CBSE Class 10 English The Proposal MCQs

Question : Who is the writer of the play "The Proposal"?
a) Robert Frost
b) Anton Chekov
c) Carolyn Wells
d) Robin Klein

Answer :   B

Question: Meaning of force is –
a) Tragic drama
b) Tragic comedy
c) Comic drama
d) Romantic drama

Answer :  C

Question : "Spit it out!" This expression means -
a) just take it
b) just say it
c) just leave it
d) just listen to A) sin

Answer:   B

Question : Lomov says if he gives himself time to think and hesitate he will never
a) be able to propose
b) be able to marry.
c) be able to claim his right over Oxen meadows
d) be able to prove that Guess is better than Squeezer

Answer:   B

Question : According to Natalya, Guess was
a) old
b) ugly
c) worn out
d) all the above

Answer:   D

Question : The day before Lomov meets Natalya was -
a) gloomy
b) rainy
c) wet
d) dry

Answer :  C

Question: Which talking with Chubukov Lomov had some —– to relax himself.
a) Water
b) Juice
c) Drink
d) Chocolates

Answer:   A

Question : Why did Chubukov think it was a curse to be a father of a grown up daughter?
a) he had to go to call the man they had just shun out
b) he had to go to call the man who insulted them
c) he had to go call tthe man who shouted at them
d) All of the above

Answer :  D

Question : Where do Lomov and Natalya get on the wrong foot?
a) While talking about the weather
b) While talking about their land
c) While talking about their family relations
d) While the proposal

Answer :  B

Question : What explanation did Lomov give for his shouting?
a) his frustration
b) his short temper
c) his palpitations
d) he can’t stand unfairness

Answer :  C

Question : According to Lomov Chubukov is not a good neighbour; he is a/an -
a) challenger
b) grabber
c) scavenger
d) imposter

Answer :  B

Question : What request did Chubukov think Lomov would make?
a) ask for her daughter’s hand in marriage
b) borrow money
c) borrow land
d) all of the above

Answer :  B

Question : How did Natalya react when her father told Lomov was here to propose her?
a) she gets angry
b) she sends her father to get him
c) she’s amazed
d) both 2 and 3

Answer :  D

Question : Lomov wants to drink some water because
a) he was feeling thirsty
b) he was not feeling well
c) he was getting excited
d) he was getting upset

Answer :  C

Question : When Lomov offers the meadows to Natalya, she
a) calls her father
b) agrees to marry him
c) takes the offer as an insult claims to have
d) refuses to marry him

Answer :  C

Question : What do they argue about after holding each other’s hands?
a) dogs
b) land
c) marriage venue
d) the cuisine

(Answer :  A

Question: Natalya was in ——- when she met with Lomov.
a) Evening gown
b) Saree
c) Nightgown
d) Salwar suit

Answer :  C

Question: “He’s dead ….. dead!” – who said this.
a) Chubukov
b) Natalya
c) Lomov
d) Squeezer

Answer :  C

Question : What is the name of Lomov’s dog?
a) Guess
b) Guard
c) Squeezer
d) Sweater

Answer :  A

Question : The play is set in which country?
a) India
b) France
c) Russia
d) Japan

Answer :  C

Question : According to Natalya, they had lent Lomov their –
a) hunting dog
b) lands
c) peasants
d) threshing machine

Answer :  D

Question : Coming to meet Lomov, Natalya informs him that she was -
a) shelling peas
b) cooking
c) planting peas
d) baking peas

Answer :  A

Question : What defect does guess have?
a) lame
b) old age
c) short in the muzzle
d) all of them

Answer :  D

Question : Chubukov is Lomov's -
a) friend
b) relative
c) neighbour
d) foe

Answer :  C

Question : The first arguement between Lomov and Natalya was over –
a) land
b) labour
c) hunting dogs
c) inheritance

Answer :  A

Question : Lomov feels a pull during sleeping
a) less than twenty times
b) more than twenty times
c) twenty times
d) nineteen times

Answer: C

Question : After hearing Lomov’s proposal Chubukov is ‘off his balance’ with
a) joy
b) anger
c) hatred
d) disgust

Answer: A

Question: The name of Lomov’s dog was –
a) Peddy
b) Squeezer
c) Marcco
d) Guess

Answer: D

Question : Coming to meet Lomov, Natalya informs him that she was -
a) shelling peas
b) cooking
c) planting peas
d) baking peas

Answer: A

Question : The phrase ‘my precious one’ refers to:
a) Natalya
b) Lomov
c) Chubukov
d) Squeezer

