CBSE Class 12 English The Last Lesson MCQs Set A

Question : Who is the author of The Last Lesson?

(a) Jane Austen
(b) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(c) None
(d) Alphonse Daudet

Answer : D

Question : Alphonse Daudet was from which country?

(a) India
(b) France
(c) England
(d) New Zealand

Answer : B

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

(a) Male Chauvinism
(b) Procastination
(c) Courage
(d) Cowardice

Answer : B

Question : 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

Answer : B

Question : What does The Last Lesson symbolize?

(a) Loss
(b) Loss of freedom
(c) Loss of language
(d) Loss of language and freedom

Answer : D

Question : What does The Last Lesson signify?

(a) Change of power
(b) change of Government
(c) change in life
(d) Change of teachers

Answer : D

Question : What do the marching soldiers under the windows represent?

(a) The Dawn of Prussia in defeat of French people
(b) The defeat of Prussia
(c) The victory of French
(d) None of these

Answer : B

Question : 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

Answer : B

Question : What do the effects this story speaks about?
(a) Power
(b)Money
(c)Transition
(d) people

Answer : C

Question : 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

Answer : D

Question : What did Franz find on reaching the school?

(a) People were dancing
(b) strange people
(c) Police patrolling
(d) strange quiteness

Answer : D

Question : Who occupied the back benches in the class?

(a) weak students
(b) teachers
(c) monitors of the class
(d) village elders

Answer : D

Question : Why was Franz surprised?

(a) Because of village elders
(b) Because of police patrolling
(c) because of students' behavior
(d) because of M.Hamel's kind and polite behaviour

Answer : D

Question : 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

Answer : D

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

(a) Parents
(b) friends
(c) teachers
(d) watchman

Answer : A

Question : What did Hauser bring?

(a) sweets
(b) children
(c) friends
(d) old Primer

Answer : D

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

(a) Police Patrolling
(b) Strange Question : uietness
(c) Bustle on the streets
(d) The idea of his going away

Answer : D

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

(a) 20 years
(b) 35 years
(c) 30 years
(d) 40 years

Answer : D

Question : Where did the parents send their children?

(a) school
(b) coaching
(c) farms and mills
(d) movies

Answer : C

Question : 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

Answer : D

Question : 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

Answer : D

Question : 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) Becayse people were from France
(d) None of these

Answer : A

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

(a) song
(b) dance
(c) essay writing
(d) Participles

Answer : D

Question : 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

Answer : D

Question : What did Franz notice that was unusual that day?

(a) strange quiteness
(b) soldiers in the school
(c) crowd
(d) all of these

Answer : A

Question : 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

Answer : C

Question : 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 quiteness and sadness

Answer : D

Question : 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

Answer : B

Question :  What made Franz and 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

Answer : C

Question : Expression 'Thunder Clap" in the lesson means _______.

(a) loud but not clear
(b) loud and clear
(c) startling and unexpected
(d) unpleasant

Answer : C

Question : 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

Answer : B

Question : "The Last Lesson" story was written in which year?

(a) 1869 - 1870
(b) 1870 - 1871
(c) 1872- 1873
(d) 1870 - 1872

Answer : B

Question : 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

Answer : D

Question : What was there in front of the Bulletin Board?

(a) children
(b) police
(c) hawkers
(d) a crowd

Answer : D

Question : What bad news used to come from the Bulletin Board?

(a) lost battles
(b) the draft
(c) orders of commanding officers
(d) All three

Answer : C

Question : What did Franz find on reaching the school?

(a) scoldings
(b) shouting children
(c) noise
(d) strange quiteness

Answer : D

Question : What does the expression "in great dread of scolding" mean?

(a) scared of scolding
(b) very badly scared of scolding
(c) in the pursuit of
(d) None of these

Answer : B

Question : Why Franz was shocked to see M. Hamel?

(a) Because of his casual dress
(b) because he gave sweets
(c) because he had a flower in his hand
(d) all

Answer : A

Question : What attitude of M.Hamel surprised Franz?

(a) soft and kind
(b) rude
(c) firm and strict
(d) all

Answer : A

Question : Who was M.Hamel?

(a) a spy
(b) language teacher
(c) soldier
(d) School Principal

Answer : B