Chapter 8 A Short Monsoon Diary mcqs & important questions | class 8th honeydew english

A Short Monsoon Diary MCQ Questions Class 8 English with Answers

Question. Name the arrival of some seasonal visitors heralded by the rain.
(a) Leopard
(b) Wild bears
(c) Thousand leeches
(d) Both (a) & (c)

Answer : D

Question. Who are the obnoxious visitors that arrive at the hill station?
(a) Leopards and leeches
(b) Drongos and minivets
(c) Drongos and leopards
(d) Leopards and minivates

Answer : A

Question. Monsoon rain is
(a) cold and unpleasant
(b) very small
(c) warm and humid
(d) hot

Answer : C

Question. Who was chopping up sticks?
(a) Woman
(b) Girl
(c) Man
(d) Farmer

Answer : A

Question. How did he describe the early monsoon rain?
(a) Cold and humid
(b) Cold and breezy
(c) Warm and humid
(d) Warm and breezy

Answer : C

Question. “Even as I write, I see a _________ forming.”
(a) Rainbow
(b) Cloud
(c) Storm<
(d) None of these

Answer : A

Question. Perhaps that’s what makes the mist so —–‘
(a) Melancholy
(b) Beautiful
(c) Exciting
(d) Dreadful

Answer : A

Question. For how many days they have not seen the sun?
(a) For to five
(b) Eight to nine
(c) Ten to fifteen
(d) Seven to eight

Answer : B

Question. During rains, for whom there is no dearth of food?
(a) Herbivorous insects
(b) Carnivorous birds
(c) Insectivorous
(d) All of these

Answer : C

Question. What do you mean by the word “ravine”?
(a) Rain
(a) Devine
(b) Plateau
(d) valley

Answer : D

Question. ‘The seeds of the cobra lily are turning —‘ signifying that the rains are coming to an end.’
(a) Yellow
(b) Black
(c) Red
(d) Blue

Answer : C

Question. Who came along with the minivets?
(a) A pair of drongos
(b) Some birds Some
(c) Insects
(d) butterflies

Answer : A

Question. Fearing whom does the leopards run away?
(a) Bijju
(b) Bijju’s sister
(c) Bijju’s grandmother
(d) Bijju’s mother

Answer : C

Question. “——- are lucky — They bring money!”
(a) Rats
(b) Cockroach
(c) Lizard
(d) Chuchundars

Answer : D

Question. All night the —- has been drumming on the corrugated tin roof’
(a) Storm
(b) Rain
(c) Thunder
(d) Lightning

Answer : B

Question. Which birds cannot conceal themselves?
(a) Drongo
(b) Scarlet minivet
(c) Cuckoo
(d) None of the above

Answer : B

Question. Which late monsoon flowers began to appear by August 12?
(a) Dahlias
(b) Ground orchids
(c) Wild balsam
(d) All of the Above

Answer : D

Question. Where do we go straight from monsoon season?
(a) Summer rain
(b) Spring
(c) Winter rain
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. Insectivorous birds are happy in the monsoon season
(a) as they get plenty of food
(b) because they breed in this season
(c) because they love water
(d) as the weather is to their liking

Answer : A

Question. ‘And the first —- rears its head from the ferns as I walk up to the bank and post office.
(a) Coneflower
(b) Cobra lily
(c) White Water lily
(d) None of these

Answer : B

Question. Name the most famous diary published as a book.
(a) Robert Scott’s Captain’s Log
(b) Samuel Pepy’s Secret Diary
(c) The Bunker Diary
(d) The Diary of Anne Frank

Answer : D

Question. ‘The blackest cloud I’ve even squatted over —–‘
(a) Mussorie
(b) Gulmarg
(c) Darjeeling
(d) Gangtok

Answer : A

Question. “. Ground orchids, mauve lady’s slipper and the white butterfly orchids put on a fashion display on the grassy slopes of __________”
(a) Valley
(b) Mussoorie
(c) Landour
(d) None of the above

Answer : C

Question. Who did the seasonal visitor lift from near the servant’s quarters?
(a) Dog
(b) Cat
(c) Leopard
(d) All of the above

Answer : A

Question. Name the lesson.
(a) A Visit to Cambridge
(b) The Tsunami
(c) A Short Monsoon Diary
(d) The Great Stone Face-II

