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Extract based MCQ Questions with Answer on Deep Water Chapter 3 in Flamingo Class 12 NCERT CBSE English


Extract based MCQ Questions with Answer on Deep Water Chapter 3 in Flamingo Class 12 NCERT CBSE English Extract based MCQ Questions with Answer on Deep Water Chapter 3 in Flamingo Class 12 NCERT CBSE English 

Extract 1

It had happened when I was ten or eleven years old. I had decided to learn to swim. There was a pool at the Y.M.C.A. in Yakima that offered exactly the opportunity. The Yakima River was treacherous. Mother continually warned against it, and kept fresh in my mind the details of each drowning in the river. But the Y.M.C.A. pool was safe. It was only two or three feet deep at the shallow end; and while it was nine feet deep at the other, the drop was gradual. I got a pair of water wings and went to the pool. I hated to walk naked into it and show my skinny legs. But I subdued my pride and did it.

a) Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?
• President Roosevelt
• The instructor
• William Douglas
• Alphonse Daudet

b) What does the word ‘Treacherous’ mean?
• Dangerous
• Safe
• Punitive
• All of these

c) How was YMCA pool safer?
• For it had instructors
• For it had life guards
• For it had shallow water to learn swimming
• All of these

d) What does the speaker mean by ‘I subdued my pride’?
• Put pride down by force
• Brought pride out of control
• Raised his pride
• All of these

Answers:

a. William Douglas

b. Dangerous c.  All of these

d.  Put pride down by force

Extract 2

From the beginning, however, I had an aversion to the water when I was in it. This started when I was three or four years old and father took me to the beach in California. He and I stood together in the surf. I hung on to him, yet the waves knocked me down and swept over me. I was buried in water. My breath was gone. I was frightened. Father laughed, but there was terror in my heart at the overpowering force of the waves. My introduction to the Y.M.CA. swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while I gathered confidence.

a) Who is the author of Deep Water?
• John Updike
• Gertrude Simmons
• William Blake
• None of these

b) What does the word ‘Revived’ mean?
• Given fresh life
• Restored to consciousness
• Resuscitated
• All of these

c) What does the speaker mean by ‘I was buried in water’?
• That he was drenched
• That he was drowned
• That he lost his breath in the pool
• All of these

d) Why did he go to Y.M.C.A pool?
• Because it was safer
• Because it was riskier
• Because it had personal instructor
• All of these

Answers:

a. None of these

b. All of these c. That he was drowned

d. Because it was safer


Extract 3

I went to the pool when no one else was there. The place was quiet. The water was still, and the tiled bottom was as white and clean as a bathtub. I was timid about going in alone, so I sat on the side of the pool to wait for others. I had not been there long when in came a big bruiser of a boy, probably eighteen years old. He had thick hair on his chest. He was a beautiful physical specimen, with legs and arms that showed rippling muscles. He yelled, “Hi, Skinny! How’d you like to be ducked?” With that he picked me up and tossed me into the deep end.

a) Who threw the narrator into the pool?
• Big bully
• Big lad
• Big chap
• All of the above

b) What does the word ‘Timid’ mean?
• Bold
• Coward
• Lazy
• Agile

c) Who has been called ‘Skinny’ in the extract?
• The instructor
• William Douglas
• Douglas Mother
• Both i and ii

d) Name the chapter.
• Deep water
• On the Face of It
• Evans Tries an O Level
• Indigo

Answers:

a. All of the above

b. Coward c. William Douglas

d. Deep Water

Extract 4

I landed in a sitting position, swallowed water, and went at once to the bottom. I was frightened, but not yet frightened out of my wits. On the way down I planned: When my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump, come to the surface, lie flat on it, and paddle to the edge of the pool. It seemed a long way down. Those nine feet were more like ninety, and before I touched bottom my lungs were ready to burst. But when my feet hit bottom I summoned all my strength and made what I thought was a great spring upwards. I imagined I would bob to the surface like a cork. Instead, I came up slowly.

a) What does the phrase ‘Frightened out of wits’ imply?
• Badly scared
• Badly wounded
• Badly managed
• All of these

b) Where is the narrator?
• At Yakima river
• At Tieton
• At YMCA Pool
• None of these

c) What strategy was made by the narrator to rescue him?
• To swim across the pool and reach safely
• To drown and remember his mother
• To go to bottom, hit it hard and reach the surface
• All of these

d) What does the speaker mean by ‘I summoned all my strength’?
• That he gathered his strength
• That he accumulated his strength
• That he called up his strength
• All of these

