GR12 KEEPING QUIET

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

• desires
  
  
  

• happiness

• hope

• desire and hope

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

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  meeting with people
  
  
  

• talking with people

• interaction with the people

• Soul searching

Assertion: The poet wants everyone to learn from the nature to create and not to destroy. 

Reason: He wants to escape from his duty towards the mankind. 

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  a) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of assertion. 

• b) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion. 

• Assertion is true and reason is false. 

• Assertion is false and reason is true.

According to the poet what creates barriers?

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  interactions
  
  
  

• reactions

• fighting

• languages

Why does the poet ask people not to speak?

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  because it creates noise
  
  
  

• he doesn’t like noise

• it makes things unpleasant

• because it creates barriers or obstacles in the form of misunderstanding amongst people

How is keeping quiet related to life and can change attitude?

• it helps to think and search soul
  
  
  

• B) helps to scratch one’s soul

• C) helps to develop new thinking process

• D) All of these

Statement 1: The poet urges his countrymen to stop for a while. 

  Statement 2: The poet urges all men to stop for a second. 

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  Statement 1 is true but Statement 2 is false.

•   Statement 1 is false but Statement 2 is true. 

•   Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true. 

• Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 cannot be inferred.

What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?

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  how to maintain silence
  
  
  

•   not to make noise

•   speaking creates noise

• To be peaceful , thoughtful and have feelings of brotherhood

Not move our arms’ what does this expression refer to?

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  sit quietly
  
  
  

•   stand quietly

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  to be inactive

• sitting still without any movement

Why is silence treated as a big issue?

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  it helps to search our soul
  
  
  

•   it helps us to analyze our actions

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  it helps us to be thoughtful and find our true self

• All of these