Final Examination on One Act Play -Riders to the Sea, Class XII 3RD SEMESTER

 Examination on  One Act Play -Riders to the Sea

Final Examination on One Act Play -Riders to the Sea, Class XII 3RD SEMESTER

1. The term oil-skins refers to—

A) Waterproof clothing

B) Fishing nets

C) Rainwater storage

D) Woollen shawls

2. Cathleen is introduced as—

A) A girl of about twenty

B) A widow

C) A child of ten

D) An old woman

3. What was Cathleen doing at the beginning of the play?

A) Spinning at the wheel

B) Kneading cake

C) Fetching water

D) Praying

4. After kneading the cake, Cathleen—

A) Begins to spin at the wheel

B) Goes to the turf-loft

C) Starts cooking fish

D) Sings a song

5. Who says the line: “Where is she?”

A) Maurya

B) Nora

C) Bartley

D) Cathleen

6. Here she is, ”

A) Cathleen

B) Nora

C) Bartley

D) Maurya

7. Who takes a bundle from under her shawl?

A) Cathleen

B) Nora

C) Maurya

D) An old woman

8. The young priest is after bringing—

A) A rope

B) A bundle

C) A fishing net

D) A loaf of bread

9. What did the bundle contain?

A) A pair of shoes

B) A shirt and a plain stocking

C) Some rope and boards

D) A flannel cloth

10. The shirt and stocking were taken off—

A) A drowned man in Donegal

B) A fisherman in Connemara

C) A priest

D) A cattle dealer

11. Who is the drowned man in Donegal?

A) Bartley

B) Michael

C) Patch

D) Sheamus

12. Who says: “I won’t stop him”?

A) Young priest

B) Nora

C) Maurya

D) Cathleen

13. According to the young priest, Maurya—

A) Does be saying prayers half through the night

B) Refuses to pray at all

C) Is always silent

D) Works in the turf-loft

14. The phrase “middling bad” means—

A) Very good

B) Neither rough nor calm

C) Completely stormy

D) Clear and pleasant

15. Cathleen said to Nora: “Give me the ladder, and I’ll put them up in the turf-loft.” What does “them” refer to?

A) Ropes

B) White boards

C) A bundle containing a shirt and a plain stocking

D) Cakes

16. What is a turf-loft?

A) Storage space for dried turf

B) Kitchen corner

C) Place for keeping nets

D) A cattle shed

17. Who hides the bundle in the turf-loft?

A) Nora

B) Cathleen

C) Maurya

D) Bartley

18. Why will Bartley need the cake?

A) When the tide turns if he goes to Connemara

B) While feeding horses

C) To share with his friends

D) For Maurya’s prayer

19. Who was expected to stop Bartley?

A) Young priest

B) Maurya

C) Cathleen

D) Michael

20. Eamon Simon, Stephen Pheety, and Colum Shawn are—

A) Priests

B) Friends of Bartley

C) Cattle dealers

D) Strangers

21. The line “The hooker’s tacking from the east” refers to—

A) A storm approaching

B) A traditional Irish fishing boat changing direction

C) A ship sinking

D) A horse fair

22. A hooker is—

A) An Irish horse

B) A type of Irish fishing boat

C) A rope used in sailing

D) A cattle dealer

23. The word tacking in sailing means—

A) Fishing in deep sea

B) Turning the boat’s sail against the wind

C) Repairing the nets

D) Throwing anchor

24. Maurya asks: “Where is the bit of new rope, Cathleen, was bought in Connemara?” Where was it kept?

A) In the turf-loft

B) On a nail by the white boards

C) Inside a chest

D) Near the spring well

25. Who says: “I hung it up this morning, for the pig with the black feet was eating the rope”?

A) Nora

B) Cathleen

C) Maurya

D) Bartley

26. Bartley says he has no halter because—

A) It was lost in the sea

B) He must ride down on the mare quickly

C) Cathleen hid it in the loft

D) It was eaten by the pig

27. Bartley is in a hurry because—

A) This is the one boat going for two weeks or more

B) He wants to escape from Maurya

C) Michael’s body was found

D) A priest is waiting for him

28. According to Bartley, the fair will be—

A) A bad fair

B) A middling fair

C) A good fair for horses

D) Cancelled due to storm

29. Who says: “I after giving a big price for the finest white boards you’d find in Connemara”?

A) Maurya

B) Bartley

