Important MCQs with Answer of The Bet : Class 12 Semester 3 :From Ray and Martin

Important Questions with Answers of The Bet

Important MCQs with Answer of The Bet : Class 12 Semester 3

From Ray and Martin

Class 12 Semester 3

1. 'The Bet' was written by—

2. 'The Bet' was originally written in—

3. 'The Bet' was first published in—

(a) 1889

4. The major characters in the short story are—

(a) a banker and a lawyer

5. How was the night when the story begins?

(a) Dark

6. The party took place—

(a) in the evening

7. At the very beginning the banker was walking up and down his—

(b) study

8. In which season did the fateful bet take place?

9. What did the banker recall to his mind at the very beginning of the short story?

(a) The party that he gave in the autumn fifteen years ago.

10. "Among other things they had talked of...."—Who are referred to as 'they'?

(b) Clever men

11. What was the subject of the initial discussion at the banker's party?

12. Who was/were not at the party?

(d) None of these. (All mentioned groups were present)

13. What did the most part of the guests disapprove of?

(a) Death penalty

14. "They considered that form of punishment out of date...."—What does 'that' refer to?

(b) Capital punishment

15. Most of the guests found capital punishment unsuitable for—

16. Some of the guests of the party opined that death penalty should be replaced everywhere by—

(d) life-imprisonment.

17. "....if one may judge a priori,...."—What does 'a priori' mean?

(a) Fact assumed by analysing earlier concepts

18. The banker was in favour of—

(b) capital punishment

19. How does execution kill, according to the host of the party?

20. How does life-imprisonment kill, according to the host of the party?

(a) Slowly

21. One of the guests remarked that both capital punishment and life-imprisonment are—

(b) immoral

22. Why are capital punishment and life-imprisonment both immoral according to one of the guests?

23. According to one of the guests, the state does not have any right to take away life as—

(b) state is not God

24. The lawyer was a young man of—

(b) twenty-five

25. Which of these opinions does the lawyer advocate?

(d) To live anyhow is better than not to live at all.

26. "I would certainly choose the second."—What does the 'second' refer to here?

(d) Life-imprisonment

27. Why was the young lawyer in favour of life-imprisonment?

(b) It would allow one to live somehow.

28. How much money did the banker stake in the bet?

(b) Two millions

29. The banker doubted that the lawyer would not be able to stay in the cell for—

(e) five years.

30. Who was/were involved in the bet?

(e) Both (a) & (c). (The banker and the lawyer)

31. How long was the lawyer supposed to stay in solitary confinement?

(b) 15 years

32. At the time when the banker staked two millions, he was—

(e) all of these. (Wealthy, spoilt, and frivolous)

33. What according to the banker, is much heavier than compulsory imprisonment?

(e) Voluntary confinement.

34. The banker advised the lawyer to rethink about the bet because according to him—

(d) both (a) & (c). (Voluntary confinement is heavier; the thought of freedom will poison his life)

35. "I am sorry for you."—Who is 'I' referred to here?

(a) The banker

36. Fifteen years later the banker found the bet—

(a) nonsensical and meaningless

37. What according to the banker, led the lawyer to the bet?

(a) Simple greed for money

38. It was decided that the lawyer should spend the years of his captivity in—

(a) one of the lodges in the banker's garden

39. During his imprisonment, the lawyer was decided to be deprived of the right—

(a) all of these. (To cross the threshold, see human beings, or hear human voices)

40. During imprisonment the lawyer was deprived of the right to receive—

(a) letters and newspapers

41. What are the things that the lawyer was permitted to have during his imprisonment?

(a) All of these. (A musical instrument, wine, books)

42. By the terms of the agreement the lawyer could communicate or receive the necessary things through the window by—

(b) writing an order

43. What was decided as a punishment for the lawyer if he tried to escape the cell?

44. During the first year of imprisonment, the lawyer suffered from—

(d) Both (a) & (c). (Loneliness and depression)

45. What could be heard continually, day and night, from the lodge during the first year of imprisonment?

(a) The sounds of the piano

46. At the very beginning in the cell, the lawyer rejected—

(e) wine and tobacco.

47. What was the reason for the lawyer rejecting wine in the cell during the first year of his imprisonment?

(b) He thought that wine excited desires which were the worst foes of a prisoner.

48. According to the lawyer, nothing could be more dreary than—

(a) drinking good wine and seeing no one

49. The lawyer's reason for rejecting tobacco was—

(b) it spoilt the air of the lawyer's room

50. What kind of books were sent to the lawyer in the first year of his imprisonment?

51. What kinds of books did the lawyer ask for in the second year of imprisonment?

(d) Classics.

