Multiple Choice Questions with their correct answers based on "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov:
✅ Page 1–2
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➤ C) Out of date and immoral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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✅ Page 3–4
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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