CBSE Class 12 English HOTs The Enemy

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.

1. ‘‘Who is that?’’ Hana cried. She dropped Sadao’s arm and they both leaned over the railing of the veranda. Now they saw him again. The man was on his hands and knees crawling. Then they saw him fall on his face and lie there.

Question. Why did Hana cry?
(i) she saw a creature coming towards her
(ii) she saw waves rising high
(iii) she was frightened to see an animal
(iv) she was shocked to see an injured man
Answer. D

Question. Identify the figure of speech in the statement
“Those islands yonder, they are the steppingstones to the future of Japan.”
(i) simile
(ii) metaphor
(iii) hyperbole
(iv) irony
Answer. D

Question. How was the man moving?
(i) he was moving with difficulty
(ii) he was crawling
(iii) he was moving with pain
(iv) all of these
Answer. D

Question. What happened to the man?
(i) he ran away through the sea
(ii) he fell down lying flat on his face
(iii) he stood up perfectly fine
(iv) he attacked Dr. Sadao
Answer. B

2. “A white man!” Hana whispered.
Yes, it was a white man. The wet cap fell away and there was his wet yellow hair, long, as though for many weeks it had not been cut and upon his young and tortured face was a rough yellow beard. He was unconscious and knew nothing that they did for him.

Question. What did Dr. Sadao and Hana meant by ‘white man’?
(i) the man whose face appeared white due to sand
(ii) an American
(iii) a man having white disease
(iv) a man wearing white dress
Answer. B

Question. Hana’s remark “A white man!” on seeing the white man indicated what she was feeling. Pick the option that correctly states her feelings.
1. Horror
2. Shock
3. Unfamiliarity
4. Annoyance
(i) 1 and 2
(ii) 2 and 3
(iii) 2 and 4
(iv) 1 and 4
Answer. A

Question. How did the white man’s face appear?
(i) young
(ii) tortured
(iii) fresh
(iv) both (i) and (ii)
Answer. D

Question. Why didn’t the man know the presence of Dr. Sadao and Hana?
(i) as he was sleeping
(ii) as he was unconscious
(iii) as he was pretending to be unconscious
(iv) Dr. Sadao and Hana were facing his back
Answer. B

3. Now Sadao remembered the wound and with his expert fingers he began to search for it. Blood flowed freshly at his touch. On the right side of his lower back Sadao saw that a gun wound had been reopened. The flesh was blackened with powder. Sometime, not many days ago, the man had been shot and had not been tended. It was bad chance that the rock had struck the wound.

Question. Who was wounded?
(i) Sadao
(ii) Hana
(iii) soldier
(iv) Yumi
Answer. C

Question. Which word best suits ‘trained’ in the extract?
(i) touch
(ii) tended
(iii) expat
(iv) expert
Answer. D

Question. What kind of wound the man had?
(i) it was a knife stab
(ii) it was an injury
(iii) it was a gun shot
(iv) it was due to spikes on rocks
Answer. C

Question. How old was the wound?
(i) few days old
(ii) a month old
(iii) a week old
(iv) many days old
Answer. A

4. ‘‘Oh, how he is bleeding!’’ Hana whispered again in a solemn voice. The mists screened them now completely and at this time of day no one came by. The fishermen had gone home and even the chance beachcombers would have considered the day at an end.

Question. ‘Hana whispered again in a solemn voice’, what does this indicate?
(i) fright
(ii) serious concern
(iii) indifference
(iv) none of these
Answer. B

Question. What kind of weather it was?
(i) there was snowfall
(ii) there was heavy mist
(iii) there was low mist
(iv) It was raining
Answer. B

Question. How many people were there at the beach that time?
(i) one (Hana)
(ii) two (Hana and Dr. Sadao)
(iii) three (Hana, Dr. Sadao and soldier)
(iv) four (Hana, Dr. Sadao, maid and soldier)
Answer. C

