Riders To The Sea MCQ Questions and Answers | Class 12 | Semester 3 | JM Synge | WBCHSE

1) ‘Riders to the Sea’ is written by –
(a) Saki
(b) J. M. Synge
(c) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(d) Ruskin Bond
Ans: (b) J. M. Synge

2) ‘Riders to the Sea’ is a –
(a) one act play
(b) three acts play
(c) two acts play
(d) four acts play
Ans: (a) one act play

3) ‘Riders to the Sea’ is a –
(a) tragic-comedy
(b) comedy
(c) tragedy
(d) none of these
Ans: (c) tragedy

4) The conflict shown in ‘Riders to the Sea’ is between –
(a) Maurya and her daughters
(b) Maurya and Micheal
(c) Maurya and Bartley
(d) The sea and humans
Ans: (d) The sea and humans

5) The setting of the ‘Riders to the Sea’ is –
(a) a platue
(b) a hill town
(c) an island
(d) a valley
Ans: (c) an island

6) The name of the group of Islands is –
(a) Aran Islands
(b) Donegal Islands
(c) Connemara Islands
(d) Galway Islands
Ans: (a) Aran Islands

7) The island is on the –
(a) South coast of Iraland
(b) West coast of Ireland
(c) North coast of Ireland
(d) East coast of Ireland
Ans: (b) West coast of Ireland

8) The entire scene of the play take place in/on a –
(a) sea beach
(b) ship
(c) cottage kitchen
(d) spring well
Ans: (c) cottage kitchen

9) What are the objects found in Maurya’s kitchen?
(a) Oilskins and spinning wheel
(b) Nets and oil-skins
(c) Nets, oil-skins and rope
(d) Spinning wheel, nets, oil-skins and new boards
Ans: (d) Spinning wheel, nets, oil-skins and new boards

10) The age of Cathleen is –
(a) twenty years
(b) thirty years
(c) twenty-five years
(d) thirty-one years
Ans: (a) twenty years

11) The younger daughter of Maurya is –
(a) Micheal
(b) Nora
(c) Cathleen
(d) Bartley
Ans: (b) Nora

12) By the walls of the Maurya’s kitchen there are –
(a) some new black boards
(b) some old white boards
(c) some new white boards
(d) some old black boards
Ans: (c) some new white boards

13) With whose speech does the play start?
(a) Cathleen
(b) Nora
(c) Maurya
(d) Bartley
Ans: (b) Nora

14) When the play opens, Cathleen finishes –
(a) wiping her hands
(b) spinning at the wheel
(c) kneading cake
(d) opening the bundle
Ans: (c) kneading cake

15) Who are found in the opening scene of ‘Riders to the Sea’?
(a) Michael and Bartley
(b) Nora and Maurya
(c) Maurya and Cathleen
(d) Nora and Cathleen
Ans: (d) Nora and Cathleen

16) “Where is she?” – who is referred to ‘she’ here?
(a) Cathleen
(b) Nora
(c) Maurya
(d) Bartley
Ans: (c) Maurya

17) From under her shawl Nora takes –
(a) cake
(b) nets
(c) a bundle
(d) sacred water
Ans: (c) a bundle

18) The bundle that Nora takes out from her shawl contains –
(a) hand gloves
(b) shawl
(c) a shirt and a plain stocking
(d) Oilskins
Ans: (c) a shirt and a plain stocking

19) The shirt and stocking were got off a drowned man in –
(a) Spring Well
(b) Connemara
(c) Donegal
(d) Aran Islands
Ans: (c) Donegal

20) Who has given the bundle that Nora brings home?
(a) Micheal
(b) The young priest
(c) Maurya
(d) Bartley
Ans: (b) The young priest

21) Which son of Maurya is missing at sea?
(a) Bartley
(b) Michael
(c) Shawn
(d) Patch
Ans: (b) Michael

