KEEPING QUIET MCQ

Why do you think the poet employs words like "exotic" and "strangeness"?

• To emphasise the frentic activity and chaos that usually envelops human life.

• To highlight the importance of everyone being together suddenly for once.

• To indicate the unfamiliarity of a sudden moment without rush or without engine.

• To direct us towards keeping quiet and how we would all be together in that silence.

Read the given extract and answer the following question

What I want should not be confused with total inactivity. Life is what it is about; I want no truck with death.

About which confusion the poet is referring to here?

• 
  Introspect for sometime while being active.

• Stillness and keeping quiet for some time means end of everything.

• Keeping still means total inactivity.

• All of the above

What can humans learn from nature?

• beauty

• being inactive

• working with silence

• to be sad

What is the poets pen name?

• Neftali

• Pable

• Ricardo

• Pablo Neruda

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

• happiness

• sadness

• disappointment

• desire and hope

According to the poet the wars that have fought have no

• soldiers

• weapons

• survivors

• victory

’Cold sea’ is a poetic device

• personification       

• transferred epithet

• metaphor

• alliteration

The last line of the poem is

• and later proves to be alive

• I want no truck with death

• life is what it is about

• and you keep quiet and I will go

‘Have no truck with death’ means

• will not die of the truck accident

• remove poverty and illiteracy

• have no association or deal with death

• will not drive a truck

What will be an exotic moment, as per the poet of the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

• Sudden moment of silence

• Sudden communication

• Sudden moment of loud shouts

• None of the above