Anton Chekhov

The Bet MCQ

By Golam Mortuja

Published on: May 4, 2025

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The Bet MCQ

The Bet – A Thought-provoking Short-story

Anton Chekhov [1860-1904]

MCQ – 1 Mark

Different Categorical Important Questions

Informative

1. The old banker was pacing from corner to corner of his study

Ⓐ in the night of a spring

Ⓑ in an autumn morning

Ⓓ in an autumn afternoon.

2. In Anton Chekhov’s short-story ‘The Bet’ the bet was about

Ⓐ the social significance of morality and immorality

Ⓑ the spirituality and materialism

Ⓓ the importance of banking and legal profession.

3. The party was held in the old banker’s house

Ⓐ fifteen years ago

Ⓑ twenty five years ago

Ⓓ fifty years ago.

**4. “There were many clever people at the party and much interesting conversation”—The party was held**

Ⓐ in a garden-wing

Ⓑ in a journalist’s house

Ⓓ in a lawyer’s house.

5. In the story ‘The Bet’ by Anton Chekhov in the party the bet was between

Ⓐ the lawyer and the doctor

Ⓑ the banker and the lawyer

Ⓓ the banker and the doctor.

6. Most of the guests in the party found the capital punishment unfitted to—

Ⓐ a democratic state

Ⓑ a theocratic state

Ⓓ an independent state.

7. Both capital punishment and life imprisonment are immoral because—

Ⓐ both of them cause suffering and pain

Ⓑ both of them make people suffer

Ⓓ both of them take away life.

8. When the lawyer got involved into the bet with the banker, he was

Ⓐ 45 years

Ⓑ 25 years

Ⓓ 35 years old.

9. The punishment the lawyer proposed to choose was

Ⓐ capital punishment

Ⓑ short imprisonment

Ⓓ death sentence.

10. The state has no right to impose capital punishment because

Ⓐ the state is guided by God’s representatives.

Ⓑ the victim is also the part of the state.

Ⓓ the state is governed by man-made laws.

11. The banker offered __________ as bet to the lawyer in the party.

Ⓐ two billions

Ⓑ two millions

Ⓓ two trillions

**12. “They are both equally immoral”— Here the word ‘they’ refers to**

Ⓐ the banker and the capital punishment

Ⓑ life imprisonment and the lawyer

Ⓓ the capital punishment and the life imprisonment.

13. At first the banker proposed____________years of imprisonment for the lawyer.

Ⓐ ten

Ⓑ fifteen

Ⓓ fifty

**14. “I don’t agree with you”, said the host—Here the host**

Ⓐ the lawyer

Ⓑ the scholar

Ⓓ the banker.

15. “…but if you were offered the choice between them, I would certainly choose the second”—This is the speech of the lawyer in the story ‘The Bet’. Now, in this sentence the word ‘second’ refers to

Ⓐ two million

Ⓑ death sentence

Ⓓ capital punishment.

16. The banker warned the lawyer about the consequences of his accepting the bet

Ⓐ before his entering into the prison

Ⓑ during the lively discussion

Ⓓ after the evening party.

17. The lawyer was imprisoned on

Ⓐ November 4, 1870

Ⓑ November 10, 1875

Ⓓ November 14, 1885

18. According to the agreement prepared after the party, the lawyer was to be imprisoned

Ⓐ in the specially built prison house

Ⓑ in the garden wing of the banker’s house

Ⓓ in a public activity among these.

19. During his imprisonment, the lawyer is not allowed

Ⓐ to receive letters

Ⓑ to smoke tobacco

Ⓓ to write a letter.

20. According to the banker, the life of the lawyer in the prison cell will be poisoned by thinking that

Ⓐ he has the right to free himself at any moment

Ⓑ the outside world is full of variety, beauty and enjoyment

Ⓓ he has been a victim of his own greed of gold.

21. The lawyer was allowed to communicate with the outside world—

Ⓐ by making a sound with a gong

Ⓑ through the watchman

Ⓓ through the voice.