22) From where were Michael’s clothes found?
(a) Scotland
(b) England
(c) Donegal
(d) Connemara
Ans: (c) Donegal

23) What occupation supports the islanders?
(a) Farming
(b) Fishing and sea trade
(c) Mining
(d) Teaching
Ans: (b) Fishing and sea trade

24) The half-closed door is blown open by –
(a) Bartley
(b) Maurya
(c) Nora
(d) a gust of wind
Ans: (d) a gust of wind

25) To sell horse Burtley is going to –
(a) Donegal
(b) the Galway fair
(c) the Aran Islands
(d) spring well
Ans: (b) the Galway fair

26) Who, according to the priest, is supposed to have a ‘clean burial’?
(a) Patch
(b) Bartley
(c) Michael
(d) Stephen
Ans: (c) Michael

27) Who was asked to stop Bartley from going to the Galway fair?
(a) Cathleen
(b) Maurya
(c) Nora
(d) the young priest
Ans: (d) the young priest

28) Which horse follows Bartley?
(a) White pony
(b) Red mare
(c) Gray pony
(d) Black horse
Ans: (c) Gray pony

29) According to Nora, the condition of the sea is –
(a) not bad
(b) rough
(c) calm and quiet
(d) middling bad
Ans: (d) middling bad

30) Where does Cathleen hide the bundle of clothes?
(a) on the pot-oven
(b) on the turf-loft
(c) on the white boards
(d) on the table
Ans: (b) on the turf-loft

31) Cathleen put the bundle on the turf-loft to –
(a) hide it from Bartley
(b) hide it from Nora
(c) hide it from Maurya
(d) hide it from young priest
Ans: (c) hide it from Maurya

32) “Bartley will want it.” – What is ‘it’ referred to?
(a) shirt
(b) oil-skins
(c) stocking
(d) cake
Ans: (d) cake

33) According to Maurya, who will stop Bartley from going to Galway fair?
(a) The young priest
(b) Cathleen
(c) Nora
(d) Michael
Ans: (a) The young priest

34) The new rope was bought in –
(a) Galway fair
(b) Connemara
(c) Donegal
(d) Mainland
Ans: (b) Connemara

35) When, according to Nora, the sea will be getting worse?
(a) The tide’s turned to the wind
(b) In the evening
(c) The wind will fall
(d) At noon
Ans: (a) The tide’s turned to the wind

36) After coming in Bartley is asking for the –
(a) new rope
(b) new shirt
(c) white boards
(d) halter
Ans: (a) new rope

37) Bartley wants new rope to –
(a) climb the cliff
(b) make Michael’s coffin
(c) tie the horses together
(d) make a halter for his horse
Ans: (d) make a halter for his horse

38) Maurya says that the rope will be wanting in the place for –
(a) the horse
(b) the pig
(c) the red mare
(d) Michael’s coffin
Ans: (d) Michael’s coffin

39) Who tries to stop Bartley from going to the Galway fair?
(a) Nora
(b) the young priest
(c) Maurya
(d) Cathleen
Ans: (c) Maurya

40) As mentioned by Nora, who are saying that Bartley would go?
(a) Eamon Simon, Stephen Pheety and Michael
(b) Eamon Simon and Stephen Pheety
(c) Eamon Simon, Stephen Pheety and young priest
(d) Eamon Simon, Stephen Pheety and Column Shawn
Ans: (d) Eamon Simon, Stephen Pheety and Column Shawn

41) “The fair will be a good fair for horses.” – which fair is mentioned here?
(a) Galway Fair
(b) Donegal Fair
(c) Mainland Fair
(d) Aran Islands Fair
Ans: (a) Galway Fair

42) For how many days is Michael missing?
(a) 3 days
(b) 5 days
(c) 7 days
(d) 9 days
Ans: (d) 9 days

43) What does Maurya forget to give Bartley?
(a) Food
(b) Clothes
(c) Blessing
(d) Money
Ans: (c) Blessing

