Objective Questions on Short
Stories
The Shroud by Premchand
1. Premchand
wrote the short story ‘The Shroud’
2. Premchand
is considered as ‘Upanyas Samrat’
3. In
the short story The Shroud Ghishu is the sixty year old father and Madho is his
son.
4. Budhia
is Madho’s wife who dies from labor pain.
5. Ghishu
and Madho wer chamars by caste.
6. Ghishu
and Madho would gather dry wood and sell to the market.
7. Ghishu
and Madho would enter other people’s fields, steal potatoes and peas and roast
them.
8. Ghishu
had attended Thankur’s marriage before twenty years.
9. The
zamindar gave two rupees to Ghishu.
10. Ghishu
and Madho collected the sum of five
rupees.
11. Ghishu
and Madho ate the puris and drank liquor
12. According
to Ghishu and Madho, Budhia will go to heaven.
Laloo
by Sarath Chandra Chatterji
13. Laloo
likes to give a fright, he threw a rubber snake in his mother’s way that she
sprained her ankle badly.
14. Laloo’s
father was a lawyer.
15. Laloo’s
mother’s name is Nandrani. She hired a tutor or preceptor named Smritiratna for
Laloo.
16. Smiritiratna
could not sleep because of the rain coming through the roof and the veranda
because of the mosquitoes.
17. Nandrani
had prayed or wished that the preceptor should visit her house.
18. Auntie
was Nandrani’s younger sister.
19. Lal
in Hindi means ‘beloved’
20. Laloo
started working as a contractor by taking a loan of ten rupees from his mother.
21. Laloo
went to Bengali school.
22. Laloo
made a toy on a Chhat Festival which brought him two rupees and a half at the
bathing ghat on the Ganges.
23. There
used to be and annual worship of the Goddess Kali, at the house of Manohar
Chatterji.
24. Laloo
performed the sacrifice of the goat because the blacksmith was missing.
25. Only
two goats were sacrificed.
26. The
preceptor, Smritiratna had been reading Chandi.
27. Laloo
pretends to be possessed by the spirit of the sacrifice tries to kill Manohar
Chatterji with the sword and makes him take an oath that henceforward there
shall be no more animal sacrifice in my house.
A
Season of No Return by Gudial Singh
28. Gurdial
Singh is a Punjabi writer.
29. Kauri
is a middle aged Punjabi woman and mother of Santokh. She used to visit
Gurudwara on every Sunday.
30. Kaka
is the name of Santokh’s son.
31. Gyana
is Santokh’s younger brother.
32. Santokh’s
wife called Kauri ‘Maaji pranam’ and Gyana’s wife called Kauri ‘Bebe’.
33. Mechanical/
Superficial human relations is the theme of the story.
34. Santokh’s
wife (Kauri’s daughter-in-law) is a teacher in a college and Santokh is an
engineer in a factory.
35. Gyana’s
son is Melu and daughter is Karmi.
36. Santokh
sent Kauri to Punjab on a train on Saturday.
Rebati
by Fakir Mohan Senapati
37. Fakir
Mohan was born in Odisha and wrote in Odia language.
38. Patpur
was a village in the Hariharpur pargana in the district of Cuttack.
39. Female
education and emancipation is the theme of the story.
40. Rebati
had a desire for education or learning.
41. Patpur
village was hit by Cholera epidemic.
42. Rebati’s
father is Shyambandhu Mohanty and he works as a revenue agent for the village
zamindar. His salary is two rupees a month. His monthly income was four rupees.
43. Shyambandhu
sing bhajans like Krupasindhu Badana or read the Bhagabata.
44. Basudev
is a school teacher in Upper Primary School in Patpur. He had graduated from
the training school in Cuttuck. Basudev suffered from epileptic fits.
45. The
Zamindar gave Shyambandhu three and a half acres of land for tilling.
46. Basudev
and Shyambandhu’s family are karan (chamar) by caste.
47. Rebati
started her education on Sri Panchami day.
48. Rebati’s
grandmother is Budhi who is against her education.
49. Shyambandhu
and his wife and Basudev dies from Cholera. Rebati dies from pneumonia. Only
Budhi is alive.
