Multiple Choice Questions with their correct answers based on "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov:

 Multiple Choice Questions with their correct answers based on "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov:


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1. What season is mentioned in the first line?

➤ C) Autumn

2. Where was the banker walking?

➤ C) In his study

3. What was the banker remembering?

➤ B) A party he gave

4. How many years ago did the banker give the party?

➤ C) Fifteen

5. What kind of men were present at the party?

➤ B) Clever men/ Intelligent men

6. What kind of conversations were held at the party?

➤ C) Interesting

7. What topic was discussed among others at the party?

➤ C) Capital punishment

8. What did the majority of guests disapprove of?

➤ C) Death penalty

9. Who were among the guests?

➤ C) Journalists and intellectuals

10. How did the guests view capital punishment?

➤ C) Out of date and immoral

11. What punishment did some suggest instead of death?

➤ C) Imprisonment for life

12. Who disagreed with the majority view?

➤ C) The banker

13. Had the banker experienced capital punishment or life imprisonment?

➤ B) No

14. According to the banker, which punishment is more humane?

➤ A) Death penalty

15. What does the banker say about the death penalty?

➤ B) It is quick

16. How does the banker describe lifelong imprisonment?

➤ C) A slow death

17. What question does the banker ask about executioners?

➤ C) Who is more humane?

18. What did one guest say about both punishments?

➤ C) Both are immoral

19. What reason did the guest give against both punishments?

➤ C) They aim to take life

20. What did the guest say about the State?

➤ C) It is not God

21. Who was the young guest at the party?

➤ C) A lawyer

22. What was the age of the young lawyer?

➤ A) Twenty five

23. What was the lawyer’s opinion about the punishments?

➤ C) Both are immoral

24. What would the lawyer choose between death and life imprisonment?

➤ C) Life imprisonment

25. What does the lawyer say about life?

➤ B) Living is always better

26. What started after the lawyer’s opinion?

➤ C) A lively discussion

27. How was the banker described in those days?

➤ B) Young and nervous

28. How did the banker react emotionally?

➤ C) Carried away by excitement

29. What did the banker do with his hand?

➤ C) Hit the table

30. What did the banker shout?

➤ B) “Let’s see!”

31. How much did the banker bet?

➤ B) Two million

32. How many years of confinement did the banker mention?

➤ C) Fifteen

33. What did the young man say about the bet?

➤ C) He accepted for fifteen years

34. What word did the banker say to finalize the bet?

➤ B) Done

35. What did the young man stake in the bet?

➤ D) His freedom

36. What kind of bet was it?

➤ B) Wild and senseless

37. How was the banker’s lifestyle described?

➤ C) Spoilt and frivolous

38. What did the banker have beyond reckoning?

➤ D) Millions

39. How did the banker feel about the bet?

➤ B) Happy

40. What did the banker do during supper?

➤ C) Mocked the young man

41. What advice did the banker give the young man?

➤ B) Think again

42. What did the banker say about the two million?

➤ C) It was a trifle

43. What did the young man lose in the banker’s view?

➤ D) Best years of his life

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1. What does the speaker estimate as the prisoner’s potential stay?

➤ A) three or four years

2. What kind of confinement is described as harder to bear?

➤ D) Voluntary imprisonment

3. What thought poisons the prisoner’s mind during confinement?

➤ C) His right to leave at any moment

4. How does the banker feel about the situation?

➤ B) Sorry and regretful

5. What question does the banker ask himself?

➤ B) Why he placed the bet / What was the object of the bet

6. What does the banker call the bet?

➤ C) Nonsensical and meaningless

7. How does the banker describe his own motive?

➤ B) A pampered whim

8. Why did the young man agree to the bet, according to the banker?

➤ C) Desire for money

9. Where was the prisoner confined?

➤ C) In a lodge in the banker’s garden

10. How long was the prisoner to stay confined?

➤ C) Fifteen years

11. What was strictly prohibited during the confinement?

➤ B) Seeing or hearing humans

12. Through what could the prisoner receive items from outside?

➤ C) A little window

13. What items was the prisoner allowed to use?

➤ C) Books, wine, and a musical instrument

14. What did the banker have to pay if the prisoner completed the term?

➤ C) Two million

15. What was the punishment for breaking the agreement early?

➤ C) No money reward

16. What did the prisoner suffer from in the first year?

➤ B) Depression and loneliness

17. What sound was constantly heard from the lodge?

➤ B) Music from the piano (1st year)

18. Why did the prisoner refuse wine?

➤ C) It excites desires

19. What type of books did the prisoner read in the first year?

➤ B) Light novels and fantastic stories

20. What change happened in the second year?

➤ C) He read classics and stopped playing piano

21. What happened in the fifth year?

➤ C) He resumed music and requested wine

22. What unusual behavior did the prisoner show in the fifth year?

➤ C) Eating, drinking, and talking to himself

23. What did he do with his writings at night?

➤ D) Tore them up in the morning

24. How did observers know he was emotionally disturbed?

➤ C) He was often heard crying

25. What did the prisoner begin studying after the sixth year?

➤ C) Languages, philosophy, and history

26. How did the banker respond to the prisoner’s book requests?

➤ B) Could not meet the demand easily

27. How many books were delivered during four years of study?

➤ D) six hundred

28. What was special about the letter the prisoner wrote?

➤ A) It was written in six languages

29. What did the prisoner request if there were no errors in his letter?

➤ B) To shoot a gun in the garden

30. What did the prisoner say burns in all geniuses?

➤ C) The same flame

31. What did the banker do in response to the letter?

➤ B) Fired two shots

32. What did the prisoner read only after the tenth year?

➤ B) The Gospel


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