CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 3 – Keeping Quiet
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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem -Unit 3 – Keeping Quiet
Question 1.
The poet advocates the balance of nature to be
(a) maintained
(b) destroyed
(c) temporarily disturbed
(d) ignored
Answer
Answer: (a) maintained
Question 2.
Where would they be walking?
(a) in the park
(b) along the river
(c) in the shade
(d) on the road
Answer
Answer: (c) in the shade
Question 3.
The poet uses conversational style and personal pronouns as ‘you’, ‘we’ and `I’ because
(a) he wants to be intimate with mankind
(b) he tries to read out to the readers
(c) he wants to establish contact easily
(d) third person is ineffective
Answer
Answer: (b) he tries to read out to the readers
Question 4.
The types of wars the poet talks about are
(a) green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
(b) verbal wars
(c) technological warfare
(d) nuclear wars
Answer
Answer: (a) green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
Question 5.
Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm
(a) seahorses
(b) mermaids
(c) whales
(d) tortoises
Answer
Answer: (c) whales
Question 6.
The last line of the poem is
(a) and later proves to be alive
(b) life is what it is about
(c) I want no truck with death
(d) and you keep quiet and I will go
Answer
Answer: (d) and you keep quiet and I will go
Question 7.
What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping quiet is not total inactivity?
(a) Sun
(b) Soil
(c) earth
(d) Nature and earth
Answer
Answer: (d) Nature and earth
Question 8.
What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent
(a) terrible
(b) painful
(c) exotic
(d) unforgettable
Answer
Answer: (c) exotic
Question 9.
‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device
(a) personification
(b) transferred epithet
(c) metaphor
(d) alliteration
Answer
Answer: (b) transferred epithet
Question 10.
What does man threaten himself with?
(a) death
(b) birth
(c) robbery
(d) suicide
Answer
Answer: (a) death
Question 11.
The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet for
(a) twenty seconds
(b) 1 hour
(c) thirty seconds
(d) twelve seconds
Answer
Answer: (d) twelve seconds
Question 12.
According to the poet wars that are fought have no
(a) soldiers
(b) weapons
(c) fighter planes
(d) survivors
Answer
Answer: (d) survivors
Question 13.
What can human beings learn from nature?
(a) beauty
(b) keeping quiet
(c) to be happy
(d) working with silence
Answer
Answer: (d) working with silence
Question 14.
Man needs to learn a lesson from
(a) moon
(b) stars
(c) earth
(d) sun
Answer
Answer: (c) earth
Question 15.
How will silence benefit the man and nature?
(a) both will be friends
(b) man will know nature better
(c) man will be healthy
(d) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves
Answer
Answer: (d) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves
Question 16.
What is always alive even when everything seems to be dead or still?
(a) mountains
(b) rivers
(c) Sun
(d) Earth and nature are always alive
Answer
Answer: (d) Earth and nature are always alive
Question 17.
What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?
(a) happy
(b) content
(c) dancing
(d) strange blissful oneness
Answer
Answer: (d) strange blissful oneness
Question 18.
Without rush, without engines’ refers to
(a) no noise
(b) no hurry to go to the office
(c) no travelling
(d) no holidaying
Answer
Answer: (a) no noise
Question 19.
What is the sadness in the poem that the poet speaks about ?
(a) violence because of unthoughtful ness of the people
(b) unnecessary movements
(c) speaking aloud
(d) fighting
Answer
Answer: (a) violence because of unthoughtful ness of the people
Question 20.
What will happen if there are no engines and no crowd?
(a) noise will be lessened
(b) no crowd on roads
(c) no traffic rush
(d) it will create a perfect, happy moment
Answer
Answer: (d) it will create a perfect, happy moment
Question 21.
While gathering salt, what will happen to the man if he keep silent for a moment?
(a) he will stop dropping it
(b) he will look at the ground
(c) he will walk carefully
(d) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands
Answer
Answer: (d) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands
Question 22.
The poet wants the entire humanity to
(a) keep talking
(b) keep running
(c) keep laughing
(d) keep still
Answer
Answer: (d) keep still
Question 23.
‘Have no truck with death’ means
(a) will not die of the truck accident
(b) remove poverty and illiteracy
(c) have no association or deal with death
(d) will not drive a truck
Answer
Answer: (c) have no association or deal with death
Question 24.
Why is the poet asking everyone not to speak any language?
(a) to avoid noise
(b) to avoid loud voices
(c) to avoid people
(d) to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings
Answer
Answer: (d) to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings
Question 25.
What does the poet want people to do for one second?
(a) to sing
(b) to close eyes
(c) to stand quietly
(d) to be silent and motionless
Answer
Answer: (d) to be silent and motionless
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