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English Literature

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the kind of pain ache that the poet feels?

a)

Losing her mother

b)

Heart attack

c)

Headache

d)

Children screaming at her

2.

What is the distinctive feature of the poem?

a)

Its Metaphors

b)

Simile used

c)

Alliteration used

d)

Narrative style using a single sentence in a set of fourteen lines

3.

Why are the trees described as sprinting ?

a)

Their running appearance and to show fast moving of change of human life

b)

To show their running appearance

c)

To tell how trees look from a running car

d)

To show the speed of the car

4.

What do the trees signify ?

a)

Fast moving appearance

b)

Speed of the moving car

c)

Fast moving change of human life from childhood to old age

d)

None of the above

5.

What does 'ashen face' signify ?

a)

To show poet's fears

b)

To tell aging is painful

c)

Pale and lifeless face of poet's mother

d)

To show old age

6.

What does the poet notice in the outer world ?

a)

Sprinting trees and running roads

b)

Schools and roads

c)

Other vehicles

d)

Many people on the road

7.

Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum ?

a)

Kipling

b)

Wordsworth

c)

Kamala Das

d)

Stephen Spender

8.

What theme did the poet concentrate on in the poem ?

a)

Theme of social injustice and class inequalities

b)

Theme of children and their happiness

c)

Theme of insecurities

d)

None of the above

9.

What does the poet portray in the poem ?

a)

Young minds

b)

Playfulness of the children

c)

Questions of young mind

d)

The plight of young children in the slums

10.

What do the words ''Their future is painted with fog'' convey ?

a)

No love and care

b)

No warmth

c)

No hard work

d)

No hope of improvement

11.

What is ironical about the wall hanging and donations in the classroom ?

a)

Set up in very clean environment

b)

Completely opposite to the needs of the children in the class room

c)

Set up in happy environment

d)

Set up in gloomy set up

12.

What have the windows done to the children's lives in the poem?

a)

Shut the doors

b)

Blocked the passage

c)

Clocked the sunlight

d)

Have shut the children inside and blocked their growth

13.

Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or hates violence ?

a)

Fisherman not harming whales

b)

Wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate

c)

Poet's refusal to deal with death

d)

All the above

14.

What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem ?

a)

War against humanity

b)

War against nature

c)

War with gases and fires

d)

All the above

15.

What can human beings learn from nature ?

a)

Beauty

b)

Keeping quiet

c)

To be happy

d)

Working with silence

16.

What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us ?

a)

To be peaceful , thoughtful and feelings of brotherhood

b)

Not to make noise

c)

Speaking creates noise

d)

How to maintain silence

17.

Why is silence treated as a big issue ?

a)

It helps to search our soul

b)

Helps us to analyze our actions

c)

Helps us to be thoughtful and find our true self

d)

All the above

18.

What should not be confused with total inactivity or death ?

a)

No movement

b)

Stillness and silence

c)

A statue

d)

Talking people

19.

'Awarding the world its world' what do these words express?

a)

The world is ours

b)

The world belongsto rich and powerful

c)

The world belong to the poor

d)

The world is yours

20.

What kind of future the slum children have ?

a)

Very hopeful

b)

Bright

c)

Hopeless and uncertain

d)

Clear like water