Jalebis MCQ Questions Class 8 English with Answers
Question. What happened as a result of eating jalebis?
(a) He got scolded
(b) He lost sleep
(c) He was absent in school for the first time
(d) He was away from home
Answer: C
Question. The story develops because
(a) the narrator stole some money
(b) he was given four rupees
(c) he loved to eat sweets
(d) the school fee could not be collected on the fixed day
Answer: D
Question. Which standard was he in, back then?
(a) Fifth
(b) Sixth
(c) Seventh
(d) Eighth
Answer: A
Question. How much did he spend on jalebis?
(a) One rupee
(b) Two rupees
(c) Five rupees
(d) Four rupees
Answer: D
Question. What were the coins keen about that day?
(a) Being saved
(b) Being paid as fees
(c) Being spent
(d) They were keen about nothing
Answer: C
Question. Would he be elected that day, if children were allowed in the Assembly?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Maybe
(d) Not mentioned in the story
Answer: A
Question. “The coins were so eager to be spent that day,” says the chil(d) In fact
(a) the coins do not speak
(b) the child was mad
(c) the child’s greed was becoming
(d) the child was joking uncontrollable
Answer: C
Question. What did he do to make the coins silent?
(a) Spent them
(b) Shouted at them
(c) Clenched them in his fist
(d) He did nothing to make them silent
Answer: C
Question. Which fear was killing him?
(a) Having spent the money
(b) Burping out a jalebi or two
(c) Having to eat dinner
(d) Having to see a doctor upon calling sick
Answer: B
Question. Why was he forced to have dinner?
(a) He couldn’t say no to it because that demanded an explanation
(b) He couldn’t call in sick because the doctor would be called
(c) He had jalebis without his family
(d) Both A and (b)
Answer: D
Question. What would man not have learned, if God answered all his prayers?
(a) How to walk
(b) How to speak
(c) How to breathe
(d) How to make jalebis
Answer: D
Question. What had his elders warned him against?
(a) Crossing a track
(b) Being near a railway station
(c) Spending fees money on sweets
(d) Both A and C
Answer: D
Question. Who did he tell he was, to Allahji?
(a) A peon
(b) A big officer
(c) A big officer’s nephew
(d) A peon’s nephew
Answer: C
Question. Did he get his scholarship money the next day?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Maybe
(d) Not mentioned in the story
Answer: A
Question. What makes you think he “rushed” to the bazaar on being fed up?
(a) He went without his sweater
(b) He went barefoot
(c) He went in his slippers
(d) He forgot the coins
Answer: B
Question. Who was he supposed to show his face at Qayamat?
(a) Allah Miya
(b) Master Ghulam Mohammed
(c) His parents
(d) Himself
Answer: A
Question. The author could not eat all jalebis , so he distributed remaining jalebis amoung………
(a) childrencorrect
(b) hungry sadhus
(c) hungry beggars
(d) his neighbours
Answer: A
Question. What do you mean by ‘Chabutra’ ?
(a) Roof
(b) Platformcorrect
(c) Stairs
(d) None of these
Answer: B
Question. What is the real problem in the end ?
(a) Payment of school fee after timecorrect
(b) No problem
(c) None of these
Answer: A
Question. Where i reached ?
(a) At Kambelpur railway stationcorrect
(b) At home
(c) Both A and B
(d) None of these
Answer: A
Question. The oldest coin asked the author to buy jalebis with the fees money and pay fees with the ——
(a) borrowed money
(b) earned money
)c) scholarship moneycorrect
(d) none of these
Answer: C
Question. The name of the teacher who collected fees was———-
(a) Mohammad akbar
(b) Ghulam nabi
(c) Ghulam Azad
(d) Ghulam Mohammad
Answer: D
Question. What do you mean by clamour ?
(a) Loud noisecorrect
(b) Don’t make noise
(c) Both A and B
(d) of these
Answer: A
Question. What is the opposite word of ‘ prestige’ ?
