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WorksheetsAn Elementary School Classroom Part 2
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What does the poet show through expressions ‘so blot their maps with slums as big as doom’?
a)
his clot the street
b)
enjoy the maps
c)
big maps
d)
poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities
2.
Mention any two images used to explain the plight of the slum children.
a)
open handed map
b)
from his desk
c)
belled, flowery
d)
foggy slums and bottle bits on stones
3.
What attracts the slum children?
a)
(a)The animals
b)
The movies
c)
icecream
d)
All beautiful things like ship, Sun
4.
In what sense are the slum chidren different?
a)
their IQ
b)
their wisdom
c)
their dresses
d)
because of no access to hope and openness of the world
5.
What does the expression ‘Open handed map ” show?
a)
power of the poor
b)
the poor are powerful
c)
the poor are powerless
d)
maps are drawn at the orders of the powerful people like hitler
6.
Who was sitting at the back of the dim class?
a)
a girl
b)
an old man
c)
a teacher
d)
an unnoticed young boy
7.
What kind of look the faces and hair of the children give?
a)
a rich and beautiful
b)
organized
c)
healthy
d)
pale faces and scattered and undone hair
8.
Why is the head of the tall girl ‘weighed down’?
a)
by the burden of studies
b)
by the burden of work
c)
by the burden of the world
d)
All these
9.
What does the poet wish for the children of the slums?
a)
He wish them to be happy and healthy
b)
He wishes a good change for them
c)
he wants them to lead a healthy and happy life
d)
All these
10.
How can powerful people help the poor children?
a)
by fighting with the government
b)
by fighting with the powerful
c)
by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice
d)
by fighting with the rich
11.
What do Catacombs signify?
a)
underground cemetry showing irrelevance of the map hanging on the wall of the classroom
b)
irrelevance of the classroom
c)
irrelevance of the school
d)
irrelevance of the children
12.
What was the boy with rat’s eyes trying to escape from?
a)
bright light outside
b)
openness of trees
c)
dim light of the class
d)
children in the room
13.
What do the faces of children in the slum areas reflect?
a)
happiness
b)
their aspirations
c)
their happiness
d)
sadness and lack of enthusiasm
14.
What are the poetic devices used in the poem?
a)
alliteration and simile
b)
metaphor and imagery
c)
synecdoche, and irony
d)
All these
15.
What kind of life the children living in slums have?
a)
full of love
b)
full of care and warmth
c)
Hopeless and full of struggle
d)
all these
16.
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
17.
Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
a)
Kipling
b)
Wordsworth
c)
Kamlanath
d)
Stephen Spender
18.
What does the poet want?
a)
to send the children out of the slums
b)
to send the children to America
c)
to send the children to open fields
d)
to send the children to a beach
19.
What other freedom the poet wants the slum children to enjoy?
a)
Freedom of roaming
b)
freedom to spend money
c)
freedom to eat
d)
freedom of knowledge, wisdom and expression
20.
What do the ‘governor’, inspector, visitor in the poem depict?
a)
higher officials
b)
Government officials
c)
Political people
d)
Powerful and influential people
21.
What blots the maps of the slum children?
a)
garbage
b)
blockage
c)
stones in the streets
d)
Dirty slums
22.
What do the words ‘From fog to endless night mean?
a)
bright light outside
b)
bright future
c)
hopelessness
d)
Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death
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