Class 9 English MCQ Chapter 2 The Sound of Music

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The Sound of Music

Chapter – 2

(PROSE SECTION)

Multiple Choice Questions & Answers

1. How had Evelyn Glennie’s loss of hearing been?

(a) Instant 

(b) gradual

(c) fast

(d) quick

Ans: (b) gradual.

2. What did Evelyn’s mother notice when she was waiting to play the piano? 

(a) Elevelyn’s mood

(b) Evelyn’s excitement

(c) Evelyn’s deafness 

(d) Evelyn’s smartness

Ans: (c) Evelyn’s deafness.

3. What did Evelyn manage to conceal?

(a) her attention

(b) her excitement

(c) her smartness

(d) her deafness

Ans: (d) her deafness.

4. What did Evelyn do for sometime? 

(a) She hid her deafness from her friends and teachers 

(b) She hid her deafness from her mother 

(c) She hid her deafness from her friends

(d) She hid her deafness from her teachers

Ans: (a) She hid her deafness from her friends and teachers.

5. What happened when she was eleven?

(a) She left her school

(b) She started singing 

(c) her marks deteriorated

(d) She got good marks

Ans: (c) her marks deteriorated.

6. What did the headmistress urge her parents

(a) to take her to specialists 

(b) to take her home

(c) to take her to a specialist

(d) to send her to a boarding school

Ans: (a) to take her to a specialist.

7. What caused Evelyn’s hearing severely impaired?

(a) hearing organ damage 

(b) high fever

(c) typhoid

(d) gradual nerve damage

Ans: (d) gradual nerve damage.

8. What did the specialist advise?

(a) to send her to the school for the deaf 

(b) to stop her study

(c) to get ready for a surgery 

(d) to send her to a hospital

Ans: (a) to send her to the school for the deaf.

9. But Evelyn was not going to

(a) study

(b) learn music 

(c) give up

(d) accept her illness

Ans: (c) give up.

10. Evelyn was determined to 

(a) give up learning 

(b) avoid school.

(c) go to a doctor 

(d) lead a normal life

Ans: (d) lead a normal life. 

11. What did her teacher’s dis courage her to?

(a) play a xylophone

(b) Continue her study. 

(c) leave the school

(d) use hearing aids. 

Ans: (a) play a xylophone.

12. What did Ron Forbes advise her?

(a) to use hearing aids

(b) not to be sorry

(c) to be concentric

(d) not to listen through ears but some other way 

Ans: (d) not to listen through ears but some other way.

13. Where could Evelyn sense some notes?

(a) in her ears

(b) in her mind

(c) in her head

(d) in different parts of her body

Ans: (d) in different parts of her body.

14. What according to Evelyn, can take one to the top?

(a) faith

(b) devotion

(c) hard work

(d) determination

Ans: (c) hard work.

15. Evelyn became a ―

(a) musician

(b) Singer

(c) superstar

(d) multi percussionist

Ans: (d) multi-percussionist.

Parth – II

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS:

1. Which instrument’s playing was banned by Emperor Aurangzeb?

(a) guitar

(b) Pungi 

(c) Shehnai

(d) tabla

Ans: (b) pungi.

2. Why did Aurangzeb ban pungi?

(a) because of its shrill sound

(b) because it was good

(c) because it was a noise maker 

(d) because of its shape

Ans: (a) because of its shrill sound.

3. What was pungi looked at as?

(a) a good instrument 

(b) a bad instrument

(c) a noise maker

(d) an irritating instrument

Ans: (c) a noise maker.

4. Who were the professional musicians during those days?

(a) laborers

(b) barbers

(c) cultivators

(d) workers

Ans: (b) barbers.

5. Pungi is a long pipe having

(a) seven holes 

(b) no hole

(c) a natural hollow

(d) an artificial hollow

Ans: (a) a natural hollow. 

6. What happened to Pungi?

(a) it became famous 

(b) it became a generic name

(c) it became available every where 

(d) none of these

Ans: (b) it became a generic name. 

7. Bismillah Khan practiced the shehnai?

(a) at home

(b) at school

(c) in the field

(d) on the bank of the Ganga

Ans: (d) on the bank of the Ganga.

8. What did the flowing water do?

(a) did nothing

(b) inspired him to invent ragas

(c) helped him 

(d) improved him

Ans: (b) inspired him to invent ragas.

9. Who was the young apprentice?

(a) Bismillah Khan

(b) Ali

(c) the priest

(d) Bismillah’s brother

Ans: (a) Bismillah Khan.

10. What prize did Bismillah Khan get for singing ‘chaita?

(a) a reward from the Nawab

(b) Pat from the priest

(c) a big laddu

(d) a laddu of 1.25 kg

Ans: (b) a laddu of 1.25 Kg.

11. Bismillah Khan got the ‘Bharat Ratna’ when he was-

(a) 70 years

(b) 80 years

(c) 85 years

(d) 75 years 

Ans: (c) 85 years.

12. What attracted Bismillah when he was in Benaras?

(a) The city

(b) his uncle’s house 

(c) songs of his uncle

(d) his uncle’s practicing the shehnai 

Ans: (d) his uncle’s practicing the shehnai.

13. Where did Bismillah’s uncle play the shehnai?

(a) at home

(b) at school

(c) in festivals

(d) on the bank of the Ganga

Ans: (d) on the bank of the Ganga.

14. Who was Zahir Sheh?

(a) a Nawab

(b) a musician

(c) a king

(d) an emperor

Ans: (c) a king.

15. What was the name of Vijay Bhatt’s film that acknowledged Bismillah Khan’s great music?

(a) Bismillah Khan

(b) Gunj Uthi Shehnai

(c) Ustaad

(d) Dhand

Ans: (d) Gunj Uthi Shehnai.

16. Bismillah Khan was fondly called as-

(a) great musician 

(b) king of shehnai

(c) Khan saab

(d) guruji

Ans: (c) khan Saab. 

17. With what did Bismillah greet the nation?

(a) his song

(b) his speech 

(c) a slogan

(d) his shehnai

Ans: (d) his shehnai.

18. What was the raaga in shehnai by Ustad Bismillah khan on 15 August 1947?

(a) Malkosh

(b) kafi

(c) Desh

(d) Vairab

Ans: (d) Kafi.

19. According to Bismillah Khan the most wonderful towns were 

(a) Mumbai and Delhi

(b) Delhi and Benaras

(c) Benaras and Dumraon

(d) Mumbai and Benaras

Ans: (c) Benaras and Dumraon.

20. Where did the student ask. Bismillah to head a shehnai school?

(a) Benaras

(b) Dumraon 

(c) Mumbai

(d) The U.S.A

Ans: (d) The U.S.A.