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Strong Roots MCQ

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PROSE : AUTOBIOGRAPHY

DR APJ ABDUL KALAM

Wings of Fire : First Chapter

Strong Roots

Multiple Choice Questions : 1 Mark

MCQ : 1 Mark

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1️⃣ “Strong Roots” is written by

(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) AJC Bose
(c) APJ Abdul Kalam
(d) R K Narayan.

2️⃣ The full name of APJ Abdul Kalam is

(a) Abdul Pakir Jamiruddin Abdul Kalam
(b) Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
(c) Abdur Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
(d) Ahmed Pakir Jamiruddin Abdul Kalam.

3️⃣ Abdul Kalam was born in the year

(a) 1929
(b) 1930
(c) 1931
(d) 1932.

4️⃣ APJ Abdul Kalam was born in 

(a) Hyderabad
(b) Rameswaram
(c) Pune
(d) Dehradun.

5️⃣ Rameswaram was

(a) Madras
(b) Patna
(c) Kerala
(d) Karnataka.

6️⃣ APJ Abdul Kalam had studied Physics at 

(a) Calcutta University
(b) Benaras Hindu University
(c) Madras Institute of Technology
(d) St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappalli.

7️⃣ Kalam began his career at 

(a) Delhi University
(b) Modern Institute of Technology
(c) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(d) Kanpur IIT.

8️⃣ “Strong Roots” is a/an 

(a) biography
(b) autobiography
(c) short-story
(d) travelogue.

9️⃣ By ‘Strong Roots’ APJ Abdul Kalam meant 

(a) his family background
(b) his family origin
(c) his love for science
(d) his religious identity.

1️⃣0️⃣ Which chapter of Kalam’s autobiography is ‘Strong Roots’ excerpted from? 

(a) second
(b) third
(c) first
(d) fourth.

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1️⃣1️⃣ “Strong Roots” is an excerpt from

(a) My Father
(b) Wings of Dream
(c) Wings of Fire
(d) My Childhood.

1️⃣2️⃣ Kalam’s family was 

(a) rich
(b) poor
(c) middle-class
(d) elite.

1️⃣3️⃣ *APJ Abdul Kalam was by birth a [WBCHSE Sample Question]

(a) Telugu
(b) Tamil
(c) Kannad
(d) Malayali

1️⃣4️⃣ “…..the erstwhile Madras state” suggests

(a) the state of Madras of ancient age
(b) former Madras
(c) recent Madras
(d) Madras before independence.

1️⃣5️⃣ *The name of APJ Abdul Kalam’s father was

(a) Jainulabdeen
(b) Washim
(c) Abdul
(d) Karim.

1️⃣6️⃣ *Abdul Kalam describes his parents as being [WBCHSE Sample Question]

(a) wealthy, educated and generous
(b) highly educated but not wealthy
(c) very poor and illiterate
(d) neither wealthy nor highly educated but kind, wise and generous.

1️⃣7️⃣ “He possessed great innate wisdom,” Here the word ‘he’ refers to 

(a) Kalam’s father
(b) Kalam’s teacher
(c) Kalam’s himself
(d) Kalam’s mother.

1️⃣8️⃣ *For Kalam’s father, his mother was an ideal 

(a) wife
(b) guide
(c) friend
(d) helpmate.

1️⃣9️⃣ *The name of the mother of the author of ‘Strong Roots’ is

(a) Asiamma
(b) Ashiamma
(c) Ashiaamma
(d) Ashiama.

2️⃣0️⃣ The narrator’s mother fed 

(a) all their neighbours everyday
(b) all their relatives everyday
(c) outsiders with her own family everyday
(d) her family everyday.

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2️⃣1️⃣ The narrator’s parents were widely regarded as 

(a) an ideal couple
(b) honest people
(c) generous people
(d) kind people.

2️⃣2️⃣ “My mother’s lineage was the more distinguished.” Here ‘lineage’ means 

(a) family background
(b) standing in a line
(c) linkage
(d) average age.

2️⃣3️⃣ *One of the forebears of Kalam’s mother’s was awarded by the British the title of [WBCHSE H.S. 2015]

(a) Bahadur
(b) Raibahadur
(c) Padmashree
(d) Bharat Ratna.

2️⃣4️⃣ Kalam was born to 

(a) ugly parents
(b) handsome parents
(c) tall and handsome parents
(d) religious parents.

2️⃣5️⃣ *Abdul Kalam’s ancestral house was built in [WBCHSE H.S. 2017, 2022]

(a) mid 19th century
(b) late 19th century
(c) early 20th century
(d) early 19th century.

2️⃣6️⃣ Kalam’s house was a fairly 

(a) large pucca house
(b) small hut
(c) two storeyed building
(d) big mansion.

2️⃣7️⃣ *The ancestral house was made of 

(a) cement and brick
(b) brick and mortar
(c) limestone and brick
(d) clay and brick.

2️⃣8️⃣ *Kalam’s ancestral house was located 

(a) beside the Shiva temple in Rameswaram
(b) just beside the old mosque where his father used to take him for evening prayers
(c) on the Mosque Street in Rameswaram
(d) in a predominantly Hindu locality in Rameswaram.