Answers:

a. Badly Scared

b.  At YMCA Pool c. To go to bottom, hit it hard and reach the surface

d. All of these

Extract 5

I opened my eyes and saw nothing but water — water that had a dirty yellow tinge to it. I grew panicky. I reached up as if to grab a rope and my hands clutched only at water. I was suffocating. I tried to yell but no sound came out. Then my eyes and nose came out of the water — but not my mouth. I flailed at the surface of the water, swallowed and choked. I tried to bring my legs up, but they hung as dead weights, paralysed and rigid. A great force was pulling me under. I screamed, but only the water heard me.

a) What does the word ‘Tinge’ mean?
• Colour
• Fear
• Filthy
• None of these

b) What did the narrator swallow?
• Water
• Fear
• Anger
• All of these

c) Why could no one come to help the narrator?
• For he was alone there
• For everyone thought he was fooling
• For he was able to swim himself
• All of these

d) Which of the following is incorrect?
• He was alone at the pool
• He was saved at the eleventh hour
• He was rescued by big bully
• He was learning swimming at the deep end

Answers:

a. Colour

b. Water c. For he was alone there

d. He was rescued by big bully


Extract 6

A mass of yellow water held me. Stark terror took an even deeper hold on me, like a great charge of electricity. I shook and trembled with fright. My arms wouldn’t move. My legs wouldn’t move. I tried to call for help, to call for mother. Nothing happened. And then, strangely, there was light. I was coming out of the awful yellow water. At least my eyes were. My nose was almost out too. Then I started down a third time. I sucked for air and got water. The yellowish light was going out. Then all effort ceased. I relaxed. Even my legs felt limp; and a blackness swept over my brain.

a) What does the narrator mean by ‘All effort ceased’?
• That he gave up hope
• That he gave up trying
• That he gave in courage to survive
• All of these

b) Which of the following is correct?
• His mother came to rescue him
• He legs were almost paralysed
• His arms were moving regularly
• He wanted to die as soon as possible

c) What was the mental condition of the narrator at that time?
• He was under doctor’s observation
• He immediately hired the psychiatrist
• He was unable to think properly
• He was on the verge of death

d) Which literary device has been use in ‘Stark terror took an even deeper hold on me’?
• Synecdoche
• Anaphora
• Assonance
• Personification

Answers:

a.  All of these

b. He legs were almost paralyzed c. He was on the verge of death

d. Personification

Extract 7

It wiped out fear; it wiped out terror. There was no more panic. It was quiet and peaceful. Nothing to be afraid of. This is nice… to be drowsy… to go to sleep… no need to jump… too tired to jump… it’s nice to be carried gently… to float along in space… tender arms around me… tender arms like Mother’s… now I must go to sleep… I crossed to oblivion, and the curtain of life fell. The next I remember I was lying on my stomach beside the pool, vomiting. The chap that threw me in was saying, “But I was only fooling.” Someone said, “The kid nearly died. Be all right now. Let’s carry him to the locker room.”

a) Who said “But I was only fooling”?
• William Douglas
• Big bully
• Big instructor
• All of these

b) According to the narrator death is ……………
• Brutal
• Peaceful
• Merciless
• Frightening

c) Which literary device has been used in the first line of the extracts?
• Synecdoche
• Anaphora
• Metonymy
• Onomatopoeia

d) Who saved the narrator’s life at the eleventh hour?
• Instructor
• His mother
• Big bully
• None of these

Answers:

a. Big Bully

b.  Peaceful c.  Anaphora

d.  Instructor

Extract 8

I feared water. I avoided it whenever I could. A few years later when I came to know the waters 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 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. This handicap stayed with me as the years rolled by. In canoes on Maine lakes fishing for landlocked salmon, bass fishing in New Hampshire, trout fishing on the Deschutes and Metolius in Oregon, fishing for salmon on the Columbia, at Bumping Lake in the Cascades — wherever I went, the haunting fear of the water followed me.

a) What is ‘Tieton’ in the above extract?
• A city
• A lake
• A river
• A village

b) Find out the synonym of the word ‘Wading’ from the following.
• Walking with your feet in shallow water
• Walking with your feet in deep water
• Walking with your feet in medium water
• All of these

c) Which figure of speech has been used in ‘Icy horror would grab my heart’?
• Hyperbole
• Overstatement
• Personification
• Zeugma

d) Which phobia was the narrator suffering from?
• Claustrophobia
• Ablutophobia
• Xenophobia
• None of these

Answers:

a.  A city

b. Walking with your feet in shallow water c.  Personification

d.  None of these

Extract 9

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.

a) What is pulley?
• Machine with a wheel
• Machine without a wheel
• Machine with a rope
• Machine with a wheel and a rope

b) What does the phrase ‘Back and forth’ mean?
• Moving from one place to another
• To and fro
• Backward and forward
• All of these

c) Tension began to slack means……
• Tension started ebbing
• Tension started increasing
• Tension started being stable
• None of these

d) Name the author of this chapter.
• William Saroyan
• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• William Douglas

