Sample QuestionsUnit - 9 : The Great Stone Face – I questions
One sample from each question group in this chapter. Select any group above to see the full set with answer keys.
They did not know that the Great Stone Face had become a teacher to him.
They saw nothing remarkable in his way of life.
The boy was still gazing up the valley.
Ernest never forgot the story that his mother told him.
Others took it to be nothing but idle talk.
Ernest could not find the General's face$.........$
- A
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esembling the Great Stone Face.
- C
- D
Answer: B.
View full solution →The General was honoured by $.........$
- A
preparing a great banquet for him.
- B
- C
soldiers standing on guard.
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Answer: D.
View full solution →The Great Stone Face had become $...$
- A
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- C
a mysterious figure to Ernest.
- D
an irritating person for Ernest.
Answer: B.
View full solution →People took Gathergold to be $...$
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the man who was to come some day in the valley, according to the prophecy.
- B
a miracle man who had come to make the inhabitants of the valley happy.
- C
a man who performs black magic.
- D
Answer: A.
View full solution →Ernest wished that $.........$
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A he should live to see the man who was going to come some day.
- B
he would have the face resembling to the Great Stone Face.
- C
he would take his mother to meet the man with the Great Stone Face.
- D
Answer: A.
View full solution →It so happened that another son of the valley had become a soldier many years before. After a great deal of hard fighting, he was now a famous commander. He was known on the battlefield by the name of Blood-and Thunder. Old and tired now, he had lately expressed a desire to return to his native valley. The inhabitants, his old neighbours and their grown up children, prepared to welcome the renowned commander. It was being said that at last the likeness of the Great Stone Face had actually appeared. Great, therefore, was the excitement throughout the valley, and many people who had never once thought of glancing at the Great Stone Face now spent much time in gazing at it, for the sake of knowing exactly how General Blood and-Thunder looked.
On the day of the general's arrival, Ernest and all the other people of the valley left their work, and proceeded to the spot where a great banquet had been prepared. Soldiers stood on guard. flags waved and the crowd roared. Ernest was standing too far back to see Blood-and-Thunder's face. However, he could hear several voices.
Questions:
$(1)$ How had the soldier risen to the position of a commander$?$
$(2)$ What was being said about the commander in the valley$?$
$(3)$ How was the General Blood-and Thunder welcomed in the valley$?$
$(4)$ Why, do you think, the commander might have been given the name 'Blood and-Thunder'$?$
View full solution →The years went on, and Ernest grew to be a young man. He attracted little notice from the inhabitants of the valley. They saw nothing remarkable in his way of life, except that, when the labour of the day was over, he still loved to gaze upon the Great Stone Face. Their idea was that this was a folly, but pardonable, because Ernest was industrious, kind and neighbourly. They did not know that the Great Stone Face had become a teacher to him, and that the sentiment which was expressed in it would enlarge the young man's heart, and fill it with deeper sympathies than other hearts. They did not know that from this would come a better wisdom than could be learnt from books. Neither did Ernest know that the thoughts which came to him so naturally, in the fields and at the fireside, were of a higher tone than those which all men shared with him. A simple soul-simple as when his mother first told him the old story-he beheld the marvellous face looking down the valley, and still wondered, why its human likeness was so long in coming.
Questions :
$(1)$ What did Ernest use to do after the labour of the day was over?
$(2)$ How did the people of the valley take Ernest's gazing upon the Great Stone Face?
$(3)$ What did the people of the valley not know about the strange behaviour of Ernest?
$(4)$ What of the Great Stone Face always wondered Ernest ?
View full solution →About this time there went a rumour throughout the valley that the great man, who was to bear a resemblance to the Great Stone Face, had appeared at last. It seems that, many years before, a young man had left the valley and settled at a distant seaport. Gathergold, which was his name, had set up as a shopkeeper and, being sharp in business matters, had become so very rich that it would have taken him a hundred years only to count his wealth. In time he thought of his native valley, and decided to go back there, and end his days where he had been born.
