CBSE Class 12 English The Last Lesson Worksheet Set C

Class - 12th
Chapter - The Last Lesson

Question. On the day of the last lesson M. Hamel was gazing at everything in the little school room:
(a) as he wanted to ensure he was not leaving anything behind.
(b) in an attempt to fix in his mind how everything looked.
(c) as he was free and the students were busy writing.
(d) as he had to leave the next day.

Answer : B

Question. There was usually great bustle and noise when school began, but it was all very quiet.
Which of the following describes Franz’s emotions most accurately?
(a) shock and awe
(b) disappointment and anxiety
(c) confusion and distress
(d) curiosity and uncertainty

Answer : B

Question. Franz did not want to go to school that morning because:
(a) it was a cold day.
(b) he wanted to learn the rules on participle.
(c) he feared M. Hamel’s scolding.
(d) he wanted to watch the children drilling.

Answer : C

Question. Look at the table below. Column A provides instances from the story ‘The Last Lesson’. Column B provides titles of some famous English language poems. Choose the option that correctly matches the items of Column A with Column B.

Answer : D

Question. When did Franz realize what had been put up at the bulletin board?
(a) When he reached school.
(b) On reaching the classroom.
(c) When he saw the village elders in the classroom.
(d) When M. Hamel announced in the class.

Answer : D

Question. What does the drill of the Prussian soldiers suggest?
(a) The loss of political freedom
(b) Prussia had been defeated
(c) Reminder of French invasion of Prussia
(d) The victory of the French

Answer : A

Question. What was the ‘bulletin-board’ in ‘The Last Lesson’ symbolic of?
(a) Happiness
(b) Excitement
(c) Distress
(d) Commotion

Answer : C

Question. “I never saw him look so tall”. Which of the following best captures M. Hamel on the last day of school?
(a) cranky, miserable, dedicated, resigned
(b) patient, dignified, emotional, patriotic
(c) calm, nostalgic, disappointed, courageous
(d) proud, reproachful, persistent, heroic

Answer : B

Question. M. Hamel made a gesture with his hand to dismiss the class because he was:
(a) deeply touched
(b) extremely regretful
(c) overwhelmed with emotions
(d) intensely affected

Answer : C

Question. The thing that surprised Franz the most was:
(a) M. Hamel wearing his fine Sunday clothes.
(b) His not being scolded by his teacher.
(c) The village elders present in the classroom.
(d) No commotion in school.

Answer : C

Question. Concluding his last lesson by writing ‘Vive la France!’ on the blackboard shows that M. Hamel—
(a) was overwhelmed with emotions.
(b) wanted to distract all attending class that day.
(c) was keen on not leaving the country.
(d) wanted to teach French participles through it.

Answer : A

Question. M. Hamel’ words were a thunderclap for Franz because:
(a) He regretted not learning his language
(b) He would miss his teacher
(c) They were most unexpected
(d) None of the above

Answer : A

Question. Choose the statement that is NOT TRUE with reference to Franz:
(a) He had never considered his books nuisance.
(b) He felt sad that M.Hamel was leaving.
(c) He made a mistake while reciting the participle.
(d) He felt sorry for not learning his lessons.

Answer : A

Question. ‘Don’t go so fast, bub; you’ll get to your school in plenty of time. Franz thought the blacksmith was making fun of him because:
(a) The blacksmith was taunting him.
(b) Franz was late for school.
(c) The blacksmith was being sarcastic.
(d) Franz had not read the bulletin board.

Answer : D

Question. Franz saw a huge crowd assembled in front of the bulletin board, but did not stop. How would you evaluate his reaction?
(a) Franz was too little to care about the news of lost battles.
(b) Nobody in Franz’s family was in the army, so it did not matter.
(c) Bad news had become very normal, so he went about his task.
(d) It was too crowded for Franz to find out what news was up on the board.

Answer : C

Questions on the Extracts from the Lesson

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

I jumped over the bench and sat down at my desk. Not till then, when I had got a little over my fright, did I see that our teacher had on his beautiful green coat, his frilled shirt, and the little black silk cap, all embroidered, that he never wore except on inspection and prize days. Besides, the whole school seemed so strange and solemn. But the thing that surprised me most was to see, on the back benches that were always empty, the village people sitting quietly like ourselves; old Hauser, with his three-cornered hat, the former mayor, the former postmaster, and several others besides.

Question. Franz was frightened because:
(a) he had not learnt the participles.
(b) his teacher was angry.
(c) he was late for school.
(d) both (a) and (c)

Answer : D

Question. M. Hamel was dressed in his formals:
(a) in honour of the last French lesson.
(b) in a gesture of bidding farewell.
(c) to pay his respect to the village elders who were present.
(d) to show his respect for a country that was not theirs any more.

