Question

V. Read the given extract and attempt the questions that follow
The experience had a deep meaning for me, as only those who have known stark terror and conquered it can appreciate. In death there is peace. There is terror only in the fear of death, as Roosevelt knew when he said. "All we have to fear is fear itself. Because I had experienced both the sensation of dying and the terror that the fear of it can produce the will to live somehow grew in intensity

Q1 Choose the option that best explains the expression 'deep meaning in the extract.

a) The experience left a deep sear in the narrator's life.

b) The narrator drowned at the deep end of the pool

c) The narrater learnt a life lesson through that experience.

(d) The expenence was still painful in the memory of the narrator.

Q2 Choose the correct option which refers to only those'as intended by the narrator.

a) Those who have the experience of drowning

b) Those who have learnt swimming in YMCA pool

c) Those who have experienced bullying

d) These who have experienced and conquered fear

Q3 Of the four meanings of sensation select the option that matches in meaning with its usage in the extract.

a) Physical response to a stimulus

b) Something extraordinary or surprising

c) Feeling of excitement

d) Strong feeling of enthusiasm

Q4. What was the impact of the experience on the narrator's life?

a)It focred the narrator to live in constant fear of water

b) It enhanced the narrator's survival instinct

c) It restricted him from enjoying his life.

d) made the narrator mature and philosophical in life

Q5. Roosevelt's opinion on fear is that

a) we should be weared of fear

b) fear is inevitable in life.

c) one should not let fear enter one's mind

d) fear is an emotion of destruction​

Answer 1

Answer:

1 a (deep scar)

2 d (experienced & conquered)

3 b (extraordinary)

4 a (live in constant fear)

5 c (one should not)

Answer 2

The answers to the above-given questions are as follows:

1. The correct answer is OPTION C: The sentence that best explains the expression 'deep meaning' in the extract is The narrator learned a life lesson through that experience.
2. The correct answer is OPTION D: The sentence that refers to 'only those' as intended by the writer is Those who have experienced and conquered fear.
3. The correct answer is OPTION B: The most appropriate meaning of sensation that is best suitable according to the extract is Something extraordinary or surprising.
4. The correct answer is OPTION D: The impact of the experience on the narrator's life was that it made the narrator mature and philosophical in life.
5. Roosevelt's opinion on fear is that fear is inevitable in life.