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Class 12 English Flamingo Poem 2 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum MCQ with Answers
Question 1.
Identify the literary device in âslums as big as doomâ.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer: (a) simile
Question 2.
Identify the literary device in âwhose language is the sunâ.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 3.
âBreak O breakâ. What should they break?
(a) the donations
(b) all bathers
(c) the slums
(d) the schools
Answer: (b) all bathers
Question 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
Answer: (d) magically
Question 5.
Identify the literary device in âspectacles Of steelâ.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 6
The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
(a) long
(b) short
(c) optimistic
(d) pessimistic
Answer: (c) optimistic
Question 7.
Where do their lives âslyly turnâ?
(a) in their cramped holes
(b) towards the sun
(c) towards the school
(d) towards the windows
Answer: (a) in their cramped holes
Question 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
Answer: (a) the beautiful world
Question 9.
Identify the literary device in âfutureâs painted with a fogâ.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 10.
Shakespeare is wicked because he the children.
(a) educates
(b) tempts
(c) loves
(d) hates
Answer: (b) tempts
Question 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
Answer: (a) world of the rich and powerful
Question 12.
What is the stunted boy reciting?
(a) the lesson from his desk
(b) Shakespeareâs poetry
(c) leaves Of nature
(d) his composition
Answer: (a) the lesson from his desk
Question 13.
âOn sour cream walls. Donationsâ 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
Answer: (c) schools have a poor and ill-equipped environment
Question 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
Answer: (a) a sweet and young pupil
Question 15.
The colour of sour cream is
(a) white
(b) yellow
(c) off-white
(d) pale
Answer: (c) off-white
Question 16.
The paper-seeming boy with ratâs eyesâ means the boy is
(a) sly and secretive
(b) short and lean
(c) hungry and thin
(d) sad and depressed
Answer: (c) hungry and thin
Question 17.
Identify the literary device in âfatherâs gnarled diseaseâ.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 18.
Identify the literary device in âratâs eyesâ.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 19.
Identify the literary device in âlike roofless weedsâ.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer: (a) simile
Question 20.
What does âgusty wavesâ imply?
(a) slum children
(b) energetic children
(c) deceased children
(d) unhappy children
Answer: (b) energetic children
Question 21.
What does the expression âBreak O break openâ suggest?
(a) barriers on the road
(b) barriers of garbage heap
(c) barriers of dirty environment must be broken
(d) None
Answer: (c) barriers of dirty environment must be broken
Question 22
What have the windows done to the childrenâs 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
Answer: (d) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth
Question 23
What does the poet show through expressions âso blot their maps with slums as big as doomâ?
(a) his clot the street
(b) enjoy the maps
(c) big maps
(d) poetâs protest against social injustice and inequalities
Answer: (d) poetâs protest against social injustice and inequalities
Question 24.
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
Answer: (d) foggy slums and bottle bits on stones
Question 25
What attracts the slum children?
(a)The animals
(b) The movies
(c) icecream
(d) All beautiful things like ship, Sun
Answer: (d) All beautiful things like ship, Sun
Question 26.
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
Answer: (d) because of no access to hope and openness of the world
Question 27.
What does the expression âOpen handed map â 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
Answer: (d) maps are drawn at the orders of the powerful people like hitler
Question 28.
What is the stunted boy reciting?
(a) a happy song
(b) a religious song
(c) a sad song
(d) a lesson from desk
Answer: (d) a lesson from desk
Question 29.
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
Answer: (d) an unnoticed young boy
Question 30.
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
Answer: (d) pale faces and scattered and undone hair
Question 31.
Why is the head of the tall girl âweighed downâ?
(a) by the burden of studies
(b) by the burden of work
(c) by the burden of the world
(d) All these
Answer: (c) by the burden of the world
Question 32.
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
Answer: (d) All these
Question 33.
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
Answer: (c) by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice
Question 34.
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
Answer: (a) underground cemetry showing irrelevance of the map hanging on the wall of the classroom
Question 35
What was the boy with ratâs eyes trying to escape from?
(a) bright light outside
(b) openness of trees
(c) dim light of the class
(d) children in the room
Answer: (c) dim light of the class
Question 36.
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
Answer: (d) sadness and lack of enthusiasm
Question 37.