22. The sound of the piano came day and night in________year of the imprisonment day and night.

Ⓐ first

Ⓑ sixth

Ⓓ fifth

23. When did the lawyer reject wine and tobacco?

Ⓐ in the second year of imprisonment

Ⓑ in the first year of imprisonment

Ⓓ in the fifth year of imprisonment

24. The banker bought___________books for the lawyer in the first four years of imprisonment.

Ⓐ four hundred volumes

Ⓑ five hundred volumes

Ⓓ six hundred volumes

25. In the first year of his imprisonment, the lawyer read

Ⓐ history books

Ⓑ novels

Ⓓ language books

26. The lawyer was terribly suffering from loneliness and boredom, and it was evident

Ⓐ from his refusal of wine

Ⓑ from constant piano playing

Ⓓ from his selection of books.

27. The two things rejected by the lawyer in his first year of imprisonment were

Ⓐ tobacco and wine

Ⓑ music and tobacco

Ⓓ books on crime and fantasy.

28. The musical instrument which the lawyer was allowed to keep with him was—

Ⓐ panpipe

Ⓑ violin

Ⓓ guitar.

29. During the first year of imprisonment, the lawyer used to write. Now, on the second year of his imprisonment, he

Ⓐ recited his papers all through the day

Ⓑ kept it inside a box

Ⓓ tore them all in the morning.

30. According to the lawyer, the ‘chief foes’ of a prisoner are

Ⓐ boredoms

Ⓑ wine

Ⓓ desires.

31. “Come to your senses, young man, before it’s too late”— Here the ‘young man’ is

Ⓐ the watchman

Ⓑ the banker

Ⓓ the journalist

32. The agreement for the imprisonment of the lawyer was made

Ⓐ during the supper

Ⓑ at 12 o’clock

Ⓓ after the evening party.

33. During his imprisonment the lawyer learnt

Ⓐ six languages

Ⓑ four languages

Ⓓ five languages.

34. The lawyer sent a letter in six languages to the banker because

Ⓐ he wanted to show his genius to the banker

Ⓑ he made a bet with him about language learning

Ⓓ he was trying to spend his time in a meaningful way.

35. The lawyer asked the banker to fire a gun in the garden

Ⓐ to let him hear the sound of the outside world

Ⓑ to celebrate his achievement of learning languages

Ⓓ to ascertain if his language learning was correct

36. To fulfill the prisoner’s desire, the banker ordered____shots to be fired in the garden.

Ⓐ three

Ⓑ six

Ⓓ two

37. According to the banker, the lawyer got involved in the bet because of

Ⓐ his greed of gold

Ⓑ his foolishness

Ⓓ his over confidence and pride.

38. The incident narrated in the story ‘The Bet’ takes the time span of—

Ⓐ fifteen years

Ⓑ ten years

Ⓓ five years.

39. The year in which the lawyer was supposed to get his freedom is—

Ⓐ 1885

Ⓑ 1870

Ⓓ 1880.

40. The incident narrated in the story ‘The Bet’ occurred in the

Ⓐ 19th century

Ⓑ 20th century

Ⓓ 18th century

41. After the completion of the tenth year of his imprisonment, the lawyer read particularly

Ⓐ Chemistry books

Ⓑ Shakespeare’s books

Ⓓ The New Testament.

42. The lawyer rejected wine in the first year of his imprisonment because

Ⓐ wine excites desires

Ⓑ it is very boring to drink wine alone

Ⓓ both Ⓐ and Ⓑ

43. According to him, the reason behind the banker’s involvement in the bet was

Ⓐ possession of great wealth

Ⓑ haughty behaviour

Ⓓ the caprice of a well-fed man.

44. The thing which was not supplied to the lawyer during his imprisonment was

Ⓐ wine

Ⓑ tobacco

Ⓓ newspaper.

45. The lawyer was heard to weep and to talk to himself angrily

Ⓐ in the tenth year

Ⓑ in the first year

Ⓓ in the second year.