C) Cathleen

D) Nora

30. What does Bartley ask about Michael’s body?

A) When it will be buried

B) How it would be washed up after nine days

C) Who found it

D) If it will be sent to the priest

31. What does the word Jobber mean in the play?

A) A cattle dealer

B) A fisherman

C) A carpenter

D) A sailor

32. Maurya warns Bartley that—

A) A storm is rising and a star is up against the moon

B) The priest will bless him

C) The rope is missing

D) He should wait for Eamon Simon

33. Maurya compares the value of a thousand horses with—

A) A single son

B) A boat

C) A rope

D) A priest’s prayer

34. Another word for halter is—

A) Rope

B) Saddle

C) Oar

D) Net

35. Bartley tells Cathleen and Nora to—

A) Fetch Holy Water

B) Gather seaweed for another cock for the kelp

C) Hide the white boards

D) Pray for Michael

36. Bartley tells Nora: “Is she coming to the pier?” Here she refers to—

A) Maurya

B) The priest

C) The boat

D) The red mare

37. Flannel is best known for—

A) Its warm and fuzzy texture used in clothing

B) Its waterproof quality

C) Being used in ropes

D) Its shiny surface

38. Bartley says before leaving that he will return—

A) In two to four days depending on the wind

B) In nine days

C) The same evening

D) After the fair of Connemara ends

39. Who says: “It’s the life of a young man to be going on the sea, and who would listen to an old woman?”

A) Cathleen

B) Nora

C) Maurya

D) Bartley

40. Bartley takes the halter and says—

A) “The blessing of God on you”

B) “Pray for me”

C) “Hide the bundle”

D) “Bring the ladder quickly”

41. Who says: “The black night is falling, I’ll have no son left me in the world”?

A) Maurya

B) Cathleen

C) Nora

D) Bartley

42. The phrase “dark word” in the play means—

A) A prayerful word

B) An unlucky word

C) A holy word

D) A whisper

43. Who says: “Isn’t it sorrow enough is on everyone in this house without your sending him out with an unlucky word behind him?”

A) Cathleen

B) Nora

C) Maurya

D) Young Priest

44. The speaker says Bartley will be destroyed because—

A) He ate nothing since the sun went up

B) He had no halter

C) He quarreled with Maurya

D) He lost the rope

45. Who cuts off some bread, rolls it in a cloth, and gives it to Maurya?

A) Nora

B) Cathleen

C) Bartley

D) Young Priest

46. What did Cathleen advise Maurya to say to Bartley?

A) “God speed you”

B) “Pray for Michael”

C) “Stay at home”

D) “Beware of the sea”

47. Who gives Maurya a stick before she goes out?

A) Cathleen

B) Nora

C) Bartley

D) Eamon Simon

48. According to Maurya, in the big world old people leave things for their sons, but in her place—

A) The young men leave things behind for the old

B) The priest blesses everyone

C) The cattle dealers support the family

D) Only women work for survival

49. Who reports the story of two men rowing round with poteen?

A) Cathleen

B) Nora

C) Maurya

D) Bartley

50. According to Nora, what happened when the two men rowed with poteen?

A) One of their oars caught Michael’s body near the black cliffs

B) Their boat overturned in the sea

C) They met the priest

D) They lost the rope

51. When Cathleen tries to open the bundle, what problem does she face?

A) The string is perished with salt water

B) The bundle is locked

C) The bundle is too heavy

D) The key is missing

52. Why did Nora find it difficult to loosen the string of the bundle?

A) There was a black knot on it

B) The priest tied it strongly

C) It was frozen with sea water

D) It was nailed to a board

53. How many stitches did Nora put up when she knitted the stocking?

A) Thirty

B) Three score

C) Twenty

D) Ninety

54. Out of those stitches, how many did Nora drop?

A) Four

B) Six

C) Two

D) Eight

55. Who was remembered as a great rower and fisher?

A) Bartley

B) Michael

C) Patch

D) Sheamus

56. Who says: “I’ve seen the fearfulest thing any person has seen, since the day Bride Dara seen the dead man with the child in his arms”?

