Deep Water MCQs with answers

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Q. At the end of the experience, Douglas felt
  • (A) happy
  • (B) released
  • (C) sad
  • (D) victorious
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) released
Q. ‘All we have to fear is fear itself. Who said these words?
  • (A) Douglas
  • (B) his instructor
  • (C) his father
  • (D) President Roosevelt
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) President Roosevelt
Q. ‘What do you think you can do to me’? These words were spoken by Douglas to
  • (A) a shark
  • (B) to his enemy
  • (C) to the boy who pushed him
  • (D) to terror
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) to terror
Q. Whenever terror struck again, Douglas would start
  • (A) shouting
  • (B) crying
  • (C) talking to terror
  • (D) laughing
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) talking to terror
Q. Douglas had to repeat exhaling and inhaling exercises
  • (A) hundred times
  • (B) forty times
  • (C) fifty times
  • (D) ten times
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) hundred times
Q. He practised in the pool
  • (A) ten times a week
  • (B) five days a week
  • (C) twice a week
  • (D) thrice a week
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) five days a week
Q. After being haunted by fear for many years Douglas decided to learn to swim. He took the help of
  • (A) his mother
  • (B) his father
  • (C) a friend
  • (D) an instructor
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) an instructor
Q. When he regained consciousness, he
  • (A) laughed at his experience
  • (B) had 104° F fever
  • (C) shook and cried and didn’t eat anything
  • (D) told his mother about his misadventure
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) shook and cried and didn’t eat anything
Q. Douglas went down towards the bottom
  • (A) only once
  • (B) twice
  • (C) thrice
  • (D) five times
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) thrice
Q. The water in the pool had a
  • (A) dirty yellow tinge
  • (B) a blue reflection
  • (C) green colour
  • (D) no colour
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) dirty yellow tinge
Q. When Douglas tried to yell
  • (A) everyone came to his rescue
  • (B) no sound came out
  • (C) his father arrived
  • (D) the lifeguard dived to save him up, they hung as
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) no sound came out
Q. The nine feet seemed to Douglas like
  • (A) hundred feet
  • (B) ninety feet
  • (C) fifty feet
  • (D) twenty-five feet
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) ninety feet
Q. Though Douglas was frightened, he was not
  • (A) afraid to die
  • (B) going to survive
  • (C) out of his wits
  • (D) able to shout for help
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) out of his wits
Q. Douglas calls him a
  • (A) nasty human being
  • (B) a brute
  • (C) a big bully
  • (D) a beautiful physical specimen
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) a beautiful physical specimen
Q. The misadventure at the Y.M.C.A pool happened when
  • (A) Douglas was accompanied by friends
  • (B) he was with his father
  • (C) he was alone
  • (D) he was with his mother
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) he was alone
Q. The incident in childhood had taken place at the beach in
  • (A) California
  • (B) New York
  • (C) Washington
  • (D) Florida
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) California
Q. The pool’s depth at the deep end was
  • (A) twenty feet
  • (B) nine feet
  • (C) six feet
  • (D) eight feet
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) nine feet
Q. His mother warned him against swimming in the Yakima River because it had
  • (A) strong currents
  • (B) was meant only for boating
  • (C) many people had drowned there
  • (D) it had no lifeguards around
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) many people had drowned there
Q. The writer decided to learn to swim when he was about
  • (A) ten or eleven years old
  • (B) fifteen or sixteen years old
  • (C) twenty years old
  • (D) eighteen years old
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) ten or eleven years old
Q. William Douglas was a friend and adviser of
  • (A) President Kennedy
  • (B) President Cleveland
  • (C) President Roosevelt
  • (D) President Clinton
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) President Roosevelt
Q. Where was the lake Wentworth?
  • (A) In New Hampshire
  • (B) in Washington
  • (C) in California
  • (D) in Washington D.C
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) In New Hampshire
Q. How did Douglas make sure that he had conquered the old terror?
  • (A) By visiting California
  • (B) By jumping into the waters
  • (C) By taking a lesson from the instructor
  • (D) By swimming into the lake Wentworth
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) By swimming into the lake Wentworth
Q. Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?
  • (A) because he wanted to swim in the waters of the Cascade
  • (B) because his friend had challenged him
  • (C) because he had a bet on it
  • (D) because he wanted to win a medal
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) because he wanted to swim in the waters of the Cascade
Q. Why did Douglas hire an instructor?
  • (A) To be confident in swimming
  • (B) To compete with others
  • (C) To flaunt
  • (D) To overcome his fear of water and learn swimming
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) To overcome his fear of water and learn swimming
Q. Why did Douglas hate to walk with bare legs?
  • (A) Ugly looking legs
  • (B) Fat legs
  • (C) Because of skin color
  • (D) Because of skinny legs
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Because of skinny legs
Q. What was the impact of the pool incident?
  • (A) Developed fear
  • (B) Became confident
  • (C) Hydrophobia was revived
  • (D) Became overconfident
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Hydrophobia was revived
Q. What does Douglas do to save himself in the pool?
  • (A) Used his mind and pushed himself up
  • (B) Shouted aloud
  • (C) Called people
  • (D) Shouted help help
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Used his mind and pushed himself up
Q. How did the instructor make Douglas a good swimmer?
  • (A) Planning
  • (B) With the help of ropes
  • (C) By pushing him into the pool
  • (D) With the help of ropes and belts
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) With the help of ropes and belts
Q. How did this experience affect the author?
  • (A) Became fearless
  • (B) Overconfident
  • (C) Became hydrophobic
  • (D) Confident
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Became hydrophobic
Q. What were the series of emotions and fears that Douglas experienced when he was thrown into the pool?
  • (A) Mixed feelings of confidence and fear
  • (B) Overconfidence
  • (C) Confidence
  • (D) Fear
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Mixed feelings of confidence and fear
Q. What was the fear in Douglas’ mind?
  • (A) To be defeated
  • (B) To be pushed
  • (C) Being drowned
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) Being drowned
Q. What does Deep Water signify?
  • (A) Beauty
  • (B) Depth of Sea
  • (C) Depth of ocean
  • (D) Fear
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Fear
Q. What is the theme of the story Deep Water?
  • (A) Victory in facing the fear
  • (B) Being fearful
  • (C) To learn swimming
  • (D) All of the above
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Victory in facing the fear
Q. What did William O Doughlas desire for?
  • (A) Visit to California
  • (B) To be a judge
  • (C) To learn swimming
  • (D) To be with his mother
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) To learn swimming
Q. What is haunting the author?
  • (A) Terrible experience in the pool
  • (B) Ghosts
  • (C) His mother’s words
  • (D) A push by a young boy
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Terrible experience in the pool
Q. Where did the writer go when he was 3 or 4 years old in the story?
  • (A) Washington
  • (B) New Zealand
  • (C) California
  • (D) Canada
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) California
Q. Y.M.C.A stands for?
  • (A) Young Men’s Christian Authority
  • (B) Young Men’s Christopher Association
  • (C) Young Men’s Christian Army
  • (D) Young Men’s Christian Associa
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Young Men’s Christian Associa
Q. What is the story Deep Water speaking about?
  • (A) Fear of water and the way to overcome it
  • (B) Fear of people
  • (C) Fear of dogs
  • (D) Fear of swimming
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Fear of water and the way to overcome it
Q. For how many years had the author taught in high school in Yakima?
  • (A) 2 years
  • (B) 3 years
  • (C) 4 years
  • (D) 5 years
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) 2 years
Q. Who is the author of Deep Water?
  • (A) William Shakespeare
  • (B) William George Bernard Shaw
  • (C) William Wordsworth
  • (D) William Douglas
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) William Douglas
Q. At first, why was the writer not much frightened when he was thrown into the pool?
  • (A) Because he was sleeping
  • (B) Because he was intoxicated
  • (C) Because he thought that the lifeguard would come to his rescue
  • (D) Because of confidence
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Because of confidence
Q. What distance Douglas covered while swimming across the lake Wentworth?
  • (A) 2 miles
  • (B) 3 miles
  • (C) 4 miles
  • (D) 5 miles
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) 2 miles
Q. What was stopping Douglas to get into the waters of Cascade?
  • (A) Memories of Washington
  • (B) Memories of California
  • (C) Instructions given by the instructor
  • (D) Memories full of terror in the pool
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Memories full of terror in the pool
Q. “I crossed to oblivion, and the curtain of life fell”. What does oblivion mean?
  • (A) spavilion
  • (B) changing room
  • (C) unconsciousness
  • (D) death
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) unconsciousness
Q. Why did Douglas’ mother recommend that he should learn swimming at the Y. M.C.A swimming pool?
  • (A) Because it was local
  • (B) Because it was safe
  • (C) Because it was shallow
  • (D) Because it was shallow and safe
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Because it was shallow and safe

