Class 9 English - Weathering the Storm in Ersama - MERIT YARD
Weathering the Storm in Ersama - MERIT YARD
1 / 40Who is the main protagonist of the story?
A) Prashant
B) Mahendra
C) Iswaran
D) Harsh Mander
2 / 40In which year did the super cyclone hit Odisha?
A) 1990
B) 2005
C) 1999
D) 2010
3 / 40Where was Prashant's village located?
A) Ersama
B) Kalikuda
C) Bhubaneswar
D) Puri
4 / 40Why had Prashant gone to Ersama?
A) To buy food
B) To visit a friend
C) To work
D) For a vacation
5 / 40Where did Prashant and his friend's family take shelter during the storm?
A) In a room
B) On the roof of the house
C) In a tree
D) Under the bed
6 / 40What was the speed of the wind during the cyclone?
A) 150 km/h
B) 350 km/h
C) 200 km/h
D) 100 km/h
7 / 40What fell on the roof of the house during the storm?
A) A stone
B) Two coconut trees
C) A car
D) A pole
8 / 40How did the coconut trees prove to be a "blessing in disguise"?
A) They provided shade
B) They provided tender coconuts for food
C) They stopped the wind
D) They were sold for money
9 / 40For how many days did the storm continue?
A) 36 hours (two days)
B) One week
C) One month
D) Five hours
10 / 40How far was Prashant's village from Ersama?
A) 50 km
B) 18 km
C) 10 km
D) 5 km
11 / 40What did Prashant carry with him to find his way back?
A) A torch
B) A long, sturdy stick
C) A map
D) A bag of food
12 / 40Who joined Prashant on his way back home?
A) His friend
B) Two friends of his uncle
C) A soldier
D) His father
13 / 40What did they have to push away while wading through water?
A) Fish
B) Human bodies and carcasses of animals
C) Wooden boxes
D) Cars
14 / 40Which family member did Prashant see first at the Red Cross shelter?
A) His mother
B) His maternal grandmother
C) His sister
D) His father
15 / 40How many people died in Prashant's village?
A) 10
B) 86
C) 50
D) 100
16 / 40How many houses were washed away in his village?
A) 20
B) 96
C) 10
D) 50
17 / 40Prashant organized a group of ______ to help people?
A) Youths and elders
B) Doctors
C) Teachers
D) Police
18 / 40What was the first task of the youth task force?
A) To build houses
B) To pressurize the merchant to part with his rice
C) To find the dead
D) To call the army
19 / 40How did the children attract the attention of helicopters for food?
A) By waving flags
B) By lying with empty utensils on their stomachs
C) By shouting
D) By burning fire
20 / 40Prashant helped ______ to work in 'Food for work' program?
A) Men
B) Women
C) Animals
D) Children
21 / 40What kind of a person was Prashant?
A) A natural leader and brave
B) Scared and shy
C) Greedy
D) Lazy
22 / 40Odisha super cyclone occurred on which date in 1999?
A) 15 August
B) 27 October
C) 26 January
D) 25 December
23 / 40The water in Ersama was ______?
A) Clean
B) Brown and swirling
C) Blue
D) Red
24 / 40Prashant's mother had died ______ years before?
A) Two
B) Seven
C) Five
D) Ten
25 / 40Why did Prashant cry out when he reached his village?
A) He was tired
B) He saw only roofs where houses were
C) He was hungry
D) He found his mother
26 / 40How many people were at the shelter?
A) 100
B) 2500
C) 500
D) 1000
27 / 40Prashant advocated for foster families to be ______?
A) Rich
B) Made of orphans and widows together
C) From cities
D) Only men
28 / 40The orphans were settled in ______?
A) Cities
B) Their own community
C) Foreign countries
D) Schools
29 / 40What did the widows and orphans look for in Prashant?
A) Money
B) Support and light in their dark hours
C) Food only
D) Nothing
30 / 40Prashant was just ______ years old?
A) 15
B) 19
C) 25
D) 12
31 / 40The cyclone is described as a ______?
A) Sweet breeze
B) Dark, menacing super cyclone
C) Light rain
D) Dust storm
32 / 40What happened to the pets in Ersama?
A) They were safe
B) They were killed and floated in water
C) They ran away to forest
D) They were sold
33 / 40Prashant's village name was ______?
A) Ersama
B) Kalikuda
C) Jagatsinghpur
D) Berhampur
34 / 40The story teaches about the power of ______?
A) Money
B) Community help and youth leadership
C) Nature's anger only
D) Magic
35 / 40What was the condition of the survivors at the shelter?
A) Very happy
B) Wounded and grief-stricken
C) Dancing
D) Rich
36 / 40The military helicopter dropped ______?
A) Weapons
B) Food parcels
C) Clothes
D) Money
37 / 40Why did Prashant's heart go cold on seeing his village?
A) Because of ice
B) Because of the fear for his family's lives
C) Because of fever
D) Because of hunger
38 / 40What did the NGOs want to build initially?
A) Schools
B) Separate institutions for orphans and widows
C) Bridges
D) Roads
39 / 40Why did Prashant resist the NGO's plan for separate institutions?
A) It was expensive
B) Orphans and widows would feel lonely and stigmatized
C) He hated NGOs
D) There was no space
40 / 40The story 'Weathering the Storm' is written by ______?
A) Vikram Seth
B) Harsh Mander
C) Ruskin Bond
D) Mulk Raj Anand
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