NCERT Class 12 English, Vistas, Chapter 4, The Enemy, Extract based MCQ

NCERT Class 12 English, VISTAS, Chapter 4,

"THE ENEMY", EXTRACT BASED MCQ.

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("The Enemy" is written by an American writer Mrs. Pearl S. Buck. She is known by her Chinese name, Sai Zhenzhu. Her parents were Missionaries so that she could spend many years with them in China. She got Nobel Prize in Literature for her 'Biographical Masterpieces")

1. "Sadao had  taken this into his mind as he did everything his father said, his father who never joked or played with him, but who spent infinite pains upon him who was his only son. Sadao knew that his education was his father's chief concern. For this reason he had been sent at 22 to America to learn all that could be learned of surgery and medicine."

1. "Sadao had taken this into his mind". What does the word 'this' indicate?

(a) Failure depends on what one makes it

(b) His father's religious concern

(c) The thought that his father never played with him

(d)Failure is the stepping stone to success.

 

2. "His father who never joked or played with him" What does it mean?

(a) His father was an orthodox Japanese

(b) His father was highly reserved, but kind

(c) His father disliked Sadao

(d) Both (b) and (c)

 

3. What was the chief concern of his father?

(a) Sadao's  invention which would render wounds entirely clean

(b) Sadao's  marriage with Hana

(c) To construct a hospital for his son

(d) The education of Sadao

 

4. Why did his father send sadao to America, though Americans were his enemies?

(a) He liked American culture and tradition

(b) American education was considered to be the best one

(c) He wanted to punish his son by sending him to America

(d) Sadao was comparatively dull in studies, so he sent him .

Ans:  1(a),       2(b),     3(d),      4(b)

 

2. "But at this moment the door opened and she looked out, a dark-blue woollen haori over her kimono. She came to him affectionately and pot her arm through his as he stood, smiled and said nothing. He had met Hana in America, but he had waited to fall in love with her until he was sure she was Japanese. His father would never have received her unless she had been pure in her race"

5. What do you mean by "haori"?

(a) A kind of Japanese Chow       

(b) An inner garment used under kimono

(c) Gent's woollen Jacket

(d) A outer garment worn over the kimono

 

6. Find out a suitable word for 'with love' from the extract.

(a) Smiled

(b) fall-in-love

(c) Kimono

(d) affectionately

 

7. Why did he wait to fall in love with her?

(a) He was young and immature

(b) She didn't like him in the beginning

(c) He wanted to know if she was Japanese

(d) They were in America. He wanted to love her when he would reach Japan

 

8. "His father would never have received her unless she had been pure in her race" What do you understand about the character of his father from this sentence?

(a) He was a fanatic

(b) He was generous

(c) He was a glutton

(d) He was industrious

Ans:  5(d),       6(d),         7(c),         8(a)

 

3. "It was at this moment that both of them saw something black come out of the mists. It was a man. He was flung up out of the ocean - flung, it seemed , to his feet by a breaker. He staggered a few steps, his body outlined against the mist, his arms above his head. then he curled mists hid him again"

9. "It was at this moment"  What was that particular moment?

(a) When Sadao and his wife were standing and watching the mists in the sea shore.

(b) When Sadao and Hana were in the house of American Professor

(c) When Sadao and his wife were in the warfront during second world war

(d) When they were operating the American Navy soldier  

 

10. What do you mean by "flung up out"?

(a) Staggered

(b) Danced uncontrollably

(c) Thrown out

(d) Got dizzy

 

11. What do you mean be "breaker" here?

(a) A kind of pot

(b) One who breaks

(c) A big wave

(d) A vast ocean

 

12. "Then he curled mists hid him again" what does it mean?

(a) He curled the mists out and became free from it

(b) He was covered with mists and hid in it

(c) He was an American Navy and he could curl the mist out

(d) Both (a) and (c)

Ans:  9(a),     10(c),       11(c),       12(b).

 

4. " A fisherman perhaps", sadao said, "washed from his boat". He ran quickly down the steps and behind him Hana came, her wide sleeves flying.  A mile or two away on either side there were fishing villages, but here was only the bare and lonely coast, dangerous with rocks. The surf beyond the beach was spiked with rocks. Somehow the man had managed to come through them - he must be badly torn"

13. What do you mean by "washed from" ?

(a) he didn't wash his clothes for many days back

(b) he washed his things from the boat the other day

(c) he was flowed out from the boat  

(d)  both (a) and (c)

 

14. Why did her sleeves fly?

(a) because it was a beach

(b) because  she was running fast

(c) because Sadao asked her to put her sleeves up

(d) because it was a wide sleeves

 

15. What is the meaning of "bare and lonely coast" here?

(a) a sea shore where there are people without chapels

(b) an empty sea shore dangerous with rocks

(c) a sea shore where there is dangerous rocks

(d) a sea shore where fishing was restricted

 

16. what is the synonym of "spiked" here?

(a) flat and sharp

(b) pointed and sharp

(c) dangerous and helpless

(d) happy and interesting

Ans:  13(c),      14(b),      15(b),     6(b)

 

5. "Oh, how he is bleeding!" Hana whispered again in a solemn voice. The mists screened them now completely, and at this time of the day no one came by. The fisherman had gone home and even the chance beachcombers would have considered the day at an end.

"What shall we do with this man?", Sadao muttered. But his trained hands seemed of their own will to be doing what they could do to stanch the fearful bleeding.

17. " Hana whispered again in a solemn voice", What do you mean by the word 'solemn' ?

