NCERT MCQ Questions for Class 8 English Honeydew Prose with Answers PDF Free Download based on the major ideas and themes presented in the textbook as per the CBSE new test pattern are available here. This will help you learn and test your understanding of the chapters. Students can also take a free test of Class 8 English Multiple Choice Questions. Each question has four possibilities, each of which is followed by the correct response. These MCQ Questions were chosen in accordance with the most recent CBSE exam format.
Q1.Who was a member of the first successful India expedition to Mount Everest in 1965?
(1) Phu Dorji
(2) Edmud Hillary
(3) H.P.S Ahuwalia
(4) None
Answer
Answer: H.P.S Ahluwalia.
Q2.Name the author of The Summit Within
(1) Khushwant Singh
(2) Ruskin Bond
(3) R.K. Narayan
(4) H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Answer
Answer: H.P.S. Ahluwalia.
Q3.In which year, H.P.S Ahluwalia become a member of the first successful Indian expedition to Mount Everest?
(1)1965
(2)1865
(3)1956
(4)1955
Answer
Answer: 1965.
Q4.What had the authors experience as an Ever ester provided him?
(1) Energetic to life
(2) Inspiration to face life’s ordeals
(3) Motivated
(4) Proud
Answer
Answer: Inspiration to face life’s ordeals.
Q5.The author stood on the summit of ——.
(1) Denali
(2) Manaslu
(3) Nanda Devi
(4) Everest
Answer
Answer: Everest.
Q6.What does climbing mountain teach you about?
(1) The world
(2) Yourself
(3) Both (i) & (ii)
(4) No one
Answer
Answer: Both & .
Q7.The author had a Tinge of sadness. what was it?
(1) There would be nothing higher to climb
(2) All roads here after would lead down
(3) Both (i) & (ii)
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Both & .
Q8.What do each man carries within himself?
(1) His heart
(2) His mind
(3) His energy
(4) His own mountain peak
Answer
Answer: His own mountain peak.
Q9.By climbing the Summit of Everest you are overwhelmed by a deep sense of — and —–.
(1) Sadness
(2) Joy
(3) Thank fullness
(4) Both (i) &
Answer
Answer: Both & .
Q10.What does the experience of climbing to the Summit makes you?
(1) Demotivate
(2) As soon as before
(3) Motivate
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Motivate.
Q12.There are not symbols of conquest but of ——
(1) Reverence
(2) Disbelief
(3) Remark
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Reverence.
Q13.Tick the correct answer
(1) The man who has been to the beaches in never the same again.
(2) The man who has been to the mountains is never the same again
(3) The man who has never been to the mountains is the same again
(4) The man who has been to the mountains is always the same
Answer
Answer: The man who has been to the mountains is never the same again.
Q14.Who buried a cross under a cairn in the snow?
(1) Rawat
(2) Edmund Hillary
(3) Phu Dorji
(4) No one
Answer
Answer: Edmund Hillary.
Q15.As i look back at life after climbing Everest cannot help remarking about the other Summit. What is the other Summit here?
(1) The Summit of heart
(2) The Summit of brain
(3) The Summit of mind
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: The Summit of mind.
Q16.Who left a picture of Guru Nanak On Everest?
(1) Phu Dorji
(2) Rawat
(3) The author
(4) Everyone
Answer
Answer: The author.
Q18.What did Phu Dorji leave a relic of on Everest?
(1) Lord Krishna
(2) Buddha
(3) Guru Nanak
(4) Goddess Durga
Answer
Answer: Guru Nanak.
Q19.The obstacles of climbing a mountain are ——
(1) Delight
(2) Entertaining
(3) Physical
(4) All of these
Answer
Answer: Physical.
Q20.Rawat left a picture of —— on Everest.
(1) Goddess Durga
(2) Guru Nanak
(3) Buddha
(4) All of these
Answer
Answer: Goddess Durga.
Q21.A climb to a Summit means —–, —–and —–
(1) Endurance
(2) Persistence
(3) Will power
(4) All of these
Answer
Answer: Will power.
Q22.What did the author leave a picture of on Everest?
