MCQ Questions for Class 11 English Snapshots Chapter 8 The Tale of Melon City with Answers
Question 1.
What is the genre of “The Tale of the Melon City”?
(a) Thriller
(b) Humorous
(c) Ironical
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Answer
Answer: (d) Both (b) and (c)
Question 2.
What impression do you form of the crowd of the state?
(a) They were of no good
(b) They were supportive of their King
(c) They were indifferent who was throned
(d) Both (a) and (c)
Answer
Answer: (d) Both (a) and (c)
Question 3.
After reading “The Tale of the Melon City”, what opinion do you form of the King?
(a) He was a just King
(b) He was a rule abiding King
(c) He was a foolish King
(d) He was a wise King
Answer
Answer: (c) He was a foolish King
Question 4.
What is most important to the public of the state?
(a) Their peace and liberty
(b) How the state is ruled
(c) Their wealth
(d) Their involvement in state decisions
Answer
Answer: (a) Their peace and liberty
Question 5.
Why did the idiot reply the way he did?
(a) Because he liked melons
(b) Because he rode horses
(c) Because he knew how to use sword
(d) Because he grew melons
Answer
Answer: (a) Because he liked melons
Question 6.
Who passed the City Gate?
(a) An old wise man
(b) An idiot
(c) A beggar
(d) A child
Answer
Answer: (b) An idiot
Question 7.
Finally, who was tall enough to reach the noose?
(a) The chief of the builders
(b) The architect
(c) Someone from the crowd
(d) The King
Answer
Answer: (d) The King
Question 8.
What was the public demand that the King sought to fulfill?
(a) They wanted no one to be hanged
(b) They wanted a hanging
(c) They wanted the arch to be demolished
(d) The wanted a new king
Answer
Answer: (b) They wanted a hanging
Question 9.
Why was it shameful to hang the arch’?
(a) Because it was innocent
(b) Because it was non-living
(c) Because it was newly built
(d) Because it had touched the King’s head
Answer
Answer: (d) Because it had touched the King’s head
Question 10.
Listening about his own hanging, who did the King call for?
(a) The oldest man in the country
(b) The wisest man in the country
(c) The wisest minister in his administration
(d) All the people
Answer
Answer: (b) The wisest man in the country
Question 11.
What reason did the workmen give to the King?
(a) Instructions given were wrong
(b) Time provided was less
(c) Bricks were of the wrong size
(d) Changes were made at the last point
Answer
Answer: (c) Bricks were of the wrong size
Question 12.
What order did the King give after the incident?
(a) He ordered workmen to be hanged
(b) He ordered to hang the chief of builders
(c) He ordered to summon the architect
(d) He ordered to gather all people
Answer
Answer: (b) He ordered to hang the chief of builders
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