EXAMINATION ON THE BET
CLASS XII SEMESTER 3 EXAMINATION : THE BET PAGE 8 EXAMINATION
THE BET PAGE 8 EXAMINATION
1. What natural phenomenon is described as "flashing over my head and cleaving the storm-clouds"?
A) Rain
B) Lightning
C) Thunder
D) Earthquake
2. What natural scenes has the prisoner claimed to have seen through books?
A) Only forests and lakes
B) Green forests, fields, rivers, lakes, towns
C) Deserts and mountains
D) Valleys and plains
3. What is said to be "singing" in the prisoner’s imagination?
A) Sirens
B) Angels
C) Shepherds
D) Devils
4. According to the prisoner, who played the shepherds’ pipes?
A) Fairies
B) Shepherds
C) Farmers
D) Sirens
5. What type of devils are described in the passage?
A) Evil and dark
B) Comely devils
C) Angry and wild
D) Small and red
6. What did the devils do in the prisoner’s dream?
A) Played with him
B) Sang songs to him
C) Flew down to converse with him
D) Took him to heaven
7. What topics did the devils speak about with the prisoner?
A) Death
B) Hell
C) God
D) Books
8. Where did the prisoner say he had "flung himself"?
A) Into the sea
B) Into a prison
C) Into the bottomless pit
D) Into a battlefield
9. Which of the following is NOT an action the prisoner claims to have performed in books?
A) Performed miracles
B) Burned towns
C) Created planets
D) Preached new religions
10. According to the prisoner, what did he conquer through books?
A) Cities
B) Towns
C) Whole kingdoms
D) Continents
11. What have the books given the prisoner, as stated in the letter?
A) Power
B) Dreams
C) Wisdom
D) Magic
12. What has been compressed into the prisoner's brain?
A) The whole of history
B) All human emotion
C) All the unresting thought of man
D) All of literature
13. How does the prisoner compare himself to others in terms of knowledge?
A) Less educated
B) Equally knowledgeable
C) Wiser than all
D) As foolish as everyone else
14. What does the prisoner say he now despises?
A) Wealth and status
B) Freedom and power
C) Books, wisdom, and blessings of the world
D) Music and poetry
15. How does the prisoner describe the blessings of this world?
A) True and eternal
B) Beautiful and joyful
C) Worthless and deceptive
D) Powerful and miraculous
16. What simile does the prisoner use to describe worldly blessings?
A) Like a river flowing
B) Like a mountain peak
C) Like a mirage
D) Like a blooming flower
17. What is said to wipe away pride, wisdom, and human greatness?
A) Time
B) Death
C) Poverty
D) War
18. What animal is used in the comparison for how humans will disappear?
A) Rats
B) Mice
C) Frogs
D) Insects
19. What will happen to human history and geniuses, according to the prisoner?
A) Be preserved forever
B) Rise again
C) Burn or freeze
D) Be worshipped
20. What metaphor does the prisoner use to describe the end of the earth?
A) A crumbling house
B) A frozen sea
C) The burning or freezing of the globe
D) The last page of a book
21. What mistake does the prisoner accuse people of making?
A) Following false prophets
B) Choosing evil over good
C) Taking lies for truth and hideousness for beauty
D) Valuing silence over speech
22. How does the prisoner compare odd natural changes with human choices?
A) They are funny
B) They are natural
C) They are equally foolish
D) They are unbelievable
23. What examples of unnatural events does the prisoner give?
A) Rivers drying and lakes rising
B) Frogs and lizards growing on apple and orange trees
C) Monkeys speaking
D) Cows flying
24. What does the prisoner say would happen to the smell of roses?
A) They would lose their scent
B) They would smell like perfume
C) They would smell like a sweating horse
D) They would become poisonous
25. What kind of exchange does the prisoner criticize?
A) Truth for power
B) Earth for gold
C) Heaven for earth
D) Life for money
26. What does the prisoner say about his desire to understand people?
A) He is eager to understand
B) He no longer wants to understand
C) He always tried to understand
D) He only partially understands
27. How does the prisoner intend to prove his beliefs?
A) By escaping
B) By writing a letter
C) Through action
D) By taking revenge
28. What will the prisoner renounce?
A) His books
B) His wisdom
C) The two million
D) His freedom
29. What had the prisoner once dreamed of as paradise?
A) Books
B) Travel
C) Knowledge
D) Two million rubles
30. What word is used to describe the prisoner’s current feeling about the two million?
A) Fear
B) Respect
C) Indifference
D) Despise
31. Why does the prisoner say he despises all that people live by?
A) It is immoral
B) It is fake
C) It is temporary and deceptive
D) It is forbidden
32. What is the tone of the prisoner’s letter?
A) Regretful and apologetic
B) Proud and boastful
C) Reflective and bitter
D) Mysterious and playful
33. What literary technique is used when the prisoner compares blessings to a mirage?
A) Simile
B) Hyperbole
C) Irony
D) Metaphor
34. What is the prisoner’s attitude toward death?
A) Fearful
B) Accepting
C) Curious
D) Doubtful
35. The prisoner’s long letter can best be described as a/an:
A) Farewell note
B) Political manifesto
C) Philosophical confession
D) Personal diary
36. What theme is deeply reflected in the prisoner’s thoughts?
A) Faith and redemption
B) Disillusionment with materialism
C) Joy of solitude
D) Power of love
37. The phrase "you have lost your reason and taken the wrong path" implies:
A) People are mad
B) The banker is wise
C) Humanity is misguided
D) The world is perfect
38. What word is closest in meaning to “fleeting” in the prisoner’s letter?
A) Lasting
B) Beautiful
C) Temporary
D) Easy
39. The prisoner says that all human greatness will vanish just like:
A) Birds in winter
B) Smoke in the wind
C) Mice under the floor
D) Shadows at night
40. What lesson does the prisoner want to convey through his renunciation?
A) Books are dangerous
B) Earthly pleasures are illusions
C) Life is meaningless
D) Only money matters .
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