Ernest had been deeply stirred by the idea that the great man, the noble man. the man of prophecy, after so many ages of delay, was at length to be seen in his native valley. While the boy was still gazing up the valley one day and imagining that the Great Stone Face returned his gaze, the noise of wheels was heard, and a crowd of people cried. "Here comes the great Mr Gathergold."
Questions:
$(1)$ What rumour went about the valley?
$(2)$ How rich had Gathergold become ?
$(3)$ What thought had moved Ernest?
$(4)$ Who was being waited for by the people in the valley?
View full solution →Who was Ernest ? What personal qualities made him great ?
Write in brief about Blood-and-Thunder.
to come true for the first time ?
What gave the people of the valley the idea that the prophecy was about
Ernest compared the man's face with the Stone Face. What did he conclude ?
The Great Stone Face seemed to suggest that Ernest should not fear the general.
Gathergold died in poverty and neglect.
Though not very rich, Gathergold was a skilful merchant.
Ernest loved his mother and helped her in her work.
One would clearly distinguish the features of the Stone race omy from a distance.
And, what greatly $……………1…………..$ (puzzle) Ernest, they seemed actually to believe that here was ‘ the likeness which they $…………..2…………. $(speak) of. He turned away sadly from the$ …………..3………….$ (wrinkle) shrewdness of that unpleasant face, and gazed up the valley, where the Stone Face seemed to say: He $………….4………….$ (will + come)! Fear not, Ernest the man will come!
View full solution →Ernest had $…………….1………….$ (have) no teacher, but the Great Stone Face $………….2…………..$ (become) one to him. When the work of the day was over, he $………….3………….$ (will + gaze) at it for hours, until he began $……………..4………………$ (imagine) that those vast features recognised him, and gave him a smile of kindness and encouragement.
View full solution →(resemblance, seaport, rumour, appeared, throughout, settled) About this time there went a ……………..$1$…………. ……………$2$………….. the valley that the great man, who was to bear a ………….$3$………. to the Great Stone Face, had …………..$4$…………. at last. It seems that many years before, a young man had left the valley and ……………$5$………….. at a distant …………$6$…………… .
View full solution →(fanciful, proper, thoughtful, Perhaps, discourage, affectionate) His mother was an …………….$1$………….. and ……………..$2$…………. woman. It was ……………$3$………….. , she thought, not to ……………$4$…………. the ……………$5$…………. hopes of her little boy. So she said to him, “ ……………$6$…………… you may.”
View full solution →So his mother told him a story $…………..1……………$ her own mother had told her,$ ………….2………….. $she herself was younger than little Ernest; $………….3……………..$ , at some future day, a child should be born near here, $……………4……………$ was destined to become the greatest and noblest person $…………….5………….$ his time and whose face, in manhood, should bear $……………..6………..$ exact resemblance to the Great Stone Face.
View full solution →One afternoon,$ ……………1……………$ the sun was going $……………2……………. ,$ a mother and her little boy sat $…………….3………….$ the door of their cottage, talking $……………4…………….$ the Great Stone Face. They had only to lift their eyes $…………..5…………..$ there it was, plain to be seen$, ……………6…………….$ miles away, with the sunshine brightening all its features.
View full solution →He attracted little notice from the inhabitants of the valley.
(Turn into Negative.)
When the work of the day was over, he would gaze at it for hours.
(Make it Simple.)
Ernest had had no teacher.
(Add a question tag.)
His mother was really an affectionate and thoughtful woman.
(Turn into Exclamatory.)
Others took it to be nothing but idle talk.
(Turn into affirmative.)
“If an old prophecy should come to pass,” answered his mother, “we may see a man some time, with exactly such a face as that.”
“What prophecy do you mean, dear Mother ?” eagerly inquired Ernest. “Please tell me about it.”
“Mother,” said he, while the Great Face smiled on him, “I wish that it could speak, for it looks so very kindly that its voice must indeed be pleasant. If I ever see a man with
such a face, I should love him very much.”