44) “What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?” – Who says this?
(a) Bartley
(b) Cathleen
(c) Maurya
(d) Nora
Ans: (c) Maurya

45) Bartley tells Cathleen to sell –
(a) the white pig
(b) the pig with white feet
(c) the black pig
(d) the pig with black feet
Ans: (d) the pig with black feet

46) Batley tells Cathleen to sell the pig with black feet to –
(a) young priest
(b) Eamon Simon
(c) the jobber
(d) Column Shawn
Ans: (c) the jobber

47) “It’s the life of a young man to be going to the sea” – who says this?
(a) Cathleen
(b) Maurya
(c) Nora
(d) Bartley
Ans: (a) Cathleen

48) Bartley expects to come home from the Galway fair within –
(a) two days
(b) three days
(c) two to four days
(d) four days
Ans: (c) two to four days

49) Bartley goes down riding on a –
(a) gray pony
(b) red mare
(c) white horse
(d) red mule
Ans: (b) red mare

50) What will run behind Bartley?
(a) red mare
(b) white mule
(c) red pony
(d) gray pony
Ans: (d) gray pony

51) Cathleen and Nora forgot to give Bartley –
(a) his bit of bread
(b) new rope
(c) his new shirt
(d) white boards
Ans: (a) his bit of bread

52) What is the name of Maurya’s last surviving son?
(a) Miacheal
(b) Patch
(c) Bartley
(d) Shawn
Ans: (c) Bartley

53) What should Cathleen and Nora do if the clothes are identified as Michael’s?
(a) They should give the clothes to the poor
(b) They should hide the clothes
(c) They should not say anything to Maurya
(d) They should tell Maurya that Micheal got a clean burial
Ans: (d) They should tell Maurya that Micheal got a clean burial.

54) What did Cathleen roll in a cloth?
(a) a halter
(b) some pieces of bread
(c) some medicine
(d) a new shirt
Ans: (b) some pieces of bread

55) Bartley’s parting words were –
(a) good bye
(b) the blessing of God on you
(c) God speed you
(d) may God bless you
Ans: (b) the blessing of God on you

56) Who told Maurya to meet Bartley and give him the piece of bread?
(a) young priest
(b) Cathleen
(c) Nora
(d) Michael
Ans: (b) Cathleen

57) What did Cathleen give to Maurya for Bartley?
(a) A bundle of Clothes
(b) The new halter
(c) The new rope
(d) Bread rolled in a cloth
Ans: (d) Bread rolled in a cloth

58) Michael’s dead body was found by –
(a) a sailor
(b) a fisherman
(c) two men rowing round with poteen
(d) the young priest
Ans: (c) two men rowing round with poteen

59) Michael’s body was found –
(a) in the evening
(b) at dawn
(c) at dusk
(d) at night
Ans: (c) at dawn

60) Who says, “It’s hard set I am to walk.”
(a) Nora
(b) Cathleen
(c) Bartley
(d) Maurya
Ans: (d) Maurya

61) Who gave Maurya a stick?
(a) Bartley
(b) Nora
(c) Eamon Simon
(d) Cathleen
Ans: (b) Nora

62) The stick was bought from –
(a) Local market
(b) Galway fair
(c) Connemara
(d) Donegal
Ans: (c) Connemara

63) How far is Donegal from the rocks beyond?
(a) Four days walk
(b) Five days walk
(c) Six days walk
(d) Seven days walk
Ans: (d) Seven days walk

64) To open the bundle Cathleen asks for –
(a) a nail
(b) a knife
(c) a pencil cutter
(d) a spoon
Ans: (b) a knife

65) What helped Cathleen to identify the owner of the stocking?
(a) size
(b) colour
(c) number of stiches
(d) smell
Ans: (c) number of stiches

66) The plain stocking that was in the bundle of clothes was –
(a) first of the third pair
(b) second of the third pair
(c) the third pair
(d) none of these
Ans: (b) second of the third pair

