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1
Who is the author of the lesson Memories of childhood?
A
Zitkala-Sa and Bama
B
Emily Brontë
C
Charles Dickens
D
None
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
2
What does the story present?
A
An autobiography of the author
B
An autobiography of a man
C
An autobiographical episode from the lives of two women
D
None
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
3
What are the names of the two women?
A
Zitkala Sa a Native American and Bama Tamilian Dalit
B
Zitkala and Sa
C
Ba and Ma
D
Annan and Bama
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
4
What advice did Annan give to Bama?
A
 to go away from the place
B
to leave the house
C
to study hard and progress to rise above all shackels of indignity
D
 All
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
5
Who was Zitkala Sa?
A
A tamilian
B
A protester
C
A native American
D
None
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
6
What did Zitkala Sa find?
A
discrimination against native American culture and women
B
her dignity was in danger
C
women were in danger
D
all these
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
7
What did the cutting of long hair of Zitkala Sa symbolise in the lesson?
A
subjection to the rulers
B
 her wish to dominate
C
her wish to get justice
D
 her wish to look modern
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
8
Who is Bama's brother?
A
A boy
B
A young boy
C
Annan
D
None
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
9
How much time did Bama take to reach home?
A
2 hours
B
3hours
C
4hours
D
1 hour
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
10
What is the meaning of childhood memories?
A
memories with a child
B
memories of the times spent with a child
C
memories of olden times
D
memories formed during childhood period
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
11
Why did Bama reach home in one hour in place of 10 minutes?
A
she was watching shows on the road
B
she was stopping at every shop
C
she was enjoying all fun on the roads
D
all these
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
12
What did Zitkala Sa feel when her long hair was cut?
A
oppression and victimization
B
happy and delidhted
C
relaxed
D
None
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
13
What was Bama victim of?
A
gender prejudice
B
violence
C
child abuse
D
caste system
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
14
What did Annan tell Bama?
A
Education is the only way to break the chains of caste system
B
running away is the only way out to solve the problem
C
 keeping quiet is the only way to solve the issue
D
none
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
15
What did Zitkala mean by Eating By Formula?
A
Set pattern of sitting
B
set pattern of standing in lines
C
set pattern of rules
D
set pattern of eating decorum
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
16
Why did Zitkala not like her hair cut?
A
because her mother told her that mourners and cowards keep such hair.
B
she liked long hair
C
she wanted different style
D
she didn't like anyone to touch her hair
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
17
Who told Bama that untouchability is a crime?
A
her mother
B
Zitkala and Sa
C
her sister
D
Her brother Annan
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
18
What comic incident did Bama mention to her brother?
A
a man bringing vadas for his landlord by holding the vada packet by a string.
B
 a man bringing vadas in a basket
C
a man bringing vadas in a tiffin
D
all these
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
19
Which community does Bama belong to?
A
rich
B
Brahmins
C
Untouchable low caste
D
None
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
20
What is the meaning of untouchability?
A
segregating a minority from the mainstream social group
B
not to touch anyone
C
keep distance from
D
none
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
21
Why did Zitkala find Eating by formula a hard trial?
A
because of her inability to follow the bell taps
B
because of too many rules
C
because of restrictions
D
none
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22
What attracted Bama in the street?
A
monkeys
B
the cyclist
C
Pongal offerings
D
all these
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
23
Why did Zitkala feel oppressed in her new establishment?
A
because of indignities shown to her
B
because she didn't like the place
C
she wanted to be with her mother
D
none
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
24
When did Bama first come to know of social discrimination?
A
in class 1
B
when she was in class 3
C
when she was in class 2
D
when she was in class 4
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✅ Correct Answer: 2
25
Why did the Landlord's man ask Bama's brother on which street did they live?
A
to know his class
B
 to know his background
C
 to know his work
D
to know his caste
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
26
I felt like sinking to the floors why did Zitkala feel so?
A
because her blanket was stripped off from her shoulders and she felt uncomfortable
B
because she didn't like her short hair
C
because she didn't like her dress
D
because she felt cold
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
27
What did Judewin tell Zitkala?
A
A new dress is comimng
B
she will meet her mother
C
she will go to a new place
D
her hair would be cut
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
28
How did Bama earn respect of the people of higher class?
A
by shopping
B
 by spending money
C
by studying hard and earning first position in her class
D
all these
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
29
What sort of shows attracted Bama?
A
shows by jugglers
B
shows by monkeys
C
shows by shopkeepers
D
shows by political people
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
30
Why was Zitkala in tears on her first day in the land of apples?
A
because of new environment
B
cultural differences
C
eating by formula and cutting of her hair
D
all these
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
31
What was common between Bama and Zitkala?
A
belonged to minority
B
victims of cultural differences
C
 were struggling because of class
D
 all these
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
32
Why did Zitkala start crying at the dining table ?
A
she didn't like the food
B
 she was a stranger
C
because of eating by formula
D
all these
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
33
Why did Zitkala hide herself?
A
to save herself
B
to save herself from a woman
C
to save herself from other chidren
D
 to stop people from cutting her hair
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
34
How did the scene in the market change Bama's life?
A
because of that she decided to study hard and stand against discrimination
B
she became fearful
C
she became stubborn
D
she was irritated
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
35
What was the author's original name?
A
Zitkala
B
Zitkala sa
C
Zitkala Bama
D
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
36
What did the story showcase?
A
Discrimination on the basis of casteism specially with Indians in western culture
B
difference of Indian and Western culture
C
views of minorities
D
none
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
37
What was the name of the school where Zitkala studied?
A
Carlisle Indian school
B
Carlisle Western school
C
Carlisle Indonesian school
D
Carlisle American school
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
38
What is Belfry?
A
part of a bell tower
B
 part of a tower
C
part of a music tower
D
part of a silver tower
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✅ Correct Answer: 1
39
Which family did Bama belog to?
A
A jewish family
B
a rich family
C
 a poor catholic family
D
all
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✅ Correct Answer: 3
40
What had hurt Bama in the society?
A
Political plays
B
class students
C
Road shows
D
Practice of untouchability
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✅ Correct Answer: 4
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