Class 12 The Last Lesson MCQ
Q1 – `Who is the author of The Last Lesson?
A) Jane Austen
B) Rabindra Nath Tagore
C) None
D) Alphonse Daudet
Correct Answer
D) Alphonse Daudet
Q2- Alphonse Daudet was from which country?
A) India
B) France
C) England
D) New Zealand
Correct Answer
B) France
Q3- The story ‘The Last Lesson’ highlights which human tendency?
A) Male Chauvinism
B) Procrastination
C) Courage
D) Cowardice
Correct Answer
B) Procrastination
Q4 – What were the things being taken for granted by the people of Alsace?
A) Teachers of the school
B) Time and school
C) People around
D) Money and power
Correct Answer
B) Time and school
Q5 – What does The Last Lesson symbolize?
A) Loss
B) Loss of freedom
C) Loss of language
D) Loss of language and freedom
Correct Answer
D) Loss of language and freedom
Q6 – What does The Last Lesson signify?
A) Change of power
B) change of Government
C) change in life
D) Change of teachers
Correct Answer
C) change in life
Q7- What do the marching soldiers under the windows represent?
A) The Dawn of Prussia in the defeat of French people
B) The defeat of Prussia
C) The victory of French
D) None of these
Correct Answer
A) The Dawn of Prussia in the defeat of French people
Q 8-From where did the orders come to teach only German in the districts of Alsace and Lorraine?
A) France
B) Lorraine
C) Berlin
D) Germany
Correct Answer
C) Berlin
Q9- What does effects this story speaks about?
A) Power
B)Money
C)Transition
D) people
Correct Answer
C)Transition
Q10- Why was Franz reluctant to go to school?
A) wanted to enjoy warm Sunlight
B) wanted to see soldiers drill
C) wanted to enjoy outdoor
D) lesson on participles was not prepared
Correct Answer
D) lesson on participles was not prepared
Q11- What did Franz find on reaching the school?
A) People were dancing
B) school was closed
C) Police patrolling
D) strange quietness
Correct Answer
D) strange quietness
Q12- Who occupied the back benches in the class?
A) weak students
B) teachers
C) monitors of the class
D) village elders
Correct Answer
D) village elders
Q13- Why was Franz surprised?
A) Because of village elders
B) Because of police patrolling
C) because of students’ behaviour
D) because of M.Hamel’s kind and polite behaviour
Correct Answer
D) because of M.Hamel’s kind and polite behaviour
Q14- Why was Franz feeling regretful and sad?
A) for reaching late
B) for not learning participles
C) for change of the Government
D) for not learning his mother tongue
Correct Answer
D) for not learning his mother tongue
Q15- Whom did M.Hamel blame for not sending students to school?
A) Parents
B) friends
C) teachers
D) watchman
Correct Answer
A) Parents
Q16- What did Hauser bring?
A) sweets
B) children
C) friends
D) old Primer
Correct Answer
D) old Primer
Q17- What made Franz forget M.Hamel’s ruler and crankiness?
A) Police Patrolling
B) Strange Quietness
C) Bustle on the streets
D) The idea of his going away
Correct Answer
D) The idea of his going away
Q18- For how many years did M. Hamel serve the school?
A) 20 years
B) 35 years
C) 30 years
D) 40 years
Correct Answer
D) 40 years
Q19- Where did the parents send their children?
A) school
B) coaching
C) farms and mills
D) movies
Correct Answer
C) farms and mills
Q20- Why were the parents sending their children to the farms and mills?
A) to play
B) to meet friends
C) to meet relatives
D) to earn money
Correct Answer
D) to earn money
Q21-Why did the villagers come to meet M. Hamel in the school?
A) to complain
B) to say goodbye
C) to gossip
D) to show gratitude
Correct Answer
D) to show gratitude
Q22- Why did Mr. M. Hamel call the French language the most beautiful?
A) Because it was the clearest and logical
B) Because it was his native language
C) Because people were from France
D) None of these
Correct Answer
A) Because it was the clearest and logical
Q23- What was Franz expected to be prepared for at school that day?
A) song
B) dance
C) essay writing
D) Participles
Correct Answer
D) Participles
Q24- When people are enslaved, what key do they have to the prison, according to M.Hamel?
A) their behaviour
B) power
C) aggressiveness
D) mother tongue
Correct Answer
D) mother tongue
Q25- What did Franz notice that was unusual that day?
A) quietness in the school
B) soldiers in the school
C) crowd in school
D) all of these
Correct Answer
A) quietness in the school
Q26- What had been put up on the Bulletin Board that day?
A) Teach only French
B) Speak only English
C) Teach only German
D) Teach all these
Correct Answer
C) Teach only German
Q27- What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?
A) hustle-bustle
B) people were happy
C) teachers were sad
D) strange quietness and sadness
Correct Answer
D) strange quietness and sadness
Q28- What changed Franz’s feelings about M.Hamel and school?
A) Police Patrolling
B) Orders from Berlin
C) Strict words from M. Hamel
D) old Primer
Correct Answer
B) Orders from Berlin
Q29- What made Franz and the people realize about the preciousness of their mother tongue?
A) M. Hamel’s words
B) School orders
C) Sudden orders from Berlin
D) School Principal
Correct Answer
C) Sudden orders from Berlin
Q30- Expression ‘Thunder Clap” in the lesson means _.
A) loud but not clear
B) loud and clear
C) startling and unexpected
D) unpleasant
Correct Answer
C) startling and unexpected
Q31- What did Mr. Hamel bring for his class on his last day in the school?
A) new pens
B) new notebooks
C) sweets
D) story books
Correct Answer
B) new notebooks
Q32 “The Last Lesson” story was written in which year?
A) 1869 – 1870
B) 1870 – 1871
C) 1872- 1873
D) 1870 – 1872
Correct Answer
B) 1870 – 1871
Q33- Don’t go so fast, you will get to your school in plenty of time means _
A) getting late
B) very early
C) not early
D) early enough
Correct Answer
D) early enough
Q34- What was there in front of the Bulletin Board?
A) children
B) police
C) hawkers
D) a crowd
Correct Answer
D) a crowd
Q35- What bad news used to come from the Bulletin Board?
A) lost battles
B) the draft
C) orders of commanding officers
D) All of these
Correct Answer
D) All of these
Q36- Whlich language would the students study from the next day?
A) English
B) German
C) Dutch
D) Spanish
Correct Answer
B) German
Q37- What does the expression “in great dread of scolding” mean?
A) to be happy about it
B) very badly scared of scolding
C) To be indifferent
D) None of these
Correct Answer
B) very badly scared of scolding
Q38- Why was Franz was shocked to see M. Hamel?
A) Because of his formal dress
B) because he gave sweets
C) because he had a flower in his hand
D) all of these
Correct Answer
A) Because of his formal dress
Q 39- What attitude of M.Hamel surprised Franz?
A) soft and kind
B) rude
C) firm and strict
D) none of these
Correct Answer
A) soft and kind
Q40- Who was M.Hamel?
A) a spy
B) language teacher
C) soldier
D) School Principal
Correct Answer
B) language teacher