An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum Class 12 MCQ Questions with Answers English Poem 2

MCQ Questions for Class 12 English Flamingo Poem 2 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum with Answers

Question 1.
Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (a) simile


Question 2.
Identify the literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (b) metaphor


Question 3.
‘Break O break’. What should they break?
(a) the donations
(b) all bathers
(c) the slums
(d) the schools

Answer

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

Answer: (d) magically


Question 5.
Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (b) metaphor


Question 6.
The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
(a) long
(b) short
(c) optimistic
(d) pessimistic

Answer

Answer: (c) optimistic


Question 7.
Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?
(a) in their cramped holes
(b) towards the sun
(c) towards the school
(d) towards the windows

Answer

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

Answer: (a) the beautiful world


Question 9.
Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (b) metaphor


Question 10.
Shakespeare is wicked because he the children.
(a) educates
(b) tempts
(c) loves
(d) hates

Answer

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

Answer: (a) world of the rich and powerful


Question 12.
What is the stunted boy reciting?
(a) the lesson from his desk
(b) Shakespeare’s poetry
(c) leaves of nature
(d) his composition

Answer

Answer: (a) the lesson from his desk


Question 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

Answer

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

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

Answer: (c) off-white


Question 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

Answer

Answer: (c) hungry and thin


Question 17.
Identify the literary device in ‘father’s gnarled disease’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (b) metaphor


Question 18.
Identify the literary device in `rat’s eyes’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (b) metaphor


Question 19.
Identify the literary device in ‘like roofless weeds’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer

Answer: (a) simile


Question 20.
What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
(a) slum children
(b) energetic children
(c) deceased children
(d) unhappy children

Answer

Answer: (b) energetic children


Question 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

Answer

Answer: (c) barriers of dirty environment must be broken


Question 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

Answer

Answer: (d) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth


Question 23.
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

Answer

Answer: (d) poet’s 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

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

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

Answer: (d) because of no access to hope and openness of the world


Question 27.
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

Answer

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

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

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

Answer: (d) pale faces and scattered and undone hair


Question 31.
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

Answer

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

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

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

Answer: (a) underground cemetry showing irrelevance of the map hanging on the wall of the classroom


Question 35.
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

Answer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Answer: (d) freedom of knowledge, wisdom and expression


Question 43.
What do the ‘governor’, inspector, visitor in the poem depict?
(a) higher officials
(b) Government officials
(c) Political people
(d) Powerful and influential people

Answer

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

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

Answer: (d) Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death


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