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Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 1

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

But I got mixed up on the first words and stood there, holding on to my desk, my heart beating, and not daring to look up.

Q. What was the reaction of the teacher?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 1
Pitied him

Pitied means to feel sadness or sympathy for someone's unhappiness or bad situation, like I pity anyone who's never been in love.

Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 2

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

But I got mixed up on the first words and stood there, holding on to my desk, my heart beating, and not daring to look up.

Q. Who is ‘I’ here?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 2
Here ‘I’ refers to Franz.
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Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 3

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

The idea that he was going away, that I should never see him again, made me forget all about his ruler and how cranky he was.

Q. What does these lines tell about ‘he’?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 3
He was strict. The news that their teacher M Hamel was leaving also had a similar impact on him. Franz did not want him to go away. He no longer thought the teacher to be short – tempered and strict.
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 4

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

The idea that he was going away, that I should never see him again, made me forget all about his ruler and how cranky he was.

Q. Who is ‘he’ in the above lines?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 4
These lines are used by Mr. Hamel.
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 5

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

“My children, this is the last lesson I shall give you. The order has come from Berlin to teach only German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. The new master comes tomorrow. This is your last French lesson. I want you to be very attentive.”

Q. How was ‘I’ different in his last lesson?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 5
Grave: serious
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 6

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

“My children, this is the last lesson I shall give you. The order came from Berlin to teach only German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. The new master comes tomorrow. This is your last French lesson. I want you to be very attentive.”

Q. Who is the speaker of these lines?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 6
Mr. Hamel was the speaker of these lines.
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 7

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

I jumped over the bench and sat down at my desk. Not till then, when I had got a little over my fright, did I see that our teacher had on his beautiful green coat, his frilled shirt, and the little black silk cap, all embroidered, that he never wore except on inspection and prize days.

Q. Before entering the class, what change did ‘I’ find there?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 7
Franz noticed that the school was unusually quiet. Usually, there was a great commotion of the opening and closing of desks, of lessons repeated in unison, and the teacher's huge ruler rapping on the table. But that particular day, it was as quiet as Sunday morning.
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 8

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

I jumped over the bench and sat down at my desk. Not till then, when I had got a little over my fright, did I see that our teacher had on his beautiful green coat, his frilled shirt, and the little black silk cap, all embroidered, that he never wore except on inspection and prize days.

Before entering the class, what change did ‘I’ find there?

Q. Who is ‘I’ in the above extract?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 8
Franz was ‘I’ in the above extract.
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 9

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

Usually, when school began, there was a great bustle, which could be heard out in the street, the opening and closing of desks, lessons repeated in unison, very loud, with our hands over our ears to understand better, and the teacher ’s great ruler rapping on the table.

Q. The word ‘rapping’ means :

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 9
Rapping means Striking to attract attention.
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 10

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

Usually, when school began, there was a great bustle, which could be heard out in the street, the opening and closing of desks, lessons repeated in unison, very loud, with our hands over our ears to understand better, and the teacher ’s great ruler rapping on the table.

Q. From which lesson has the extract been taken?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 10
This extract has been taken from ‘The Last Lesson’.
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 11

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started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding, especially because Mr. Hamel had said that he would question us on participles, and I did not know the first word about them. For a moment, I thought of running away and spending the day out of doors. It was so warm, so bright!

Q. What did Franz think for a moment?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 11
While Franz was on his way to school for a moment he thought of running away and spending the day out of doors. It was pleasant, warm and so bright that day, he thought of enjoying the chirping birds of the nearby edge of the forest. He thought of enjoying the drill of the Prussian soldiers at the back of the sawmill.
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 12

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

I started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding, especially because Mr. Hamel had said that he would question us on participles, and I did not know the first word about them. For a moment, I thought of running away and spending the day out of doors. It was so warm, so bright!

Q. Who is the speaker of these lines?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 12
Franz is the speaker of these lines.
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 13

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

M. Hamel went on to talk of the French language, saying that it was the most beautiful language in the world — the clearest, the most logical; that we must guard it among us and never forget it, because when people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison. Then he opened a grammar book and read us our lesson. I was amazed to see how well I understood it. All he said seemed so easy, so easy!

Q. Franz was able to understand the grammar lesson easily because he was___________ .

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 13
Hamel was his french teacher and Franz was very scared of him and his great iron ruler. Hamel was teaching with great concentration and also even explaining a single word. By this Franz found the last lesson very easy and he realised that he could be the best in French if he tried to learn.
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 14

Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow:

M. Hamel went on to talk of the French language, saying that it was the most beautiful language in the world — the clearest, the most logical; that we must guard it among us and never forget it, because when people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison. Then he opened a grammar book and read us our lesson. I was amazed to see how well I understood it. All he said seemed so easy, so easy!

Q. Which of the following can be attributed to M. Hamel’s declaration about the French language?

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 14
M. Hamel told his students that French was the most beautiful language in the world. It was the clearest and the most logical language. He asked them to guard it and never forget it because when a people are inslaved as long as they hold last to their language it is as if they had the key to this prison.
Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 15

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Poor man! It was in honour of this last lesson that he had put on his fine Sunday clothes, and now I understood why the old men of the village were sitting there in the back of the room. It was because they were sorry, too, that they had not gone to school more. It was their way of thanking our master for his forty years of faithful service and of showing their respect for the country that was theirs no more.

Choose the options that most appropriately fill in the blanks, for the following description of the given extract.

Q. The villagers and their children sat in class, forging with their old master a (i) _____ togetherness. In that moment, the class room stood (ii) _____. It was France itself, and the last French lesson a desperate hope to (iii) ______ to the remnants of what they had known and taken for granted. Their own (iv) _______.

Detailed Solution for Test: The Last Lesson- Extract Based Type Questions - Question 15
(i) forgotten: to be unable to remember a fact, something that happened.

(ii) transformed: make a marked change in the form, nature, or appearance of.

(iii) hold on: grasp or support something with one's hands.

(iv) identity: the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.

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