What are the poetic devices used in the poem?
(a) alliteration and simile
(b) metaphor and imagery
(c) synecdoche, and irony
(d) All these
Answer: (d) All these
Question 38.
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
Answer: (c) Hopeless and full of struggle
Question 39.
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
Answer: (d) the plight of young children in the slums
Question 40.
Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
(a) Kipling
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Kamlanath
(d) Stephen Spender
Answer: (d) Stephen Spender
Question 41.
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
Answer: (a) to send the children out of the slums
Question 42.
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
Answer: (d) freedom of knowledge, wisdom and expression
Question 43.
What do the âgovernorâ, inspector, visitor in the poem depict?
(a) higher officials
(b) Government officials
(c) Political people
(d) Powerful and influential people
Answer: (d) Powerful and influential people
Question 44,
What blots the maps of the slum children?
(a) garbage
(b) blockage
(c) stones in the streets
(d) Dirty slums
Answer: (d) Dirty slums
Question 45.
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
Answer: (d) Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death
Question 46.
Who has written the poem Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
A) Kipling
B) Wordsworth
C) Kamlanath
D) Stephen Spender
Answer: (D) Stephen Spender
Question 47.
What theme did the poet concentrate on in the poem?
A) themes of social injustice and class inequalities.
B) theme of children and their happiness
C) theme of insecurities
D) none
Answer: A) themes of social injustice and class inequalities.
Question 48.
What does the poet portray in the poem?
A) young minds
B) playfulness of the children
C) questions of children
D) the plight of young children in the slums
Answer: D) the plight of young children in the slums
Question 49.
What does the poet compare in the poem?
A) the young and old
B) generation gaps
C) old age and childhood
D) rich (haves) and poor children (have nots)
Answer: D) rich (haves) and poor children (have nots)
Question 50.
What kind of life do the children living in slums have?
A) full of love
B) full of care and warmth
C) Hopeless and full of struggle
D) all of these
Answer: C) Hopeless and full of struggle
Question 51.
What does the poet compare the colour of walls with?
A) rotten fruits
B) stale chapatis
C) rotten vegetables
D) sour cream
Answer: D) sour cream
Question 52.
What are the poetic devices used in the poem?
A) alliteration and simile
B) metaphor and imagery
C) synecdoche, and irony
D) All of these
Answer: D) All of these
Question 53.
What do the words âTheir future is painted with fogâ convey?
A) no love and care
B) no warmth
C) no hard work
D) no hope of improvement
Answer: D) All of these
Question 54.
What do the faces of children in the slum areas reflect?
A) happiness
B) their aspirations
C) their energy
D) sadness and lack of enthusiasm
Answer: D) sadness and lack of enthusiasm
Question 55.
What is ironical about the wall hangings and donations in the classroom?
A) set up in very clean environment
B) completely opposite to the needs of the children in the classroom
C) set up in happy environment
D) set up in gloomy set up
Answer: D) set up in gloomy set up
Question 56.
What does paper-seeming boy mean?
A) had a paper in his hand
B) was as thin as a sheet of paper
C) was white in colour like a sheet of paper
D) All of these
Answer: B) was as thin as a sheet of paper
Question 57.
What is the Tree Room in the poem?
A) A tree â shaped room
B) A room on a tree where squirrels play
C) A room on a tree where rats play
D) A room on a tree where pigeons play
Answer: B) A room on a tree where squirrels play
Question 58.
What do Catacombs signify?
A) relevance of the map hanging on the wall of the classroom
B) confinement to the slums, the maps being irrelevant
C) importance of the school
D) death
Answer: B) confinement to the slums, the maps being irrelevant
Question 59.
Why are the pictures and maps meaningless?
A) they are fake and show a false thing
B) they are old and have faded away
C) they show vastness which is opposite to the world and needs of the children in the classroom
D) All of these
Answer: B) they are old and have faded away
Question 60.
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
Answer: C) by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice
Question 61.
What does the poem describe?
A) A classroom in a slum area
B) social setup of India
C) different mindsets
D) beauty of the surroundings
Answer: C) different mindsets
Question 62.
What does the poet wish for the children of the slums?
A) He wishes them to be happy and healthy
B) He wishes a good change for them
C) he wants them to enjoy the bounties of nature
D) All of these
Answer: A) He wishes them to be happy and healthy
Question 63.
