I PUC ENGLISH MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (MCQs)
AROUND A
MEDICINAL CREEPER
POORNACHANDRA TEJASWI
I. Answer the
following in a word, a phrase or a sentence each:
1. How long did the author take to learn about the
medicinal creeper?
a) 20 years b)
15 years c) 10 years d) 5 years
Ans: a) 20 years
2. What was to be protected from the sun by putting up a
shade over it?
a) A tea seed bed b)
A coffee seedbed c) both seedbed
Ans: b) A coffee seed
bed
3. Who brought some creepers from the forest?
a) Mara b) the
author c) Sanna d) All
Ans: c) Sanna
4. Where did Sanna bring the creepers from?
a) market b) park c) home d) forest
Ans: d) forest
5. Why did Mara scold Sanna?
a) for plucking medicinal creeper
b) for boiling
medicinal creeper
c) for plugging the board
d) for cooking the seeds
Ans: a) for plucking
medicinal creeper
6. “Hey, why did you pluck this, you fool?” said Mara.
Here ‘fool’ refers to _______________ .
a) Sanna b) the
author c) medicinal creeper
Ans: a) Sanna
7. Who tied the medicinal creeper to the tree?
a) Mara b) the
author c) Sanna d) All
Ans: a) Mara
8. What did Mara do when he found the medicinal creeper?
a) he tied tendrils to nearby tree
b) he ate them
c) he plucked them
d) he cut them into pieces
Ans: a) he tied
tendrils to nearby tree
9. According to Mara, ‘the thief ’ was
____________________________.
a) Sanna b) the
author c) the medicinal
creeper
Ans: c) the medicinal
creeper
10. According to Mara, who had cursed the medicinal
creeper?
a) a sage b)
Mara c) Sanna d) author
Ans: a) a sage
11. What was the curse of the sage on the medicinal
creeper?
a) When find it, you will eat it
b) when someone needs the plant, he will not find it.
c) when see it, you will pluck it.
Ans: b) when someone
needs the plant, he will not find it.
12. What do the leaves of the medicinal creeper resemble?
a) apple leaves b)
pineapple leaves c) betel leaves
Ans: c) betel leaves
13. The medicinal creeper bears fruits in a bunch like ___________________
. (Fill in the blank.)
a)grapes b)
mangoes c) banana
Ans: a) grapes
14. When does the medicinal creeper come up every year?
a) in the winter season
b) in the summer season
c)in the rainy season
Ans: c) in the rainy
season
15. Mara tied the medicinal creeper to a tree so that it
_____________________ .
a) needed the support of a tree
b) should not run away
c) could be easily located
Ans: c) could be
easily located
16. When did Mara cut
his hand?
a) when he was
talking to himself
b) when he was
cutting bamboo shoots
c) when he ploughed
field
Ans: b) when he was
cutting bamboo shoots
17. Whom did Mara go
to, when he had a cut in his hand?
a) white man b)
black man c) village man
Ans: a) white man
18. Where did the
white man live, in the lesson ‘Around the Medicinal Creeper’?
a) Hoogali b) Hulihindalu c) Hubli
Ans: b) Hulihindalu
19. What was the
surprise when the white man opened Mara’s bandage?
a) Mara’s wounded
hand cured in couple of hours
b) Mara’s hand
disappeared
c) Mara’s hand was
broken into two pieces
Ans: a) Mara’s
wounded hand cured in couple of hours
20. How did Mara
convince the white man that he had a wound on his hand?
a) blood was on floor
b) blood was on his
cloth and body
c) blood was on his
bag
Ans: b) blood was on
his cloth and body
21. What did the
white man offer Mara if he showed him the plant?
a) entire house b) entire company c) entire plantation/ estate
Ans: c) entire
plantation/ estate
22. The white man
threatened to shoot Mara if he ____________.
a) didn’t take him to
the forest
b) didn’t show him
the plant
c) had no wound on
his hand
Ans: b) didn’t show
him the plant
23. On which side did
Mara not have any teeth?
a) on left side b) on right side c) both side
Ans: b) on right side
24. How did the stick
taste when Mara was brushing his teeth?
a) sweet b) bitter c) sour
Ans: c) sour
25. What did Mara and
his friend wrap the meat of the barking deer with?
