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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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Q:1)  Who had told the boy that the old man was now definitely and finally salao?

A:) All fisher men

B:) Marlin

C:) The boy’s parents

D:) A boatman

Correct: C


Q:2) The old man was now definitely and finally salao. The Spanish word Salao means.

A:) A big success

B:) Hard work never fails

C:) The Worst form of unlucky

D:) The deep-creased scars

Correct: C


Q:3) Choose the thing which is not used by old man while fishing in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’?

A:) Skiff

B:) Gaff

C:) Harpoon

D:) Archery

Correct: D


Q:4) The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in ___________.  

A:) the back of his neck

B:) the forehead

C:) the right-hand

D:) the legs

Correct: A


Q:5) The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on __________.

A:) his lips

B:) his cheeks

C:) his body

D:) below the right leg ankle

Correct: B


Q:6) Everything about the old man was old except his _________.  

A:) hope

B:) strength

C:) eyes

D:) hands

Correct: C


Q:7) What were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated?

A:) Blue boats

B:) Blue color tattered cloak

C:) Eyes

D:) Coiled lines

Correct: C


Q:8) Who said to the boy, ‘You’re with a lucky boat. Stay with them.’

A:) Manolin

B:) Marlin

C:) Parents of the boy

D:) Santiago

Correct: D


Q:9) Where did the old man go turtling for years off?

A:) Mosquito Coast

B:) Canary Islands

C:) Black Sea

D:) Suez Canal

Correct: A


Q:10) What was nearly as long as the one room of the shack?

A:) The Marlin

B:) The Gaff

C:) The Mast

D:) The Shaft

Correct: C


Q:11) Which of the following picture was in the old man’s shack?

A:) Sacred Heart of Jesus

B:) White color Shark

C:) Abraham Lincoln

D:) Fish and Boat

Correct: A


Q:12) The Old man had taken a picture down and it was on the shelf in the corner under his clean shirt. That picture is the portrait of _________.

A:) Virgin of Cobre

B:) Joe DiMaggio

C:) Old man’s Wife

D:) Old man’s daughter

Correct: C


Q:13) What was the lucky number, said by the old man.

A:) Fifty Five

B:) Eighty Five

C:) Fifty Six

D:) Eighty Six

Correct: B


Q:14) The old man said, ‘The month when the great fish come’. Which month was noticed by Old man?  

A:) May

B:) August

C:) September

D:) December

Correct: C


Q:15) Who was not a baseball player and he was not a subject in discussion between old man and the boy.

A:) Joe Montana

B:) Dick Sisler

C:) Joe DiMaggio

D:) John J. McGraw

Correct: A 


Q:16) The boy said, ‘the best fisherman is you’. No, I know others better, the old man replied.       ‘Que va’ the boy said. Here the Spanish word Que va means.  

A:) You Lucky

B:) You are best

C:) Believe me

D:) No Way

Correct: D


Q:17) ‘_____ is my alarm clock,’ the old man said.  

A:) The Boy

B:) Lion

C:) Age

D:) Sea Waves

Correct: C


Q:18)  What were old man’s principle friends on the ocean?

A:) White Whales

B:) Sharks

C:) Jelly Fishes

D:) Flying Fishes

Correct: D


Q:19)  Which have a harder life?

A:) Birds

B:) Jelly fish

C:) Turtle

D:) Whale

Correct: A


Q:20) Who wrote ‘The Old Man and The Sea’  

A:) Mark Twain

B:) Nathaniel Hawthorne

C:) Ezra Pound

D:) Ernest Hemingway

Correct: D


Q:21) ‘Come up easy and let me put the ________ into The Marlin’

A:) skiff

B:) gaff

C:) harpoon

D:) mast

Correct: C


Q:22) _______ later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, towing the skiff, and the old man was still braced solidly with the line across his back.

A:) Two hours

B:) Three hours

C:) Four hours

D:) Six hours

Correct: C


Q:23) He hooked the fish (marlin), is a __________.  

A:) Male

B:) Female

C:) The old man does not know either male or female

D:) None of the above

Correct: B


Q:24) To whom did old man say ‘I love you and respect you very much’?

A:) Manolin

B:) Marlin

C:) Joe DiMaggio

D:) Old man’s wife

Correct: B


Q:25) A small bird came toward the old man’s skiff from the _______.  

A:) North

B:) South

C:) East

D:) West

Correct: A