Follow That Dream — Class 9 MCQs with Answers

Follow That Dream — important questions & MCQs with answers (Class 9 English)

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1. Q1 of 6Easy

   'Follow That Dream' is written in the form of a:

   ALetter from a mother to her daughterBNewspaper reportCPlayDDiary of a stranger
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   Answer: Letter from a mother to her daughter

   Explanation: The text is 'a letter taken from a collection titled My Daughter, My Friend, by Irene Chua.'

2. Q2 of 6Easy

   According to the letter, why do great men and women become great?

   AThey avoid hard workBThey have a dream and pursue it till it comes trueCThey copy othersDThey are born lucky
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   Answer: They have a dream and pursue it till it comes true

   Explanation: 'Great men and women become great because they have a dream and they pursue it till it comes true.'

3. Q3 of 6Medium

   'Singularly and intensively pursuing the subject' — 'singularly' here means:

   AStrangelyBRarelyCExclusively / with single-minded focusDTogether with others
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   Answer: Exclusively / with single-minded focus

   Explanation: 'singularly' is glossed as exclusively — with single-minded devotion.

4. Q4 of 6Medium

   'It's just you and the future / And where you want to be' suggests that facing a challenge is mainly about:

   ACopying othersBPersonal responsibility and focus on your own goalsCAvoiding the futureDPleasing a crowd
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   Answer: Personal responsibility and focus on your own goals

   Explanation: The lines stress that the challenge is personal — you and your own future, not an audience.

5. Q5 of 6Hard

   How does the mother's own example strengthen her advice?

   AIt has nothing to do with her adviceBIt shows she failedCShe practises what she preaches — chasing a ten-year, changed dream herself makes her advice credibleDIt contradicts her advice
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   Answer: She practises what she preaches — chasing a ten-year, changed dream herself makes her advice credible

   Explanation: By sharing her own decade-long, evolved dream, she gives living proof that her counsel works.

6. Q6 of 6Hard

   Which statement about 'Follow That Dream' is FALSE?

   AA support network stands behind most winners.BThe mother promises that dreams come true easily and without sacrifice.CReaching world-class standard may take about ten years.DCircumstances can change people's dreams.
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   Answer: The mother promises that dreams come true easily and without sacrifice.

   Explanation: It is false that she promises easy success — she stresses years of effort, sacrifice and an uphill road.

Follow That Dream notes: key concepts (Class 9 English)

A letter from Irene Chua to her daughter Ming, taken from the collection 'My Daughter, My Friend', on how dreams are actually pursued — with passion, conviction, ten years of work and a support network. Paired with Robert Langley's poem 'Believe in Yourself'.

Form and voice

A private letter from a mother to her daughter, opening 'Dear Ming' and signed 'Love, Mum'. The letter form gives the advice an intimate, personal warmth a formal essay could not.

The writer's own dream

Publishing this book is a dream she has chased for ten years — and it is a different dream from her youthful one, which is her proof that changed dreams are still worth pursuing.

Why great people become great

'Great men and women become great because they have a dream and they pursue it till it comes true.' The dream, not the talent, is the starting point.

The ten-year rule

To reach world-class standard in any field, one has to be singularly and intensively pursuing the subject for about ten years.

How a dream begins

It starts with a passion for a particular interest, then comes the conviction — and only then the commitment. The order matters.

The 'plunge'

Her word for the moment of full commitment: when the interest is still burning in your blood and you are ready to commit yourself, you plunge.

Any field

She is explicit that it could be sports, science, arts, business or design — the advice is not about one kind of ambition.

The honest warning

'The road may be uphill most of the way.' She does not promise easy success; she promises effort and sacrifice. Any option saying she guarantees easy achievement is false.

The support network

Academy Award winners always thank a host of people — her example that one winner stands on many shoulders.

Poem: 'Believe in Yourself'

By Robert Langley. 'The first step is the hardest, there is no turning back'; at the challenge 'there is no crowd to see, it's just you and the future'; comfort and the status quo offer ease but not growth.

The poem's tension

'Will it pull you forward / Or push you back in fear?' — as the future nears, courage and fear pull in opposite directions, and self-belief decides which wins.

Key vocabulary

Imperative means necessary; wistfully means longingly; buoyed up means kept afloat or encouraged; singularly means exclusively, with single-minded focus; plunge means to throw oneself fully in; dreamscape is a world of dreams; to put a wet blanket on something is to discourage it.