I was …………
  • airy
  • suffocating
  • breathing
  • none of these
What came out of water of authors ?
  • Nose and eyes
  • Hand and foot
  • Ear and legs
  • None of these
At the end of the experience, Douglas felt
  • (a) happy
  • (b) released
  • (c) sad
  • (d) victorious
‘All we have to fear is fear itself. Who said these words?
  • (a) Douglas
  • (b) his instructor
  • (c) his father
  • (d) President Roosevel
‘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
Whenever terror struck again, Douglas would start
  • (a) shouting
  • (b) laughing
  • (c) crying
  • (d) talking to terror
Douglas had to repeat exhaling and inhaling exercises
  • (a) hundred times
  • (b) forty times
  • (c) fifty times
  • (d) ten times
He practised in the pool
  • (a) ten times a week
  • (b) five days a week
  • (c) twice a week
  • (d) thrice a week
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
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
Douglas went down towards the bottom
  • (a) only once
  • (b) twice
  • (c) thrice
  • (d) five times
The water in the pool had a
  • (a) dirty yellow tinge
  • (b) a blue reflection
  • (c) green colour
  • (d) no colour
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
The nine feet seemed to Douglas like
  • (a) hundred feet
  • (b) ninety feet
  • (c) fifty feet
  • (d) twenty-five feet
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
Douglas calls him a
  • (a) nasty human being
  • (b) a brute
  • (c) a beautiful physical specimen
  • (d) a big bully
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
The incident in childhood had taken place at the beach in
  • (a) Florida
  • (b) Washington
  • (c) New York
  • (d) California
The pool’s depth at the deep end was
  • (a) twenty feet
  • (b) nine feet
  • (c) six feet
  • (d) eight feet
His mother warned him against swimming in the Yakima River because it had
  • (a) strong currents
  • (b) it was meant only for boating
  • (c) many people had drowned there
  • (d) it had no lifeguards around
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