Presenting all the possible MCQ and SAQ question-answers from Our Runaway Kite – the 5th chapter of the English textbook for Class 10 (Madhyamik) students.
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Our Runaway Kite Unit 1 Textual Exercise Solution
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Our Runaway Kite Question Answer – MCQ
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Our Runaway Kite Question Answer Unit 1 – MCQ
1. The ‘Big Half Moon‘ was ?
a. a country.
b. a river.
c. an island
d. a stadium.
Answer: c. an island
2. How many people does the poet want to refer by the term ‘we’
a. Six
b. Seven
c. Eight
d. Nine
Answer: a. Six
3. Earlier it used to be just _____.
a. Aunt Esther & Mimi
b. The author and her elder brother.
c. The author, her brother and her father.
d. The author, her brother & father, Aunt Esther, Mimi & Dick
Answer: c. The author, her brother and her father.
4. The reason why there are more family member in the author’s family is –
a. A pet
b. A letter.
c. A phone call.
d. A kite
Answer: d. A kite
5. The age of the narrator is
a. Ten
b. Eleven
c. Twelve
d. Thirteen
Answer: b. Eleven
6. The age the of narrator’s brother is
a. Ten
b. Eleven
c. Twelve
d. Thirteen
Answer: c. Twelve
7. When does the harbour freeze?
a. In summer
b. In spring
c. In monsoon
d. In winter
Answer: d. In winter
8. What does the author’s family do in winter?
a. They move to their island.
b. They move to the mainland.
c. They sail off to another province.
d. None of the above.
Answer: b. They move to the mainland.
9. When does the narrator’s family sail back to the island?
a. In spring
b. In winter
c. In autumn
d. In summer
Answer: a. In spring
10. What did the people do when the time came for them to return?
a. People gifted them presents.
b. People fed them.
c. People pitied them.
d. People gave them life-lessons.
Answer: c. People pitied them.
11. What did the people on the mainland thought?
a. They thought that the narrator and her brother were happy.
b. They thought that the narrator and her brother were lonesome.
c. They thought that the narrator and her brother were sad.
d. They thought that the narrator and her brother were quarrelsome.
Answer: b. They thought that the narrator and her brother were lonesome.
12. Why did the people used to think that the narrator and her brother were lonesome?
a. They had no other children with them in the isolated island to play.
b. They had no parks near their house.
c. All the other children were little in age.
d. None of the above.
Answer: a. They had no other children with them in the isolated island to play.
13. What did the narrator and her brother used to run?
a. Hide and seek
b. A shop
c. A factory
d. A game named ‘Pirate Caves’
Answer: d. A game named ‘Pirate Caves’
14. What did the narrator and her brother use to do with the mainland children?
a. Play
b. Fight
c. Quarrel
d. Cycling.
Answer: c. Quarrel
15. How frequently did the narrator quarrel with Claude?
a. Always
b. Few times in a day
c. Few times in a week
d. Never.
Answer: d. Never.
16. Father had relations with
a. Only Claude and the narrator.
b. Only Aunt Esther, Claude and the narrator.
c. Lots of people on the mainland.
d. None.
Answer: a. Only Claude and the narrator.
17. What used to puzzle the narrator and her brother?
a. The fact that their father was the keeper of the Big Half Moon lighthouse.
b. The fact that their father had no relations except them.
c. The fact that the lived in an isolated island.
d. The fact that they had to move to the mainland in every winter.
Answer: b. The fact that their father had no relations except them.
18. Everybody on the mainland had
a. Kite
b. Playmates
c. Relations
d. Elder brother
Answer: c. Relations
19. What did the narrator thought to be a probable cause of not having any relations?
a. They didn’t live permanently on the island.
b. They didn’t study in any school in mainland.
c. They had no playmates.
d. They lived on an island.
Answer: d. They lived on an island.
20. What did the narrator thought ‘would be jolly‘?
a. To have an uncle, an aunt and some cousins.
b. To have a nicely decorated kite.
c. To have some playmates.
d. To invent something.
Answer: a. To have an uncle, an aunt and some cousins.
21. What did the narrator and her brother asked their father?
a. Why did they live on the island?
b. Why did they never visited the mainland.
c. Why they had no relations?
d. When they would be allowed to go to school?
Answer: c. Why they had no relations?
