AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM IN A SLUM CLASS 12 MCQS
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| An elementary classroom in a slum class 12 MCQs CBSE term 1 exam |
Q1- Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
A) Kipling
B) Wordsworth
C) Kamlanath
D) Stephen Spender
Q2- What theme did the poet concentrate on in the poem?
A) themes of social injustice and class inequalities.
B) theme of chidren and their happiness
C) theme of insecurities
D) none
Q3- 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
Q4- What does the poet compare in the poem?
A) between young and old
B) generation gaps
C) old age and childhood
D) rich (haves) and poor children (have nots)
Q5- 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
Q6- What does the poet compare the color of walls with?
A) rotten fruits
B) stale chapatis
C) rotten vegetables
D) sour cream
Q7- What are the poetic devices used in the poem?
A) alliteration and simile
B) metaphor and imagery
C) synecdoche,and irony
D) All these
Q8- What do the words “Their future is painted with fog” convey?
A) no love and care
B) no warmth
C) no hardwork
D) no hope of improvement
Q9- 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
Q10- 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
Q11- 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
Q12- What is Tree Room in the poem?
A) Room outside the school
B) room on trees where squirrels play
C) room on trees where rats play
D) room on trees where pigeons play
Q13- 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
Q14- Why are the pictures and maps meaningless?
A) they show beauty
B) they show hope
C) they show vastness -opposite to the world and needs of the
chidren in the classroom
D) All these
Q15- 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
Q16- What does the poem describe?
A) elementary school classroom in a slum
B) social setup
C) different mindsets
D) beauty of the surroundings
Q17- 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
Q18- “Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces.
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor”:what do these
words express?
A) poor plight of the ground
B) poor plight of chidren's homes
C) poor plight of teachers
D) poor plight of the slum children
Q19- 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
Q20- What is the meaning of 'The paper seeming boy , with rat
eyes'?
A) rich people
B) rich children
C) powerful people and their influence
D) weak and malnutritioned boy
Q21- 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
Q22- His eyes live in a dream- what is the dream?
A) watching a movie
B) going abroad
C) eating icecream
D) dream of better timeswith games and open spaces
Q23- 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
Q24- Who is the unlucky heir and what will he inherit?
A) a fat boy and will inherit good health
B) a short boy and will inherit good height
C) an intelligent boy and will inherit intelligence
D) thin boy with rat's eyes and will inherit twisted bones from his
father
Q25- What is the stunted boy reciting?
A) a happy song
B) a religious song
C) a sad song
D) a lesson from desk
Q26- What does the color of the classroom walls point out?
A) happy and poor state
B) happy and rich state
C) offwhite (sour cream) color points out hopeless poor condition of
the slum children
D) none
Q27- 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
Q28- Awarding the world its world' 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 belong to the rich and powerful
Q29- 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
Q30- What kind of future the slum children have?
A) very hopeful
B) bright
C) clear like water
D) hopeless and uncertain
Q31- What attracts the slum children?
A)The animals
B) The movies
C) icecream
D) All beautiful things like ship, Sun
Q32- 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
Q33- 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
Q34- What blots the maps of the slum children?
A) garbage
B) blockage
C) stones in the streets
D) Dirty slums
Q35- 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
Q36- What do the 'governor', inspector,visitor in the poem depict?
A) higher officials
B) Government officials
C) Political people
D) Powerful and influential people
Q37- 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
Q38- 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
Q39- 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
Q40- 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
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
(A) It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
Fishermen in the cold sea
would not harm whales
(i) What does the expression — exotic moment — suggest?
(a) leisure time
(b) quiet and still
(c) moment of joy
(d) splendid time
(ii) The phrase ‘sudden strangeness’ symbolizes
(a) strange faces.
(b) strange behaviour.
(c) sudden calmness.
(d) extremely strange.
(iii) The expression, ‘we would be all together’ is an example of
(a) parody.
(b) tragedy.
(c) epithet.
(d) imagery.
(iv) In the extract, ‘would not harm whales’ suggests that the
(a) even the whales in the sea would not be hurt.
(b) whales would not harm anyone.
(c) harm can be done to whales also.
(d) nobody should hurt whales.
