R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Perl PERL Multiple Choice Questions Set 1

Arrays are denoted by _______in Perl.

1. @
2. %
3. $
4. #

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Scalar is denoted by_______in Perl.

1. #
2. $
3. %
4. ^

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What will display the list of warning messages regarding the code?

1. Strict pragma
2. The -w Command-line argument
3. Using the built-in debugger
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

When the “require” function loads?

1. Runtime
2. Compile time
3. Both
4. None of These

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The “+=” is which type of operator?

1. comparison operators
2. Arithmetic operators
3. Increment/ decrement operators
4. Assignment operators

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Select the comparison operator from the options.

1. *=
2. &&
3. !=
4. =

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Scalar stores –

1. Multiple values
2. Single value
3. Double value
4. Float value

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Scalar stores –

1. Multiple values
2. Single value
3. Double value
4. Float value

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The “%” is used for

1. Scalar variables
2. Hash variable
3. Arrays
4. Subroutines

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is used to identify the Subroutine?

1. @
2. $
3. &
4. #

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is ‘->’ symbol?

1. Postfix dereference operator
2. Prefix dereference operator
3. Infix dereference operator
4. None of this

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Command line arguments in Perl are stored in

1. Scalar
2. Resource
3. Array
4. Hash

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Select data type in Perl which stores associative arrays.

1. Resource
2. Scalar
3. Hash
4. Array

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Where is The Pearl set?

1. Spain
2. Mexico
3. Cuba
4. The United States

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What stings Coyotito?

1. A porcupine
2. A hornet
3. A scorpion
4. A mosquito

✅ Correct Answer: 3

With what does Kino offer to pay the doctor?

1. Eight small pearls
2. Five pieces of gold bullion
3. Ten weeks of hard labor
4. His canoe

✅ Correct Answer: 1

How does Kino react when the doctor snubs him?

1. He sulks
2. He strikes the front gate with his fists, bloodying his knuckles
3. He phones his lawyer
4. He threatens the doctor with death

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does Juana use as a poultice for Coyotito’s wound?

1. Dry ice
2. Peppermint
3. Oatmeal
4. Seaweed

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How did Kino acquire his canoe?

1. He built it
2. He exchanged pearls for it
3. He inherited it
4. He stole it

✅ Correct Answer: 3

For what does Juana pray when she is in the canoe?

1. A big pearl
2. Rain
3. Coyotito’s health
4. Sinners

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is not on the list of things Kino plans to buy with his newfound wealth?

1. An education for Coyotito
2. A sailboat
3. A rifle
4. A proper marriage in a church

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How does the doctor treat Coyotito’s scorpion wound?

1. With a capsule filled with powder
2. With a strange purple liquid
3. By administering a shot
4. By wrapping it in seaweed

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Where does Kino hide the pearl during the night?

1. In the doctor’s safe
2. In his sock
3. Under the potted plant by the toolbox
4. Beneath his sleeping mat

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the name of the town where Kino first attempts to sell his pearl?

1. Santa Lucia
2. La Paz
3. Cadaques
4. Tegucigalpa

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the first pearl dealer’s nervous habit?

1. He manipulates a coin in his hands
2. He twiddles his thumbs
3. He taps his foot
4. He chain-smokes

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is the best offer Kino gets for his pearl?

1. 5,000 peset
2. as1,000 pes
3. os1,500 pes
4. os20 pounds sterling

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What reason does the dealer give for not liking Kino’s pearl?

1. It is too large
2. It smells funny
3. It is actually made out of beeswax
4. It is stolen

✅ Correct Answer: 1

How does Kino decide to make money when he realizes that the local pearl dealers are lowballing him?

1. By panhandling and singing for money
2. By stockpiling all the pearls of La Paz
3. By traveling to the capital to sell his pearl
4. By filing a lawsuit against the dealers according to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What does Juana propose to do with the pearl?

1. Have it set in a silver necklace that she can wear on formal occasions
2. Throw it back into the sea
3. Give it to Coyotito
4. Sell it to the highest bidder as soon as possible

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How does Kino react when Juana attempts to steal the pearl from him?

