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MCQs For Class 9 Moments Supplementary Reader
Chapter 3 : Iswaran the Storyteller
MCQs For Class 9 Moments Supplementary Reader Chapter 3 Iswaran the Storyteller
Q1. Who is the author of the story "Iswaran the Storyteller"?
A. Mulk Raj Anand
B. Ruskin Bond
C. R.K. Laxman
D. Vikram Seth
Correct Answer: C
Q2. What was Mahendra’s occupation?
A. A doctor
B. A junior supervisor in a construction firm
C. A teacher
D. A storyteller
Correct Answer: B
Q3. What was Mahendra’s job requirement?
A. To stay in one office
B. To keep moving from place to place
C. To travel abroad
D. To work from home
Correct Answer: B
Q4. Who was Mahendra’s cook?
A. Iswaran
B. Laxman
C. Ganesh
D. Ahmed
Correct Answer: A
Q5. How was Mahendra’s marital status?
A. Married
B. Divorced
C. A bachelor
D. Widower
Correct Answer: C
Q6. What was Iswaran’s relationship with Mahendra?
A. He hated Mahendra
B. He was very attached and followed him everywhere
C. He was a temporary worker
D. He was Mahendra's boss
Correct Answer: B
Q7. What was Iswaran’s amazing capacity?
A. To drive fast
B. To produce vegetables and cooking ingredients in remote places
C. To sleep for long hours
D. To sing songs
Correct Answer: B
Q8. How would Iswaran spend his spare time?
A. Sleeping
B. Reading popular Tamil thrillers
C. Watching TV
D. Visiting the market
Correct Answer: B
Q9. How did Iswaran narrate even the smallest incident?
A. Very boringly
B. With a lot of suspense and surprise endings
C. Briefly
D. By writing it down
Correct Answer: B
Q10. Whose style did Iswaran's own descriptions follow?
A. English novelists
B. Tamil authors
C. Movie directors
D. Mahendra's style
Correct Answer: B
Q11. What would Iswaran do to describe a fallen tree on the highway?
A. Say it simply
B. Use dramatic gestures and arched eyebrows
C. Show a photo
D. Ignore it
Correct Answer: B
Q12. How did Iswaran describe a fallen tree?
A. As a big log
B. As an enormous sprawling beast
C. As a small stick
D. As a bridge
Correct Answer: B
Q13. From where did the elephant escape in Iswaran’s story?
A. A circus
B. A timber yard
C. A zoo
D. A forest
Correct Answer: B
Q14. What were the elephants used for in the timber yard?
A. For riding
B. To haul huge logs of timber onto lorries
C. For racing
D. For playing
Correct Answer: B
Q15. What word did Iswaran use for the mad elephant?
A. Giant
B. Tusker
C. Beast
D. Monster
Correct Answer: B
Q16. What did the elephant do when it reached the town?
A. It started dancing
B. It smashed stalls and broke fences
C. It ate all the fruits
D. It went to sleep
Correct Answer: B
Q17. Where did the elephant enter when it reached the school?
A. The principal’s office
B. The school ground where children were playing
C. The kitchen
D. The library
Correct Answer: B
Q18. What did the children do when the elephant entered the school?
A. They started playing with it
B. They ran into the classrooms and shut the doors
C. They threw stones at it
D. They called the police
Correct Answer: B
Q19. Where was Iswaran when the elephant incident happened?
A. In the kitchen
B. In a junior class (as a student)
C. On the roof
D. In the market
Correct Answer: B
Q20. What did Iswaran take from a teacher’s hand to face the elephant?
A. A book
B. A cane
C. A water bottle
D. A duster
Correct Answer: B
Q21. What did Iswaran do to the elephant?
A. He shot it
B. He hit its third toenail with the cane
C. He fed it
D. He climbed on its back
Correct Answer: B
Q22. What happened to the elephant after being hit by Iswaran?
A. It became angrier
B. It collapsed and shivered
C. It ran away
D. It started laughing
Correct Answer: B
Q23. Which martial art did Iswaran say he used on the elephant?
A. Boxing
B. Karate or Ju-jitsu
C. Wrestling
D. Judo
Correct Answer: B
Q24. Where did Iswaran say he had read about this martial art?
A. In a newspaper
B. In a book
C. On a poster
D. In a letter
Correct Answer: B
Q25. How did Mahendra feel about Iswaran’s storytelling?
A. He found it annoying
B. He enjoyed it and it compensated for the absence of a TV
C. He didn't listen
D. He was scared
Correct Answer: B
Q26. What was special about the day Iswaran prepared a special dinner?
