MCQs – The Old Man And The Sea Novel By Ernest Hemingway

Santiago usually had dream of:
(a) Tigers
(b) Cats
(c) Young lions
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Young lions

Old man’s favourite game was:
(a) Baseball
(b) Football
(c) Cricket
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Baseball

Ernest Hemingway was born in:
(a) 1892
(b) 1893
(c) 1900
(d) 1899
Question’s Answer: 1899

Ernest Hemingway pass away in:
(a) 1963
(b) 1962
(c) 1961
(d) 1964
Question’s Answer: 1961

The subject of the Hemingway’s novel “A farewell to Arms” is:
(a) Romance
(b) The Problem of Woman
(c) Futility of War
Question’s Answer: Futility of War

Hemingway was awarded “Nobel Prize for Literature” in:
(a) 1950
(b) 1955
(c) 1957
(d) 1954
Question’s Answer: 1954

Who was the principal friend of Santiago on the ocean?
(a) Dolphin
(b) Flying fish
(c) Birds
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Flying fish

Who is the author of the “The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)”?
(a) Bernard Shaw
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Ernest Hemingway
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ernest Hemingway

Which is not a novel by Hemingway?
(a) The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) The Sun Also Rises
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Pride and Prejudice

Earnest Hemingway’s father was a:
(a) Engineer
(b) Soldier
(c) Doctor
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Doctor

“The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)” received the “Pulitzer Prize” in:
(a) 1953
(b) 1952
(c) 1951
(d) 1954
Question’s Answer: 1953

Hemingway pass away by:
(a) Kidney Failure
(b) Heart Failure
(c) Committing Suicide
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Committing Suicide

For how many days, Santiago was unable to catch a fish?
(a) 87 days
(b) 85 days
(c) 86 days
(d) 84 days
Question’s Answer: 84 days

Ernest Hemingway’s mother was a:
(a) Housewife
(b) Musician
(c) Doctor
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Musician

After writing “The Sun also Rises” Hemingway became the voice of the:
(a) Children
(b) Lost Generation
(c) Young Generation
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lost Generation

Ernest Hemingway, after finishing school wanted to become a:
(a) Doctor
(b) Soldier
(c) Architect
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Soldier

Who was Manolin?
(a) Old Man’s Son
(b) Old Man’s Student
(c) Old Man’s Nephew
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Old Man’s Student

Manolin’s parents ordered him to go in another boat because they thought:
(a) Old man was crazy
(b) Old man was bad
(c) Old man was unlucky
Question’s Answer: Old man was unlucky

Hemingway was rejected by army on account of:
(a) Liver Problem
(b) Kidney Problem
(c) Injured Eye
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Injured Eye

Who were the two American writers and critics, who helped him to find his literacy feet?
(a) T. S. Eliot and W.B Yeats
(b) Bernard Shaw and Ibsen
(c) Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein

The first novel of Hemingway was:
(a) A Farewell to Arms
(b) The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)
(c) The Sun also Rises
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Sun also Rises

Santiago had:
(a) A Son
(b) No Child at all
(c) Two Sons
Question’s Answer: No Child at all

What Santiago thought to say if he caught the fish?
(a) Twenty our father’s and twenty hail Mary’s
(b) Fifty our father’s and fifty hail Mary’s
(c) Ten our father’s and ten hail Mary’s
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ten our father’s and ten hail Mary’s

When Manolin saw old man he:
(a) Smiled
(b) Laughed
(c) Wept
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Wept

The fish caught by Santiago was:
(a) Shark
(b) Dolphin
(c) Marlin
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Marlin

Santiago was:
(a) Anti-religious
(b) Religious
(c) Optimist
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Religious

When Santiago arrived home,Manolin decided to:
(a) Go in another boat
(b) Go with him for fishing
(c) Go alone
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Go with him for fishing

