1. Who is the author of the article” little girls wiser than men” ?

(A) Bladimir Narakov
(B) Leo Tolstoy ✓
(C)  Maxim  Gorki
(D) None of these

 

2. Soon the …….. Took them to splash about in the water.
(A) Fancy ✓
(B) Thought 
(C) Finary 
(D) None of these

 

3. Who splashed water on Akoulya”s  frock?
(A)  Malasha ✓
(B)  A fast blowing wind
(C) A fast moving water
(D)  none of these

4. Story, the author shows how  little children sometimes behave in a more mature manner than.

(A)  Adults ✓
(B)  Plants
(C)  Saints
(D)  Animals

 

5. Malasha put down her foot and splashed dirty water on to Akoulya’s
(A)  Hands
(B)  Neck
(C)  Frock ✓
(D)  Hair

 

6. Who began to howl so that she could be heard all down the street?
(A)  Malasha ✓
(B)  Akoulya
(C)  Both
(D)  none of these

 

7. ‘It is deep, I am afraid!’   who said?
(A)  Malasha ✓
(B)  Akoulya
(C)  Both
(D)   none of these

 

8. Akoulya’s  mother saw that her daughter’s skirt was .
(A) Dry
(B)  Torn
(C)  Splashed ✓
(D)  Torn

 

9.  One word led to another and they had and an  angry ……..
(A)  shouting 
(B) Fighting 
(C)  Quarrel ✓
(D)  Flighting

 

10. It is a time for ……… and not for such folly as this
(A)  Rejoicing ✓
(B)  Advising
(C)  Avoiding
(D)  Providing

 

11. Presently Malasha joined her,  and with a  ………  of wood helped her dig the channel.
(A)  Clip 
(B)  Chip ✓
(C)   Slip
(D)  Flip

 

12. Dear little……….!

(A)  Girls
(B)  Boys
(C)  Souls ✓
(D)  Brothers

 

13. Who had dressed them?
(A)  the mother ✓
(B)  the father
(C)  the sister
(D)  none of these

 

14. Why were the two girls dressed in new clothes?
(A)  both went to the market
(B)  they had gone to church ✓
(C)  they had gone to a fair
(D)  none of these

 

15.  What was in the yard?
(A)  cold water
(B)  hot water
(C)  dirty water ✓
(D)   none of these

 

16. Where did the two girls meet?
(A) On the front road
(B)  on the first cross of the road
(C)  in a lane between two homesteads ✓
(D) None of these

 

17.  Which festival is referred to by the writer in “ little girls wiser than men”?
(A)  Holi
(B)  Diwali
(C)  Easter ✓
(D)  none of these

 

18. Malasha”s ……… Came and started scolding Akulya”s mother.
(A)  Father
(B)  Brother
(C)  Sister
(D)  Mother ✓

 

19.  The old woman tried to make everyone understand that as it was Eastern the day should be spent ……….
(A)  Sadly
(B)   Happily ✓
(C)  Angrily
(D)  Jealously

 

20. The old woman tried to make everyone understand that at it was Easter the day should be spent
(A)  Sadly
(B)  happily ✓
(C)  Angrily
(D)  Jealously

 

21. The two girls forgot their …… and became friends again.
(A)  Anger ✓
(B)  Jealousy
(C)   Envy
(D)  Farms

 

22. “ Expect ye turn,and become as little …….
(A)   young man
(B)  Children ✓
(C)  Boy
(D)   Girl

 

23. One girl was very small, the other a little ………
(A)  Younger
(B)  Smaller
(C)  Bigger ✓
(D)   Thinner

 

24.  Till where did the water reach?
(A) Akoulya”s ankles
(B) Malasha”s ankles
(C)  Both ((A) and ((B) ✓
(D)  none of these

 

25. Whose mother came out after hearing the howl and began scolding.
(A) Akoulya’s
(B) Malasha’s ✓
(C) Both
(D) None of these

 

26.  What happened When Malasha’s mother came out after hearing the howl?
(A) Malasha’s mother struck Akoulya’s mothers
(B) Malasha’s mother struck Akoulya
(C) Malasha’s mother started scolding her neighbour ✓
(D) None of these 

 

27.  Why was no one listening?
(A)  because everyone was fighting
(B)  because everyone was shouting ✓
(C)  because everyone was laughing
(D)   none of these

 

28.   They would not listen to the old woman and nearly ……..her off her feet.
(A) Killed
(B)  Struck
(C)  Dashed
(D)  Knocked ✓

 

29.  Akoulya’s mother seized 
(A) Akoulya 
(B) Malasha ✓
(C) Both
(D) None of these 

 

30.  What was in the yard?
(A)  cold water
(B)  hot water
(C)  dirty water ✓
(D)   none of these