The Making of a Scientist – Objective Questions Class 10 English | Merit Yard

[कक्षा 10th - अचूक बैच - The Making of a Scientist - MERIT YARD]

Question 1 / 40Who is the author of 'The Making of a Scientist'?

A) Ruskin Bond

B) Robert W. Peterson

C) H.G. Wells

D) James Herriot

Question 2 / 40Who is the main character of the story?

A) Richard Ebright

B) Richard Ebright

C) Dr. Urquhart

D) James

Question 3 / 40Where did Richard Ebright grow up?

A) London

B) Reading, Pennsylvania

C) New York

D) Tokyo

Question 4 / 40What was Richard's hobby in kindergarten?

A) Collecting stamps

B) Collecting butterflies

C) Playing football

D) Painting

Question 5 / 40Who encouraged Richard's interest in learning?

A) His father

B) His mother

C) His teacher

D) His friend

Question 6 / 40Which book did Richard's mother give him?

A) The Travels of Monarch X

B) The Travels of Monarch X

C) The Story of Butterflies

D) Science World

Question 7 / 40What was the book about?

A) Bird migration

B) Monarch butterfly migration to Central America

C) Space travel

D) Chemistry

Question 8 / 40Who wrote 'The Travels of Monarch X'?

A) Robert Peterson

B) Dr. Frederick A. Urquhart

C) Richard Ebright

D) Einstein

Question 9 / 40At the end of the book, readers were invited to help study ______.

A) Butterfly migration

B) Butterfly migration

C) Bee behavior

D) Bird songs

Question 10 / 40What did Richard do to study butterflies?

A) He caught them

B) He raised a flock of butterflies in his basement

C) He bought them

D) He drew them

Question 11 / 40How did he tag the butterflies?

A) With paint

B) By attaching a light adhesive tag to the wings

C) With a thread

D) With a pin

Question 12 / 40In which grade did Richard enter the County Science Fair for the first time?

A) 5th

B) 7th

C) 10th

D) 8th

Question 13 / 40What did he show in his first science fair?

A) Frog tissues

B) Slides of frog tissues

C) Butterfly wings

D) A volcano

Question 14 / 40Did he win anything in his first science fair?

A) Yes, first prize

B) No, he lost

C) Second prize

D) Third prize

Question 15 / 40What lesson did he learn from losing?

A) Science is hard

B) Real science is about doing real experiments, not just display

C) He should quit

D) Judges are unfair

Question 16 / 40What was his project in the 8th grade?

A) To find the cause of a viral disease that kills monarch caterpillars

B) To find the cause of a viral disease that kills monarch caterpillars

C) DNA structure

D) Cell theory

Question 17 / 40Which insect did he suspect of carrying the disease?

A) Fly

B) Beetle

C) Ant

D) Spider

Question 18 / 40What was his project in the next year (high school)?

A) Testing if viceroy butterflies copy monarchs

B) Testing if viceroy butterflies copy monarchs

C) DNA test

D) Star gazing

Question 19 / 40Why do viceroys copy monarchs?

A) To look beautiful

B) Because birds don't like the taste of monarchs (to avoid being eaten)

C) To fly faster

D) To find food

Question 20 / 40What discovery did his project on the gold spots of a monarch pupa lead to?

A) A new butterfly

B) Discovery of a new hormone

C) A new planet

D) Nothing

Question 21 / 40What was the purpose of the 12 gold spots on a monarch pupa?

A) Just ornamental

B) They produced a hormone necessary for the butterfly's full development

C) Breathing

D) Vision

Question 22 / 40Where did Richard graduate from?

A) Oxford

B) Harvard University

C) Cambridge

D) Stanford

Question 23 / 40Who was his roommate with whom he worked on the DNA theory?

A) James R. Wong

B) James R. Wong

C) Henry

D) Peter

Question 24 / 40What is the blueprint for life?

A) RNA

B) DNA

C) Cells

D) Blood

Question 25 / 40What theory did Richard Ebright explain in the 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Science'?

A) How cells work

B) How cells work

C) Theory of relativity

D) Gravity

Question 26 / 40Who was Mr. Weiherer?

A) His science teacher

B) His social studies teacher

C) His father

D) A doctor

Question 27 / 40Besides science, what was Richard good at?

A) Debating and public speaking

B) Photography and canoeing

C) All of the above

D) None

Question 28 / 40What quality did Mr. Weiherer admire in Richard?

A) He was rich

B) He put in extra effort (3-4 hours at night)

C) He was lazy

D) He was funny

Question 29 / 40Richard was competitive but not in a ______ way.

A) Good

B) Bad

C) Friendly

D) Silent

Question 30 / 40What are the ingredients in the making of a scientist?

A) First-rate mind

B) Curiosity and will to win for right reasons

C) Both A and B

D) Money

Question 31 / 40At what age did Richard invent the theory on how cells work?

A) 20

B) 22

C) 25

D) 18

Question 32 / 40Richard Ebright collected _______ species of butterflies.

A) 20

B) 25

C) 30

D) 50

Question 33 / 40What did Richard's father do?

A) He was a scientist

B) He died when Richard was in 3rd grade

C) He was a doctor

D) He was a teacher

Question 34 / 40Dr. Urquhart was from the University of ________.

A) Oxford

B) Toronto (Canada)

C) London

D) Harvard

Question 35 / 40Why did raising butterflies in the basement become tedious?

A) It was dirty

B) There was no feedback (only 2 were recaptured)

C) They died

D) His mother stopped it

Question 36 / 40DNA controls ________.

A) Digestion

B) Heredity

C) Breathing

D) Movement

Question 37 / 40Richard wanted to win for _______.

A) Money

B) Doing the best job he could

C) Fame

D) Prize

Question 38 / 40What instruments did Richard use to see the gold spots?

A) Simple lens

B) Advanced microscope

C) Telescope

D) Glasses

Question 39 / 40Richard's mother bought him a ________.

A) Car

B) Telescope and Microscope

C) Bike

D) House

Question 40 / 40This story teaches us that curiosity leads to ______.

A) Trouble

B) Discovery and Success

C) Failure

D) Nothing