CBSE Class 12 English The Enemy MCQs Set C

Question: Why did Dr. Sadao not go to the battlefield?
a) Because he had no interest
b) He didn’t love his country
c) He was supposed to offer his services to the General who was in pain
d) All these
Answer: c

Question: What was Hana’s reaction over her husband’s words?
a) She held her mouth with her hands and vomited outside the operation room
b) She shouted
c) She cried
d) She stopped helping him
Answer: a

Question: Why did the servants refuse to help?
a) Out of fears
b) Because of superstitions
c) Because he was an American soldier
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: Why did the surgeon speak sharply to his wife?
a) To get things he needed
b) To get her help
c) To stop any disturbance that could harm the wounded man
d) None
Answer: c

Question: Why did the General not pass orders to arrest Dr. Sadao for helping a white man?
a) Because he trusted him
b) Because he needed him
c) General was not in good health and needed his services
d) None
Answer: c

Question: Who is the author of the lesson The Enemy?
a) Pearl S. Buck
b) Dickens
c) D.H. Lawrence
d) None
Answer: a

Question: How did Dr. ensure that the American soldier had left safely?
a) By escorting him
b) By seeing no signal of flashlight
c) By giving him a call
d) None
Answer: b

Question: Why did Dr. give his flashlight to the enemy soldier?
a) To help him
b) To show him the way in the dark
c) So that he could send him a signal in case of any distress
d) All these
Answer: c

Question: What did Dr. give to the soldier?
a) His boat
b) Food to eat
c) Flashlight to use in distress
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: Where did Dr. meet Hana?
a) In Japan
b) In his neighbourhood
c) In the battlefield
d) At Professor Harley’s house in America
Answer: d

Question: Why did the servants leave Dr. Sadao’s house?
a) Because he was wounded
b) Because he was an American soldier and they didn’t like him
c) Because he was dirty
d) All
Answer: b

Question: Why did Sadao marry a Japanese girl only?
a) Because he liked Japanese
b) He didn’t like any other nationality
c) Because of his father’s fear
d) Because he didn’t want to upset his father
Answer: d

Question: At what age did Dr. Sadao go to America?
a) 22
b) 32
c) 12
d) 42
Answer: a

Question: What kind of person was Sadao’s father?
a) A serious man
b) A jolly-good man
c) Very strict
d) A true patriot and traditional person
Answer: d

Question: What does the narrator speak about in the beginning of the chapter?
a) The war
b) The General
c) Dr. Sadao’s childhood and his father
d) The servants and Dr.’s wife
Answer: c

Question: What does this chapter revolve around?
a) War
b) War between Japan and America
c) War between Malaysia and America
d) War between Israel and America
Answer: b

Question: Why did Dr. become irritable and impatient with his patients?
a) Because of his inability to leave the white man to help his distressed wife
b) Because of many patients
c) Because of General’s pressure
d) All these
Answer: a

Question: Why did Dr. feel alone at the beach?
a) For not bringing his wife with him
b) For not listening to the General
c) For saving an American soldier’s life
d) None
Answer: c

Question: How did Dr. get rid of the American soldier?
a) By giving him instructions
b) By giving him flashlight to use in times of distress
c) By asking him to row to the island
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: Why did Dr.’s wife feel distressed?
a) Seeing many patients
b) Seeing General’s reaction
c) Seeing the orders
d) Seeing the white man’s blood
Answer: d

Question: Why did Hana wash the wounded man herself?
a) Because of her servants
b) Because her servants ran away
c) Because her servants refused to help an American enemy soldier
d) None
Answer: c

Question: Why did Dr. help an enemy soldier?
a) Because he was an ethical and sincere doctor
b) Because he was his friend
c) Because he knew him
d) None
Answer: a

Question: Why did the messenger come to the doctor?
a) To meet him
b) For checkup
c) To inform about the General’s pain
d) All these
Answer: c

Question: At what age did Dr. Sadao come back to Japan?
a) 20
b) 40
c) 30
d) 50
Answer: c

Question: What was the General’s plan for the American soldier?
a) Will get him assassinated by some private assassins
b) Will inform his country
c) He wanted him to reach safely
d) None
Answer: a

Question: How did Hana help Dr. Sadao?
a) By assisting him
b) By giving him money
c) By giving him tools
d) By working as a nurse
Answer: d

Question: What does Dr. Sadao remember towards the end of the story?
a) Five American faces which had a lion’s share in his life
b) Which had a lion’s share in his life
c) His first landlady, who was full of prejudice, yet saved his life when he was suffering from influenza
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: What idea do you form of Dr. after reading the lesson?
a) An excellent doctor
b) A compassionate human being
c) Sincere and responsible citizen
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: Why did General spare the White American soldier?
a) To spare his own life
b) He himself was in pain
c) Needed Dr. Sadao’s help
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: What kind of person was the General?
a) A kind-hearted man
b) A wise man
c) A selfish man
d) None
Answer: c

Question: Who was Dr. Sadao?
a) An Iranian doctor
b) An American doctor
c) A Japanese doctor
d) None
Answer: c

Question: How many children did Dr. Sadao have?
a) 4
b) 2
c) 3
d) 5
Answer: b

Question: Where did Dr. find the American soldier?
a) In the park
b) In the battlefield
c) Outside his house
d) None
Answer: c

Question: Why did Dr. Sadao go to America?
a) To meet the soldiers
b) To meet his friends
c) To travel
d) To study surgery and medicine which was his father’s wish
Answer: d

Question: Seeing the messenger, what was Hana’s reaction?
a) She got frightened
b) She thought he had come to arrest her husband
c) General’s man
d) All these
Answer: d

Question: What were the dominant traits of Dr.’s personality?
a) Expertise in his profession and compassion as a human
b) Obstinate
c) Doesn’t like to obey anyone
d) Rude
Answer: a

Question: What conflicting ideas disturbed Dr.’s mind after he brought the American soldier?
a) Duty of a doctor and loyalty towards nation
b) Servants’ behavior
c) Patient’s health and servants
d) His wife’s health and General’s health
Answer: a

Question: How did Dr. emerge successfully out of all the conflicts?
a) By throwing the patients out of his house
b) By sending his servants out of the house
c) By saving the soldier’s life as a sincere doctor and helping him to escape
d) By succumbing before the General
Answer: c

Question: Why did Dr. Sadao treat the soldier when he was from the enemy’s nationality?
a) He was a doctor
b) It was against his professional ethics
c) As a doctor he could not let anyone die
d) All
Answer: d

True False Question

Question: Hana packed the wound of the POW with sea moss to stop bleeding.
Answer: False

Question: Sadao’s conscience did not let him leave the injured soldier unattended.
Answer: True

Question: The white man ought to die, said the servant.
Answer: True

Question: Hana asked Sadao to put the soldier back into the sea.
Answer: True

Question: The General kept his promise by sending assassins to Sadao’s house.
Answer: False

Question: Sadao is a benevolent, generous and selfless Japanese doctor.
Answer: True

Question: At the end of conversation with the General, Sadao felt relieved.
Answer: True

Question: The servants had a strong dislike for the American POW.
Answer: True

Question: Sadao’s father never joked or played with him.
Answer: True

Question: Dr.Sadao went at 21 and came back to his country at 25.
Answer: True