Examination on The Bet : Page :4 & 5

 Examination on The Bet : Page :4 & 5

1. In which year was the piano silent in the lodge?

A) First year

B) Second year

C) Fifth year

D) Sixth year

2. What did the prisoner ask for in the second year?

A) Music

B) Wine

C) Classics

D) Gospels

3. What became audible in the fifth year?

A) Crying

B) Music

C) Philosophy

D) Language lessons

4. What did the prisoner ask for in the fifth year?

A) Wine

B) Tobacco

C) Newspapers

D) Theology

5. What did the prisoner spend the fifth year doing mostly?

A) Reading

B) Sleeping

C) Lying on his bed, eating and drinking

D) Writing

6. How did the prisoner behave while alone in the fifth year?

A) Calm and happy

B) Crying constantly

C) Frequently yawning and angrily talking to himself

D) Singing

7. Did the prisoner read any books during the fifth year?

A) Yes, a few

B) No

C) Many religious texts

D) Only newspapers

8. What did the prisoner sometimes do at night?

A) Sing aloud

B) Write for hours

C) Paint pictures

D) Argue with the banker

9. What did the prisoner do with his written pages by morning?

A) Mailed them

B) Published them

C) Burned them

D) Tore them up

10. What emotion did the prisoner sometimes express in the fifth year?

A) Joy

B) Hatred

C) He could be heard crying

D) Calmness

11. In which half of the sixth year did the prisoner begin studying again?

A) First half

B) Second half

C) Full year

D) Last month only

12. What subjects did the prisoner study zealously in the sixth year?

A) Botany

B) Languages, philosophy, and history

C) Painting and music

D) Politics and law

13. How did the prisoner throw himself into his studies?

A) Casually

B) Without interest

C) Eagerly

D) With reluctance

14. What difficulty did the banker face?

A) Finding the prisoner

B) Getting the books he requested

C) Feeding the prisoner

D) Watching him through the window

15. How many books were procured in four years during this scholarly period?

A) 300

B) 400

C) 600

D) 800

16. What did the prisoner write to the banker?

A) A legal complaint

B) A request for money

C) A letter in six languages

D) A farewell message

17. What did the prisoner request the banker to do with the letter?

A) Destroy it

B) Translate it

C) Show it to others who knew the languages

D) Keep it in a file

18. What did the prisoner want to prove with his multilingual letter?

A) His loneliness

B) His madness

C) That he made no mistakes

D) That he wanted to escape

19. What did the prisoner implore the banker to do if there were no mistakes?

A) Visit him

B) Give him a prize

C) Fire a shot in the garden

D) Extend the confinement

20. What reason did the prisoner give for this request?

A) To hear a sound

B) To confirm his sanity

C) To show his efforts were not wasted

D) To scare the guards

21. How many shots did the banker order to be fired in the garden?

A) One

B) Two

C) Three

D) None

22. What did the prisoner say about the geniuses of all ages?

A) They knew war

B) They had different religions

C) They speak different languages but have the same flame

D) They all became rich

23. What emotion did the prisoner express upon understanding them?

A) Depression

B) Jealousy

C) Unearthly happiness

D) Boredom

24. After the tenth year, what book did the prisoner read?

A) Dictionary

B) Bible

C) Gospel

D) Shakespeare

25. What was the banker’s reaction to the prisoner reading the Gospel?

A) He was pleased

B) He found it strange

C) He ignored it

D) He discouraged it

26. What kind of book is the Gospel described as?

A) Thick and confusing

B) Thin and easy of comprehension

C) Full of riddles

D) Multilingual

27. What books followed the Gospel in the prisoner’s reading?

A) Cookbooks

B) Theologies and histories of religion

C) Comedies

D) Romantic novels

28. How did the prisoner read in the last two years?

A) With discipline

B) Slowly

C) Indiscriminately

D) Only religious texts

29. What did his reading style resemble?

A) A trained scholar

B) A swimmer clutching at wreckage

C) A blind man in the dark

D) A focused scientist

30. What authors did the prisoner ask for in the last two years?

A) Dickens and Eliot

B) Byron and Shakespeare

C) Homer and Virgil

D) Chekhov and Tolstoy

31. What subjects did the prisoner demand books on during the last two years?

A) Gardening and farming

B) Chemistry, medicine, philosophy, theology, and novels

C) Architecture and sculpture

D) Drawing and music

32. What did the variety in his reading indicate?

A) His intelligence

B) His boredom

C) His confusion and desperation

D) His discipline

33. The reading behavior of the prisoner resembled a man:

A) Building a boat

B) Flying a kite

C) Swimming among wreckage trying to survive

D) Learning to dance

34. What did the old banker remember?

A) His youthful days

B) All the prisoner’s reading habits

C) His lost love

D) The lawyer’s education

35. When would the prisoner regain his freedom?

A) That night

B) The next day at 12 o’clock

C) After ten more years

D) In one week

