Practice Questions: Expert Detectives | English Honeycomb Class 7 PDF Download

Direction: Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow. Tick the correct answer from the given alternatives:

Seven looked pleased. “Ramesh told me that he takes two meals for Mr. Nath every morning and evening, and two cups of tea, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Ramesh says he’s not very particular about what he eats, it’s always the same food — two chapattis, some dal, and a vegetable. Mr. Nath pays cash and tips well.

Question 1. From which lesson have these lines been taken?
(a) Quality
(b) Expert Detectives
(c) Three Questions
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) Expert Detectives

Question 2. Who brings meals for Mr. Nath?
(a) Maya
(b) Nishad’s mother
(c) Nishad
(d) Ramesh
Answer: (d) Ramesh

Question 3. Who is ‘he’ here?
(a) Maya
(b) Nishad
(c) Mr. Nath
(d) Ramesh
Answer: (c) Mr. Nath

Question 4. How is Ramesh paid for food?
(a) In cash
(b) Ramesh is not paid any money
(c) Shares meals with Mr. Nath
(d) None of these
Answer: (a) In cash

As we walked back towards the clinic Seven said, “He doesn’t look anything like a monster, Maya. But did you see how thin he is? Maybe he’s very poor and can’t afford to eat.” “He can’t be poor if he’s a crook on the run,” I told him. “He’s probably got millions of rupees stashed away somewhere in that room.” “Do you really think he’s a criminal, Maya? He doesn’t look like one,” Nishad looked doubtful.

Question 1. Name the lesson.
(a) Three Questions
(b) Expert Detectives
(c) A Gift of Chappals
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) Expert Detectives

Question 2. Who are ‘we’ in the above lines?
(a) Nishad and Ramesh
(b) Nishad and his friends
(c) Nishad and Maya
(d) Maya and his friends
Answer: (c) Nishad and Maya

Question 3. Who feels that Mr. Nath is poor?
(a) Ramesh
(b) Maya
(c) Both Nishad and Maya
(d) Nishad
Answer: (d) Nishad

Question 4. Who feels that Mr. Nath is a crook?
(a) Ramesh
(b) Maya
(c) Nishad
(d) All the three
Answer: (b) Maya

“Criminals can look quite ordinary, smarty,” I retorted. “Did you see the picture of the Hyderabadi housebreaker in the papers yesterday? He looked like any man on the street.” Nishad looked doubtful.

Question 1. Who is ‘I’ here?
(a) Maya
(b) Nishad
(b) Mr. Nath
(d) Ramesh
Answer: (a) Maya

Question 2. Who is ‘I’ talking about?
(a) Mr. Nath
(b) Maya
(c) Nishad
(d) Ramesh
Answer: (a) Mr. Nath

Question 3. For whom has ‘He’ been used here?
(a) The criminal
(b) Nishad
(c) Ramesh
(d) Mr. Nath
Answer: (a) The criminal

Question 4. Give the opposite of ‘ordinary’.
(a) new
(b) Special
(c) indordinary
(d) common
Answer: (b) Special

A brilliant thought occurred to me just then. “That man must be Mr. Nath’s accomplice in crime,” I said. “Maybe he keeps all the loot and he comes now and then to give part of it to his partner, Mr. Nath, for expenses. That’s it! I’m sure I’m right.”

Question 1. Name the lesson.
(a) Expert Detectives
(b) A Bicycle in Good Repair
(c) Quality
(d) A Gift of Chappals
Answer: (a) Expert Detectives

Question 2. For whom has the pronoun ‘me’ been used?
(a) Maya
(b) Ramesh
(c) Nishad
(d) Mr. Nath
Answer: (a) Maya

Question 3. Who is ‘he’ in the above lines?
(a) Nishad
(b) Ramesh
(c) Mr. Nath
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Mr. Nath

Question 4. Choose a word which means ‘partner’.
(a) accomplice
(b) brilliant
(c) expenses
(d) loot
Answer: (a) accomplice

“Friends with a crook! Ha! You’re crazy, Seven,” I said. “The cops will take you to jail with him. Do you want that to happen, you idiot ?” Nishad merely glared at me and quietly walked out of the room. My theories seemed to have made no impression on him at all.

Question 1. Name the lesson.
(a) Expert Detectives
(b) Three Questions.
(c) Quality
(d) The Ashes That Made Trees Bloom
Answer: (a) Expert Detectives

Question 2. Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?
(a) Nishad
(b) Ramesh
(c) Maya
(d) Mr. Nath
Answer: (c) Maya

Question 3. What did Maya say to Nishad?
(a) Not to be friends with Mr. Nath
(b) Come and take his food
(c) Not to go to jail
(d) She said nothing to Nishad
Answer: (a) Not to be friends with Mr. Nath

Question 4. ‘The cops will take you to jail with him.’ For whom has the pronoun ‘him’ been used?
(a) Maya
(b) Mr. Nath
(c) Nishad
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) Mr. Nath