Deep Water Class Test -25M

Deep Water -Class Test 

Weekly Test              Class XII 

Subject - English 

MM:25 

Q1.Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:1x5=5

Q1. I struck at the water as I went down, expending my strength as one in a nightmare fights an irresistible force. I had lost all my breath. My lungs ached, my head throbbed. I was getting dizzy. But I remembered the strategy I would spring from the bottom of the pool and come like a cork to the surface. I would lie flat on the water, strike out with my arms, and thrash with my legs. Then I would get to the edge of the pool and be safe.

I went down, down, endlessly. I opened my eyes. Nothing but water with a yellow glow - dark water that one could not see through.

(Deep Water)

(a) What difference does it make when such a personal experience is shared in the first person narrative? Comment in brief.

(b) Select the correct option from those 

given in brackets to fill in the blank. 

Fighting an irresistible force suggests that the author was feeling……

(helpless/independent).

(c) Complete the following with a suitable reason.

The author remembered the strategy to come to the surface because………

(d) Who does 'I' refer to in the given extract and what experiences he is sharing?

(e) "Nothing but water with a yellow glow dark water that one could not see through' can best be classified as:

(i) An opinion

(ii) A twist in the story

(iii) A sentence that has a literary device

(iv) A fact

(f)What did the author do?

(i) He evolved a strategy to come out of water.

(ii) He fell into the pool.

(iii) He came out of the pool suddenly.

(iv) None of these

Q2. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:1x5=5

I laughed and said, 'Well, Mr. Terror, what do you think you can do to me?' It fled and I swam on.

(a) Who is 'l' here?

(b) Who is being addressed to as Mr. Terror?

(i) Coach (ii) Young boy

(iii) Water (iv) The big boy

(c) Why did the narrator laugh?

(i) Happy-go-lucky nature

(ii) Admiring Mr. Terror

(iii) Confident of defeating Mr. Terror

(iv) All of the above

(d) Mr. Terror left as……..

(e) Where is the narrator in the above lines?

(f) What does 'Fled' mean?

Q3. Answer any five of the following questions.1x5=5

I. Deep Water chapter by William Douglas is except from which book……

II. YMCA stands for……

III. Who is addressed as skinny and bruiser boy?

IV. Name the types of fish mentioned in the chapter. 

V. The word miniature and residual means 

VI. Who took narrator to the California beach? 

Q4. Answer the following questions 

2x5=10M

A.What is the Misadventure that William Douglas speaks about?

B.All we have to fear is fear itself  whose statement is this and how it was helpful for William Douglas.

C. Douglas has  near death experience in his childhood which has a negative as well as positive outcome justify the statement with evidence from the text.

D. What handicap did Douglas suffer from ?How did he overcome that

E Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?

Q5.Answer the following questions 

1x5=5

Desire, determination and diligence lead to success. Explain the value of these qualities in the light of Douglas' experience in Deep Water.

Or

Childhood fears are deeply entrenched in our mind. Determination, hard work and right training are needed to get rid of them. Comment on the statement in the light of Douglas efforts to overcome his fear of water.

Ans. (a) It makes the experience more personal, relatable and understandable.

(b) helpless

(c) he was still in his senses and could think rationally

(d) I refer to the narrator in the given extract and he is sharing the experiences of the Y.M.C.A pool.

(e) (iv) A fact

(ii) He evolved a strategy to come out of water.

Answers

(a) William Douglas is 'l' here.

(b) (iii) Water

(c) (iii) Confident of defeating Mr. Terror

(d) it could not frighten the narrator

(e) The narrator is in the middle of Lake Wentworth.

(f) Fled means left the place very quickly.

Q3.i.Of men and Mountain ii. Young Men Christian Association III. Narrator/ W.Douglas and 18 years healthy boy. iv. Salmon, trout,Bass v. a little, remaining part of fear vi. Narrator's father