Question

But, please, Stephen Stepanovitch, how can they be yours? Do be a reasonable man. My aunt’s grandmother gave the meadows for the temporary and free use of your grandfather’s peasants. The peasants used the land for forty years and got accustomed to it as if it was their own, when it happened that……..
CHUBUKOV: Excuse me, my precious. You forget just this that the peasants didn’t pay your grandmother and all that because the Meadows were in dispute.
(i) Who is the speaker of above lines?
(a ) Stephen (b) Natalya
(c ) Ivan (d) Stanger
(ii) The meadows were given by my aunt’s grandmother for the temporary and free use of your grandfather’s_______
(a) Laborers (b) peasants
(c) Servants (d) drivers
(iii) For how many years had peasants used the land?
(a) forty (b) thirty
(c) fifty (d) twenty
(iv) Find out the anonym of permanent from the passage.
(a) Reasonable (b) meadows
(c) accustomed (d) temporary
(v) Which land is being talked about in these lines?
(a) orchard (b) oxen meadows
(c ) Tea-garden (d) meadows​

Answer 1

(i) Who is the speaker of above lines?

Ans: (c ) Ivan

(ii) The meadows were given by my aunt’s grandmother for the temporary and free use of your grandfather’s_______

Ans:  (b) peasants

(iii) For how many years had peasants used the land?

Ans: (a) forty

(iv) Find out the anonym of permanent from the passage.

Ans: (d) temporary

(v) Which land is being talked about in these lines?

Ans:  (b) oxen meadows

Explanation

These questions are from the chapter The Proposal by Anton Chekhov.

Answer 2

☈ Answer :-

1. Ivan

2. Peasants

3. Forty

4. Temporary

5. Oxen Meadows