Geography Lesson mcqs & important questions | class 8th honeydew english poem

Geography Lesson MCQ Questions Class 8 English with Answers

Question. What happens when the Jet reached ten thousand feet?
(a) The cities where the rivers ran
(b) Valleys were populated too
(c) Both (a) & (b)
(d) None of these

Answer:  C

Question. The logic of geography is –
(a) Land and wind attracted man
(b) Land and water attracted man
(c) Rivers attracted
(d) All of them

Answer:  B

Question. What was clear when the jet rose six miles high?
(a) The earth was round
(b) The valleys were populated
(c) The earth had more sea than land
(d) Both (a) & (b)

Answer:  D

Question. Who hate other on the earth?
(a) Animals
(b) Men
(c) Birds
(d) All of them

Answer:  B

Question. “There seemed an inevitability about what on ground had looked haphazard”. What do you mean by the word “haphazard”?
(a) That cannot be avoided
(b) That can be avoided
(c) Without plan or order
(d) With plan or order

Answer:  C

Question. ‘Seeing it scaled —– inches to the mile,’
(a) Two
(b) Four
(c) Eight
(d) Six

Answer:  D

Question. “There seemed an inevitability about what on ground had looked haphazard”. What do you mean by the word “inevitability”?
(a) That cannot be avoided
(b) That can be avoided
(c) Without plan or order
(d) With plan or order

Answer:  A

Question. What became clear when the jet reached ten thousand feet?
(a) Why cities ran along the river
(b) Why valleys are populated
(c) Logic of geography
(d) All of the Above

Answer:  D

Question. What was the logic of geography?
(a) Land and water attracted man
(b) Open sky attracted man
(c) Sand and land attracted man
(d) None of the above.

Answer:  A

Question. What is the meaning of ‘ delineated in this poem?
(a) Decided
(b) Treated
(c) Planned
(d) Shown

Answer:  D

Question. What was not clear from the sky?
(a) Why men on earth found causes to hate each other
(b) Why men on earth built walls to divide cities
(c) Why men on earth kill each other
(d) All of the Above

Answer:  D

Question. Who is the poet of the poem “Geography Lesson”?
(a) Zulfikar Ghose
(b) Zulfikar Khosla
(c) Aesop
(d) Roald Dahl

Answer:  A

Question. What sprang into the sky?
(a) Rocket
(b) Helicopter
(c) Jet
(d) None of these

Answer:  C

Question. How far the Jet reaches from the ground?
(a) Ten thousand feet
(b) One hundred feet
(c) Five hundred feet
(d) Six hundred feet

Answer:  A

Question. When did it become clear as to why the city had developed the way it is?
(a) At a height of ten thousand miles
(b) At a height of six miles
(c) At a height of six inches to the mile
(d) At a height of six thousand miles

Answer:  C

Question. What can we view from the sky?
(a) River
(b) City
(c) Bridge
(d) House

Answer:  B

Question. How were the valleys?
(a) Beautiful
(b) Clean
(c) Populated
(d) None of these

Answer:  C

Question. Name the poet of the poem ‘Geography Lesson’
(a) John Keats
(b) Zulfikar Ghose
(c) Robert Burns
(d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer:  B

Question. What is the meaning of ‘ delineated in this poem?
(a) Decided
(b) Treated
(c) Planned
(d) Shown

Answer:  D

Question. Name the lesson.
(a) Macavity: The Mystery Cat
(b) Geography Lesson
(c) The Duck and the Kangaroo
(d) None of these

Answer:  B

Question. The meaning of ‘inevitable’ —-
(a) Cannot be harmed
(b) Cannot be reached
(c) Cannot be avoided
(d) Can be harmed

Answer:  B

Question. From that height the poet saw that
(a) the earth is full of people
(b) the earth has hills and deserts
(c) the earth has much water
(d) the earth has much land.

Answer:  C

Question. The cities are developed
(a) in the open space
(b) on the hill-side
(c) by the river-side
(d) in the deserts.

