Two Stories About Flying Class 10 MCQ Quiz – Test Your Understanding!

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.

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 option lists the image nearest to ‘skim the waves’?

The line “he completely forgot that he had not always been able to fly” implies the

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.

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…”

1. sad
2. incompetent
3. excluded
4. ungrateful
5. inspired
6. jealous
7. anxious

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.

How would you describe the “risk” the narrator took?

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

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.

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

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

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.

Pick the most appropriate reason why the young gull felt dizzy.

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”?

Which of the following mirrors the use of the literary device in “shrieking shrilly”?

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

Select the most appropriate option for the following:

devour:guzzle : : nibble: _______

Select the correct option to fill in the blanks below:

risk: risky :: ______ : _______