(1) Sai Baba
(2) Lord Shiva
(3) His mother
(4) Guru Nanak
Answer
Answer: Guru Nanak.
Q24.The sorrowing peaks of your Summit look like –
(1) Rope
(2) Jewelled necklace
(3) Gold necklace
(4) Jewelled ring
Answer
Answer: Jewelled necklace.
Q25.Who is the narrator?
(1) Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
(2) Bepin Choudhury’s
(3) Commander-in-Chief
(4) An editor
Answer
Answer: Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Q26.Name the mountain where the writer had climbed.
(1) Mount Everest
(2) Kanchenjunga
(3) Nanda Devi
(4) Kamet
Answer
(Answer:i) Mount Everest
Q27.How long does the joy of climbing the Summit of Everest last?
(1) Lifetime
(2) 20 years
(3) For some months
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Lifetime.
Q28.How did he feel while standing on the Mount Everest?
(1) Proud
(2) Sad
(3) Humble
(4) Tired
Answer
Answer: Humble
Q29.What are the three necessary qualities to reach the summit?
(1) Endurance, persistence and willpower
(2) Endurance, persistence and obstacles
(3) Hindrance, obstacles and blockage
(4) Courage, jubilation and hard work
Answer
Answer: Endurance, persistence and willpower
Q30.What is the simplest answer of why people climb mountains?
(1) People love to climb
(2) Because it is adventurous
(3) It makes physically strong
(4) Because it is there
Answer
Answer: Because it is there.
Q31.Where did the author find breathing difficult?
(1) On the hills
(2) On the great height
(3) On the mountains
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: On the great height
Q32.Why does man take delight in overcoming obstacles?
(1) Adventurous
(2) Daring
(3) To overcome hundles
(4) All of these
Answer
Answer: All of these
Q33.The obstacles of climbing a mountain are ——
(1) Delight
(2) Entertaining
(3) Physical
(4) All of these
Answer
Answer: Physical.
Q34.Who gives support at this time?
(1) One’s companion
(2) The Commander
(3) The guide
(4) The Sherpa
Answer
Answer: One’s companion
Q35.Why is the person who has been to the mountains never the same again?
(1) The experience changes him completely.
(2) He gets hurt.
(3) The experience makes him proud.
(4) He goes mad.
Answer
Answer: The experience changes him completely.
Q36.The climber is full of thankfulness to
(1) God
(2) friends
(3) Mountain
(4) other climbers.
Answer
Answer: God
Q37.Sinu childhood, what was the author attracted to?
(1) Oceans
(2) Mountain
(3) Airplane
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Mountain.
Q38.What is the main quality that played a major role in the authors climb?
(1) Physical power
(2) Strong muscles
(3) Will power
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Will power
Q39.In a typical climb, the rope is shared so that
(1) the rope is cut into two
(2) the climbers hold the rope together
(3) the two hold one end of the rope each
(4) they throw the rope with force.
Answer
Answer: the two hold one end of the rope each
Q40.Who cuts the steps in the hard ice?
(1) Another climber
(2) The author
(3) Rope
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: Another climber.
Q41.What has been the narrators glorious achievement?
(1) To climb the mountain
(2) To achieve success in life
(3) To climb the Everest
(4) None of these
Answer
Answer: To climb the Everest
Q42.Standing on Everest, Ahluwalia was filled with the emotion of
(1) great pleasure
(2) much excitement
(3) great pride
(4) much humility
Answer
Answer: much humility
Q43.What were the moments you felt like while climbing?
(1) Going back down
(2) Staying there
(3) Demotivated
(4) All of these
Answer
Answer: Going back down.
Q44.How did the narrator feel after climbing the Everest?
(1) Victorious
(2) Victorious and very happy
(3) Proudly
(4) Energetic
Answer
Answer: Victorious and very happy
Q47.Why is it necessary to climb the summit in ones own mind?
(1) To know others completely
(2) To gain something
(3) To know oneself completely
(4) To have name and fame
Answer
Answer: To know oneself completely
Q48.While climbing the mountains, the climbers get inspiration from
(1) the beautiful nature
(2) difficulties of climbing
(3) thinking of God
(4) each other
Answer
Answer: each other