1. What was the bet about mentioned in the short story, ‘The Bet’, written by Anton Chekhov?
A) about the win between India and Australia
B) about the importance of the banking and insurance sector
C) about spirituality and materialism
D) about the compatibility of capital punishment and life imprisonment
Answer: D) about the compatibility of capital punishment and life imprisonment
2. The bet took place between –
A) the banker and the lawyer
B) the lawyer and the doctor
C) the banker and the doctor
D) lawyer and the journalist
Answer: A) the banker and the lawyer
3. “.. he had given a party one evening.” Who had given the party?
A) a journalist
B) a banker
C) a doctor
D) a lawyer
Answer: B) a banker
4. What was the main point of conversation among the guests?
A) politics
B) Christianity
C) capital punishment
D) mythology
Answer: C) capital punishment
5. “The death penalty is more moral and more humane than imprisonment for life.” Who thought so?
Or. Who supported the death penalty?
A) the journalist
B) the banker
C) the doctor
D) the lawyer
Answer: B) the banker
6. Who thought both the death penalty and imprisonment for life are equally immoral?
A) the journalist
B) the banker
C) the doctor
D) the lawyer
Answer: D) the lawyer
7. Between the death penalty and imprisonment for life, the lawyer chose –
A) the death penalty
B) imprisonment for life
C) both the death penalty and imprisonment for life
D) neither the death penalty nor imprisonment for life
Answer: B) imprisonment for life
8. How old was the young lawyer?
A) twenty years
B) twenty five years
C) thirty years
D) thirty five years
Answer: B) twenty five years
9. What amount of money did the banker agree to pay as a bet?
A) two billion
B) five billion
C) two million
D) five million
Answer: C) two million
11. How many years did the bankers at first propose to stay in solitary confinement?
A) five years
B) three years
C) seven years
D) ten years
Answer: A) five years
12. Instead of five years, the lawyer decided to stay in life imprisonment for –
A) two years
B) ten years
C) twenty years
D) fifteen years
Answer: D) fifteen years
13. “You stake your millions and I stake my freedom!” Who uttered these words?
A) the journalist
B) the banker
C) the lawyer
D) the doctor
Answer: C) the lawyer
14. According to the banker, the lawyer would be able to stay in the voluntary confinement for
A) one or two years
B) three or four years
C) two or three years
D) five or six years
Answer: B) three or four years
15. The place where the lawyer would spend his fifteen years of captivity was –
A) in a jail
B) in a lodge in the banker’s garden
C) in a lodge in the lawyer’s garden
D) in a lodge in the journalist’s garden
Answer: B) in a lodge in the banker’s garden
16. What were the things that were forbidden in the fifteen years of confinement?
A) the lawyer was not allowed to cross the threshold of the lodge.