People in the town:
(a) Were shocked to see it
(b) Were jealous to see it
(c) Were surprised to see the Skeleton of fish
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Were surprised to see the Skeleton of fish

The restaurant in the town was called:
(a) Village
(b) Terrace
(c) Inn
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Terrace

Santiago’s wife was:
(a) Divorced
(b) Dead
(c) Killed
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Dead

How much the first shark ate up from the hunted fish?
(a) 20 pounds
(b) 50 pounds
(c) 40 pounds
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 40 pounds

How many more sharks attacked the hunted fish?
(a) Five
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) Two
Question’s Answer: Two

On his first day at sea, Santiago hung:
(a) Sydney
(b) Tokyo
(c) Havana
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Havana

The capital of Cuba is:
(a) 3 baits in the sea
(b) 4 baits in the sea
(c) 5 baits in the sea
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 4 baits in the sea

The young lions in the novel are the symbol of:
(a) Strength
(b) Weakness
(c) Bravery
Question’s Answer: Strength

Manolin is the symbol of:
(a) Childhood
(b) Youth
(c) Innocence
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Youth

The “Marlin” caught by Santiago was:
(a) Eighteen Feet Long
(b) Ten Feet long
(c) Twenty Feet Long
Question’s Answer: Eighteen Feet Long

What does ‘cumulus’ mean?
(a) Clouds
(b) Rain
(c) Wind
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Clouds

The match lasted for:
(a) Three days and two nights
(b) Two days and two nights
(c) One day and one night
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: One day and one night

“The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)” is a story of the struggle of an:
(a) Young Man
(b) Boy
(c) Old Man
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Old Man

During his youth, Santiago had played “Hand Game” with a:
(a) Wrestler
(b) Negro
(c) Player
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Negro

Negro belonged to:
(a) Africa
(b) Cuba
(c) Cienfuegos
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Cienfuegos

Ernest Hemingway was a:
(a) Novelist
(b) Poet
(c) Dramatist
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Novelist

Santiago lived in:
(a) America
(b) France
(c) Cuba
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Cuba

The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)” is:
(a) A. Sonnet
(b) An Epic
(c) A Fable
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A Fable

Santiago’s Condition on arriving home was:
(a) Terrible
(b) Good
(c) Bad
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Terrible

At the end, Santiago was still:
(a) Hopeless
(b) Hopeful
(c) Without Feeling
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Hopeful

What does novelette mean?
(a) A Novel
(b) Smaller than a Standard Novel
(c) Short Story
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Short Story

What does ‘Fable’ mean?
(a) An Elegy
(b) An Epic
(c) A Myth
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A Myth

Santiago came back home with the:
(a) Whole Fish
(b) Half Fish
(c) Skeleton of Fish
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Skeleton of Fish

At the end, Santiago decided to:
(a) Change boat
(b) Leave fishing
(c) Quit fishing
(d) Go for fishing again
Question’s Answer: Go for fishing again

Santiago calls the baited fish by the name of:
(a) Sister
(b) Brother
(c) Friend
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Brother

What did ‘Santiago’ eat during his stay at sea?
(a) Vegetable
(b) Raw fish
(c) Fruit
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Raw fish

Which is not a novel by Hemingway?
(a) The Sun also Rises
(b) The Mill on the Floss
(c) Tess
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Question’s Answer: Tess

What does ‘Light Brisa’ mean?
(a) Light rain
(b) Cloud, which is sign of good weather
(c) Heavy rain
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Cloud, which is sign of good weather

In 1954, Hemingway was awarded “Nobel Prize” for:
(a) Prose
(b) Literature
(c) Poetry
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Literature

What Santiago promised to do, if he caught the fish?
(a) To thank God
(b) To make a pilgrimage to the Virgin de Cobre
(c) To help poor
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: To make a pilgrimage to the Virgin de Cobre

Great Di Maggio had the pain of:
(a) Kidney
(b) Bone Spur
(c) Heart
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Bone Spur