36. What was the agreement between the prisoner and the banker?

A) To read books together

B) To stay in confinement for 15 years

C) To travel after 15 years

D) To share the money

37. What would happen if the agreement was fulfilled?

A) The prisoner would be arrested

B) The banker would gain money

C) The banker had to pay two millions

D) The prisoner would lose everything

38. What did the banker think would happen to him if he paid the money?

A) He would gain honor

B) He would go to jail

C) He would be ruined

D) He would get rich

39. What was the financial condition of the banker 15 years earlier?

A) Poor

B) Middle class

C) Unclear

D) Beyond reckoning

40. What was the banker afraid to do now?

A) Visit the prisoner

B) Check his wealth

C) Talk to his wife

D) Sleep

41. What caused the banker’s financial decline?

A) Honesty and hard work

B) Careful investment

C) Gambling and speculation

D) Teaching and writing

42. What else contributed to his financial ruin?

A) Family disputes

B) His own excitability and wild investments

C) High taxes

D) His health issues

43. What had the proud, self-confident millionaire become?

A) A lawyer

B) A politician

C) A banker of middling rank

D) A school teacher

44. How did he feel about market fluctuations now?

A) Confident

B) Bored

C) Fearful

D) Indifferent

45. What did the banker curse?

A) His fate

B) His family

C) The bet

D) The prisoner

46. What thought did the banker express in despair?

A) “Why didn’t I become a priest?”

B) “Why didn’t the man die?”

C) “Why did I make so much money?”

D) “Why was I born?”

47. How old was the prisoner at this point?

A) 30

B) 35

C) 40

D) 45

48. What did the banker fear the prisoner would do with the money?

A) Save it

B) Give it away

C) Marry, enjoy life, and gamble

D) Donate to charity

49. What emotion did the banker expect to feel if the prisoner became rich?

A) Pride

B) Envy

C) Joy

D) Gratitude

50. What recurring sentence did the banker imagine hearing?

A) "You owe me more!"

B) "I am indebted to you for the happiness of my life."

C) "Let’s make another bet!"

D) "You saved me!"

51. What offer did the banker imagine the lawyer making to him?

A) To give him advice

B) To leave the country

C) To help him financially

D) To fight a case for him

52. What did the banker say was too much for him?

A) His pride

B) His family

C) His debts

D) The idea of the prisoner living happily

53. What did the banker see as the only way to avoid bankruptcy?

A) Begging for help

B) Escaping abroad

C) The death of the lawyer

D) Taking a loan

54. What time did it strike when the banker got up?

A) Midnight

B) Two o’clock

C) Three o’clock

D) Four o’clock

55. What did the banker hear outside at that hour?

A) Thunder

B) Shouting

C) Rustling of chilled trees

D) Singing birds

56. What was the condition of the house?

A) Everyone was awake

B) A feast was going on

C) All were asleep

D) Guards were shouting

57. How did the banker try to move?

A) Running

B) Coughing

C) Loudly

D) Making no noise

58. What did he take from the fireproof safe?

A) A weapon

B) A pen

C) A book

D) A key

59. What kind of door did the key open?

A) Prison gate

B) Garden gate

C) Lodge door

D) Main door of the house

60. How long had the door not been opened?

A) 5 years

B) 10 years

C) 12 years

D) 15 years

61. Where did the banker keep the key for the lodge door?

A) Under his pillow

B) In a drawer

C) In a fireproof safe

D) Inside the Bible

62. What was the banker’s intention when he took the key?

A) To give the prisoner his money

B) To set the prisoner free early

C) To kill the prisoner

D) To extend the bet

63. What had the prisoner done for fifteen years?

A) Travelled the world

B) Lived in total silence

C) Stayed confined in the lodge

D) Escaped and returned

64. What motivated the banker to consider harming the prisoner?

A) Pride

B) Poverty and financial ruin

C) Hatred for the lawyer

D) Jealousy of the lawyer’s books

65. What was the time when the banker decided to act?

A) Three in the afternoon

B) Midnight

C) Three in the morning

D) Ten in the morning

66. How did the banker feel about the prisoner’s survival?

A) Relieved

B) Angry and desperate

C) Inspired

D) Confused

67. What had the prisoner once asked for in a letter?

A) Release

B) A Bible

C) A gun

D) To fire a shot as a sign

68. Why did the prisoner want the shot to be fired?

A) To scare away intruders

B) To signal freedom

C) To show his language studies were successful

D) To end the bet early

69. What did the banker think about the prisoner taking his money?

A) He deserved it

B) It would ruin him

C) It wouldn’t matter

D) It would make them friends

70. What emotion did the banker expect to feel toward the rich prisoner?

A) Gratitude

B) Indifference

C) Envy

D) Respect

71. What emotion overwhelmed the banker at the thought of paying two million?

A) Shame

B) Pride

C) Despair

D) Joy

72. What did the banker say about his own condition compared to the prisoner’s?

A) “I’m richer than him.”