67) The number of stiches Nora put up in Michael’s stocking is –
(a) four
(b) three
(c) three score
(d) four score
Ans: (b) four

68) According to Nora, who was ‘a great rower and fisher’?
(a) Michael
(b) Her father
(c) Bartley
(d) Patch
Ans: (a) Michael

69) For concealing Nora’s tears from Maurya, Cathleen suggests her –
(a) to go into the bedroom
(b) to wipe out tears
(c) to sit in the corner
(d) to keep her back to the door
Ans: (d) to keep her back to the door

70) Cathleen and Nora hid the bundle of Michael’s clothes –
(a) in a hole beside the chimney
(b) on the chimney
(c) beside the chimney
(d) in a hole in the chimney
Ans: (d) in a hole in the chimney

71) What was there in Maurya’s hand when she returned?
(a) sandwiches
(b) a towel
(c) bread
(d) a halter
Ans: (c) bread

72) After Maurya had come from the spring well she went on –
(a) talking
(b) keening
(c) sprinkling water
(d) singing
Ans: (b) keening

73) “My heart is broken from this day” – who says this?
(a) Cathleen
(b) Nora
(c) Bartley
(d) Maurya
Ans: (d) Maurya

74) Who has seen ‘the fearfulest thing’?
(a) Maurya
(b) Cathleen
(c) Nora
(d) Michael
Ans: (a) Maurya

75) The ‘fearfulest thing’ seen by Maurya is –
(a) Michael holding Bartley
(b) Bride Dara holding her son
(c) a dead man holding Bride Dara’s son
(d) Michael following Bartley
Ans: (c) a dead man holding Bride Dara’s son

76) Maurya went to spring well to –
(a) utter some blessing for Bartley
(b) deliver a piece of bread to Bartley
(c) both ‘a’ and ‘b’
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c) both ‘a’ and ‘b’

77) According to Maurya, Michael is riding on –
(a) red mare
(b) red horse
(c) gray pony
(d) red pony
Ans: (c) gray pony

78) After seeing Michael on the gray pony, Maurya becomes – 
(a) hopeful
(b) indifferent
(c) heart broken
(d) happy
Ans: (c) heart broken

79) According to Maurya, while riding on gray pony Michael is dressed –
(a) in blue jacket
(b) in fine clothes and new shoes
(c) in fine clothes
(d) in fine jacket, gray trousers
Ans: (b) in fine clothes and new shoes

80) Whom did Maurya see behind Bartley?
(a) Bride Dara
(b) The roaring sea
(c) Michael on the gray pony
(d) White foam
Ans: (c) Michael on the gray pony

81) Cathleen tells Maurya that Michael has got –
(a) a gray mare
(b) a clean burial
(c) a good price for the pid
(d) a new stick
Ans: (b) a clean burial

82) After hearing Maurya’s fearfulest vision, Cathleen felt –
(a) indifferent
(b) happy
(c) sad
(d) destroyed
Ans: (d) destroyed

83) What Maurya recount after seeing the fearfulest scene?
(a) How Michael died
(b) How her husband died
(c) How her father-in-law died
(d) How the male members of her family died
Ans: (d) How the male members of her family died

84) “It’s little like of him knows of the sea.” – it is said about –
(a) Michael
(b) Maurya’s husband
(c) Bartley
(d) Maurya’s father-in-law
Ans: (c) Bartley

85) Maurya told to call Eamon to make a coffin for –
(a) Bartley
(b) herself
(c) Michael
(d) Patch
Ans: (b) herself

86) Which natural force dominates the play?
(a) fire
(b) wind
(c) earth
(d) sea
Ans: (d) sea

87) What is the major theme of the play?
(a) love
(b) conflict with nature
(c) wealth
(d) politics
Ans: (b) conflict with nature

