Chapter 1 The Best Christmas Present in the World mcqs & important question | class 8th honeydew english

The Best Christmas Present in the World MCQ Questions Class 8 English with Answers

Question. Where was football match played between both the armies ?      
(a) On the war field
(b) In a trench
(c) In a football ground
(d) In a garden

Answer : A

Question. What was the German doing?           
(a) Mending his rifle
(b) Doing nothing
(c) Waving a bottle
(d) Waving a bottle above his head

Answer : D

Question. What was Mrs. Macpherson’s the best Christmas present in the world?           
(a) Christmas cake
(b) Marzipan
(c) Jim
(d) Necklace

Answer : C

Question. Why did the author not buy the roll-top desk from the junk shop?      
(a) He did not like it
(b) It was very expensive
(c) It was not beautiful
(d) None of these

Answer : B

Question. Who wrote the letter?           
(a) Connie
(b) Jim
(c) Tommy
(d) Fritz

Answer : B

Question. First someone saw a —— waving from the trenches opposite.          
(a) White flag
(b) Hands
(c) Coloured flag
(d) Black flag

Answer : A

Question. The old lady prepared something for Jim. What was it?          
(a) A dish
(b) A pizza
(c) A pullover
(d) Christmas cake

Answer : D

Question. Whom did the author introduced himself in the nursing home?           
(a) Husband of Mrs. Macpherson
(b) Brother of Mr. Macpherson
(c) Relative of Mrs. Macpherson
(d) Friend of Mrs. Macpherson.

Answer : D

Question. The narrator bought the desk from a junk shop because            
(a) such a desk was not available anywhere else
(b) the author wanted an ancient roll-top desk
(c) its roll-top was in several pieces
(d) the narrator could not afford a new roll-top desk

Answer : D

Question. ‘That was the moment her eyes lit up’. What was the moment?          
(a) When the author called her
(b) When she saw the author
(c) When the author handed Jim’s last letter
(d) None of these to his wife

Answer : C

Question. The Christmas celebrations were initiated by     
(a) the British
(b) the Germans
(c) both of the above
(d) chance

Answer : B

Question. Who was fritz?              
(a) Name of the author
(b) The British soldier
(c) German soldier
(d) None of the above

Answer : C

Question. “I began work on it on Christmas Eve”. In the above sentence ‘it’ stands for             
(a) a junk shop
(b) the garage
(c) the roll-top desk
(d) the drawers

Answer : C

Question. Who was Jim Macpherson?    
(a) Connie
(b) Fritz
(c) Tommy
(d) Author

Answer : A

Question.What was the German doing?             
(a) Mending his rifle
(b) Doing nothing
(c) Waving a bottle
(d) Waving a bottle above his head

Answer : D

Question. Who did she think had come?     
(a) Jim
(b) Hans Wolf
(c) Her father
(d) Her brother

Answer : A

Question. The speaker of these lines is         
(a) the narrator
(b) the author
(c) Jim
(d) Connie. 

Answer : A

Question. When was the war between the British and the Germans took place?           
(a) 1920
(b) 1915
(c) 1914
(d) 1907

Answer : C

Question.Which day was being celebrated?           
(a) Christmas
(b) Diwali
(c) Holi
(d) Good Friday

Answer : A

Question. Why football can be played instead of war according to Hans wolf?            
(a) No one dies
(b) No children are orphaned
(c) No wives becomes windows
(d) All of them 

Answer : D

Question. ‘Same to you’ here means           
(a) Happy Christmas
(b) good feelings
(c) we are same
(d) we are fine.

Answer : A

Question. Where did the author bring the desk?           
(a) In his balcony
(b) Workroom at the back of the garage
(c) In front of his house
(d) Inside his house

Answer : B

Question. Who first approached Jim?              
(a) Connie
(b) The author
(c) Hans wolf
(d) None of them

Answer : C

Question. he author found a roll-top desk in a junk shop in ——-.       
(a) London
(b) Dusseldorf
(c) Bridport
(d) Dorchester road

Answer : C

Question. Who was a school teacher?           
(a) Hans wolf
(b) Connie
(c) Jim
(d) None of them

Answer : C

Question. The lady was not listening because           
(a) she was sick
(b) she was deaf
(c) she was too happy
(d) she had recognised the speaker

Answer : C

Question. What was written on the box?     
(a) Jim’s last letter
(b) Jim’s last letter to his friend
(c) Jim’s last letter written on Jan. 25, 1915.
(d) Jim’s last letter received on Jan. 25, 1915

Answer : D

Question. In which year Yuri A Gagarin became the first human to orbit the earth?
(a) 13^th April, 1961
(b) 12^th April, 1960
(c) 14^th April, 1960
(d) 12^th April, 1961

Answer : D

Question. What was the speaker’s reaction when he realises that it wasn’t a trick ?            
(a) He was ashamed
(b) He gets very angry
(c) He was embarrassed
(d) He began to cry

Answer : A

Question.Who did she think had come ?        
(a) Jim
(b) Hans Wolf
(c) Her father
(d) Her brother

Answer : A

Important Questions Class 8 English Honeydew Chapter 1

1. Where did the author find the letter?

Answer: The author had bought a very old roll-top desk. Inside its drawer there was a secret drawer. The author found the letter inside it.

2. How did the German and the British soldiers celebrate Christmas?

Answer: The German and the British soldiers forgot their enmity. They smoked, drank and ate together, they sang and played a match of football with each other and finally went to their trenches.

3. How did the author find Jim’s letter? What did it contain?

Answer: The author found Jim’s letter in the small black tin box, put in the drawer of an old table. Jim’s letter was addressed to his wife. He was a British soldier but he was glad to have celebrated Christmas together with the German soldiers. He put it down in the letter and promised to come back home on Christmas.

4. Jim talks about an incident that had just happened at the front. What was it? 

Answer: England and Germany were at war with each other. The British soldiers were waiting to shoot the German soldiers. But on Christmas, a strange development took place. The German soldiers came out of their hiding places and called out ‘Happy Christmas’. They were unarmed and they waved a white flag. The British soldiers led by captain Jim Macpherson agreed to celebrate the festival together.

5. Who are Fritz and Tommy in the story?

Answer: Fritz and Tommy are the names given to the German and the British soldiers respectively.

6. Describe in brief the author’s meeting with Connie.

Answer: Connie or Mrs Macpherson was 101 years old. When the author took Jim’s letter to her in a nursing home she became very excited. Her eyes lit up and she mistook the author for her husband. She kissed his cheek. She said that she had been reading his letter every day. But she wanted to hear his voice. She had made a Christmas cake also for him as he had promised to come home. She thought that he was back home. She called his presence at home as the best Christmas present for her in the world.

7. What had happened to Mrs. Macpherson? Describe her condition.

Answer: Mrs. Macpherson lived alone after her husband (Jim Macpherson) went to join the British army during the First World War. One day her house caught fire. But she was saved by the firemen. From then she had been in a nursing home for treatment. She had grown extremely old and couldn’t walk on herself. And her life got confined to a wheelchair.