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MCQ Questions for Class 12 English Flamingo Poem 2 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
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1. Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
2. Identify the literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
3. ‘Break O break’. What should they break?
the donations
all bathers
the slums
the schools
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.
never
soon
eventually
magically
5. Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
6. The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
long
short
optimistic
pessimistic
7. Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?
(a) in their cramped holes
towards the sun
towards the school
towards the windows
8. The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of
the beautiful world
cleaner lanes
the political structure
the civil design
9. Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
10. Shakespeare is wicked because he the children.
educates
tempts
loves
hates
11. What does the map represent?
world of the rich and powerful
world of the poor
world of the slum school children
world the poet wants for the slum children
12. ‘On sour cream walls. Donations’ suggests
schools are well equipped
schools are small but they try to impart education
schools have a poor and ill-equipped environment
schools meet the education requirements of the children through donations
13. Who sits at the back of the class?
a sweet and young pupil
a paper seeming boy
a tall girl
a girl with hair like rootless weeds
14. The colour of sour cream is
white
yellow
off-white
pale
15. The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes’ means the boy is
sly and secretive
short and lean
hungry and thin
sad and depressed
16. Identify the literary device in ‘father’s gnarled disease’.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
17. dentify the literary device in `rat’s eyes’.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
18. Identify the literary device in ‘like roofless weeds’.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
personification
19. What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
slum children
energetic children
deceased children
unhappy children
20. What does the expression ‘Break O break open’ suggest?
barriers on the road
barriers of garbage heap
barriers of dirty environment must be broken
None
21. What have the windows done to the children’s lives in the poem?
shut the doors
blocked the passage
clocked the Sunlight
have shut the children inside and blocked their growth
22. What does the poet show through expressions ‘so blot their maps with slums as big as doom’?
his clot the street
enjoy the maps
big maps
poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities
23. In what sense are the slum chidren different?
their IQ
their wisdom
their dresses
because of no access to hope and openness of the world
24. What does the expression ‘Open handed map ” show?
power of the poor
the poor are powerful
the poor are powerless
maps are drawn at the orders of the powerful people like hitler
25. What kind of look the faces and hair of the children give?
a rich and beautiful
organized
healthy
pale faces and scattered and undone hair
26. Why is the head of the tall girl ‘weighed down’?
by the burden of studies
by the burden of work (c)
by the burden of the world
All the these
27. What does the poet wish for the children of the slums?
He wish them to be happy and healthy
He wishes a good change for them
he wants them to lead a healthy and happy life
All the these
28. What kind of life the children living in slums have?
full of love
full of care and warmth
Hopeless and full of struggle
all these
29. Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
Kipling
Wordsworth
Kamlanath
Stephen Spender
30. What do the ‘governor’, inspector, visitor in the poem depict?
higher officials
Government officials
Political people
Powerful and influential people
31. What do the words ‘From fog to endless night mean?
bright light outside
bright future
hopelessness
Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death
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