46. The lawyer asked the banker to show his letter written in six different languages to—

Ⓐ his relatives

Ⓑ the philosophers

Ⓓ the experts.

47. The lawyer read the Bible at a stretch during his imprisonment

Ⓐ nearly a year

Ⓑ from time to time

Ⓓ nearly a week.

48. At the time of making bet the banker was—

Ⓐ neither rich nor poor

Ⓑ moderately wealthy

Ⓓ very rich

49. At the time of his release from the imprisonment, the lawyer was

Ⓐ thirty-five years old

Ⓑ twenty-five years old

Ⓓ thirty years old.

50. The lawyer in the story ‘The Bet’—

Ⓐ had a girlfriend

Ⓑ was married

Ⓓ was a bachelor.

51. The condition of the banker’s business fifteen years after making the bet was

Ⓐ thriving and prosperous

Ⓑ decaying and crumbling

Ⓓ rising and falling with the market.

52. The reason of the banker’s downfall in business is not

Ⓐ his personal recklessness

Ⓑ gambling on the stock exchange

Ⓓ risky speculation.

53. If the banker had to pay two million to the lawyer,

Ⓐ he would feel defeated to the lawyer

Ⓑ he would be bankrupt and totally ruined

Ⓓ his friends would laugh at him for his defeat.

54. The banker went into the garden-wing on the day before the release of the lawyer

Ⓐ at 3 o’clock in the afternoon

Ⓑ at 12 o’clock at night

Ⓓ at 3 o’clock at night.

55. The only way that the banker could think of to avoid his bankruptcy and disgrace was—

Ⓐ to take loans from others

Ⓑ to flee from his house to an unknown place

Ⓓ to kill the lawyer.

56. After reaching the garden-wing at night, the banker called twice

Ⓐ the watchman

Ⓑ the servant

Ⓓ the lawyer.

57. The lawyer addressed the banker in his first letter to him as

Ⓐ my dear partner

Ⓑ my dear friend

Ⓓ my dear jailer.

58. In Anton Chekhov’s short-story ‘The Bet’ there are

Ⓐ three sections

Ⓑ four sections

Ⓓ two sections.

59. When the banker addressed the watchman twice____

Ⓐ the watchman came running to him

Ⓑ there was no answer

Ⓓ the lawyer woke up in his room.

60. The weather in the night in which the banker ventured into the garden-wing was

Ⓐ calm and springlike

Ⓑ fine and breezy

Ⓓ moonlit and windy.

61. Where might the watchman take shelter and fall asleep in the foul weather?

Ⓐ In the outhouse

Ⓑ In the kitchen

Ⓓ Both Ⓑ and Ⓒ

**62. “If I have the courage to fulfil my intention”—Through this speech the banker intends to mean**

Ⓐ to take away the lawyer from the prison house

Ⓑ to kill the lawyer in his prison house

Ⓓ to discuss with the lawyer about the bet

63. The banker intended to kill the lawyer

Ⓐ by stabbing him with a knife

Ⓑ by strangling him to death

Ⓓ by drowning him in the bathtub.

64. The banker struck a match in the house at the garden-wing

Ⓐ in the prisoner’s room

Ⓑ in the narrow passage

Ⓓ in the hall.

65. When the banker peeped into the prisoner’s room, he felt

Ⓐ he was very much afraid

Ⓑ he was trembling in agitation

Ⓓ his mind was boiling with excitement.

66. In the prisoner’s room—

Ⓐ there was pitch darkness

Ⓑ an electric bulb was burning dimly

Ⓓ a lamp was burning

67. In the prisoner’s room, the banker saw

Ⓐ the prisoner was lying on the bed

Ⓑ the prisoner was reading a book sitting on a chair

Ⓓ the prisoner was standing beside the table.

68. The room of the prisoner was strewn with—

Ⓐ cigarettes

Ⓑ books

Ⓓ dresses

69. Before going to the garden wing, the banker took with him

Ⓐ a knife

Ⓑ a torch

Ⓓ a candle.