âFar far from gusty waves these childrenâs faces. Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallorâ: what do these words express?
A) poor state of the classroom
B) poor plight of childrenâs homes
C) poor plight of teachers
D) poor plight of the slum children
Answer: D) poor plight of the slum children
Question 64.
Why is the head of the tall girl âweighed downâ?
A)by the burden of studies
B) by the burden of work
C) by the burden of her world
D) All of these
Answer: D) All of these
Question 65.
What is the meaning of âThe paper seeming boy, with rat eyesâ?
A) rich people
B) rich children
C) powerful people and their influence
D) weak and malnutritioned boy
Answer: C) powerful people and their influence
Question 66.
What kind of look do the faces and hair of the children give?
A) rich and beautiful faces
B) bright, neat faces
C) healthy appearances
D) pale faces, scattered and undone hair
Answer: D) pale faces, scattered and undone hair
Question 67.
His eyes live in a dream- what is the dream?
A) watching a movie
B) going abroad
C) eating ice cream
D) dream of better times with games and open spaces
Answer: D) dream of better times with games and open spaces
Question 68.
Who was sitting at the back of the dim class?
A) a girl
B) an old man
C) a teacher
D) a young boy
Answer: D) a young boy
Question 69.
Who is the unlucky heir and what has he inherited?
A) a fat boy, has inherited obesity from his mother
B) a short, thin boy, has inherited stunted growth from his family
C) an intelligent boy, has inherited intelligence
D) thin boy with ratâs eyes, has inherited a deformed body from his father
Answer: D) thin boy with ratâs eyes, has inherited a deformed body from his father
Question 70.
What is the stunted boy reciting?
A) a happy song from his seat
B) a religious song in a group
C) a sad song from the front of the class
D) a lesson from his desk
Answer: D) a lesson from his desk
Question 71.
What does the color of the classroom walls point out?
A) happy and poor state
B) happy and rich state
C) poor condition of the slum
D) none of these
Answer: D) none of these
Question 72.
What does the expression âOpen handed map â show?
A) power of the poor
B) the poor can not access the world
C) the poor are powerless
D) maps are open to all, they reveal everything
Answer: C) the poor are powerless
Question 73.
âAwarding the world its worldâ what do these words express?
A) the world is ours
B) the world is yours
C) the world belong to the poor
D) the world belongs to the rich
Answer: D) the world belongs to the rich
Question 74.
In what sense are the slum children different?
A) their IQ
B) their wisdom
C) their dresses
D) because of no access to hope and openness of the world
Answer: D) because of no access to hope and openness of the world
Question 75.
What kind of future do the slum children have?
A) very hopeful
B) bright
C) clear like water
D) hopeless and uncertain
Answer: D) hopeless and uncertain
Question 76.
What attracts the slum children?
A)The animals
B) The movies
C) icecream
D) All beautiful things like ship, Sun
Answer: D) All beautiful things like ship, Sun
Question 77.
What do the words âFrom fog to endless night â mean?
A) bright light outside
B) bright future
C) hopelessness
D) Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death
Answer: D) Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death
Question 78.
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
Answer: D) foggy slums and bottle bits on stones
Question 79.
What blots the maps of the slum children?
A) garbage
B) blockage
C) stones in the streets
D) Dirty slums
Answer: D) Dirty slums
Question 80.
What does the poet show through expressions âso blot their maps with slums as big as doomâ?
A) his clot the street
B) enjoy the maps
C) big maps
D) the slums spell doom for the poor
Answer: D) the slums spell doom for the poor
Question 81.
What do the âgovernorâ, inspector, visitorâ in the poem depict?
A) higher officials
B) Government officials
C) Political people
D) Powerful and influential people
Answer: D) Powerful and influential people
Question 82.
What have the windows done to the childrenâs 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
Answer: D) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth
Question 83.
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
Answer: D) freedom of knowledge,wisdom and expression
Question 84.
What does the expression âBreak O break openâ suggest?
A) barriers on the road
B) barriers of garbage heap
C) barriers of dirty environment must be broken
D) None
Answer: C) barriers of dirty environment must be broken
Question 85.
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
Answer: A) to send the children out of the slums