MCQ Questions for Class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 8 Going Places with Answers
Question 1.
Danny had a freckled nose and the colour of his eyes was
(a) grey
(b) green
(c) blue
(d) brown
Answer
Answer: (b) green
Question 2.
Outside the pub, Sophie saw something. It was
(a) her dad’s bicycle
(b) her brother’s car
(c) her mother’s motorcycle
(d) Derek’s tricycle
Answer
Answer: (a) her dad’s bicycle
Question 3.
While Sophie waited for Danny, she realized that
(a) Danny would come
(b) Danny would not come
(c) she was hungry
(d) she was thirsty
Answer
Answer: (b) Danny would not come
Question 4.
According to Sophie, the place she had chosen to meet Danny was
(a) a hidden alley
(b) a perfect place
(c) behind the walls
(d) near the trees
Answer
Answer: (b) a perfect place
Question 5.
Sophie told Jansie that her father if he got to know about her meeting with Danny would
(a) agree to their marriage
(b) murder her
(c) ask her to call him over for dinner
(d) ask to be introduced to him
Answer
Answer: (b) murder her
Question 6.
Geoff had told about Sophie’s meeting with Danny Casey to
(a) the entire neighbourhood
(b) Frank
(c) Jansie
(d) the teachers in school
Answer
Answer: (b) Frank
Question 7.
‘I wish he was an Englishman’. These words were spoken with reference to
(a) Geoff
(b) Derek
(c) Danny Casey
(d) a passenger in the bus
Answer
Answer: (d) a passenger in the bus
Question 8.
The match on Saturday was witnessed by
(a) the whole family
(b) only father and Sophie
(c) Geoff alone
(d) Sophie, father, Derek and Geoff
Answer
Answer: (d) Sophie, father, Derek and Geoff
Question 9.
Danny Casey was a player in the football team of
(a) Ireland
(b) Finland
(c) England
(d) Denmark
Answer
Answer: (a) Ireland
Question 10.
Sophie told Geoff that Danny was unable to sign an autograph for her because
(a) his secretary did not allow it
(b) he didn’t have paper or pen
(c) he said he’d do it later
(d) he was in a hurry to go home
Answer
Answer: (b) he didn’t have paper or pen
Question 11.
When Sophie told her father that Danny had met her and told her that he was going to buy a shop, father
(a) called her a liar
(b) asked her if it was another of her wild stories
(c) disbelieved her outright
(d) asked Geoff to verify facts
Answer
Answer: (b) asked her if it was another of her wild stories
Question 12.
The father talked about a man who knew
(a) Pele
(b) Beckham
(c) Tom Finney
(d) Jeffrey, Archer
Answer
Answer: (c) Tom Finney
Question 13.
After describing Danny’s appearance, Sophie chose not to tell Geoff about
(a) Danny’s qualification
(b) Danny’s address
(c) his teeth
(d) his car
Answer
Answer: (c) his teeth
Question 14.
What did Sophie tell Geoff one day that made him look surprised?
(a) she had seen a ghost
(b) she had met her principal
(c) she had got a job
(d) she had met Danny Casey
Answer
Answer: (d) she had met Danny Casey
Question 15.
Geoff never took Sophie out with him because he thought she was
(a) immature
(b) badly behaved
(c) too young
(d) too restless
Answer
Answer: (c) too young
Question 16.
Sophie felt bad because of her brother
(a) never spoke much
(b) laughed a lot
(c) teased her a lot
(d) never took her out for dinner
Answer
Answer: (a) never spoke much
Question 17.
Geoff had been out of school for a period of
(a) three years
(b) five years
(c) one year
(d) two years
Answer
Answer: (a) three years
Question 18.
What was Sophie’s father keen to buy if Sophie ever came into money?
(a) a luxury car
(b) a decent house
(c) a yacht
(d) a shop
Answer
Answer: (b) a decent house
Question 19.
She wanted to be a designer like
(a) Calvin Klein
(b) Versace
(c) Armani
(d) Mary Quant
Answer
Answer: (d) Mary Quant
Question 20.
Sophie’s best friend was
(a) Derek
(b) Geoff
(c) Jansie
(d) Danny
Answer
Answer: (c) Jansie
Question 21.
Why does Sophie feel jealous of her brother?
(a) because he keeps silent
(b) because he is a mechanic
(c) because he reveals his secret
(d) because of inability to reach unknown areas of his mind
Answer
Answer: (d) because of inability to reach unknown areas of his mind
Question 22.
What does Geoff’s silence symbolise in Sophie’s view?
(a) distant places
(b) his vague personality
(c) his jovial nature
(d) wandering of his mind to distant places
Answer
Answer: (d) wandering of his mind to distant places
Question 23.
What kind of person is Sophie’s father ?
(a) a kind hearted
(b) a loving and caring
(c) a hard core realistic
(d) carefree
Answer
Answer: (c) a hard core realistic
Question 24.
Sophie’s dreams and disappointments are all in her mind?