Answer : C

Question. Name the arrival of some seasonal visitors heralded by the rain.
(a) Leopard
(b) Wild bears
(c) Thousand leeches
(d) Both (a) & (c)

Answer : D

Question. What happened on the first day of monsoon?
(a) There was a lot of rain
(b) There was snow everywhere
(c) Mist had covered the hills
(d) A cold wind was blowing

Answer : C

Question. Which female birds are yellow mentioned in this story?
(a) Drongo
(b) Cuckoo
(c) Scarlet minivet
(d) Dove

Answer : C

Question. When was the first day of monsoon mist mentioned in this story?
(a) May 20
(b) July 12
(c) Aug 5
(d) June 24

Answer : D

Question. This Diary is written by
(a) Michael Morpurgo
(b) S.D. Sawant
(c) Satyajit Ray
(d) Ruskin Bond

Answer : D

Important Questions for Class 8 English Honeydew Chapter 8

1. How did the author describe the valley in one sentence?

Answer: The author described the valley as ‘A paradise that might have been.’

2. When was there no dearth of food for insectivorous birds?

Answer: There was no dearth of food for insectivorous birds when there were rains.

3. How do the hills look like in mist?

Answer: The mist in the hills provides privacy. Nothing can be seen. The hills are completely surrounded by mist making them silent. The birds sitting on the tree fly away to different places. As soon as the mist surrounds the hills, birds too fall silent.

4. What does the author’s grandmother ask him not to kill? Why?

Answer: The author’s grandmother asked him not to kill chuchundars because they are lucky and bring money. The author got the cheque on the very same day.

5. What is a diary? What do the extracts from Ruskin Bond’s diary portray?

Answer: A diary is a record of personal experiences/events that occur in one’s life. It is written day after day over a long period of time. The extracts from Ruskin Bond’s diary portray monsoon season and the changes that occur as the rains progress from June to March.

6. How does the author describe the first day of monsoon mist?

Answer: On the first day of monsoon mist all the birds suddenly fall silent and with it absolute silence is spread. The hills got hidden by the mist. The forest is deadly still as though it were midnight.

7. How does the author describe the scarlet minivets?

Answer: The scarlet minivets are seen during rainy season. They flit silently among the leaves like brilliant jewels. No matter how leafy the trees, these brightly coloured birds cannot hide themselves.

8. Why couldn’t the author sleep on August 2 night?

Answer: On August 2 it rained throughout the night. The rain had been drumming on the corrugated tin roof. There had been a steady swish of a tropical downpour. The author, therefore, couldn’t sleep.

9. What happened on August 12?

Answer: Heavy downpour started on August 12. The rain continued for eight or nine days. Everything got damp and soggy. The author had to stay inside during these days.

10. Name the flowers that you come across in the lesson.

Answer: Wild balsom, dahlias, begonias, ground orchids, cobra lilies etc.

11. Who are the seasonal visitors? How does the author describe them?

Answer: The seasonal visitors are a leopard, several thousand leeches and different kinds of birds. The leopard created nuisance. It lifted a dog from near the servants’ quarter below the school. In the evening, it attacked one of Bijju’s cows. The scarlet minivets flitted silently among the leaves like brilliant jewels. No matter how leafy the trees, these brightly coloured birds could not conceal themselves. There was also a pair of drongos. They looked aggressive and chased the minivets away. A tree creeper moved rapidly up the trunk of the oak tree, snapping up insects, all the way.

12. Sum up the main ideas of the author’s Monsoon Diary in about 100 word.

Answer: The writer was in Mussoorie, a hill station in U.P. The first day of monsoon brought mist. The birds got silent and the hills became invisible. On June 25, came the early monsoon rain. He described the hill station as A paradise’ that might have been’ to a school boy. With the onset of the monsoon one could see leopards and leeches and the colourful minivet birds. There was no dearth of insects for the birds to eat.

On August 2, it rained heavily and non-stop. The roofs began to leak. The rain stopped on August 3. The sunlight fell on the hills and the song birds began to sing. On August 12, there was heavy downpour and mist for more than a week. Everything was damp. Meanwhile wild flowers began to appear. August 31 saw the greenery at its peak. Snakes and rodents came out of their flooded holes and hid in roofs or godowns. Winter rain, hailstones and snow came on October 3. The author couldn’t go outside and he felt very lonely in his room. Late March saw the end of winter. He received a cheque in the mail.

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