70. When the lawyer heard the horse creaking of the door_____

Ⓐ he let out a cry of surprise

Ⓑ he did not respond to the sound

Ⓓ he startled and jumped.

71. When the banker entered into the prison room, the lawyer was—

Ⓐ sleeping

Ⓑ reading a book

Ⓓ playing the piano.

72. On the table beside the lawyer’s head, there was

Ⓐ a sheet of paper

Ⓑ a matchbox

Ⓓ a burning candle

**73. “On the table, before his bended head, lay a sheet of paper on which something was written in a tiny hand”—In this sentence ‘tiny hand’ means—**

Ⓐ a very lean hand

Ⓑ small handwriting

Ⓓ a small hand.

74. “I heard the syrens singing”—’Syrens’ are the characters of—

Ⓐ Indian mythology

Ⓑ Russian mythology

Ⓓ Greek mythology.

75. The banker observed that the lawyer’s hair was

Ⓐ curly

Ⓑ greying

Ⓓ all of them.

76. The women, whom the lawyer happened to have the company of during his imprisonment, were—

Ⓐ women of other world

Ⓑ created by the poets

Ⓓ real women.

77. After his fifteen years’ diligent study of earthly life, the lawyer realized that

Ⓐ everything is meaningless as death would shatter everything

Ⓑ obtaining wisdom is the purpose of life

Ⓓ one can achieve immortality through the study of books.

78. ‘Mont Blanc’ and ‘Elbruz’ are the names of the—

Ⓐ holy places

Ⓑ cities

Ⓓ rivers

79. The lawyer violated the condition of the bet

Ⓐ by coming out two minutes before time

Ⓑ by talking with the watchman

Ⓓ by coming out five minutes before time.

80. After reading the sheet of paper, written by the lawyer, the banker began to cry because

Ⓐ he felt relieved from the fear of being bankrupt

Ⓑ he was reminded of his cruelty

Ⓓ he felt contempt for himself.

81. “It was a skeleton, with tight-drawn skin”—In this line the word skeleton suggests that—

Ⓐ the lawyer had turned very thin

Ⓑ it was the ghost of the lawyer

Ⓓ none of them

82. The banker could not kill the lawyer instantly because of

Ⓐ the sheet of paper

Ⓑ the kindness of him

Ⓓ the lawyer’s sorrowful appearance.

83. After reading the letter written by the lawyer on the day before his release, the banker—

Ⓐ hid it inside a book

Ⓑ took it away with him

Ⓓ tore it into pieces.

84. The lawyer claimed that he had studied the earthly life for

Ⓐ all his life

Ⓑ ten years

Ⓓ fifteen years.

85. After returning from the garden-wing, the banker—

Ⓐ went back again to the garden wing

Ⓑ instantly fell asleep

Ⓓ was kept awake for a long time.

86. _________was /were against the capital punishment.

Ⓐ the lawyer

Ⓑ the banker

Ⓓ both Ⓐ and Ⓒ

87. In Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Bet’, the garden symbolizes

Ⓐ freedom and escape

Ⓑ isolation and confinement

Ⓓ spiritual growth and enlightenment.

88. The text ‘The Bet’ by Anton Chekhov is a /an__

Ⓐ novel

Ⓑ drama

Ⓓ short-story.

89. The famous short-story ‘The Bet’ has been written by

Ⓐ R K Narayan

Ⓑ Ruskin Bond

Ⓓ Anton Chekhov.

90. Anton Chekhov’s short-story ‘The Bet’ was published in

Ⓐ 1887

Ⓑ 1888

Ⓓ 1890.

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Fill in the Blanks

**1. “The old banker was pacing from corner to corner of his ________________.” [Fill in the blank by choosing the right word.]**

(A) hall

(B) living room

(D) bedroom

**2. “He will take away my last ________________, marry, enjoy life, gamble on the Exchange.” [Fill in the blank by choosing the right word.]**

(A) rouble

(B) pice

(D) farthing

3. The banker thought that the suspicion of killing the lawyer will fall on ________________. [Fill in the blank by choosing the right word.]

