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Unit 06: Civic Responsibilities
The Day The Dam Broke.
English II (C)
For Class XII (All Groups)
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
From Text Book Exercise
Read the atatement and choose the correct option:1. The rumour The dam has broke!' triggered _____.
(a) the celebration among people
(b) assembly of mob on roads
(c) panic among people ✔
(d) parade of the militiaman
2 The grandfather mistakenly believes that the menace the city is facing during the flood is _____.
(a) the National Guard
(b) a gang of robbers
(c) Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry ✔
(d) the city engineers
3. The misconception about the dam breaking that caused panic was _____.
(a) the East Side was in imminent danger
(b) High Street would be engulfed in floodwaters ✔
(c) the water level would rise over two feet
(d) the West Side was under thirty feet of water
4. What did Dr. Mallory mistake for the sound of rushing water?
(a) Traffic noise
(b) A fire alarm
(c) Swishing of roller-skates ✔
(d) Children playing
5. The event that finally brought the order and dispelled fear after the panic was _____.
(a) fire-fighters arriving
(b) Militiamen announcing the dam had not broken ✔
(c) The rain stopping
(d) the river level dropping
6. The author's mother took eggs and loaves of bread with her and thought to _____.
(a) move to other city
(b) travel to East from South
(c) take refuge on top of Memorial Hall ✔
(d) escape with others to safer side
7. After two years, the city residents' reaction on the incident was that _____.
(a) They laughed about it jokingly. ✔
(b) They still spoke about it with fear.
(c) As if nothing had happened.
(d) They celebrated it as a historic event.
8. What does the story reveal about human behavior in groups?
(a) People become more logical in groups
(b) People seek leadership and clarity
(c) Panic can spread quickly without reason ✔
(d) Group behaviour prevents irrational action
9. The text, "The Day the Dam Broke" is _____ in nature.
(a) adventurous and explorative
(b) humorous and ironic ✔
(c) tragic and horror
(d) scientific and analytic
More Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
10. What message does Thurber convey in this story?(a) Dams should be banned
(b) Panic spreads faster than truth ✔
(c) Women are better runners
(d) war memories are harttful
11. What year did the events in the story take place?
(a) 1918
(b) 1903
(c) 1913 ✔
(d) 1925
12. What was the central reason for the mass panic?
(a) Earthquake
(b) Fire
(c) The belief that a dam has broken ✔
(d) War announcement
13. Who is the narrator of the story? OR
"The Day the Dam Broke" is a literary creation of: OR
The Day the Dam Broke" is written by:
(a) Edith Taylor
(b) James G Thurber ✔
(c) Dr. Mallory
(d) A traffic cop
14. What did Grandfather believe was the real threat?
(a) The dam breaking
(b) Earthquake
(c) Confederate soldiers ✔
(d) Riots
15. How did they stop Grandfather from attacking?
(a) By locking him in a room
(b) With sleeping pills
-(c) By knocking him out with an ironing board ✔
(d) By convincing him logically
16. What direction were people told to run?
(a) West
(b) East ✔
(c) South
(d) North
17. What was the actual water threat level on the East Side?
(a) Dangerous flooding
(b) Just below risk level
(c) No danger at all ✔
(d) Ten feet above street level
18. What happened to food and fires in homes during the panic?
(a) People locked everything before leaving
(b) Everything was destroyed
(c) Fires were turned off in panic
(d) Many people left them burning ✔
19. Who was Darius Conningway?
(a) A local doctor
(b) A movie star
(c) A famous lawyer ✔
(d) A police officer
20. How long did the entire panic last?
(a) 1 hour
(b) 3 hours
(c) About 2 hours ✔
(d) Half a day
21. How far did some people run during the panic?
(a) 1 mile
(b) 4 miles
(c) 12 miles ✔
(d) 20 miles
22. What did people think the megaphones were shouting?
(a) "It's a drill!"
(b) "Return home!"
(c) "The dam has now broken!" ✔
(d) "Stay indoors!"