1. He agrees with her that the pearl will only bring them evil
2. He punches her in the head and then kicks her
3. He leaves her for another woman
4. He chases her down and persuades her to return the pearl to him

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Why must Kino and his family flee from their neighborhood?

1. Because Kino sets fire to a group of houses
2. Because Kino steals a knife from his brother
3. Because Kino makes advances on his brother’s wife
4. Because Kino kills a man

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Where do Kino and Juana first take refuge after their house burns down?

1. In a cave by the beach
2. In their canoe
3. At Juan Tomás’s house
4. In the forest

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Where do Kino and Juana flee to escape the trackers?

1. Down the river
2. Up the mountain
3. Through the vale
4. To their underwater lair

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does Kino do to conceal himself from the trackers?

1. He dons camouflage
2. He strips naked
3. He cuts his hair
4. He grows a moustache

✅ Correct Answer: 2

For what do the trackers mistake Coyotito’s cry?

1. A coyote’s cry
2. An owl’s screech
3. A cat’s meow
4. A bat’s shriek

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How does Kino rid himself of the trackers?

1. He wrestles them into submission
2. He outruns them
3. He hides until they have lost his trail
4. He kills them

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How does Coyotito die?

1. He falls off a cliff
2. He is shot
3. A scorpion poisons him
4. He starves

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does Kino do with the pearl at the novella’s end?

1. He donates it to charity
2. He sells it to the highest bidder
3. He buries it in his brother’s house
4. He throws it back into the sea

✅ Correct Answer: 4

After a series of critical failures, which 1935 collection of stories published in marked Steinbeck's first major success?

1. To a God Unknown
2. East of Eden
3. Travels with Charley
4. Tortilla Flats

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Steinbeck's most successful works were derived from his real-life experiences as a manual laborer in which state?

1. California
2. Texas
3. Oklahoma
4. Nebraska

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In what magazine was The Pearl originally published, under the title The Pearl of the World?

1. Life
2. Woman's Home Companion
3. Reader's Digest
4. Harper's Bazaar

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The visually evocative style of The Pearl reflects the fact that Steinbeck originally conceived it as ___.

1. A painting
2. A poem
3. A film
4. A graphic novel

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Pearl echoes the traditional style of a moral parable, with clear roots in a story from which holy text?

1. The Tao Te Ching
2. The Bible
3. The Koran
4. The Torah

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is Kino, Juana, and Coyotito's house made of?

1. Clay
2. Wood
3. Thatch
4. Brush

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Kino and Juana's family heirloom is ___.

1. A pearl
2. A canoe
3. A necklace
4. A fishing spear

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does the doctor give to help Coyotito's scorpion bite the first time he visits Kino and Juana's home?

1. A powder capsule
2. A poultice
3. An injection
4. A potion

✅ Correct Answer: 1

How many men does Kino kill when defending the pearl from being stolen on the beach? Two

1. Three
2. Three
3. One
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Where do Kino and Juana hide while their house burns?

1. The capital
2. Juan Tomás's house
3. The mountain
4. A cave

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does Kino increasingly become after he finds the pearl?

1. Ambitious and desperate
2. Paranoid and angry
3. Sad and despondent
4. Optimistic and industrious

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Where is Coyotito when he is stung by the scorpion?

1. In his bed
2. In the yard
3. In a hammock
4. On the beach

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is Juan Tomás' relationship to Kino?

1. Father
2. Older brother
3. Younger brother
4. Cousin

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How many children to and Juan have?

1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The dealers who try to cheat Kino out of the pearl live in what city?

1. El Alto
2. Santa Cruz
3. La Paz
4. Cochabamba

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In the beginning, Kino is motivated by loyalty to the traditions of his village and people, as well as ___.

1. His family's poverty
2. Oppression by European colonizers
3. His social status
4. Finding a nicer home

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Kino's entire trajectory is a decline from what to what?

1. Poverty to wealth
2. Power to helplessness
3. Innocence to corruption
4. Famous to unkown

✅ Correct Answer: 3