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MCQs For Class 9 Moments Supplementary Reader
Chapter 6 : Weathering the Storm in Ersama
MCQs For Class 9 Moments Supplementary Reader Chapter 6 Weathering the Storm in Ersama
Q1. Who is the author of the story "Weathering the Storm in Ersama"?
A. Mulk Raj Anand
B. Harsh Mander
C. Ruskin Bond
D. Vikram Seth
Correct Answer: B
Q2. When did the super cyclone hit Odisha?
A. October 1998
B. October 1999
C. September 1999
D. November 2000
Correct Answer: B
Q3. What was the speed of the wind during the super cyclone?
A. 200 km/h
B. 350 km/h
C. 450 km/h
D. 100 km/h
Correct Answer: B
Q4. How old was Prashant at the time of the cyclone?
A. 15 years
B. 19 years
C. 21 years
D. 25 years
Correct Answer: B
Q5. Where had Prashant gone on 27 October 1999?
A. To his village
B. To Ersama, to visit a friend
C. To Delhi
D. To a movie
Correct Answer: B
Q6. How far was Ersama from Prashant’s village?
A. 10 km
B. 18 km
C. 25 km
D. 50 km
Correct Answer: B
Q7. How many years ago had Prashant’s mother died?
A. One year
B. Five years
C. Seven years
D. Two years
Correct Answer: C
Q8. Where did Prashant and his friend's family take refuge during the storm?
A. In a basement
B. On the rooftop
C. Under a tree
D. In a school
Correct Answer: B
Q9. What saved Prashant and his friend's family from starvation on the roof?
A. Food packets from helicopters
B. Two coconut trees that fell on the roof
C. Rice from the kitchen
D. Biscuits
Correct Answer: B
Q10. How long did the rain and storm continue without stopping?
A. 12 hours
B. 24 hours
C. 36 hours
D. 48 hours
Correct Answer: C
Q11. What did Prashant see everywhere after the storm?
A. Beautiful scenery
B. A sheet of water and bloated animal carcasses
C. New houses
D. Happy people
Correct Answer: B
Q12. What was the name of Prashant’s village?
A. Ersama
B. Kalikuda
C. Jagatsinghpur
D. Balasore
Correct Answer: B
Q13. Why did Prashant decide to go to his village despite the dangerous conditions?
A. He was bored
B. He was worried about his family's safety
C. He wanted to see the floods
D. His friend asked him to leave
Correct Answer: B
Q14. What did Prashant take with him for his journey back to the village?
A. An umbrella
B. A long, sturdy stick
C. A life jacket
D. A bag of food
Correct Answer: B
Q15. How did Prashant use the stick during his journey?
A. To fight animals
B. To locate the road and judge the depth of the water
C. To walk faster
D. To keep balance
Correct Answer: B
Q16. What horrifying scenes did Prashant witness on his way home?
A. Broken cars
B. Floating human bodies and animal carcasses
C. People fighting
D. Fire
Correct Answer: B
Q17. Whom did Prashant meet on his way back home?
A. His brother
B. Two friends of his uncle
C. His teacher
D. A group of soldiers
Correct Answer: B
Q18. What was the first thing Prashant saw when he reached his village?
A. His house was perfect
B. Only the roofs of some houses were visible
C. His family was waiting for him
D. The school building was gone
Correct Answer: B
Q19. Where did Prashant first go to look for his family?
A. His house
B. The Red Cross shelter
C. The temple
D. The hospital
Correct Answer: B
Q20. Who was the first person Prashant saw at the Red Cross shelter?
A. His father
B. His maternal grandmother
C. His sister
D. His brother
Correct Answer: B
Q21. How did Prashant’s grandmother react when she saw him?
A. She was angry
B. She rushed to him, her eyes brimming with tears
C. She didn't recognize him
D. She started laughing
Correct Answer: B
Q22. How many people were there in the Red Cross shelter?
A. 500
B. 1000
C. 2500
D. 5000
Correct Answer: C
Q23. How many people in Prashant's village had died in the cyclone?
A. 50
B. 86
C. 100
D. 200
Correct Answer: B
Q24. How many houses had been washed away in Kalikuda?
A. 50
B. 96
C. 80
D. 100
Correct Answer: B
Q25. What was the condition of the people at the shelter on the fourth day?
A. They were happy
B. They were starving and had lived only on green coconuts
C. They were dancing
D. They had plenty of food
Correct Answer: B
Q26. What did Prashant organize the youth and elders for?