Answers:

a. Machine with a wheel b. All of these c. Tension started ebbing

d. William Douglas

Extract 10

Yet I had residual doubts. At my first opportunity I hurried west, went up the Tieton to Conrad Meadows, up the Conrad Creek Trail to Meade Glacier, and camped in the high meadow by the side of Warm Lake. The next morning I stripped, dived into the lake, and swam across to the other shore and back — just as Doug Corpron used to do. I shouted with joy, and Gilbert Peak returned the echo. I had conquered my fear of water. The experience had a deep meaning for me, as only those who have known stark terror and conquered it can appreciate.

a) What does the word ‘Residual’ mean?
• Remainder
• Residents
• Inhabitants
• Both ii and iii

b) I stripped implies……
• To put on clothes
• To get undressed
• To change clothes
• To give away clothes to others

c) What does the word ‘stark’ mean?
• Unconditional
• Bleak
• Crude
• All of these

d) Find out the antonym of the word ‘Conquered’ from the following.
• Subdued
• Defeated
• Suppressed
• Stamped down

Answers:

a. Remainder

b. To get undressed c.  All of these

d. Defeated

Extract 11

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.” Because I had experienced both the sensation of dying and the terror that fear of it can produce, the will to live somehow grew in intensity. At last I felt released — free to walk the trails and climb the peaks and to brush aside fear.

a) What does the narrator mean by ‘In death there is peace’?
• That death must be rejoiced
• That death is more peaceful than life
• That death is painful
• That death gives more pain than peace

b) What does the narrator learn from President Roosevelt statement?
• To scare the fear
• To adorn the fear
• To move on with fear
• To be fearful of everything

c) The phrasal verb ‘Brush aside’ means…….
• Ignore
• Remember
• Entice
• All of these

d) Whom does the narrator fear now from the following?
• Water
• Lake
• River
• None of these

Answers:

a. That death is more peaceful than life

b. To scare the fearc. Ignore

d. Water




Extract based MCQ Questions with Answer on Deep Water Chapter 3 in Flamingo Class 12 NCERT CBSE English
Extract based MCQ Questions with Answer on Deep Water Chapter 3 in Flamingo Class 12 NCERT CBSE English

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Extract based MCQ Questions with Answer on Keeping Quiet Poem 3 in Flamingo Class 12 NCERT CBSE English


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Stanza 1

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the Earth
let’s not speak in any language,
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much

1) Name the poem.

  1. My Mother at Sixty Six
  2. An Elementary School Classroom School in a Slum
  3. Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
  4. A Thing A Beauty

Answer : Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda

2) Who is the poet of Keeping Quiet

  1. Kamala Das
  2. Stephen Spender
  3. Pablo Neruda
  4. John Keats

Answer : Pablo Neruda

3) What does the poet want others to do?

  1. To keep quiet and introspect
  2. To make noise and find fault
  3. To spread wars all around
  4. None of these

Answer : To keep quiet and introspect

4) Who poetic device has been used in ‘Not move our arms so much’?

  1. Pun
  2. Simile
  3. Antithesis
  4. Transferred Epithet

Answer : Pun

5) Why should we keep quiet according to the poet?

  1. For attaining peace
  2. For maintaining brotherhood
  3. For silence
  4. All of these

Answer : All of these


6) What does ‘Count to Twelve’ symbolise?

  1. Hours of a day
  2. Months of a year
  3. Both a and b
  4. Neither a nor b

Answer : Both a and b

7) What does the poet want to see on this earth for a while?

  1. Anger
  2. Silence
  3. Chaos
  4. Commotion

Answer : Silence

Stanza 2

It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
Fishermen in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.

1) When would the fishermen stop harming whales according to the poet?

  1. When they peep into others’ life
  2. When they introspect themselves and keep quiet
  3. When they spread the wars
  4. None of these

Answer : When they introspect themselves and keep quiet

2) What will happen if people keep quiet for some time?

  1. There will be peace all around
  2. There will be brotherhood all around
  3. There will be silence all around
  4. All of these

Answer : All of these

3) What is the man gathering salt losing in pursuit of money?

  1. His wealth
  2. His health
  3. His time
  4. His memorable moments

Answer : His health

4) Which poetic device has been used in ‘Hurt Hands’?

  1. Pun
  2. Simile
  3. Antithesis
  4. Alliteration

Answer : Alliteration

5) What does the word ‘Exotic’ mean?

  1. Foreign
  2. Nonnative
  3. Alien
  4. All of these

Answer : All of these

6) How can we all be together according to the poet?