(a) Disregard
(b) Disrespect
(c) Both A and Bcorrect
(d) None of these
Answer: C
Question. What is the meaning of ‘Virtuous’ ?
(a) Good and noblecorrect
(b) Bad and dirty
(c) Gentle
(d) None of these
Answer: A
Question. The author was a student of the government school Kambelpur. now called——
(a) Kanpur
(b) Katak
(c) Atakcorrect
(d) None of these
Answer: C
Question. Complete the sentence:- Living in the nest like vulture and crow and would have learnt…..
(a) The art of making jalebiescorrect
(b) None
(c) The art of making Barfi
(d) The art of making Rasgulla
Answer: A
Question. Who were jumping and screaming in the galli ?
(a) Childrencorrect
(b) Boys
(c) Girls
(d) people
Answer: A
Question. Who is the writer of this chapter ?
(a) James Bond
(b) William
(c) Ahmed nadeem qasmicorrect
(d) H.H Munro
Answer: C
Question. How much scholarship did the boy win in class IV?
(a) Four rupees
(b) Six rupees
(c) Eight rupees
(d) Ten rupees
Answer: A
Important Questions for CBSE Class 8 English It So Happened Chapter 8
Short Answer Type Questions
1. Which class was the boy in?
Answer: The boy was in fifth standard.
2. Which school was the boy in?
Answer: The boy was in the government school Kambelpur, now called Atak.
3. How did the Master punish, according to the boy?
Answer: When Master Ghulam Mohammed got angry, he used to make the boys stand on the bench, not letting them sit till the bell rang.
4. What happened in the end?
Answer: The boy was caught in the end as the report of his absence had reached home. He must have been badly punished by everyone.
5. What were the coins in the narrator’s pocket asking him to do?
Answer: The coins in the narrator’s pocket were asking him to spend the money and buy jalebis.
6. Why did the passer by stare at the narrator?
Answer: The passer by stared at the narrator as the money in his pocket were speaking and creating glamour.
7. What did he do to get the money?
Answer: He prayed to Allah Miyan to help him get the money somehow to pay the fees.
8. He reached home with the coins in his pocket. What happened then?
Answer: He reached home with the coins in his pocket and they started to speak and shriek. So the boy got thoroughly fed up and rushed out of the house barefoot, towards the bazaar. He ordered the halwai to weigh, a whole rupee worth of jalebis for himself.
9. Why didn’t he eat all the jalebis he had bought?
Answer: He didn’t eat all the jalebis he had bought because he ate so many jalebis that his stomach was full—he had overeaten and could eat no more.
10. What did he do with the remaining Jalebis?
Answer: He started handing out jalebis to the children around. He again went and bought some more jalebis, literally distributing them like the Governor Saheb, even the beggars were expecting. A huge amount of jalebis were consumed.
11. “The fear was killing me”. What was the fear?
Answer: The boy’s fear was that his secret of eating jalebis should not be revealed to anyone. As he had overeaten, he got burps, with every burp he feared of vomiting the extra jalebis he had gobbled.
12. Children’s stomachs are like digestion machines. What do you understand by that? Do you agree?
Answer: Children can eat huge-large amount of food/eatables and can digest easily—which can’t be done in later ages. Children are tend to be active and growing so they have more digestive capacity. We agree to it. But children should not overeat otherwise they might fall sick at times; it is bad for health also.
13. How did he plan to pay the fees the next day?
Answer: He planned to pay the fees from the amount he was supposed to receive as scholarship.
14. What was the consequence of buying jalebis with the fees money?
Answer: The boy suffered badly of buying jalebis with the fees money by being absent from school, “crouching in the shade of a tree in a deserted corner of the railway station” feeling miserable and pathetic.
15. He offers to play a game with Allah Miyan. What is the game?
Answer: He decided to play a game with Allah Miyan. He used to form a starting place to touch the signal. Allah Miyan was supposed to put four rupees under the big rock. The boy would touch the signal and come back. It would be fun if he found four rupees underneath the rock.
