Class-12- -English -MCQ on A Pinch of Snuff-01-30

 

Question 1.
The narrator of ‘A Pinch of Snuff* was on probation –
(A) A minister
(B) A secretary
(C) An under-secretary
(D) A novelist
Answer:
(B) A secretary

Question 2.
When was Manohar Malgaonkar born ?
(A) 1917
(B) 1916
(C) 1912
(D) 1913
Answer:
(D) 1913

Question 3.
Who was coming to visit the narrator’s family ?
(A) Ratiram
(B) Minister
(C) Nanukaka
(D) Narrator
Answer:
(C) Nanukaka

Question 4.

Nanukaka was related to the narrator, as he was his-
(A) Uncle
(B) Nephew
(C) Cousin
(D) Son
Answer:
(B) Nephew

Question 5.
Name of the son of Sohanlal Ratiram was-
(A) Hariram
(B) Raviram
(C) Ratiram
(D) Sohanram
Answer:
(C) Ratiram

Question 6.
Sohanlal Ratiram was the Party Boss in-
(A) Patna
(B) Delhi
(C) Mumbai
(D) Rajasthan
Answer:
(B) Delhi

Question 7.
Nanukaka’s meeting with Sohanlal Ratiram was-
(A) A failure
(B) Cancelled
(C) Very successful
(D) Postponed
Answer:
(C) Very successful

Question 8.
The second important person Nanukaka had planned to meet, was-
(A) Businessman
(B) Welfare minister
(C) Estate minister
(D) Zamindar
Answer:
(B) Welfare minister

Question 9.

The new role Nanukaka gave the narrator/under-secretary, was of-
(A) Cook
(B) Driver
(C) Professor
(D) Minister
Answer:
(B) Driver

Question 10.
Nanukaka managed to impress the Sikka Auto Dealers by demonstration of-
(A) Country
(B) Knowledge
(C) Wealth
(D) Politeness
Answer:
(C) Wealth

Question 11.
The type of Situation in which a person from time to time turns to his mother tongue-
(A) Hesitation
(B) Linguistic emergency
(C) Revolving
(D) Consequence
Answer:
(B) Linguistic emergency

Question 12.
Nanukaka told-Take me to the Maharaja Sutkatta’s palace to return the-
(A) Cheque
(B) Coat
(C) Horoscope
(D) Driver
Answer:
(C) Horoscope

Question 13.
Who is the author of the prose piece ‘A Pinch of Snuff’ ?
(A) Murli Manohar Joshi
(B) Manohar Pandya
(C) Manohar Malgaonkar
(D) Vikram Naipal
Answer:
(C) Manohar Malgaonkar

Question 14.
It was very easy for the narrator to get sent on-
(A) Royal business
(B) Holy works
(C) Entertainment purpose
(D) Foreign assignment
Answer:
(C) Entertainment purpose

Question 15.

Mother said that Nanukaka is coming to see some -.
(A) Monuments
(B) Minister
(C) Monster
(D) Estate
Answer:
(C) Monster

Question 16.
Nanukaka was installed in –
(A) die guest room
(B) the drawing room
(C) author’s bedroom
(D) the verandah
Answer:
(C) author’s bedroom

Question 17.
The author had taken –
(A) five days’ leave
(B) three days’ leave
(C) two days’ leave
(D) six days’ leave
Answer:
(C) two days’ leave

Question 18.
Nanukaka in a linguistic emergengy always turned to –
(A) English
(B) Hindi
(C) his mother-tongue
(D) Sanskrit
Answer:
(C) his mother-tongue

Question 19.
Nanukaka thought that the secretary treated them coldly because they had not gone in –
(A) an old car
(B) a bigger car
(C) a small car
(D) a new car
Answer:
(B) a bigger car

Question 20.

Nanukaka took out his cheque-book and wrote a cheque for – [2018A, I.A.]
(A) five thousand rupees
(B) two thousand rupess
(C) a thousand rupees
(D) five hundred rupees
Answer:
(C) a thousand rupees

Question 21.
Nanukaka was coining to Delhi –
(A) to visit the Red Fort
(B) to see some minister
(C) to participate a conference
(D) to spend the summer
Answer:
(B) to see some minister

Question 22.
Nanukaka was author’s –
(A) brother
(B) neighbour
(C) maternal uncle
(D) friend
Answer:
(C) maternal uncle

Question 23.
The author has a complex about –
(A) relative
(B) guest
(C) officials
(D) ministers
Answer:
(D) ministers

Question 24.

Nanukaka traveled in –
(A) the A.C. Class
(B) the Second Class
(C) the Third Class
(D) the First Class
Answer:
(B) the Second Class

Question 25.
On the plateform Nanukaka handed over the author—
(A) a bag
(B) a box
(C) a briefcase
(D) a basket
Answer:
(D) a basket

Question 26.
The basket contained—
(A) fruits
(B) a cat
(C) sweets
(D) vegetables
Answer:
(B) a cat

Question 27.
Nanukaka had third class ticket but travelled in the second class because—
(A) he was clever
(B) there was no third class
(C) he lost his ticket
(D) there was no room in the third class
Answer:
(D) there was no room in the third class

Question 28.

The author was merely
(A) an under secretary
(B) a secretary
(C) a clerk
(D) a peon
Answer:
(A) an under secretary

Question 29.
A Pinch of Snuff is written by —
(A) Bertrand Russell
(B) H.E. Bates
(C) Manohar Malgaonkar
(D) Pearl S. Buck
Answer:
(C) Manohar Malgaonkar

Question 30.
Manohar Malgoankar has written the lesson—
(A) I Have a Dream
(B) A Pinch of Snuff
(C) Bharat Is My Home
(D) The Earth
Answer:
(B) A Pinch of Snuff