English Flamingo Chapter 1 The Last Lesson MCQs with Answers for Class 12
For Term - 1 CBSE Board Exam 2021
Question 1 – Who is the author of The Last Lesson?
A) Jane Austen
B) Rabindra Nath Tagore
C) None
D) Alphonse Daudet
Answer
Answer: (d)
Question 2 – 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
Answer: (b)
Question 3 - Franz looked for opportunities to skip school to do what?
A) work on mills
B) go fishing
C) water the plants
D) collect birds eggs
Answer
Answer: (d)
Question 4 – Why was Franz reluctant to go to school?
A) School was boring.
B) wanted to see soldiers drill
C) wanted to enjoy outdoor
D) lesson on participles was not prepared
Answer
Answer: (d)
Question 5 – What was Franz expected to be prepared for at school that day?
A) Old primer
B) Essay writing
C) Participles
D) Adjectives
Answer
Answer: (c)
Question 6 – What was Franz banking on to enter the class as he was late?
A) Police patrolling
B) commotion in the class
C) Hauser helping him sneak in
D) to quietly walk in when everyone was preoccupied with participles
Answer
Answer: (b)
A) People were dancing
B) school was closed
C) M.Hamel’s teaching on the blackboard
D) strange quietness
Answer
Answer: (d)
A) Loss
B) Loss of freedom
C) Loss of language
D) Loss of language and freedom
Answer
Answer: (d)
A) The Dawn of Prussia in the defeat of French people
B) The defeat of Prussia
C) The victory of the French
D) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a)
A) Change of power
B) change of Government
C) change in life
D) Change of teachers
Answer
Answer: (c)
A) not to put off things that one can do that day
B) old order changed to new
C) one should accept everything that happens
D) teachers should be respected
Question 12 – Alphonse Daudet was from which country?
A) India
B) France
C) England
D) New Zealand
Question 13 – Who sat on the backbenches in the class?
A) Prussians
B) Village elders
C) The new teacher
D) Weak students
Question 14 – 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
Question 15 – What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?
A) Crowd in school
B) Strange quietness and sadness
C) School was closed
D) People were happy & dancing
Question 16 – What order had come from Berlin?
A) The new teacher
B) teach German in schools of Alsace and Lorraine
C) to open a new school in Alsace and Lorraine
D) that Hamel would have to leave
Question 17 – What was the image of Mr M Hamel among his students initially?
A) A loving teacher
B) A strict teacher
C) An understanding teacher
D) A kind and humble teacher
Question 18 – 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
Question 19 – What made Franz and the people realize the preciousness of their mother tongue?
A) M. Hamel’s words
B) School orders
C) Sudden orders from Berlin
D) School Principal
Question 20 – Why was Franz surprised?
A) Because of village elders
B) Because of police patrolling
C) because of students’ behaviour
D) because of M.Hamel’s kind and polite behaviour
Question 22 – Why did Hamel blame himself?
A) not having taught them enough French
B) not being strict
C) giving students a holiday at times
D) not being responsible
Question 23 – Who did M.Hamel blame for not sending students to school?
A) Parents
B) friends
C) teachers
D) watchman
Question 24 – Where did the parents send their children?
A) school
B) coaching
C) farms and mills
D) movies
Question 25 – 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
Question 26 – Why was Franz was shocked to see M. Hamel?
A) Because of his formal dress
B) because he gave sweets
C) because he had a flower in his hand
D) all of these
Question 27 – What was unusual about M. Hamel’s dress?
A) wore clean clothes
B) wore a brand new outfit
C) wore clothes he wore on prize days
D) wore traditional French clothes
Question 28 – What attitude of M.Hamel surprised Franz?
A) soft and kind
B) rude
C) strict
D) None of these
Question 29 – What does M. Hamel’s motionless posture reflect?
A) the school is over
B) sense of finality
C) changing the order of life
D) feeling of nostalgia
Question 30 – For the last two years, where did all the bad news come from?
