Extract Based Questions Test: The Proposal - 1 - Class 10 MCQ
15 Questions MCQ Test English Class 10 - Extract Based Questions Test: The Proposal - 1
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
Never mind about my people! The Lomovs have all been honourable people, and not one has ever been tried for embezzlement, like your grandfather!
CHUBUKOV: You Lomovs have had lunacy in your family, all of you! NATALYA: All, all, all!
CHUBUKOV: Your grandfather was a drunkard, and your younger aunt, Nastasya Mihailovna, ran away with an architect, and so on...
LOMOV: And your mother was hump-backed. [Clutches at his heart] Something pulling in my side... My head.... Help! Water!
CHUBUKOV: Your father was a guzzling gambler!
Q. Choose the option that correctly identifies the tone of the characters in the given extract.
(1) antagonism
(2) humour
(3) contempt
(4) irony
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
Never mind about my people! The Lomovs have all been honourable people, and not one has ever been tried for embezzlement, like your grandfather!
CHUBUKOV: You Lomovs have had lunacy in your family, all of you! NATALYA: All, all, all!
CHUBUKOV: Your grandfather was a drunkard, and your younger aunt, Nastasya Mihailovna, ran away with an architect, and so on...
LOMOV: And your mother was hump-backed. [Clutches at his heart] Something pulling in my side... My head.... Help! Water!
CHUBUKOV: Your father was a guzzling gambler!
Q. If according to Chubukov and Natalya, Lemons are not "honourable people", why do they still consider Lomov's proposal?
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Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
Never mind about my people! The Lomovs have all been honourable people, and not one has ever been tried for embezzlement, like your grandfather!
CHUBUKOV: You Lomovs have had lunacy in your family, all of you! NATALYA: All, all, all!
CHUBUKOV: Your grandfather was a drunkard, and your younger aunt, Nastasya Mihailovna, ran away with an architect, and so on...
LOMOV: And your mother was hump-backed. [Clutches at his heart] Something pulling in my side... My head.... Help! Water!
CHUBUKOV: Your father was a guzzling gambler!
Q. The playwright's intention in the given extract is to
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
Never mind about my people! The Lomovs have all been honourable people, and not one has ever been tried for embezzlement, like your grandfather!
CHUBUKOV: You Lomovs have had lunacy in your family, all of you! NATALYA: All, all, all!
CHUBUKOV: Your grandfather was a drunkard, and your younger aunt, Nastasya Mihailovna, ran away with an architect, and so on...
LOMOV: And your mother was hump-backed. [Clutches at his heart] Something pulling in my side... My head.... Help! Water!
CHUBUKOV: Your father was a guzzling gambler!
Q. Which of the following options comes closest to the meaning of 'tried' as used in the extract?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
Never mind about my people! The Lomovs have all been honourable people, and not one has ever been tried for embezzlement, like your grandfather!
CHUBUKOV: You Lomovs have had lunacy in your family, all of you! NATALYA: All, all, all!
CHUBUKOV: Your grandfather was a drunkard, and your younger aunt, Nastasya Mihailovna, ran away with an architect, and so on...
LOMOV: And your mother was hump-backed. [Clutches at his heart] Something pulling in my side... My head.... Help! Water!
CHUBUKOV: Your father was a guzzling gambler!
Imagine you found the playwright's notes for each scene in the play and noticed that some of the words were missing.
Q. Choose the option that fills the missing words most appropriately.
A conversation that starts pleasantly quickly turns into a (i) _______ argument. With (ii) ________ of Oxen Meadows at the heart of the matter, Lomov and Natalya quarrel and are later joined by Chubukov. Thus, begins a (iii) __________ of insults, accusations and name-calling. All (iv) __________ disappears. Eventually, Lomov leaves clutching at his heart, his foot numb.
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
CHUBUKOV: What a weight off my shoulders, ouf!
NATALYA: But, still you will admit now that Guess is worse than Squeezer.
LOMOV: Better!
NATALYA: Worse!
CHUBUKOV: Well, that's a way to start your family bliss! Have some champagne!
