Class 9 Reach for the Top MCQs
1. What unique record does Santosh Yadav hold regarding Mt. Everest?
(A) She was the first Indian woman to climb Everest
(B) She was the youngest person to climb Everest
(C) She is the only woman in the world to have scaled Mt. Everest twice
(D) She reached the summit without oxygen
Answer
Answer: (C) She is the only woman in the world to have scaled Mt. Everest twice
2. Where was Santosh Yadav born?
(A) Rewari District in Uttar Pradesh
(B) Joniyawas of Rewari District in Haryana
(C) New Delhi
(D) Jaipur
Answer
Answer: (B) Joniyawas of Rewari District in Haryana
3. What societal view did Santosh Yadav’s birth face in her traditional community?
(A) The birth of a daughter was considered a blessing
(B) The birth of a son was considered a curse
(C) The birth of a son was regarded as a blessing, and a daughter was not generally welcome
(D) Her birth was celebrated with much fanfare
Answer
Answer: (C) The birth of a son was regarded as a blessing, and a daughter was not generally welcome
4. What action showed Santosh Yadav’s early unwillingness to accept traditional life?
(A) She left home to travel constantly
(B) She preferred shorts where other girls wore traditional Indian dresses
(C) She refused to speak the local dialect
(D) She insisted on learning English only
Answer
Answer: (B) She preferred shorts where other girls wore traditional Indian dresses
5. When did Santosh Yadav scale Mt. Everest for the first time?
(A) In 1996
(B) In 1988
(C) In 1992, at barely twenty years of age
(D) In 2005
Answer
Answer: (C) In 1992, at barely twenty years of age
6. Which qualities impressed Santosh Yadav’s seniors during climbing expeditions?
(A) Her speed and quick wit
(B) Her reluctance to share equipment
(C) Her climbing skills, physical fitness, and mental strength
(D) Her ability to locate hidden paths
Answer
Answer: (C) Her climbing skills, physical fitness, and mental strength
7. What act of humanity did Santosh Yadav perform during the 1992 Everest mission?
(A) She gave up her place in the expedition for Mohan Singh
(B) She helped clean up the camp after the climb
(C) She saved climber Mohan Singh by sharing her oxygen with him
(D) She retrieved a dying climber’s belongings
Answer
Answer: (C) She saved climber Mohan Singh by sharing her oxygen with him
8. What was Santosh Yadav’s contribution to the environment after her second Everest ascent?
(A) She planted 500 saplings in the Himalayas
(B) She collected and brought down 500 kilograms of garbage from the Himalayas
(C) She wrote an article about Himalayan pollution
(D) She banned the use of plastic bags in the mountain area
Answer
Answer: (B) She collected and brought down 500 kilograms of garbage from the Himalayas
9. What top honour did the Indian government bestow upon Santosh Yadav for her achievements?
(A) Bharat Ratna
(B) Khel Ratna
(C) Padmashri
(D) Arjuna Award
Answer
Answer: (C) Padmashri
10. Maria Sharapova, the tennis star, was born in which location?
(A) U.S.A.
(B) Siberia
(C) Florida
(D) Japan
Answer
Answer: (B) Siberia
11. Maria Sharapova was ‘packed off’ to train in the United States before which birthday?
(A) Her eighth birthday
(B) Her tenth birthday
(C) Her twelfth birthday
(D) Her sixteenth birthday
Answer
Answer: (B) Her tenth birthday
12. What prevented Maria Sharapova’s mother, Yelena, from accompanying her daughter to the U.S. initially?
(A) Lack of funds
(B) Visa restrictions
(C) Family disputes
(D) Her job in Russia
Answer
Answer: (B) Visa restrictions
13. What did Maria Sharapova say was her motivation for success, besides money?
(A) To prove her critics wrong
(B) To become number one in the world
(C) To live in glamorous attire
(D) To return home to Siberia
Answer
Answer: (B) To become number one in the world
14. From which work is the chapter ‘Kathmandu’ excerpted?
(A) A novel entitled The Himalayas
(B) A collection of short stories
(C) A travelogue entitled Heaven Lake
(D) A book of poetry
Answer
Answer: (C) A travelogue entitled Heaven Lake
15. In the poem ‘On Killing a Tree’, what is the root described as?
(A) The leprous hide of the tree
(B) The least important part
(C) The white and wet, most sensitive, hidden source of the tree’s strength
(D) A simple jab of the knife
Answer
Answer: (C) The white and wet, most sensitive, hidden source of the tree’s strength
16. What ultimate process finally kills the tree, according to the poem?
(A) Hacking and chopping the trunk
(B) The bleeding bark healing
(C) Scorching and choking (drying up) after the root is pulled out
(D) A long drought
Answer
Answer: (C) Scorching and choking (drying up) after the root is pulled out
17. When Maria Sharapova was training young, what humiliation did she endure from older tennis pupils in the hostel?
(A) They stole her money
(B) They constantly criticized her skills
(C) They woke her up late at night and ordered her to tidy and clean the room
(D) They forced her to quit tennis practice
Answer
Answer: (C) They woke her up late at night and ordered her to tidy and clean the room