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And then sheer, stark terror seized me, terror that knows no understanding, terror that knows no control, terror that no one can understand who has not experienced it. I was shrieking under water. I was paralysed under water stiff, rigid with fear. Even the screams in my throat were frozen. Only my heart, and the pounding in my head, said that I was still alive.
And then in the midst of the terror came a touch of reason. I must remember to jump when I hit the bottom. At last I felt the tiles under me. My toes reached out as if to grab them. I jumped with everything I had. But the jump made no difference. The water was still around me. I looked for ropes, ladders, water wings. Nothing but water.
A mass of yellow water held me. Stark terror took an even deeper hold on me, like a great charge of electricity. I shook and trembled with fright. My arms wouldn't move. My legs wouldn't move. I tried to call for help, to call for mother. Nothing happened.
1.What was the narrator coming out from?
A. Yellow water
B. Stark terror
C. Panic
D. Blackness
2.What did the narrator suck for?
A. Life
B. Water
C. Air
D. Fear
3.What did the narrator feel in his legs and his brain?
A. Limp
B. Stark
C. Yellowish
D. Frozen
4.What were the feelings of the narrator as he started drowning?
A. Fear and panic
B. Peaceful and drowsy
C. Limb and relaxed
D. Blackness and terror
4.Find the word from the passage which means “fearful.”
A. Nice
B. Drowsy
C. Panic
D. Tender
6.Find the word from the passage which is opposite to 'hard'.
A. Stark
B. Limp
C. Drowsy
D. Panic

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1.A. Yellow water
2.C. Air
3.A. Limp
4.A. Fear and panic
5.C. Panic
6.B. Limp

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d) The time would stop
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a) Danny would come
b) He would never come
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a) They're wrong to doubt
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a) Pangs
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A. Only the family
B. Sahukars, middlemen, policemen, law keepers, bureaucrats, and politicians
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A. Accepting the baggage of poverty
B. Being burdened by the stigma of caste
C. Daring
D. Dreaming
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A. Do you dream of driving a car?
B. Do you dream of flying a plane?
C. Do you want to be a bangle maker?
D. Do you want to be a sahukar?
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A. Flying a plane
B. Driving a car
C. Becoming a bangle maker
D. Becoming a sahukar
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A. Embarrassment
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D. Dream
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A. Naturally
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C. Silently
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