23. How did Dr. Mallory misinterpret the sound of roller skates?
(a) As wind
(b) As rushing floodwater ✔
(c) As gunfire
(d) As train tracks
24. What did the story say about the weather during the panic?
(a) It was raining
(b) It was cloudy
(c) It was sunny and quiet ✔
(d) It was stormy
25. Where were some people climbing during the panic?
(a) Towers
(b) Buildings
(c) Trees and statues ✔
(d) Cars
26. What was ironic about the statue "These Are My Jewels"?
(a) It fell during the panic
(b) It seemed to encourage people
(c) It stood still while chaos happened ✔
(d) It pointed east
27. What was the reaction the next day in the city?
(a) People cried
(b) Life returned to normal ✔
(c) Everyone left the city
(d) Fires broke out
28. How did Dr. Mallory respond when the narrator asked about the panic?
(a) He joked
(b) He refused to speak ✔
(c) He explained calmly
(d) He apologized
29. What was Aunt Edith's physical condition described as?
(a) Weak and tired
(b) In poor health
(c) In excellent condition despite her age ✔
(d) Injured
30. What convinced Grandfather the threat was real?
(a) Seeing the water
(b) Hearing police orders
(c) Hearing the crowd and joining the cry ✔
(d) A letter
31. What genre does this story belong to?
(a) Tragedy
(b) Comedy/satire ✔
(c) Horror
(d) Mystery
32. What comparison is made to explain the absurdity of the scene?
(a) Titanic sinking
(b) Marie Celeste ship ✔
(c) War battlefield
(d) Abandoned zoo
33. "The Day the Dam Broke" is a good example of Thurber's View of human behavior:
(a) Tragically
(b) Sardonic ✔
(c) Farcical
(d) Comical
34. The rumor of the break of the dam spread on: OR The rumour about the breaking dam began at noon on:
(a) March 13, 1912
(b) March 12, 1913 ✔
(c) March 14, 1914
(d) March 15, 1915
35. The rumor of the break up of the Ohio River dam spread in the city of:
(a) Columbus ✔
(b) London
(c) Yorkshire
(d) Brussels
36. "City engineners pointed out even if the dam had broken, the water level would not have risen more than _____ additional inches in the west side."
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Three
(d) Two ✔
37. "The west side at the time of the dam scare was under feet of water during spring floods."
(a) Ten
(b) Fifteen
(c) Thirty ✔
(d) Twenty
38. "The west side was, at the time of the dam scare under thirty feet of water during spring floods of _____ years ago.
(a) Ten
(b) Twenty ✔
(c) Thirty
(d) Forty
39. The city engineers pointed out that only a rise of _____ feet could have caused the flood waters to flow over high street.
(a) 80
(b) 85
(c) 90
(d) 95 ✔
40. "A man suddenly began to run because he wanted to meet his wife at Restaurant."
(a) White Hart
(b) Maramor ✔
(c) Edinburg
(d) New castle
41. "Somebody else began to run, perhaps a ____.
(a) Shop boy
(b) Garage boy
(c) News boy ✔
(d) Factory boy
42. "According to James Thurber about _____ people were abruptly in full flight."
(a) Two thousand ✔
(b) One thousand
(c) Three thousand
(d) Four thousand
43. The author's _____ turned out all the fires.
(a) Father
(b) Grandfather
(c) Mother ✔
(d) Grand mother
44. "James Thurber's mother took with her a _____ eggs and two loaves of bread."
(a) Half-dozen
(b) Dozen ✔
(c) Quarter Dozen
(d) Dozen and a half
45. "As a little girl ran past a porch on which drowsed a _____ of infantry."
(a) Captain
(b) Major
(c) Lieutenant Colonel ✔
(d) Colonel
46. "He was soon leading with the exhausted child in his arms, a fleeing company of _____ persons."
(a) Five hundred
(b) Four hundred
(c) One hundred
(d) Three hundred ✔
47. "The shouting weeping, tangled evacuation of the city lasted not more than _____ hours in all.
(a) One
(b) Two ✔
(c) Three
(d) Four
48. "Order was restore and fear dispelled finally by means of:
(a) Police men
(b) Firemen
(c) Militiamen ✔
(d) Gun men
49. Many stampeders thought the soldiers war bellowing: "The dam has _____ broken!"
(a) Not
(b) Now ✔
(c) Never
(d) Also
50. The grand father of James Thurber was taller than _____ feet.
(a) Seven
(b) Five
(c) Six ✔
(d) Five and half
51. The grand father of James Thurber weighed almost _____ ponds.
(a) A hundred and fifty
(b) A hundred and sixty
(c) A hundred and sixty five
(d) A hundred and seventy ✔
52. "Later when the panic had died down and people had gone rather _____ back to their homes and their offices."
(a) Horribly
(b) Sheepishly ✔
(c) Weakly
(d) Family
53. "The fact that we were all as safe as _____.
(a) Chicken
(b) Doves
(c) Kittens ✔
(d) Fish
54. "Inside of _____ minutes, everybody on High Street from the union Depot to the court hours was running."
