CBSE Class 12 English The Rattrap MCQs Set D

Question: Why did Peddler sign himself as Captain Von Stahle?
a) he didn’t want to hurt them
b) because of love and care
c) because of mistaken identity
d) none
Answer: c

Question: Who offered shelter to the Peddler?
a) a beggar
b) An old Crofter
c) a milkman
d) a friend
Answer: b

Question: What made the Peddler finally change his heart?
a) Edla’s words
b) Edla’s appearance
c) Edla’s father
d) Edla’s goodness and care
Answer: d

Question: How did the Crofter tempt the Peddler to steal his money?
a) by his kindness
b) by his warm care
c) by showing him money
d) none
Answer: c

Question: What is the message of the story?
a) Love and kindness are powerful reformers.
b) Kindness is powerless
c) kindness encourages thieves
d) thieves need reprimand
Answer: a

Question: What does the metaphor Rattrap in the lesson signify?
a) Human greed and distractions
b) thieves
c) attractions
d) humans
Answer: a

Question: Why did Peddler not reveal his true identity?
a) because of fear
b) he didn’t want to hurt them
c) in the greed of getting money
d) none
Answer: c

Question: Why did the peddler have to take shelter?
a) because he had no home
b) because he wants to steal
c) because he wants to be with his friends
d) because of his wishes
Answer: a

Question: In what manner has the story been narrated?
a) non.fictious style
b) realistic manner
c) fictious fairy tale manner
d) none
Answer: c

Question: Where has the story been set up?
a) Jewellery shops
b) Forests of Sweden
c) Roads of Sweden
d) Mines of Sweden
Answer: d

Question: Why did the Peddler decline the invitation?
a) because he had stolen money
b) he wanted to go back to his place
c) he wanted to hide money
d) he wanted to run
Answer: b

Question: Which country does the author belong to?
a) Singapore
b) Sydney
c) Sweden
d) Switzerland
Answer: c

Question: Why did Elda bring the Peddler to her house for Christmas cheer?
a) because of his resemblance to her father’s old friend
b) he was very funny
c) he was goodlooking
d) because she knew him
Answer: a

Question: Why did the Peddler feel that he had fallen into the Rattrap?
a) because he fell into a pit
b) because he fell in love with Edla
c) because his heart is changed
d) because of his greedy action and pitiable circumstances
Answer: d

Question: What earns the sympathy of the reader towards the peddler?
a) his actions
b) his stories
c) his sense of humour and innocent acceptance
d) his face
Answer: c

Question: Why did Crofter show 30 Kronor to the Peddler?
a) to share his feelings of pride
b) to flaunt
c) because he considers him a friend
d) to boast
Answer: a

Question: Why did the Peddler have to resort to begging and thievery?
a) poverty
b) miserable life
c) because of non.profiatability of his business
d) none
Answer: c

Question: Why did the Peddler feel like stealing?
a) greed
b) others’ indifference to his needs
c) miserable life
d) poverty
Answer: b

Question: From where did the Pedlder get the material to make rattraps?
a) shops
b) stores
c) streets
d) roads
Answer: b

Question: What made the Peddler finally change his ways?
a) Edla’s beauty
b) His mistaken identity
c) his greed
d) kindness and care
Answer: d

Question: Why was the Crofter so talkative and friendly with the Peddler?
a) because he knew him
b) because of his resemblance to one of his old friend
c) he was his neighbourer
d) he was his friend
Answer: b

Question: Why did iromaster realise his mistake?
a) because of uncertain reflections and Edla
b) because of pedlar’s words
c) because of his friend
d) because of Edla
Answer: a

Question: What was the Peddler’s profession and who he was?
a) selling, traveller
b) begging, traveller
c) stealing, thief
d) none
Answer: c

Question: This story revolves around whom?
a) around Crofter and his daughter
b) around crofter
c) around ironman
d) around peddler, the Rattrap seller
Answer: d

Question: What doubts did Edla have about Peddler?
a) his fear and appearance
b) his words
c) his behavior
d) none
Answer: a

Question: Who used to make rattraps?
a) Crofter
b) Edla
c) Crofter and Edla
d) Pedlar
Answer: d

Question: How is the Peddler influenced by meeting the Crofter and Edla?
a) he was encouraged to steal money
b) his heart was changed
c) he became a rattrap seller
d) none
Answer: b

Question: Who is the author of The Rattrap?
a) Selma Lagerlof
b) Thomas B. Allen
c) Howard Phillips
d) Sudha Murthy
Answer: a

Question: How did Crofter treat the Peddler?
a) friendly manner
b) in a strange manner
c) very rudely
d) none
Answer: a

Question: Sweden Mines are rich in which ore?
a) Brass
b) copper
c) steel
d) iron ore
Answer: d

Question: From where did the Peddler get the idea of the world being a Rattrap?
a) from his friends’ situation
b) from Crofter’s behavior
c) from Edla’s words
d) from his circumstances and miserable life condition
Answer: d

Question: According to the seller what leads us to various miseries?
a) attractions
b) people
c) friends
d) wishes and greed of comfort
Answer: d

Question: What lightens the seriousness of the lesson?
a) Peddlar’s greed
b) Peddlar’s sense of humour
c) Peddlar’s tricks
d) Peddlar’s gossip
Answer: b