(a) they all represent her imagination and nothing in reality
(b) they represent her nature
(c) they explain her personality
(d) they tell us her future
Answer
Answer: (a) they all represent her imagination and nothing in reality
Question 25.
Why does Sophie get angry with her brother?
(a) Because he revealed her secret to Jansie’s brother
(b) he doesn’t speak to her
(c) because of his silence
(d) none
Answer
Answer: (a) Because he revealed her secret to Jansie’s brother
Question 26.
Who is Sophie’s younger brother?
(a) Geoffe – a trainee mechanic
(b) Casey
(c) Frank
(d) Derek
Answer
Answer: (d) Derek
Question 27.
Which game are Sophie and her family fans of ?
(a) cricket
(b) Badminton
(c) volleyball
(d) football
Answer
Answer: (d) football
Question 28.
What secret did Sophie share with her brother?
(a) She met Mary Quaint a famous fashion designer
(b) She met Prime Minister
(c) She met Christopher
(d) She met Danny Casy a famous footballer
Answer
Answer: (d) She met Danny Casy a famous footballer
Question 29.
Who is Sophie’s elder brother?
(a) Geoffe – a trainee mechanic
(b) Jansie
(c) Dany Casey
(d) none
Answer
Answer: (a) Geoffe – a trainee mechanic
Question 30.
Why is Jansie not able to support Sophie’s view?
(a) because he is a happy go lucky man
(b) because his imagination is poor
(c) because he is unable to believe
(d) because he is a realistic and believes in practicality
Answer
Answer: (d) because he is a realistic and believes in practicality
Question 31.
What was Sophie’s reply to Jansie?
(a) That she will go door to door to collect money
(b) She will open a boutique
(c) she will open an office
(d) she will become an actress or a manager to realize her dream.
Answer
Answer: (d) she will become an actress or a manager to realize her dream.
Question 32.
What does Jansie tell Sophie?
(a) talk unrealistic
(b) be wise
(c) be practical
(d) be sensible and not to dream big
Answer
Answer: (d) be sensible and not to dream big
Question 33.
Explain – Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of a ground.
(a) ii was difficult to speak to him
(b) it was difficult to locate him in a shop
(c) it was difficult to locate him in factory
(d) it was difficult to get information out of him
Answer
Answer: (d) it was difficult to get information out of him
Question 34.
What story she make up in front of her brother?
(a) She will become an actress
(b) she will become a manager
(c) she will be a famous beautician
(d) Casey will come to meet her.
Answer
Answer: (d) Casey will come to meet her.
Question 35.
What does Sophie dream about?
(a) Becoming an actor
(b) becoming a manager
(c) a sophisticated person
(d) becoming rich and sophisticated
Answer
Answer: (d) becoming rich and sophisticated
Question 36.
What kind of girl is Sophie ?
(a) a happy go lucky kind
(b) a realistic
(c) Day dreamer
(d) a naughty child
Answer
Answer: (c) Day dreamer
Question 37.
what is the meaning of the words :“nosey”, “gawky”?
(a) “nosey”, meaning inquisitive and “gawky”, meaning awkward, ungainly.
(b) noisy and beautiful
(c) noisy and useful
(d) noisy and gainful
Answer
Answer: (a) “nosey”, meaning inquisitive and “gawky”, meaning awkward, ungainly.
Question 38.
What are the literary devices used in the lesson?
(a) metaphorical expressions and slangs
(b) similes
(c) irony
(d) none
Answer
Answer: (a) metaphorical expressions and slangs
Question 39.
What is the sub theme of the story?
(a) Relationships- family and friends
(b) friends
(c) family members
(d) adolescents
Answer
Answer: (a) Relationships- family and friends
Question 40.
Who is A. R. Barton?
(a) A modern writer
(b) author of Going Places
(c) lives in Zurich and writes in English
(d) All these
Answer
Answer: (d) All these
Question 41.
Why is Sophie attracted to Danny and does she meet him in reality?
(a) Because he is a heroic footballer and she meets him in imagination only
(b) because he earns well
(c) because he plays football
(d) because he is smart
Answer
Answer: (a) Because he is a heroic footballer and she meets him in imagination only
Question 42.
Which country did Danny play for?
(a) Netherland
(b) Newzealand
(c) Switzerland
(d) Ireland
Answer
Answer: (d) Ireland
Question 43.
Why did Sophie like her brother Geoff more than anyone else?
(a) he keeps silent
(b) because he keeps her secret
(c) because she can confide in him
(d) all these
Answer
Answer: (d) all these
Question 44.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of fantasizing?
(a) helps in dreaming big
(b) helps in achieving big
(c) develops creative imagination and disadvantage is that it makes people self obsessed.
(d) none of these
Answer
Answer: (c) develops creative imagination and disadvantage is that it makes people self obsessed.
Question 45.
Where does Sophie visit to meet Casey in her imagination?
(a) a football ground
(b) in the match
(c) in a hotel
(d) a secret place near canal
Answer
Answer: (d) a secret place near canal