(A) the watchman

(B) himself

(D) a stranger

4. The banker would be freed from the obligation to pay the lawyer the two millions if the lawyer escaped ________________ before the time. [Fill in the blanks by choosing the right words.]

(A) fifteen minutes

(B) two minutes

(D) five minutes

5. In the first year of his imprisonment the lawyer rejected and . [Fill in the blank by choosing the right words.]

(A) wine, music

(B) books, wine

(D) books, music

6. In the ________________ year of his imprisonment the lawyer stopped playing the piano. [Fill in the blank by choosing the right word.]

(A) sixth

(B) fifth

(D) tenth

**7. “In the space of ________________ years about six hundred volumes were bought at his request.” [Fill in the blank by choosing the right word.]**

(A) six

(B) five

(D) four

8. During his imprisonment the lawyer learnt six ________________. [Fill in the blank by choosing the right word.]

(A) songs

(B) poems

(D) stories

9. The banker decided to kill the lawyer for avoiding ________________. [Fill in the blank by choosing the right word.]

(D) police-intervention

(B) imprisonment

(A) defeat

**10. “It was a skeleton, with tight-drawn skin, with ________________ curly hair like a woman’s.” [Fill in the blank by choosing the right word.]**

(A) short

(D) heavy

(B) plaited.

11. According to the lawyer, the beautiful devils came flying to him to speak of ________________. [Fill in the blank by choosing the right word.]

(A) hell

(B) heaven

(D) God

**12. “Everything is void, frail, visionary and delusive as a ________________.” [Fill in the blank by choosing the right word.]**

(D) clouds

(B) mirage

(A) rainbow

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Column Matching Type

1. Match the words in Column A with the words in Column B.

Column A	Column B
*Years of Imprisonment*	Activities of the lawyer
(i) First year	(a) asked only for classics
(ii) Second year	(b) started learning languages
(iii) Fifth year	(c) played piano all the time
(iv) Sixth year	(d) played piano again and asked for wine

Options

(A) (i)-(c), (ii)-(d), (iii)-(b), (iv)-(a)

(B) (i)-(d), (ii)-(a), (iii)-(b), (iv)-(c)

(D) (i)-(c), (ii)-(a), (iii)-(d), (iv)-(b)

2. Match the words in Column A with the contents in Column B.

Column A	Column B
*Characters*	*Attitude to punishment*
(i) Banker	(a) Disapproved Capital Punishment
(ii) Lawyer	(b) Supported Capital Punishment
(iii) Most of Guests in the party	(c) Preferred life imprisonment

Options

(A) (i)-(b), (ii)-(c), (iii)-(a)

(B) (i)-(c), (ii)-(b), (iii)-(a)

(D) (i)-(c), (ii)-(a), (iii)-(b)

3. Match the words in Column A with the contents in Column B.

Column A	Column B
*Activities that the lawyer experienced through books*	*What/Where*
(i) hunted	(a) wings of beautiful devils
(ii) climbed	(b) sirens
(iii) heard	(c) deer and wild boars
(iv) touched	(d) Mont Blanc

Options

(A) (i)-(c), (ii)-(a), (iii)-(b), (iv)-(d)

(B) (i)-(c), (ii)-(d), (iii)-(b), (iv)-(a)

(D) (i)-(b), (ii)-(a), (iii)-(d), (iv)-(c)

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Assertion-Reasoning Type

1. Assertion : The banker expected to hear a cry of surprise from the lawyer.

Reason : The rusty lock gave a hoarse groan and the door creaked.

Choose the correct answer :

(A) Assertion is right but the Reason is wrong.

(B) The Reason is right but the Assertion is wrong.

(D) Assertion is wrong and the Reason does not match with Assertion.

