60 Important MCQs on The Bet

 

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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