Keeping Quiet

What does the title of the poem suggest?

• Inactivity

• noise

• unhappiness

• Maintenance of silence

What does the poem speak about?

• the necessity to be happy

• the necessity to introspect , understand and have feelings of brotherhood

• the necessity to work quietly

What does number 12 represent?

• hours of the day and months of a year

• earth

• cricket players

• clock

What is poet’s pen name?

• Neruda

• Pablo Neruda

• Pablo

• Pable

What does the style of the poem symbolise, that the poet used to write with?

• happiness

• hope

• desire and hope

• None

What is the original language of the poem ?

• English

• Spanish

• Hindi

• French

What is the essence or message of the poem ?

• introspection and retrospection to be more peaceful and be in harmony

• to prosper

• To be happier

• To reach out to people

What does the poet feel is needed to be at peace?

• meeting with people

• talking with people

• interaction with the people

• Soul searching

According to the poet what creates barriers?

• interactions

• reactions

• fighting

• languages

What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem?

• enclosed rhyme

• Monorhyme

• Free verse

• sonnet