Question. Who are beachcombers?
(i) people who wander near beach for enjoyment
(ii) people who makes a living by searching beaches for articles
(iii) people who comes to beaches for fishing
(iv) people who clean the beaches of dirt and filth
Answer. B

5. The man moaned with pain in his stupor but he did not awaken. “The best thing that we could do would be to put him back in the sea,” Sadao said, answering himself. Now that the bleeding was stopped for the moment he stood up and dusted the sand from his hands. “Yes, undoubtedly that would be best,” Hana said steadily. But she continued to stare down at the motionless man. “If we sheltered a white man in our house we should be arrested and if we turned him over as a prisoner, he would certainly die,” Sadao said. “The kindest thing would be to put him back into the sea,” Hana said. But neither of them moved. They were staring with curious repulsion upon the inert figure.

Question. In which of the following options can the underlined words NOT be replaced with ‘stupor’?
(i) She hung up the phone feeling as though she had woken up from a slumber.
(ii) The manager complained about the employee’s sluggishness.
(iii) He seemed to be in a trance when the doctor called upon him last week.
(iv) Seeing him in a daze, the lawyer decided not to place him in the witness box.
Answer. B

Question. Pick the option that best describes Sadao and Hana in the passage.
(i) Sadao: scrupulous Hana: wary
(ii) Sadao: daring Hana: prudent
(iii) Sadao: prudent Hana: suspicious
(iv) Sadao: wary Hana: daring
Answer. C

Question. Pick the idiom that best describes the situation in which Sadao and Hana were in.
(i) to be like a fish out of water
(ii) like water off a duck’s back
(iii) to be dead in the water
(iv) to be in hot water
Answer. D

Question. Choose the correct option with reference to the two statements given below.
Statement 1: Sadao and Hana cared about the soldier but were worried about the consequences of being considerate.
Statement 2: Sadao and Hana wanted to shirk their responsibilities of looking after an injured soldier, who could be an American.
(i) Statement 1 is true but Statement 2 is false.
(ii) Statement 1 is false but Statement 2 is true.
(iii) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(iv) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer. A

Question. Who is the author of the lesson ‘The Enemy’?
(a) Pearl S. Buck
(b) Dickens
(c) D.H. Lawrence
(d) None of these
Answer. A

Question. Who was Dr. Sadao?
(a) An Iranian doctor
(b) An American doctor
(c) A Japanese doctor
(d) None of these
Answer. C

Question. Where did Dr. Sadao find American soldier?
(a) in the park
(b) in the battlefield
(c) outside his house
(d) None of these
Answer. C

Question. Why did Dr. Sadao treat the soldier when he was from enemy’s nationality?
(a) He was a doctor
(b) It was against his professional ethics
(c) As a doctor he could not let anyone die
(d) All of the above
Answer. D

Question. What was the name of the American soldier?
(a) Tom
(b) Harry
(c) Sadao
(d) Hamel
Answer. A

Question. How did Hana help Dr. Sadao?
(a) by assisting him
(b) by giving him money
(c) by giving him tools
(d) by working as a nurse
Answer. D

Question. Why did Dr. Sadao become irritatable and impatient with his patient?
(a) because of his inability to leave the white man to help his distressed wife
(b) because of many patients
(c) because of General’s pressure
(d) All of the above
Answer. A

Question. Why did Doctor’s wife feel distressed?
(a) Seeing many patients
(b) Seeing General’s reaction
(c) Seeing the orders
(d) Seeing Whiteman’s blood
Answer. D

Question. What was Hana’s reaction over her husband’s words?
(a) she vomited outside the operation room
(b) she shouted
(c) she cried
(d) she stopped helping him
Answer. A

Short / Long Answer Questions

Question. How does the writer indicate that Dr.Sadao’s father was a very traditional and conventional man?
Answer : Dr. Sadao’s father wanted his son to marry a girl who had been pure in her race. Dr. Sadao and Hana had fallen in love in America but their marriage was arranged by Dr. Sadao’s father in the traditional Japanese way only after he had approved of Hana.

The Enemy