II CLASS 10Th ANSWER KEY CH- 9 MY GREATEST OLYMPIC PRIZE • EXTRACT-1 (A) What Surprised Jesse Owens at the Broad Jump Trials? Ans
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A TREASURE TROVE VOLUME- II CLASS 10th ANSWER KEY CH- 9 MY GREATEST OLYMPIC PRIZE • EXTRACT-1 (a) What surprised Jesse Owens at the broad jump trials? Ans. Jesse Owens was surprised to see a tall boy hitting the pit at almost 26 feet on his practice leaps. He turned out to be a German named Luz Long who was kept under wraps by Hitler. (b) Who was that person who startled Jesse Owens at the trials? What was he told about that person? Ans.A German athlete named Luz Long startled Jesse Owens at the broad jump trials who hit the pit at almost 26 feet on his practice leaps. Jesse Owens was told that Hitler had kept Luz Long under wraps, evidently hoping to win the jump with him. © How would Long’s victory affect Nazis? Ans. Jesse thought that if Luz Long’s won, it would add some new support to the Nazis’ Aryan superiority theory. Nazis believed in the theory of racial hierarchy, identifying Germans as part of Aryan or Nordic master race. (d) Why was Jesse angry at Hitler’s ways? Ans. Jesse was told that Hitler had kept German athlete Luz Long under wraps for this competition who was believed to keep up with Aryan’s superiority theory which made Jesse Owens angry. Jesse did not believe in Hitler’s theory of superiority. Such attitude of Hitler made Jesse angry. (e) What was Jesse Owens determined to do? Ans.When Jesse Owens saw Luz Long who hit the pit at almost 26 feet on his practice leaps, he became very angry.He determined to go out there and show Der Fuhrer ( Adolf Hitler) and his master race who was superior and who wasn’t. • EXTRACT-2 (a) What does every coach tell the athletes? Ans. Every coach tells the athletes that an angry athlete is an athlete who will always make mistakes. (b) Why did Jesse Owens fail to qualify for the finals in the first two jumps? Ans.Jesse Owens failed to qualify for the finals in the first two jumps because he committed mistakes. On the first of his three qualifying jumps, he leaped from several inches betond the take-off board for a foul. On the second jump, he fouled even worse. Due to these mistakes he failed to qualify for the finals in the first two jumps. (C) How did he cause himself for not qualifying for the finals in the first two jumps? Ans.Jesse Owens failed to qualify for the finals in the first two jumps which made him feel worst. He asked himself whether he had come 3000 miles for fouls only.He thought that he would make fool of himself if he got foul out of the trials. (d) What did Jesse do in disgust ?Who was the athlete that had easily qualified for the finals in his first attempt? Ans. After failing twice in the jumps in trials, Jesse Owens walked a few yards from the pit and kicked disgustedly at the dirt.Luz Long , the German athlete, was the person who had qualified for the finals in his first attempt. (e) Why was Jesse nervous? How was he trying to hide it? Ans. Jesse was nervous as he was unable to qualify the broad jump trials even after practicing hard for 6 years.He tried to hide his nervousness by asking the question how Luz was. • EXTRACT-3 (a) What did Long tell Jesse that made him feel good? Ans. When Jesse failed to qualify for the finals in his first two attempts out of three, Luz went towards him and made him calm. Jesse felt good when Luz asked him not to bother about anything and told him to just close his eyes and he would qualify. (b) What were Long’s views about Hitler’s , Aryan supremacy theory? Ans. The German athlete Luz Long did not believe in Hitler’s Aryan supremacy theory though he had been schooled in the Nazi Youth movement. (C) Describe Luz Long’s physical appearance. Ans. Luz Long, an inch taller than Jesse Owens had a lean,muscular frame, clear blue eyes,blonde hair and a strikingly handsome,chiseled face. (d) What tip did Long give Jesse that would help him to qualify for the finals? Ans. Luz Long asked Jesse Owens to draw a line a few inches in back of the board and aim at making his take off from there. Luz was sure that if Jesse agreed to him, he would not foul and he was right. Jesse, finally, qualified for the finals by