A) Maurya

B) Nora

C) Cathleen

D) One of the women

57. Where did Maurya go before seeing Bartley riding on the red mare?

A) To the spring well

B) To the turf-loft

C) To the pier

D) To the priest’s house

58. Which animals did Maurya see Bartley riding and driving?

A) Red mare with gray pony behind

B) Black mare with brown pony

C) White horse with donkey

D) Gray mare with oxen

59. What did Maurya try to say to Bartley but could not?

A) “God speed you”

B) “Don’t go to sea”

C) “Bring back Michael”

D) “Remember the priest”

60. Maurya criticizes the priest saying—

A) “It’s little the like of him knows of the sea”

B) “He is afraid of the storm”

C) “He hides the bundle”

D) “He eats without blessing”

61. What does Maurya ask to be made after Bartley’s departure?

A) A good coffin out of the white boards

B) A new curagh

C) A fishing net

D) A rope halter

62. How many sons does Maurya mention she had?

A) Four

B) Six

C) Seven

D) Eight

63. Maurya recalls that Stephen and Shawn were lost in—

A) The great wind and later found in the Bay of Gregory of the Golden Mouth

B) A storm near Donegal

C) The priest’s boat

D) The fair at Connemara

64. Who were lost in a dark night with no sign left of them?

A) Sheamus and his father, and his grandfather

B) Bartley and Michael

C) Patch and Shawn

D) Eamon Simon and Colum Shawn

65. Who was drowned out of a curagh that turned over?

A) Patch

B) Michael

C) Stephen

D) Sheamus

66. Cathleen asks the women: “What way was he drowned?” — Who is referred to here?

A) Michael

B) Bartley

C) Patch

D) Sheamus

67. According to one of the women, how was Bartley drowned?

A) He fell from the curagh in a storm

B) The gray pony knocked him into the sea

C) He was caught by the hooker’s sail

D) He was dragged by the mare into the surf

68. Where was Bartley’s body washed out?

A) At the Bay of Donegal

B) Near the Bay of Gregory

C) Where there is a great surf on the white rocks

D) At the pier of Connemara

69. Maurya says she will have no call now to go for Holy Water after—

A) Samhain (1st November)