*22. The keeper of the Big Half Moon Lighthouse is
(i) Aunt Esther
(ii) Father
(iii) Claude
(iv) Dick
Answer: (ii) Father
*23. The family moved over to the mainland in
(i) summer
(ii) spring
(iii) monsoon
(iv) winter
Answer: (ii) spring.
*24. When asked about relations, Father looked
(i) happy
(ii) angry
(iii) sorrowful
(iv) irritated
Answer: (iii) sorrowful
Our Runaway Kite Question Answer Unit 2 – MCQ
25. Which season has been referred as ‘lovely’ in the text – Our Runaway Kite
a. spring
b. summer
c. winter
d. monsoon
Answer: b. summer
26. How is the harbour during summer
a. Green and windy
b. Grey and calm
c. Blue and windy
d. Blue and calm
Answer: d. Blue and calm
27. ‘Ripples’ means –
a. Breeze
b. Dazzle
c. Small waves
d. Large waves
Answer: c. Small waves
28. Every summer, the narrator and Claude develops
a. A new problem
b. A new approach to make friendship
c. Some hidden treasures
d. Some new hobby
Answer: d. Some new hobby
29. The last summer before their cousins came, the siblings were crazy about
a. Smartphones
b. Internet
c. Kites
d. Carrom
Answer: c. Kites
30. Who taught Claude how to make kites?
a. A girl on the mainland
b. A boy on the mainland
c. A girl on the island
d. A boy on the island
Answer: b. A boy on the mainland
31. Upon coming back on the island, the two siblings made
a. Plenty of kites
b. Plenty of paper boats
c. Plenty of envelopes
d. Plenty of paper planes
Answer: a. Plenty of kites
32. What did the two siblings used to play with kites-
a. Two lost friends signaling to each other with kites
b. Shipwrecked mariners signaling to each other with kites
c. Two lost friends signaling to each other with smoke
d. Shipwrecked mariners signaling to each other with smoke
Answer: b. Shipwrecked mariners signaling to each other with kites
33. The kite they had was covered with a ____ paper.
a. Blue
b. Green
c. White
d. Red
Answer: d. Red
34. What did the narrator and her brother pasted all over the kite?
a. Gold tinsel moon
b. Gold tinsel comets
c. Gold tinsel stars
d. Gold tinsel circles
Answer: c. Gold tinsel stars
35. What was the full name of the narrator?
a. Philomena Leete
b. Philippa Leete
c. Phyllis Leete
d. Phoebe Leete
Answer: b. Philippa Leete
36. What was the narrator bringing from her house?
a. A letter
b. A notebook
c. A pen
d. A kite
Answer: d. A kite
37. Who tripped and fell over the rock?
a. The narrator’s father.
b. The narrator’s brother.
c. Philippa
d. Mimi
Answer: c. Philippa
38. What made a big hole in the kite?
a. Philippa’s elbow
b. Philippa’s palm
c. Philippa’s fingers
d. Philippa’s leg
Answer: a. Philippa’s elbow
39. When did the narrator and her brother wanted to send the kite?
a. Before the wind started
b. Before the day ended
c. Before the returning of their father
d. Before the wind fell
Answer: d. Before the wind fell
40. Where did Philippa and Claude rushed in?
a. Into their house
b. Into a nearby shop
c. Into the middle of the island
d. Into the lighthouse
Answer: d. Into the lighthouse
41. Why did Philippa and Claude rushed to get into the lighthouse?
a. To get first aid.
