KEEPING QUIET CLASS 12 MCQs
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| Keeping Quiet class 12 MCQs CBSE term 1 exam |
Q1- What does the title of the poem suggest?
A) Inactivity
B) noise
C) unhappiness
D) Maintenance of silence
Q2- What does the poem speak about?
A) the necessity to be happy
B) the necessity to introspect , understand and have feelings of
brotherhood
C) the necessity to work quietly
D) none
Q3- What does counting upto 12 signify and how will it help?
A) hours of the day
B) months of a year
C) it will help to create peace and harmony
D) all
Q4- What is poet's pen name?
A) Neruda
B) Pable
C) Pablo
D) Pablo Neruda
Q5- What does the style of the poem symbolise, that the poet used
to write with?
A) desires
B) happiness
C) hope
D) desire and hope
Q6- What is the original language of the poem ?
A) English
B) French
C) Pali
D) Spanish
Q7- What is the essence or message of the poem ?
A) introspection and retrospection to be more peaceful and be in
harmony
B) to prosper
C) to be happier
D) to reach out more people
Q8- What does the poet feel is needed to be at peace?
A) meeting with people
B) talking with people
C) interaction with the people
D) Soul searching
Q9- According to the poet what creates barriers?
A) interactions
B) reactions
C) fighting
D) languages
Q10- Why does the poet ask people not to speak?
A) because it creates noise
B) he doesn't like noise
C) it makes things unpleasant
D) because it creates barriers or obstacles in the form of
misunderstanding amongst people
Q11- What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem?
A) enclosed rhyme
B) Monorhyme
C) sonnet
D) Free verse
Q12- How is keeping quiet related to life and can change attitude?
A) it helps to think and search soul
B) helps to scratch one's soul
C) helps to develop new thinking process
D) All these
Q13- How will keeping quiet protect our environment?
A) by creating peace and brotherhood feelings
B) no noise will be there
C) people will not fight
D) none
Q14- What is destroying the environment?
A) unthoughtful actions
B) violent actions
C) speaking without thinking
D) All
Q15- What does number 12 represent?
A) hours of the day and months of a year
B) earth
C) clock
D) cricket players
Q16- What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?
A) how to maintain silence
B) not to make noise
C) speaking creates noise
D) To be peaceful , thoughtful and have feelings of brotherhood
Q17- Not move our arms' what does this expression refer to?
A) sit quietly
B) stand quietly
C) to be inactive
D) sitting still without any movement
Q18- Why is silence treated as a big issue?
A) it helps to search our soul
B) helps us to analyze our actions
C) helps us to be thoughtful and find our true self
D) All these
Q19- What should not be confused with total inactivity or death?
A) no movement
B) a statue
C) talking people
D) Stillness and silence
Q20- What can be a cure or an antidote to violent actions?
A) speaking practice
B) wise words
C) polished language
D) Practice of silence
Q21- What is the sadness in the poem that the poet speaks about ?
A) violence because of unthoughtfulness of the people
B) unnecessary movements
C) speaking aloud
D) fighting
Q22- What does the earth symbolise?
A) perseverence and new beginning from seemingly stillness
B) stillness
C) greenery
D) prosperity
Q23- What is always alive even when everything seems to be dead
or still?
A) mountains
B) rivers
C) Sun
D) Earth and nature are always alive
Q24- Why does the poet request people to keep quiet?
A) to maintain silence
B) to avoid noise
C) to be friendly
D) in the hope of becoming more thoughtful and peaceful
Q25- What does the poet want people to do for one second?
A) to sing
B) to close eyes
C) to stand quietly
D) to be silent and motionless
Q26- How can the moments of no activity help people?
A) they will be healthy
B) they will be happy
C) they will work easily
D) to relax and be more thoughtful
Q27- What will happen if there are no engines and no crowd?
A) noise will be lessened
B) no crowd on roads
C) no traffic rush
D) it will create a perfect, happy moment
Q28- Why is the moment of silence called Exotic?
A) because of the beautiful scenery around
B) because of the gathering
C) because of large gathering
D) because of perfect peace and harmony
Q29- What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?
A) happy
B) content
C) dancing
D) strange blissful oneness
Q30- How long is the poet expecting everyone to stay still?
A) for 10 minutes
B) for 12 minutes
C) for 15 minutes
D) for 1 second till we count 12
Q31- Why is the poet asking everyone not to speak any language?
A) to avoid noise
B) to avoid loud voices
C) to avoid people
D) to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings
Q32- What is the poet expecting from fishermen?
