CBSE Class 12 English The Last Lesson MCQs Set 03

Question: What did Hauser bring?
a) sweets
b) children
c) friends
d) old Primer
Answer: d

Question: Why was Franz reluctant to go to school?
a) lesson on participles was not prepared
b) wanted to see soldiers drill
c) wanted to enjoy outdoor
d) wanted to enjoy warm Sunlight
Answer: a

Question: The story ‘The Last Lesson’ highlights which human tendency?
a) Male Chauvinism
b) Procrastination
c) Courage
d) Cowardice
Answer: b

Question: Who occupied the back benches in the class?
a) village elders
b) teachers
c) monitors of the class
d) weak students
Answer: a

Question: What did Franz find on reaching the school?
a) People were dancing
b) strange people
c) Police patrolling
d) strange quietness
Answer: d

Question: What made Franz forget M. Hamel’s ruler and crankiness?
a) Police Patrolling
b) Strange Quietness
c) The idea of his going away
d) Bustle on the streets
Answer: c

Question: Why was Franz surprised?
a) Because of village elders
b) Because of police patrolling
c) because of M.Hamel’s kind and polite behaviour
d) because of students’ behavior
Answer: c

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 does The Last Lesson symbolize?
a) Loss
b) Loss of freedom
c) Loss of language and freedom
d) Loss of language
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 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: What was Franz expected to be prepared for at school that day?
a) song
b) dance
c) essay writing
d) Participles
Answer: d

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

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 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 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: 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 quietness
b) soldiers in the school
c) crowd
d) all of these
Answer: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: What attitude of M. Hamel surprised Franz?
a) soft and kind
b) rude
c) firm and strict
d) all
Answer: a

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: “The Last Lesson” story was written in which year?
a) 1869–1870
b) 1870–1871
c) 1870–1872
d) 1872–1873
Answer: c

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 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: 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 did Franz find on reaching the school?
a) scoldings
b) shouting children
c) noise
d) strange quietness
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: Who was M. Hamel?
a) a spy
b) language teacher
c) soldier
d) School Principal
Answer: b

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 quietness and sadness
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 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: Alphonse Daudet was from which country?
a) India
b) France
c) England
d) New Zealand
Answer: b

Question: Whom did M. Hamel blame for not sending students to school?
a) Parents
b) friends
c) teachers
d) watchman
Answer: a