Model Questions and Answers

Class IX English

Questions 1-5. Read the following extract from the article “The Saga of the Tiffin Carriers and answer the questions that follow.

One option is to starve through the working day. The other option is think of someone to deliver your hot, home-cooked meal at your office. The second option is possible because of the dabbawalas. We see these dabbawalas hurrying into the commuter trains and getting out at terminuses and rushing through crowded roads, carrying coffin-sized crates ladan with lunches. They are an integral part of the Mumbai scene.

1.One option is to starve through the working day. For whom is this option?

A. for the people who live far away and work in the heart of Mumbai.

B. for the dabbawalas.

C. for the families of the workers.

D. for the people who are travelling in the train.

2. Because of the……… the workers in the heart of Mumbai can get hot, home-cooked meal at their office.

A. Industries

B. Railways

C. road transport system

D. Dabbawalas

3. What is an integral part of the Mumbai scene as per the extract?

C. The big industries.

A. The railways

B The road transport system

C. The big industries.

D. The tiffin carriers

4. The crates laden with lunches loo

A. Huge television sets.

B. Coffins.

C. Big boxes

D. Small boats.

5. What is the sight that impresses you most from this extract?

A. The workers in the heart of Mumbai.

B. The industrialists in Mumbai.

C. The dabbawalas hurrying into the commuter trains and getting out at terminuses and rushing through crowded roads.

D. The heavy traffic.

Answers

1.A. for the people who live far away and work in the heart of Mumbai.

2. D. dabbawalas

3. D. The tiffin carriers.

4. B. Coffins.

5. C. The dabbawalas hurrying into the commuter trains and getting out at terminuses and rushing through crowded roads.

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