88) What does the sea symbolize?
(a) Hope
(b) Beauty
(c) Fate and destruction
(d) Freedom
Ans: (c) Fate and destruction

89) Which family member’s body was never recovered?
(a) Bartley
(b) Michael
(c) Patch
(d) Stephen
Ans: (b) Michael

90) Maurya had –
(a) four sons
(b) six sons
(c) two sons
(d) five sons
Ans: (b) six sons

91) The number of deaths that Maurya has experienced is –
(a) seven
(b) nine
(c) six 
(d) eight
Ans: (d) eight

92) The bodies of Stephen and Shawn were found in –
(a) Bay of Galway of the Golden Mouth
(b) Golden Bay of Connemara
(c) Bay of Gregory of the Golden Mouth
(d) Donegal
Ans: (c) Bay of Gregory of the Golden Mouth

93) Who was lost during the great wind?
(a) Stephen
(b) Stephen, Shawn and Patch
(c) Stephen and Shawn
(d) Stephen, Shawn, Patch and Michael
Ans: (c) Stephen and Shawn

94) Who were lost in the dark night?
(a) Sheamus
(b) Sheamus and his father
(c) Maurya’s husband
(d) Stephen and Sheamus
Ans: (b) Sheamus and his father

95) When Patch drowned, Bartley ws –
(a) young man
(b) a teenager
(c) baby
(d) not born yet
Ans: (c) baby

96) Patch died –
(a) after his curagh turned over
(b) knocked by the red mare
(c) knocked by gray pony
(d) after a ship wreck
Ans: (a) after his curagh turned over

97) When Patch’s dead body was carried home Bartley was –
(a) playing in the ground
(b) going to school
(c) lying on his mother’s lap
(d) sleeping on the bed
Ans: (c) lying on his mother’s lap

98) The number of women came after Patch’s body was carried home –
(a) 11
(b) 7
(c) 8
(d) 9
Ans: (d) 9

99) How was the dead body of Patch carried?
(a) Holding on a plank
(b) Holding in coffin
(c) Holding in the half of a red sail
(d) Holding in a box
Ans: (c) Holding in the half of a red sail

100) Why does Maurya fail to meet Bartley?
(a) He leaves too early
(b) She gets lost
(c) She becomes ill
(d) A storm stops her
Ans: (a) He leaves too early

101) What mood dominates the play?
(a) Joyful
(b) Humorous
(c) Tragic and sorrowful
(d) Romantic
Ans: (c) Tragic and sorrowful

102) How was the day when Patch’s dead body was carried home?
(a) A windy day
(b) A stormy day
(c) A dry day
(d) A rainy day
Ans: (c) A dry day

103) Before Bartley’s body was carried home, some old woman crossed the threshold and –
(a) started making coffins
(b) started crying
(c) knelt down with red petticoats over their heads
(d) started singing mourning songs
Ans: (c) knelt down with red petticoats over their heads

104) Micheal’s dead boy was found in the –
(a) far south
(b) far north
(c) far east
(d) far west
Ans: (b) far north

105) According to Maurya, none can recognize the body of Michael because he was floating in the sea for –
(a) eight days
(b) three days
(c) nine days
(d) ten days
Ans: (c) nine days

106) Who says, “They’re all gone now, and there isn’t anything more the sea can do to me”?
(a) Nora
(b) Cathleen
(c) An old woman
(d) Maurya
Ans: (d) Maurya

107) When would Maurya go down to get Holy Water?
(a) In the night of Samhain
(b) In the evening after Samhain
(c) in the dark night after Samhain
(d) In the morning after Samhain
Ans: (c) in the dark night after Samhain

108) Over the dead body of Bartley, Maurya sprinkle –
(a) sea water
(b) sanctified water
(c) holy water
(d) mineral water
Ans: (c) holy water

109) Water from Bartley’s dead body was leaving a track by the –
(a) soil
(b) sand
(c) stones
(d) ice
Ans: (c) stones

