Post Test - The Last Lesson

1. Which of the following can be attributed to M. Hamel’s declaration about the French language?

• A. subject expertise

• B. nostalgic pride

• C. factual accuracy

• D. patriotic magnification

2. “I was amazed to see how well I understood it.” Select the option that does NOT explain why Franz found the grammar lesson “easy”..

• A. Franz was paying careful attention in class this time.

• B. M. Hamel was being extremely patient and calm in his teaching.

• C. Franz was inspired and had found a new meaning and purpose to learning

• D. Franz had realized that French was the clearest and most logical language.

3. Choose the option that most appropriately fills in the blanks, for the following description of the given extract.

The villagers and their children sat in class, forging with their old master a (i) _____ togetherness. In that moment, the class room stood(ii) _____. It was France itself, and the last French lesson a desperate hope to (iii) ______ to the remnants of what they had known andtaken for granted. Their own (iv) _______.

• A. (i) graceful; (ii) still; (iii) hang on; (iv) country

• B. (i) bygone; (ii) up; (iii) keep on; (iv) education

• C. (i) beautiful; (ii) mesmerised; (iii) carry on; (iv) unity

• D. (i) forgotten; (ii) transformed; (iii) hold on; (iv) identity

4. What did Franz fear for coming late to school?

• A. he would be blessed by the teacher

• B. he would be rebuked by the teacher

• C. he would be rewarded by the teacher

• D. he would be given 100 pesos

12. Who is the writer of the lesson ‘The Last Lesson’?

• A. Alphonse Daudet

• B. William Douglas

• C. Anees Jung

• D. Louis Fischer

What was the mood in the classroom when M Hamel gave his last French lesson?

Franz thinks, “Will they make them sing in German, even the pigeons?” What does this tell us about the attitude of the Frenchmen?

“What a thunderclap these words were to me!” What were the words that shocked and surprised the narrator?

At the end of his last lesson, M. Hamel decides to leave a little note for each of his students for them to find the next day at their desks. Based on your reading of the story, what might his note to Franz read?

You may begin like this:

Dear Franz,

I know you have always preferred to run in the open fields …

“You realise the true value of a thing only on losing it.” Comment on this statement in the light of the story, The Last Lesson