CBSE Class 10 English First Flight, Two Stories About Flying: Important Questions with Answers, Download PDF

CBSE class 10 English Chapter wise important questions offers you sample questions that help you revise chapters in detail while also remembering the key details. 

For Chapter 3, Two Stories About Flying, it contains two stories on ‘His First Flight’ and ‘The Black Aeroplane’ by Frederick Forsyth. In the article students can find questions from both the stories from extracts to long type answers, helping them get a short summary for the two stories, while also providing a quick revision material for students. 

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CBSE Class 10 English First Flight, Two Stories About Flying: Important Questions

Here you can find a list of important questions to get you started with Chapter 3 revision. 

SUMMARY- HIS FIRST FLIGHT

The story “His First Flight” is written by Liam O’Flaherty and is based on a young seagull who was afraid to take his first flight because he feared that his wings wouldn’t support him while flying. All his siblings took the plunge to fly fearlessly in the open air despite having shorter wings than him. On the contrary, the young bird could not muster up courage to take the plunge due to distrust on his wings. Whenever he tried to come forward towards the brink of the ledge while attempting to fly, he became afraid and went back. His parents constantly upbraided and threatened him that unless he flew away he would have to starve alone on the ledge, but all their efforts went in vain. He would just watch his parents teaching his siblings how to skim the waves and dive for fish.

One fine day, the whole family flew to a big plateau and taunted the young seagull for his cowardice. As the sun rays blazed on his ledge, he could feel the heat and was starving since the previous nightfall. The young bird begged his mother to bring him some food. He uttered a joyful scream when his mother quickly picked a piece of fish and flew across to him. He leaned out eagerly and jumped at the fish exasperated by hunger. Suddenly he fell outward in the open space and a monstrous terror seized him as he could feel that he was falling downward. The next moment he felt his wings spread outwards and he was able to fly fearlessly. Finally, the young seagull took his first flight and soared higher and skimmed through the waves and dived along with his siblings.

SUMMARY- BLACK AEROPLANE

“Black Aeroplane” is a mysterious story written by Fredrik Forsyth that revolves around a pilot. The narrator of the story is a pilot who wanted to be with his family and enjoy a wholesome breakfast with them in England. He had to fly from France to England to spend time with his family. The plane was Dakota DS-088 and was flying at night. After the journey of 150 Km, suddenly the pilot came across the storm clouds that looked like black mountains. It was just in front of him and he was in a confusion whether he should return back or should face the storm. However, he flew through the clouds and soon realized that everything around him had turned completely black. Nothing was visible to him outside the aeroplane. He noticed that the cloud was looking so dangerous, but finally he entered the clouds and found that the compass and the radio had stopped working. He was completely Helpless.

Suddenly he noticed that a black aeroplane was flying just beside his aeroplane. It had no lights on its wings. The pilot of that aeroplane waved his hands and signalled him to follow. He began to follow him just like an obedient child. After sometime he noticed that the fuel in the second tank was left only for the Journey for 5 to10 minutes. He began to feel frightened but was following the other aeroplane continuously. Suddenly he noticed that he was out of the storm and the runway of an airport was being seen. After watching that he got relaxed and landed his aeroplane. He was trying to find out the other pilot and the black aeroplane, but couldn’t see them. After landing his aeroplane, he went to the woman who was sitting in the control center and asked her about the black airplane. He wanted to thank him for saving his life. But the woman in the control center told him that there was no other airplane in the night sky other than his aeroplane. Then surprisingly, he began to think continuously about the incident and finally couldn’t reach to any conclusion whether the black aeroplane was his imagination or did any other miracle occur?

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

1. The moon was coming up in the east, behind me, and stars were shining in the clear sky above me. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I was happy to be alone high up above the sleeping countryside.

(a)Who does ‘I’ refer to here? I refer to the pilot of the Dakota plane.

(b)Where was he going? He was going to England from France.

(c) What made him happy? The pilot was looking forward to spending his holiday with his family and to have a good, big English breakfast.

(d) Which words in the above extract indicate that the weather was fine? The words like Rising moon and cloudless sky indicate that the weather was fine.

