Answer the questions below, choosing from the options given.

1. What were the inmates of the bungalow doing when the presence of the cobra was announced?
i. They were reading in the garden
ii. They were preparing themselves for the abhishekam
iii. They were sleeping
iv. Nobody was home

2. Who first announced the presence of the cobra?
i.  A neighbour
ii. Dasa
iii. The son who had studied abroad
iv. A cyclist

3. The neighbour accused Dasa of
i. Not tending to the flowers
ii. Being too lazy
ii. Not noticing the snake
iv. Not being fast enough to catch the snake

4. Why did the inner walls of the house brighten up?
i. The mother got it painted in white
ii. They installed extra lights to keep reptiles away
iii. They cleared the extra foliage together
iv. They removed the curtains

5. The old beggar woman became happy on hearing about the snake because she
thought that
i. It was a sign that the God Subramanya had come to visit the house
ii. She would get a chance to earn money by getting rid of the snake
iii. It was an exciting thing to happen in an otherwise-dull place
iv. It was a chance to get the gardener fired and replace him with another gardener

6. How did Dasa catch the snake?
i. He caught it with a stick
ii. He called the snake charmer to lure the snake into a basket
ii. He found it lying in the yard and caught it unawares
iv. He said he found it peeping out of a water pot and sealed it

7. Who saw the snake again after Dasa had left?
i. The youngest son
ii. The mother 
iii. The servant 
iv. All of them spotted it at the same time

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MCQs : Night Train at Deoli

Answer the following questions choosing from the options that follow.

1. Ruskin Bond received the Sahitya Akademi award for his book
i. The Night Train at Deoli
ii. The Room on the Roof
iii. Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra

2. Where did the narrator's grandmother live?
i.  Deoli
ii. Dehra
iii. Terai
iv. Kasauli

3. Where was Deoli?
i. In the plains
ii. In the Hills
iii. Thirty miles from Dehra
iv. Kasauli 

4. Who was the girl that the narrator met in Deoli station?
i. His cousin
ii. A visitor to his Grandmother's house 
iii. A basket- seller
iv. the owner of a tea stall

5. What impulse did the narrator feel when he met the girl the second time?
i. To hold her hand
ii. To take her with him
iii.  To talk to her
iv. To run for the train

6. Why did the narrator rush to Dehra when his college term finished?
i. To please his grandmother
ii. He had to leave in haste
iii. He was eager to meet the girl again
iv. He wanted to meet the station master at Deoli

7. Why didn't the narrator stop over in Deoli?
i. Deoli was a deserted place and it was not safe
ii. He was always in a rush and never had time to stop
iii. He was afraid to find out what really happened to the girl
iv. His grandmother would have been worried about his whereabouts

8. What does the narrator do whenever he passes through Deoli?
i. He breaks journey
ii. He looks out of the window for the basket-seller
iii. He meets the girl
iv. He meets his grandmother