Deep Water MCQ Questions Answers Class 12 Online Test 2 for Practice

16. What is haunting the author?

1. Terrible experience in the pool
2. Ghosts
3. His mother's words
4. A push by a young boy

17. What did William O Doughlas desire for?

1. Visit to California
2. To be a judge
3. To learn swimming
4. To be with his mother

18. What did the author realize while drowning in the pool?

1. Terror in fear of death
2. Swimming was fun
3. The lifeguard did not come to his rescue
4. All of these

19. What does the title Deep Water' signify?

1. It is about the dangerous depth of swimming pool.
2. It reveals about author's lack of surety about his overcoming of fear of water
3. It undelines the author's fear of water and how he overcome it.
4. Depth of sea

20. At the age of 3 or 4 Douglas visited the beach with his father. What caused a terror in his heart then?

1. The sight of the sea waves
2. The overpowering force of the waves
3. The colour of the water
4. All of these

21. Misadventure at YMCA pool happened when Douglas was

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

22. What does Douglas call the other boy?

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

23. Water in the pool had

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

24. What were the series of emotions and fears that Douglas experienced when he was thrown into the pool?

1. Fear
2. Confidence
3. Overconfidence
4. Mixed feelings of confidence and fear

25. What plans did he make to come to the surface of the pool?

1. Triled to jump and push himself up
2. Shouted
3. Cried aloud
4. Shouted "help"

26. Nine feet seems to Douglas like

1. 100 feet
2. 90 feet
3. 50 feet
4. None of these

27. What happened when Douglas tried to yell?

1. Everyone came to his rescue
2. His father arrived there
3. No sound came out
4. The lifeguards tried to save him

28. How many times did Douglas go down towards the bottom?

1. Once
2. Twice
3. Thrice
4. Five times

29. What did the writer do when he reached home after the incident?

1. He laughed at his experience
2. He had fever
3. He shook and cried and did not eat anything
4. He told his mother about misadventure

30. How did this experience affect the author?

1. Became fearless
2. Confident
3. Overconfident
4. Became hydrophobic