2. The banker considered capital punishment to be more ethical and compassionate than imprisonment.

Reason : ?

Choose the correct answer :

(A) The death in capital punishment is painless.

(B) Imprisonment involves a lot of spending on the part of the authority.

(D) The banker was cruel by nature.

3. Assertion : ?

Reason : To determine the success of his acquisition of the six languages was the lawyer’s aim.

Choose the correct answer :

(A) The lawyer asked the banker to show his letter to the experts.

(B) The lawyer wrote a letter choose to the banker.

(D) All of the above

4. The banker’s tapping on the prison house window from the garden house was because—

(A ) he wanted to rouse the lawyer from sleep

(B) he wanted to ascertain if the prisoner was awake or asleep

(D) he wanted to summon the watchman.

5. Assertion : The banker secured the lawyer’s letter of renunciation in his safe.

Reason : To prevent needless gossip regarding the lawyer’s vanishing was his intention.

Choose the correct answer :

(B) Assertion is right but the Reason does not befit with it

(D) Assertion and Reason do not match

(A) Assertion is right and the statement mentioned as Reason is appropriate

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Sentence Relationship Type

1. Statement A : Execution kills instantly.

Statement B : Life imprisonment kills by degrees.

(A) Statement A and B are not interrelated

(B) Both the Statements A and B suggest comparison with each other

(D) Statement A and B have cause effect relationship

2. Statement A : Your books gave me wisdom.

Statement B : And I despise your books.

(A) Statement A and B are contrasting to each other

(B) Statement B is the effect of Statement A

(D) Statement A supports Statement B

3. Statement A : I shall come out five minutes before the stipulated time.

Statement B : I waive the two millions.

(A) Statement A contradicts Statement B

(B) Statement A and B are unrelated

(D) Statement B proves Statement A

4. Statement A : Voluntary is much heavier than enforced imprisonment.

Statement B : The idea that you have the right to free yourself at any moment will poison the whole of your life in the cell.

(A) Statement A and Statement B have no relation with each other

(B) Statement A is the reason of Statement B

(D) Statement B is the reason of Statement A

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Diagram Based Type

1. The bet was between the suitability of capital punishment and life imprisonment.

Suppose the half-circle on top represents capital punishment and the half-circle at the bottom represents life-imprisonment. The white half-circle stands for preference and the black half-circle stands for non-preference.

In consideration of the above conditions which among the following diagrams represents the choice of the
lawyer in the story ‘The Bet’?

(A) ◯|◯

(B) ⚫|◯

(D) ⚫|⚫

2. ‘The Bet’ is a story about spiritualism and materialism. It also tells about the gain and loss in the world of
spiritualism and materialism.

Suppose the half circle in the right hand side indicates the spiritual world and that on left stands for material world. Write half-circles represent gain and the black half-circles indicate loss.

Now, which among the following diagrams rightly represents the spiritual and material gain and loss of
the lawyer?

(A) ⚫|⚫

(B) ◯|◯

(D) ◯|⚫

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Rearrangement of Sentences Type

1. Arrange the following sentences in the proper sequence or order of happening by choosing the correct option—

(i) He called the watchman twice.

(ii) The banker was listening.

(iii) The clock had just struck three.

(iv) The banker put on his overcoat and went out of the house.

Options

(A) (iii)→(iv)→(i)→(ii)

(B) (iii)→(ii)→(iv)→(i)

(D) (iii)→(i)→(ii)→(iv)

2. Arrange the following sentences in the proper sequence or order of happening by choosing the correct option—

(i) The banker, trembling from agitation peeped into the prisoner’s room.

(ii) He groped for the steps and the door of the room.

(iii) In the prisoner’s room a candle was burning dimly.

(iv) The banker poked his way into the passage and struck a match.

Options

(A) (ii)→(iv)→(i)→(iii)

(B) (ii)→(iii)→(i)→(iv)

(D) (iv)→(ii)→(i)→(iii)

3. Arrange the following sentences in the proper sequence or order of happening by choosing the correct option—

(i) He went out of the wing.