b. To get some water
c. To get some paper
d. To talk to their father
Answer: c. To get some paper
42. What did they knew?
a. The fact that their father wasn’t in the lighthouse
b. The fact that there were no more red paper
c. The fact that they had to send the kite up on that day
d. The fact that there was a piece of paper
Answer: b. The fact that there were no more red paper
43. What was the first thing that came handy?
a. An old letter
b. An old book
c. A bottle of water
d. A bottle of gum
Answer: a. An old letter
44. Where was the old letter lying?
a. On a table
b. On a bookcase
c. Inside of a book
d. Inside a showcase
Answer: b. On a bookcase
45. Where was the bookcase?
a. In the bedroom
b. In the drawing room
c. In the sitting room
d. In the terrace
Answer: c. In the sitting room
46. What did the narrator used to patch the kite up?
a. The old letter
b. The old paper
c. The old envelope
d. None of the above
Answer: a. The old letter
47. What did the narrator use to dry the kite?
a. Sunlight
b. Air
c. Fire
d. Heater
Answer: c. Fire
48. The wind has been adjectivized as –
a. Glorious
b. Dull
c. Heavy
d. Light
Answer: a. Glorious
49. What did Claude had in this hand few moments after the kite soared?
a. The kite
b. The old letter
c. The remaining part of the kite
d. A bit of cord
Answer: d. A bit of cord
50. Where did the kite sail away over?
a. To the mainland
b. To the lighthouse
c. To the forests inside the island
d. To their house
Answer: a. To the mainland
*51. In summer the Big Half Moon is always
(i) lovely
(ii) unpleasant
(iii) boring
(iv) dull
Answer: (i) lovely
*52. Back on the island, Claude and the narrator made plenty of
(i) puppets
(ii) masks
(iii) kites
(iv) envelopes
Answer: (iii) kites
*53. The kite was patched with a
(i) newspaper
(ii) letter
(iii) envelope
(iv) card
Answer: (ii) letter
Our Runaway Kite Question Answer Unit 3 – MCQ
54. How much time later a letter came for father?
a. A day
b. A week
c. A month
d. A year
Answer: b. A week
55. When their father finished reading the letter, he seemed
a. Happy
b. Overjoyed
c. Anxious
d. Crying
Answer: d. Crying
56. How many sibling(s) their father had?
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
Answer: b. Two
57. With whom did their father quarrel with?
a. His brother
b. His sister
c. His wife
d. His father
Answer: a. His brother
58. What did their father find when he went back?
a. His brother had married.
b. His sister had married.
c. His brother had died.
d. His grandfather had died.
Answer: c. His brother had died.
59. Whom did his brother couldn’t find?
a. His father
b. His sister
c. His brother
d. His wife
Answer: b. His sister
60. The sender of the letter was the narrator’s father –
a. Aunt
b. Grandmother
c. Wife
d. Sister
Answer: d. Sister
61. Aunt Esther was Dick and Mimi’s –
a. Mother
b. Aunt
c. Grandmother
d. Sister
Answer: b. Aunt
62. Where did Aunt Esther live?
a. In the Big Half Moon island
b. In the coast of the mainland
c. Hundreds of miles inside the mainland
d. None of the above
Answer: c. Hundreds of miles inside the mainland
63. Where did Dick and Mimi discover the kite?
a. On the top of a roof
b. On the top of a ladder
c. On on ground
d. On the top of a tree
Answer: d. On the top of a tree
64. The name of the Aunt Esther’s mother is
a. Elisabeth
b. Philippa
c. Phyllis
d. Maria
Answer: b. Philippa
65. The name of the Aunt Esther’s father is
a. Claude
b. Jack
c. Steven
d. Mark
Answer: a. Claude
66. The narrator’s father went on to bring her sister with him after ____ days of receiving the letter.
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
Answer: a. One
*67. A letter came for father after a
(i) day
(ii) week
(iii) fortnight
(iv) month
Answer: (i) day
Answer:
*68. Father left home after quarrelling with this
(i) brother
(ii) sister
(iii) aunt
(iv) uncle
Answer: (i) brother
Answer:
*69. Dick and Mimi discovered the kite on the top a
(i) roof
(ii) tree
(iii) lighthouse
(iv) light post
Answer: (ii) tree
Questions marked with the asterisk (*) symbol are questions that have been taken from the textbook.
Our Runaway Kite Question Answer – SAQ
Answer the following questions:
1. What did the two siblings on the Big Half Moon island did?
Answer: The two siblings on the Big Half Moon island made the most of each other. They used to play a game called ‘Pirate Caves’ on this island.
2. Where did the two siblings live?
Answer: The two siblings lived on the ‘Big Half Moon’ island.
3. Who are referred to as ‘we’?
Answer: In the text, ‘we’ refers to the author – Philippa, her brother – Claude, her father, her aunt, her two cousins – Mimi & Dick.
4. Who is the keeper of the ‘Big Half Moon’ lighthouse?
Answer: The narrator’s father is the keeper of the ‘Big Half Moon’ lighthouse.
5. How much old is the narrator?
Answer: The narrator is eleven (11) years old.
6. How much old is the Claude?
Answer: Clade is twelve (12) years old.
7. When is the harbour frozen over?
Answer: The harbour is frozen over in winter.
8. When do they move back to their island?
Answer: They move back to their island as soon as spring returns.
9. What used to be the funny part?
Answer: The funny part used to be that people on the mainland always used to pity them when the time came for them to return.