Answer:  C

Question. Where have the cities been developed?
(a) On shallow land
(b) Near river banks
(c) On platform above land
(d) Under water

Answer:  B

Question. ‘It was clear the —– was round’
(a) Sun
(b) Moon
(c) Earth
(d) Land

Answer:  C

Question. What was the “logic of geography”?
(a) Land and water attracted man
(b) Why valleys were populated
(c) Why cities ran along the river
(d) How cities are developed

Answer:  A

Question. Name the poem.
(a) Geography Lesson
(b) The Last Bargain
(c) Macavity: The Mystery Cat
(d) The Ant and the Cricket

Answer:  A

Question. What looked interpretable?
(a) The city looked haphazard
(b) The city looked unplanned
(c) The city looked without style
(d) All the above

Answer:  D

Question. Give the opposite of ‘developed’.
(a) undeveloped
(b) development
(c) underdeveloped
(d) developing

Answer:  A

Important Questions for CBSE Class 8 English Honeydew Poem 2

Question 1. What geographic lessons did the poet in the jet learn when the jet just took off?

Answer: The city that human have developed have not been well planned, it grew as per necessity.

Question 2. What geographic lessons did the poet in the jet learn when the jet reached ten thousand feet?

Answer: From a height of ten thousand feet above the ground, the earth’s cities were found located on the banks of rivers and a little above the river level, in valleys.

Question 3. What was once most necessary for the emergence of a city in the past?

Answer: The easy availability of water for drinking to irrigation was the prime reason why civilization flocked around rivers.

Question 4. What was difficult to understand about the earth when the jet was six miles high?

Answer: It was difficult to understand why human hate each other, build borders, walls and create fences.

Question 5. What is the poet trying to bring out about human being the earth and learning?

Answer: The poet is trying to bring out the fact that human beings have achieved a lot of knowledge about the earth and beyond. We have learnt much about the earth, its shape, the emergence of cities and nations, but we have failed to learn how to love each other live peacefully on this wonderful planet.

Question 6. Find three or four phrases in stanzas one and two which are likely to occur in a geography lesson.

Answer: Some phrases that are likely to occur in a Geography lesson are “the city had developed the way it had,’ it scaled six inches to the mile’, ‘cities where the rivers ran’, and ‘the valleys were populated’.

Question 7. Seen from the window of an aeroplane, the city appears
(i) as haphazard as on ground
(ii) as neat as a map.
(iii) as developed as necessary.
Mark the right answer

Answer: (iii) as developed as necessary.

Question 8. Which of the following statements are examples of “the logic of geography”?
(i) There are cities where there are rivers.
(ii) Cities appear as they are not from six miles above the ground.
(iii) It is easy to understand why valleys are populated.
(iv) It is difficult to understand why humans hate and kill one another.
(v) The earth is round, and it has more sea than land.

Answer: (i), (iii) and (iv) are the correct statement.

Question 9. Mention two things that are
(i) clear from the height
(ii) not clear from the height.

Answer: (i) From the height, it was clear why the country had cities where the rivers and why the valleys were populated it was also clear that the earth was round and that it had more sea than land.

(ii) From the height, it was not clear why the men on the earth found reasons to hate each other. It was also not understandable why men had to build walls across cities and why they had to kill.

10. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:

When the jet reached ten thousand feet,
it was clear why the country
had cities where the rivers ran
and why the valleys were populated.
The logic of geography
that land and water attracted man —
was clearly delineated
When the jet reached ten thousand feet.

1. At what height did the jet reach?
   Ans. The jet reached at the height of ten thousand feet.
2. What was clear from that height?
   Ans. From that height it was clear that there were cities where there were rivers and why were the valleys populated.
3. What was the logic of geography?
   Ans. The logic of geography was that the land and water attracted men.

11. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:

When the jet rose six miles high,
it was clear the earth was round
and that it had more sea than land.
But it was difficult to understand
that the men on the earth found
causes to hate each other, to build
walls across cities and to kill.
From that height it was not clear why.

1. At what height was the jet?
   Ans. The jet was six miles high.
2. What was clear from that height?
   Ans. From that height it was clear that the earth was round and that it had more sea than land.
3. What was difficult to understand from that height?
   Ans. From that height it was difficult to understand why did the men fight with each other and why did they build walls across the cities and kill each other.