Question

If same message is passed to objects of several different classes and all of those can respond in a different way, what is this feature called?

(a) Inheritance

(b) Overloading

(c) Polymorphism

(d) Overriding

I had been asked this question in an internship interview.

My question comes from Polymorphism topic in division OOPs Concept & Features of Object Oriented Programming

Answer 1

Correct choice is (c) Polymorphism

Easy explanation - The feature defined in question defines polymorphism features. Here the different objects are capable of responding to the same message in different ways, hence polymorphism.