a) some leaves b) some betel leaves c) some apple leaves
Ans: a) some leaves
26. What did Mara
find when he opened the packet of the meat of the barking deer?
a) a dead wild buck
b) a fired wild buck
c) a live wild buck
Ans: c) a live wild
buck
27. Where did Mara’s
wife throw the leaves which were used to pack the meat?
a) into the fire b) into the river c) into the bag
Ans: a) into the fire
28. What did Appanna
say about the medicinal creeper when it was mixed with milk?
a) it would become
hard
b) it would become
soft
c) it would become
crispy
Ans: a) it would
become hard
29. Name the plant
pathologist in ‘Around the Medicinal Creeper’.
a) Mr. Krishna b) Mr. Chandru c) Mr. Mara
Ans: b) Mr. Chandru
30. What was Mr.
Chandru in ‘Around the Medicinal Creeper’?
a) A neurologist b) a scientist c) a pathologist
Ans) c) a pathologist
31. What happened
when milk was mixed with the leaves of the medicinal creeper?
a) milk became hard b) milk became soft c) milk became dilute
Ans: a) milk became
hard
32. Krishna was
working as a ______________ after stopping his work in the narrator’s estate.
a) rickshaw driver b) doctor c) plant pathologist
Ans: a) rickshaw
driver
33. What was Krishna
suffering from?
a) Pneumonia b) Piles c)
Cancer
Ans: b) Piles
34. What was the only
allopathic treatment for piles according to the narrator?
a) Surgery b) Laser treatment c) medication
Ans: a) Surgery
35. What did the
doctor advise for Krishna’s piles?
a) Surgery b) Laser treatment c) medication
Ans: a) Surgery
36. Who treated
Krishna when he had got boils all over his body?
a) Mara b) Krishna c) Malayali sadhu
Ans: c) Malayali
sadhu
37. ‘Godman’ refers
to _______________.
a) Mara b) Krishna c) Malayali sadhu
Ans: c) Malayali
sadhu
38. What did the
author do when he found the tuberous root of the medicinal creeper?
a) burned it b) ate it c) dip in water
Ans: b) ate it
39. What was the
taste of the tuberous root of the medicinal creeper?
a) bitter b) sweet c) sour
Ans: a) bitter
40. When did the
swelling in the author’s right heel disappear?
a) after eating neem
stick b) after eating
tuberous root
c) after eating mango
bark
Ans: b) after eating tuberous root
41.Around a Medicinal Creeper
is the story of………………………….
a) Mara and Sannappa b)
an unusual medicinal
creeper
c) a blind belief d) extracting medicines from plants
Ans: b) an unusual medicinal creeper
42. ………………………….has to be protected from the sun by
putting up a shade over it.
a) A bamboo frame b) A medicinal creeper
c) A coffee seed bed d) A tendril
Ans: c) A coffee seed bed
43. A coffee
seed bed has to be protected from………………………….by putting up a
shade over it.
a) the sun b) some creepers
c) a bamboo frame d) tendrils
Ans: a) the sun
44. When they were erecting
a bamboo frame,
they sent……………………….to get
some creepers from the forest.
a) Mara b) Sanna c) Masti d)
Byra
Ans: b) Sanna
45. Who scolded,
“Hey, why did you pluck
this, you fool?”
a) Mara b) Sanna c) Masti d)
Byra
Ans: a) Mara
46. “The thief,”
Mara said, “now it will be lying
here.” “The thief,”
refers to………………………….
a) a bamboo frame b) a medicinal creeper
c) a coffee seed bed d)
a tendril
Ans: b) a medicinal creeper
47. According to Mara, the medicinal creeper had been cursed by………………
a) a teacher b) a monk
c) a sage d) Poornachandra Tejaswi
Ans: c) a sage
48. According
to Mara, the curse of the medicinal creeper is that when someone needs this plant, they………………………….
a) will find it only in
a forest b) will have to pray
to forest god
c) shall not find it d) will find it everywhere
Ans: c) shall not find it
49. This
creeper has small leaves resembling betel leaves and bears fruits like grapes.
