Visit to a Small Planet- Play 2- Essential Grammar in Use

  

A Visit to a Small Planet - MCQs & Short Question & Answers.  

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1. What is the writer's name?  

 A) Rober F. Carroll 
 B) Gore Vidal
 C) Willaim Saroyan
 D) Harry Van Dusen

ANSWER= (B) Gore Vidal
Explanation: The writer of the Second One-Act Play 

2. What is the name of the vis? 

 A) Virginia
 B) Alaska
 C) San Fransisco
 D) Silver Glen, Maryland

ANSWER= (D) OK-by-the-Sea
Explanation: The house of roger Spelding, a T.V commentator 

3. Who is Roger Spelding?

 A) a Theater manager
 B) a T.V commentator
 C) a Police Guard
 D) a Security Guard

ANSWER= (B) a T.V commentator
Explanation: a T.V commentator in Silver Glen, Marland.

5. Who is Ellen?

 A) an actress
 B) a T.V artist
 C) a police officer
 D) daughter of Roger Spelding 

ANSWER= (D) daughter of Roger Spelding
Explanation: A lively girl of 20. She fidgets as she listens to her father's broadcast

6. What does Spedling call to her daughter?

 A) A lazy girl
 B) A shining star
 C) Miss Know-it-all
 D) Miss jack of all trade

ANSWER= (C) Miss know-it-all
Explanation: Roger Spelding wishes her daughter to marry for money. 

7. What does mean of 'eluded' ?.

 A) pleased
 B) evaded
 C) made
 D) denoted

ANSWER= (B) evaded
Explanation: evaded, doged. 

8. Why does Spelding against Joh? 

 A) eight or nine
 B) nine or ten
 C) nine or eight
 D) ten or eleven

ANSWER= (B) he has no get-up-and-go
Explanation: He does not like him. He calls him a lazy boy who does nothing and grows peanuts on his farm.

9. Where did the spaceship land? 

 A) at the rose-bed
 B) at the corridor
 C) at the fields
 D) at the airport

ANSWER= (A) at the rose-bed
Explanation: It landed right in their rose garden. 

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10. What is the meaning of "optical illusion"? 

 A) crystal
 B) deception
 C) marching
 D) cluster

ANSWER= (B)  deception, nearsightedly 
Explanation: Everybody has weak eye-sight

11.   What is the meaning of "mass hysteria"

 A) warning
 B) fits of public
 C) jubilation
 D) old-fashion 

ANSWER= (B) fits in general
Explanation: All the people are abnormal. 

12. What does Spelding call the spaceship?

 A) a nightmare
 B) a spaceship car
 C) a meteor or a weather balloon
 D) a publicity stunt

ANSWER= (C) A a meteor or a weather balloon
Explanation: He does not believe that it was the spaceship

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13. Who is General Powers? 

 A) a major colonel
 B) a national security guard
 C) a T.V commentator
 D) a generalist

ANSWER= (B) a national security guard
Explanation: General Powers is a national security officer who wants to arrest Kreton. 

14. Who is Kreton?

 A) a monster
 B) a joker
 C) a visitor from outer space
 D) a buster

ANSWER= (C) a visitor from outer space
Explanation: Kreton is a visitor from outer space. He is a very polite and gentle alien.

15. What are Kreton's morals?

 A) uncivilized and ill-mannered
 B) a quarrelsome
 C) a vagabond
 D) decent and well mannered

ANSWER= (D) a decent and well mannered
Explanation: Kreton’s morals were really praise-worthy. He avoided violence. He was decent and well-mannered. He was polite and tolerant also.  

16. How much damaging is violence in life? 

 A) created harmony among the people 
 B) created serenity
 C) created love and peace
 D) created a sense of retaliation and hostility

ANSWER= (D) created a sense of retaliation and hostility
Explanation:  Violence damages everything in life as it creates a sense of retaliation in human beings. It creates hostility among the people. It makes them cruel and brutal. It promotes hate in society, which leads to destruction, and bloodshed in a society.  

