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An Elementary school classroom in a slum

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes means

The boy is

a)

sly and secretive

b)

thin, hungry and weak

c)

unpleasant looking

d)

All of the above

2.

What is the figure of speech used in the line "these children’s faces like rootless weeds"?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Alliteration

d)

Pun

3.

Why is the boy called "the stunted, unlucky heir"?

a)

He has not inherited the property.

b)

He has not received education.

c)

He has received disability from his father.

d)

None of the above

4.

What does the poet mean by "all their future’s painted with a fog"?

a)

Their future is beautiful like fog.

b)

The children have painted their future with fog.

c)

The fog blocks their future.

d)

Their future is dark and hazy just like fog.

5.

What is the figure of speech used in the phrase "lead sky"?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Pun

6.

Why Shakespeare is called wicked?

a)

Shakespeare does not teach morals.

b)

His life is not a good example for these children.

c)

He uses wicked words.

d)

He has no relevance for these children and portrays a wrong world.

7.

What is the meaning of 'azure' in the context of the above text?

a)

hazy

b)

ochre

c)

the blue colour of the sky

d)

gray

8.

This poem follows the ideology of__________.

a)

Socialism

b)

Fascism

c)

Feminism

d)

Capitalism

9.

What is the figure of speech used in the line "far far from rivers"?

a)

Assonance

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

10.

Which phrase/sentence best describes that the children are malnourished?

a)

The tall girl with her weighed-down head

b)

The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones

c)

These children wear skins peeped through by bones.

d)

These children’s faces like rootless weeds

11.

Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?

a)

Kipling

b)

Kamlanath

c)

Wordsworth

d)

Stephen Spender

12.

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

13.

The faces of the children in the slum look______

a)

happy

b)

pale

c)

energetic

14.
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
15.
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
16.
What attracts the slum children?
a)
(a)The animals
b)
The movies
c)
icecream
d)
All beautiful things like ship, Sun
17.
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
18.
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
19.
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
20.
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
21.
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
22.
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
23.
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
24.
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
25.
What do the ‘governor’, inspector, visitor in the poem depict?
a)
higher officials
b)
Government officials
c)
Political people
d)
Powerful and influential people
26.
What blots the maps of the slum children?
a)
garbage
b)
blockage
c)
stones in the streets
d)
Dirty slums
27.
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
28.
Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
29.
Identify the literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
30.
Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
31.
Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?
a)
in their cramped holes
b)
towards the sun
c)
towards the school
d)
towards the windows
32.
Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
33.
What is the stunted boy reciting?
a)
the lesson from his desk
b)
Shakespeare’s poetry
c)
leaves of nature
d)
his composition
34.
Identify the literary device in ‘father’s gnarled disease’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
35.
Identify the literary device in `rat’s eyes’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
36.
Identify the literary device in ‘like roofless weeds’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
37.
What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
a)
slum children
b)
energetic children
c)
deceased children
d)
unhappy children
38.
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
39.
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
40.

Rats eyes is an indication of

a)

The colour of the eye

b)

An abusive term

c)

Frightened and in search of something

d)

Very active

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