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

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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
  • Leaderboard: Yes (Check Your Rank!)

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

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

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

  1. "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
  2. "The early bird catches the worm."
  3. "It doesn't matter what others are doing, it matters what you are doing."
  4. "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

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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?

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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.

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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’?

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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.

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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.

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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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Select the most appropriate option for the following:

devour:guzzle : : nibble: _______

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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.

Read the statements given below, and then select the option that best describes the given statements.

  • Statement I – The narrator’s desire to reach home and see his family made him complacent.
  • Statement II – The narrator was unaware of the threat that the adversarial storm clouds presented.
  • Statement III – The narrator’s decision-making was quick but irresponsible as well as dangerous.

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

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

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

Column A – IdiomsColumn 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.

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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…

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

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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?

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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
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