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WorksheetsAn Elementary School Classroom in a slum
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
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 batters
c)
the slums
d)
the schools
4.
Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
5.
The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
a)
long
b)
short
c)
optimistic
d)
pessimistic
6.
Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?
a)
in their cramped holes
b)
towards the sun
c)
towards the school
d)
towards the windows
7.
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
8.
Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
9.
Shakespeare is wicked because he makes the children.
a)
educate
b)
tempt
c)
love
d)
hate
10.
Identify the literary device in ‘father’s gnarled disease’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
11.
Identify the literary device in ‘like roofless weeds’.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
personification
12.
What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
a)
slum children
b)
energetic children
c)
deceased children
d)
unhappy children
13.
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
14.
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
15.
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
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.
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
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 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
24.
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
25.
What are the poetic devices used in the poem?
a)
alliteration and simile
b)
metaphor and imagery
c)
synecdoche, and irony
d)
All these
26.
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
27.
Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
a)
Kipling
b)
Wordsworth
c)
Kamlanath
d)
Stephen Spender
28.
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
29.
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
30.
What blots the maps of the slum children?
a)
garbage
b)
blockage
c)
stones in the streets
d)
Dirty slums
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