Unseen Passage

For Class 4 to Class 12

Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw MCQs Questions

Question. Britomart accused Cusins of joining the Salvation Army to
(a) Play the trumpet
(b) Convert people to the worship of Dionysus
(c) To worship Barbara
(d) Help people in the Army

Answer

C

Question. Barbara realizes that those who hold the means of salvation are
(a) Holy people
(b) Humble people
(c) Talented writers
(d) Millionaires

Answer

D

Question. A Doll’s House opens on
(a) New Year’s Eve
(b) Passover Eve
(c) Christmas Eve
(d) Palm Sunday

Answer

C

Question. What changed Barbara’s opinion on the source of power?
(a) Seeing the success of his father
(b) Seeing how easily a soul could be bought
(c) Seeing the success of the Salvation Army
(d) Seeing how easily a soul could be saved

Answer

B

Question. According to Undershaft, what is the most destructive and worst of all crimes?
(a) Lying
(b) Thieving
(c) Poverty
(d) Laziness

Answer

C

Question. Barbara is engaged to
(a) Adolphus Cusins
(b) Charles Lomax
(c) Bill Walker
(d) Horace Bodger

Answer

A

Question. Lomax will not receive his trust fund until he is
(a) 30
(b) 35
(c) 37
(d) 39

Answer

B

Question. The Undershaft tradition is to appoint
(a) The eldest son as successor
(b) The youngest son as successor
(c) A foundling as successor
(d) A brilliant daughter as successor

Answer

C

Question. What does Undershaft identify as necessary for salvation?
(a) Money and religion
(b) Morality and money
(c) Money and gunpowder
(d) Money and marriage

Answer

C

Question. What job does Peter Shirley take on at the foundry?
(a) Gravedigger
(b) Gatekeeper
(c) Foreman
(d) Driver

Answer

B

Question. Who does Barbara ask for at the end of the play?
(a) God
(b) Undershaft
(c) Cusins
(d) Lady Britomart

Answer

D

Question. In Major Barbara, how old is Lady Britomart Undershaft
(a) 44
(b) 47
(c) 49
(d) In her fifties

Answer

D

Question. Where do Cusin’s parents reside?
(a) Canada
(b) India
(c) Spain
(d) Australia

Answer

D

Question. Lady Britomart and her children lives in Wilton Crescent in the city of
(a) Southamthon
(b) London
(c) West Ham
(d) Birmingham

Answer

B

Question. Who does Adolphus Cusins believe is responsible for providing Barbara?
(a) Himself
(b) Lady Britomart
(c) Mr. Undershaft
(d) Stephen Undershaft

Answer

C

Question. Who steals Bill Walker’s money?
(a) Rummy Mitchens
(b) Jenny Hill
(c) Snobby Price
(d) Peter Shirley

Answer

C

Question. To what does Andrew Undershaft compare his munition factory to and found many similarities with?
(a) His daughter’s upbringing
(b) The Salvation Army
(c) Lady Britomart’s outlook on life
(d) None of the above

Answer

B

Question. Barbara is pleased that her father is going to visit them because
(a) She misses him
(b) She has something important to tell him
(c) He had always wanted to give her monetary help
(d) He had a soul to be saved

Answer

D

Question. The bargain that Barbara and her father struck was that
(a) Each would try to convert the other to their cause
(b) Each would try to convert as many converts as possible to their cause
(c) Each would try to excel in uplifting the poor
(d) Each would try to surpass the other in acquiring wealth

Answer

A

Question. When Bill Walker refused to give his name to Barbara, she had to write down his name as _________
(a) The homeless man
(b) The man with no food
(c) The man who struck Jenny
(d) The man with a temper

Answer

C

Question. Both Lady Britomart and Andrew Undershaft said that Stephen would make a good journalist because of what?
(a) Because he was good at spending a lot of money
(b) Because he knows how to use words that have no meaning
(c) Because he liked to ask a lot of questions
(d) Because there was no one who was vain enough like him

Answer

B

Question. What profession does Undershaft suggest to Stephen?
(a) A politician
(b) A philosopher
(c) A Professor
(d) A lawyer

Answer

A

Question. When Sarah is to be married to her fiancé Charles Lomax, at what age could Lomax come into his wealth?
(a) Twenty one
(b) Eighteen
(c) Thirty five
(d) Twenty seven.