52. What changed in the second year of the lawyer's imprisonment?

(e) Both (b) & (c). (He asked only for classics; the piano was no longer heard)

53. During which time did the lawyer ask for wine?

54. The music was audible again from the wing of the prisoner in the—

(a) fifth year

55. What did the people watch the prisoner doing during the fifth year of his imprisonment through the window?

(b) The prisoner was only eating, drinking and lying on his bed.

56. What did the prisoner do during the fifth year of his imprisonment?

57. 57. What subjects did the prisoner start studying zealously in the second half of the sixth year?

(a) Philosophy, Languages, History

58. 58.How many books were bought for the prisoner in four years?

(d) Six hundred.

59. 59. During the imprisonment the lawyer sent a letter to—

(d) the banker

60. 60. The prisoner once wrote a letter to the banker which contained lines written in—

(b) six languages

61. 61. The lawyer requested the banker to fire a shot in the garden if—

(a) no mistake could be found by the experts in the letter which he wrote in six languages.

62. 62. What did the lawyer understand by the noise of the gun that was fired in the garden?

(a) That he had excelled in all the six languages.

63. What did the prisoner get after understanding the works of the geniuses in different languages?

64. How many shots were fired in the garden?

(b) Two

65. Who ordered to fire a gun?

(d) The banker.

66. After the tenth year of confinement, the prisoner read only—

(e) The Gospel.

67. After reading the Gospel, the prisoner read— OR, Which book(s) replaced the Gospel?

(b) Histories of religions and Theology

68. In the last two years of his confinement, the prisoner read—

(e) an immense quality of books quite indiscriminately.

69. During the last two years of confinement the lawyer read—

(e) Both (a) & (b). (Natural sciences, Byron, and Shakespeare)

70. Which books did the prisoner ask the banker to send during the last period of his confinement?

71. The banker recalled the incident of the party on—

(e) November 13, 1885. (The eve of the bet ending)

72. . The prisoner was decided to receive his freedom at—

(b) twelve o'clock

73. Fifteen years later, the banker—

(d) ran into debts.

74. What had gradually brought the banker's business to decay?

(d) All of these. (Gambling on the Stock-Exchange, wild speculation, excitability)

75. What kind of a person was the banker fifteen years ago?

(a) Proud, fearless and self-confident

76. The downfall of the banker's business transformed him into a/an—

(b) ordinary banker, trembling at every rise and fall in his investments

77. . "Cursed bet!" muttered the old man.."— Who is referred to as the 'old man'?

78. How old was the lawyer when the period of his imprisonment came to an end?

(d) Forty years

79. What thought disturbed the banker when the bet was about to end?

(a) That a forty-year-old man would take away his last penny, would get married and enjoy life.

80. The banker thought that the only escape from giving two millions to the lawyer would be—

(a) the lawyer's death

81. The banker proceeded to kill the lawyer at—

(a) 3 am

82. The door of the prisoner's room had not been opened for—

(b) fifteen years

83. The banker took out the key of the door from his—

84. What did the banker wear when he came out in the garden?

(a) An overcoat

85. What did the banker do before going to kill the prisoner?

(a) Both (a) & (c). (Took out the key silently, put on his overcoat and went out)

86. It was raining at—

(a) three o'clock

87. What howled in the garden when the banker proceeded to the prisoner's room?

(b) A damp cutting wind

88. How was the atmosphere when the banker headed to kill the prisoner?

89. Whom did the banker call approaching the garden wing?

(d) The watchman

90. How many times did the banker call the watchman approaching the garden lodge?

(b) Twice

91. Where was the watchman presumed to be when the banker called him?

(d) In the kitchen or in the greenhouse

92. The reason for the watchman giving no reply to the banker's call was—

93. The banker thought that the suspicion of the murder of the prisoner would fall on—

(b) the watchman

94. What did the banker find in the narrow passage in front of the prisoner's room?

(d) All of these. (An unbedded bedstead, cast-iron stove, intact seals on the door)

95. Whom did the banker find in the narrow passage in front of the prisoner's room?

96. After entering the narrow passage in front of the prisoner's room, the banker—

(e) lighted a match.

97. "When the match went out, the old man, trembling with..."—What was the reason of the old man's trembling?

(b) Emotion

98. "When the match went out, the old man, trembling with emotion..."—What did the old man do then?