Answer: B

Question : Who is Lomov?
a) A farmer
b) A landowner
c) A factoryworker
d) None of the Above

Answer: B

Question : Natalya thinks that Lomov behaves with her in such a way that they were -
a) landgrabbers
b) landless
c) gypsies
d) landlord

Answer: C

Question : Natalya informs Lomov that she felt so greedy that, she had -
a) no field cut
b) sold her land
c) the whole field cut
d) the half field cut

Answer: C

INTRODUCTION—

‘The Proposal’ (originally titled ‘A Marriage Proposal) is a one-act play, a farce by Anton Chekhov. The play highlights the tendency of wealthy families seeking ties with other wealthy families to increase their estates by encouraging marriages that make good economic sense.

SUMMARY—

This play is about how wealthy families seek to tie up with one another through marriages in order to increase their property and wealth. Lomov is a rich bachelor who wishes to marry Natalya, the daughter of Chubukov who himself is a rich man. The play deals with how all the three characters are very quarrelsome. They quarrel over trivial issues and call each other names. Lomov is not really in love with Natalya, but wants to marry her as he feels she is a good house-keeper, beautiful and well educated. He feels that it is the time he should settle down. Natalya, who doesn’t know he has come to propose to her, feels that he has come to claim oxen meadows as his own. This results in a quarrel with her father Chubukov joining in. After much mud-slinging, when Natalya comes to know that he has come to propose her, she becomes willing to marry him. The proposal is made and accepted, with the knowledge that quarrels will take place in life, and important things should not be side-lined because of this.

Extract Based Questions

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :

“Please don’t shout! You can shout yourself hoarse in your own house but here I must ask you to restrain yourself!”

(a) Who is the speaker ?
(a) Natalya
(b) Ivan
(c) Stephan
(d) Stranger

Answer : A

(b) What is the dispute over ?
(a) land
(b) property
(c) oxen meadows
(d) wasteland

Answer : C

(c) Ivan Lomov has come for the ____________ proposal.
(a) marriage
(b) business
(c) partnership
(d) None of them

Answer : A

(d) Find a word from the passage which means the same as ‘under control’ ?
(a) hoarse
(b) restrain
(c) impudent
(d) calmly

Answer : B

I’m off my balance with joy, absolutely off my balance ! Oh, with all my soul..... I’ll go and call Natalya, and all that.

(a) Who has bought the proposal ?
(a) His neighbour
(b) His friend
(c) His business
(d) His relative

Answer : A

(b) What is the name of Stephan’s daughter ?
(a) Natasha
(b) Natalya
(c) Jenny
(d) Betty

Answer : B

(c) Was Stephan happy to receive Lomov’s proposal of marrying his daughter Natalya ?
(a) No
(b) little happy
(c) Yes
(d) Not at all

Answer : C

(d) Which word in the passage refers to ‘happiness’ ?
(a) excited
(b) joy
(c) restrain
(d) glad

Answer : B

There’s nothing to argue about. You see my aunt’s grandmother gave the free use of these Meadows in perpetuity to the peasants of your father’s grandfather, in return for which they were to make bricks for her.

(a) The meadows were given free by Lomov’s
(a) aunt’s grandfather
(b) aunt’s grandmother
(c) aunt’s daughter
(d) aunt’s brother

Answer : B

(b) Lomov’s aunt’s grandmother gave her Meadows free in returns of __________ made by peasants.
(a) pots
(b) furniture
(c) bricks
(d) utensils

Answer : C

(c) Find a word from the passage which means same as ‘the state of lasting for long period / forever’.
(a) perpetuity
(b) persuasive
(c) pervasive
(d) pertain

Answer : A

(d) What was the name of the meadow in the chapter ?
(a) cow meadow
(b) sheep meadow
(c) goat meadow
(d) oxen meadow

Answer : D

But, please, Stephen Stopanovitch, 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 ................... .

(a) Who is the speaker of above lines ?
(a) Stephan
(b) Natalya
(c) Ivan
(d) Stranger

Answer : C

(b) The meadows were given by my aunt’s grandmother for the temporary and free use of your grandfather’s _______.
(a) labourers
(b) peasants
(c) servants
(d) drivers

Answer : B

(c) For how many years had peasants used the land ?
(a) forty
(b) thirty
(c) fifty
(d) twenty

Answer : A

(d) Find out the antonym of ‘permanent’ from the passage.
(a) reasonable
(b) meadows
(c) accustomed
(d) temporary

