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1st Year English Chapter 10 A Mild Attack of Locusts MCQs

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In this post, I am sharing 1st Year English Lesson 10 A Mild Attack of Locusts MCQs for Class 11 students. This chapter has been taken from 1st Year English Book 1, which is based on Short Stories. The whole story is about the struggle of farmers against Locusts to save their fields. On ilmihub, you can get 1st Year English Notes. However, the students who want all subject’s notes should visit this link.

Students can download 11th Class Textbooks of all subjects as well. If you are a student of Intermediate Part 1, you should visit 1st Year Book 1 notes. Students can tell us in the comment section if they need any specific book or notes.

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A Mild Attack of Locusts 11th Class English Chapter 10 MCQs from Textbook Exercise

Each Multiple choice question from A Mild Attack of Locusts Quiz contains 4 possible options. Find out the correct answer.

Why did the cook boy run?

(A) to kill the insects
(B) to inform the landlady
(C) to summon the labourers
(D) to see the locusts

(C) to summon the labourers

Why did the houseboy run off to the store?

(A) to shut the door
(B) to collect any bit of metal
(C) to cover the store
(D) to burn fire

(B) to collect any bit of metal

Why did they throw wet leaves onto the fire?

(A) to make the smoke acrid and black
(B) to burn the leaves
(C) to extinguish the fire
(D) to burn the insects

(A) to make the smoke acrid and black

“And they neither went bankrupt nor got very rich” means that they were ______.

(A) hand to mouth
(B) enjoying a moderate living
(C) just pulling on their lives
(D) penniless

(B) enjoying a moderate living

How did the locusts attack the crops?

(A) one by one
(B) in swarms
(C) in groups
(D) in formations

(B) in swarms

Why did the people beat the tin cans?

(A) to let the insects enjoy music
(B) to kill the insects
(C) to keep the insects away
(D) to fill the cans with insects

(C) to keep the insects away

What did the farmers do at the time of the attack?

(A) they ran away from the place.
(B) they took precautionary measures to keep the locusts away
(C) they conversed with their crops
(D) they shut themselves in their houses

(B) they took precautionary measures to keep the locusts away

Locusts attacked in the area of ______.

(A) one mile
(B) fifty mi8les
(C) ten miles
(D) hundred miles

(B) fifty mi8les

What made the boughs of trees weighed to the ground?

(A) fruit
(B) birds
(C) locust
(D) wind storm

(C) locust

How did the land look after the locusts had moved to the south?

(A)all green
(B) beautiful
(C) barren
(D) a devastated landscape

(D) a devastated landscape

English Class 11 Chapter 10 A Mild Attack of Locusts Quiz from Kips Notes

These notes have been taken from Kips Notes. Here are Additional MCQs

What was Margaret watching?

(A) hills
(B) smoke
(C) scene
(D) soil

(A) hills

Old smith had had his crop ______.

(A) irrigated
(B) ploughed
(C) eaten to the ground
(D) attacked by locusts

(C) eaten to the ground

What did the main swarm look like?

(A) a reddish veil
(B) a brown streak
(C) a dense black cloud
(D) rust-coloured air

(C) a dense black cloud

What is meant by “get the kettle going?”

(A) keep looking
(B) keep wasting time
(C) keep laughing
(D)  keep going

(D)  keep going

Why was the main swarm looking for a place?

(A) to rest
(B) to grow
(C) to lay
(D) to eat

(C) to lay

They only beat the old ploughshare in the moments of ______.

(A) merriment
(B) celebration
(C) crisis
(D) clamour

(C) crisis

Tin cans were required to make ______.

(A) a noise
(B) a plough
(C) a gong
(D) a fence

(A) a noise

Over the countryside, the smoke was rising from ______.

(A) the farmlands
(B) myriads of fires
(C) the houses
(D) myriads of grass

(B) myriads of fires

Between calls, Margaret stood watching the ______.

(A) labourers
(B) locust
(C) hoppers
(D) trees

(B) locust

It was like a veldt fire when the air gets ______ with smoke.

(A) clotted
(B) thick
(C) clear blue
(D) rust-coloured

(B) thick

Oppressive it was like the ______ of a storm.

(A) hail
(B) roaring
(C) heaviness
(D) whirl

(C) heaviness

The main swarm was almost reaching to the ______.

(A) clouds
(B) moon
(C) sun
(D) sky

(C) sun

The earth seemed to be moving because ______.

(A) Margaret felt giddy
(B) it was a perverted darkness
(C) locusts were crawling everywhere
(D) the main swarm had blotted out the sum

(C) locusts were crawling everywhere

Old Stephen ______ at the houseboy.

(A) fainted
(B) yelled
(C) laughed
(D) murmured

(B) yelled

Behind the reddish ______ in front, which was the advance guard of locusts, the main swarm showed.

(A) values
(B) curtain
(C) veils
(D) cover

(C) veils

Locusts were going to be like lead weather from known on, always ______.

(A)crawling
(B) swarming
(C) predictable
(D) imminent

(D) imminent

Margaret was trying to get used to the idea of ______ of lowest.

(A) three or four years
(B) six or seven years
(C) eight or nine years
(D)one or two years

(A) three or four years

Locusts were ______ everywhere.

(A) crawling
(B) jumping
(C) moving 
(D) hopping

(A) crawling

It was like the darkness of a ______.

(A) veldt fire
(B) bonfire
(C) burning
(D) wildfire

(A) veldt fire

It was a ______ perverted darkness, for the sun was.

(A) rising
(B) setting
(C) blazing
(D) going down

(C) blazing

Relevant Notes

  1. A Mild Attack of Locusts Translation in Urdu
  2. A Mild Attack of Locusts Short Questions
  3. A Mild Attack of Locusts Synonyms Quiz

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