A. To leave the village
B. To pressure the local merchant to give rice
C. To build a new school
D. To play cricket
Correct Answer: B
Q27. How did the group finally get rice for the shelter?
A. They stole it
B. They bought it
C. They succeeded in pressuring the merchant
D. The government gave it
Correct Answer: C
Q28. What was the first task of the youth volunteers' group?
A. To play games
B. To clean the shelter of filth, urine, vomit, and carcasses
C. To cook food
D. To sleep
Correct Answer: B
Q29. On which day did the military helicopter drop some food?
A. Third day
B. Fifth day
C. Seventh day
D. Second day
Correct Answer: B
Q30. What did the children do to signal the helicopters for food?
A. They shouted loudly
B. They lay in the sand with empty utensils on their stomachs
C. They waved red flags
D. They built a fire
Correct Answer: B
Q31. Why did the children lie with utensils on their stomachs?
A. To sleep
B. To show the helicopters they were hungry
C. To protect themselves from rain
D. As a game
Correct Answer: B
Q32. What work was given to the women in the relief camp?
A. To clean the floors
B. To look after the orphans and work in 'food-for-work' programme
C. To sing songs
D. To gather wood
Correct Answer: B
Q33. Which organization started the 'food-for-work' programme?
A. Red Cross
B. An NGO
C. The Indian Army
D. UNICEF
Correct Answer: B
Q34. What sports did Prashant organize for the children?
A. Football
B. Cricket
C. Hockey
D. Basketball
Correct Answer: B
Q35. Why did Prashant organize sports for children?
A. He wanted to become a coach
B. To distract them from their grief and trauma
C. To find the best player
D. Because they had no school
Correct Answer: B
Q36. What did the government initially propose for the orphans and widows?
A. To give them money
B. To set up separate institutions for them
C. To send them to cities
D. To leave them alone
Correct Answer: B
Q37. Why did Prashant resist the setting up of separate institutions for orphans and widows?
A. Because he hated the government
B. Because in such institutions children would grow up without love and widows would suffer from stigma and loneliness
C. Because it was expensive
D. Because there was no space
Correct Answer: B
Q38. What was Prashant’s group's alternative plan for orphans and widows?
A. To let them live on the streets
B. To resettle them in their own community in new foster families
C. To send them to other states
D. To give them to the army
Correct Answer: B
Q39. What are 'foster families' mentioned in the chapter?
A. Families made of only adults
B. Families made of childless widows and children without adult care
C. Rich families
D. Foreign families
Correct Answer: B
Q40. How long after the super cyclone did Prashant's own pain start to heal?
A. One month
B. He had no time to think about his own pain because he was busy helping others
C. Six months
D. One year
Correct Answer: B
Q41. What is the main theme of the story?
A. Natural disasters are unavoidable
B. Community leadership and youth power can overcome any crisis
C. Governments are useless
D. Rain is dangerous
Correct Answer: B
Q42. How did Prashant help the widows?
A. By giving them money
B. By persuading them to work in the food-for-work programme
C. By building them houses
D. By sending them away
Correct Answer: B
Q43. Prashant is a symbol of ________.
A. Bravery and selfless service
B. Fear
C. Wealth
D. Laziness
Correct Answer: A
Q44. What does the word 'carcass' mean?
A. A small boat
B. The dead body of an animal
C. A type of wind
D. A tool
Correct Answer: B
Q45. What does the word 'trauma' refer to in the story?
A. A physical injury
B. Emotional and mental shock
C. A type of food
D. A storm
Correct Answer: B
Q46. How did the people of the shelter survive the cold?
A. By wearing heavy coats
B. By sitting together and the heat from the coconuts
C. There was no cold
D. By using heaters
Correct Answer: B
Q47. What did the merchant finally do with the rice?
A. He sold it at a high price
B. He gave it to the youth volunteers for the shelter
C. He threw it away
D. He hid it
Correct Answer: B
Q48. Prashant’s journey back to the village was ________ km long.
A. 10
B. 18
C. 20
D. 12
Correct Answer: B
Q49. Why did the military helicopters stop dropping food?
A. They ran out of food
B. They thought everyone was dead
C. After the utensil signal, they got the message and started regular drops
D. The weather was too bad
Correct Answer: C
Q50. Who did the orphans look up to as their savior?
A. The Government
B. The Merchant
C. Prashant
D. The Pilot
Correct Answer: C