CBSE Class 12 English Deep Water MCQs Set E

Question: What lesson did Douglas learn from his experience of drowning?
a) learnt swimmimg
b) love for swimming
c) swimmimng is not difficult
d) Face the fear
Answer: d

Question: What is the theme of the story Deep Water?
a) Victory in facing the fear
b) Being fearful
c) to learn swimmimg
d) All
Answer: a

Question: For how many years had the author taught in high school in Yokima?
a) 2 years
b) 4 years
c) 3 years
d) 5 years
Answer: a

Question: Where was the lake Wentworth?
a) In New Hampshire
b) in Washington
c) in California
d) in Washington D.C
Answer: a

Question: Why did Douglas hire an instructor?
a) to be confident in swimming
b) to compete with others
c) to flaunt
d) to overcome his fear of water and learn swimming
Answer: d

Question: How did the instructor make Douglas a good swimmer?
a) planning
b) with the help of ropes
c) with the help of ropes and belts
d) by pushing him into the pool
Answer: c

Question: How did the author learn swimming?
a) with the help of a rope
b) with the help of instructor
c) with the help of his mother
d) with the help of swimmimng instructor
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: How did this experience affect the author?
a) became fearful
b) became hydrophobic
c) overconfident
d) confident
Answer: b

Question: What does Douglas do to save himself in the pool?
a) used his mind and pushed himself up
b) shouted aloud
c) called people
d) shouted help help
Answer: a

Question: Why did Douglas’ mother recommend that he should learn swimming at the Y. M.C.A swimming pool?
a) Because it was local
b) because it was safe
c) because it was shallow and safe
d) because it was shallow
Answer: c

Question: What was stopping Douglas to get into the waters of Cascade?
a) memories of Washington
b) memories full of terror in the pool
c) instructions given by the instructor
d) memories of California
Answer: b

Question: Who threw Douglas into the swimmimg pool?
a) A young 18 years old Bruiser
b) Instructor
c) mother
d) watchman
Answer: a

Question: How did Douglas make sure that he had conquered the old terror?
a) by visiting California
b) by jumping into the waters
c) by taking a lesson from the intructor
d) by swimming into the lake Wentworth
Answer: d

Question: What does Deep water signify?
a) Beauty
b) Depth of Sea
c) Depth of ocean
d) Frantic
Answer: d

Question: Why was the writer at first not much frightened when he was thrown into the pool?
a) because of overconfidence
b) because of instructions
c) because of people around
d) because of confidence
Answer: d

Question: What is Yakima?
1. Name of the instructor
2. Name of a place
3. Name of a river
4. Name of a US state
a) 3 and 4
b) 2 and 3
c) 1, 2 and 3
d) 2, 3 and 4
Answer: b

Assertion Reason Question

Question:
Assertion: Once Douglas grew old he was determined to overcome this fear because he wanted to face the challenges tendered by his friends.
Reason: He hired an instructor to learn swimming to get rid of his childhood fear.
a) Assertion is correct but Reason is wrong.
b) Both Assertion Reason are wrong.
c) Assertion is wrong but Reason is correct.
d) Both Assertion and Assertion are correct.
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: He went to Lake Wentworth in New Hampshire, dived off a dock at Triggs island, and swam three miles across the lake to Stamp Act Island)
Reason: For once did the terror return but he continued to swim. Finally he bid goodbye to his terror.
a) Both Assertion and Reason are wrong.
b) Assertion is wrong but Reason is correct.
c) Both Assertion and Assertion are correct.
d) Assertion is correct but Reason is wrong.
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: Douglas decided to learn swimming.
Reason: The old sensation returned in miniature when he swam in the pool with the instructor.
(a) Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is correct explanation of assertion.
(b) Assertion and reason both are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) Assertion is true, reason is false.
(d) Assertion is false, reason is true.
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion: Douglas showed determination and perseverance.
Reason: He laughed at Mr. Terror and swam on.
(a) Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is correct explanation of assertion.
(b) Assertion and reason both are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) Assertion is true, reason is false.
(d) Assertion is false, reason is true.
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: Douglas’s lungs were ready to burst.
Reason: He was unable to breathe in deep water
a) Both A and R are right. R is the correct explanation of A
b) Both A and R are right. R is not the correct explanation of A
c) A is right, R is wrong
d) A is wrong, R is right
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion: Douglas didn’t try to save himself the third time
Reason: He was too tired to jump now
A. Both A and R are right. R is the correct explanation of A
B. Both A and R are right. R is not the correct explanation of A
C. A is right, R is wrong
D. A is wrong, R is right.
Answer: b

Question:
Assertion: In the end, it is said that Douglas felt free to walk the trails and climb the peaks.
Reason: He had decided to engage more in land related activities rather than water related activities.
(a) Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is correct explanation of assertion.
(b) Assertion and reason both are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) Assertion is true, reason is false.
(d) Assertion is false, reason is true.
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: In death there is peace.
Reason: There is terror only in the fear of death.
(a)If A is the cause, R is the effect.
(b)If A is the effect, R is the cause.
(c)Both A & R are the effect of a common cause.
(d)Both A & R are the effects of independent causes.
Answer: d

