriate solutions for the blanks:

Looking for a pilot of a black aeroplane who (i) _______ an old Dakota out of storm clouds late last night, but (ii) _______ before the Dakota pilot could express his gratitude after landing. Though the control center and radar did not (iii) _______ its presence, the Dakota pilot would really appreciate it if his friend reached out. Please contact the Dakota pilot at 5200100110. In deep gratitude and eager (iv) ______, XXX

(i) brought; (ii) went away; (iii) confirm; (iv) expectation

(i) guided; (ii) disappeared; (iii) register; (iv) anticipation

(i) helped; (ii) vanish; (iii) make note; (iv) excitement

(i) took; (ii) landed; (iii) acknowledge; (iv) appreciation

7 / 15

How does the young seagull's attitude towards flying CHANGE in the story 'The First Flight'?

He is uncertain about it and then finds it thrilling.

He questions it and then accepts it.

He is curious about it and then thinks it is overrated.

He enjoys it and then finds it uninteresting.

8 / 15

Imagine that the young gull attended a workshop on inspiration and confidence building and received a couple of pieces of advice.

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"The early bird catches the worm."

"It doesn't matter what others are doing, it matters what you are doing."

"Everything you've ever wanted on the other side of fear.

Choose the option that reflects these pieces of advice, most relevant to his situation

2 and 3

1 and 4

1 and 2

3 and 4

9 / 15

The day before, all day long, he had watched his parents flying about with his brothers and sister, perfecting them in the art of flight, teaching them how to skim the waves and how to dive for fish. He had, in fact, seen his older brother catch his first herring and devour it, standing on a rock, while his parents circled around raising a proud cackle. And all the morning the whole family had walked about on the big plateau midway down the opposite cliff taunting him with his cowardice.

Which of the following feelings did the young gull, NOT feel according to the given context?

“…all day long, he had watched his parents flying about with his brothers and sister…”

sad

incompetent

excluded

ungrateful

inspired

jealous

anxious

1, 3, 6

2, 5, 7

2, 3, 7

4, 5, 6

10 / 15

Select the correct option to fill in the blanks below:

risk: risky :: ______ : _______

caution : precaution

danger: dangerously

hazard : hazardous

peril : imperiled

11 / 15

Choose the option that correctly matches the idioms in Column A to the story’s events in column B:

Column A – Idioms	Column B – Story events
1. Every cloud has a silver lining.	(i) The narrator really wanted to have a hearty English breakfast, even though he really ought to have turned back.
2. To be on cloud nine.	(ii) The man in the other plane waved at the narrator and asked him to follow, closely drawing him out.
3. To have your head in the clouds.	(iii) The compass and other instruments stopped working. The radio was dead too.
4. gathering clouds.	(iv) And there it was – the well-lit runway. An airport. The narrator could safely land.

1-(ii); 2-(iv); 3-(i); 4-(iii)

1-(iv); 2-(iii); 3-(ii); 4-(i)

1-(i); 2-(ii); 3-(iii); 4-(iv)

1-(iii); 2-(i); 3-(iv); 4-(ii)

12 / 15

The purpose of the treatment, given to the young seagull by his parents, was to…………..

let him overcome his fear.

inculcate obedience towards them.

improve his relationship with his siblings.

teach him a lesson about the importance of food.

13 / 15

Select the most appropriate option for the following:

devour:guzzle : : nibble: _______

savor

chew

peck

gulp

14 / 15

In what way might the reference to the Dakota as “old” be relevant?

Its antique value made it expensive and precious to the narrator.

It did not have enough fuel to fly around the storm clouds.

It is employed by the narrator as a term of endearment.

Its ability to negotiate the storm clouds might have been suspect.

15 / 15

How would you describe the screams of the gulls in the given extract?

bewilderment

elation

protection

shock

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Key Topics Covered in the Quiz

✔ Fear and Courage in "His First Flight"
✔ Lessons from the Young Seagull's Journey
✔ Mystery of the "Black Aeroplane"
✔ Importance of Confidence and Taking Risks
✔ Exam-based Extract-Based & Competency-Based MCQs

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