THE LAST LESSON

How did M. Hamel hold himself responsible for not teaching French properly? (Select the correct answers)

• M. Hamel had sent his students to water the flowers quite often.

• M. Hamel remained quite ill most of the time.

• Sometimes he went fishing and did not take class.

• M. Hamel gave holidays to children to go fishing himself.

WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT LINGUISTIC CHAUVINISM

• major legal and social ramifications, such as the repression of other languages

• the belief that one's own language is superior to all others

• an excessive or prejudiced preference for one's own tongue

• an aggressive or unreasonable belief that one's language is better than all others

• .

  the belief that your country is better than all others.

WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY FRANZ SAYING ''WILL THEY MAKE THEM SING IN GERMAN, EVEN THE PIGEONS"'

• The language was as natural to them as cooing is to the pigeons.

• forcing German on them would be not only difficult but next to impossible

• It is difficult for people to accept a language which is imposed on them

• one can only speak natural language which is inherited culturally and accepted generation to generation can not be forcefully taken away from them

The story ‘The Last Lesson’ highlights which human tendency?

• Cultural dominance

• Procrastination, nonchalant attitude

• leisurely attitude towards important things in life

• things once went out of reach are very difficult to regain

From where did the orders come to teach only German in the districts of Alsace and Lorraine?

• A) France

• B) Lorraine

• C)Berlin

• D) Germany

Why was Franz reluctant to go to school?

• A) wanted to enjoy warm Sunlight

• B) wanted to see soldiers drill

• C) wanted to enjoy outdoor

• D) lesson on participles was not prepared

Why was Franz surprised?

• A) seeing village elders

  sitting in the back benches

• B) Because of police patrolling

• C) because of students’ behavior

• D) because of M.Hamel’s kind and polite behaviour

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

“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 French

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

4. Read the quotes given below. Choose the option that might best describe M. Hamel’s viewpoint.

• (i) Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• (ii) Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. – Rita Mae Brown

• (iii) A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. – Ali Ibn Abi Talib

• (iv) The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That
  shapes our perceptions for life. – Marshal McLuhan