OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS
1. Who has written the story January Night?
(a) Prem Chand
(b) Khem Chand
(c) Anton Chekov
(d) mahadevi Varma
2.’Munni’ is a character of the story ______ .
(a) January Night
(b) Allergy
(c) The Bet
(d) Love Defiled
3, Halku’s field was destroyed by _____ .
(a) oxen
(b) nilgais
(c) goats
(d) cows
4. Who was ‘Jabra’?
(a) ox
(b) sheep
(c) monkey
(d) dog
5. What was the real name of Munsi Prem Chand ?
(a) Ganpat Rai
(b) Dhanpat Rai
(c) Abdullah
(d) Ram Kumar
6. Munsi Prem Chand was born in ______ .
(a) Haridwar
(b) Allahabad
(c) Varanasi
(d) Madras
7. Halku is the character of the story ______ .
(a) The Bet
(b) Allergy
(c) January Night
(d) Love Defiled
8. Godan, Gaban, Karambhoomi, Pratigya etc are well known works of
(a) Rai Bahadur
(b) Mahadevi Verma
(c) Periasamy Thooran
(d) Prem Chand
9. Munsi Prem Chand focused chiefly on _____ India in his stories.
(a) rural
(b) rich
(c) urban
(d) town
10. Which of the following story has been written by Prem Chand ?
(a) January Night
(b) Summer Night
(c) The Bet
(d) Allergy
11. came and said to his wife.’The landlord’s come! Get the rupees you set aside.”
(a) Daku
(b) Jabra
(c) Halku
(d) Ladaku
12. How much money had halku’s wife saved ?
(a) three rupees
(b) three hundred rupees
(c) twelve rupees
(d) thirty rupees
13. Munni had saved the money to buy ______ .
(a) box
(b) trunk
(c) jewellery
(d) blanket
14. What was Munni doing when landlord came ?
(a) Sweeping
(b) cooking
(c) selling
(d) swimming
15. In which month did the Landlord visit Halku ?
(a) February
(b) January
(c) July
(d) August
16. Munni asked Halku to convince Landlord that they will pay the amount after
(a) June
(b) Friday
(c) harvest
(d) Sunday
17. What was the profession of Halku ?
(a) landlord
(b) tenant farming/farmer doctor
(c) Doctor
(d) labour
18. Halku’s wife advised him to leave farming and work as a ______
(a) plumber
(b) compounder
(c) technician
(d) hired labourer
19. Halku slept on _____ in his field.
(a) sesame bed
(b) land
(c) bamboo cot
(d) soil
20. Halku slept in his field wrapped in ______
(a) nothing
(b) burlap shawl
(c) simple blanket
(d) barnded blanket
21. Munsi Prem Chand was born on ______
(a) May 1, 1526
(b) June 30, 1950
(c) April 30, 1869
(d) July 31, 1880
22. Munsi Prem Chand was a prolific ______ of both Hindi and Urdu.
(a) fighter
(b) poet
(c) writer
(d) director
23. Munsi Prem Chand was banned by the ______ government after his book Soje Watan.
(a) Indian
(b) British
(c) French
(d) Bengali
24. What was the pen name of Dhanpat rai ?
(a) Prem Chand
(b) Rana. S.P. Singh
(c) Agra sen 1
(d) Surya Chand
25. Who was with Halku in the field in the night ?
(a) Jabra
(b) Labra
(C) Chunni
(d) Munni
26. Halku had smoked ______ already that night.
(a) seven cigarettes
(b) eight pipefuls
(c) twenty bidis
(d) five bidis
27. Jabra had the option to sleep on _____ in the house.
(a) bed
(b) cot
(c) Paddy straw
(d) hay
28. Halku was unable to sleep because the weather was very ______ .
(a) cold
(c) normal
(b) hot
(d) rainy
29. At a stone’s throw from Halku’s field, there was a ______ grove.
(a) litchi
(b) guava
(c) apple
(d) mango
30. Munsi Prem Chand was banned after the book
(a) Soje Vatan
(b) Bharat Chordo
(c) Satygarha
(d) Andolan
31 Halku went to gather ______ from the nearby grove.
(a) fruit
(b) food
(c) seed
(d) leaves
32. Halku gathered leaves from mango grove to make ______ .
(a) heap
(b) fire
(c) food
(d) garland
33. When the leaves were all burned up, under the ashes, a few ______ smouldered.
(a) leaves
(b) mango
(c) embers
(d) paddy straw
34. As the cold began to spread, Halku felt ______ .
(a) drowsy
(b) active
(c) tired
(d) energetic
35. Halku believed that jabra would _____ any wild animal to shred.
(a) rip/tear
(b) like
(c) love
(d) dislike
36. Halku heard the sound of munching and _____ in the field.
(a) stretching
(b) cadbury
(C) crunching
(d) chirping
37. When halku stood up, a blast of wind piereced him like the bite of a _____
(a) child
(b) snake
(c) tiger
(d) scorpion
38. What held Halku motionless when the animals had attacked his field ?
(a) activeness
(b) drowsiness
(c) sadness
(d) happiness
39. Munni’s face was shadowed with ,, when the field was destroyed.
(a) grief
(b) happiness
(c) Joy
(d) satisfaction
40. When the field was destroyed, Halku was ______
(a) overjoyed
(b) angry
(c) sad
(d) content
41. How was the crop, when the animals attacked it ?
(a) ready
(b) raw
(c) harvested
(d) just sown
42. Halku heard some munching and crunching sounds coming from the
(a) Fields
(b) hole
(c) garden
(d) House
43. When did Halku get up ?
(a) In the morning when the sun was high
(b) at 10 o’clock
(c) late night
(d) early in the morning
44. Who shouted at the top of his lungs. ‘Hillo-Hillo -“
(a) Halku
(b) Munni
(c) Jabra
(d) villagers
45. Who came to ask the rent.
(a) a soldier
(b) the landlord
(c) a policeman
(d) the villagers
