WorksheetsAn Elementary School Classroom Part 1
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
2.
Identify the literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
3.
‘Break O break’. What should they break?
a)
the donations
b)
all bathers
c)
the slums
d)
the schools
4.
The imprisoned minds and lives of the slum children can be released from their bondage if they are given an experience of the outer world.
a)
never
b)
soon
c)
eventually
d)
magically
5.
Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
6.
The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
a)
long
b)
short
c)
optimistic
d)
pessimistic
7.
Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?
a)
in their cramped holes
b)
towards the sun
c)
towards the school
d)
towards the windows
8.
The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of
a)
the beautiful world
b)
cleaner lanes
c)
the political structure
d)
the civil design
9.
Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
10.
Shakespeare is wicked because he the children.
a)
educates
b)
tempts
c)
loves
d)
hates
11.
What does the map represent?
a)
world of the rich and powerful
b)
world of the poor
c)
world of the slum school children
d)
world the poet wants for the slum children
12.
What is the stunted boy reciting?
a)
the lesson from his desk
b)
Shakespeare’s poetry
c)
leaves of nature
d)
his composition
13.
‘On sour cream walls. Donations’ suggests
a)
schools are well equipped
b)
schools are small but they try to impart education
c)
schools have a poor and ill-equipped environment
d)
schools meet the education requirements of the children through donations
14.
Who sits at the back of the class?
a)
a sweet and young pupil
b)
a paper seeming boy
c)
a tall girl
d)
a girl with hair like rootless weeds
15.
The colour of sour cream is
a)
white
b)
yellow
c)
off-white
d)
pale
16.
The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes’ means the boy is
a)
sly and secretive
b)
short and lean
c)
hungry and thin
d)
sad and depressed
17.
Identify the literary device in ‘father’s gnarled disease’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
18.
Identify the literary device in `rat’s eyes’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
19.
Identify the literary device in ‘like roofless weeds’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
20.
What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
a)
slum children
b)
energetic children
c)
deceased children
d)
unhappy children
21.
What does the expression ‘Break O break open’ suggest?
a)
barriers on the road
b)
barriers of garbage heap
c)
barriers of dirty environment must be broken
d)
None
22.
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
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