CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 2 – An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 2 – An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
Question 1.
Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?
(a) in their cramped holes
(b) towards the sun
(c) towards the school
(d) towards the windows
Answer
Answer: (a) in their cramped holes
Question 2.
Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 3.
Shakespeare is wicked because he the children.
(a) educates
(b) tempts
(c) loves
(d) hates
Answer
Answer: (b) tempts
Question 4.
The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
(a) long
(b) short
(c) optimistic
(d) pessimistic
Answer
Answer: (c) optimistic
Question 5.
What attracts the slum children?
(a)The animals
(b) The movies
(c) icecream
(d) All beautiful things like ship, Sun
Answer
Answer: (d) All beautiful things like ship, Sun
Question 6.
What does the map represent?
(a) world of the rich and powerful
(b) world of the poor
(c) world of the slum school children
(d) world the poet wants for the slum children
Answer
Answer: (a) world of the rich and powerful
Question 7.
What does the poet show through expressions ‘so blot their maps with slums as big as doom’?
(a) his clot the street
(b) enjoy the maps
(c) big maps
(d) poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities
Answer
Answer: (d) poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities
Question 8.
What is the stunted boy reciting?
(a) the lesson from his desk
(b) Shakespeare’s poetry
(c) leaves of nature
(d) his composition
Answer
Answer: (a) the lesson from his desk
Question 9.
Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer
Answer: (a) simile
Question 10.
The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of
(a) the beautiful world
(b) cleaner lanes
(c) the political structure
(d) the civil design
Answer
Answer: (a) the beautiful world
Question 11.
Identify the literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 12.
‘On sour cream walls. Donations’ suggests
(a) schools are well equipped
(b) schools are small but they try to impart education
(c) schools have a poor and ill-equipped environment
(d) schools meet the education requirements of the children through donations
Answer
Answer: (c) schools have a poor and ill-equipped environment
Question 13.
Who sits at the back of the class?
(a) a sweet and young pupil
(b) a paper seeming boy
(c) a tall girl
(d) a girl with hair like rootless weeds
Answer
Answer: (a) a sweet and young pupil
Question 14.
The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes’ means the boy is
(a) sly and secretive
(b) short and lean
(c) hungry and thin
(d) sad and depressed
Answer
Answer: (c) hungry and thin
Question 15.
Identify the literary device in ‘father’s gnarled disease’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 16.
Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 17.
Identify the literary device in `rat’s eyes’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 18.
Identify the literary device in ‘like roofless weeds’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer
Answer: (a) simile
Question 19.
What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
(a) slum children
(b) energetic children
(c) deceased children
(d) unhappy children
Answer
Answer: (b) energetic children
Question 20.
The colour of sour cream is
(a) white
(b) yellow
(c) off-white
(d) pale
Answer
Answer: (c) off-white
Question 21.
What does the expression ‘Break O break open’ suggest?
(a) barriers on the road
(b) barriers of garbage heap
(c) barriers of dirty environment must be broken
(d) None
Answer
Answer: (c) barriers of dirty environment must be broken
Question 22.
‘Break O break’. What should they break?
(a) the donations
(b) all bathers
(c) the slums
(d) the schools
Answer
Answer: (b) all bathers
Question 23.
What have the windows done to the children’s lives in the poem?
(a) shut the doors
(b) blocked the passage
(c) clocked the Sunlight
(d) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth
Answer
Answer: (d) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth
Question 24.
The imprisoned minds and lives of the slum children can be released from their bondage if they are given an experience of the outer world.
(a) never
(b) soon
(c) eventually
(d) magically
Answer
Answer: (d) magically
Question 25.
Mention any two images used to explain the plight of the slum children.
(a) open handed map
(b) from his desk
(c) belled, flowery
(d) foggy slums and bottle bits on stones
Answer
Answer: (d) foggy slums and bottle bits on stones
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