Answer : A

Question. The atmosphere prevailing in the whole school on that day was:
(a) threatening
(b) trivial
(c) haphazard
(d) grave

Answer : D

Question. The word ‘Strange’ means the same as:
(a) Queer
(b) Usual
(c) Ordinary
(d) Typical

Answer : A

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

Whenever I looked up from my writing I saw M. Hamel sitting motionless in his chair and gazing first at one thing, then at another, as if he wanted to fix in his mind just how everything looked in that little schoolroom. Fancy! For forty years he had been there in the same place, with his garden outside the window and his class in front of him, just like that. Only the desks and benches had been worn smooth; the walnut-trees in the garden were taller, and the hopvine that he had planted himself twined about the windows to the roof. How it must have broken his heart to leave it all, poor man; to hear his sister moving about in the room above, packing their trunks! For they must leave the country next day.

Question. M. Hamel sitting motionless in his chair reveals his:
(a) frustration
(b) gloominess
(c) anxiety
(d) indifference

Answer : B

Question. What had not changed in the last forty years?
(a) Walnut trees
(b) Hop vine
(c) Classroom
(d) None of the above

Answer : C

Question. Franz knew that M. Hamel’s heart was broken:
(a) to hear his sister moving in the room.
(b) his trunks were being packed.
(c) to leave the country the next day.
(d) All of the above

Answer : D

Question. The word ‘gazing’ means:
(a) looking steadily
(b) looking vaguely
(c) enduring
(d) staring indifferently

Answer : A

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

Poor man! It was in honour of this last lesson that he had put on his fine Sunday clothes, and now I understood why the old men of the village were sitting there in the back of the room. It was because they were sorry, too, that they had not gone to school more. It was their way of thanking our master for his forty years of faithful service and of showing their respect for the country that was theirs no more.

Question. Why does the narrator refer to M. Hamel as ‘Poor man!’?
(a) He empathizes with M. Hamel as he had to leave the village.
(b) He believes that M. Hamel’s “fine Sunday clothes” clearly reflected that he was not rich.
(c) He feels sorry for M. Hamel as it was his last French lesson.
(d) He thinks that M. Hamel’s patriotism and sense of duty resulted in his poverty.

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following idioms might describe the villagers’ act of attending the last lesson most accurately?
(a) ‘Too good to miss’
(b) ‘Too little, too late’
(c) ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth’
(d) Too cool for school’

Answer : B

Question. Choose the option that might raise a question about M. Hamel’s “faithful service”.
(a) When Franz came late, M. Hamel told him that he was about to begin class without him.
(b) Franz mentioned how cranky M. Hamel was and his “great ruler rapping on the table”.
(c) M. Hamel often sent students to water his flowers, and gave a holiday when he wanted to go fishing.
(d) M. Hamel permitted villagers put their children “to work on a farm or at the mills” for some extra money.

Answer : C

Question. Choose the option that most appropriately fills in the blanks, for the following description of the given extract.
The villagers and their children sat in class, forging with their old master a (a) _____ togetherness. In that moment, the class room stood (b) _____. It was France itself, and the last French lesson a desperate hope to (c) ______ to the remnants of what they had known and taken for granted. Their own (d) _______.
(a) (a) graceful; (b) still; (c) hang on; (d) country
(b) (a) bygone; (b) up; (c) keep on; (d) education
(c) (a) beautiful; (b) mesmerised; (c) carry on; (d) unity
(d) (a) forgotten; (b) transformed; (c) hold on; (d) identity

Answer : D

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

I started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding, especially because M. Hamel had said that he would question us on participles, and I did not know the first word about them. For a moment I thought of running away and spending the day out of doors. It was so warm, so bright! The birds were chirping at the edge of the woods; and in the open field back of the sawmill the Prussian soldiers were drilling. It was all much more tempting than the rule for participles, but I had the strength to resist, and hurried off to school. 
When I passed the town hall there was a crowd in front of the bulletin-board. For the last two years all our bad news had come from there — the lost battles, the draft, the orders of the commanding officer — and I thought to myself, without stopping, “What can be the matter now?”

Question. Franz dreaded a scolding from M.Hamel because:
(a) he was late for school
(b) he had not learnt his lesson
(c) he wanted to spend the day out of doors
(d) he had not paid attention to his lesson

Answer : B

Question. Franz felt that __________ was more interesting than the rule for participles.
(a) to spend the day outside.
(b) to watch the drill of the Prussian soldiers.
(c) to hear the birds chirping
(d) all of the above

Answer : D

Question. The bulletin-board is symbolic of:
(a) distress
(b) struggle
(c) nuisance
(d) danger

Answer : A

Question. Choose the term which describes Franz’s emotions when he says, “What can be the matter now?”
(a) sadness
(b) dilemma
(c) inquisitiveness
(d) thoughtful

Answer : B

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

I heard M. Hamel say to me, “I won’t scold you, little Franz; you must feel bad enough. See how it is! Every day we have said to ourselves, ‘Bah! I’ve plenty of time. I’ll learn it tomorrow’. And now you see where we’ve come out. Ah, that’s the great trouble with Alsace; she puts off learning till tomorrow. Now those fellows out there will have the right to say to you, ‘How is it; you pretend to be Frenchmen, and yet you can neither speak nor write your own language?’ But you are not the worst, poor little Franz. We’ve all a great deal to reproach ourselves with.”