Question: Why was he amused by his idea of a rattrap?
a) it was a bad joke
b) it was a good comparison
c) it was the exact situation and was humorous
d) none
Answer: c

Question: What does the rattrap seller have to do to make his both ends meet?
a) Peddling
b) thievery and begging
c) begging
d) selling
Answer: b

Question: Why does the peddler knit up various kind of thoughts?
a) because of greed
b) because of travelling
c) because of loneliness and poverty
d) none
Answer: c

True False Question

Question: The peddler could not deny the invitation of Edla because he felt confidence in her.
Answer: True

Question: The peddler was highly touched by the act of compassion shown by the crofter, before leaving the house.(T/F)
Answer: false

Question: The intruder was in the hope of getting a job after reaching the forge.(T/F)
Answer: false

Question: The latent goodness of peddler’s heart had been awakened but he never had been able to overcome the bait of the rattrap.(T/F)
Answer: false

Question: The world is a rattrap and we all are the rats. (T/F)
Answer: True

Question: The ironmaster came for the daily inspection of his factory.
Answer: False

Question: The old man was generous enough to share his confidences because the peddler was his old friend from the regiment.
Answer: False

Question: Cheese rinds and bits of pork here are compared to various temptations offered.
Answer: True

Question: Emotions, at times, give rise to unexpected behavior, for instance the crofter.(T/F)
Answer: false

Question: The ironmaster’s hospitality didn’t impress the peddler much because he was kind to him only because he thought him to be his old acquaintance.(T/F)
Answer: True

Source Based Question

Read the lines given below and Answer: the following questions

As soon as the young girl caught sight of him, she went up and lifted his hat. The man was evidently used to sleeping with one eye open. He jumped up abruptly and seemed to be quite frighteneD) ‘‘My name is Edla Willmansson,’’ said the young girl. ‘‘My father came home and said that you wanted to sleep here in the forge tonight, and then I asked permission to come and bring you home to us. I am so sorry, Captain, that you are having such a hard time.’’ She looked at him compassionately, with her heavy eyes, and then she noticed that the man was afraiD) ‘‘Either he has stolen something or else he has escaped from, jail’’, she thought, and added quickly, “You may be sure, Captain, that you will be allowed to leave us just as freely as you came. Only please stay with us over Christmas Eve.’’ She said this in such a friendly manner that the rattrap peddler must have felt confidence in her. ‘‘It would never have occurred to me that you would bother with me yourself, miss,’’ he saiD) ‘’I will come at once.’’

Question: “The man was evidently used to sleeping with one eye open.” How would you describe this line
A) Satire
B) Derision
C) Subtle humour
D) Ridicule
Answer: c

Question: ‘‘My father came home and said that you wanted to sleep here in the forge tonight, and then I asked permission to come and bring you home to us.” What is the tone of this line?
A) Gentle and polite
B) Condescending and unconventional
C) Effeminate and unconvincing
D) Patronising and authoritarian
Answer: a

Question: Why do you think the Peddler agrees to the request of Edla?
A) He thought it would be rude to refuse her invitation
B) He gained confidence in her friendly behaviour
C) He found her gullible
D) He found her incredible
Answer: b

Question: Even though Edla is suspicious of his identity, why do you think she still invites him to her house?
A) She was kind and compassionate
B) To fulfil her father’s desire
C) There was no proof
D) She wanted to catch him red handed
Answer: b

Read the lines given below and Answer: the following questions

“The world had, of course, never been very kind to him, so it gave him unwonted joy to think ill of it in this way. It became a cherished pastime of his, during many dreary ploddings, to think of people he knew who had let themselves be caught in the dangerous snare, and of others who were still circling around the bait.”

Question: What does the word unwonted mean?
A) Unusual
B) Safe
C) Unsafe
D) Good
Answer: a

Question: What did the rattrap seller compare the world with?
A) Rattrap
B) Cage
C) Earth
D) Circus
Answer: b

Question: Who sheltered him that night?
A) Crofter
B) Iron master
C) Blacksmith
D) Edla Williamson
Answer: b

Question: Which literary device has been used in ‘This world is nothing but a rattrap’?
A) Personification
B) Metaphor
C) Alliteration
D) Metonymy
Answer: b

Read the lines given below and Answer: the following questions

“He realised, of course, that at first he dared not continue on the public highway, but must turn off the road, into the woods. During the first hours this caused him no difficulty. Later in the day it became worse, for it was a big and confusing forest which he had gotten into. He tried, to be sure, to walk in a definite direction, but the paths twisted back and forth so strangely! He walked and walked without coming to the end of the wood, and finally he realised that he had only been walking around in the same part of the forest.”

Question: Why did the peddler choose woods instead of public highway?
A) For he was afraid of public
B) For he was afraid of being caught with the thirty cronors
C) For he was comfortable walking through the woods
D) All of these
Answer: b

Question: What did he realise after walking for long?
A) That he was lonely
B) That he was ensnared
C) That he would go to the iron master
D) All of these
Answer: b

Question: What kind of forest was that?
A) Perplexing
B) Orienting
C) Intimidating
D) None of these
Answer: a

Question: How many kronors had he stolen from the Crofter’s home?
A) 25
B) 30
C) 45
D) 50
Answer: b