R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | NCERT Class 12 MCQ Questions for Class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 3 Deep Water

At the end of the experience, Douglas felt

1. happy
2. released
3. sad
4. victorious

✅ Correct Answer: 2

All we have to fear is fear itself. Who said these words?

1. Douglas
2. his instructor
3. his father
4. President Roosevelt

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What do you think you can do to me’? These words were spoken by Douglas to

1. a shark
2. to his enemy
3. to the boy who pushed him
4. to terror

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Whenever terror struck again, Douglas would start

1. shouting
2. laughing
3. crying
4. talking to terror

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Douglas had to repeat exhaling and inhaling exercises

1. hundred times
2. forty times
3. fifty times
4. ten times

✅ Correct Answer: 1

He practised in the pool

1. ten times a week
2. five days a week
3. twice a week
4. thrice a week

✅ Correct Answer: 2

After being haunted by fear for many years Douglas decided to learn to swim. He took the help of

1. his mother
2. his father
3. a friend
4. an instructor

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When he regained consciousness, he

1. laughed at his experience
2. had 104° F fever
3. shook and cried and didn’t eat anything
4. told his mother about his misadventure

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Douglas went down towards the bottom

1. only once
2. twice
3. thrice
4. five times

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The water in the pool had a

1. dirty yellow tinge
2. a blue reflection
3. green colour
4. no colour

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When Douglas tried to yell

1. everyone came to his rescue
2. no sound came out
3. his father arrived
4. the lifeguard dived to save him up, they hung as

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The nine feet seemed to Douglas like

1. hundred feet
2. ninety feet
3. fifty feet
4. twenty-five feet

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Though Douglas was frightened, he was not

1. afraid to die
2. going to survive
3. out of his wits
4. able to shout for help

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Douglas calls him a

1. nasty human being
2. a brute
3. a beautiful physical specimen
4. a big bully

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The misadventure at the Y.M.C.A pool happened when

1. Douglas was accompanied by friends
2. he was with his father
3. he was alone
4. he was with his mother

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The incident in childhood had taken place at the beach in

1. Florida
2. Washington
3. New York
4. California

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The pool’s depth at the deep end was

1. twenty feet
2. nine feet
3. six feet
4. eight feet

✅ Correct Answer: 2

His mother warned him against swimming in the Yakima River because it had

1. strong currents
2. it was meant only for boating
3. many people had drowned there
4. it had no lifeguards around

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The writer decided to learn to swim when he was about

1. ten or eleven years old
2. fifteen or sixteen years old
3. twenty years old
4. eighteen years old

✅ Correct Answer: 1

William Douglas was a friend and adviser of

1. President Kennedy
2. President Cleveland
3. President Roosevelt
4. President Clinton

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What was the fear in Douglas’ mind?

1. To be defeated
2. To be pushed
3. Being drowned
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

“I crossed to oblivion, and the curtain of life fell”. What does oblivion mean?

1. spavilion
2. changing room
3. unconsciousness
4. death

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why did Douglas’ mother recommend that he should learn swimming at the Y. M.C.A swimming pool?

1. Because it was local
2. Because it was safe
3. Because it was shallow
4. Because it was shallow and safe

✅ Correct Answer: 4