As You Like It Act 1, Scene 1 MCQs with Answers

As You LIke It mcqs

As You Like It is a play written by William Shakespeare. We have taken 10 very important MCQs from Act1, Scene 1. They are as follow:

1. What grievances did Orlando have against his elder brother, Oliver? 

a) Oliver denies him to give money.

b) Oliver does not provide him chamber to live.   

c) He is not treated gently.

d) Oliver neglects to provide him with a gentleman’s upbringing.

2. When Orlando is alone how does he describe his situation to himself?

a) As a young man 

b) As a poor man

c) As he is an animal

d) As a soldier 

3. Why does Oliver hate Orlando though he does a lot of work for him? 

a) Because of his strong health 

b) Because of his natural virtues and popularity 

c) Because of his rude behaviour    

d) Because he asks for his father’s testament 

4. Oliver said to Orlando, ‘Now, sir, what make you here?” The underlined part is –

a) allegory

b) hyperbole

c) irony   

d) foreshadowing   

5. What does Oliver say to Charles, the wrestler during the wrestling match with his younger brother Orlando?

a) He eggs him to kill Orlando.

b) He tells him to free Orlando.   

c) He tells him to pretend to fight with him.

d) He tells him to leave him safe.   

6. What is the setting of the scene 1 in act 1?

a) Forest of Arden   

b) Orchard of Olvier’s house   

c) Orchard of Duke Fredrick’s house

d) Orchard of Duke Senior’s house  

 

7. In ‘As You Like It’ Rosalind and Celia for the first time appear at  – 

a) Orchard of Oliver’s house   

b) Orchard of Duke Senior’s house

c) Lawn before the duke’s palace

d) Forest of Arden   

8. ‘Give me a poor allottery my father left my by testament. What is poor allottery?

a) One hundred crowns   

b) One thousand crowns  

c) One lac crowns 

d) One thousand and one crowns

9. Which of the following description about Orlando was not given by Oliver to Charles the wrestler when he went to him?

a) the stubbornest young fellow of France   

b) an envious emulator of every man’s good parts   

c) Submissive and pleading in nature 

d) a secret and villainous contriver   

10. What is the role of filial piety in the conflict between Orlando and Oliver?

a) Orlando’s sense of duty

b) as the moral basis for Orlando’s complaint 

c) Oliver’s need for dominance

d) undermines Orlando’s actions 

Important poems explanation:

  1. Go and Catch a Falling Star
  2. On His Blindness
  3. Daffodils
  4. Ode to the West Wind
  5. Ode on a Grecian Urn

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