1. He used to bore a neat hole in the –
(A) side of the gourd
(B) top of the gourd ✓
(C) both the side
(D) None of these
2. Whenever Seibi passed through the market, he searched for the –
(A) Friends
(B) Favourite flowers
(C) Gourds ✓
(D) None of these
3. Šeibei was a twelve years old ……….. Boy.
(A) Chinese
(B) Japanese ✓
(C) African
(D) Indian
4. Seibei’s hobby was collecting of —
(A) Stamps
(B) Books
(C) Gourds ✓
(D) None of these
5. Shiga Naoya is a …, writer.
(A) Chinese
(B) Indian
(C) American
(D) Japanese ✓
6. Seibei bought a ….. Inch gourd from an old woman.
(A) Sour
(B) Five ✓
(C) Six
(D) Seven
7. Seibei reads at ………. school.
(A) High
(B) Primary ✓
(C) Middle
(D) None of these
8. One must admire the inherent qualities in the –
(A) young
(B) Children ✓
(C) old
(D) Adult
9. Seibei’s father worked at ………. shop.
(A) carpenter’s ✓
(B) barber’s
(C) goldsmith’s
(D) None of these
10. The porter sold the gourd of Seiber for –
(A) 30 yen
(B) 40 yen
(C) 50 yen ✓
(D) 60 yen
11. Seibei’s hobby of collecting gourd made his teacher –
(A) Pleased
(B) displeased ✓
(C) Laughed
(D) None of these
12. The curio-dealer sold the gourd to a wealthy collecter for …….. yen.
(A) 400
(B) 500
(C) 600 ✓
(D) 700
13. The teacher made complain against Seibi to his –
(A) Father
(B) Mother ✓
(C) Uncle
(D) Brother
14. Who has written the story ‘The Artist’?
(A) P.S. Buck
(B) M. Gandhi
(C) S. Naoya ✓
(D) None of these
15. Shiga Naoya died in –
(A) 1961
(B) 1971 ✓
(C) 1981
(D) 1941
16. Seibel was –
(A) An Artist ✓
(B) A Musician
(C) A Singer
(D) None of these
17. Seibi lived in a –
(A) Village
(B) Town
(C) City
(D) Harbour Town ✓
18. Seibi knew every place that sold –
(A) Fish
(B) Meat
(C) Gourds ✓
(D) Vegetables
19. He made the hole to extract –
(A) Water
(B) Flash
(C) Seeds ✓
(D) None of these
20. Shiga Naoya has written the story•
(A) The Earth
(B) A Pinch of Snuff
(C) The Artist ✓
(D) None of these
21. Šeibei was a … car. Japanese boy –
(A) nine years old
(B) ten years old
(C) eleven years old
(D) twelve years old ✓
22. Šeibei was passionately interested in —
(A) Pumpkin
(B) Gourds ✓
(C) Potato
(D) None of these
23. The price of the five inches gourds is –
(A) five sen
(B) nine sen
(C) ten sen ✓
(D) eleven sen
24. …… was selling dried permimmons and oranges.
(A) An old man
(B) An old woman ✓
(C) A girl
(D) A boy
25. One day Seibei was caught red handed by his ……
Teacher.
(A) Hindi
(B) Math
(C) Ethics ✓
(D) Hindi
26. The teacher became very-very………. with Seibei for
neglecting his studies.
(A) happy
(B) sad
(C) angry ✓
(D) friendly
27. …………. is a short story.
(A) A marriage proposal
(B) Ideas That Have Helped Manking
(C) India Through a Traveller’s Eyes
(D) The Artist ✓
28. Seibei’s parents know that he often went out to buy himself –
(A) oranges
(B) apples
(C) gourds ✓
(D) potatoes
29. The teacher , who caught Seibi doing with gourd in the class –
(A) Appreciated him
(B) Depreciated him
(C) Awarded him
(D) Punished him ✓
30. ‘The Artist’ is –
(A) A Short story ✓
(B) An Article
(C) A Periodical
(D) None of these
31. Shign Naoya was born in –
(A) 1873
(B) 1852
(C) 1883 ✓
(D) 1893
32. Seibei got gourds for a few –
(A) rupee
(B) Taka
(C) sen ✓
(D) None of these
33. He was a celebrated Japanese –
(A) Novelist
(B) Dramatist
(C) Columnist
(D) Short story writer ✓
34. Seibi’s parents knew that he often bought himself –
(A) Apples
(B) Oranges
(C) Gourds ✓
(D) Guavas
35. One could walk from one end of the town to another in –
(A) ten minutes
(B) twenty minutes ✓
(C) half-an-hour
(D) four hours