Chapter-8: Going Places

1 .  Geoff had been out of school for a period of –

• five years
• one year
• three years
• two years

2. What kind of person is Sophie’s father?

• a kind hearted
• a loving and caring
• a hard core realistic
• carefree

3. What is Sophie in reality?

• a dreamer
• a fighter
• a worker at Biscuit factory
• none

4. Who is Sophie’s elder brother?

• Geoffe
• Jansie
• Dany Casey
• none

5. What is the sub theme of the story?

• Relationships
• friends
• family members
• adolescents

6. Who are Sophie and Jansie?

• teenagers who are friends and classmates
• neighbourers
• colleagues
• actors

7. What kind of girl is Sophie?

• a happy go lucky kind
• a realistic
• Day dreamer
• a naughty child

8. Which game are Sophie and her family fans of ?

• cricket
• Badminton
• volleyball
• football

9. Who is A. R. Barton?

• A modern writer
• author of Going Places
• lives in Zurich and writes in English
• All these

10. What does Sophie dream about?

• Becoming an actor
• becoming a manager
• a sophisticated person
• becoming rich and sophisticated

11. Danny had a freckled nose and the colour of his eyes was

•  grey
• green
• blue
• brown

12. Outside the pub, Sophie saw something. It was

•  her dad’s bicycle
•  her brother’s car
•  her mother’s motorcycle
• Derek’s tricycle

13. While Sophie waited for Danny, she realized that

• Danny would come
• Danny would not come
•  she was hungry
• she was thirsty

14. According to Sophie, the place she had chosen to meet Danny was

•  a hidden alley
• a perfect place
•  behind the walls
•  near the trees

15. Sophie told Jansie that her father if he got to know about her meeting with Danny would

• agree to their marriage
•  murder her
•  ask her to call him over for dinner
• ask to be introduced to him

16. Geoff had told about Sophie’s meeting with Danny Casey to

•  the entire neighbourhood
• Frank
• Jansie
•  the teachers in school

17. ‘I wish he was an Englishman’. These words were spoken with reference to

•  Geoff
• Derek
•  Danny Casey
• a passenger in the bus

18. The match on Saturday was witnessed by

•  the whole family
•  only father and Sophie
•  Geoff alone
•  Sophie, father, Derek and Geoff

19. Danny Casey was a player in the football team of

•  Ireland
•  Finland
• England
• Denmark

20. Sophie told Geoff that Danny was unable to sign an autograph for her because

• his secretary did not allow it
• he didn’t have paper or pen
•  he said he’d do it later
•  he was in a hurry to go home