Prepare very short questions or objective type questions with answers from Glimpses of India – Based on NCERT pattern – Useful links for 10th class students – The name of the book is First Flight
Q. Who is the writer of A Baker from Goa ?
Answer – Lucio Rodrigues
Q. Who has written Coorg ?
Answer – Lokesh Abrol
Q. Who is the writer of Tea from Assam ?
Answer – Arup Kumar Datta
Q. What are the elders in Goa nostalgic about ?
Answer – Portuguese days
Q. What is the meaning of reminiscing nostalgic ?
Answer – Thinking fondly of the past
Q. What do the Goans call the bakers now-a-days ?
Answer – Pader
Q. How did they come to know the arriving of a baker ?
Answer – Through the thud and jingle of the traditional baker’s bamboo
Q. What was the name of maid-servant ?
Answer – Paskine or Bastine
Q. How many times did the baker come in the house ?
Answer – Twice a day
Q. What do we call the dress the baker or the bread-seller of those days used to wear ?
Answer – Kabai
Q. What is Coorg ?
Answer – The smallest district of Karnataka
Q. What do people also call Coorg ?
Answer – Kodagu
Q. Whose descent are these people ?
Answer – Greek or Arabic
Q. What is Mahaseer ?
Answer – A large freshwater fish
Q. What is dress of these people ?
Answer – A long, black coat with an embroidered waist-belt
Q. What do we call this dress ?
Answer – Kuppia
Q. Whose dress resembles kuppia ?
Answer – The Arabs and the Kurds
Q. Who was the first Chief of the Indian Army who was a Coorgi ?
Answer – General Cariappa
Q. What is Coorg famous for ?
Answer – For coffee, rain forests and spices
Q. Whose father is the manager of a tea-garden in Upper Assam ?
Answer – Pranjol
Q. Whose classmate was Pranjol ?
Answer – Rajvir
Q. When does Pranjol invite Rajvir to Assam ?
Answer – During the summer vacation
Q. Where was tea first drunk ?
Answer – In China
Q. When did tea come in to being ?
Answer – 2700 B.C.
Q. Of which language are the words like tea, chai, chini ?
Answer – Chinese
Q. When did tea reach in Europe ?
Answer – In the 16th century
Q. What was the name of tea-garden Pranjol’s father was the manager of ?
Answer – Dhekiabari
Q. How did Europeans drink tea ?
Answer – As medicine
Q. What is name of Pranjol’s father ?
Answer – Mr. Barua
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