Practice Manto MCQs for STS Sindh JEST (Junior Elementary Teacher) 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.
Q6. In Manto's Toba Tek Singh, the protagonist Bishan Singh dies in which location?
Answer: In no-man's land between India and Pakistan
Explanation: Bishan Singh collapses and dies in the no-man's land between the two newly created countries, making it impossible to categorise him as Indian or Pakistani - a powerful metaphor for the absurdity and tragedy of Partition.
Q7. Manto's Kaali Salwar features a female protagonist who is a sex worker. Which city does she migrate to in the story?
Answer: Delhi
Explanation: In Kaali Salwar, Sultana migrates to Delhi seeking a better life. The story uses her journey and exploitation in the city to critique social hypocrisy and the moral double standards applied to marginalised women.
Q8. Which of the following best explains why Manto is considered the master of Urdu short story?
Answer: He portrayed marginalised characters - sex workers, criminals, Partition victims - with unflinching honesty and empathy
Explanation: Manto's greatness lies in his unflinching, empathetic portrayal of society's margins - sex workers, the poor, victims of Partition violence - using spare, precise prose to expose hypocrisy and the human cost of social norms.
Q9. Krishan Chander and Manto both worked in which Indian city's film industry, influencing their fiction writing?
Answer: Bombay
Explanation: Both Krishan Chander and Saadat Hasan Manto worked in Bombay's film industry before Partition. This experience influenced their urban, dialogue-driven prose style and their understanding of modern Indian society.
Q10. Manto faced multiple obscenity trials during his life. In how many trials was he ultimately acquitted or did the cases remain unresolved at his death?
Answer: He faced six obscenity cases in total, none resulting in conviction
Explanation: Manto faced six obscenity cases - three in British India and three in Pakistan - and was never convicted in any of them. The trials made him a symbol of literary freedom and the right to write honestly about human experience.
Q11. Saadat Hasan Manto ka mashoor afsana kaun sa hai jis mein taqseem-e-Hind ka dard bayaan kiya gaya hai?
Answer: Toba Tek Singh
Explanation: Toba Tek Singh Manto ka sab se mashoor afsana hai jo taqseem-e-Hind ke waqt ek pagal khane ke qaidiyoon ki kahani ke zariye Partition ki behurmati ko bayaan karta hai. Is afsane mein Bishan Singh ek yaddgar kirdar hai.
Q12. Manto ka afsana "Thanda Gosht" kis mauzu par hai?
Answer: Taqseem ke waqt insan ke andar woh darinda jo ubhar aata hai
Explanation: Thanda Gosht Manto ka afsana hai jo Partition ke waqt ke uns-anee zulm aur insani tabiyat ki poshida darkinder ko bayan karta hai. Is afsane mein Isher Singh ka kirdar ek taklif dah sachai ka paigham deta hai.
Q13. Urdu ke kin do afsana nigaroon par Lihaaf afsane ki wajah se muqadma chala?
Answer: Ismat Chughtai aur Manto
Explanation: Ismat Chughtai par Lihaaf afsane ki wajah se faahishi ka muqadma chala, jabke Manto par bhi unke afsanon ki wajah se alag se muqadmaat chalaye gaye. Dono taraqqi pasand tehreek se wabasta the aur bebaak adabi awazon mein shumaar hote hain.
Q14. Manto ka kaunsa afsana partition ke waqt ek paagal ki kahani par mabni hai?
Answer: Toba Tek Singh
Explanation: Toba Tek Singh Manto ka woh afsana hai jis mein Bishan Singh naam ka ek Sikh paagal apni zameen "Toba Tek Singh" chhodne se inkar karta hai. Yeh afsana partition ki lamha-ba-lamha behurmati ka aik baray umda istiaara hai.
Q15. Manto ne apni zindagi mein kitne afsane likhe (taqreeban)?
Answer: 250 se zyada
Explanation: Manto ne apni mukhtasar zindagi mein 250 se zyada afsane, drama script, aur mazmoon likhe. Woh 1912 mein peda hue aur 1955 mein inteqal kar gaye - sirf 42 saal ki umra mein Urdu adab ko yeh azeem khazana de kar chale gaye.
Q16. "Bu" kaunse adib ka afsana hai?
Answer: Saadat Hasan Manto
Explanation: Bu Saadat Hasan Manto ka mashoor afsana hai jis mein ek aurat ki jism ki khushbu ek kirdar ke liye aik yadgar tajruba ban jaati hai. Manto ne is mein insani nafasiyaat ko bebaaki se pesh kiya.
Q17. Manto ka kaunsa afsana "Kaali Shalwar" ke naam se mashoor hai?
Answer: Ek prostitute ki kahani jo apni zindagi ko naye sir se shuru karna chahti hai
Explanation: Kaali Shalwar Manto ka afsana hai jis mein Sultana naam ki ek tawaif ki kahani hai. Yeh afsana Manto ke un afsanon mein shumaar hota hai jis par faahishi ka ilzam lagaya gaya tha.
Q18. Saadat Hasan Manto was born in which year?
Answer: 1912
Explanation: سعادت حسن منٹو ۱۱ مئی ۱۹۱۲ء کو لدھیانہ کے قریب سمبڑیال میں پیدا ہوئے۔
Q19. The famous short story "Toba Tek Singh" was written by:
Answer: Saadat Hasan Manto
Explanation: "ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ" سعادت حسن منٹو کا شہرہ آفاق افسانہ ہے جو تقسیمِ ہند کے پس منظر میں دیوانوں کی بے بسی کے ذریعے تقسیم کے المیے کو بیان کرتا ہے۔
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