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