  1. When we keep quiet and introspect ourselves
  2. When we become war mongers
  3. When we start deforestation
  4. None of these

Answer : When we keep quiet and introspect ourselves

7) Which poetic device has been used in ‘Sudden Strangeness’?

  1. Alliteration
  2. Simile
  3. Antithesis
  4. Transferred Epithet

Answer : Alliteration

8) What would the fisherman do after a successful introspection?

  1. He would double his business
  2. He would kill more fish
  3. He would stop killing the fish
  4. Both a and b

Answer : He would stop killing the fish

9) What will be more important for the man gathering salt after introspection?

  1. Money
  2. Property
  3. Health
  4. All of these

Answer : Health

10) What does the poet mean by ‘Without engines’?

  1. Without noise and machineries
  2. Without engines of train
  3. Without engines of bus
  4. None of these

Answer : Without noise and machineries

11) Which literary device has been used in ‘Cold sea’?

  1. Pun
  2. Simile
  3. Antithesis
  4. Transferred Epithet

Answer : Transferred Epithet

Stanza 3

Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their
brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
What I want should not be
confused
with total inactivity

1) What does the poet mean by ‘Green Wars’?

  1. War with green colour
  2. War with green bombs
  3. War with green crackers
  4. War against nature

Answer : War against nature

2) Does Pablo Neruda advocate total inactivity?

  1. No
  2. Yes
  3. Sometimes
  4. None of the above

Answer : No

3) Who is spreading wars and destroying everything according to the poet?

  1. Animals
  2. Fish
  3. Nature
  4. Humans

Answer : Humans

4) Who literary device has been used in ‘Clean Clothes’?

  1. Pun
  2. Alliteration
  3. Antithesis
  4. Transferred Epithet

Answer : Alliteration

5) What will be the impact of keeping quiet on war mongers?

  1. They would continue the wars religiously
  2. They would end the war immediately
  3. They would attack the enemies
  4. They would kill one another

Answer : They would end the war immediately

6) What does the poet mean by ‘Victory with no survivors’?

  1. To get victory with survivors
  2. To fail in getting victory with survivors
  3. To get victory without survivors
  4. None of these

Answer : To get victory without survivors

7) Which poetic device has been used in ‘Walk about with their brothers’?

  1. Pun
  2. Simile
  3. Irony
  4. Transferred Epithet

Answer : Irony

8) What does the poet want to advocate?

  1. Total inactivity
  2. Total activity and life
  3. Association with death
  4. None of these

Answer : Total activity and life

9) What does the poet mean by ‘Would put on clean clothes’?

  1. To be angry
  2. To be peaceful
  3. To be hyperactive
  4. None of these

Answer : To be peaceful

Stanza 4

Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with
death.

1) What does the poet mean by ‘I want no truck with death’?

  1. He wants to race with truck
  2. He wants to drive a truck
  3. He wants truck to run over death
  4. He wants no association with death

Answer : He wants no association with death

2) What does human remain upset and sad?

  1. Due to his money
  2. Due to his property
  3. Due to his misdeeds
  4. Due to his deeds

Answer : Due to his misdeeds

3) What is human afraid of according to the poet?

  1. Life
  2. death
  3. truck
  4. War mongers

Answer : Death

4) Who has been referred to as single-minded?

  1. Animals
  2. Trees
  3. Humans
  4. None of these

Answer : Humans

5) What does the word ‘Truck’ mean in this stanza?

  1. A kind of vehicle
  2. Association
  3. Disassociation
  4. None of these

Answer : Association

6) What does the poet mean by ‘Single-Minded’?

  1. Selfless
  2. Selfish
  3. Self-centered
  4. Both b and c

Answer : Both b and c

7) What can interrupt the sadness lurking around humans according to the poet?

  1. Money
  2. Wealth
  3. Being silent
  4. Being selfish

Answer : Being silent

8) What causes sadness to humans according to the poet?

  1. Failure to understand themselves
  2. Fear of death
  3. Being poor
  4. Both a and b

Answer : Both a and b

Stanza 5

Perhaps the Earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.
Now I’ll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

1) What can the Earth teach us?

  1. That there can be life under stillness 
  2. That there can be stillness under life
  3. That there can be chaos under stillness
  4. All of these

Answer : That there can be life under stillness 

2) Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?

  1. Stephen Spender
  2. Pablo Neruda
  3. John Keats
  4. Robert Frost

Answer : Pablo Neruda

3) How long does the poet want us to count?

  1. Twenty four
  2. Six
  3. Ten
  4. Twelve

Answer : Twelve

4) How does the earth function according the poet?

  1. It remains silent
  2. It has a life under stillness
  3. It revolves but doesn’t seem
  4. All of these

Answer : All of these

5) What does the poet want us to achieve by keeping quiet?