A) the Bulletin Board
B) Town Hall
C) school
D) M. Hamel’s House
Question 31 – What was there in front of the Bulletin Board?
A) children
B) police
C) hawkers
D) a crowd
Question 32 – What was on the Bulletin Board that day?
A) Teach only French
B) Speak only English
C) Teach only German
D) Teach all these
Question 33 – What bad news used to come from the Bulletin Board?
A) lost battles
B) the draft
C) orders of commanding officers
D) All of these
Question 34 – What did Mr Hamel bring for his class on his last day in school?
A) new pens
B) new notebooks
C) sweets
D) storybooks
Question 35 – Which language would the students study from the next day?
A) English
B) German
C) Dutch
D) Spanish
Question 36 – 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
Question 37 – What did Hauser bring?
A) sweets
B) children
C) friends
D) old Primer
Question 38 – For how many years did M. Hamel serve the school?
A) 20 years
B) 35 years
C) 30 years
D) 40 years
Question 39 – 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
Question 40 – What does the expression "in great dread of scolding" mean?
A) to be happy about it
B) badly scared of scolding
C) To be indifferent
D) None of these
Question 41 – The story ‘The Last Lesson’ highlights which human tendency?
A) Male Chauvinism
B) Procrastination
C) Courage
D) Cowardice
Question 42 – M. Hamel is introduced as a ruler-wielding teacher. This shows that:
A) he is concerned.
B) he is adamant.
C) he is unfeeling.
D) he is a hard taskmaster.
Question 43 – Franz thinks- will they make them sing in German- even the pigeons? What could this mean?
A) Germany would use brutal force over everyone
B) they will pass harsh orders
C) when people are deprived of their essence even the surroundings are affected.
D) the Germans will rob France of its language.
Question 44 – 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
Question 45 – Expression ‘Thunder Clap" in the lesson means _______.
A) loud but not clear
B) loud and clear
C) startling and unexpected
D) unpleasant
Question 46 – What did Mr Hamel bring for his class on his last day in school?
A) new pens
B) new notebooks
C) sweets
D) storybooks
Question 47 – What does effects this story speak about?
A) Power
B)Mone
C)Transition
D) people
Question 48 – 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) Because people were from France
D) None of these
Question 49 – 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
Question 50 – "The Last Lesson" story was written in which year?
A) 1869 – 1870
B) 1870 – 1871
C) 1872- 1873
D) 1870 – 1872
Question 51 – ‘Viva la France’ became emotional evidence of M. Hamel’s?
A) sadness and patriotism.
B) finality and depression.
C) nostalgia and emotional outburst.
D) love for the school and teaching as a profession
Question 52 – Who was Franz’s teacher?
A) Joe
B) M. Hamel
C) Vincet Daudet
D) Anees
Question 53 – What distracted Franz in the chapter ‘The Last Lesson'?
A) Chirping birds
B) Warm and bright day
C) Prussian soldiers drilling
D) All of the above
Question 54 – I never saw him look so tall” Who is the person mentioned here?
A) Franz
B) M.Hamel
C) Villagers
D) Students
Question 55 – Which district came under the Prussian rule?
A) Alsace and Berlin
B) Berlin and Lorraine
C) Alsace and Lorraine
D) the southern districts of France
Question 56 – Who asked Franz not to hurry to school?
A) Old Hauser
B) former Mayor
C) former Postmaster
D) blacksmith Watcher
Question 57 – Why does the author urge the reader to respect his language?
A) It is what makes you respect your countrymen.
B) It is the key to freedom.
C) You can express yourself.
D) It is unique and reflects literature and art.
Question 58 – Why could M. Hamel not speak at the end of the lesson?
A) He was sad and choked
B) He had a cold and cough
C) He did not wish to talk
D) He was exhausted
Question 59 – Who did Franz see drilling in the open fields?
A) French persons
B) Prussian soldiers
C) neighbours
D) village old people
Question 60 – “What a thunderclap these words to me!” Which poetic device is used in the above-given line?
A) alliteration
B) Simile
C) Metaphor
D) hyperbole
