CBSE Class 12 English Deep Water MCQs Set D

Question: How many times did Douglas try to come to the surface of the pool?
a) twice
b) once
c) five times
d) thrice
Answer: d

Question: What was the impact of the pool incident?
a) hydrophobia was revived
b) became confident
c) became overconfident
d) developed fear
Answer: b

Question: Who was the narrator with when he had his first water mishap?
a) His coach
b) Unknown people
c) His friends
d) His father
Answer: d

Question: The writer had an aversion to the water when he was
a) three or four years old
b) four or five years old
c) five or six years old
d) six or seven years old
Answer: b

Question: What did the author do to conquer his fear of water?
a) He practised swimming systematically
b) He prepared himself physically
c) He jumped into the water fearlessly
d) He learnt swimming haphazardly
Answer: a

Question: Who is the protagonist of the story “Deep Water”?
a) William Douglas
b) Franklin D. Roosevelt
c) William O. Dolson
d) Doug Corpron
Answer: a

Question: What is the story Deep Water speaking about?
a) fear of water and the way to overcome it
b) fear of people
c) fear of swimming
d) fear of dogs
Answer: c

Question: Who is the author of Deep Water?
a) William Shakespeare
b) William George Bernard Shaw
c) William Wordsworth
d) William Douglas
Answer: d

Question: In which subject has the author been graduated?
a) English and History
b) English and Science
c) Science and Social studies
d) English and Economics
Answer: a

Question: I had an aversion to water… The impact of author’s drowning in California beach when he was a small child was…
a) physical
b) psychological
c) imaginary
d) both (A) and (B)
Answer: d

Question: How did the author’s fear vanish?
a) with courage, guidance and determination
b) with care
c) with mother’s words
d) with guidance
Answer: a

Question: When did the writer’s unpleasant memories of his childhood revive?
a) when he went to the Y.M.C.A. pool
b) when he went to the Yakima River
c) when he went to a pool
d) none of the above
Answer: a

Question: Where is Yokima located?
a) US City Newzealand
b) US City in Callifornia
c) US City In Washington
d) None
Answer: c

Question: “I jumped with everything I had.” What does the expression convey?
a) He waited for some time to jump
b) He collected all his belongings and jumped
c) He summoned up all his strength to jump
d) He closed his eyes and jumped
Answer: c

Question: What did William O. Douglas desire for?
a) visit to California
b) Visit to Washington
c) swimming
d) to be with his mother
Answer: c

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

Question: Why did Douglas hate to walk with bare legs?
a) because of skinny legs
b) fat legs
c) because of skin color
d) ugly looking legs
Answer: a

Question: ix How many times did the protagonist go down in the pool?
a) One time
b) Two times
c) Three times
d) Four
Answer: c

Question: Why did he develop a fear of water?
a) Because of knocking down by waves at a beach
b) Because of a young boy
c) Because of instructor
d) Because of his mother
Answer: a

Question: Y.M.C.A stands for?
a) Young Men’s Christian Authority
b) Young Men’s Christopher Association
c) Young Men’s Christian Army
d) Young Men’s Christian Association
Answer: d

Question: Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?
a) To know the waters of Casc
b) ato be a swimmer
c) to learn swimming
d) to win a medal
Answer: a

Question: What did the author realize while drowning in the pool?
a) Terror in fear of death
b) terror in swimming
c) terror of being pushed
d) none
Answer: b

Question: How did the instructor make Douglas a good swimmer?
a) by giving instructions
b) by pushing him into the pool
c) by making him watch others
d) wby using belts and ropes
Answer: d

Question: What distance Douglas covered while swimming across the lake Wentworth?
a) 4 miles
b) 3 miles
c) 2 miles
d) 1 miles
Answer: c

Question: Why has the author given an autobiographical note in Deep Water?
a) Because of fear of swimming
b) People
c) swimmimg instructor
d) Because of fear of water
Answer: d

Question: What was NOT an effect of the misadventure?
a) Unable to ingest food
b) feeling nauseous
c) becoming overactive
d) feeling wobbly
Answer: c

Question: What plan did Douglas make to overcome his fear of water?
a) Planned to get an instructor
b) planned to swim more
c) planned to watch swimmers
d) planned to jump
Answer: a

Question: What plan did he make to come to the surface of the pool?
a) trial to jump and push himself up
b) shouted
c) cried aloud
d) shouted help
Answer: a

Question: After the author was fed up with teaching, he decided to opt for which career?
a) medical
b) gardening
c) engineering
d) a legal career
Answer: d

Question: From the tone of narration we feel that the author treats the bully boy’s act as….
a) a punishable offence
b) misadventure of childhood
c) a planned act
d) an unforgivable crime
Answer: b

Source Based Question

Read the passage given below and answer the following questions.

My introduction to the Y.M.CA 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: How did the author try to learn swimming?
A) By reading self-help books
B) By imitating his friends
C) By watching dolphins
D) From a coach
Answer: d

Question: Douglas would have soon become a confident swimmer had the misadventure not happeneD) Which words/phrases support this?
A) feel at ease
B) learn by aping
C) Gathered confidence.
D) watching the other boys
Answer: c

Read the passage given below and answer the following questions.

The experience had a deep meaning for me, as only those who have known stark terror and conquered it can appreciate. In death there is peace. There is terror only in the fear of death, as Roosevelt knew when he said, “All we have to fear is fear itself.”

Question: The experience the author talking about is of
A) the experience of overcoming the fear of water.
B) the experience of swimming in different water bodies.
C) the experience of taking the challenge of climbing.
D) the experience of hiring an instructor.
Answer: a

Question: There is peace in death because
A) death is soothing.
B) death is devoid of any feeling.
C) death is less painful than life
D) death takes us to a pain-less world
Answer: b

Read the extract given below and choose correct option for the questions that follow.

The instructor put a belt around me. A rope attached to the belt went through a pulley that ran on an overhead cable. He held on to the end of the rope, and we went back and forth, back and forth across the pool, hour after hour, day after day, week after week. On each trip across the pool a bit of the panic seized me. Each time the instructor relaxed his hold on the rope and I went under, some of the old terror returned and my legs froze. It was three months before the tension began to slack.

Question: The instructor here is…
A) Resourceful
B) Patient
C) Methodical
D) All the above
Answer: d

Question: What is meant by Tension began to slack?
A) Tension started ebbing
B) Tension started increasing
C) Tension remained stable
D) None of the above
Answer: a

Question: ‘and we went back and forth, back and forth across the pool, hour after hour, day after day, week after week.’. What is the attitude of the narrator here?
A) Lazy and grudging
B) Tired and fed up
C) Enthusiastic and earnest
D) Cursing and bitter
Answer: d

Question: “All we have to fear is fear itself”—This statement can be better explained by which of the following statements?
A) Fear is a state of mind and it can be conquered
B) Fear in itself is really frightening.
C) We should only fear the fear.
D) Fear has no substance in it and hence baseless.
Answer: d

Question: Which of the following words is close to the meaning of the word STARK?
A) Invincible
B) Sharp
C) Terrible
D) Sheer
Answer: d