(a) Ten ✔
(b) Twenty
(c) Thirty
(d) Forty
55. "The cry spread like a _____ that the dam had given way." OR
The rumour spread like a _____ that the dam had given way.
(a) Fire
(b) Water
(c) Rumor
(d) Grass-fire ✔
56. The name of Thurber's aunt was:
(a) James Taylor
(b) Jimmy Taylor
(c) Edith Taylor ✔
(d) Julle Taylor
57. Edith Taylor was in a _____ on High Street.
(a) Cinema
(b) Factory
(c) Movie Theatre ✔
(d) Computer Lab
58. "I drew up alongside the woman with some effort, for although she was in her late _____, she had a beautiful easy running form."
(a) Forties
(b) Fifties ✔
(c) Sixties
(d) Thirties
59. Dr. H.P Mallory looked like _____.
(a) Robert Lynd
(b) Robert Kate
(c) Robert James
(d) Robert Browning ✔
60. Dr. Mallory mistook the swishing of the _____ for sound of rushing water.
(a) Motor-cycle
(b) Wheel barrow
(c) Skates ✔
(d) Spin
61. "There was a _____ on roller-skates behind Dr.Mallory.
(a) Robber
(b) Boy ✔
(c) Bandit
| (d) Man
62. "Looking back up the street, Dr. Mallory could see no sings of _____.
(a) Flood
(b) Rain
(c) Drain Water
(d) Water ✔
63. The after noon of March 12, 1913 is known as _____.
(a) The March Past
(b) The Great Run ✔
(c) The Great Flood
(d)The Great Rain
64. "A loud mumble gradually crystallized into the dread word _____.
(a) Dam ✔
(b) Danger
(c) Disaster
(d) Death
65. "The fear was put into words by a little _____.
(a) Man
(b) Old Lady ✔
(c) Old Boy
(d) Young Lady
66. The fear was put into words by a little old lady in an electric or by a _____.
(a) Traffic man
(b) Traffic sound
(c) Traffic cop ✔
(d) Traffic signal
67. Most of the others gave up exhausted or climbed trees in park:
(a) Hyde
(b) Franklin ✔
(c) White
(d) Night
68. The writer says that they were both _____ and demoralized by the experience.
(a) ennobled ✓
(b) demoralised
(c) frightened
(d) excited
69. According to the writer grand father especially rose to _____, which can never lose their splendour for him.
(a) magnificent heights ✓
(b) great height
(c) a great post
(d) the occasion
70. Grand father was a hurdle in their flight from the house. This problem was solved by:
(a) convincing him
(b) scolding him
(c) making him unconscious ✓
(d) carrying him
70. High street, the main canyon of trade was loud _____ and the buzzing of placid.
(a) with noise
(b) with laughter
(c) with the placid hum of business ✓
(d) with music
71. According to the author _____ was a favourite place for a man to meet his wife.
(a) The Holiday Inn
(b) Maramor Restaurant ✓
(c) The Taj Mahal
(d) The Inter Continental
72. The author’s mother intended to take refuge on the:
(a) terrace
(b) roof
(c) high tree
(d) top of the Memorial Hall ✓
73. Dr. Mallory mistook the _____ to be the sound of the gushing water.
(a) noise
(b) explosion
(c) swishing sound of the roller skates ✓
(d) shouting
74. All the time, the sun shone quietly and there was no where any sign of:
(a) the rushing crowd
(b) the people
(c) raining
(d) on coming waters ✓
75. Grand father regained full consciousness at:
(a) Regal Chowk
(b) Paradise Avenue
(c) Parson’s Avenue ✓
(d) Time, Square
76. A visitor in an airopIane, looking down would have been struck by a peculiar kind of terror, like the sight of the:
(a) conqueror
(b) sub-marine
(c) ship
(d) Marie Celeste ✓
77. Finally “order was restored and fear dispelled”, by _______ riding about in motor lorries.
(a) militia men ✓
(b) volunteers
(c) the police
(d) the rangers
78. Outside the theatre, a woman managed to get up on to:
(a) These are my Jewels’ statue’ ✓
(b) the pole
(c) the tree top
(d) roof
79. It was two years or more, before you dared treat the breaking of the dam:
(a) seriously
(b) lightly ✓
(c) very seriously
(d) emotionally
80. The next day, the city went about its business as if nothing had happened, but there was no joking because the people:
(a) were sad
(b) felt bad
(c) were terribly ashamed of their conduct ✓
(d) were in a state of shock
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