Test: Discursive Passage- 2 - Grade 9 MCQ

Read the passage given below and write the option that you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheets: 
If you wish to be a writer, you must learn to develop your own point of view. All good writers make us see things in a different light. You may be writing about the same thing as your classmates, but your presentation must reflect your personality and individuality. There are so many interesting subjects you can write about in different forms but here we will try to attempt writing short stories. There is a good market for the following types: the humorous stories, the adventurous stories, the domestic stories, the mysteries and stories related to animals and strange experiences. Don’t worry if your story turns out to be short - some of the best stories are quite short. Be very careful about’the climax or end of the story. It must be what the reader fears, desires, expects or best of all doesn’t expect. So, get down to it. Think of a plot-make points on how the story will progress and pen it down.

Most of the people like to read: 

Read the passage given below and write the option that you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheets: 
If you wish to be a writer, you must learn to develop your own point of view. All good writers make us see things in a different light. You may be writing about the same thing as your classmates, but your presentation must reflect your personality and individuality. There are so many interesting subjects you can write about in different forms but here we will try to attempt writing short stories. There is a good market for the following types: the humorous stories, the adventurous stories, the domestic stories, the mysteries and stories related to animals and strange experiences. Don’t worry if your story turns out to be short - some of the best stories are quite short. Be very careful about’the climax or end of the story. It must be what the reader fears, desires, expects or best of all doesn’t expect. So, get down to it. Think of a plot-make points on how the story will progress and pen it down.

The phrase 'pen it down’ here means:

Read the passage given below and write the option that you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheets:

Prayerful Chandra Ray was born on 2 August, 1861 in the district of Jessore now in Bangladesh, close to the birth place of Madhusudan Dutt, widely regarded as the Milton of Bengal. It was the best of times and the worst The British had by now perfected their role as masters and British values permeated the Indian upper classes to the very last detail like table manners. That, of course, was not the worst of the British influence. What was far more demeaning to the educated Indians - and there were several - was the fact that senior government positions were closed to them.
Being forfeited of one’s right in one’s land to birth would become the rallying point for the Indian intelligentsia in the years to come. Ray’s father Harish Chandra Ray, a man of learning and taste, was closely associated with the cultural and intellectual leaders of the time and exerted great influence on his son. Ray had his early schooling in the village school founded by his father but soon his father shifted to Calcutta and at the age of nine, little Prafullaset eyes for the first time, on the bustling city that would be his home for many years to come. He was filled with wonder at the ever changing sights and sounds - the city seemed to change moods ever so often! His formal schooling was interrupted due to illness but that did not affect his education.

The worst influence of the British was:

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Prayerful Chandra Ray was born on 2 August, 1861 in the district of Jessore now in Bangladesh, close to the birth place of Madhusudan Dutt, widely regarded as the Milton of Bengal. It was the best of times and the worst The British had by now perfected their role as masters and British values permeated the Indian upper classes to the very last detail like table manners. That, of course, was not the worst of the British influence. What was far more demeaning to the educated Indians - and there were several - was the fact that senior government positions were closed to them.
Being forfeited of one’s right in one’s land to birth would become the rallying point for the Indian intelligentsia in the years to come. Ray’s father Harish Chandra Ray, a man of learning and taste, was closely associated with the cultural and intellectual leaders of the time and exerted great influence on his son. Ray had his early schooling in the village school founded by his father but soon his father shifted to Calcutta and at the age of nine, little Prafullaset eyes for the first time, on the bustling city that would be his home for many years to come. He was filled with wonder at the ever changing sights and sounds - the city seemed to change moods ever so often! His formal schooling was interrupted due to illness but that did not affect his education.

He was surprised at: 

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Prayerful Chandra Ray was born on 2 August, 1861 in the district of Jessore now in Bangladesh, close to the birth place of Madhusudan Dutt, widely regarded as the Milton of Bengal. It was the best of times and the worst The British had by now perfected their role as masters and British values permeated the Indian upper classes to the very last detail like table manners. That, of course, was not the worst of the British influence. What was far more demeaning to the educated Indians - and there were several - was the fact that senior government positions were closed to them.
Being forfeited of one’s right in one’s land to birth would become the rallying point for the Indian intelligentsia in the years to come. Ray’s father Harish Chandra Ray, a man of learning and taste, was closely associated with the cultural and intellectual leaders of the time and exerted great influence on his son. Ray had his early schooling in the village school founded by his father but soon his father shifted to Calcutta and at the age of nine, little Prafullaset eyes for the first time, on the bustling city that would be his home for many years to come. He was filled with wonder at the ever changing sights and sounds - the city seemed to change moods ever so often! His formal schooling was interrupted due to illness but that did not affect his education.

Jessore is a district in: 

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Prayerful Chandra Ray was born on 2 August, 1861 in the district of Jessore now in Bangladesh, close to the birth place of Madhusudan Dutt, widely regarded as the Milton of Bengal. It was the best of times and the worst The British had by now perfected their role as masters and British values permeated the Indian upper classes to the very last detail like table manners. That, of course, was not the worst of the British influence. What was far more demeaning to the educated Indians - and there were several - was the fact that senior government positions were closed to them.
Being forfeited of one’s right in one’s land to birth would become the rallying point for the Indian intelligentsia in the years to come. Ray’s father Harish Chandra Ray, a man of learning and taste, was closely associated with the cultural and intellectual leaders of the time and exerted great influence on his son. Ray had his early schooling in the village school founded by his father but soon his father shifted to Calcutta and at the age of nine, little Prafullaset eyes for the first time, on the bustling city that would be his home for many years to come. He was filled with wonder at the ever changing sights and sounds - the city seemed to change moods ever so often! His formal schooling was interrupted due to illness but that did not affect his education.

Prafulla Chandra Ray was greatly influenced by: 

Read the passage given below and write the option that you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheets:

Prayerful Chandra Ray was born on 2 August 1861 in the district of Jessore now in Bangladesh, close to the birthplace of Madhusudan Dutt, widely regarded as the Milton of Bengal. It was the best of times and the worst The British had by now perfected their role as masters and British values permeated the Indian upper classes to the very last detail like table manners. That, of course, was not the worst of the British influence. What was far more demeaning to the educated Indians - and there were several - was the fact that senior government positions were closed to them.
Being forfeited of one’s right in one’s land to birth would become the rallying point for the Indian intelligentsia in the years to come. Ray’s father Harish Chandra Ray, a man of learning and taste, was closely associated with the cultural and intellectual leaders of the time and exerted great influence on his son. Ray had his early schooling in the village school founded by his father but soon his father shifted to Calcutta and at the age of nine, little Prafullaset eyes for the first time, on the bustling city that would be his home for many years to come. He was filled with wonder at the ever changing sights and sounds - the city seemed to change moods ever so often! His formal schooling was interrupted due to illness but that did not affect his education.

'intellectual’ here means: