The Bet MCQ Question Answer Class 12 semester 3rd English
1. The Bet’ was written by
(a) Samuel Beckett
(b) William Congreve
(c) Anton Chekhov
(d) John Millington Synge.
Ans (c) Anton Chekhov
2. ‘The Bet’ was originally written in
(a) Bengali
(b) English
(c) Russian
(d) French.
Ans (c) Russian
3. ‘The Bet’ was first published in
(a) 1889
(b) 1887
(c) 1886
(d) 1888.
Ans (a) 1889
4. The major characters in the short story are
(a) a peasant and a lawyer
(b) a banker and a businessman
(c) a banker and a lawyer
(d) a doctor and a lawyer.
Ans (c) a banker and a lawyer
5. How was the night when the story begins?
(a) Cloudy
(b) Dark
(c) Hot
(d) Windy.
Ans (b) Dark
6. The party took place
(a) in the evening
(b) in the morning
(c) at dusk
(d) in the afternoon.
Ans (a) in the evening
7. At the very beginning the corner to corner of his-banker was pacing from
(a) bedroom
(b) kitchen
(c) study
(d) balcony.
Ans (c) study
8. In which season did the fateful bet take place?
(a) Summer
(b) Autumn
(c) Winter
(d) Spring.
Ans (b) Autumn
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.
(b) His five-year-old boy who died of malaria.
(c) The bet he had once lost.
(d) How the lawyer had won the bet.
Ans (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?
(a) Children
(b) Clever men
(c) Illiterate people
(d) Only journalists.
Ans (b) Clever men
11. What was the subject of the initial discussion at the banker’s party?
(a) Love and marriage
(b) Capital punishment
(c) The stock market
(d) Literature and philosophy.
Ans (b) Capital punishment
12. Who was/were not at the party?
(a) The lawyer
(b) Intellectual men
(c) Journalists
(d) None of these
Ans (d) None of these
13. What did the most part of the guests disapprove of?
(a) Death penalty
(b) Price hike
(c) Religious intolerance
(d) Life-imprisonment.
Ans (a) Death penalty
14. “They considered that form of punishment out of date….”- What does ‘that’ refer to?
(a) Life-imprisonment
(b) Capital punishment
(c) Political unrest
(d) Unemployment.
Ans: (b) Capital punishment
15. Most of the guests found capital punishment unfitted to-
(a) Muslim States
(b) Hindu States
(c) Christian States
(d) Secular States.
Ans: (c) Christian States
16. Some of the guests of the party opined that death penalty should be replaced by-
(a) poisoning
(b) electrocution
(c) beheading
(d) life-imprisonment.
Ans: (d) life-imprisonment
17. “….if one may judge a priori,….”-What does ‘a priori’ mean?
(a) Fact assumed by analyzing earlier concepts
(b) Fact accepted after analysis
(c) Fact rejected at once
(d) None of these.
Ans: (a) Fact assumed by analyzing earlier concepts
18. The banker was in favour of-
(a) life-imprisonment
(b) rigorous imprisonment
(c) capital punishment
(d) all of these.
Ans: (c) capital punishment
19. How does execution kill, according to the host of the party?
(a) By degrees
(b) Slowly but steadily
(c) Instantly
(d) None of these.
Ans: (c) Instantly
20. How does life-imprisonment kill, according to the host of the party?
(a) Slowly
(b) Without pain
(c) Instantly but with severe pain
(d) None of these.
Ans: (a) Slowly
21. One of the guests remarked that both capital punishment and life-imprisonment are-
(a) moral
(b) illogical
(c) immoral
(d) necessary.
Ans: (c) immoral
22. Why are capital punishment and life-imprisonment both immoral according to one of the guests?
(a) They always use illegal methods.
(b) They usually break religious laws.
(c) They do not follow social norms.
(d) Their purpose is to take away life.
Ans: (d) Their purpose is to take away life.
23. According to one guest, the state is not-
(a) important
(b) supreme
(c) judge
(d) God.
Ans: (d) God.
24. The lawyer was a young man of-
(a) thirty-five
(b) twenty-five
(c) thirty
(d) twenty.
Ans: (b) twenty-five
25. Which of these opinions does the lawyer advocate?
(a) Death is better than an unhappy life.
(b) Any life is better than that of a human’s life.
(c) Death is better than prison.
(d) To live somehow is better than not to live at all.
Ans: (d) To live somehow is better than not to live at all.
26. “I would certainly choose the second.”-What does the ‘second’ refer to here?
(a) Caning
(b) Death sentence
(c) Life-imprisonment
(d) Bribery.
Ans: (c) Life-imprisonment
27. Why was the young lawyer in favour of life-imprisonment?
(a) It would impose only fine.
(b) It would allow one to live somehow.
(c) It would ensure instant death.
(d) Both (b) & (c).
