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Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - 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. How did the author try to learn swimming?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 1
In the short story 'Deep Water,' Douglas chose the Y.M.C.A pool to learn swimming because it was much safer as compared to the Yakima River in which many people had drowned. It had a shallow end that was only two or three feet deep was thus suitable for him to learn swimming
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - 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 misadventure the author is referring to?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 2
The 'misadventure' is the incident in which the author at the age of ten or eleven was picked up and thrown into the swimming pool of Y.M.C.A.
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Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 3

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. Why did mother not allow ‘I’ to learn swimming in a river?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 3
Douglas had a deep rooted fear of water in his mind. He wanted to overcome it by learning swimming. His mother warned him against learning swimming in the Yakima river because it was quite ferocious and treacherous.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 4

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. How was Y.M.C.A. a safe pool?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 4
She considered Y.M.C.A. pool as the safest place because it was two or three feet at the shallow end and nine feet at the deeper end. The slope was also gradual.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 5

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 ‘I’ here?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 5
'I' here is William Douglas. 'Mr. Terror 'is author's fear of water.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 6

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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 the narrator laugh?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 6
The narrator laughed because he had learnt to deal with his fear.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 7

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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 ‘curtain (of life) fell’ corresponds to an aspect of:

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 7
The ‘curtain (of life) fell’ corresponds to an aspect of Drama.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - 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. Which option indicates that the poet lost consciousness?

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 8
As Douglas went down the pool the third time, he swallowed more water. All his efforts to jump up ceased. His legs felt limp. A blackness swept over his brain and it wiped out fear and terror. There was no more panic. It was quiet and peaceful. He felt drowsy and wanted to go to sleep.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 9

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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. “My introduction to the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears.” It can be inferred that this was a clear case of __________.

Detailed Solution for Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 9
Douglas' introduction to the YMCA swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred his childish fears when he was knocked down and swept over by the waves in a beach in California and had been buried in water. Thereafter he had an aversion to water when he was near it.
Test: Deep Water- Extract Based Type Questions- 1 - Question 10

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. 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- 1 - Question 10

Correct option is B. a bully tossed him into the pool for the sake of fun.

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