Question:
Assertion: The author‘s father laughed to mock his son‘s inability to swim.
Reason: The author wanted to swim just to prove to his father that he can swim.
(a) A is true but R is false.
(b) A is false but R is true.
(c) Both A and R cannot be inferred.
(d) Both A and R can be inferred.
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: Douglas had been haunted by fear for many years.
Reason: Douglas decided to learn to swim.
(a) If A is the cause, R is the effect.
(b) If A is the effect, R is the cause.
(c) Both A & R are the effect of a common cause.
(d) Both A & R are the effects of independent causes.
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion: The narrator went to different lakes to swim.
Reason: He found tiny vestiges of fear still gripped him.
(a) If A is the cause, R is the effect
(b) If A is the effect, R is the cause.
(c) Both A & R are the effect of a common cause.
(d) Both A & R are the effects of independent causes.
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: The narrator swam up & down the Warm Lake.
Reason: He could finally overcome his fear of water.
(a) A is false but R is true.
(b) A is true but R is false.
(c) Both A and R are true
(d) Both A and R are false.
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: As soon as Douglas touched the bottom, he tried to jump but much to his disappointment it was very slow and all he could see was water. He did not give up hope and kept trying desperately until someone rescued him.
Reason: He realized that life is full of struggle and one must face it courageously.
a) Both Assertion and Reason are wrong.
b) Assertion is correct but Reason is wrong.
c) Assertion is wrong but Reason is correct.
d) Both Assertion and Assertion are correct.
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: Douglas was desperately trying to come up. Then fortunately he saw light. His eyes and nose came to the surface but then he sank again for the third time as this success was momentary.
Reason: The writer gave up all his efforts. He accepted this as his destiny and went into oblivion.
a) Both Assertion and Reason are wrong.
b) Assertion is wrong but Reason is correct.
c) Both Assertion and Assertion are correct.
d) Assertion is correct but Reason is wrong.
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: At the age of ten or eleven, the narrator decided to learn to swim with water wings at the Y.M.c)A pool.
Reason: The Y.M.c)A pool was dangerous at the shallow end)
a) A is false but R is true.
b) A is true but R is false.
c) Both A & R are true
d) Both A & R are false.
Answer: b

Question:
Assertion: He got a pair of water wings. He mustered courage and paddled aping others. He started regaining his confidence.
Reason: His newly found courage was soon lost when a 15 year old boy hurled him into the shallow side of the pool. There was nobody close to the pool.
a) Assertion is correct but Reason is wrong.
b) Both Assertion and Reason are wrong.
c) Assertion is wrong but Reason is correct.
d) Both Assertion and Reason are correct.
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion: Dougla’s legs would become paralysed)
Reason: This was due to chill water of the Cascades.
a) Both A and R are right. R is the correct explanation of A
b) Both A and R are right. R is not the correct explanation of A
c) A is right, R is wrong
d) A is wrong, R is right
Answer: c

Question:
Assertion: The narrator felt victorious that he had finally conquered his fear. He quoted that the death is full of peace, but the fear of death is terror.
Reason: Douglas has narrated his near-death experience and the way fear of death intensifies his will to live.
a) Both Assertion and Reason are wrong.
b) Assertion is wrong but Reason is correct.
c) Both Assertion and Assertion are correct.
d) Assertion is correct but Reason is wrong.
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion: Douglas started down a third time.
Reason: His strategy didn’t work and he couldn’t come outside from the pool.
a) Both A and R are right. R is the correct explanation of A
b) Both A and R are right. R is not the correct explanation of A
c) A is right, R is wrong
d) A is wrong, R is right
Answer: a

Question:
Assertion: The instructor taught him the breathing techniques exhaling underwater and inhaling by raising his nose.
Reason: He practised it hundreds of times. Then the instructor taught him to kick with his legs in water. But all had gone in vain since every time his old fear started haunting him.
a) Both Assertion and Reason are correct.
b) Assertion is correct but Reason is wrong.
c) Both Assertion and Reason are wrong.
d) Assertion is wrong but Reason is correct.
Answer: a

Source Based Question

Read the passage given below and answer the following questions.

A few years later when I came to know the water of the Cascades, I wanted to get into them, And whenever I did—whether I was wading the Tieton or Bumping River or bathing in the Warm Lake of the Goat Rocks—the terror that had seized me in the pool would come back. It would take possession of me completely, My legs would become paralysed) Icy horror would grab my heart.

Question: What do you infer from the line- ‘It would take possession of me completely’?
a) The author used to be filled with fear.
b) The author owned fear in that moment.
c) Someone took over author’s matters.
d) Terror became author’s property.
Answer: a

Question: Personification is a figure of speech. In which of the following sentences can it be found?
a) I was wading the Tieton or Bumping River.
b) My legs would become paralysed)
c) Terror that had seized me in the pool.
d) Icy horror would grab my heart.
a) 1 and 2
b) 2 and 3
c) 4 and 1
d) 3 and 4
Answer: d

Question: What was the terror that had seized the author in the pool?
a) being swept over by waves and buried in water
b) the fear of death and suffocation in a water body
c) being thrown into the pool by the bruiser of a boy
d) the inability to bathe in or wade through water
Answer: b