A Mild Attack of Locusts Test 10 |Book I Short Stories

10 | A Mild Attack of Locusts

 Q.1 Mark the correct option: [10] 

1. It was half night, a perverted blackness. A) brightened B) distorted C) strange D) mashed

2. The old man said emphatically, “We are finished!”. A) Slowly B) critically C) distinguishingly D) forcefully

3. She felt that if this devastated and mangled was not ruined. A) destruction B) excavation C) buried D) checked

4. How many miles the smoke was rising everywhere? A) 20 miles B) 60 miles C) 70 miles C) 50 miles

5. If this devasted and mangled countryside.

A) brightened B) damaged C) metallic D) pulled

6. What was the condition of the trees? A) fresh and green B) queer and still C) broken and still D) shining and queer

7. How did Margaret feel after the attack? A) like a conquerer B) like a survivor C) like a successor D) like an appetizer

8. Where did they ___ to play? A) goes B) going C) went D) go

9. Had he _____ it before he would have not gone there. A) known B) knew C) know D) knows

10. Water ____ towards low. A) flow B) flows C) flowing D) flew

Q.2 Punctuate the following lines. [5]

they main swarm isn t settling they are heavy with eggs they are 

looking for a place to settle and lay 

Q.3 Translate into Urdu of the following passage. [15]

Margaret was wondering what she could do to help. She did not know. Then up came old Stephen from the lands. “We’re finished, Margaret, finished! Those beggars can eat every leaf and blade of the far in half an hour! And it is only early afternoon- if we can make enough smoke, made enough noise ill the sun goes down, they’ll settle somewhere else perhaps…” and then: get the kettle going. It’s thirsty work, this.”

Q.4 Answer all 5 the following questions: [10]

1. What are locusts?

2. Why did the farmers throw wet leaves on fire?

3. What was the condition of the trees? 

4. What was the desire of every farmer?

5. Why are the locusts compared to bad weather?

“The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.” Arnold H. Glasow

Prof. Masood Sadiq M.A (Eng) M.A (EPM) PGC Sialkot

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