B) the lawyer was not allowed to see the human beings or to hear the human voice
C) the lawyer was not allowed to receive letters and newspapers
D) all of the above
Answer: D) all of the above
17. The things that were allowed to the lawyer for his fifteen years of confinement were –
A) to have a musical instrument and books
B) to write letters
C) to drink and smoke
D) all of the above
Answer: D) all of the above
18. The lawyer would receive his provisions through –
A) the window
B) the door
C) the gate
D) the threshold
Answer: A) the window
19. The imprisonment of the lawyer started from –
A) November 16, 1870
B) November 14, 1870
C) December 14, 1870
D) December 16, 1870
Answer: B) November 14, 1870
20. For the first year of confinement, the prisoner suffered from –
A) loneliness
B) depression
C) loneliness and depression
D) drinking wine
Answer: C) loneliness and depression
21. What was the musical instrument that he used to play day and night during his first year of confinement?
A) flute
B) sitar
C) tabla
D) piano
Answer: D) piano
22. What were the things that he refused to consume during his first year of confinement?
A) water and wine
B) wine and tobacco
C) tobacco and coffee
D) coffee and wine
Answer: B) wine and tobacco
23. What, according to the lawyer, were the worst foes of the prisoner?
A) tobacco
B) coffee
C) wine
D) milk
Answer: C) wine
24. What kind of books were sent for by the lawyer during his first year of confinement?
A) Romantic love stories
B) adventurous stories
C) science fiction
D) fairy tales
Answer: A) Romantic love stories
25. In which year did the prisoner stop playing piano?
A) second year
B) third year
C) fourth year
D) fifth year
Answer: A) second year
26. The prisoner started playing the Piano again in the –
A) second year
B) third year
C) fourth year
D) fifth year
Answer: D) fifth year
27. In which year was the prisoner yawning and angrily talking to himself?
A) third year
B) fourth year
C) fifth year
D) tenth year
Answer: C) fifth year
28. In the fifth year, the lawyer spent hours writing, and in the morning, he used to
A) post them
B) tear up all
C) read them loudly
D) store them
Answer: B) tear up all
29. How many volumes of books were procured in the course of four years?
A) four hundred volumes
B) five hundred volumes
C) six hundred volumes
D) seven hundred volumes
Answer: C) six hundred volumes
30. How many languages did the lawyer learn in his fifteen years of imprisonment?
A) four languages
B) ten languages
C) five languages
D) six languages
Answer: D) six languages
31. Why did the lawyer write letters to the bankers in six languages?
A) to showcase his talent
B) to verify his language learning
C) to show how joyfully he spent his confinement
D) none of these
Answer: B) to verify his language learning
32. What did the lawyer ask the banker to do if the banker found that his language learning was perfect?
A) to send more volumes of books
B) to fire a shot in the garden
C) to send wine
D) to send tobacco
Answer: B) to fire a shot in the garden
33. How many shots did the banker order to be fired in the garden?
A) one shot
B) five shots
C) two shots
D) three shots
Answer: C) two shots
34. After the tenth year of imprisonment, the banker spent his time reading –
A) the natural science
B) Byron
C) Shakespeare
D) the Gospel
Answer: D) the Gospel
35. What seemed strange to the banker?
A) reading the Gospel for more than a year
B) reading six hundred learned volumes in four years
C) spending time immovably at the table
D) learning six languages
Answer: A) reading the Gospel for more than a year
36. What did the lawyer start reading next after completing the Gospel?
A) the natural science
B) Theology and the histories of religion
C) Shakespeare
D) Byron
Answer: B) Theology and the histories of religion
37. How had the banker become a banker of middle rank? Or. What was the cause of the banker’s downfall?
A) by spending his money on parties
B) by maintaining the expense of the prisoner for fifteen years
C) by desperate gambling on the stock exchange
D) none of these
Answer: C) by desperate gambling on the stock exchange.
38. The one thing that could save the banker from bankruptcy and disgrace was –
A) the death of the lawyer
B) the death of himself
C) the early release of the lawyer
D) to tear up the agreement of the bet
Answer: A) the death of the lawyer
39. What was the time when the banker decided to kill the lawyer before the day of his release?
A) one o’clock at night
B) two o’clock at night
C) twelve o’clock at night
D) three o’clock at night
Answer: D) three o’clock at night
40. When the banker came into the garden, the weather was –
A) dark and cold
B) falling rain
C) a damp cutting wind racing and howling
D) all of the above
Answer: D) all of the above
41. Going to the spot, the banker called the watchman –
A) once
B) twice
C) thrice
D) again and again
Answer: B) twice
42. “If I had the pluck to carry out my intention” – What was the ‘intention’?
A) to discuss with the lawyer
B) to kill the watchman
C) to kill the lawyer
D) to release the lawyer
Answer: C) to kill the lawyer
43. Entering into the lodge, the banker groped his way in the darkness and lighted a –
A) torch
B) match
C) lamp
D) cigar
Answer: B) match
44. When the old banker peeped through the little window, he was a ________ burning dimly.
A) candle
B) lamp
C) match
D) cigar
Answer: A) candle
45. What was the lawyer doing in the room when the banker peed through the window?
A) he was lying on the floor
B) he was writing at the table
C) he was not in his room
D) he was sitting at the table
Answer: D) he was sitting at the table
46. The room of the prisoner was scattered with –
A) wine bottles
B) cigar
C) torn papers
D) books
Answer: D) books
47. What had taught the Lawyer in his fifteen years of imprisonment?
A) to lie still
B) to sit still
C) to be silent
D) how to control emotion
Answer: B) to sit still
48. “He was a skeleton with the skin drawn tight over his bones.” The quoted line refers to –
A) the watchman
B) the banker
C) the lawyer
D) the journalist
Answer: C) the lawyer
49. What prevented the murder of the lawyer by the banker?
A) the books
B) the wretched condition of the lawyer
C) the conscience of the banker
D) the sheet of paper
Answer: D) the sheet of paper
50. How did the lawyer break the agreement of the bet?
A) by fleeing from the prison three hours before the fixed time
B) by fleeing from the prison five hours before the fixed time
C) the watchman helped him to escape
D) none of these
Answer: B) by fleeing from the prison five hours before the fixed time
51. Why did the banker kiss the lawyer on his head?
A) as the lawyer renounced the earthly things
B) as he would save the banker from bankruptcy
C) as he became the wisest by reading books
D) all of these
Answer: D) all of these
52. Why did the banker start to cry after reading the paper?
A) he felt sorry for the lawyer’s wretched condition
B) he felt a great contempt for himself
C) he was unburdened from bankruptcy
D) none of these
Answer: B) he felt a great contempt for himself
53. When the banker returned from the lodge, he lay on his bed, but his tears and emotion kept him awake for –
A) one hour
B) half an hour
C) two hours
D) one and a half hours
Answer: A) one hour
54. How did the lawyer escape from the lodge?
A) by breaking the window
B) by breaking the seals of the door.
C) by climbing out of the window
D) none of these.
Answer: C) by climbing out of the window
55. Where did the banker put the writing of the lawyer?
A) in a fireproof safe
B) in a cupboard
C) in an almirah
D) in a locker
Answer: A) in a fireproof safe
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