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Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 1

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

My introduction to the Y.M.C.A. the swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while I gathered confidence. I paddled with my new water wings, watching the other boys and trying to learn by aping them. I did this two or three times on different days and was just beginning to feel at ease in the water when the misadventure happened.

Q. From which story have these lines been taken?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 1
The story has been taken from the author's autobiography- 'Of Men and Mountains'. In this piece, he tells about his fear of water and how he conquered it by determination and willpower. As a child, when he was 3 or 4 years old, he would go to the beach in California with his father.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 2

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

My introduction to the Y.M.C.A. the swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while I gathered confidence. I paddled with my new water wings, watching the other boys and trying to learn by aping them. I did this two or three times on different days and was just beginning to feel at ease in the water when the misadventure happened.

Q. What change did the author feel after sometime?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 2
He realised that his joys of fishing canoeing; boating and swimming had ruined. Keeping in view its severe consequences, he engaged an instructor who trained him in swimming and Douglas was able to conquer his fear. This experience had a deeper meaning for Douglas.
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Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 3

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

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

Q. Who is being addressed to as Mr. Terror?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 3
The fear of water has been addressed as 'Mr. Terror' because the author had personified it as his enemy who wanted to defeat him. The narrator laughed because he had learnt to deal with his fear.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 4

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

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

Q. Why did Mr. Terror leave?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 4
Because it was trying to frighten William Douglas.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 5

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

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

Q. Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 5
The narrator is ‘I’ here.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 6

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

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

Q. What was reported to ‘I’?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 6
The Yakima river had been referred to as treacherous because it was very ferocious. YMCA pool was safe because it was not unpredictable and treacherous like the Yakima River. The water in it was still; it was only three feet deep at the yellow end, and nine feet deep at the deep end.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 7

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

Then all efforts ceased. I relaxed. Even my legs felt limp; and a blackness swept over my brain. 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.

Q. Choose the correct option with reference to the two statements given below.

Statement 1: The author tried his best to jump out of water.

Statement 2: After a while, the author was not anxious in water.

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 7
If Statement 1 is the cause, Statement 2 is the effect.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 8

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

Then all efforts ceased. I relaxed. Even my legs felt limp; and a blackness swept over my brain. 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.

Q. The purpose of using “…” in the above passage is to:

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 8
Indicate pauses: a brief suspension of the voice to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 9

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

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.C.A. the swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while I gathered confidence. I paddled with my new water wings, watching the other boys and trying to learn by aping them. I did this two or three times on different days and was just beginning to feel at ease in the water when the misadventure happened.

Q. Choose the correct option with reference to the two statements given below.

Statement 1: The author’s father laughed to mock his son’s inability to swim.

Statement 2: The author wanted to swim just to prove to his father that he can swim.

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 9
Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 cannot be inferred.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 10

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

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.C.A. swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while I gathered confidence. I paddled with my new water wings, watching the other boys and trying to learn by aping them. I did this two or three times on different days and was just beginning to feel at ease in the water when the misadventure happened.

Q. The misadventure that took place right after the author felt comfortable was that :

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Question 10
Once Douglas was alone on the YMCA pool. A bully boy tossed him into the deep end of water. He was frightened beyond measure but did not lose his wits. He took a big jump from the bottom, came to the surface and paddled to the edge of the pool. The drowning incident affected his later life deeply. He found only terror in the fear of death. He experienced both the sensation of dying and terror caused by fear of dying. The will to live grew higher in him.
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