1. The play ‘Riders to the Sea’ was first staged on –
A) 1897
B) 1904
C) 1905
D) 1906
Answer: B) 1904
2. The play ‘Riders to the Sea’ is a –
A) one-act play
B) two-act play
C) four-act play
D) five-act play
Answer: A) one-act play
3. Who is the protagonist (central character) of the play ‘Riders to the Sea’?
A) Nora
B) Cathleen
C) Maurya
D) Bartley
Answer: C) Maurya
4. The relationship between Cathleen and Nora is –
A) Sisters
B) Mother and daughter
C) Cousins
D) Friends
Answer: A) Sisters
5. “Where is she?” – Here ‘she’ refers to –
A) Maurya
B) Cathleen
C) Nora
D) a neighbour
Answer: A) Maurya
6. “…God help her, and may be sleeping” – Who is sleeping?
A) Maurya
B) Cathleen
C) Nora
D) Bartley
Answer: A) Maurya
7. Who gave the bundle to Nora?
A) Maurya
B) Cathleen
C) Bartley
D) the Priest
Answer: D) the Priest
8. What does the bundle contain?
A) a shirt
B) a plain stocking
C) a shirt and plain stockings
D) a plain stocking and shoes
Answer: C) a shirt and plain stockings
9. The young priest brought the bundle from –
A) a shop in Dublin
B) a drowned man in Donegal
C) Galway fair
D) Connemara
Answer: B) a drowned man in Donegal
11. The bundle of clothes belong to –
A) Michael
B) Bartley
C) Nora
D) Cathleen
Answer: A) Michael
12. Where was Bartley going?
A) to Donegal
B) to Galway
C) to Dublin
D) to Belfast
Answer: B) to Galway
13. Why did Bartley want to go to Galway?
A) to go fishing
B) to visit the young priest
C) to sell horses
D) to go sailing
Answer: C) to sell horses
14. What was the condition of the sea when Bartley wanted to go Galway fair?
A) rough
B) calm
C) neither rough nor calm
D) windy and rainy
Answer: C) neither rough nor calm
15. Where did Cathleen and Nora hide the bundle?
A) inside the almirah
B) under the bed
C) in the kitchen
D) in the turf-loft
Answer: D) in the turf-loft
16. Why did Maurya go down to the sea every day?
A) to find Michael
B) to meet the priest
C) to find the bundle
D) to go for a walk
Answer: A) to find Michael
17. What was Bartley looking for entering the hut?
A) the bundle
B) a bit of new rope
C) the fishing net
D) he pig
Answer: B) a bit of new rope
18. The rope was bought from –
A) Galway
B) Donegal
C) Dublin
D) Connemara
Answer: D) Connemara
19. Who put the rope on a nail by the white boards?
A) Cathleen
B) Nora
C) Mourya
D) Bartley
Answer: A) Cathleen
20. Why did Cathleen hang the rope up on a nail?
A) so that it would not be stolen
B) so that the pig did not eat it
C) so that it would not be lost
D) none of the above
Answer: B) the pig did not eat it
21. What did Bartley tell Cathleen to sell?
A) the sheep
B) the horse
C) the pig
D) the goat
Answer: C) the pig
22. Bartley would go down within –
A) an hour
B) half an hour
C) one and a half hour
D) two hours
Answer: B) half an hour
23. Bartley wished to return from the Galway fair in –
A) two days
B) three days
C) four days
D) all of the above.
Answer: D) all of the above.
24. “Isn’t it a hard and cruel man won’t hear a word from an old woman?”. Who is the ‘cruel man’ referred to here?