17. Did he get four rupees by playing the game? What did he get to see under the rock?
Answer: No, he did not get the desired four rupees by playing the game. When he went to the rock, there was a big hairy worm that curled, twisted and wriggled towards him. The second time also, when he saw under the rock, he saw the worm coiled on it comfortably.
18. If God had granted his wish that day, what harm would it have caused him in later life?
Answer: If God had granted his wish that day. He wouldn’t have learnt his lesson.
19. How did the coins persuade the boy to buy jalebis?
Answer: The coins told the boy that the jalebis were fresh, crisp and syrupy. They were meant to be eaten and only those with money in their pocket could eat them.
20. How did the boy respond to the coins?
Answer: The boy didn’t heed to the coins. He was a good and intelligent boy. He told the coins not to misguide him. He got so much at home that he considered even looking at something in the bazaar a sin.
23. Why did the boy hold all the four coins tight in his fist?
Answer: All the four coins began to speak at the same time in order to make the boy ready to buy the jalebis. There was such a clamour that passersby in the bazaar stared at him and his pocket. So, the boy grabbed all of them and held them tight in his fist to make them silent.
24. Did the boy eat all the jatebis by himself? How can you say?
Answer: The boy didn’t eat all the jalebis by himself. He ate himself to his heart’s content and distributed the rest among the boys from neighbourhood.
25. Why did the boy’s head start to spin in the school?
Answer: As soon as he reached the school, he came to know that the scholarship was going to be paid the following month. This news intensified his tension so much that his head started to spin.
Long Answer Type Questions
1. When it is time to pay the fees, what does he do? How is he disobeying the elders by doing so?
Answer: When it was time to pay the fees, he tucked his bag under the arm and left the school and simply kept on walking in the noise’s direction i.e., straight. He reached the point where the Kambelpur railway station began. The elders had warned him never to cross the railway tracks and never eat sweets with one’s fees money. All these instructions escaped his mind that day, anyhow.
2. Comment on the significance of the jalebis in the story.
Answer: Jalebis are central to the story. These are hot, fresh and syrupy. A school boy falls to the sweet temptation of jalebis. He spends all his school fees money in buying jalebis. He eats himself and also distributes them among children. He regrets his weakness later. He prays to God to send him four rupees. But he gets no help from God. He realises in later life that God cannot meet everybody’s demand. Were he so generous, man would not have developed the skill of making jalebis.
3. Write a short note on the character of the schoolboy in Jalebis.
Answer: The schoolboy in the story Jalebis carries four rupees to school to pay the school fees. He is honest, God fearing and brilliant student. He has won a scholarship also. He has never been punished. He enjoys prestige. He feels shy of standing in the bazaar and eating jalebis. But the coins in his pocket persuade him to go wrong. And he repents his foolishness. He asks for God’s help. He can recite the namaz and some portions from the Quran. His experience, however, teaches him a valuable lesson.
4. How does the schoolboy try to please God to come to his rescue?
Answer: The schoolboy faces a crisis after he has spent his school fees on the jalebis. He turns to Allah Miyan for help. He apologises to God. He promises to never repeat that mistake, and recites the namaaz and few verses from the Quran. He hopes in vain that God will put money under the rock. He plays a game with God. But he finds no coins but a hairy worm under the rock.
5. His prayer to God is like a lawyer’s defence of a bad case. Does he argue his case well? What are the points he makes?
Answer: Yes, he argued his case very well. Some of the points are as follows.
- He had memorised the last ten surats of Quran and the entire ayat-ul-kursi so he was very religious minded.
- He confessed by admitting his mistake of eating jalebis. He did not eat alone rather distributed to a whole lot of children.
- He was totally unaware of the fact that the scholarship money would be handed over the next month otherwise he would never had finished the money on eating jalebis.
