Deep Water MCQs with Answers NCERT Class 12 English Lesson 3

 

“Deep Water” MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 12 English Flamingo Book Lesson 3

Deep Water MCQs of Class 12 English Chapter 3, by William Douglas have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 12 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 3 Deep Water from NCERT Flamingo book. Each question has four options followed by the correct answer. Students can also take a free test of the Deep Water MCQ Question Answers Quiz. These MCQ Questions have been selected based on the latest exam pattern as announced by CBSE.

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1. Who is the author of Deep Water?
A) William Shakespeare
B) William George Bernard Shaw
C) William Wordsworth
D) William Douglas

2. In which subject has the author graduated?
A) English and History
B) English and Science
C) Science and Social studies
D) English and Economics

3. For how many years had the author taught in high school in Yakima?
A) 2 years
B) 4 years
C) 3 years
D) 5 years

4. 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

5. 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 dogs
D) Fear of swimming

6. How did the author’s fear vanish?
A) With courage, guidance and determination
B) With care
C) With mother’s words
D) With guidance

7. 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

8. Where is Yakima located?
A) In New Zealand
B) In California
C) In Washington
D) None of these

9. 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

10. 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

11. How did the author learn swimming?
A) With the help of a rope
B) With the help of a friend
C) With the help of his mother
D) With the help of a swimming instructor

12. What did William O Douglas desire for?
A) Visit to California
C) To be a judge
C) To learn swimming
D) To be with his mother

13. What is the theme of the story Deep Water?
A) Overcoming one’s fear
B) Being fearful
C) To learn swimming
D) All

14. Deep Water is an excerpt from which book?
A) Fear of water
B) Of Men and Mountains
C) How to Swim
D) Fearless

15. Who threw Douglas into the swimming pool?
A) A young boy
B) Instructor
C) Mother
D) Watchman

16. What was the fear in Douglas’ mind?
A) To be defeated
B) To be pushed
C) Being drowned
D) None

17. At the age of 3 or 4 Douglas visited the beach with his father. What caused a terror in his heart then?
A) The sight of the sea waves
B) The overpowering force of the waves
C) The colour of the water
D) All of these

18. What were the series of emotions and fears that Douglas experienced when he was thrown into the pool?
A) Fear
B) Confidence
C) Overconfidence
D) Mixed feelings of confidence and fear

19. What lesson did Douglas learn from his experience of drowning and then learning to swim?
A) Learnt swimming
B) Love for swimming
C) Swimming is not difficult
D) Face the fear

20. How did the instructor make Douglas a good swimmer?
A) Planning
B) With the help of ropes
C) By pushing him into the pool
D) With the help of ropes and belts

21. What plan did Douglas make to learn swimming?
A) Planned to get an instructor
B) Planned to swim more
C) Planned to watch swimmers
D) Planned to jump

22. 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

23. Why did Douglas fail to come to the surface of the pool as he had planned?
A) Because of fear of swimming
B) Because of fear
C) Because of inability to move
D) Because of fear and inability to move

24. What was the impact of the pool incident?
A) Developed fear
B) Became confident
C) Became overconfident
D) Hydrophobia was revived

25. How many times did Douglas try to come to the surface of the pool?
A) Twice
B) Once
C) Five times
D) Thrice

26. Why did Douglas hate to walk with bare legs?
A) Ugly looking legs
B) Fat legs
C) Because of skin color
D) Because of skinny legs

27. 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
D) Because it was shallow and safe

28. “I crossed to oblivion, and the curtain of life fell”. What does oblivion mean?
A) pavilion
B) changing room
C) unconsciousness
D) death

29. Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?
A) because he wanted to swim in the waters of the Cascade
B) because his friend had challenged him
C) because he had a bet on it
D) because he wanted to win a medal

30. What was stopping Douglas to get into the waters of Cascade?
A) Memories of Washington
B) Memories of California
C) Instructions given by the instructor
D) Memories full of terror in the pool

31. 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 instructor
D) By swimming into the lake Wentworth

32. What distance Douglas covered while swimming across the lake Wentworth?
A) 4 miles
B) 3 miles
C) 5 miles
D) 2 miles

33. Where was the lake Wentworth?
A) In New Hampshire
B) in Washington
C) in California
D) in Washington D.C

34. At first, why was the writer not much frightened when he was thrown into the pool?
A) Because he was sleeping
B) Because he was intoxicated
C) Because he thought that the lifeguard would come to his rescue
D) Because of confidence

35. The most appropriate justification for the title of the chapter ‘Deep Water’ is that (CBSE QB, 2021)
A) it’s about the dangerous depth of the swimming pool.
B) It reveals the author’s lack of surety about overcoming his fear of swimming.
C) it underlines the author’s fear of water and how he overcomes it.
D) it includes the methods of the author’s coach to overcome the fear of deep water

36. Choose the quote that DOES NOT resonate with the central idea of the chapter (CBSE QB, 2021)
quote that DOES NOT resonate
A) Option 1
B) Option 2
C) Option 3
D) Option 4

37. Samuel has a phobia of heights but is scared and can’t overcome it. Choose the option that displays an advice. (CBSE QB, 2021)

phobia of heights

A) Option 1
B) Option 2
C) Option 3
D) Option 4

38. The chap that threw me in was saying, “But I was only fooling.” Choose the option mentioning the personality traits of this ‘chap’. (CBSE QB, 2021)
1. persuasive
2. irresponsible
3. domineering
4. manipulative
5. Callous
A) 1, 2, 4
B) 2, 4, 5
C) 2, 3, 5
D) 1, 3, 5

39. Select the option that lists the qualities of Douglas’ trainer. (CBSE SQP 2021-22)
(1) adventurous
(2) generous
(3) patient
(4) methodical
(5) encouraging
(6) courageous
A. (1) and (6)
B. (3), (4) and (5)
C. (2) and (5)
D. (1), (4) and (6)

40. Find a synonym of the underlined word – ‘The old sensation returned in miniature.’
A. huge
B. Scary
C. Small
D. Joyful

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ANSWER KEY

1 D 21 A
2 D 22 A
3 A 23 D
4 D 24 D
5 A 25 D
6 A 26 A
7 D 27 D
8 C 28 C
9 C 29 A
10 A 30 D
11 D 31 D
12 C 32 D
13 A 33 A
14 B 34 D
15 A 35 C
16 C 36 A
17 B 37 D
18 D 38 C
19 D 39 B
20 D 40 C

 

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