Ans: (b) It would allow one to live somehow.
28. How much money did the banker stake in the bet?
(a) Ten millions
(b) Two millions
(c) Fifteen millions
(d) One million.
Ans: (b) Two millions
29. The banker doubted that the lawyer would not be able to stay in the cell for more than-
(a) ten months
(b) two years
(c) fifteen months
(d) five years.
Ans: (d) five years
30. Who was/were involved in the bet?
(a) The banker
(b) The journalist
(c) The lawyer
(d) Both (a) & (c).
Ans: (d) Both (a) & (c).
31. How long was the lawyer supposed to stay in solitary confinement?
(a) 10 years
(b) 15 years
(c) 20 years
(d) 5 years.
Ans: (b) 15 years
32. At the time when the banker staked two millions, he was-
(a) wealthy
(b) frivolous
(c) spoiled
(d) all of these.
Ans: (d) all of these.
33. What according to the banker, is much heavier than enforced imprisonment?
(a) Capital punishment
(b) Rigorous imprisonment
(c) Fine
(d) Voluntary confinement.
Ans: (d) Voluntary confinement.
34. The banker advised the lawyer to rethink about the bet because according to him-
(a) voluntary confinement is much heavier than enforced imprisonment.
(b) he (the banker) had taken the decision on an impulse.
(c) the idea of having the right to free himself will poison his (the lawyer’s) whole life in a cell.
(d) both (a) & (c).
Ans: (d) both (a) & (c).
35. “I am sorry for you.”-Who is ‘I’ referred to here?
(a) The banker
(b) The lawyer
(c) The journalist
(d) The scholar.
Ans: (a) The banker
36. Fifteen years later the banker found the bet-
(a) interesting
(b) logical
(c) nonsensical and meaningless
(d) boring and illegal.
Ans: (c) nonsensical and meaningless
37. What according to the banker, led him to the bet?
(a) Sudden anger
(b) Strong excitement
(c) The caprice of a pampered man
(d) Utmost foolishness.
Ans: (c) The caprice of a pampered man
38. What according to the banker, led the lawyer to the bet?
(a) Simple greed for money
(b) Strong excitement
(c) The caprice of a well-fed man
(d) Great wisdom.
Ans: (a) Simple greed for money
39. It was decided that the lawyer must undergo his imprisonment in-
(a) the garden lodge of the banker’s house
Ans: (a) the garden lodge of the banker’s house
40. During his imprisonment, the lawyer was decided to be deprived of the right –
(a) to cross the threshold of the room
(b) to see living people
(c) to hear human voices
(d) all of these
Ans: (d) all of these
41. During imprisonment, the lawyer was deprived of the right to receive –
(a) books and newspapers
(b) letters and books
(c) letters and newspapers
(d) all of these
Ans: (d) all of these
42. What are the things that the lawyer was permitted to have during his imprisonment?
(a) A musical instrument
(b) Wine
(c) Books
(d) All of these
Ans: (d) All of these
43. It was decided that the necessary things the lawyer could receive by –
(a) calling the banker
(b) writing an order
(c) making some noise
(d) sending letters to his relatives
Ans: (b) writing an order
44. The lawyer’s solitary imprisonment started from –
(a) November 15, 1875
(b) June 2, 1870
(c) December 21, 1880
(d) November 14, 1870
Ans: (d) November 14, 1870
45. The lawyer’s imprisonment was decided to end on –
(a) July 11, 1900
(b) November 14, 1885
(c) January 30, 1887
(d) October 25, 1899
Ans: (b) November 14, 1885
46. What was decided as a punishment for the lawyer if he tried to escape the cell?
(a) He would be hanged.
(b) He would be handed over to the judicial authority of the country.
(c) The banker would be free from paying two millions to the lawyer.
(d) He would be found and electrocuted immediately.
Ans: (c) The banker would be free from paying two millions to the lawyer.
47. During the first year of imprisonment, the lawyer suffered from-
(a) loneliness
(b) hallucination
(c) depression
(d) Both (a) & (c).
Ans: (d) Both (a) & (c).
48. During the first year of imprisonment, from the lodge could be heard-
(a) the sound of the piano
(b) the quarrels of the banker and his wife
(c) the murmur of some children
(d) the songs of the birds.
Ans: (a) the sound of the piano
49. At the very beginning in the cell, the lawyer rejected-
(a) books and newspapers
(b) wine and books
(c) tobacco and music
(d) wine and tobacco.
Ans: (d) wine and tobacco.
50. What was the reason for the lawyer rejecting wine in the cell during the first year of his imprisonment?
(a) He wanted to lead an ascetic life.
(b) He thought that wine excited desires which were the worst foes of a prisoner.
(c) He started drinking champagne.
(d) He became health conscious.
Ans: (b) He thought that wine excited desires which were the worst foes of a prisoner.
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