The Bet MCQ Questions and Answers | Class 12 | Semester 3 | Anton Chekhov | WBCHSE

1) ‘The Bet’ is written by – 
(a) Leo Tolstoy
(b) Anton Chekhov
(c) Katherine Mansfield
(d) Ruskin Bond
Ans: (b) Anton Chekhov

2) The two main characters in the story are –
(a) a judge and a lawyer
(b) a lawyer and a client
(c) a banker and a lawyer
(d) a doctor and a patient
Ans: (c) a banker and a lawyer

3) The banker remembered his past party in –
(a) a rainy spring night
(b) a stormy winter night
(c) a dark autumn night
(d) a cool winter night
Ans: (c) a dark autumn night

4) While recalling the past, the banker was walking up and down –
(a) in his study room
(b) in his garden
(c) in his dining room
(d) on the streets
Ans: (a) in his study room

5) The old banker hosted a party –
(a) twenty years ago
(b) fifteen years ago
(c) sixteen years ago
(d) fifty years ago
Ans: (b) fifteen years before

6) Who is the host of the party?
(a) The lawyer
(b) The banker
(c) The judge
(d) The journalist
Ans: (b) The banker

7) Who is not at the party?
(a) The banker
(b) The journalist
(c) The lawyer
(d) The doctor
Ans: (d) The doctor

8) The guests at the banker’s party had been discussing –
(a) politics
(b) literature
(c) capital punishment
(d) music
Ans: (c) capital punishment

9) Many journalists and intellectual men considered capital punishment unsuitable for –
(a) the whole world
(b) the modern world
(c) the Western world
(d) Christian states
Ans: (d) Christian states

10) According to the guests, capital punishment should be replaced by –
(a) trial by fire
(b) life imprisonment
(c) beheading
(d) belabouring
Ans: (b) life imprisonment

11) The banker believes in –
(a) trial by fire
(b) life imprisonment
(c) belabouring
(d) capital punishment
Ans: (d) capital punishment

12) Who supported the death penalty over life imprisonment?
(a) The guests
(b) The journalists
(c) The Banker
(d) The lawyer
Ans: (c) The Banker

13) According to the banker, what is more humane?
(a) Belabouring
(b) Life imprisonment
(c) Capital punishment
(d) Beheading
Ans: (c) Capital punishment

14) Who argued that capital punishment and life imprisonment were equally wrong?
(a) The banker
(b) The lawyer
(c) The Chief guest
(d) The old man
Ans: (b) The lawyer

15) How old is the lawyer when he takes the bet?
(a) 25
(b) 30
(c) 20
(d) 22
Ans: (a) 25

16) According one of the guest, the State is not what?
(a) important
(b) all-knowing
(c) divine
(d) God
Ans: (d) God

17) The lawyer opined that –
(a) death is better than prison
(b) any life is better than none
(c) to live anyhow is better than not at all
(d) death is better than a sorry life.
Ans: (c) to live anyhow is better than not at all

18) According to the narrator, the banker was –
(a) frivolous
(b) reckless
(c) dangerous
(d) careful
Ans: (a) frivolous

19) Who struck the table with his fist and shouted?
(a) The banker
(b) The young lawyer
(c) The watchman
(d) The doctor
Ans: (a) The banker

20) How long was the initial bet?
(a) 5 years
(b) 15 years
(c) 2 years
(d) 5 months
Ans: (a) 5 years

21) If the lawyer had to choose, which would he choose?
(a) Life imprisonment
(b) Capital punishment
(c) Death
(d) None of the above
Ans: (a) Life imprisonment

22) The amount of the bet between the banker and the lawyer was –
(a) two thousand dollars
(b) two million roubles
(c) two thousand roubles
(d) two billion roubles
Ans: (b) two million roubles

23) The lawyer chose to confine himself for –
(a) 21 years
(b) 21 months
(c) 5 years
(d) 15 years
Ans: (d) 15 years

24) In the bet, the banker staked –
(a) his reputation
(b) his future
(c) his freedom
(d) two million roubles
Ans: (d) two million roubles

25) In the bet, the lawyer staked –
(a) his reputation
(b) his estate
(c) his freedom
(d) his wealth
Ans: (c) his freedom

26) Where was the young lawyer confined for the bet?
(a) A distant prison
(b) A lodge in the banker’s garden
(c) An underground chamber
(d) A secluded monastery
Ans: (b) a lodge in the banker’s garden

27) During the confinement, the lawyer was forbidden to cross –
(a) boundary of the banker’s garden
(b) town he lived in
(c) threshold of the lodge
(d) banker’s estate
Ans: (c) threshold of the lodge

28) The lawyer could communicate with the outside world by –
(a) talking to the guards
(b) a little window
(c) using a sign language
(d) calling the guards
Ans: (b) a little window

29) During the confinement, the lawyer had the right to –
(a) write letters
(b) smoke
(c) drink wine
(d) all of these
Ans: (d) all of these

30) During the confinement, the lawyer was forbidden to –
(a) hear human voice
(b) receive letters
(c) see human beings
(d) all of these
Ans: (d) all of these

31) When did the lawyer’s confinement begin?
(a) At twelve o’clock on November 14, 1860
(b) At twelve o’clock on November 14, 1870
(c) At twelve o’clock on November 14, 1880
(d) At twelve o’clock on November 14, 1890
Ans: (b) At twelve o’clock on November 14th, 1870

32) As per agreement, the bet was ended –
(a) at twelve o’clock of November 14, 1885
(b) at twelve o’clock of November 14, 1884
(c) at twelve o’clock of November 14, 1883
(d) at twelve o’clock of November 14, 1882
Ans: (a) at twelve o’clock of November 14, 1885