17. What does Mrs Spelding call to Kreton? 

 A) awfully funny
 B) awfully vigorous
 C) awfully handsome
 D) awfully naughty

ANSWER= (C) awfully handsome
Explanation: She called Kreton awfully handsome and nice. 

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18. What does "wide-eyed" mean?  

 A) handsome
 B) appalled
 C) so nice
 D) very happy

ANSWER= (B) appalled
Explanation: very surprised 

19. What is the diameter of a spaceship?

 A) 13-foot diameter
 B) 14-foot diameter
 C) 15-foot diameter
 D) 16-foot diameter 

ANSWER= (B) 14 foot diameter
Explanation: It is elliptical, with a fourteen-foot diameter. 

20. What does Kreton call the people on the Earth?

 A) Poor fragile butterflies
 B) a great monster
 C) nice and weak
 D) very civilized

ANSWER= (A) Poor fragile butterflies
Explanation:  Poor fragile butterflies, such brief little moments in the sun.

21.  Does spaceships have any instruments?.

 A) No, it does not have any food
 B) No, it does not have any instruments
 C) Yes, it has some instruments
 D) Yes, it has some food

ANSWER= (B) No, it does not have any instruments
Explanation: The spaceship has no instruments in it. 

22. Who is AIDE?

 A) A friend of John
 B) Assistant of Spelding
 C) Assistant of General Powers 
 D) A neighbor of Spelding

ANSWER= (C) Assistant of General Powers
Explanation: He is an assistant to General Powers. 

23. Why is John not allowed to phone his family?

 A) a vague comedy
 B) a farce comedy
 C) a sentimental tragedy
 D) the house is under martial-law

ANSWER= (D) the house is under martial-law 
Explanation: The house is a military reservation until the crisis is over. 

24. Kreton ____ the globe thoughtfully.

 A) catches
 B) twirls
 C) notices
 D) presses

ANSWER= (B) twirls
Explanation: Kreton sits down comfortably beside the globe which he twirls thoughtfully in Spelding's study.  

25. How much is advanced Kreton's people?

 A) 1000 years of advanced
 B) 1500 years of advanced 
 C) 2000 years of advanced 
 D) 3000 years of advanced 

ANSWER= (B)  200 years more advanced
Explanation: The civilization of that planet is 2000 years more advanced than the civilization of the Earth. The people of Earth cannot compete with it at all.

26. "I do hope I don't sound patronizing" means that I am?

 A) encouraging
 B) not praising
 C) discouraging
 D) sorrowful

ANSWER= (C) discouraging 
Explanation: Not to feel dispirit others.

27. What does "relativity" mean?

 A) the quality or state of being
 B) involved dimensions
 C) long distances
 D) feel loneliness

ANSWER= (A) the quality or state of being
Explanation: A scientific theory of relativity.

28. What does "hunch" mean?

 A) pleased
 B) doubt
 C) hurdle
 D) fighting

ANSWER= (B) doubt, raise part of the back
Explanation: doubt, some reservations.

29. What do they think about Kreton? 

 A) either an actor or a joker
 B) either a joker or a mad
 C) either a mad or an actor
 D) either a lunatic or a spy

ANSWER= (D) either a lunatic or a spy
Explanation: They think that Kreton is either a lunatic or a sky. 

30. What does "impromptu" mean? 

 A) with preparation
 B) without preparation 
 C) preparatory to the invasion
 D) prior to the invasion 

ANSWER= (B) without preparation, spur of the moment
Explanation: Without any preparation before, off-hand performance. 

31. What did Kreton do to save his spaceship?

 A) created fireworks around it
 B) created an invisible wall around it
 C) created an electric circuit
 D) created a concrete wall

ANSWER= (B) created an invisible wall around it
Explanation: He created an invisible wall around his spaceships so that no one could touch it.

32. How does Kreton come to know everything?

 A) he has special signals
 B) he is a mind reader
 C) he can ask it someone else
 D) he knew everything

ANSWER= (B) he is a mind reader
Explanation: Kreton has the power to hear the mind. 

