A Visit to Cambridge MCQs with answers

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Q. How long did the meeting last?
  • (A) Less than an hour
  • (B) More than an hour
  • (C) Two hours
  • (D) For hours
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Less than an hour
Q. Name the greatest scientist who is differently abled
  • (A) Charles Darwin
  • (B) Stephen hawking
  • (C) Galileo Galilei
  • (D) Marie curie
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Stephen hawking
Q. The writer phoned Stephen Hawking’s house
  • (A) from the nearest phone booth.
  • (B) from outside a phone booth.
  • (C) from inside a phone booth.
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) from outside a phone booth.
Q. Who is the writer and journalist in the story ‘A visit to Cambridge’?
  • (A) Firdaus kanga
  • (B) Javed Anand
  • (C) Mihir Bose
  • (D) Vikram Chandra
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Firdaus kanga
Q. Every time he spoke to the scientist, the writer felt guilty because
  • (A) he wasn’t sure what he wanted to ask.
  • (B) he forced the scientist to use his voice synthesiser.
  • (C) he was face to face with a legend.
  • (D) none of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) he forced the scientist to use his voice synthesiser.
Q. ‘—— was my metaphor for England’
  • (A) Scot land
  • (B) Darlington
  • (C) Cambridge
  • (D) Bordon
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Cambridge
Q. “I felt a huge relief… in the possibilities of my body.” In the given context, the highlighted words refer to
  • (A) shifting in the wheelchair, turning the wrist.
  • (B) standing up, walking.
  • (C) speaking, writing.
  • (D) none of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) shifting in the wheelchair, turning the wrist.
Q. Whom did the author meet in Cambridge?
  • (A) Charles Nicolle
  • (B) Robert Hooke
  • (C) C.V Roman
  • (D) Stephen Hawking
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Stephen Hawking
Q. The author says “Cambridge was my metaphor for England”. It means that for him
  • (A) Cambridge was as important as England
  • (B) England was more important than Cambridge
  • (C) Cambridge was the only important thing in England
  • (D) Cambridge and England were the same.
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Cambridge was the only important thing in England
Q. Stephen Hawking is a successor to ——-.
  • (A) Issac Newton
  • (B) Richard Dawkins
  • (C) Galileo Galilei
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Issac Newton
Q. Firdaus Kanga is a
  • (A) scientist
  • (B) journalist
  • (C) friend of Hawking
  • (D) politician
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) journalist
Q. Stephen hawking wrote a famous book –
  • (A) Origin of species
  • (B) The selfish Gene
  • (C) A Brief history of time
  • (D) The Blind watch maker
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) A Brief history of time
Q. Hawking was a
  • (A) scientist
  • (B) journalist
  • (C) friend of Kanga
  • (D) politician
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) scientist
Q. Where did the author rush after the walking tour was done?
  • (A) Church
  • (B) Phone both
  • (C) Hotel
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Phone both
Q. A disabled person is fed up when people
  • (A) show sympathy
  • (B) give him charity
  • (C) try to help him
  • (D) ask him to be brave
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) ask him to be brave
Q. Who did call from the phone booth?
  • (A) His mother
  • (B) His friend
  • (C) His guide
  • (D) Stephen hawking
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Stephen hawking
Q. Kanga felt guilty everytime he spoke to Hawking because
  • (A) Hawking had to work hard to respond
  • (B) he was wasting his own time
  • (C) he was wasting Hawking’s time
  • (D) Hawking had asked him to keep quiet
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Hawking had to work hard to respond
Q. Stephen Hawking was a paralyzed ——.
  • (A) Anesthesiologists
  • (B) Astrophysicist
  • (C) Both (i) & (ii)
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Astrophysicist
Q. Hawking felt amused when people
  • (A) sympathized with him
  • (B) Patronised him
  • (C) disturbed him
  • (D) loved him
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Patronised him
Q. “Half an hour” – Who said this?
  • (A) The author
  • (B) Stephen Hawking
  • (C) Stephen Hawking’s assistant
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Stephen Hawking’s assistant
Q. What did the writer wish to do when he was leaving Hawking’s residence?
  • (A) The writer wanted $o kiss Hawking and cry.
  • (B) The writer wanted to hug Hawking.
  • (C) The writer wanted to run away.
  • (D) The writer wanted to say kind words to Hawking.
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) The writer wanted to say kind words to Hawking.

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