CBSE Class 12 Humanities English · Ch 1: The Last Lesson

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Difficulty: 3 easy · 8 medium · 19 hard

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1. Q1. Assertion (A): At the end, M. Hamel could only gesture 'School is dismissed—you may go' instead of speaking. Reason (R): He was too overcome with emotion to say the words aloud. Choose the correct option.

   • A. Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
   • B. Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
   • C. A is false but R is true
   • D. A is true but R is false
   Solution

   Both A and R are true, and R correctly explains A — his deep grief at losing his school and language choked his voice so he had to use a gesture.

2. Q2. Match each detail with what it signals in the story, and choose the correct pairing: 1. Pigeons cooing on the roof 2. 'Vive La France!' on the blackboard 3. The Prussian trumpets under the windows

   • A. 1-Franz's fear of German rule, 2-M. Hamel's patriotism, 3-the arrival of the new rulers
   • B. 1-Franz's fear of German rule, 2-the arrival of the new rulers, 3-M. Hamel's patriotism
   • C. 1-the arrival of the new rulers, 2-Franz's fear, 3-M. Hamel's patriotism
   • D. 1-M. Hamel's patriotism, 2-Franz's fear, 3-the arrival of the new rulers
   Solution

   The pigeons make Franz fear even they will be made to sing in German, 'Vive La France!' is M. Hamel's final cry of patriotism, and the trumpets mark the Prussians' return signalling the new rule.

3. Q3. When Franz could not recite the rule for participles, how did M. Hamel react, and what reason did he give?

   • A. He punished Franz harshly for not paying attention in class
   • B. He said the German rulers alone were responsible
   • C. He did not scold him and said everyone, including himself, was to blame for delaying learning
   • D. He blamed only Franz's parents for sending him to work
   Solution

   M. Hamel did not scold Franz but said that everyone, including parents, himself and the children, was to blame for always putting off learning.

4. Q4. Why were the village elders, such as old Hauser and the former mayor, sitting on the back benches that day?

   • A. Because the church next door was closed that morning
   • B. Because the German officers had ordered them to attend
   • C. To complain to the teacher about the children's poor progress
   • D. To honour M. Hamel's service and show respect for their country and language
   Solution

   They came to show respect to M. Hamel for forty years of service and to thank the country whose language was being taken away.

5. Q5. M. Hamel said that when a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had what?

   • A. The map of their country
   • B. The key to their prison
   • C. The sword of their soldiers
   • D. The crown of their king
   Solution

   He compared language to the key to their prison, meaning that keeping their mother tongue would one day help them win back their freedom.

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