33. Can Kreton die?

 A) No, Kreton can reborn
 B) No, Kreton cannot live long
 C) No, Kreton cannot die
 D) No, Kreton can die 

ANSWER= (D) No, Kreton cannot die
Explanation: Kreton is immortal. They don't die. 

34. Why do the people of Kreton not travel much? 

 A) They can have many records
 B) They can learn much
 C) They can watch movies 
 D) They can watch through monitors

ANSWER= (D) They can watch through monitors
Explanation: They can watch through monitors and re-creators. 

35. Does Kreton is a creature?

 A) No, he is not a creature of impulse
 B) Yes, he is a creature of impulse
 C) No, he is not a creature
 D) Yes, he is a human being

ANSWER= (B) Yes he is a creature of impulse
Explanation: Kreton can feel like a human being, but he is not a human being

36. How many languages can Kreton speak?

 A) not many languages 
 B) many languages
 C) a few languages
 D) very few languages

ANSWER= (B) many languages
Explanation: He can speak many languages, but his brain is not like that of a human being. 

38. What is Kreton's hobby?

 A) to study rose flowers
 B) to study garden
 C) to study human civilization
 D) to study space

ANSWER= (C) to study human civilization 
Explanation: Kreton's hobby is studying human civilization. He loves to gad.  

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39. What does he say about outer space?

 A) bright
 B) dull
 C) divine
 D) shine

ANSWER= (B) dull 
Explanation: He calls outer space 'dull' whereas Ellen calls it 'divine'. 

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40. What did General Powers try to do with the spaceship?

 A) tried to own it
 B) tried to fly it
 C) tried to blow it
 D) tried to capture it

ANSWER= (C) tried to blow it
Explanation: They tried to blow it but they couldn't do that. 

41. Why did the parents fight?

 A) because of money
 B) because of love
 C) because of drinking
 D) because of gifts

ANSWER= (A) because of money
Explanation: The parents want their kids to live in a good house of their own, wear good clothes, and all the other things fathers have always wanted for their kids. They didn't have it, so they fought.

41. The visitor was dressed in the fashion of? 

 A) 1869 
 B) 1865 
 C) 1860 
 D) 1862 

ANSWER= (D) 1860 
Explanation: He was dressed in the fashion of 1860. 

43. What is the rule of General Powers in the play?

 A) to get his promotion 
 B) to show his power 
 C) screen to Kreton's character
 D) to save the spaceship

ANSWER= (C) screen to Kreton's character
Explanation: He is a screen to Kreton's character in the play.

44. Ellen never felt so ____ ? 

 A) humiliated 
 B) sordid
 C) happy 
 D) humble 

ANSWER= (B) sordid
Explanation: nasty, disreputed, shameful 

45. John is ____ owner? 

 A) a politician
 B) a countryman
 C) a farm 
 D) a mind reader

ANSWER= (C) a farm
Explanation: John grows English walnuts and wants to marry Ellon. 

46. Mrs Spelding is ____ character? 

 A) passive
 B) impassive
 C) quick
 D) main

ANSWER= (B) impassive
Explanation: She does not want to participate in the play.

47. Kreton's yesterday is equal to ____ years?

 A) 5 thousand years 
 B) 2 thousand years
 C) 4 thousand years 
 D) 3 thousand years 

ANSWER= (B) 2 thousand years
Explanation:  His one yesterday is equal to two thousand years.

48. What did Kreton decide at the end of the play? 

 A) to control the whole country
 B) to control the whole world
 C) to control the whole city
 D) to go back from the Earth 

ANSWER= (B) to control the whole world
Explanation: At the end of the play, he decided to control the whole world. He promised to make us much happier.

49. What did he advise to John? 

 A) to think about business
 B) to think about agriculture
 C) to think about farming
 D) to think about purple dreams

ANSWER= (D) to think about purple dreams
Explanation: He advised John to think about purple dreams.

50. What did he do at the end of the play?

 A) He welcomed the soldiers
 B) He stopped the soldiers
 C) He arrested the soldiers
 D) He went away from the Earth

ANSWER= (B) he stopped the soldiers 
Explanation: He stopped the soldiers and stunned everyone.