Which statement exits the current loop before its normal ending?

• A. break
• B. continue
• C. exit
• D. return

Answer: (A)

Exiting a loop early is done with the break statement. A loop normally ends when its condition becomes false or the loop body finishes, but break jumps straight out of the loop to the code that comes after it, regardless of the condition. This is exactly how you terminate the loop before its natural end.

For example, inside a loop you might check a condition and then break to stop looping immediately when that condition is met. The other options behave differently: continue skips to the next iteration without exiting the loop, exit would terminate the entire program or process, and return ends the current function (which may indirectly exit the loop if the function ends, but that’s not the loop’s own exit mechanism).