Practice Questions: Quality | 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:

The tone was not one of anger, not of sorrow, not even of contempt, but there was in it something quiet that froze the blood. He put his hand down and pressed a finger on the place on the left boot, endeavoring to be fashionable, but was not quite comfortable.

Question 1. Who is ‘he’ in the above lines?
(a) The writer
(b) Mr. Gessler
(c) The writer’s father
(d) Gessler’s elder brother
Answer: (b) Mr. Gessler

Question 2. What did Gessler do?
(a) Pressed a finger on the left boot.
(b) Asked the writer to take out his boot
(c) Went to the shop
(d) None of these
Answer: (a) Pressed a finger on the left boot.

Question 3. Choose a word that means ‘hate’.
(a) love
(b) anger
(c) contempt
(d) sorrow
Answer: (c) contempt

I knew him from the days of my extreme youth because he made my father’s boots. He lived with his elder brother in his shop, which was in a small by street in a fashionable part of London.

Question 1. Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?
(a) The writer
(b) Gessler, the shoemaker
(b) The shoemaker
(d) None of these
Answer: (a) The writer

Question 2. With whom did Gessler live?
(a) With his elder brother
(b) With the Writer Alone
(c) With his sister
(d) Alone
Answer: (a) With his elder brother

Question 3. Where was his shop located?
(a) London
(b) India
(c) U.S.A.
(d) Japan
Answer: (a) London

Question 4. Mr. Gessler was a _________.
(a) Indian Shoemaker
(b) German shoemaker
(c) American shoemaker
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) German shoemaker

I had given those boots up when one evening they came. One by one I tried them on. In shape and fit, in finish and quality of leather, they were the best he had ever made. I flew downstairs, wrote a cheque, and posted it at once with my own hand. A week later, passing the little street, I thought I would go in and tell him how splendidly the new boots fitted. But when I came to where his ship had been, his name was gone.

Question 1. Name the lesson.
(a) Three Questions
(b) Quality
(c) A Gift of Chappals
(d) Expert Detectives
Answer: (b) Quality

Question 2. The quality of the leather was ________.
(a) the best
(b) bad
(c) good
(d) worst
Answer: (a) the best

Question 3. What did the author do?
(a) Went to the shop
(b) Went to a hotel
(c) Wrote a cheque
(d) Put the shoes in the rack
Answer: (c) Wrote a cheque

Question 4. For whom the pronoun ‘him’ had been used?
(a) The author
(b) Gessler
(c) Gessler’s brother
(d) The workman
Answer: (b) Gessler

Question 5. Whose name was gone?
(a) The American’s name
(b) Gessler’s brother’s name
(c) The author’s name
(d) Gessler’s name
Answer: (d) Gessler’s name

“Yes,” he answered, “he was a good man, he made a good book. But he is dead.” And he touched the top of his head, where the hair had suddenly gone as thin as it had been on that of his poor brother, to indicate. I suppose, the cause of his death. “Do you wand any books?” And he held up the leather in his hand. “Id’s a beautiful piece.”

Question 1. Name the lesson.
(a) Expert Detectives
(b) Quality
(c) Three Questions
(d) The Story of Cricket
Answer: (b) Quality

Question 2. Who is ‘he’ in the above lines?
(a) Gessler
(b) The author
(c) Gessler’s brother
(d) Gessler’s friend
Answer: (a) Gessler

Question 3. ‘He was a good man. He made a good boot.’ Who was ‘he’ here?
(a) Gessler
(b) Workman
(c) Author
(d) Gessler’s brother
Answer: (d) Gessler’s brother

Question 4. What was in his hands?
(a) A hammer
(b) A cup of tea
(c) A piece of leather
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) A piece of leather

Question 5. What did he ask the author?
(a) If he would take some tea
(b) If he needed some boots
(c) If he needed some money
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) If he needed some boots

“Ah!” he said, “poor old man starved himself. Slow starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; wouldn’t have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won’t wait. He lost everybody. And there he’d sit, going on and on. I will say that for him—not a man in London made a better boot. But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would have the best leather too, and do it all himself. Well, there it is. What could you expect with his ideas?”

Question 1. Who is ‘he’ is the above lines?
(a) The Writer
(b) Gessler
(c) The new owner of the slop
(d) A customer
Answer: (b) Gessler

Question 2. What had happened to Mr. Gessler?
(a) He had shifted to a new shop
(b) He died of starvation
(c) He had taken a leave
(d) He did not want to attend the writer
Answer: (b) He died of starvation

Question 3. ‘Everybody’ here means:
(a) his workers
(b) his customers
(c) his relatives
(d) his friends
Answer: (b) his customers

Question 4. ‘He never advertised’. For whom have these lines been said?
(a) Gessler’s older brother
(b) Gessler
(c) Shoemaker
(d) Writer
Answer: (b) Gessler