laboursonline – MCQs, Mock Tests | English CBES Board(Class 12-English)MCQ Questions with Answers(Chapter 1 The Last lesson)-Flamingo book

Who is the author of The Last Lesson?

1. Jane Austen
2. Rabindra Nath Tagore
3. None
4. Alphonse Daudet

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Alphonse Daudet was from which country?

1. India
2. France
3. England
4. New Zealand

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The story ‘The Last Lesson’ highlights which human tendency?

1. Male Chauvinism
2. Procrastination
3. Courage
4. Cowardice

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What were the things being taken for granted by the people of Alsace?

1. Teachers of the school
2. Time and school
3. People around
4. Money and power

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does The Last Lesson symbolize?

1. Loss
2. Loss of freedom
3. Loss of language
4. Loss of language and freedom

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What does The Last Lesson signify?

1. Change of power
2. hange of Government
3. change in life
4. Change of teachers

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What do the marching soldiers under the windows represent?

1. The Dawn of Prussia in the defeat of French people
2. The defeat of Prussia
3. The victory of French
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

From where did the orders come to teach only German in the districts of Alsace and Lorraine?

1. France
2. Lorraine
3. Berlin
4. Germany

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What does effects this story speaks about?

1. Power
2. Money
3. Transition
4. people

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why was Franz reluctant to go to school?

1. wanted to enjoy warm Sunlight
2. wanted to see soldiers drill
3. wanted to enjoy outdoor
4. lesson on participles was not prepared

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What did Franz find on reaching the school?

1. People were dancing
2. school was closed
3. Police patrolling
4. strange quietness

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who occupied the back benches in the class?

1. weak students
2. teachers
3. monitors of the class
4. village elders

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why was Franz surprised?

1. Because of village elders
2. Because of police patrolling
3. because of students' behavior
4. because of M.Hamel's kind and polite behaviour

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why was Franz feeling regretful and sad?

1. for reaching late
2. for not learning participles
3. for change of the Government
4. for not learning his mother tongue

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Whom did M.Hamel blame for not sending students to school?

1. Parents
2. friends
3. teachers
4. watchman

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What did Hauser bring?

1. sweets
2. children
3. friends
4. old Primer

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What made Franz forget M.Hamel's ruler and crankiness?

1. Police Patrolling
2. Strange Quietness
3. Bustle on the streets
4. The idea of his going away

✅ Correct Answer: 4

For how many years did M. Hamel serve the school?

1. 20 years
2. 35 years
3. 30 years
4. 40 years

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Where did the parents send their children?

1. school
2. coaching
3. farms and mills
4. movies

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why were the parents sending their children to the farms and mills?

1. to play
2. to meet friends
3. to meet relatives
4. to earn money

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did the villagers come to meet M. Hamel in the school?

1. to complain
2. to say goodbye
3. to gossip
4. to show gratitude

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Mr. M. Hamel call the French language the most beautiful?

1. Because it was the clearest and logical
2. Because it was his native language
3. Because people were from France
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What was Franz expected to be prepared for at school that day?

1. song
2. dance
3. essay writing
4. Participles

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When people are enslaved, what key do they have to the prison, according to M.Hamel?

1. their behaviour
2. power
3. aggressiveness
4. mother tongue

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What did Franz notice that was unusual that day?

1. quietness in the school
2. soldiers in the school
3. crowd in school
4. all of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What had been put up on the Bulletin Board that day?

1. Teach only French
2. Speak only English
3. Teach only German
4. Teach all these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?

1. hustle-bustle
2. people were happy
3. teachers were sad
4. strange quietness and sadness

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What changed Franz's feelings about M.Hamel and school?

1. Police Patrolling
2. Orders from Berlin
3. Strict words from M. Hamel
4. old Primer

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What made Franz and the people realize about the preciousness of their mother tongue?

1. M. Hamel's words
2. School orders
3. Sudden orders from Berlin
4. School Principal

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Expression 'Thunder Clap" in the lesson means ____

1. loud but not clear
2. loud and clear
3. startling and unexpected
4. unpleasant

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What did Mr. Hamel bring for his class on his last day in the school?

1. new pens
2. new notebooks
3. sweets
4. story books

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Last Lesson story was written in which year?

1. 1869 - 1870
2. 1870 - 1871
3. 1870 - 1871
4. 1870 - 1872

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Don't go so fast, you will get to your school in plenty of time means ___

1. getting late
2. very early
3. not early
4. early enough

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was there in front of the Bulletin Board?

1. children
2. police
3. hawkers
4. a crowd

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What bad news used to come from the Bulletin Board?

1. lost battles
2. the draft
3. orders of commanding officers
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Whlich language would the students study from the next day?

1. English
2. German
3. Dutch
4. Spanish

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does the expression in great dread of scolding mean?

1. to be happy about it
2. very badly scared of scolding
3. To be indifferent
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Why was Franz was shocked to see M. Hamel?

1. Because of his formal dress
2. because he gave sweets
3. because he had a flower in his hand
4. all of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What attitude of M.Hamel surprised Franz?

1. soft and kind
2. rude
3. firm and strict
4. none of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who was M.Hamel?

1. a spy
2. language teacher
3. soldier
4. School Principal

✅ Correct Answer: 2