A Question of Trust, MCQ. Question and Answers, Prepared
by Podmeswar
MCQ TYPES:
1. Statement Type
2. Dialogue Type
3. Question Type
4. Blank Type
5. Word-Meaning type, Opposite Meaning Type
6. Half line type
7. Balanced Type
8. Arrange Type
9. Synonym or Antonym type
Statements: for MCQ
Note: *The students have to learn some important
statements from the lesson and also should know the whole lesson for any
uncommon statement or any questions.
*Below are the some important statements & short summary on the lesson, ‘A Question of Trust.
1. Everyone thought that Horace Danby was a good, respectable and honest citizen.
2. But, he was not completely honest because he stole or robbed a safe every year and secretly bought his loved books through an agent.
3. Horace Danby was about fifty years (50 Years) old and unmarried.
4. Horace lived with a housekeeper and the housekeeper looked after or worried over his health.
5. Horace Danby made locks and was successful enough; and he had two helpers for his business.
6. He was usually very well but in summer he had to suffer of hay fever.
7. For stealing a safe, Horace Danby had served his first and only sentence in a prison library.
8. Horace Danby was a book lover; he loved rare and expensive books.
9. To buy rare and expensive books, Horace robbed a safe every year.
10. To steal or rob at Shotover Grange, Horace had been studying the house, its rooms, its electric wiring, its paths and its garden for two weeks.
11. At the Shotover Grange, the two servants remained in the Grange while the family was in London.
12. When the two servants had gone to the movies, then Horace came out from behind the garden wall and entered the house.
13. In the Grange safe, there were about fifteen thousand pounds’ worth of jewels.
14. Horace thought that he would get at least five thousand by selling the fifteen thousand pounds.
15. Horace was aware that there were three (3) very interesting books coming up for sale in the autumn.
16. The housekeeper hang the key of Shotover Grange to the kitchen door on a hook outside.
17. A small dog was lying in the kitchen of the Shotover Grange whose name was Sherry.
18. The safe was in the drawing room, behind a rather poor painting.
19. According to Horace, all had to keep dogs quiet to call them by their right names and show them love.
20. The safe of Shotover Grange was in the drawing room, behind a rather poor painting.
21. Horace wondered for a moment whether he should collect pictures instead of books but they preferred to book in his small house as the picture took up too much room.
22. There was a great bowl of flowers on the table from which Horace felt his nose tickle.
23. The burglar alarm of the Shotover Grange was poorly built.
24. He sneezed many times at the Shotover Grange as the smell of the flowers came to him and the flowers were hindering, so he buried his face in his handkerchief.
25. A magazine article had described the Shotover Grange, giving a plan of all the rooms, about a picture of the room that the painting hid a safe.
26. Horace heard a voice say from the doorway and that was the woman who was same profession as she was another thief.
27. The woman or the lady of the house was a quiet, kindly voice, young, quite pretty and was dressed in red.
28. The lady or the woman behaved like the owner of the house but she actually was another thief.
29. Horace did not expect to meet one of the family in his stealing the safe.
30. When Horace met the lady, he had some hope for escaping because she seemed to be amused at meeting him.
31. When Horace met the lady or the woman, his first thought was to run.
32. The lady or the woman warned Horace that if he ran, she would telephone the police and tell them all about him and they would get him at once.
33. As per the lady, society must be protected from men like Horace.
34. As Horace said that he stole only from those who had a lot of money and for a very good reason (buying rare and expensive books).
35. Horace promised the lady or the woman that he would never to do that kind of thing again (stealing).
36. Horace was really afraid of going to prison.
37. When the woman or the lady took a cigarette from the table then to eager to her, Horace took off his gloves and gave her cigarette.
38. Removing or taking off his gloves eager to please the lady or the woman of the house was the big mistake of Horace and his thought the lady as an owner.
39. As the lady or the woman said that before they left for London, they left the jewels in the safe.
40. As the lady or the woman said that she wanted to wear the jewels to a party that night.
41. Horace opened the safe without gloves, so his fingerprints were all over the room and that was his big mistake.
42. For two day only, he kept the promise of not stealing to the kind young lady.
43. On the morning of the third day, Horace again thought of the books he wanted and looked for another safe.
44. Horace did not get the chance to begin the next plan for another safe.
45. By noon of the third day, a policeman had arrested Horace, for the jewel robbery at Shotover Grange.
46. No one believed Horace when he said that the wife of the owner of the house had asked him to open the safe for her.
47. The real wife of the house was a gray-haired, sharp-tongued woman of sixty years, said the story of Horace was nonsense.
48. Horace often thinks of the charming, clever young lady who was in the same profession as he was and who tricked him.
49. Horace got very angry when anyone talked about ‘honour among thieves’.
50. Horace Danby took the kind lady or the woman as the owner of the house.
51. The kind lady or the woman managed to deceive Horace Bandy into thinking she is the lady of the house.
52. Horace Danby was good and respectable-but not completely honest.
53. Horace Danby was a meticulous planner but still he faltered.
54. Horace Danby went wrong when he put off his gloves and thought the young lady as an owner.
Read the following statements with reference to
‘The Midnight Visitor’ and choose the correct option:
1.
Statement 1: Everyone thought that Horace Danby was a thief or a burglar.
Statement 2: But, Horace was not completely honest because he stole or robbed a safe every year and secretly bought his loved books through an agent.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
2.
Statement 1: Horace Danby was about fifty years (50 Years) old and unmarried.
Statement 2: Horace lived with his wife and children.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
3.
Statement 1: Horace Danby made locks and was successful enough; and he had two helpers for his business.