99. What was the source of the light in the prisoner's room?

(b) A candle

100. Where did the banker find the prisoner in his room? OR, In his room the prisoner was—

(a) sitting at the table

101. Which body parts of the prisoner were visible when the banker entered his room?

(a) His back, the hair on his head and his hands

102. In the prisoner's room, the books were lying on the—

(a) all of these. (Table, easy-chairs, and carpet)

103. How much time did pass and the prisoner did never once stir?

(a) Five minutes

104. Fifteen years of imprisonment had taught the prisoner to—

(a) sit still

105. To get the lawyer's reply, the banker—

(b) tapped at the window with his finger

106. How did the lawyer react when the banker tapped at the window?

(a) He made no movement in response.

107. What did the banker do when the prisoner gave no reply?

(b) He cautiously broke the seals off the door and put the key in the keyhole.

108. The lock of the door of the prisoner's room was—

(a) rusty

109. What type of sound was heard when the key was put into the rusty lock?

(b) A grating sound

110. What did the banker expect to hear from the prisoner's room?

111. How long did the banker wait before deciding to enter the room of the prisoner?

112. The banker decided to enter the prisoner's room—

(a) when no reply came from the room

113. After entering the prisoner's room, the banker saw the prisoner—

(d) both (b) & (c). (Sitting at the table, leaning his shaggy head upon his thin hand)

114. How was the physical appearance of the prisoner when the banker entered his room?

(e) All of these. (Skeleton-like skin, long curls/beard, yellow face/hollow cheeks)

115. The hand of the prisoner was—

(a) thin and delicate

116. The face of the prisoner—

(d) all of these. (Emaciated, aged-looking, earthy tint)

117. The prisoner's hair was—

(a) streaked with silver

118. On the table, before the prisoner's bowed head there lay—

(b) a sheet of paper on which something was written in fine handwriting.

119. What did the banker think the lawyer was seeing in his dream?

120. The banker intended to kill the 'half-dead man', the lawyer by—

(d) throwing him on the bed and stifle him a little with the pillow.

121. What did the prisoner want to do before obtaining his freedom after fifteen years?

(b) He wanted to say a few words to the banker.

122. The lawyer confessed in his letter that he despised all the blessings of the world which were—

123. What did the prisoner drink in the books?

(b) Fragrant wine

124. What were the beautiful women compared to by the prisoner?

125. The beautiful women whom the prisoner loved were created by the magic of—

(d) both (a) & (c). (Poets and geniuses)

126. Those beauties who were as ethereal as clouds visited the prisoner—

(a) in his dreams at night

127. Who whispered wonderful tales to the prisoner?

(a) Beautiful women

128. What had set the prisoner's brain in a whirl?

(a) Wonderful tales told by beautiful women

129. In the story 'The Bet' the young lawyer has mentioned Elburz and Mont Blanc. These are the names of—

(e) different summits.

130. Whose wings did the prisoner touch in the books?

(d) Attractive devils. (referred to as "comely devils")

131. What did the comely devils do to the prisoner?

(a) Flew down to converse with him and spoke of God

132. Books gave the prisoner—

(b) wisdom

133. What was the unresting thought of man had created in the ages compressed to, according to the prisoner?

134. The lawyer knew that he was wiser than—

(a) everyone (stated as "wiser than all of you")

135. According to the prisoner, death will wipe the mankind off the face of the earth like—

(a) the mice burrowing under the floor

136. As the prisoner says, the posterity and history of mankind and the immortal geniuses will be—

(b) burnt down together with the earthly globe

137. What has 'you' taken for truth and beauty?

138. According to the prisoner, the banker would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts—

(d) both (a) & (b). (Frogs/lizards on fruit trees, roses smelling like a sweating horse)

139. According to the lawyer he marvelled at 'you' who exchanged heaven for—

(b) earth

140. What did the lawyer once dream two millions as of?

(a) Paradise

141. The prisoner decided to break the compact by—

(b) coming out from the wing five hours before the time fixed

142. After reading, the banker put the letter written by the prisoner on the—

143. What did the banker do after reading the letter of the prisoner?

(d) All of these. (Kissed the man's head, wept, went out of the lodge)

144. The banker felt a contempt for himself when—

(e) he finished reading the letter written by the prisoner.

145. After returning from the prisoner's room, the banker—

(a) lay down on his bed

146. The banker's tears and emotion kept him for hours from—

(a) sleeping

147. Who informed the banker the next morning that the prisoner had escaped from the lodge?

(b) The watchmen

148. The prisoner escaped from the lodge by—

149. After getting the news of the prisoner's escape, the banker went to the lodge at once along with—

(d) his servants

150. After the prisoner's escape, the banker took the letter from the table—

(a) to avoid arousing unnecessary talk

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