laboursonline – MCQs, Mock Tests | English CBES Board(Class 12-English)MCQ Questions with Answers(Chapter 4 The Rattrap)-Flamingo book

Who is the author of The Rattrap?

1. Selma Lagerlof
2. Thomas B. Allen
3. Howard Phillips
4. Sudha Murthy

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which country does the author belong to?

1. Singapore
2. Sydney
3. Sweden
4. Switzerland

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Where has the story been set up?

1. Jewellery shops
2. Forests of Sweden
3. Roads of Sweden
4. Mines of Sweden

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Sweden Mines are rich in which ore?

1. Brass
2. Copper
3. Steel
4. Iron ore

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In what manner has the story been narrated?

1. Non-fictious style
2. Realistic manner
3. Fairy tale manner
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the message of the story?

1. Love and kindness are powerful reformers.
2. Kindness is powerless
3. Kindness encourages thieves
4. Thieves need reprimand

✅ Correct Answer: 1

This story revolves around whom?

1. Around Crofter and his daughter
2. Around crofter
3. Around ironman
4. Around peddler- the Rattrap seller

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What does the rattrap seller have to do to make his both ends meet?

1. Peddling
2. Selling
3. Begging
4. Thievery and begging

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why does the peddler knit up various kind of thoughts?

1. Because of greed
2. Because of travelling
3. Because of loneliness and poverty
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In peddler's view, what does the world look like?

1. A Rat
2. A Jungle
3. A Jigsaw
4. A Rattrap

✅ Correct Answer: 4

According to the seller what leads us to various miseries?

1. Attractions
2. People
3. Friends
4. Wishes and greed of comfort

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did the peddler have to take shelter?

1. Because of his wishes
2. Because he wants to steal
3. Because he wants to be with his friends
4. Because he had no home

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who offered shelter to the Peddler?

1. A beggar
2. A friend
3. A milkman
4. An old Crofter

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What made the Peddler finally change his ways?

1. Edla's beauty
2. His mistaken identity
3. His greed
4. Kindness and care

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What does the metaphor Rattrap in the lesson signify?

1. Humans
2. Thieves
3. Attractions
4. Human greed and distractions

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What lightens the seriousness of the lesson?

1. Peddler's greed
2. Peddler's gossip
3. Peddler's tricks
4. Peddler's sense of humour

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What earns the sympathy of the reader towards the peddler?

1. His actions
2. His stories
3. His face
4. His sense of humour and innocent acceptance

✅ Correct Answer: 4

From where did the Peddler get the idea of the world being a Rattrap?

1. From his friends' situation
2. From Crofter's behavior
3. From Edla's words
4. From his circumstances and miserable life condition

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why was he amused by his idea of a rattrap?

1. It was a bad joke
2. It was a good comparison
3. It was the exact situation and was humorous
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why was the ironmaster so talkative and friendly with the Peddler?

1. Because he knew him.
2. He was his friend
3. He was his neighbour
4. Because of his resemblance to one of his old friend

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Elda bring the Peddler to her house for Christmas cheer?

1. Because she knew him
2. He was very funny
3. He was good looking
4. Because of his resemblance to her father's old friend

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did the Peddler leave the stolen money in a Rattrap?

1. Because of his plan
2. To deceive them
3. Because his heart was changed with Edla’s kindness
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How is the Peddler influenced by meeting the Crofter and Edla?

1. He was encouraged to steal money
2. He became a rattrap seller
3. His heart was changed
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why did Edla have doubts about the Peddler?

1. His behavior
2. His words
3. His fear and appearance
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why did the Peddler not reveal his true identity?

1. Because of fear
2. He didn't want to hurt them
3. In the greed of getting money
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why did the Peddler feel that he had fallen into the Rattrap?

1. Because he fell into a pit
2. Because he fell in love with Edla
3. Because his heart is changed
4. Because of his greedy action and pitiable circumstances

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Crofter show 30 Kronor to the Peddler?

1. To show him down
2. To flaunt
3. Because he is sad
4. To share his feelings of pride

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did the Peddler have to resort to begging and thievery?

1. He was habitual of it
2. Miserable life
3. Because of non-profitability of his business
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who used to make rattraps?

1. Crofter
2. Edla
3. Ironmaster
4. Peddler

✅ Correct Answer: 4

From where did the Peddler get the material to make rattraps?

1. Shops
2. Roads
3. Streets
4. Stores

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How did Crofter treat the Peddler?

1. Very rudely
2. In a strange manner
3. Friendly manner
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why did Peddler sign himself as Captain Von Stahle?

1. He didn't want to hurt them
2. Because he forgets his name
3. Because he wants to meet Edla’s expectations of him being an armyman
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

When does the ironmaster realise his mistake?

1. when the peddler speaks
2. when he sees an old photograph
3. when the peddler changes clothes and cleans his face
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What made the Peddler finally change his heart?

1. Edla's words
2. Edla's appearance
3. Edla's father
4. Edla's goodness and care

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was the Peddler's profession and who he was?

1. Selling, traveller
2. Begging, traveller
3. Stealing, thief
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why did the Peddler feel like stealing?

1. has to repay a loan
2. has to buy a drink
3. habitual of it
4. due to others' indifference to his needs

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How did the Crofter tempt the Peddler to steal his money?

1. By his kindness
2. By his warm care
3. By showing him money
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why did the Peddler decline the invitation?

1. Because he had stolen money
2. He wanted to run
3. He wanted to hide money
4. He wanted to remain at the mill

✅ Correct Answer: 1

How much money had the peddler stolen from Crofter?

1. 20 kronors
2. 10 kronors
3. 40 kronors
4. 30 kronors

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Edla plead her father not to send the Vagabond away?

1. Because of her father
2. Because he resembled her father's friend
3. Because she liked him
4. Because of sympathy and his poor life condition

✅ Correct Answer: 4