2️⃣9️⃣ Kalam’s father used to avoid all 

(a) poor people
(b) religious ceremonies
(c) inessential comforts and luxuries
(d) money.

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3️⃣0️⃣ *How does APJ Abdul Kalam sum up his childhood in Rameswaram? [WBCHSE Sample Question] 

(a) a time when he moved from rags to riches
(b) a period of extreme comfort and affluence
(c) a time of want and deprivation
(d) a very secure time, materially and emotionally.

3️⃣1️⃣ *Kalam normally ate with his 

(a) father
(b) brothers
(c) mother
(d) friends.

3️⃣2️⃣ The speaker usually ate sitting on 

(a) the table
(b) the floor of the kitchen
(c) a chair
(d) a cot.

3️⃣3️⃣ *During meals, the food was served on 

(a) steel utensils
(b) dishes
(c) banana leaves
(d) plastics.

3️⃣4️⃣ *Rameswaram was famous to pilgrims for 

(a) the Vishnu temple
(b) the Shiva temple
(c) the Tirupati temple
(d) the Mosque.

3️⃣5️⃣ *The distance from Dr Kalam’s house to the Shiva temple was 

(a) 15 minutes walk
(b) 5 minutes walk
(c) 10 minutes walk
(d) 20 minutes walk.

3️⃣6️⃣ *Kalam’s locality was predominantly

(a) Hindu
(b) Muslim
(c) Jain
(d) Christian.

3️⃣7️⃣ Kalam grew up in a society which was secular and 

(a) segregated
(b) sundered
(c) sequestered
(d) integrated.

3️⃣8️⃣ *How does Kalam describe his neighbourhood? [WBCHSE Sample Question] 

(a) a predominantly Muslim locality close to the famous Shiva temple where Hindu families lived amicably with their Muslim neighbours
(b) a predominantly Hindu locality near the Shiva temple, fraught with tension between the Muslim and Hindu communities
(c) a predominantly Christian locality where the Muslim population thinly spread
(d) a cosmopolitan urban neighbourhood with people of all castes, creeds and communities sharing a high-rise apartment near the Shiva temple.

3️⃣9️⃣ *Why was Kalam’s father well-known in their locality? [WBCHSE Sample Question]

(a) He was a successful doctor.
(b) He was a respected teacher.
(c) He was a healer who prayed for the well-being of his fellow men.
(d) He was a wealthy moneylender.

4️⃣0️⃣ *We know that Kalam’s father was acknowledged as a spiritual person because [WBCHSE Sample Question] 

(a) he was very knowledgeable about spiritual matters
(b) he worked at the local mosque
(c) he read the namaz before dawn
(d) the priest of the Rameswaram temple had discussions with him.

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4️⃣1️⃣ Kalam’s father would take him to the mosque for [WBCHSE H.S. 2016] 

(a) pre-dawn prayers
(b) evening prayers
(c) mid-day prayers
(d) afternoon prayers.

4️⃣2️⃣ *The prayers chanted in the mosque were in 

(a) Urdu
(b) French
(c) Persian
(d) Arabic.

4️⃣3️⃣ Kalam was totally convinced that the prayers would 

(a) prove futile
(b) be meaningless
(c) be a useless gesture
(d) reach god.

4️⃣4️⃣ People sat outside the mosque and waited for 

(a) the narrator
(b) Kalam’s father
(c) Kalam’s mother
(d) the imam.

4️⃣5️⃣ Many people offered bowls of water to Kalam’s father who would 

(a) drink the water
(b) dip his fingertips in them
(c) take those bowls home
(d) place them inside the mosque.

4️⃣6️⃣ Having dipped his fingertips in the bowls of water and saying a prayer, Kalam’s father 

(a) polluted the water
(b) drank the water
(c) sanctified the water
(d) purified the water.

4️⃣7️⃣ *The water sanctified by Kalam’s father was carried home for

(a) offering prayer
(b) invalids
(c) young men
(d) little girls.

4️⃣8️⃣ People came to meet Kalam’s father in their house to 

(a) sanctify water
(b) cure the invalids
(c) offer thanks
(d) seek his advice.

4️⃣9️⃣ When people thanked Jainulabdeen after being cured, he asked them to thank 

(a) Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry
(b) Allah, the Merciful
(c) the universe
(d) various divine forces.

5️⃣0️⃣ *What was the name of the high priest of Rameswaram temple? 

(a) Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry
(b) Rama Sastry
(c) Jagat Sastry
(d) Ramdasa Sastry.

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5️⃣1️⃣ *Growing old enough, once Kalam asked his father about

(a) the existence of God
(b) the utter mystery of life
(c) the relevance of prayer
(d) his father’s austerity.

5️⃣2️⃣ According to Kalam’s father, when we pray, we transcend our body and become a part of the 

(a) earth
(b) cosmos
(c) family
(d) world.