10. What did the people on the mainland used to say?
Answer: The people on the mainland used to say that the narrator and her brother must be very lonesome in the Big Half Moon island, as there were no other children to play with them on the island.
11. Which whom did the two sibling quarrel?
Answer: The two siblings used to quarrel with the children on the mainland.
12. What used to puzzle the narrator and Claude?
Answer: The fact that their father had no relations except them used to puzzle the narrator and Claude.
13. What did everybody on the mainland had?
Answer: Everybody on the mainland had relations.
14. Which season is lovely on the Big Half Moon island?
Answer: Summer is lovely on the Big Half Moon island.
15. What is the harbour like on summer on the Big Half Moon island?
Answer: On Summer, the harbour on the Big Half Moon island is blue and calm.
16. What does the siblings have every summer?
Answer: Every summer, the siblings have a new hobby.
17. What were they crazy about in the last summer?
Answer: In the last summer, they were crazy about kites.
18. What did they make upon returning back on the island?
Answer: Upon returning back on the island, they made plenty of kites.
19. What was the game they played with kites?
Answer: The game they played with kites was Shipwrecked mariners.
20. What was the kite covered with?
Answer: The kite was covered with a lovely red paper.
21. What did they paste on the kite?
Answer: The pasted gold tinsel stars on the kite.
22. What did they write on the kite?
Answer: They wrote their full name – Philippa Leete and Claude Leete, on the kite.
23. What were the full names of the siblings?
Answer: The full names of the siblings were- Philippa Leete and Claude Leete.
24. What had happened on the day of the grand wind?
Answer: On the day of the grand wind, Philippa tripped and fell over the rocks.
25. What made a big hole in the kite?
Answer: Philippa’s elbow which went through the kite, made a big hole in the kite.
26. Why they had to hurry up?
Answer: They had to hurry up because they want to send the kite up before the grand wind fel.
27. Where did they rushed into and what was the thing they wanted to get from there?
Answer: They rushed into the lighthouse. From the lighthouse, they wanted to get some paper.
28. What was the first thing that came handy?
Answer: The first thing that came handy was an old letter (on the bookcase in the sitting room.)
29. Where was the old letter lying?
Answer: The old letter was lying on the bookcase in the sitting room.
30. What did they use to patch the kite?
Answer: They used an old letter to patch the kite.
31. How did they patch the kite?
Answer: They pasted the kite by applying one sheet of the letter on either side of kite and then drying it up by fire.
32. How did the kite went up?
Answer: The kite went up like a bird.
33. How was the wind?
Answer: According to the description of the story, the wind was gorgeous.
34. What was there in Claude’s hand?
Answer: In Claude’s had, he had a bit of cord.
35. Where had the kite sailed away?
Answer: The sailed away over to the mainland.
36. When did a letter came for Father?
Answer; A letter came for Father after a week.
37. How did their Father’s eyes look after he had finished reading the letter?
Answer: After father finished reading the letter, his eyes looked as if he had been crying.
38. How many siblings the narrator’s father had?
Answer: The narrator’s father had two siblings.
*39. What did the Father find when he went home years afterward?
Answer: When Father went back home years afterward, he found that his brother had died and he also couldn’t find his sister.
40. Who was the sender of the letter father had just received?
Answer: The sender of the letter father had just received was Aunt Esther.
41. Who was Aunt Esther?
Answer: Aunt Esther was the sister of the narrator’s father
*42. Where did Aunt live?
Answer: Aunt Esther lived in the mainland hundreds of miles inland.
43. Where did Dick and Mimi found the letter?
Answer: Dick and Mimi found the letter on top of tree.
*44. Why did Aunt Esther turn pale?
Answer: Aunt Esther turned pale because she read the letter where there was the name of her father and mother written on it.
45. What were the name of the parents’ of Aunt Esther?
Answer: The name of the parents were Philippa Leete and Claude Leete.
46. To which address did Aunt Esther write the letter?
Answer: Aunt Esther wrote the letter to the address of ‘Big Half Moon’ lighthouse.
47. Whom did the narrator’s father bring with him?
Answer: The narrator brought his sister and her two children – Mimi and Dick with him.
48. How has the narrator described his aunt and cousins?
Answer: The narrator had described his aunt as ‘dear’ and cousins as ‘too jolly’.
49. What is the best thing the narrator has now?
Answer: The best thing the narrator has now is relations.
Questions marked with the asterisk (*) symbol are questions that have been taken from the textbook.
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