  1. Silence
  2. Treasure
  3. Mental Peace
  4. Both a and c

Answer : Both a and c

6) Which of the following is the perfect example of keeping quiet?

  1. Sun
  2. Moon
  3. Earth
  4. All of these

Answer : All of these



Extract based MCQ Questions with Answer on Keeping Quiet Poem 3 in Flamingo Class 12 NCERT CBSE English
Extract based MCQ Questions with Answer on Keeping Quiet Poem 3 in Flamingo Class 12 NCERT CBSE English

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Extract based MCQ Questions with Answer on The Enemy Chapter 4 in Vistas Class 12 NCERT CBSE English


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Extract 1

1. His father had taken him often to the islands of those seas, and never had he failed to say to the little brave boy at his side, ‘‘Those islands yonder, they are the stepping stones to the future for Japan.’’ ‘‘Where shall we step from them?’’ Sadao had asked seriously. ‘‘Who knows?’’ his father had answered. ‘‘Who can limit our future? It depends on what we make it.’’

a) What does the word ‘Yonder’ mean?
• Distant
• Nonadjacent
• Far-flung
• All of these

b) What does the speaker mean by ‘Stepping stone’?
• Means of advancement
• Means of furtherance
• Means of progression
• All of these

c) Pick out the synonym of the word ‘seriously’ from the following.
• Earnestly
• Critically
• Gravely
• All of these

d) Name the author of this chapter
• Alphonse Daudet
• Pearl.S.Buck
• John Updike
• Jack Finney

a) All of these b) All of these c) All of these d) Pearl S Buck

Extract 2

2. Sadao had taken this into his mind as he did everything his father said, his father who never joked or played with him but who spent infinite pains upon him who was his only son. Sadao knew that his education was his father’s chief concern. For this reason he had been sent at twenty-two to America to learn all that could be learned of surgery and medicine. He had come back at thirty, and before his father died he had seen Sadao become famous not only as a surgeon but as a scientist. Because he was perfecting a discovery which would render wounds entirely clean, he had not been sent abroad with the troops. Also, he knew, there was some slight danger that the old General might need an operation for a condition for which he was now being treated medically, and for this possibility Sadao was being kept in Japan.

a) What does the word ‘infinite’ mean?
• Calculable
• Sempiternal
• Never ending
• Both ii and iii

b) What does the speaker mean by ‘Perfecting a discovery’?
• Honing the discovery
• Making the discovery perfect
• Making himself perfect for Hana
• Both i and ii

c) Why was Dr.Sadao never sent abroad with the troops?
• For he remained ill
• For the General remained ill
• For the was perfecting a discovery
• Both ii and iii

d) What does the word ‘troops’ mean?
• Group of soldiers
• Group of generals
• Group of commanders
• Group of brigadiers

a) Both ii and iii b) Both i and ii c) Both ii and iii d) Group of soldiers


Extract 3

3. The professor and his wife had been kind people anxious to do something for their few foreign students, and the students, though bored, had accepted this kindness. Sadao had often told Hana how nearly he had not gone to Professor Harley’s house that night — the rooms were so small, the food so bad, the professor’s wife so voluble. But he had gone and there he had found Hana, a new student, and had felt he would love her if it were at all possible.

a) Name the Professor.
• Anatomy Professor
• Professor Harley
• Professor Tom
• None of these

b) What does the word ‘Voluble’ mean?
• Garrulous
• Gassy
• Loquacious
• All of the above

c) Where was Dr.Sadao putting up when he met Hana?
• Japan
• America
• At General’s home
• All of these

d) Which race did Hana belong to?
• American
• Japanese
• Indian
• Chinese

a) Professor Harley b) All of the above c) America d) Japanese

Extract 4

4. ‘‘He is wounded,’’ Sadao exclaimed. He made haste to the man, who lay motionless, his face in the sand. An old cap stuck to his head soaked with sea water. He was in wet rags of garments. Sadao stopped, Hana at his side, and turned the man’s head. They saw the face. “A white man!” Hana whispered. Yes, it was a white man. The wet cap fell away and there was his wet yellow hair, long, as though for many weeks it had not been cut, and upon his young and tortured face was a rough yellow beard. He was unconscious and knew nothing that they did for him.