2. Only his mother was looking at him. She was standing on a little high hump on the plateau, her white breast thrust forward. Now and again, she tore at a piece of fish that lay at her feet and then scrapped each side of her beak on the rock. The sight of the food maddened him. How he loved to tear food that way, scrapping his beak now and again to whet It.

(a)The young seagull’s mother was standing on a little high-------------- on the plateau.

hump.

(b)The sight of the food -------------------- him.

maddened.

(c) Now and again, the young seagull’s mother tore at a piece of fish that lay at her feet. (True/ False)

True.

(d) Find a word from the extract which means same as ‘sharpen’

Whet

3. The moon was coming up in the east, behind me, and stars were shining in the clear sky above me. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I was happy to be alone high up above the sleeping countryside.

(a)Who does ‘I’ refer to here?

Answer: I refers to the pilot of the Dakota plane.

(b) Where was he going?

Answer: He was going to England from France.

(c) What made him happy?

Answer: The pilot was looking forward to spending his holiday with his family and to have a good, big English breakfast.

(d) Which words in the above extract indicate that the weather was fine?

Answer: The words like Rising moon and cloudless sky indicate that the weather was fine.

Short Answer Type Questions

4. Describe the sky when ‘Dakota’ took off from Paris.

Answer: When ‘Dakota’ took off from Paris, the sky was quite clear. The moon was coming up in the east and the stars were shining. There were no clouds in the sky.

5. What happened when the author turned the aeroplane twelve degrees west towards England?

Answer: When the author turned the aeroplane twelve degree west towards England, he saw the huge storm clouds that looked like black mountains standing in in front of him across the sky.

6. Why did the pilot think of going back to Paris?

Answer: Black clouds made his way invisible due to stormy weather/didn’t have enough fuel to fly around the clouds.

7. Why was the pilot of Dakota aeroplane frightened again?

Answer: Insufficient fuel to reach the destination/a frightening prospect/fuel to fly for five to ten minutes more.

Long Answer Type Questions

8.  Answer ANY ONE of the following two questions, in about 100-120 words. 

A. How does the author use the narrative technique of misdirection in 'The

Midnight Visitor', to enhance the suspense and the story’s unexpected ending?

OR

B. Comment critically on the role of the Surgery in the ‘The Triumph of Surgery’.

9. The pilot wanted to thank another pilot after his safe landing. Why? What values of the writer are reflected from his action?

Answer: The pilot of the old Dakota was caught in the storm. He lost his contact with the control room. In this troubling situation, his fuel tank was also empty. He lost all his hopes but suddenly a black strange plane appeared. The pilot of the black place asked the writer to follow him. The writer landed safely. After his safe landing, he wanted to thank the pilot of the black plane. This shows his gratitude towards the pilot of the Black Plane. He was thankful to him for saving his life. It shows that the pilot of Dakota had a value of gratefulness in his character.

10. Was the mother successful in helping the seagull overcome his fear and teach him the art of flying?

Answer: Yes, the mother was successful in helping the seagull overcome his fear. when the young seagull was left alone on the ledge, he began to starve. He saw his mother pick up a piece of fish and fly towards him. She halted just close to the ledge. The young seagull was mad with hunger and dived at his mother for the fish. He fell downwards into space and cried in fear. But then his wings spread outwards. he flapped his wings there and began to fly. All his fear was gone.it was his first flight.

11. Describe the narrator’s experience as he flew the aeroplane into the storm. 

Answer: As the pilot (author) entered the big storm of clouds, his plane started to jump and twirl in the air. He could not see anything outside the plane as it was engulfed in the midst of storm clouds that were completely black. When he looked at the compass and other instruments, they had stopped functioning due to the turbulent weather. It was a fearsome and frightening experience for the pilot. The fuel tank of his plane was also almost empty and he could not fly more than ten minutes in it. Suddenly out of nowhere, he saw another black aeroplane with no lights on its wings appeared by his side and the pilot of that plane beckoned him to follow. The narrator obediently followed the other black plane that was having no light. He followed the strange black airplane without any choice through the storm and soon landed on the runway safely.

CBSE Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 3: Important Questions With Answers: Download PDF 

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