keeping his advice in mind. (e) What removed Jesse Owens’ tension? What did Jesse do to qualify for the finals? Ans. Luz Long’s tip that he should draw a line a few inches in back of the board and aim at making his take- off from there removed Jesse Owens’ tension.The proverb ‘Tomorrow is what counts’ made Jesse feel that he should not give up and try for the third time. Jesse Owens drew a line a full foot in back of the board and proceeded to jump from there.He qualified with almost a foot to spare. • EXTRACT-4 (a) Why did Jesse go to Luz Long’s room? What did they talk about? Ans. Luz Long had told Jesse that he should draw a line a few inches in back of the board and aim at making his take- off from there. This removed Jesse Owens’ tension.Jesse He went to Luz Long’s room in the Olympic village to thank him because it was only because of this suggestion that he had qualified for the broad jump trials. Jesse Owens and Luz Long sat in Luz’s quarters and talked for two hours about track and fields, themselves, the world situation and a dozen other things. (b) What feeling did Jesse carry with him after talking to Long for two hours?What did Long want him to do? Ans.After talking to Long for two hours Jesse knew that a real and true friendship had been formed between the two which was far more precious than the gold medal. Luz long wanted Jesse Owens to do his best in the finals even if that meant Jesse’s winning. (C) How did long fare in the went? What did long congratulate Jesse for? Ans. Jesse Owens broke his own past record that is of 26 feet in running broad jump. Jesse Owens, in the finals ,set the Olympic record of 26 feet 5 5/16 inches.At the instant,Luz went towards him and congratulated him with a firm handshake with true sportsman spirit. (d) How did Hitler react when Long congratulated Jesse by shaking hands with him? Ans. Hitler glared at them from the stands not a hundred yards away when Long congratulated Jesse by shaking hands with him. (e) What do you understand about Luz Long after his handshake with Jesse Owens? Ans. After a firm handshake between Luz Long and Jesse Owens on Jesse’s achievement of gold medal,we becoem to know that Luz long was a noble, true and genuine friend of Jesse who without feeling a pang of jealousy congratulated Jesse Owens. He gave a genuine smile at Jesse’s victory. He was an epitome of goodness. • EXTRACT-5 (a) Did Owens tell Long what was troubling him?If not, why? Ans. Jesse Owens did not tell Luz Long what was troubling him because he did not want to show his nervousness and tension to anyone which he was feeling after committing two fouls in the trials of running broad jump. (b) How did Owens manage to qualify for the finals with a foot to spare? Ans. Jesse Owens drew a line a full foot in back of the board and proceeded to jump from there.He qualified with almost a foot to spare. (c) How did Luz respond to Jesse’s winning the gold? Ans. Jesse Owens broke his own past record that is of 26 feet in running broad jump. Jesse Owens, in the finals ,set the Olympic record of 26 feet 5 5/16 inches.At the instant,Luz went towards him and congratulated him with a firm handshake with true sportsman spirit. (d) Why did Hitler glare at Luz Long and Jesse Owens? Ans.Adolf Hitler believed in Aryan superiority theory, according to which Luz Long, the German athlete was supposed to win the running broad jump finals.When Jesse Owens won the finals,Luz Long went towards him and congratulated him by shaking hands. It made Hitler glare at both of them from stands as Jesse had broken the Aryan Supremacy theory. (e)What,according to Coubertin, is the true spirit of Olympics? Ans. According to Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.” SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (UNSOLVED) SET-I 1. (a) Who is the narrator of the story ‘My Greatest Olympic Prize’? What do you think of him? Ans.Jesse Owens is the narrator of the story “My Greatest Olympic Prize”.He is an American negro athlete who set the Olympic record of 26 feet 5-5/16 in Berlin in the summer of 1936. He talks of his great friendhsip with a German athlete named Luz Long during these games. It was Luz Long who provided Jesse owens with right kind of approach to his game.