WorksheetsEnglish Literature
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 17mins
What is the kind of pain ache that the poet feels?
Losing her mother
Heart attack
Headache
Children screaming at her
What is the distinctive feature of the poem?
Its Metaphors
Simile used
Alliteration used
Narrative style using a single sentence in a set of fourteen lines
Why are the trees described as sprinting ?
Their running appearance and to show fast moving of change of human life
To show their running appearance
To tell how trees look from a running car
To show the speed of the car
What do the trees signify ?
Fast moving appearance
Speed of the moving car
Fast moving change of human life from childhood to old age
None of the above
What does 'ashen face' signify ?
To show poet's fears
To tell aging is painful
Pale and lifeless face of poet's mother
To show old age
What does the poet notice in the outer world ?
Sprinting trees and running roads
Schools and roads
Other vehicles
Many people on the road
Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum ?
Kipling
Wordsworth
Kamala Das
Stephen Spender
What theme did the poet concentrate on in the poem ?
Theme of social injustice and class inequalities
Theme of children and their happiness
Theme of insecurities
None of the above
What does the poet portray in the poem ?
Young minds
Playfulness of the children
Questions of young mind
The plight of young children in the slums
What do the words ''Their future is painted with fog'' convey ?
No love and care
No warmth
No hard work
No hope of improvement
What is ironical about the wall hanging and donations in the classroom ?
Set up in very clean environment
Completely opposite to the needs of the children in the class room
Set up in happy environment
Set up in gloomy set up
What have the windows done to the children's lives in the poem?
Shut the doors
Blocked the passage
Clocked the sunlight
Have shut the children inside and blocked their growth
Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or hates violence ?
Fisherman not harming whales
Wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate
Poet's refusal to deal with death
All the above
What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem ?
War against humanity
War against nature
War with gases and fires
All the above
What can human beings learn from nature ?
Beauty
Keeping quiet
To be happy
Working with silence
What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us ?
To be peaceful , thoughtful and feelings of brotherhood
Not to make noise
Speaking creates noise
How to maintain silence
Why is silence treated as a big issue ?
It helps to search our soul
Helps us to analyze our actions
Helps us to be thoughtful and find our true self
All the above
What should not be confused with total inactivity or death ?
No movement
Stillness and silence
A statue
Talking people
'Awarding the world its world' what do these words express?
The world is ours
The world belongsto rich and powerful
The world belong to the poor
The world is yours
What kind of future the slum children have ?
Very hopeful
Bright
Hopeless and uncertain
Clear like water