a) Who was washed ashore in front of their house?
• Tom
• Anatomy Professor
• General Takima
• Beachcomber

b) What does the word ‘Soaked’ mean?
• Submerged in liquid
• Drenched
• Covered with water
• All of these

c) What was the injured man wearing?
• Tattered clothes
• His intact uniform
• Western outfit
• All of these

d) Name the chapter.
• Evans Tries an O Level
• On the Face of It
• The Enemy
• Indigo

a) Tom b) All of these c) Tattered Clothes d) The Enemy

Extract 5

5. The mists screened them now completely, and at this time of day no one came by. The fishermen had gone home and even the chance beachcombers would have considered the day at an end. ‘‘What shall we do with this man?’’ Sadao muttered. But his trained hands seemed of their own will to be doing what they could to stanch the fearful bleeding. He packed the wound with the sea moss that strewed the beach. The man moaned with pain in his stupor but he did not awaken. ‘‘The best thing that we could do would be to put him back in the sea,’’ Sadao said, answering himself.

a) What does the speaker mean by ‘The mists screened them’?
• Mist had hid them
• Mist had protected them
• Mist had concealed them
• All of these

b) Who is beachcomber?
• A vagrant living on beach
• A person walks along a beach looking for valuables
• A wanderer searching for things on the beach
• All of these

c) What does the word ‘Strewed’ mean?
• spread out
• protected
• Uncovered
• Unavailable

d) Why did they want to throw the man back into the sea?
• For he was an American
• For he was an enemy
• For he was a P.O.W
• All of these

a) All of these b) All of these c) Spread out d) All of these

Extract 6

6. ‘‘If we sheltered a white man in our house we should be arrested and if we turned him over as a prisoner, he would certainly die,’’ Sadao said. ‘‘The kindest thing would be to put him back into the sea,’’ Hana said. But neither of them moved. They were staring with a curious repulsion upon the inert figure. ‘‘What is he?’’ Hana whispered. ‘‘There is something about him that looks American,’’ Sadao said. He took up the battered cap. Yes, there, almost gone, was the faint lettering. ‘‘A sailor,’’ he said, ‘‘from an American warship.’’ He spelled it out: ‘‘U.S. Navy.’’ The man was a prisoner of war! ‘‘He has escaped.’’ Hana cried softly, ‘‘and that is why he is wounded.’’

a) What is the tone of the speaker in the first line?
• Fearful
• Apologetic
• Baffled
• Nostalgic

b) What does the word ‘Inert’ mean?
• Unmoving
• Inactive
• Both i and ii
• Neither i nor ii

c) Where was the American shot?
• On lower abdomen
• On lower leg
• On lower back
• On lower neck

d) How did they figure out that the man was an American?
• Through his hair
• Through his beard
• Through his cap
• All of these

a) Fearful b) Both i and ii c) On lower back d) All of these

Extract 7

7. Thus agreed, together they lifted the man. He was very light, like a fowl that had been half-starved for a long time until it is only feathers and skeleton. So, his arms hanging, they carried him up the steps and into the side door of the house. This door opened into a passage, and down the passage they carried the man towards an empty bedroom. It had been the bedroom of Sadao’s father, and since his death it had not been used. They laid the man on the deeply matted floor. Everything here had been Japanese to please the old man, who would never in his own home sit on a chair or sleep in a foreign bed.

a) Which poetic device has been used in the first line?
• Hyperbole
• Antithesis
• Metonymy
• Simile

b) What is a fowl?
• Bird
• Goat
• Pig
• None of these

c) Who has been called ‘Old man’ in the above extract?
• Sadao’s father
• General Takima
• Sadao’s servant (Gardener)
• None of these

d) Find out the synonym of the word ‘Please’ from the following.
• To make him happy
• To make him sad
• To make him tiresome
• To make his nostalgic

a) Simile b) Bird c) Sadao’s Father d) To make him happy

Extract 8

8. But the utter pallor of the man’s unconscious face moved him first to stoop and feel his pulse. It was faint but it was there. He put his hand against the man’s cold breast. The heart too was yet alive. “He will die unless he is operated on,” Sadao said, considering. “The question is whether he will not die anyway.” Hana cried out in fear. “Don’t try to save him! What if he should live?” “What if he should die?” Sadao replied. He stood gazing down on the motionless man. This man must have extraordinary vitality or he would have been dead by now.

a) What does the word ‘Utter’ mean?
• Complete
• Incomplete
• Pale
• partial

b) What made Sadao say that the man had extraordinary vitality?
• Since he was bleeding
• Since he was being taken care of
• Since he was getting saved time and again
• Since he had lost much of his blood yet he was alive

c) What was the colour of the man’s face according to the speaker?
• White
• Yellow
• Reddish
• None of these

d) What does the phrasal verb ‘Gaze down’ mean?
• To stare
• To scare
• To look angrily
• To threaten angrily

a) Complete b) Since he had lost much of his blood yet he was alive c) Yellow d) To stare


Extract 9

9. The two servants were frightened at what their master had just told them. The old gardener, who was also a house servant, pulled the few hairs on his upper lip. “The master ought not to heal the wound of this white man,” he said bluntly to Hana. “The white man ought to die. First he was shot. Then the sea caught him and wounded him with her rocks. If the master heals what the gun did and what the sea did they will take revenge on us.” “I will tell him what you say,” Hana replied courteously.