A. It was Mahendra's birthday
B. It was an auspicious day to feed the spirits of ancestors
C. It was New Year
D. It was a holiday
Correct Answer: B
Q27. What did Iswaran say about the place they were living in after dinner?
A. It was a palace
B. It was once a burial ground
C. It was a forest
D. It was a temple
Correct Answer: B
Q28. What did Iswaran say he had seen on the path at night?
A. A lion
B. Human skulls lying about
C. A treasure
D. A snake
Correct Answer: B
Q29. What kind of ghost did Iswaran describe?
A. An old man
B. An ugly woman with matted hair and a shrivelled face
C. A young boy
D. A headless soldier
Correct Answer: B
Q30. What was the ghost woman carrying in her arms?
A. A bag of gold
B. A foetus (unborn baby)
C. A lamp
D. A sword
Correct Answer: B
Q31. How did Mahendra react to the ghost story?
A. He was very scared
B. He called Iswaran 'crazy' and said there are no ghosts
C. He started crying
D. He left the room immediately
Correct Answer: B
Q32. What did Mahendra suggest Iswaran should do?
A. Write a book
B. Get his digestive system and head checked
C. Leave the job
D. Go to sleep
Correct Answer: B
Q33. After the ghost story, how did Mahendra feel at night?
A. Very brave
B. He peered into the darkness every night to check for movement
C. He slept peacefully
D. He kept the lights off
Correct Answer: B
Q34. What was the full moon night like?
A. Rainy
B. Clear with milk-white light
C. Very dark
D. Cloudy
Correct Answer: B
Q35. What sound did Mahendra hear near his window one night?
A. A loud scream
B. A low moan (mewing of a cat)
C. A whistle
D. A knock
Correct Answer: B
Q36. What did Mahendra initially think the sound was?
A. A ghost
B. A cat prowling for mice
C. The wind
D. Iswaran snoring
Correct Answer: B
Q37. Why did Mahendra not want to look out of the window at first?
A. He was sleepy
B. He was afraid he might see something that would stop his heart
C. He was lazy
D. It was too cold
Correct Answer: B
Q38. What did Mahendra see when he finally looked out?
A. A white dog
B. A dark cloudy form clutching a bundle
C. Iswaran
D. Nothing
Correct Answer: B
Q39. What did Mahendra do after seeing the dark form?
A. He ran outside
B. He fell back on the pillow and panted
C. He shouted for help
D. He called the police
Correct Answer: B
Q40. How did Mahendra try to rationalize what he saw the next morning?
A. It was a dream
B. It was a trick played by his own subconscious
C. It was Iswaran in disguise
D. It was a thief
Correct Answer: B
Q41. What did Iswaran say to Mahendra the next morning?
A. "Good morning"
B. He reminded him about the ghost and the moan he heard
C. "Breakfast is ready"
D. "I am leaving"
Correct Answer: B
Q42. How did Iswaran know Mahendra had seen the ghost?
A. He saw Mahendra looking out
B. He heard Mahendra's moan at night
C. Mahendra told him
D. He guessed it
Correct Answer: B
Q43. What was Mahendra’s final reaction at the end of the story?
A. He hugged Iswaran
B. He handed in his papers and resolved to leave the haunted place
C. He started believing in ghosts
D. He punished Iswaran
Correct Answer: B
Q44. What does the word "Anecdote" mean?
A. A long novel
B. A short interesting story about a real incident or person
C. A medicine
D. A poem
Correct Answer: B
Q45. Iswaran was a "treasure" to Mahendra because:
A. He had a lot of gold
B. He was an excellent cook and companion
C. He was a relative
D. He was very rich
Correct Answer: B
Q46. What was the "bundle" the ghost was holding?
A. A box
B. A foetus
C. Clothes
D. Food
Correct Answer: B
Q47. The place where Mahendra worked was a:
A. City center
B. Construction site (bridge, factory, et
C. ) C. School
D. Hospital
Correct Answer: B
Q48. Iswaran’s stories were often:
A. Boring
B. Incredible but entertaining
C. Short
D. Truthful
Correct Answer: B
Q49. "Iswaran the Storyteller" highlights the art of:
A. Cooking
B. Oral storytelling and imagination
C. Civil engineering
D. Karate
Correct Answer: B
Q50. Who did Mahendra tell the story of Iswaran to?
A. Ganesh
B. His wife
C. The author
D. His boss
Correct Answer: A