Question

Multiple inheritance is ____________________

(a) When a class is derived from another class

(b) When a class is derived from two or more classes

(c) When a class is derived from other two derived classes

(d) When a class is derived from exactly one class

I had been asked this question by my college professor while I was bunking the class.

This interesting question is from Multiple Inheritance in portion Inheritance & its Types of Object Oriented Programming

Answer 1

The correct choice is (b) When a class is derived from two or more classes

Easiest explanation - The multiple inheritance is used when a class is being derived using two base classes or more. This way a single class can have features of more than one classes inherited into a single unit. This lets us combine two class members into a single class.