a) What does the speaker mean by ‘Pulled the few hairs on his upper lip”?
• That he was worried
• That he was baffled
• That he was perplexed
• All of these

b) Find out the synonym of ‘Heal’ from the following.
• Cure
• Treat
• Bring around
• All of these

c) “They will take revenge on us.” Who said this?
• Hana
• Yumi
• Cook
• None of these

d) What does the last few lines of the extract show about the gardener?
• That he was modern
• That he was advanced
• That he was superstitious
• None of these

a) All of these b)  All of these c) None of these d) That he was superstitious

Extract 10

10. Then she went over to the white man. When she saw him her thick lips folded themselves into stubbornness. “I have never washed a white man,” she said, “and I will not wash so dirty a one now.” Hana cried at her severely. “You will do what your master commands you!”

a) Who is the speaker of “I will not wash so dirty a one now”?
• Yumi
• Gardener
• Cook
• Hana

b) What made Hana angry?
• Poor behavior of Gardener
• Poor behavior of Yumi
• Poor behavior of cook
• All of these

c) Find out the antonym of the word ‘Severly’ from the following.
• Badly
• Critically
• Gravely
• Politely

d) How many servants did the couple have?
• Two
• Three
• Four
• Five

a) Yumi b) Poor behavior of Yumi c) Politely d) Three

Extract 11

11. Unconsciously this thought made him ruthless and he proceeded swiftly. In his dream the man moaned but Sadao paid no heed except to mutter at him. “Groan,” he muttered, “groan if you like. I am not doing this for my own pleasure. In fact, I do not know why I am doing it.” The door opened and there was Hana again. “Where is the anesthetic?” she asked in a clear voice. Sadao motioned with his chin. “It is as well that you came back,” he said. “This fellow is beginning to stir.” She had the bottle and some cotton in her hand. “But how shall I do it?” she asked. “Simply saturate the cotton and hold it near his nostrils,” Sadao replied without delaying for one moment the intricate detail of his work. “When he breathes badly move it away a little.”

a) What does the word ‘Moaned’ mean?
• Groaned
• Rejoiced
• Expressed
• None of these

b) Who gave anesthetic to the patient?
• Hana
• Yumi
• Gardener
• Dr. Sadao

c) What happened to the patient?
• He was shot
• He was beaten badly
• He was wounded
• All of the above

d) Why was Sadao saving his life?
• For being promoted
• For being awarded
• For being more perfect
• None of the above

a) Groaned b) Hana c)  All of the above d)  None of the above

Extract 12

12. His old American professor of anatomy had seen to that knowledge. “Ignorance of the human body is the surgeon’s cardinal sin, sirs!” he had thundered at his classes year after year. “To operate without as complete knowledge of the body as if you had made it — anything less than that is murder.” “It is not quite at the kidney, my friend,” Sadao murmured. It was his habit to murmur to the patient when he forgot himself in an operation. “My friend,” he always called his patients and so now he did, forgetting that this was his enemy. Then quickly, with the cleanest and most precise of incisions, the bullet was out. The man quivered but he was still unconscious.

a) How did Sadao call his patients?
• As his friend
• As his enemy
• As his mediator
• None of the above

b) What does the word ‘Incision’ mean?
• Cutting of body
• Joining of body
• Neither i nor ii
• Both i and ii

c) Which literary device has been used in “My friend”?
• Satire
• Paradox
• Onomatopoeia
• Irony

d) Why did Dr. Sadao remember his anatomy professor?
• For his words
• For his way of making students aware
• For his incredulous statements
• All of these

a)  As his friend b) Cutting of body c) Irony d) All of these

Extract 13

13. He had worked with flowers all his life, and had been a specialist too in moss. For Sadao’s father he had made one of the finest moss gardens in Japan, sweeping the bright green carpet constantly so that not a leaf or a pine needle marred the velvet of its surface. “My old master’s son knows very well what he ought to do,” he now said, pinching a bud from a bush as he spoke. “When the man was so near death why did he not let him bleed?” “That young master is so proud of his skill to save life that he saves any life,” the cook said contemptuously. She split a fowl’s neck skillfully and held the fluttering bird and let its blood flow into the roots of a wistaria vine. Blood is the best of fertilisers, and the old gardener would not let her waste a drop of it. “It is the children of whom we must think,” Yumi said sadly. “What will be their fate if their father is condemned as a traitor?”