B) Christmas

C) Easter

D) Harvest

70. What is Samhain?

A) A fishing boat

B) 1st November, a Celtic festival day

C) A cattle fair

D) A prayer for the dead

71. Maurya says she will no longer care what way the sea is when—

A) The other women will be keening

B) The priest calls her

C) The fair begins

D) The tide turns

72. The word stinking in the play refers to—

A) Rotten wood

B) Stale fish

C) Wet rope

D) Turf smoke

73. What is a curagh?

A) A traditional Irish boat

B) A rope halter

C) A stone cross

D) A turf loft

74. What is poteen?

A) An illicit homemade Irish spirit

B) A type of fish

C) A wooden coffin

D) A horse fair

75. Who says: “It isn’t that I haven’t prayed for you, Bartley, to the Almighty God”?

A) Maurya

B) Nora

C) Cathleen

D) Young Priest

76. Where does Maurya drop Michael’s clothes?

A) Across Bartley’s feet

B) Into the turf-loft

C) By the spring well

D) On the gray pony

77. What does Maurya sprinkle over Bartley’s body?

A) Turf ashes

B) Holy Water

C) Salt water

D) Flannel cloth

78. What does Maurya finally declare about human life?

A) No man at all can be living forever

B) The priest can save everyone

C) The sea will spare her sons

D) Holy Water makes life eternal

79. Who in the play uses the phrase “No man at all can be living forever, and we must be satisfied”?

A) Maurya

B) Cathleen

C) Nora

D) One of the women

80. The word gable means—

A) The upper part of a wall or roof

B) A prayer cloth

C) A stone cross

D) A fishing net

81. In the play, dark word is used in the sense of—

A) Unlucky word

B) Holy word

C) Silent word

D) Strong word

82. Who are seen keening at the end of the play?

A) The other women

B) The priest

C) Cathleen and Nora

D) The cattle dealers

83. Maurya recalls that out of her six sons—

A) All of them died at sea

B) Two left for England

C) Three survived

D) Only Bartley died

84. Which character represents the endless struggle of Aran islanders against the sea?

A) Maurya

B) Bartley

C) Michael

D) Cathleen

85. The repeated presence of drowned men’s clothes in the play symbolizes—

A) The sea’s cruelty and inevitability of death

B) The priest’s blessings

C) The cattle fair’s failure

D) The success of fishermen

 

Answer :Answers

1. A) Waterproof clothing

2. A) A girl of about twenty

3. B) Kneading cake

4. A) Begins to spin at the wheel

5. A) Maurya

6. B) Nora

7. B) Nora

8. B) A bundle

9. B) A shirt and a plain stocking

10. A) A drowned man in Donegal

11. B) Michael

12. A) Young priest

13. A) Does be saying prayers half through the night

14. B) Neither rough nor calm

15. C) A bundle containing a shirt and a plain stocking

16. A) Storage space for dried turf

17. B) Cathleen

18. A) When the tide turns if he goes to Connemara

19. A) Young priest

20. B) Friends of Bartley

21. B) A traditional Irish fishing boat changing direction

22. B) A type of Irish fishing boat

23. B) Turning the boat’s sail against the wind

24. B) On a nail by the white boards

25. B) Cathleen

26. B) He must ride down on the mare quickly

27. A) This is the one boat going for two weeks or more

28. C) A good fair for horses

29. A) Maurya

30. B) How it would be washed up after nine days

31. A) A cattle dealer

32. A) A storm is rising and a star is up against the moon

33. A) A single son

34. A) Rope

35. B) Gather seaweed for another cock for the kelp

36. C) The boat

37. A) Its warm and fuzzy texture used in clothing

38. A) In two to four days depending on the wind

39. A) Cathleen

40. A) “The blessing of God on you”

41. A) Maurya

42. B) An unlucky word

43. A) Cathleen

44. A) He ate nothing since the sun went up

45. B) Cathleen

46. A) “God speed you”

47. B) Nora

48. A) The young men leave things behind for the old

49. B) Nora

50. A) One of their oars caught Michael’s body near the black cliffs

51. A) The string is perished with salt water

52. A) There was a black knot on it

53. B) Three score

54. A) Four

55. B) Michael

56. A) Maurya

57. A) To the spring well

58. A) Red mare with gray pony behind

59. A) “God speed you”

60. A) “It’s little the like of him knows of the sea”

61. A) A good coffin out of the white boards

62. B) Six

63. A) The great wind and later found in the Bay of Gregory of the Golden Mouth

64. A) Sheamus and his father, and his grandfather

65. A) Patch

66. B) Bartley

67. B) The gray pony knocked him into the sea

68. C) Where there is a great surf on the white rocks

69. A) Samhain (1st November)

70. B) 1st November, a Celtic festival day

71. A) The other women will be keening

72. B) Stale fish

73. A) A traditional Irish boat

74. A) An illicit homemade Irish spirit

75. A) Maurya

76. A) Across Bartley’s feet

77. B) Holy Water

78. A) No man at all can be living forever

79. A) Maurya

80. A) The upper part of a wall or roof

81. A) Unlucky word

82. A) The other women

83. A) All of them died at sea

84. A) Maurya

85. A) The sea’s cruelty and inevitability of death