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Table of contents

  1. At the end of the experience, Douglas felt
  2. ‘All we have to fear is fear itself. Who said these words?
  3. ‘What do you think you can do to me’? These words were spoken by Douglas to
  4. Whenever terror struck again, Douglas would start
  5. Douglas had to repeat exhaling and inhaling exercises
  6. He practised in the pool
  7. After being haunted by fear for many years Douglas decided to learn to swim. He took the help of
  8. When he regained consciousness, he
  9. Douglas went down towards the bottom
  10. The water in the pool had a
  11. When Douglas tried to yell
  12. The nine feet seemed to Douglas like
  13. Though Douglas was frightened, he was not
  14. Douglas calls him a
  15. The misadventure at the Y.M.C.A pool happened when
  16. The incident in childhood had taken place at the beach in
  17. The pool’s depth at the deep end was
  18. His mother warned him against swimming in the Yakima River because it had
  19. The writer decided to learn to swim when he was about
  20. William Douglas was a friend and adviser of
  21. Where was the lake Wentworth?
  22. How did Douglas make sure that he had conquered the old terror?
  23. Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?
  24. Why did Douglas hire an instructor?
  25. Why did Douglas hate to walk with bare legs?
  26. What was the impact of the pool incident?
  27. What does Douglas do to save himself in the pool?
  28. How did the instructor make Douglas a good swimmer?
  29. How did this experience affect the author?
  30. What were the series of emotions and fears that Douglas experienced when he was thrown into the pool
  31. What was the fear in Douglas’ mind?
  32. What does Deep Water signify?
  33. What is the theme of the story Deep Water?
  34. What did William O Doughlas desire for?
  35. What is haunting the author?
  36. Where did the writer go when he was 3 or 4 years old in the story?
  37. Y.M.C.A stands for?
  38. What is the story Deep Water speaking about?
  39. For how many years had the author taught in high school in Yakima?
  40. Who is the author of Deep Water?
  41. At first, why was the writer not much frightened when he was thrown into the pool?
  42. What distance Douglas covered while swimming across the lake Wentworth?
  43. What was stopping Douglas to get into the waters of Cascade?
  44. “I crossed to oblivion, and the curtain of life fell”. What does oblivion mean?
  45. Why did Douglas’ mother recommend that he should learn swimming at the Y. M.C.A swimming pool?