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Q1) “IT was a moonless night in __________”

(A) September
(B) October
(C) November
(D) December
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Q2) Who was he hobnobbing with?

(A) Dibya
(B) Indrani Debi
(C) Himself
(D) No one
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Q3) What do you mean by ‘tete-a-tete’?

(A) Public meeting
(B) Public announcement
(C) Private meeting
(D) None of the above
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Q4) What does his wife think of Dibya?

(A) A telescope
(B) A designing woman
(C) A man
(D) His husband’s friend
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Q5) What was Duttada’s secret ambition?

(A) To discover an asteroid
(B) To buy a telescope
(C) To spend nights star-gazing
(D) To discover a comet
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Q6) Why could professionals not discover a comet?

(A) They are busy with pre-assigned programmes
(B) They are busy looking at faint stars
(C) They are busy looking at nebulous galaxies
(D) All of the Above
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Q7) Duttada was absent-minded about daily chores. How was he with his calculations?

(A) Absent-minded
(B) Oblivious
(C) Meticulous
(D) Forgetful
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Q8) Did he like the publicity he was receiving?

(A) Yes
(B) No
(C) Maybe
(D) Not mentioned in the story
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Q9) Duttada laughed. “I see that even an MA degree has not cured you of your __________!

(A) Dumbness
(B) Sarcasm
(C) Doubt
(D) Superstitions
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Q10) “There is no __________ whatsoever with the arrival of a comet and the calamities of the earth.”

(A) Correlation
(B) Proof
(C) Finding
(D) None of the above
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Q11) Where did the envelope tell him to come?

(A) London
(B) Canada
(C) New York
(D) India
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Q12) Who was Johnson?

(A) Provost of King’s College
(B) Butler
(C) Security officer at Whitehall
(D) Defence Science Advisor, Her Majesty’s government
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Q13) How would you describe Johnson?

(A) Quiet
(B) Efficient
(C) Both a and b
(D) None of the above
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Q14) Who had James given the manuscript to?

(A) Nature
(B) IIA
(C) Sir John
(D) Taylor
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Q15) “Barring rare circumstances, the collision is inevitable.” What were those rare circumstances?

(A) Collision with an asteroid
(B) Splitting near the sun
(C) Evaporating
(D) All of the Above
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Q16) Professional astronomers

(A) generally discover comets
(B) generally look at faint stars
(C) discover planets
(D) are not interested in discoveries
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Q17) Comets are different from planets because they

(A) orbit round the sun
(B) are small in size
(C) can be new unlike the planets
(D) are generally close to the sun
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Q18) Duttada’s secret ambition was to

(A) discover a new comet
(B) go to London
(C) be famous and wealthy
(D) Just look into the sky and watch it
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Q19) Navin Babu was to Duttada

(A) a friend
(B) a doctor
(C) a son
(D) a brother
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Q20) The telescope was for Duttada

(A) an instrument
(B) something to help him
(C) fulfilment of an ambition
(D) a good investment
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Q21) Dibya was a

(A) woman who was Dutta’s friend
(B) woman who was Indrani’s friend
(C) maid who worked for them
(D) telescope which Duttada had
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Q22) Indrani had woken up because

(A) Duttada had gone
(B) She felt for the adjoining pillow and found no one there
(C) she did not know where Duttada was
(D) there was a burst of cool breeze
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Subjects (8th Class)

English - It So Happened

English Grammar

English Honeydew Poems

English Honeydew Prose

Hindi Vasant Bhag 3

Math

Science

Social Science Civics

Social Science Geography

Social Science History

Chapters (English - It So Happened)

How the Camel Got His Hump

Children at Work

The Selfish Giant

The Treasure Within

Princess September

The Fight

The Open Window

Jalebis

The Comet 1

The Comet 2

Ancient Education System of India