Statement 2: He was usually very well but in summer he had to suffer of hay fever.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
4.
Statement 1: For stealing a safe, Horace Danby had served his first and only sentence in a prison library.
Statement 2: Horace Danby was not a book lover; he did not love rare and expensive books.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
5.
Statement 1: To buy clothes and foods, Horace robbed a safe every year.
Statement 2: To steal or rob at Shotover Grange, Horace had been studying the house, its rooms, its electric wiring, its paths and its garden for two weeks.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
6.
Statement 1: At the Shotover Grange, the two servants remained in the Grange while the family was in London.
Statement 2: When the two servants had gone to the movies, then Horace came out from behind the garden wall and entered the house.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
7.
Statement 1: In the Grange safe, there were about twenty (20) thousand pounds’ worth of jewels.
Statement 2: Horace thought that he would get at least twenty thousand by selling the fifteen thousand pounds.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
8.
Statement 1: Horace was aware that there were five (5) very interesting books coming up for sale in the autumn.
Statement 2: The housekeepers hang the key of Shotover Grange to the kitchen door on a hook outside.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
9.
Statement 1: A small dog was lying in the kitchen of the Shotover Grange whose name was Sherry.
Statement 2: The safe was in the drawing room, behind a rather poor painting.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
10.
Statement 1: According to Horace, all had to keep dogs quiet to dancing in front of him.
Statement 2: The safe of Shotover Grange was in the drawing room, behind a rather poor painting.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
11.
Statement 1: Horace wondered for a moment whether he should collect pictures instead of books but they preferred to book in his small house as the picture took up too much room.
Statement 2: There was a great bowl of flowers on the table from which Horace felt his nose tickle.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
12.
Statement 1: The burglar alarm of the Shotover Grange was strongly built.
Statement 2: Horace sneezed many times at the Shotover Grange as the smell of the flowers came to him and the flowers were hindering, so he buried his face in his handkerchief.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
13.
Statement 1: A magazine article had described the Shotover Grange, giving a plan of all the rooms, about a picture of the room that the painting hid a safe.
Statement 2: Horace heard a voice say from the doorway and
that was the real owner or lady of the house.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
14.
Statement 1: The woman or the lady of the house was rude
voice, old, quite ugly and was dressed in green.
Statement 2: The lady or the woman behaved like the owner of the house but she actually was another thief.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
15.
Statement 1: Horace expected to meet one of the families in his stealing the safe and also wished to have a cup of tea.
Statement 2: When Horace met the lady, he had some hope for escaping because she seemed to be amused at meeting him.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
16.
Statement 1: When Horace met the lady or the woman, his first thought was to run.
Statement 2: The lady or the woman warned Horace that if he ran, she would telephone the police and tell them all about him and they would get him at once.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
17.
Statement 1: As per the lady, society must be protected from men like Horace.
Statement 2: As Horace said that he stole safe every year for buying guns and biscuits.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
18.
Statement 1: Horace promised the lady or the woman that he would steal again and again.
Statement 2: Horace was really afraid of going to prison.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
19.
Statement 1: When the woman or the lady took a cigarette from the table then to eager to her, Horace took off his gloves and gave her cigarette.
Statement 2: Removing or taking off his gloves eager to please the lady or the woman of the house was the big mistake of Horace and his thought the lady as an owner.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
20.
Statement 1: As the lady or the woman said that before they left for London, they left the jewels in the bank.
Statement 2: As the lady or the woman said that she wanted to wear the jewels to a party that night.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
21.
Statement 1: Horace opened the safe with gloves.
Statement 2: For two day only, he kept the promise of not stealing to the kind young lady.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
22.
Statement 1: On the morning of the third day, Horace again thought of the books he wanted and looked for another safe.
Statement 2: Horace got the chance to begin the next plan for another safe.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
23.
Statement 1: By noon of the third day, a policeman had arrested Horace, for the jewel robbery at Shotover Grange.
Statement 2: No one believed Horace when he said that the wife of the owner of the house had asked him to open the safe for her.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
24.
Statement 1: The real wife of the house was a gray-haired, sharp-tongued woman of sixty years, said the story of Horace was nonsense.
Statement 2: Horace often thinks of the charming, clever young lady who was in the same profession as he was and who tricked him.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
25.
Statement 1: Horace liked very much when anyone talked about ‘honour among thieves’.
Statement 2: Horace Danby took the kind lady or the woman as the owner of the house.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
26.
Statement 1: The kind lady or the woman managed to deceive Horace Bandy into thinking she is the lady of the house.
Statement 2: Horace Danby was good and respectable-and also completely honest.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
27.
Statement 1: Horace Danby was a meticulous planner but still he faltered.
Statement 2: Horace Danby went wrong when he put off his gloves and thought the young lady as an owner.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
who was good and respectable but not completely honest?
or
........was good and respectable but not completely honest?
(A) the lady of the house
(B) the house keeper
(C) the wife of the owner of the house
(D) Horace Danby
Answer:
(D) Horace Danby
29. Who was the lady of the house?
(A) the house keeper
(B) another thief
(C) the wife of the owner of the house
(D) Horace Danby's wife
Answer: (B) another thief
30. Who is the villain or main culprit of the story, "A Question of Trust"?
(A) the lady of the house
(B) the house keeper
(C) the wife of the owner of the house
(D) Horace Danby
Answer:
(A) the lady of the house
31. Horace Danby was.........old.
or
How much old was Horace Danby ?
(A) sixty years
(B) forty years
(C) seventy years
(D) fifty years
Answer:
(D) fifty years