A) Machael
B) the young priest
C) Bartley
D) the sea
Answer: C) Bartley
25. Bartley would go to the Galway fair by riding on the –
A) grey pony
B) red mare
C) white stallion
D) black horse
Answer: B) red mare
26. Maurya would hand over the bread to Bartley at –
A) Galway fair
B) Connemara
C) Donegal
D) the spring well
Answer: D) the spring well
27. Why would Maurya go to hand over the bread to Bartley?
A) as Bartley refused to take it with him
B) as Cathleen forgot to give it
C) as the bread was not prepared
D) Maurya used to hand it over
Answer: B) as Cathleen forgot to give
28. Maurya used to walk with the help of –
A) Nora
B) Cathleen
C) the stick
D) the crutches
Answer: C) the stick
29. Who brought the stick for Maurya?
A) Nora
B) Cathleen
C) Michael
D) Bartley
Answer: C) Michael
30. Michael brought the stick for Maurya from –
A) Galway fair
B) Connemara
C) Donegal
D) the spring well
Answer: B) Connemara
31. Cathleen and Nora used to cook their food with the help of –
A) woods
B) turf
C) cow dung
D) none of these
Answer: B) turf
32. Nora and Cathleen cut the knot of the bundle of Michael’s clothes with the help of a
A) Sickle
B) Knife
C) Scissors
D) Hand saw
Answer: B) Knife
33. Nora and Cathleen identified that the clothes belonged to Michael with the help of –
A) the flannel
B) the shirt
C) the shoes
D) the stocking
Answer: D) the stocking
34. The stockings of Michael were knitted by –
A) Maurya
B) Nora
C) Cathleen
D) Bartley
Answer: B) Nora
35. How did Nora and Cathleen recognise that the stocking belonged to Michael?
A) by its stitches
B) by its colour
C) by its
D) by its
Answer: A) by its stitches
36. Who was a great rower and fisher mentioned in the play ‘Riders to the Sea’?
A) Nora
B) Cathleen
C) Michael
D) Bartley
Answer: C) Michael
37. Where did the two sisters, Nora and Cathleen, hide the bundle for the second time?
A) into a hole in the chimney corner
B) under the bed
C) in the kitchen
D) in the turf-loft
Answer: A) into a hole in the chimney corner
38. How many days did Maurya mourn for Michael? Or. Michael was missing for –
A) five days
B) nine days
C) ten days
D) eight days
Answer: B) nine days
39. “Mayrya: I seen the fearfullest thing” – What was the fearful thing that Maurya had seen?
A) the dead body of Michael
B) the ghost of Bartley riding on a mare
C) the ghost of Michael riding on a grey pony
D) a lone star shining against the moon
Answer: C) the ghost of Michael riding on a grey pony
40. “Bride Dara seen the dead man with the child in his arms.” Who was ‘Bride Dara’?
A) one of the daughters of Maurya
B) a mythical figure in Irish folklore
C) grandmother of Maurya
D) a neighbour of Maurya
Answer: B) a mythical figure in Irish folklore
41. The mythological reference of the line, “Bride Dara seen the dead man with the child in his arms” – heightens
A) the ominous tone of the play
B) the serious tone of the play
C) the promising tone of the play
D) none of these
Answer: A) the ominous tone of the play
42. Who was Eamon in the play, ‘Riders to the Sea’?
A) a son of Maurya
B) a friend of Bartley
C) the Young priest
D) a friend of Michael
Answer: B) a friend of Bartley
43. Why did Maurya ask his daughters to call Eamon?
A) to search for Michael’s dead body
B) to make a coffin
C) to search for Michael’s dead body
D) to buy white-board
Answer: B) to make a coffin
44. Maurya brought the white boards for the coffin of –
A) Michael
B) Bartley
C) Sheamus
D) Patch
Answer: A) Michael
45. How many sons did Maurya have?
A) four
B) five
C) six
D) eight
Answer: C) six
46. How many children did Maurya have altogether?
A) four
B) five
C) six
D) eight
Answer: D) eight
47. Who drowned with his father and grandfather in a single day?
A) Michael
B) Bartley
C) Patch
D) Sheamus
Answer: D) Sheamus
48. “There was Patch after was drowned out of a curragh”. What is a ‘curragh’?
A) a traditional Irish boat
B) a traditional Irish ship
C) a horse-drawn carriage
D) a kind of coffin
Answer: A) a traditional Irish boat
49. When the dead body of Patch was brought, Maurya was sitting with a baby in her lap. Who was the baby?
A) Michael
B) Bartley
C) Stephen
D) Shawn
Answer: B) Bartley
50. How was Sheamus drowned?
A) by falling from a red mare
B) by turning over the Curragh
C) by knocking him into the sea by the grey pony
D) by smashing his head into the white rock
Answer: B) by turning over the Curragh
51. How did Bartley die?
A) by turning over the Curragh
B) by falling from a grey pony
C) by knocking him into the sea by the grey pony
D) by smashing his head into the white rock
Answer: C) by knocking him into the sea by the grey pony
52 . The news of Bartley’s death was brought by –
A) a neighbour
B) Cathleen
C) Nora
D) the priest
Answer: A) a neighbour
53. Why were the neighbours surprised at the time of making Burtley’s coffin?
A) as Maurya had no son left
B) as there were no nails in the house
C) as they saw the ghost of Michael
D) as Cathleen and Nora were not keening
Answer: B) as there were no nails in the house
54. How did Maurya react to Bartley’s death?
A) she collapsed
B) she wailed
C) she cursed the sea
D) she calmly accepted it
Answer: D) she calmly accepted it
55. What was Maurya’s attitude towards fate?
A) pessimistic
B) resigned
C) optimistic
D) angry
Answer: B) resigned
56. In the play, ‘Riders to the Sea, Maurya symbolised?
A) problems of old age
B) typical Irish woman
C) the grieving mother
D) sacrifice
Answer: C) the grieving mother
57. What is the role of the sea in the play?
A) suffering of humanity
B) a way to human emancipation
C) a destructive force
D) giver of livelihood
Answer: C) a destructive force
58. What did Maurya mean by the sentence, “There isn’t anything more the sea can do to me”?
A) her sufferings had ended
B) she got the victory over the sea
C) she would change her habitat
D) the sea snatched away all her sons
Answer: A) her sufferings had ended
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