110) Bartley’s body was carried on –
(a) a plank with a sail over it
(b) a plank with red sail over it
(c) a plank with a white sheet over it
(d) an uncovered coffin
Ans: (a) a plank with a sail over it

111) What is the climax of the play?
(a) Discovery of Michael’s clothes
(b) Bartley’s departure
(c) News of Bartley’s death
(d) Maurya’s journey
Ans: (c) News of Bartley’s death

112) Bartley was knock down into –
(a) a large lake
(b) a deep well
(c) the sea
(d) a ditch
Ans: (c) the sea

113) Bartley was knowck down by –
(a) some of his enemies
(b) the red mare
(c) the pig with black feet
(d) the gray pony
Ans: (d) the gray pony

114) Bartley’s body was washed out –
(a) on the gray rocks
(b) beside the sea shore
(c) inside a forest
(d) on the white rocks
Ans: (d) on the white rocks

115) How was Bartley drowned?
(a) As the boat overturned
(b) By slipping into the sea
(c) The grey pony knocked him
(d) Thrown off the boat by a wave
Ans: (c) The grey pony knocked him

116) According to the Cathleen, who would be able to make a coffin?
(a) Eamon
(b) An old man
(c) Eamon and other neighbours
(d) Colum and Eamon
Ans: (d) Colum and Eamon

117) Samhain is a –
(a) Irish hero
(b) month
(c) year
(d) Celtic festival
Ans: (d) Celtic festival

118) Maurya sprinkles Holy Water on –
(a) Bartley’s body
(b) Michael’s clothes
(c) both ‘a’ and ‘b’
(d) none of these
Ans: (c) both ‘a’ and ‘b’

119) When will Maurya have a great rest?
(a) in the long nights before Samhain
(b) in the short nights after Samhain
(c) in the short nights before Samhain
(d) in the long nights after Samhain
Ans: (d) in the long nights after Samhain

120) Maurya with her two daughters will be satisfied with –
(a) a bit of wet flour and a stinking fish
(b) a bit of fresh fish and flour
(c) a bit of wet flour and fresh fish
(d) a bit of wet flour and fried fish
Ans: (a) a bit of wet flour and a stinking fish

121) Who bought the fine white boards?
(a) Bartley
(b) Michael
(c) Maurya
(d) Patch
Ans: (c) Maurya

122) The fine boards were bought for –
(a) Maurya
(b) Michael
(c) Bartley
(d) Patch
Ans: (b) Michael

123) What did Cathleen offer the coffin makers?
(a) a new cake
(b) a half eaten cake
(c) coffee
(d) lunch
Ans: (a) a new cake

124) Cathleen wanted the coffin to be made –
(a) when the sun rises
(b) before the night falls
(c) before the sun rises
(d) after the night falls
Ans: (a) when the sun rises

125) Hearing that there’s no nail, Colum becomes –
(a) happy
(b) angry
(c) surprised
(d) sad
Ans: (c) surprised

126) For whom/what does Maurya pray at the end of the play?
(a) her soul
(b) the souls of her dead sons
(c) the souls of everyone living in the world
(d) all of them
Ans: (d) all of them

127) The last words of Maurya are –
(a) “It’s a great rest I’ll have now”
(b) “They’re altogether this time”
(c) “They’re all gone now”
(d) “No man at all can be living forever, and we must be satisfied.”
Ans: (d) “No man at all can be living forever, and we must be satisfied.”

128) What dramatic technique is used in Maurya’s vision?
(a) comic relief
(b) foreshadowing
(c) Irony only
(d) flashback
Ans: (b) foreshadowing

129) What does Maurya finally gain?
(a) Fame
(b) Wealth
(c) Revenge
(d) Peace of mind
Ans: (d) Peace of mind

130) What do the horses symbolize?
(a) Wealth
(b) Death and fate
(c) Friendship
(d) Success
Ans: (b) Death and fate