CBSE Class 12 English HOTs Deep Water

Question. Who is the author of ‘Deep Water’?
(a) William Douglas
(b) Anees Jung
(c) Louis Fischer
(d) Alphonse Daudet

Answer : A

Question. The Yakima river was ______ .
(a) killer
(b) haunted
(c) treacherous
(d)bouncing

Answer : C

Question. Y.M.C.A. stands for------.
(a) young men’s Christians authority
(b) young men’s Christopher association
(c) young men’s Christian army
(d) young men’s Christian association

Answer : B

Question. Where is Yakima river situated?
(a) In Washington, The US city
(b) In California, The US city
(c) In New Zealand , The US city
(d) In Chicago, The US city

Answer : A

Question. The author had an aversion to ____ .
(a) water
(b) height
(c) depth
(d) loneliness

Answer : A

Question. How old was the big bruiser?
(a) twelve years
(b) fifteen years
(c) sixteen years
(d) eighteen years

Answer : D

Question. “Hi skinny! How’d you like to be ducked”? Who said these words?
(a) the narrator
(b) people at Y.M.C.A.
(c) the big bruiser
(d) narrator’s father

Answer : C

Question. What was the depth of the pool at the end?
(a) nine feet
(b) seven feet
(c) ten feet
(d) eight feet

Answer : A

Question. What is the story ‘Deep Water speaking about?
(a) fear of people
(b) fear of swimming
(c) fear of water and the way to overcome it
(d) fear of height

Answer : C

Question. Where did the writer go when he was 3 or 4 years old in the story?
(a) Washington
(b) Canada
(c) New Zealand
(d) California

Answer : D

Question. What is haunting the author?
(a) terrible experience in the pool
(b) ghosts
(c) his mother’s words
(d) a push by a young boy

Answer : A

Question. What were the author’s feelings while drowning in the pool?
(a) terror in fear of death
(b) terror in swimming
(c) terror of being pushed
(d) none

Answer : A

Question. What strategy did the author remember while he was drowning in the pool?
(a) to try to jump and push himself up
(b) to shout for help
(c) to hold ropes
(d) to call the instructor

Answer : A

Question. How many times did Douglas try to come to the surface of the pool?
(a) twice
(b) once
(c) thrice
(d) four times

Answer : C

Question. What lesson did Douglas learn from his experience of drowning?
(a) learnt swimming
(b) love of swimming
(c) swimming is not difficult
(d) face the fear

Answer : D

Question. What was the colour of the pool water when Douglas was in it?
(a) dirty yellow
(b) clear blue
(c) dirty off white
(d) dirty blue

Answer : A

Question. Why did Douglas hate to walk with bare legs?
(a) because of ugly looking legs
(b) because of fat legs
(c) because of skin colour
(d) because of skinny legs

Answer : D

Question. ‘I flailed at the surface of water ‘. What is the meaning of ‘flailed’ in the sentence?
(a) to strike with
(b) to keep
(c) to come
(d) to swim

Answer : A

Passages for comprehension

Passage 1
My introduction to the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while I gathered confidence. I paddled with my new water wings, watching the other boys and trying to learn by aping them. I did this two or three times on different days and was just beginning to feel at ease in the water when the misadventure happened.

Question. Name of the lesson from which this passage has been taken.
(a) Lost Spring…..Stories of stolen childhood
(b) The Last Lesson
(c) Deep Water
(d) The Rattrap
Answer : C

Question. Who is the writer of this chapter?
(a) William Douglas
(b) Alphonse Daudet
(c) Anees Jung
(d) Selma Lagerlof
Answer : A

Question. This chapter is------.
(a) a narrative
(b) a biography
(c) a travelogue
(d) an autobiography
Answer : D

Question. Name the pool William Douglas mentioned in the passage.
(a) Tieton pool
(b) Yakima pool
(c) Y.M.C.A. pool
(d) Teanaway pool
Answer : C

Question. What revived unpleasant memories to the author?
(a) his introduction to the YMCA swimming pool
(b) his introduction to the YMCA college
(c) both a & b
(d) his introduction to Yakima river
Answer : A

Question. What did the author try to learn by aping other boys?
(a) writing neatly
(b) dancing
(c) swimming
(d) riding a bicycle
Answer : C

Question. How did the author prepare himself for swimming?
(a) with new water wings
(b) trying to learn by aping other boys
(c) watching other boys
(d) all of the above
Answer : D

Question. What did the author start feeling after two or three times in the pool?
(a) feel at ease
(b) feel fear
(c) feel confident
(d) nothing
Answer : A

Question. Pick out the word from the passage which means the same as: ‘misadventure’.
(a) event
(b)accident
(c) episode
(d) occurrence
Answer : B

Passage 2
I had not been there long when it came a big bruiser of a boy, probably eighteen years old. He had thick hair on his chest. He was a beautiful physical specimen; with legs and arms that showed rippling muscles. He yelled, “Hi, Skinny! How’d you like to be ducked?”
With that he picked me up and tossed me into the deep end. I landed in a sitting position, swallowed water, and went at once to the bottom. I was frightened, but not yet frightened out of my wits. On the way down I planned:
come to the surface, lie flat on it, and paddle to the edge of the pool.

Question. Who came to William Douglas at the Y.M. C.A. swimming pool?
(a) the instructor
(b) a big bruiser of a boy
(c) the owner of Y.M.C.A. pool
(d) no one
Answer : B

Question. He was a beautiful ___________ specimen.
(a) physical
(b) mental
(c) spiritual
(d) both a & b
Answer : A

Question. What was true about the other boy?
(a) he had thick hair on his chest
(b) he was eighteen years old
(c) he was muscular
(d) all of the above
Answer : D

Question. He tossed Douglas into the pool towards its-------.
(a) shallow end
(b) middle
(c) edge
(d) deep end
Answer : D

Question. Though Douglas was frightened, he was not-------.
(a) afraid to die
(b) going to strive
(c) out of his wits
(d) able to shout to help
Answer : C

Question. When his feet would hit the bottom Douglas planned to-------.
(a) make a big jump
(b) lie down
(c) start his stroke
(d) float
Answer : A

Question. Find out the word which means the same as: ‘pushed under water’.
(a) bruiser
(b) rippling
(c) ducked
(d) wits
Answer : C

Passage 3
The experience had a deep meaning to me as only those who have known stark terror and conq uered it can appreciate. In death there is a peace. There is terror only in the fear of death, as Roosevelt knew when he said,
“All we have to fear is fear itself.” Because I had experienced both the sensation of dying and the terror that fear of it can produce, the will to live somehow grew in intensity.

Question. What experience is the writer referring to in the passage?
(a) experience of swimming
(b) experience of drowning
(c) experience of climbing mountain
(d) experience of walking trails
Answer : B

Question. What do we feel in the fear of death?
(a) a sense of strange sensation
(b) a sense of depression
(c) a sense of nightmare
(d) a sense of terror
Answer : D

Question. What had Roosevelt said?
(a) “All we have to fear is fear itself.”
(b) “All we have to fear is fear of death.”
(c) “All we have to fear is fear of accident.”
(d) “All we have to fear is fear of murder.”
Answer : A

Question. Find the words from the passage having the same meaning as : (i) praise (ii) strength
(a) (i) stark (ii) appreciate
(b) (i) intensity (ii) stark
(c) (i) appreciate (ii) intensity
(d) (i) stark (ii) intensity
Answer : C

Question. Who was Roosevelt?
(a) William Douglas’ friend
(b) Ex. President of America
(c) an instructor
(d) both a & b
Answer : D

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