a) mangoes b) grapes c) bananas d)
guavas
b) grapes
50. This
Medicinal plant comes up and flowers very quickly, puts forth flowers
and fruits and dies. It comes up
again only in the next……………………
a) summer season b) winter season
c) rainy season d) autumn
c) rainy season
51. Mara praised
the creeper to the skies saying that every inch of it was medicinal, but did not tell………………………….
a) that it cured boils b) that it
cured piles
c) what exactly it cured d) that it cured dengue
Ans: c) what exactly it cured
52. With his
hands thrust through the bamboo cane when he was cutting the shoot,
Mara accidentally ………………………….
a) cut the medicinal
creeper b) cut a bunch
of grapes
c) killed a rabbit d) cut his hand
Ans: d) cut his hand
53. Mara held
his wounded hand carefully so that it would not shake too much and
went to the white man at………………………….for proper dressing and treatment.
a) Hulihindalu b) Halebid
c) Huliyaru d) Hulindupet
Ans: a) Hulihindalu
54. The sharp sickle had apparently cut………………………….and it started bleeding copiously in spurts.
a) a vein b) a bone c) an artery d) a nerve
Ans: c) an artery
55. The white man became
angry with Mara because………………………….
a) there was heavy bleeding b) the wound could
have cut his hand
c) there was no sign of any wound d)
the wound was covered with a
leaf
Ans: c) there was no sign of any wound
56. The
Englishman took the leaf that had been kept on the wound and told Mara to show him the plant from which he
had plucked that leaf, he would give him………………………….
a) one hundred rupees b) his entire plantation
c) his house d) his medical
degree
Ans: b) his entire plantation
57. Once Mara had laid a trap in the forest to catch………………………….
a) a barking deer b) rabbits c) pigs d) snakes
Ans: b) rabbits
58. Long ago, Mara and a
friend of his laid a trap
and caught……………………
a) a barking deer b) rabbits c) pigs d) snakes
Ans: a) a barking deer
59. ………………………….said, “I believe if you squeeze
the juice of these leaves,
milk becomes hard.”
a) Mara b) Sanna c) Masti d) Appanna
Ans: d) Appanna
60. Chandru is………………………….
a) an environmentalist b)
a plant pathologist
c) a white doctor d) a teacher
Ans: a plant pathologist
61. The author
and Chandru decided to conduct the experiment and brought ………………………….
a) a litre of milk b) a litre of curd
c) half a litre of milk d) half a
litre of curd
Ans: a) a litre of milk
62. The author
and Chandru decided to conduct the experiment and brought a litre of milk. After some time,
it had become………………………….!
a) hard and slippery b) soft and solid
c) firm and rubbery d)
soft and rubbery
Ans: c) firm and rubbery
63. Tejaswi’s erstwhile farmhand Krishna was suffering from…………………
a) hernia b) herpis c) piles d) appendicitis
Ans: c) piles
64. Tejaswi’s erstwhile farmhand Krishna was working as ………………………
a) a rickshaw driver b) a taxi driver
c) a truck driver d)
an engine driver
Ans: a) a rickshaw driver
65. The doctors
in the hospital advised
Krishna………………………….
a) not to drive rickshaw b)
stay at home
c) surgery d)
to go to a Malayali sadhu
Ans: c) surgery
66. Krishna
knew………………………….
a) a Tamilian sadhu b) Mara’s family
c) how to drive a truck d)
a Malayali sadhu
Ans: d) a Malayali sadhu
67. When Krishna had started
developing boils all over his body the godman
had given Krishna the bark of some tree, which he was supposed to crush and mix
with………………………….eggs and eat.
a) hen’s b) duck’s
c) pigeon’s d) parrot’s
Ans: b) duck’s
68. The full course of treatment for treatment of boils was………………………
a) five days b) fifteen days c)
eight days d) ten days
Ans: d) ten days
69. When Krishna
suffered from piles,
he had to search for this plant,
dig out
the tuberous
root, mix it with
milk and drink the medicine for .
a) five days b) fifteen days c)
eight days d) ten days
Ans: a) five days
70. One of the
problems is that these native doctors believe that if they told others
about their medicines, the medicines would………………………
a) lose their potency b) lose their
value
c) gain their value d)
lose its effect
Ans: a) lose their
potency
