ICSE X MCQ Quiz Hub

1. When he saw the cottage, over amongst some bushes with a rank growth of nettles at one end, he_______________(think) it was a miserable place.
thinks
thought
thinked

2. But when he came close to the peeling lime wash the torn-down ivy, sagging roof, the (ii)__________(break) stone doorstep,
breaks
broken
breaking

3. thick with trampled mud, he saw that it was a wretched house. The door (iii)________________(stand) half-open, stuck.
stood
is standing
had been standing

4. He knocked at it and (iv)____________(listen) to the acute silence.
was listening
had been listening
listened

5. He knocked again firmly and thought he (v) ____________ (hear) thin whisperings.
could hear
had been hearing
was hearing

6. He did not like the (vi) ____________ (hush) fear in the sounds,
hushing
hushed
hush

7. and was just about (vii) _____________ (knock) peremptorily when there was a shuftling and as quietly as an apparition,
knocked
knocking
to knock

8. a woman (vii) _______________ (is) there.
be
is
was