B) “He will live; I will die.”

C) “He is a beggar now.”

D) “We are both poor.”

73. What words did the banker mutter while holding his head?

A) “Thank God!”

B) “Forgive me!”

C) “Cursed bet!”

D) “I’m finished!”

74. Why was the banker once fearless?

A) He had political power

B) He had health and youth

C) He had countless millions

D) He had bodyguards

75. What ruined the banker’s wealth over time?

A) Sickness

B) Family betrayal

C) Stock gambling and poor investments

D) Laziness

76. What is the prisoner’s age at the end of fifteen years?

A) Around 35

B) Around 30

C) Around 40

D) Around 45

77. How does the banker imagine the prisoner will use the two million?

A) To help others

B) To live a wild life

C) To become a priest

D) To build a library

78. What future life of the prisoner does the banker fear?

A) Isolation

B) Teaching

C) Gambling and marriage

D) Publishing books

79. How does the banker imagine himself in comparison to the free prisoner?

A) Grateful

B) Respectful

C) Envious and like a beggar

D) Happy for him

80. What recurring line did the banker dread hearing?

A) “I’m free at last!”

B) “Let me repay you.”

C) “I owe you my happiness.”

D) “I demand more.”

81. What did the banker believe would protect him from bankruptcy?

A) Government aid

B) The prisoner’s generosity

C) The death of the prisoner

D) A bank loan

82. What noise filled the house when the banker got up?

A) Crying

B) Dog barking

C) Silence

D) Music

83. What season is suggested by the phrase "rustling of the chilled trees"?

A) Summer

B) Monsoon

C) Winter

D) Spring

84. What can be inferred about the prisoner's condition at this stage?

A) He was dead

B) He was sick

C) He was unaware of the banker’s thoughts

D) He had already escaped

85. What was the banker’s mindset while approaching the lodge?

A) Determined and righteous

B) Joyful and forgiving

C) Nervous and guilty

D) Calm and thoughtful

86. How did the banker move toward the lodge?

A) Slowly, making no noise

B) Quickly and noisily

C) With guards

D) Hesitatingly, with music playing

87. What symbolic value does the unopened door for 15 years hold?

A) Change

B) Mystery

C) Imprisonment and time

D) Comfort

88. What literary device is used in “like a beggar”?

A) Simile

B) Metaphor

C) Personification

D) Irony

89. What emotion does the banker experience as he recalls the bet?

A) Nostalgia

B) Regret and bitterness

C) Triumph

D) Excitement

90. What is the main theme revealed in the banker’s thoughts?

A) Justice

B) Human greed and fear of loss

C) Religion

D) Heroism

91. What irony lies in the banker’s current condition?

A) He’s richer than before

B) He no longer believes in money

C) He made a bet to show off his wealth but became nearly bankrupt

D) He never believed the prisoner would stay

92. What was the prisoner's mental state during his confinement?

A) Unchanging

B) Declining steadily

C) Evolving through many phases

D) Always cheerful

93. What caused the banker to fear the bet’s conclusion?

A) The prisoner’s strength

B) The arrival of police

C) The financial consequence of paying two million

D) The public reaction

94. What changed in the prisoner after the tenth year?

A) He became aggressive

B) He escaped

C) He focused on spiritual texts

D) He stopped reading

95. What kind of books did the prisoner request toward the end?

A) Specific and detailed

B) Indiscriminate variety

C) None

D) Only religious texts

96. What kind of reflection does the banker engage in during the night?

A) Political

B) Religious

C) Financial and emotional

D) Romantic

97. What is the relationship between the banker and the prisoner like at this stage?

A) Friendly

B) Mutual respect

C) Strained and silent

D) Deep hatred

98. What does the firing of two shots symbolize?

A) Death

B) Communication

C) Success and recognition

D) Celebration

99. How does Chekhov portray the prisoner’s intellectual journey?

A) As superficial

B) As systematic

C) As chaotic but sincere

D) As passive

100. What dominant idea is expressed by the banker’s fear of poverty?

A) Power corrupts

B) Wisdom brings peace

C) Wealth is fragile and insecure

D) Education ruins people