5️⃣3️⃣ Abdul Kalam’s father would convey complex spiritual concepts in simple, down-to-earth [WBCHSE H.S. 2019, 2022]

(a) Arabic
(b) Urdu
(c) Tamil
(d) Telugu.

5️⃣4️⃣ “When troubles come, try to understand the relevance of your sufferings.” This is said by

(a) APJ Abdul Kalam
(b) Jainulabdeen
(c) Ashiamma
(d) Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry.

5️⃣5️⃣ “Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.” Here the word ‘introspection’ means

(a) insight
(b) inner vision
(c) sufferings
(d) deep thought about one’s feelings.

5️⃣6️⃣ According to Kalam’s father, every human being is a

(a) blessed entity
(b) heavenly being
(c) specific element within the whole of the manifest divine being
(d) unique man with specific qualities.

5️⃣7️⃣ *The words of Abdul Kalam’s father filled him with a strange energy and [WBCHSE H.S. 2020] 

(a) relief
(b) enthusiasm
(c) perseverance
(d) determination.

5️⃣8️⃣ According to Kalam’s father, whenever human beings find themselves alone, they start looking for

(a) amusements
(b) family
(c) company
(d) essential things.

5️⃣9️⃣ Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a _______ they start looking for a company. 

(a) forced reaction
(b) preventive reaction
(c) superstitious reaction
(d) natural reaction.

6️⃣0️⃣ *According to Kalam’s father, whenever people reach an impasse, they 

(a) become frustrated
(b) look for someone to show them the way out
(c) surrender themselves to god
(d) become speechless.

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6️⃣1️⃣ *Kalam’s father believed that for people in distress, he was [WBCHSE Sample Question]

(a) a mere mediator
(b) greater than God
(c) a solver of problems
(d) a helpless onlooker of their difficulties.

6️⃣2️⃣ *Jainulabdeen would start his day at 

(a) 4 p.m.
(b) 6 a.m.
(c) 4 a.m.
(d) 6 p.m.

6️⃣3️⃣ Kalam’s father started his day by 

(a) reading the namaz
(b) taking bath
(c) visiting the mosque
(d) feeding beggars.

6️⃣4️⃣ After the namaz, his father used to go to the 

(a) orchard
(b) coconut grove
(c) Shiva temple
(d) Ganges.

6️⃣5️⃣ *The coconut grove, where Abdul Kalam’s father used to walk down every morning was about [WBCHSE H.S. 2018]

(a) one and a half miles
(b) three miles
(c) four miles
(d) four and a half miles.

6️⃣6️⃣ Kalam’s father would return from the grove with 

(a) about a dozen coconuts
(b) two or three coconuts
(c) a coconut
(d) about two dozen coconuts.

6️⃣7️⃣ After returning from the coconut grove, Kalam’s father would have his

(a) lunch
(b) tiffin
(c) dinner
(d) breakfast.

6️⃣8️⃣ *Kalam throughout his life, had tried to emulate his father in his own world of 

(a) art and spirituality
(b) science and technology
(c) science and spirituality
(d) technology and spirituality.

6️⃣9️⃣ *Despite being a scientist, Abdul Kalam felt convinced that there exists a 

(a) divine power
(b) supernatural power
(c) devotional power
(d) spiritual power.

7️⃣0️⃣ *Kalam is also spiritual because 

(a) he visits the mosque everyday
(b) he tries to follow in his father’s footsteps
(c) he believes in the power of divine
(d) he believes that an individual has to sever all ties to be happy.

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7️⃣1️⃣ Severing all physical bond leads one to the road of 

(a) happiness
(b) freedom
(c) peace of mind
(d) all of these.

7️⃣2️⃣ *APJ Abdul Kalam’s own world was concerned with [WBCHSE Sample Question]

(a) science and war
(b) rocket science and technology
(c) science and technology
(d) missile technology.

7️⃣3️⃣ *After reading the namaz before dawn, Abdul Kalam’s father used to [WBCHSE H.S. 2023]

(a) meet people of different religions
(b) go to the mosque
(c) meet Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry
(d) go to the coconut grove.

7️⃣4️⃣ *Kalam’s ancestral house was made of [WBCHSE H.S. 2024] 

(a) limestone and brick
(b) cement and brick
(c) mud and brick
(d) bamboo and tin shed.
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Answer Key👇

Question Answer
1 c
2 b
3 c
4 b
5 a
6 d
7 c
8 b
9 a
10 c
11 c
12 c
13 b
14 d
15 a
16 d
17 a
18 d
19 b
20 c
21 a
22 a
23 a
24 c
25 a
26 a
27 c
28 c
29 c
30 d
31 c
32 b
33 c
34 b
35 c
36 b
37 d
38 a
39 c
40 d
41 b
42 d
43 d
44 b
45 b
46 c
47 b
48 c
49 b
50 a
51 c
52 b
53 c
54 b
55 d
56 c
57 b
58 c
59 d
60 b
61 a
62 c
63 a
64 b
65 c
66 a
67 d
68 b
69 a
70 c
71 d
72 c
73 d
74 a
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