Question. M. Hamel did not scold Franz because:
(a) he was feeling bad
(b) there was plenty of time to learn
(c) he knew Franz was feeling bad
(d) he was blaming himself

Answer : C

Question. The phrase ‘those fellows’ refers to:
(a) the Frenchmen
(b) the village elders
(c) the Prussians
(d) the new teachers

Answer : C

Question. Why did M. Hamel say Franz was not the worst?
(a) The Frenchmen did not want to learn
(b) The children’s parents were to blame
(c) Most of the students were like Franz
(d) They were all at fault

Answer : D

Question. The word ‘reproach’ means the same as:
(a) admonish
(b) boast
(c) credit
(d) punish

Answer : A

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

The only sound was the scratching of the pens over the paper. Once some beetles flew in; but nobody paid any attention to them, not even the littlest ones, who worked right on tracing their fish-hooks, as if that was French, too. On the roof the pigeons cooed very low, and I thought to myself, “Will they make them sing in German, even the pigeons?”

Question. Why was everyone quiet?
(a) They had been assigned some work.
(b) The mood in the class was solemn and somber.
(c) As mark of respect for M. Hamel.
(d) They wanted to finish their work on time.

Answer : B

Question. The serious mood of those present in the classroom is a proof of:
(a) patriotic fervour
(b) A sense of regret
(c) Respect for their teacher
(d) All of the above

Answer : D

Question. Nobody paid attention to the beetles that flew in because:
(a) They were too busy working.
(b) They were all sad.
(c) The teacher would get angry at them.
(d) They were distracted by the pigeons.

Answer : A

Question. When Franz says “Will they make them sing in German, even the pigeons?”. This statement of Franz reveals his:
(a) Sarcasm
(b) Annoyance
(c) Frustration
(d) Empathy

Answer : A

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

M. Hamel went on to talk of the French language, saying that it was the most beautiful language in the world — the clearest, the most logical; that we must guard it among us and never forget it, because when a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison. Then he opened a grammar book and read us our lesson. I was amazed to see how well I understood it. All he said seemed so easy, so easy!

Question. Which of the following can be attributed to M. Hamel’s declaration about the French language?
(a) subject expertise
(b) nostalgic pride
(c) factual accuracy
(d) patriotic magnification

Answer : D

Question. Read the quotes given below. Choose the option that might best describe M. Hamel’s viewpoint.
(a) Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(b) Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. —Rita Mae Brown
(c) A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. —Ali Ibn Abi Talib
(d) The greatest propaganda in the world’s our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. —Marshall McLuhan

Answer : B

Question. Why did M. Hamel say Franz was not the worst?
(a) The Frenchmen did not want to learn
(b) The children’s parents were to blame
(c) Most of the students were like Franz
(d) They were all at fault

Answer : D

Question. The word ‘reproach’ means the same as:
(a) admonish
(b) boast
(c) credit
(d) punish

Answer : A

Very Short Answer

Q.1)        How did Mr. Hamel bid farewell to his school?

Q.2)        Why did Franz not want to go to a school that day?

Q.3)        What did Franz see as he passed the town hall? What did he think then?

Q.4)        How had the teacher dressed on the day of the last lesson?

Q.5)        What did the blacksmith tell him? Why?

Short Answer

Q.6)        How were the parents and M. Hamel responsible for the children’s neglect of the French language?

Q.7)        Answer the following questions: -

(1)          What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day?

(2)          How did he enter the room? What happened then?

Q.8)        What shows M. Hamel’s love for the French language?

Q.9)        Answer the following questions: -

(1)          How was the scene in the school in the morning of the last lesson different from that on other days?

(2)          What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?

Q.10)      What changes came over little Franz after M. Hamel’s announcement?    

Long Answer

Q.11)      The people in this story suddenly realize how precious their language is to them. What shows you this? Why does this happens?

Q.12)      Bah! I have plenty of time. I’ll learn it tomorrow.

               Franz was shocked when he heard that it was the last lesson in French and he hardly knew his mother tongue.

               Many of us find ourselves in similar situations and regret when all is over. What qualities should we inculcate in our life so that we are able to achieve our goals?

Q.13)      “When people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison.” Can you think of examples in history where a conquered people had their language taken away from them or had a language imposed on them?

Q.14)      Explain the Summary of the Chapter ‘The Last Lesson’ in points?

Q.15)      What did the French teacher tell his students in his last French lesson? What impact did it have on them? Why?

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