(B) The tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paper—
seeming boy, with rat’s eyes. The stunted, unlucky heir
Of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease,
His lesson, from his desk. At back of the dim class
One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream,
Of squirrel’s game, in tree room, other than this.
(i) What does the expression — twisted bones — refer to?
(a) bones not straight
(b) thin, hungry and weak
(c) flexible and can be twisted easily
(d) become shapeless due to hard work
(ii) The phrase ‘slag heap’ symbolizes
(a) head was put down to concentrate on the work.
(b) involvement of work and put down the head.
(c) head had weight on it.
(d) burden, depression and exhaustion of life.
(iii) The expression ‘unlucky heir’ is an example of
(a) irony of life. (b) tragedy of life.
(c) image of despair. (d) visual imagery.
(iv) In the extract, ‘his eyes live in a dream’ suggests that the
(a) sleepless nights made it so.
(b) eyes had a lot of dreams in them.
(c) late night working kills all dreams
(d) unfulfilled dreams in the eyes are too many
(C) The stunted, unlucky heir
Of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease,
His lesson, from his desk. At back of the dim class
One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream,
Of squirrel’s game, in tree room, other than this.
(i) What does the expression ‘stunted, unlucky heir’ suggest?
(a) The shabby, unkempt hair of children
(b) Short malnourished children
(c) A child who is the only heir of someone
(d) A child who has been unfortunate with his inheritance
(ii) The ‘gnarled disease’ of the boy symbolises
(a) a disease that is inherited.
(b) a disease he has inherited from his father.
(c) a disease that is very rare to find.
(d) a disease he had read about.
(iii) The expression, ‘unlucky heir’ is an example of
(a) sympathy.
(b) irony.
(c) disappointment.
(d) happiness.
(iv) In the extract, ‘A squirrel’s game in a tree room, other than this’, the phrase other than this suggests that the
(a) boy wanted to play with the squirrel as he has no friends.
(b) boy wanted to make a room in the tree and play with the squirrel rather than with his classmates.
(c) boy wanted to live like the squirrel does rather than sitting in the classroom.
(d) wished to play like the squirrel rather than sitting in the class.
(D) Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example,
With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal—
For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes
From fog to endless night? On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.
All of their time and space are foggy slum.
So blot their maps with slums as big as doom.
(i) What does the expression — endless night — suggest?
(a) Their nights are long.
(b) Struggles and darkness are endless in their life.
(c) People feel tired and sleep too much.
(d) Nights can’t be counted for which they work hard.
(ii) The ‘slag heap’ symbolizes
(a) a heap of the waste material of slum.
(b) a heap of clothes.
(c) a heap of nearby garbage.
(d) an extremely filthy and stingy heap.
(iii) The expression, ‘skins peeped through by bones’ is an example of
(a) irony.
(b) tragedy.
(c) imagery.
(d) epithet.
(iv) In the extract, ‘the map a bad example’ suggests that the
(a) map doesn’t match with the syllabus of the children.
(b) wonderful world is out of reach for slum children.
(c) map can’t be represented systematically.
(d) map doesn’t reflect the beauty of nature.
(E) Unless, governor, inspector, visitor,
This map becomes their window and these windows
That shut upon their lives like catacombs,
Break O break open till they break the town
And show the children to green fields, and make their world
Run azure on gold sands, and let their tongues
Run naked into books the white and green Ieaves open
History theirs whose language is the sun.
(i) The expression,’ This map becomes their window...’ signifies that
(a) The poet wants the children to explore all the places on the map.
(b) The poet wants the children to draw a map.
(c) The poet wants the children to learn about all the places in the world.
(d) None of the above
(ii) ‘That shut upon their lives like catacombs.’ The word ‘catacombs’ refers to
(a) beautiful gardens in Austria.
(b) cemeteries near Rome.
(c) open fields near South America.
(d) playgrounds made for children in their schools.
(iii) Name the poetic device used by the poet in the following line:
‘Break O break open till they break the town’
(a) Pun
(b) Refrain
(c) Repetition
(d) Simile
(iv) What does the poet wish to say through the following line? ‘and let their tongues Run naked into books the
white and green leaves open’
(a) He wants the children to get white books.
(b) He wants the children to get an opportunity to read and get educated.
(c) He wants the children to run on the books.
(d) He wants the children to learn a new language.
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