The Making of a Scientist | Class 10 MCQ Questions with Answers English Chapter 6

All important MCQs are provided for the chapter The Making of a Scientist for class 10. Students are requested to practice all MCQ which will be helpful in their exam preparation. MCQs provided are as per the latest pattern announced by CBSE.

Q1.Where did he come from?

(1) Reading
(2) Oxford
(3) London
(4) none of the above

Q2.He tried to grow in the presence of betties

(1) butterflies
(2) catterpillar
(3) rats
(4) snakes

Q3.When did he find the cause of a viral disease common among caterpillars?

(1) in the 7th grade
(2) in the 8th grade
(3) in college
(4) none of the above

Q4.What did he realise was necessary for winning a prize at the fair?

(1) display
(2) experiment
(3) all of the above
(4) none of the above

Q5.Who did he write to get an idea for a real science experiment?

(1) his mother
(2) his friend
(3) Dr Frederick A. Urquhart
(4) none of the above

Q6.What groundbreaking research did Ebright do?

(1) working of body
(2) working of DNA
(3) Working of heart
(4) none of the above

Q7.How many species of butterflies had he collected till second grade?

(1)20
(2)21
(3)24
(4)25

Q8.How many gold spots were there on a Monarch pupa?

(1)10
(2)15
(3)11
(4)12

Q9.What was he fond of in his childhood?

(1) basketball
(2) collecting things
(3) baseball
(4) none of the above

Q10.Where did Richard grew up?

(1) Pennsylvania
(2) Chicago
(3) New York
(4) London

Q11.What did Richards dad do?

(1) scientist
(2) doctor
(3) he was dead
(4) teacher

Q12.It was his fascination for that opened the world of science to him.

(1) cats
(2) dogs
(3) birds
(4) butterflies

Q13.Which butterfiles copied monarchs to prevent being eaten by birds?

(1) vice president
(2) viceroy
(3) viceprincipal
(4) vices

Q14.Name Richards college room mate

(1) John
(2) James
(3) Jack
(4) Jeff

Q15.Who is the writer of the story The Making of a Scientist?

(1) HG Wells
(2) Robert W. Peterson
(3) Ruskin Bond
(4) Guy De Maupassant

Q16.Where did Ebright study?

(1) Oxford
(2) Cambridge
(3) Harvard
(4) Stanford

Q17.Name Ebrights social science teacher.

(1) Mr Weiherer
(2) Dr Urquhart
(3) James R Wong
(4) Taplow

Q18.Ebright took part in countyfair.

(1) handicraft
(2) science
(3) cattle
(4) insects

Q19.Which book did Ebrights mother give him to?

(1) Travels of Monarch X
(2) Travels of Ebright
(3) Travels of Dr Urquhart
(4) Travels of Viceroy X

Q20.Which of the following is a part of the life cycle of butterflies?

(1) egg
(2) caterpillar
(3) pupa
(4) all of the above

Q21.At the age of —— Richard H Ebright surprised the world by explaining the theory on how cells work.

(1)22
(2)15
(3)32
(4)20

Q22.Richard H Ebright explained the theory of –

(1) Movement of plant
(2) On how atom work
(3) On how cells work
(4) Rotation

Q23.The cell theory got published in the proceeding of the –

(1) World Academy of technology
(2) National Academy of science
(3) National science and technology
(4) World innovative science

Q24.Richards interests on experiments started with a small things i.e. –

(1) Rat
(2) Money Plant
(3) Bed bug
(4) Butterfly

Q25.Ebright grew up in the North of –

(1) Pennsylvania
(2) Paris
(3) Zurich
(4) France

Q26.Ebright started collecting butterflies from the stage of –

(1) Kinder garden
(2) Class (V)
(3) Nursery
(4) Class (II)

Q27.Ebright wanted to become –

(1) A scientist
(2) A Journalist
(3) An astronomer
(4) A writer

Q28.Ebright was always encouraged for studies by his –

(1) Father
(2) Grandmother
(3) Sister
(4) Mother

Q29.—— was Ebrights only friend until he went to school.

(1) Mother
(2) Brother
(3) Father
(4) Grandfather

Q30.Ebrights father did when he was in —— grade.

(1) Third
(2) Second
(3) Fourth
(4) First

Q31.In Class (II) Ebright had collected all the —— species of butterflies.

(1)50
(2)25
(3)10
(4)24

Q32.The book, which encouraged Ebright and turned his life towards science was –

(1) The travels of Monarch (X)
(2) 100 Shade o butterflies
(3) The 50 collection of butterflies
(4) The travels of Monarch (XI)

Q33.At the end of the childrens book the readers were invited to tag butterflies to Dr. Frederick A. Urquhart of the university of –

(1) Zurich
(2) London
(3) Toronto
(4) Oxford

Q34.Ebright got a hint of real science in the —— grade.

(1) 7th
(2) 5th
(3) 8th
(4) 4th

Q35.Ebright was in class —–, when he tried to find out the cause of a viral disease that killed nearly all monarch caterpillars.

(1) (IX)
(2) (VI)
(3) (VIII)
(4) (X)

Q36.After doing experiment on the theory that viceroy butterflies copy monarchs, Ebright won the —– division in the zoology department and —— position in the overall science fair.

(1) 2nd and 3rd
(2) 1st and 3rd
(3) 2nd 1st
(4) 1st and 2nd

Q37.The —– tiny gold spots on monarch pupa produced a necessary hormone for the full development of butterfly from a pupa.

(1)10
(2)11
(3)13
(4)12

Q38.The research on growing cells from a —— helped him to won the first prize at the international fair.

(1) Monarch’s wing
(2) Frog’s body
(3) Monarch’s body
(4) Pupa

Q39.Ebright also identified the chemical structure of –

(1) Chlorine
(2) Calcium
(3) Hormone
(4) Clorofluro Carbon

Q40.According to Ebright —— is the blue print of life.

(1) DNA
(2) Nucleus
(3) RNA
(4) Cytoplasm

Q41.The most important discovery of Ebright was –

(1) Cell life
(2) Atomic structure
(3) Chemical structure of Hormone
(4) Viceroy butterfly copies Monarch butterfly

Q42.—— the roommate of Ebright helped him to draw pictures and to construct the plastic models of molecules.

(1) J.K Upright
(2) James K long
(3) Thomas Wilson
(4) James R. Wong

Q43.Ebright used to admire his —— teacher.

(1) SST
(2) Science
(3) Mathematics
(4) Language teaches

Q44.Apart from scientist research Ebright had a keen interest in –

(1) SST
(2) Drawing
(3) Debate
(4) Travelling