LOMOV: He's better!
NATALYA: Worse! Worse! Worse!
CHUBUKOV: [trying to shout her down] Champagne! Champagne!
Q. Which of the following titles of Shakespeare's plays might best apply to the relationship of Lomov and Natalya's relationship?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
CHUBUKOV: What a weight off my shoulders, ouf!
NATALYA: But, still you will admit now that Guess is worse than Squeezer.
LOMOV: Better!
NATALYA: Worse!
CHUBUKOV: Well, that's a way to start your family bliss! Have some champagne!
LOMOV: He's better!
NATALYA: Worse! Worse! Worse!
CHUBUKOV: [trying to shout her down] Champagne! Champagne!
Q. Based on the extract, Lomov and Natalya's closing lines can best be seen as
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
CHUBUKOV: What a weight off my shoulders, ouf!
NATALYA: But, still you will admit now that Guess is worse than Squeezer.
LOMOV: Better!
NATALYA: Worse!
CHUBUKOV: Well, that's a way to start your family bliss! Have some champagne!
LOMOV: He's better!
NATALYA: Worse! Worse! Worse!
CHUBUKOV: [trying to shout her down] Champagne! Champagne!
Q. How would you characterise Chubukov's mood based on the given extract?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
CHUBUKOV: What a weight off my shoulders, ouf!
NATALYA: But, still you will admit now that Guess is worse than Squeezer.
LOMOV: Better!
NATALYA: Worse!
CHUBUKOV: Well, that's a way to start your family bliss! Have some champagne!
LOMOV: He's better!
NATALYA: Worse! Worse! Worse!
CHUBUKOV: [trying to shout her down] Champagne! Champagne!
Q. The liberal use of exclamatory marks in the given extract indicate that the characters are expressing
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
CHUBUKOV: What a weight off my shoulders, ouf!
NATALYA: But, still you will admit now that Guess is worse than Squeezer.
LOMOV: Better!
NATALYA: Worse!
CHUBUKOV: Well, that's a way to start your family bliss! Have some champagne!
LOMOV: He's better!
NATALYA: Worse! Worse! Worse!
CHUBUKOV: [trying to shout her down] Champagne! Champagne!
Q. Choose the option that correctly uses the idioms to the fill in the blanks of the paragraph below.
In a team, it is important to (i) __________ . Otherwise, you would become (ii) __________ , and incur the displeasure of the others. When that happens, you might feel (iii) __________ . However, for the others, not having to carry you along would be a (iv) __________ .
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
But, please, Stephen Stepanovitch, how can they be yours? Do be a reasonable man. My aunt's grandmother gave the Meadows for the temporary and free use of your grandfather's peasants. The peasants used the land for forty years and got accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that .............. .
Q. Who is the speaker of above lines?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
But, please, Stephen Stepanovitch, how can they be yours? Do be a reasonable man. My aunt's grandmother gave the Meadows for the temporary and free use of your grandfather's peasants. The peasants used the land for forty years and got accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that .............. .
Q. Why did the peasants treat the land as their own?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
But, please, Stephen Stepanovitch, how can they be yours? Do be a reasonable man. My aunt's grandmother gave the Meadows for the temporary and free use of your grandfather's peasants. The peasants used the land for forty years and got accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that .............. .
Q. Why did his aunt’s grand mother give the meadows?
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
But, please, Stephen Stepanovitch, how can they be yours? Do be a reasonable man. My aunt's grandmother gave the Meadows for the temporary and free use of your grandfather's peasants. The peasants used the land for forty years and got accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that .............. .
Q. Find the synonym of ‘Sensible’ from the above passage
Direction: Read the extracts given below and attempt, by answering the questions that follow.
But, please, Stephen Stepanovitch, how can they be yours? Do be a reasonable man. My aunt's grandmother gave the Meadows for the temporary and free use of your grandfather's peasants. The peasants used the land for forty years and got accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that .............. .
Q. What light do these lines throw on the speaker’s character? He is_________.
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