60 Important MCQ on The Bet
1.What was the season described in the opening line?
d) Winter c) Autumn b) Spring a) Summer
2. Where was the banker walking?
d) Lawn c) Corridor b) Study a) Garden
3. How many years earlier had the party taken place?
d) Five c) Twenty b) Fifteen a) Ten
4. Who were invited to the banker’s party?
d) Politicians c) Lawyers and journalists b) Businessmen a) Teachers
5. What topic was being discussed at the party?
d) Education c) Capital punishment b) Freedom a) Marriage
6. What did most of the guests condemn?
d) Politics c) Religion b) Capital punishment a) War
7. What was the banker’s view on capital punishment?
d) It is the worst punishment c) It is better than life imprisonment b) It is immoral a) It should be abolished
8. Who opposed the banker’s view?
d) Teacher c) Journalist b) Lawyer a) Judge
9. “To live anyhow is better than not at all.” – Who said this?
d) The judge c) The narrator b) The lawyer a) The banker
10. How much did the banker bet?
d) Four million c) Three million b) Two million a) One million
11. How many years of imprisonment were agreed upon?
d) 15 c) 13 b) 12 a) 10
12. Who accepted the banker’s bet?
d) Doctor c) Judge b) Lawyer a) Journalist
13. What kind of confinement was agreed upon?
d) Exile c) House arrest b) Imprisonment with others a) Solitary confinement
14. Where was the lawyer kept during the bet?
d) Forest hut c) Banker’s basement b) Lodge in the banker’s garden a) Prison cell
15. Who supervised the confinement?
d) Family members c) Court officials b) Banker’s guards a) Police
16. What was the lawyer forbidden from doing?
d) Listening to music c) Writing b) Talking to anyone a) Reading
17. Through what method could the lawyer communicate with the outside world?
d) Visitors c) Video call b) Letters a) Telephone
18. What was the lawyer allowed to have inside?
d) Paintings c) Internet and phone b) Books, wine, music a) Food and water only
19. During the first year, what did the lawyer do most?
d) Sleep c) Talk to guards b) Read light novels a) Play chess
20. How did the lawyer suffer during his early confinement?
d) Torture c) Disease b) Loneliness a) Hunger
21. In the second year, what kind of books did the lawyer ask for?
d) Comedy c) Crime b) Philosophy a) Romantic
22. Which musical instrument was heard from the lodge in year two?
d) Piano c) Flute b) Guitar a) Violin
23. What did the lawyer do during the fifth year?
d) Ate and slept only c) Did nothing b) Played music a) Stopped reading
24. How long did the lawyer read the New Testament?
d) Four years c) Two years b) Six months a) A year
25. In which languages did the lawyer read books?
d) German and Sanskrit c) Hindi and French b) Latin, Greek, English a) Only Russian
26. What did the lawyer do in the sixth year?
d) Played chess c) Studied languages b) Wrote poems a) Slept
27. How did the banker feel as the fifteenth year approached?
d) Hopeful c) Happy b) Terrified a) Relieved
28. Why was the banker in despair?
d) He had many guests c) He had lost his fortune b) He had gained weight a) He was rich
29. What did the banker plan to do to avoid paying the money?
d) Burn his will c) Kill the lawyer b) Sue the lawyer a) Escape
30. What time did the banker visit the lawyer secretly?
d) 2 AM c) 6 PM b) 10 PM a) Midnight
31. What did the banker carry with him to the lodge?
d) A stick c) A revolver b) A key a) A knife
32. What did the banker see when he opened the door?
d) The lawyer writing c) The lawyer sleeping b) The lawyer dead a) The lawyer praying
33. How was the lawyer’s appearance when the banker saw him?
d) Angry c) Well-dressed b) Old and sickly a) Young and fresh
34. What was the lawyer doing when the banker saw him?
d) Reading a novel c) Playing music b) Sleeping at the table a) Writing a letter
35. Where was the lawyer’s letter placed?
a) Under thd) In a drawer c) On the bookshelf b) On the table e bed
36. What did the lawyer write in the letter?
d) A love note c) A renunciation b) A threat a) A confession
37. What did the lawyer reject in his letter?
d) Life c) The banker’s money b) The bet a) Books
38. What did the lawyer call the worldly things?
d) Useful c) Important b) Meaningless a) Joyful
39. “I despise freedom, life, health, and all that in your books is called the good things of the world.”
Who wrote this line?
d) Guard c) Narrator b) Lawyer a) Banker
40. What was the lawyer’s view of materialism?
d) Curiosity c) Admiration b) Rejection a) Praise
41. What did the lawyer say he was going to do just before the end of the bet?
d) Extend the bet c) Walk out 5 hours before b) Kill himself a) Escape
42. How did the banker feel after reading the letter?
d) Proud c) Ashamed and angry b) Joyful a) Peaceful
43. What did the banker do with the letter?
d) Threw it away c) Gave it to a judge b) Put it in his pocket a) Burned it
44. Why did the banker cry after reading the letter?
d) He was scared of the lawyer c) He was ashamed of himself b) He was broke a) He had lost
45. Where did the banker hide the lawyer’s letter?
d) Locked drawer c) Firebox b) Library a) Safe
46. What did the guard notice next morning?
d) A dog barking c) Blood b) The lawyer missing a) The banker sleeping
47. When did the lawyer leave the lodge?
d) Two days earlier c) Next day b) Five hours before the time a) One hour before
48. Where did the lawyer go after leaving?
d) To the police c) To his house b) Into the forest a) Nowhere known
49. What was the lawyer's final act in the story?
d) Complained to police c) Renounced the bet b) Said goodbye a) Took the money
50. What was the main theme of “The Bet”?
d) Friendship c) Materialism vs spiritualism b) Power and control a) Justice vs crime
51. What literary device is used in the bet situation?
d) Onomatopoeia c) Hyperbole b) Irony a) Metaphor
52. What does the lawyer’s isolation symbolize?
d) Love c) Detachment b) Freedom a) Adventure
53. What change did the banker undergo by the end?
d) From weak to strong c) From rich to richer b) From kindness to hatred a) From pride to guilt
54. What was the banker afraid of?
d) Public shame c) Ghosts b) Losing money a) Jail
55. How old was the lawyer when the bet began?
d) 18 c) 30 b) 20 a) 25
56. What did the lawyer study in the later years?
d) Engineering c) Law b) History a) Languages
57. What was the effect of reading too many books on the lawyer?
d) Illness c) Wisdom b) Madness a) Joy
58. Which year did the lawyer read the Gospel passionately?
d) 12th c) 10th b) 8th a) 5th
59. What did the banker want to do with the revolver?
d) Hide it c) Kill the lawyer b) Threaten the lawyer a) Sell it
60. Why didn’t the banker kill the lawyer in the end?
d) The lawyer begged c) He read the letter b) He was scared a) He was caught
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