Answer

C

Question. What is Cusins’s first name?
(a) Horace
(b) Adolphus
(c) Charles
(d) Andrew

Answer

B

Question. Barbara symbolically leaves the Salvation Army when she ______ and hands it to her father.
(a) Breaks her sword
(b) Removes her badge of office
(c) Rips up her enlistment form
(d) Removes her whistle

Answer

B

Question. Why did Cusins join the Salvation Army?
(a) To help the poor
(b) To save souls
(c) To be in the band
(d) To be with Barbara

Answer

D

Question. What is the inscription on the dome of the Labor Church in Perivale St. Andrews?
(a) If God gave the hand, let not man withhold the sword.
(b) No man is good enough to be another man’s master
(c) To man the weapon: the heaven the victory
(d) All have the right to fight: None have the right to judge

Answer

B

Question. To whom did Barbara say that one cannot ‘buy’ his/her salvation?
(a) Lady Britomart
(b) Adolphus Cusins
(c) Charles Lomax
(d) Andrew Undershaft

Answer

D

Question. To whom did Barbara say that The Salvation Army cannot be bought?
(a) Bill Walker
(b) Andrew Undershaft
(c) Mrs. Baines
(d) Bodger

Answer

A

Question. Who is Lord Saxmundham?
(a) Andrew Undershaft
(b) Lazarus
(c) Horace Bodger
(d) Todger Fairmille

Answer

C

Question. What does Undershaft identify as necessary to Salvation?
(a) Baptism and first communion
(b) Money and gunpowder
(c) Money and mind
(d) Money and courage

Answer

B

Question. What profession does Undershaft suggest to Stephen?
(a) To become a politician
(b) To write
(c) To become a philosopher
(d) To go into law

Answer

A

Question. The Salvation Army only takes what type of people
(a) Bad people that need to be saved
(b) Religious people
(c) Hard workers
(d) Good people who are out of work

Answer

A

Question. What is the primary reason Mr. Undershaft does not want Stephen to inherit the business?
(a) Stephen is too young
(b) Stephen is skittish
(c) Stephen is not a foundling
(d) Stephen is incompetent

Answer

C

FILL IN THE BLANKS:

Question. Andrew Undershaft wants to leave his fortune to ________________ keeping the traditions of the Undershaft Munitions

Answer

a foundling

Question. Charles Lomax could only come into his wealth at the age of _____

Answer

thirty five

Question. Peter Shirley takes the job of ______ at the foundry.

Answer

Gatekeeper

Question. The central conflict in the play, Major Barbara is between _____________

Answer

Barbara and Undershaft

Question. ______________ becomes Undershaft’s heir at the armory.

Answer

Cusins

Question. The preface to Major Barbara is lengthy and consists of ____ sections.

Answer

seven

Question. Mr. Undershaft said that he enabled Barbara to become Major Barbara, and that he saved her from the crime of _______.

Answer

Poverty

Question. The motto for the Salvation Army is _______

Answer

Blood and Fire

Question. According to Adolphus Cusins, “_______ is to a man of position what the hallmark is to silver.”

Answer

Greek

Question. According to Undershaft, _______ is the most destructive and worst of all crimes

Answer

Poverty

Question. Britomart divorced Undershaft because she could not bear such ______________

Answer

an immoral man

Question. Cusins’ parents reside in ______

Answer

Australia

Question. Barbara struck a bargain with ______ that each would try to convert the other to their way of belief.

Answer

her father

Question. Barbara’s fiance is ______________________

Answer

Adolphus Cusins

Question. “Drunkenness and Murder! My God: why has thou forsaken me?” was said by ________

Answer

Barbara

Question. Barbara symbolically leaves the Salvation Army when she ______ her Badge of Office and hands it to her father.

Answer

removes

Question. In Major Barbara, Lady Britomart and her children live in Wilton Crescent in the city of ______

Answer

London

Question. The central conflict in the play lies between Major Barbara and __________

Answer

Andrew Undershaft

Question. Cusin’s first name is ______

Answer

Adolphus

Question. Lord Saxmundham is actually _______

Answer

Horace Budger

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