Answer : D

And it’s impossible for me not to marry. In the first place I am already 35-a critical age, so to speak. In the second place, I ought to lead a quiet and regular life. I suffer from palpitations. I’m excitable and always getting awfully upset; at this very moment my lips are trembling, and there’s a twitch in my right eyebrow. But the very worst of all is the way I sleep. I no sooner get into bed and begin to go off, when suddenly something in my left side gives a pull and I can feel it in my shoulder and head ……

(a) There was a trembling in his ____________ and a twitch in his right eyebrow.
(a) feet
(b) lips
(c) hands
(d) body

Answer : B

(b) Who is the Speaker ?
(a) Stephan
(b) Lomov
(c) their neighbour
(d) Natalya

Answer : B

(c) Find a word from the passage that means the same as ‘sad’.
(a) critical
(b) excitable
(c) awfully
(d) upset

Answer : D

(d) Which is the age of Lomov now ?
(a) thirty
(b) thirty five
(c) forty
(d) twenty five

Answer : B

I can make you a present of them myself, because they are mine! Your behaviour, Ivan Vassilevitch, is strange, to say the least ! Up to this we have always thought of you as a good neighbour, a friend; last year we lent you our threshing machine, although on that account we had to put off our own threshing till November, but you behave to us as if we were gypsies. Giving me my own land, indeed! No, really, that is not at all neighbourly; in my opinion, it is even impudent, if you want to know.

(a) Who is the speaker of these lines ?
(a) Ivan
(b) Stephan
(c) their neighbour
(d) Natalya

Answer : D

(b) Natalya had helped Ivan in lending her :
(a) sewing machine
(b) threshing machine
(c) cutting machine
(d) processing machine

Answer : B

(c) What is the reason of dispute between two ?
(a) Bullock meadow
(b) Oxen meadow
(c) Cow meadow
(d) Sheep meadow

Answer : B

(d) Which word in the passage mean the same as ‘not normal’ ?
(a) threshing
(b) account
(c) strange
(d) gypsies

Answer : C

What a surprise ! We’ve had the land for nearly three hundred years, and then we’re suddenly told that it isn’t ours! Ivan Vassilevitch, I can hardly believe my own ears. These meadows aren’t worth much to me. They only come to five dessiatins and are worth perhaps 300 roubles, but I can’t stand unfairness. Say what you will, I can’t stand unfairness.

(a) Who is the speaker of these lines ?
(a) Stephan
(b) Natalya
(c) Ivan
(d) The old lady

Answer : B

(b) She couldn’t believe her own ___________ .
(a) eyes
(b) brain
(c) ears
(d) mind

Answer : C

(c) What is that which Natalya can’t tolerate ?
(a) unfairness
(b) lie
(c) rudeness
(d) gossip

Answer : A

(d) Which word in the passage means the same as ‘astonishment’ ?
(a) dessiatins
(b) unfairness
(c) surprise
(d) roubles

Answer : D

What more do I want ? But I am getting a noise in my ears from excitement. (Drinks) And it is impossible for me not to marry. In the first place, I am already 35-a critical age. So to speak. In the second place, I ought to lead a quiet and regular life. I suffer from palpitations, I am excitable and always getting awfully upset; at this very moment my lips are trembling and there is a twitch in my right eyebrow. But the very worst of all is the way I sleep.

(a) Whom is Lomov speaking to ?
(a) Natalya
(b) Stephan
(c) other person
(d) himself

Answer : D

(b) From which ailment was Lomov suffering ?
(a) blood pressure
(b) diabetes
(c) palpitation
(d) thyroid

Answer : C

(c) Find the noun form of word ‘excite’ from the passage.
(a) excitedly
(b) excitement
(c) excitable
(d) exciting

Answer : B

(d) Which age is critical age according to Lomov ?
(a) thirty five
(b) twenty five
(c) forty five
(d) forty

Answer : A

These meadows aren’t worth much to me. They only come to five dessiatins, and are worth perhaps 300 roubles, but I can’t stand unfairness. Say what you will, I can’t stand unfairness.

(a) What was the measurement of the meadows ?
(a) 5 acres
(b) 5 square metres
(c) 5 square feet
(d) 5 dessiatins

Answer : D

(b) How much are the meadows worth approximately ?
(a) 500 roubles
(b) 200 roubles
(c) 300 roubles
(d) 400 roubles

Answer : C

(c) Natalya’s family had the land for nearly ____________ years.
(a) two hundred
(b) three hundred
(c) four hundred
(d) hundred

Answer : B

(d) Find a word in the extract that means ‘not based on what is just or fair’.
(a) unfairness
(b) faily
(c) fairness
(d) fairway

Answer : A