33) During his first year of imprisonment the lawyer –
(a) ate heavily
(b) enjoyed happily
(c) suffered terribly
(d) listened to music
Ans: (c) suffered terribly

34) The prisoner suffered severely from loneliness and depression –
(a) for the 1st year of his confinement
(b) for the 2nd year of his confinement
(c) for the 3rd year of his confinement
(d) for the 5th year of his confinement
Ans: (a) for the 1st year of his confinement

35) During the first year of confinement, the lawyer –
(a) suffered heavily
(b) played piano continually
(c) refused wind and tobacco
(d) all of these
Ans: (d) all of these

36) The piano was silent in the lodge –
(a) in the second year
(b) in the third year
(c) in the fourth year
(d) in the fifth year
Ans: (a) in the second year

37) In the fifth year of his confinement, the lawyer –
(a) started playing music
(b) started taking wine
(c) talked angrily to himself
(d) all of these
Ans: (d) all of these

38) The lawyer could be heard crying more than once in –
(a) the 1st year of his confinement
(b) the 2nd year of his confinement
(c) the 5th year of his confinement
(d) the 6th year of his confinement
Ans: (c) the 5th year of his confinement

39) In the second half of the sixth year, the prisoner began to read –
(a) philosophy
(b) history
(c) languages
(d) all of these
Ans: (d) all of these

40) How many books the lawyer read in four years?
(a) Five hundred
(b) Four hundred
(c) Six hundred
(d) Three hundred
Ans: (c) six hundred

41) The lawyer wrote a letter to the banker in –
(a) one language
(b) two language
(c) four language
(d) six language
Ans: (d) six language

42) In the letter, the lawyer requested the banker to –
(a) send his writings to his family members
(b) release him from confinement
(c) fire a shot in the garden if there were no mistakes
(d) provide him with more books
Ans: (c) fire a shot in the garden if there were no mistakes

43) To fulfill the lawyer’s desire, the banker ordered to fire –
(a) one shot
(b) two shots
(c) three shots
(d) four shots
Ans: (b) two shots

44) During the tenth year, the prisoner read nothing but –
(a) the Ramayana
(b) the Mahabharata
(c) the Gospel
(d) Political essays
Ans: (c) the Gospel

45) What did the lawyer read after finishing the Gospel?
(a) Travel diaries
(b) Detective novels
(c) Histories of religion and theology
(d) Mythology and folklore
Ans: (c) Histories of religion and theology

46) When did the prisoner read an immense quantity of books quite indiscriminately?
(a) in the last two years of confinement
(b) in the sixth year
(c) Throughout his confinement
(d) in the course of four year
Ans: (a) in the last two years of confinement

47) At 3 o’clock the banker went towards –
(a) the garden
(b) forest
(c) hill
(d) market
Ans: (a) the garden

48) When the banker went to the garden, his intention was –
(a) to release the lawyer
(b) to offer a settlement
(c) to kill the lawyer
(d) to give the money
Ans: (c) to kill the lawyer

49) In the bad weather, the watchman was –
(a) in the lodge
(b) in the garden
(c) somewhere in the kitchen or the greenhouse
(d) in his room
Ans: (c) somewhere in the kitchen or the greenhouse

50) If the banker killed the lawyer, suspicion would fall first upon –
(a) the lawyer
(b) the banker
(c) the watchman
(d) none of them
Ans: (c) the watchman

51) What had taught the lawyer to still still?
(a) Five years imprisonment
(b) Fifteen years imprisonment
(c) Two years imprisonment
(d) Fifty years imprisonment
Ans: (b) Fifteen years imprisonment

52) How did the lawyer look as he sat at the table?
(a) Like a healthy gentleman
(b) Like an ordinary man
(c) Like a young man full of life
(d) Like a skeleton with skin drawn over his bones
Ans: (d) Like a skeleton with skin drawn over his bones

53) In front of the lawyer’s bowed head, there lay on the table –
(a) a pile of books
(b) a beautiful gift
(c) a sheet of paper
(d) a plate of uneaten food
Ans: (c) a sheet of paper

54) How did the banker want to kill the lawyer?
(a) By belabouring him
(b) By giving poison
(c) By hanging him
(d) By stifling him with a pillow
Ans: (d) By stifling him with a pillow

55) From where has the lawyer seen the sun rise?
(a) The peak of Elbruz
(b) The peak of Mont Blanc
(c) The peak of Mount Everest
(d) Both the peaks of Elbruz and Mont Blanc
Ans: (d) Both the peaks of Elbruz and Mont Blanc

56) What did the lawyer declare in his letter?
(a) He rejected the two million rubles
(b) He demanded the banker fulfill the bet
(c) He requested an early release
(d) He expressed his resentment towards the banker
Ans: (a) He rejected the two million rubles

57) The lawyer violate the agreement by –
(a) writing letter to outsiders
(b) demanding more money
(c) escaping five hours before the time fixed
(d) refusing to speak to the banker
Ans: (c) escaping five hours before the time fixed

58) After finishing the letter, the banker –
(a) kissed the lawyer on the head
(b) wept
(c) both (a) and (b)
(d) none of these
Ans: (c) both (a) and (b)

59) How did the banker learn about the lawyer’s escape?
(a) He saw lawyer leaving the lodge
(b) The watchman informed him
(c) The lawyer left him a farewell note
(d) A servant overheard the lawyer making plans
Ans: (b) The watchman informed him

60) To avoid arousing unnecessary talk, the banker –
(a) tore the letter up
(b) gave the money to the lawyer
(c) locked the letter up in the fireproof safe
(d) kill the lawyer
Ans: (c) locked the letter up in the fireproof safe