a) Who is ‘He’ in the first line?
• Gardener
• Cook
• Messenger of General
• Sadao

b) What did the servants want their master to do?
• To kill that man
• To hand him in to the police
• To utilize each and every drop of his blood
• All of these

c) Find out the synonym of ‘Fluttering’ from the following?
• Quivering
• Wavering
• Flittering
• All of these

d) What does the word ‘Contemptuously’ mean?
• Without respect
• With respect
• In a disdainful manner
• Both i and iii

a) Gardener b) All of these c) All of these d) Both i and iii

Extract 14

14. Her hands went weak and she could not draw her breath. The servants must have told already. She ran to Sadao, gasping, unable to utter a word. But by then the messenger had simply followed her through the garden and there he stood. She pointed at him helplessly. Sadao looked up from his book. He was in his office, the other partition of which was thrown open to the garden for the southern sunshine.

a) Who is ‘She’ in the above lines?
• Hana
• Yumi
• Cook
• None of these

b) Whose messenger was he?
• General Takima
• General Roosevelt
• General Edward Gait
• None of these

c) Whom did Hana doubt for informing the police?
• Neighbours
• Servants
• Army of Japan
• All of these

d) What does the word ‘Utter’ mean?
• Hesitate
• Speak
• Listen
• All of these

a) Hana b) General Takima c) Servants d) Speak

Extract 15

15. “Suppose you were condemned to death and the next day I had to have my operation?” “There are other surgeons, Excellency,” Sadao suggested. “None I trust,” the General replied. “The best ones have been trained by Germans and would consider the operation successful even if I died. I do not care for their point of view.” He sighed. “It seems a pity that we cannot better combine the German ruthlessness with the American sentimentality. Then you could turn your prisoner over to execution and yet I could be sure you would not murder me while I was unconscious.”

a) Which literary device has been used in line “Would consider the operation successful even if I died.”

• Satire
• Irony
• Overstatement
• Parody

b) How were Germans different from Americans according to the General?
• They were unpitying
• They had a tiny core of compassion for General
• They were more sentimental than Americans
• All of the above

c) Whom did the General doubt for murdering him?
• Americans
• General
• Both i and ii
• Neither i nor ii

d) What does the word ‘Sighed’ mean?
• Suspired
• Conspired
• Aspired
• All of these

a) Irony b) They were unpitying c)  Neither i nor ii d)  Suspired

Extract 16

16. “But you understand it was not lack of patriotism or dereliction of duty.” He looked anxiously at his doctor. “If the matter should come out you would understand that, wouldn’t you?” “Certainly, Your Excellency,” Sadao said. He suddenly comprehended that the General was in the palm of his hand and that as a consequence he himself was perfectly safe. “I can swear to your loyalty, Excellency,” he said to the old General, “and to your zeal against the enemy.” “You are a good man,” the General murmured and closed his eyes.” “You will be rewarded.” But Sadao, searching the spot of black in the twilighted sea that night, had his reward.

a) What does the word ‘Comprehended’ mean?
• Apprehended
• Grasped
• Perceived
• All of these

b) What is ‘Twilight’?
• Time of the day immediately following sunset
• Time of the day immediately following sunrise
• Both i and ii
• Neither i nor ii

c) Why did the General want Sadao to be rewarded?
• For saving American POW
• For saving his life
• For dereliction of duty
• None of these

d) What was the medical problem with the General?
• His kidney was infected
• His gall bladder was involved
• His heart was not pounding
• All of these

a) All of these b) Time of the day immediately following sunset c) For saving his life d) His gall bladder was involved

Extract 17

17. He remembered his old teacher of anatomy, who had been so insistent on mercy with the knife, and then he remembered the face of his fat and slatternly landlady. He had had great difficulty in finding a place to live in America because he was a Japanese. The Americans were full of prejudice and it had been bitter to live in it, knowing himself their superior. How he had despised the ignorant and dirty old woman who had at last consented to house him in her miserable home! He had once tried to be grateful to her because she had in his last year nursed him through but it was difficult, for she was no less repulsive to him in her kindness.

a) Who had cared for Dr.Sadao when he fell ill in America?
• His first landlady
• His anatomy professor
• American POW
• All of these

b) What does the word ‘Slatternly’ mean?
• A dirty woman
• A poor woman
• A woman who is full prejudice
• All of these

c) How were Americans according to Sadao?
• Full of jealousy
• Full of discrimination
• Full of ordeals
• None of these

d) What does the word ‘Despised’ mean?
• Hated
• Loathed
• Abhorred
• All of these

a) His first landladyb) All of thesec) Full of discriminationd) All of these


Extract based MCQ Questions with Answer on The Enemy Chapter 4 in Vistas Class 12 NCERT CBSE English
Extract based MCQ Questions with Answer on The Enemy Chapter 4 in Vistas Class 12 NCERT CBSE English
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