Practice Manto MCQs for SPSC Sub Inspector (Sindh Police) Urdu — topic-wise sets with solved answers.
Q1. Saadat Hasan Manto was born in 1912. In which city did he die in 1955?
Answer: Lahore
Explanation: Manto died on 18 January 1955 in Lahore, Pakistan, where he had migrated after Partition. He is buried in Lahore's Miani Sahib graveyard.
Q2. Which short story by Manto centres on a mentally ill patient who refuses to leave the asylum after Partition because he does not understand which country he belongs to?
Answer: Toba Tek Singh
Explanation: Toba Tek Singh is Manto's iconic story about Bishan Singh, a Sikh lunatic who refuses to cross to India during the exchange of patients between Pakistan and India, dying in the no-man's land between the two countries.
Q3. Manto's story Khol Do (Open It) is a harrowing depiction of which atrocity?
Answer: Sexual violence against women during Partition
Explanation: Khol Do depicts the sexual violence inflicted on women during the Partition massacres. In the story, a father searches for his abducted daughter, and the traumatic ending reveals the horror she has survived.
Q4. In Manto's Thanda Gosht (Cold Meat), the story explores the psychological aftermath of which event?
Answer: The Bengal Famine of 1943
Explanation: Thanda Gosht is set during the Partition violence and follows a man who returns from a killing spree but is psychologically broken; the story confronts the dehumanising effect of communal violence on the perpetrator.
Q5. Which Manto story features the character Sultana, a sex worker whose life intersects with themes of morality and social hypocrisy?
Answer: Kaali Salwar
Explanation: Kaali Salwar features Sultana, a sex worker who arrives in a new city and faces exploitation and social hypocrisy. The story is characteristic of Manto's empathetic portrayal of marginalised women.
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