Tea from Assam – Objective Questions Class 10 English | Merit Yard

[कक्षा 10th - अचूक बैच - Tea from Assam - MERIT YARD]

Question 1 / 40Who is the author of 'Tea from Assam'?

A) Ruskin Bond

B) Arup Kumar Datta

C) Lokesh Abrol

D) Lucio Rodrigues

Question 2 / 40Which state is known as the 'Tea Country'?

A) Kerala

B) West Bengal

C) Assam

D) Goa

Question 3 / 40Who was travelling with Pranjol?

A) His father

B) Rajvir

C) His teacher

D) His sister

Question 4 / 40Where did Pranjol belong to?

A) Delhi

B) Coorg

C) Assam

D) Mumbai

Question 5 / 40"Chai-Garam... Garam-Chai", who said this?

A) Pranjol

B) A tea vendor

B) A tea vendor

C) Rajvir

D) Mr. Barua

Question 6 / 40How many cups of tea are drunk everyday throughout the world?

A) 50 crore

B) 100 crore

C) Over 80 crore

D) 40 crore

Question 7 / 40What was Pranjol doing in the train?

A) Sleeping

B) Reading a detective book

C) Looking out of the window

D) Drinking coffee

Question 8 / 40Why was Rajvir excited?

A) He saw a tiger

B) He saw the beautiful scenery (greenery and tea bushes)

C) He saw a river

D) He was going home

Question 9 / 40Assam has the largest concentration of _______ in the world.

A) Forests

B) Tea plantations

C) Animals

D) Rivers

Question 10 / 40The words 'Chai' and 'Chini' are from which language?

A) Japanese

B) Indian

C) Chinese

D) French

Question 11 / 40According to one legend, who discovered tea?

A) An Indian King

B) A Chinese Emperor

C) A British Officer

D) Bodhidharma

Question 12 / 40What was the Chinese emperor doing?

A) Sleeping

B) Boiling water

C) Planting trees

D) Eating leaves

Question 13 / 40Who was Bodhidharma?

A) A Chinese Emperor

B) A Tea seller

C) An ancient Buddhist ascetic

D) A farmer

Question 14 / 40Why did Bodhidharma cut off his eyelids?

A) He was angry

B) He felt sleepy during meditations

C) He was hurt

D) It was a ritual

Question 15 / 40What grew out of Bodhidharma's eyelids?

A) Flowers

B) Ten tea plants

C) Grass

D) Trees

Question 16 / 40When was tea first drunk in China?

A) 2000 AD

B) 2700 BC

C) 1600 BC

D) 2024 AD

Question 17 / 40When did tea come to Europe?

A) 15th Century

B) 16th Century

C) 18th Century

D) 10th Century

Question 18 / 40Initially, tea was drunk more as _______ than as a beverage.

A) Water

B) Food

C) Medicine

D) Poison

Question 19 / 40Where did Pranjol and Rajvir get down?

A) Guwahati

B) Mariani junction

C) Dhekiabari

D) Dibrugarh

Question 20 / 40Who was waiting for them at the station?

A) A driver

B) Pranjol's mother

C) Pranjol's parents

D) The Manager

Question 21 / 40What is the name of the tea garden managed by Pranjol's father?

A) Mariani Estate

B) Dhekiabari Tea Estate

C) Assam Tea Garden

D) Green Valley

Question 22 / 40What structure was described as 'an ugly building'?

A) Pranjol's house

B) The tea factory

C) The station

D) The shop

Question 23 / 40What was coming out of the tall chimneys?

A) Fire

B) Birds

C) Smoke

D) Water

Question 24 / 40The tea pluckers looked like ______ moving amidst the tea bushes.

A) Soldiers

B) Dolls

C) Machines

D) Animals

Question 25 / 40What were the groups of tea pluckers wearing?

A) Sarees

B) Plastic aprons

C) Coats

D) Hats

Question 26 / 40What were the pluckers carrying on their backs?

A) Bags

B) Bamboo baskets

C) Boxes

D) Nothing

Question 27 / 40What type of leaves were they plucking?

A) Old leaves

B) Dry leaves

C) Newly sprouted leaves

D) Flowers

Question 28 / 40What is the second-flush or sprouting period?

A) May to July

B) January to March

C) October to December

D) August to September

A) May to July

Question 29 / 40The second flush produces the ______ tea.

A) Worst

B) Cheapest

C) Best

D) Bitter

Question 30 / 40Mr. Barua was surprised by Rajvir's _____.

A) Laziness

B) Homework / Knowledge about tea

C) Silence

D) Dress

Question 31 / 40The tea bushes were stretched like a sea against the backdrop of _____.

A) Desert

B) Densely wooded hills (Himalayas)

C) Ocean

D) City

Question 32 / 40What provides shade to the tea bushes?

A) Umbrellas

B) Tall sturdy shade trees

C) Buildings

D) Nothing

Question 33 / 40Pranjol's father slowed down the car to let a ______ pass.

A) Elephant

B) Tractor pulling a trailer-load of tea leaves

C) Train

D) Cow

Question 34 / 40Where did Rajvir study?

A) Assam

B) Goa

C) Delhi

D) Coorg

Question 35 / 40The leaves of the ten tea plants, when put in hot water and drunk, banished _____.

A) Hunger

B) Sleep

C) Pain

D) Thirst

Question 36 / 40Pranjol didn't share Rajvir's excitement because:

A) He was bored

B) He was born and brought up on a plantation

C) He was reading

D) He was sleeping

Question 37 / 40What was the green scenery initially?

A) Tea bushes

B) Paddy (Rice) fields

C) Wheat fields

D) Forest

Question 38 / 40Rajvir admitted that no one really knows who discovered tea but there are _____.

A) Many books

B) Many legends

C) Many pictures

D) No proofs

Question 39 / 40Who is Mr. Barua?

A) Rajvir's father

B) Pranjol's father

C) The Tea vendor

D) The driver

Question 40 / 40What kind of story is 'Tea from Assam'?

A) Fiction

B) Informative / Travelogue

C) Horror

D) Comedy