12th Eng. 5 Solved Extracts The Last Lesson CBSE Based

The Last Lesson by Alphonse Doudet 

Extract -1

But now it was all so still! I had counted on the commotion to get to my desk without being seen; but, of course, that day everything had to be as quiet as Sunday morning. Through the window I saw my classmates, already in their places, and M. Harnel walking up and down with his terrible iron ruler under his arm.

1. With inference from the passage counted on means

(a) To count numbers (b) To depend on

(d) To think (c) To borrow

2. Find the analogy of 'movement

3. Why did the narrator want to reach his desk without being seen?

(a) He was afraid of the enemy soldiers

(b) He was afraid of being caught by the teacher

(c) He was afraid of his classmates

(d) He was afraid of his mother

4. Why was everything quiet on a Sunday morning?

5. State True or False:

The statement: "M. Hamel walking up and down" means that he was walking on the wall of the classroom.

6. 'Still in the passage confers':

(a) calmness(b) drilling (c) lecture

(d) Hauser

Extract -2

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.

(a) Why was 'l' in a hurry?

(b) Why does 'l' say 'I thought of running away'?

(i) He was sick

(ii) He had not learnt his lesson

(iii) He had an urgent piece of work

(iv) None of the above

(c) Prussian soldiers were……

(d) Who is the author?

(e) What does the word 'edge' mean?

(f) Who is 'l' in the given extract?

(i) M. Hamel

(ii) One of the elders present in the class

(iii) The narrator

(iv) None of the above

Extract -3 

What a thunderclap these words were to me! Oh, the wretches; that was what they had put up at the town hall!

(a) Who is the speaker of the words which were a 'thunderclap'?

(i) Franz (ii) M. Hamel (iii) Hauser

(iv) The blacksmith

(b) Choose the antonym of 'put up.

(i) Build (ii) Erect (iii) Create (iv) Ruin

(c) Who does 'me' in the above lines refer to?

(d) Which words were a 'thunderclap' for the person?

(e) What had been put up at the town hall?

(f) The word 'wretches' means

Extract -4

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."

1. State about Alsace with reference from the passage:

(a) a girl (b) a district (c) not mentioned

(d) both (a) and (b)

2. Who are 'those fellows'?

3. Why does he call Franz poor?

4. Find the analogy of 'scold' taking clues from passage.

5.'A Great deal' refers in the passage to-

(a) a big matter/issue (b) a big business deal

(c) both (a) and (b) (d) none of these

6. 'Pretend' is used in context of

(a) false assumption (b) false presentation

(c) heroic deed (d) presentation of lecture

Extract -5

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 worst, poor little Franz. We've all a great deal to reproach ourselves with."

(a) What does 'we've come out' imply?

(1)Become free (ii) Attainment

(iii) Result (iv) None of the above

(b) What does 'she' refer to in the extract?

(i) Franz's mother (ii) A girl student

(iii) Alsace (iv) None of these

(c) What do you think is the trouble with Alsace?

(d) Why do they all have a great deal to reproach themselves?

(e) The parents of the students were not—--

(f) What does 'pretend' mean?

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ANSWERS 

Extract -5

(a) (iii) Result (b) (iii) Alsace

(c) The trouble with Alsace is that it is in the habit of postponing things until tomorrow.

d) They all have a great deal to reproach themselves because the students have been casual in their approach towards learning French and M. Hamel has also been casual in his approach towards teaching French quite often.

(e) anxious enough to have them learn

(f) Pretend means to behave in a particular way which is not true.

7. that we must

Extract 4

1. (b) a district 2..The enemy German soldiers

3.Franz is called poor because he is not learned in his mother tongue the French language.4. Reproach 5.(a) a big matter/issue

6 (b) false presentation

Extract -3

(a) (ii) M. Hamel

(b) (iv) Ruin

(c) 'Me' in the above lines refers to Franz

(d) The words that were a thunderclap for the person were 'this is your last French lesson.

(e) The bulletin-board at the town hall stated that only German would be taught in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine

(f) The word 'wretches' means persons that you feel sympathy for or sad about.

Extract -2

(a) I was in a hurry because he started for school very late that morning

(b) (ii) He had not learnt his lesson

(c) drilling at the back of the sawmill

(d) The author is Alphonse Daudet

(e) The word 'edge' means border or brink

(f) (iii) The narrator

Extract -1

Ans.1 (b) To depend on2- Motion

3. (b) He was afraid of being caught by the teacher

4-Ans. It was quiet on a Sunday morning because it was a holiday in the school.

5.Ans. False 

6-Ans. (a) calmness

12th Eng. 5 Solved Extracts The Last Lesson CBSE Based

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