(ii) He lay down on his bed.

(iii) The banker put the sheet of paper on the table.

(iv) He kissed the head of the strange man and began to weep.

Options

(A) (iii)→(i)→(ii)→(iv)

(B) (iii)→(ii)→(i)→(iv)

(D) (ii)→(iii)→(iv)→(i)

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True and False Type

1. Identify the false statement.

(A) During the first year of his imprisonment the lawyer felt terribly lonely.

(B) The sound of piano was heard day and night from his wing.

(D) He was sent books of light character, love novels, crime stories etc.

2. Which, among the following statements is true?

(A) The party in the banker’s house was held in winter.

(B) There were many clever people at the party and much interesting conversation.

(D) The lawyer argued that capital punishment is better than life imprisonment.

3. Write T for true and F for false statements.

(i) At the time of the betting the lawyer was thirty five years old.

(ii) The banker was very rich at the time of betting.

(iii) The banker challenged that the lawyer would not stick in a cell for five years.

(iv) The lawyer bet that he would stay not five but ten years.

Options

(A) (i)-F, (ii)-T, (iii)-F, (iv)-T

(B) (i)-F, (ii)-T, (iii)-T, (iv)-F

(D) (i)-T, (ii)-T, (iii)-T, (iv)-F

4. Which among these are false statements?

(i) The banker went into the garden-wing on the night before the release of the prisoner.

(ii) It was raining on that night.

(iii) The watchman greeted the banker on the gate.

(iv) At that time of night the prisoner was reading a book sitting by the table.

Options

(A) (iii) & (i)

(B) (i) & (iv)

(D) (iii) & (iv)

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Case Based Type

1. Who, according to you, actually won the bet and why?

Choose your answer from the alternative given below.

(A) The banker won the bet because the lawyer came out of the room five minutes before the time.

(B) The lawyer won the bet because he came out of the room at his own will.

(D) Both the banker and lawyer won the bet because both learnt a lesson from their betting.

2. The lawyer came out of the room five minutes before the stipulated time and disappeared as the watchman had reported the banker.

Where, according to your thought, might the lawyer go?

(A) To his house to meet with the relatives.

(B) To the courthouse for starting legal practice once again.

(D) To no particular destination for spending the rest of his life in deeper thoughts.

3. Who, according to you, was benefitted from the betting?

(A) None of them was benefitted as one lost so many years and another suffered so many anxieties.

(B) Both of them were benefitted as both learnt lessons of life.

(D) The banker was benefitted as he was saved from being bankrupt.

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WBCHSE Quick Recall Sample Questions

1. What was the subject of the initial discussion at the banker’s party?

a) Love and marriage

b) Capital punishment

c) The stock market

d) Literature and philosophy

2. How long was the lawyer supposed to stay in solitary confinement?

a) 10 years

b) 15 years

c) 20 years

d) 5 years

3. Assertion (A) : The lawyer left his confinement before the bet ended.

Reason (R) : He realized that material wealth and worldly pleasures were meaningless.

a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.

b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.

c) A is true, but R is false.

d) A is false, but R is true.

4. Assertion (A) : The banker was relieved when the lawyer left early.

Reason (R) : The banker had become wealthy by the end of the 15 years and was ready to pay.

a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.

b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.

c) A is true, but R is false.

d) A is false, but R is true.

5. Match the items in Column A with their corresponding descriptions in Column B .

Column A	Column B
A. The Banker	1. Symbolizes materialism and fear of loss
B. The Lawyer	2. Represents the pursuit of knowledge and eventual disillusionment
C. The Bet Agreement	3. A test of human endurance and conflicting values
D. The Lawyer’s Final Letter	4. Rejects material wealth and questions life’s meaning

Options :

a) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4

b) A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4

c) A 3, B 4, C 2, D 1

d) A 1, B 3, C 4, D 2

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Anton Chekhov’s short-story ‘The Bet’

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