(a) casual

(b) dull

(c) serious

(d) interesting

 

18. What do you mean by "beachcombers"?

(a) sweepers of the beach

(b) the people who visit beach untimely

(c) the vendors of the beach

(d) the police who look after the beach

 

19. The synonym of "stanch"..............

(a) stop

(b) increase

(c) make up

(d) flourish

 

20 Select the synonym of "muttered"

(a) flesh

(b) flash

(c) murmured

(d) burst

Ans:  17(c),       18(d),     19(a),      20(c)

 

6. " They hesitated , looking at each other. Then Hana said with resolution: Come , are we able to put him back into the sea?

"If I am able are you?', Sadao asked

"No", Hana said. "But if you can do it alone"

Sadao hesitated again. " The strange thing is ", he said, "that if the man were whole, I could turn him over to the police without difficulty.

 

21. "They hesitated" Why?

(a) because they didn't want to help strangers

(b) because he will not give them the consultation fee

(c) because the Americans were their enemies

(d) because strangers didn't deserve any sympathy.

 

22. What is the synonym of "resolution"?

(a) determination

(b) angry

(c) unwillingness

(d) sympathy

 

23. "If I am able are you"? What ability mentioned here?

(a) handover the American to the police

(b) throw the American into the sea

(c) operate the American secretly

(d) both (a) and (c)

 

24. "What does it mean "If the man were whole"?

(a) If he is an American, he is not trust worthy

(b) If he is cured, he will cheat Japanese

(c) If the man is perfectly healthy, he can handover him to police

(d) If the man were whole, he can be operated and check the result

Ans:  21(c),      22(a),       23(b),       24(c)

 

7. "I can't bear for you to touch him.", she said. "We shall have to tell the servants he is here. I will tell Yumi now. She can leave the children for a few minutes and she can wash him".

"Let it be so" he agreed. "You tell Yumi and I will tell the others"

25. Why didn't she allow him to touch the American?

(a) Because he was unconscious and going to die

(b) She disliked her husband touching any other people

(c) Because his body was very dirty and also wounded

(d) Because Americans were her enemies

 

26. What was Yumi?

(a) maid

(b) Cook

(c)Gardener

(d) baby sitter

 

27. What did Hana want to tell Yumi?

(a)She wanted to tell Yumi to wash Tom

(b) She wanted to tell Yumi to look after her children

(c) She wanted yumi to pass the message to other servants

(d) She wanted to tell Yumi to get out of their house

28. "I will tell the others". Whom does the word 'others' refer?

(a) Soldiers

(b) Police

(c) Public

(d) Servants

Ans: 25(c),        26(d),        27(a),       28(d)

 

8. "But the utter pallor of the man's unconscious face moved him first to stoop and feel his pulse. It was faint but it was there. He put his hand against the man's cold breast. The heart too was yet alive.

"He will die unless he is operated on", Sadao said considering. "The question is whether he will not die  anyway"

29. "..... the man's unconscious face moved him" What do you mean by "moved" here?

(a) walked a little distance

(b) melted his heart

(c) got angry

(d) both (a) and (c)

 

30. "It was faint, but it was there". What was there?

(a) the cap

(b) the pale face

(c) pulse

(d) a fowl

 

31. Why did the doctor want to operate him?

(a) He wanted to remove his spleen

(b) He wanted to clean his wounds with his newly invented medicine

(c) He wanted to remove the bullet from his body

(d) He wanted to operate his kidneys

 

32. Why did Dr. Sadao  help the American?

(a) Because he was helped by many Americans when he was there

(b) Because his wife felt pity upon him and asked him to do so

(c) Because it was his professional ethics to help the needy

(d) Because he thought that he could get enough dollars from him

 

Ans: 29(b),      30(c),     31(c),      32(c)

9. "Then she went over to the white man. When she saw him her thick lips  folded themselves into stubbornness. "I have never washed a white man" she said, "and I will not wash so dirty a one now"

Hana cried at her severely, You will do what your master commands you!"

 

33. "Then she went over to the white man" Who went?

(a) Hana

(b) Yumi

(c) the maid

(d) Hana's mother-in- law.

 

34. The synonym of "Stubbornness" is ...................

(a) happiness

(b) angry

(c) loveliness

(d) obstinacy

 

35. "I will not wash so dirty a one now" . Who was 'the one' mentioned here?

(a) Tom

(b) Sadao

(c) General

(d) sargent

 

36. Pick out a suitable word for "harshly" from the extract

(a) went over

(b) stubbornness

(c) severely

(d) commands

Ans: 33(b),       34(d),        35(a),       36(c)

 

10. "The young master is so proud of his skill to save life that he save any life", the cook said contemptuously.  She split a fowl's neck skillfully and held the fluttering bird and let its blood flow into the roots of wistaria vine. Blood is the best of fertilizers, and the old gardener would not let her waste a drop of it"

37. What would the old gardener say to the cook when she split fowl's neck?

(a) Blood is a best fertilizer to Wistaria vine.

(b) Shouldn't waste the blood of the fowl when it was killed.

(c) Wistaria vine is a ghostly plant which would drink blood.

(d) Gardener asked the cook to give him hot blood of the fowl.

 

38. 'The master is so proud of his skill", what is his special skill?

(a) To save life

(b) To kill people

(c) T o appoint assassins

(d) To love the workers

 

39. Why did the cook say contemptuously?

(a) Because she disliked the behavior of the young master

(b) Because she hated to kill birds for cooking

(c) Because she liked Americans especially Tom

(d) Both (a) and (b)  

 

40. Who is the author of "The Enemy"?

(a) Jack Finny

(b) Perl S. Buck

(c) John Updike

(d) Kamala Das

Ans: 37(a),      38(a),    39(a),     40(b)