A) to find more fish
B) to go deeper into the sea
C) to think and stop harming the fish
D) none
Q33- While gathering salt, what will happen to the man if he keep
silent for a moment?
A) he will stop dropping it
B) he will look at the ground
C) he will walk carefully
D) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands
Q34- What does hurt hand refer to ?
A) Growing needs of the man
B) growing greed of man
C) unfulfilled desires
D) growing insensitivity of man to pain
Q35- How will silence benefit the man and nature?
A) both will be friends
B) man will know nature better
C) man will be healthy
D) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves
Q36- Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or
hate violence?
A) fishemen not harming whales
B) wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate
C) poet's refusal to deal with death
D) All these
Q37- What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping
quiet is not total inactivity?
A) Sun
B) Soil
C) earth
D) Nature and earth
Q38- What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem?
A) War against humanity
B) War against nature
C) War with gases and fire
D) All these
Q39- What can human beings learn from nature?
A) beauty
B) keeping quiet
C) to be happy
D) working with silence
Q40- How does the poet perceive life?
A) as stillness
B) as silence
C) a noisy place
D) a continuous evolution of nature
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
(A) For once on the face of the Earth
let’s not speak in any language,
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
(i) What’s the rhyme scheme used in the lines above?
(a) aabb
(b) abab
(c) abac
(d) Free verse
(ii) Pablo Neruda wants everyone ‘to stop’
(a) so we can take a moment and go for a walk.
(b) so we connect with our inner selves.
(c) so we can rest well.
(d) so we can go on holiday.
(iii) The expression “...not move our arms so much.” significs that
(a) we should refrain from moving our hands.
(b) we should refrain from doing any activity and maintain our peace.
(c) we should never stop doing anything.
(d) we should always play all the time.
(iv) Pick the word that is not advocated in the poem, ‘Keeping Quiet’.
(a) Peace
(b) Introspection
(c) Raging wars
(d) Stability
(B) Fishermen in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.
(i) The fisherman in the above lines is symbolic of
(a) the hardships of the fishermen.
(b) the aquatic animals.
(c) the man’s selfish act of exploiting nature for his interests and greed.
(d) the beautiful forest.
(ii) If the fishermen will not harm the whales, then
(a) they will die peacefully.
(b) they will not be on the verge of extinction.
(c) they will enjoy themselves in the water.
(d) they will not do an evil deed.
(iii) The rhyme scheme of the above extract is
(a) aabb.
(b) abab.
(c) free verse.
(d) abbb.
(iv) Through the last line, the poet creates an image of
(a) an injured man.
(b) a hospital.
(c) a new world.
(d) man’s incessant sufferings.
(C) Perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the Earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.
Now I'll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.
(i) The phrase ‘keep quiet’ signifies
(a) avoid the activities that harm nature.
(b) should not speak too much.
(c) not to interrupt anyone by questioning.
(d) do not over judge someone’s intelligence.
(ii) The expression ‘sadness of never understanding ourselves,’ evokes the feeling of
(a) fast-moving world and have no time to understand.
(b) sadness because of lack of knowledge of our needs.
(c) despair because of ignoring inner mental satisfaction.
(d) happiness to understand ourselves.
(iii) The rhyme scheme of the above extract is
(a) abcb
(b) abac
(c) aabb
(d) blank verse
(iv) The literary device used by the poet in the following line is ‘Perhaps the Earth can teach us’
(a) personification
(b) alliteration
(c) simile
(d) hyperbole
(D) Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
(i) What does the poet signify through ‘green wars”?
(a) Wars between plants
(b) Wars between the two countries
(c) Harms caused to nature
(d) Wars between neighbours
(ii) The phrase ‘Victory with no survivors’ refers to
(a) a victory with everyone to celebrate.
(b) a victory with no one left to celebrate.
(c) a victory celebrated by the countries.
(d) a victory celebrated by the neighbours.
(iii) The poetic device used in the phrase, ‘clean clothes’ is
(a) pun.
(b) alliteration.
(c) simile.
(d) hyperbole.
(iv) Why does the poet want the people to do ‘nothing’?
(a) So that they can spend time with him
(b) So that they can help him write poems
(c) So that he can play with them.
(d) So that there can be a situation of peace all around
(E) What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
(i) The poet remarks, *...and of threatening ourselves with death.’ What does he suggest through this line?
(a) Death of initiative
(b) Effects of unchecked emotions
(c) Loss of touch with one’s inner self.
(d) Societal pressure
(ii) In the above extract, the poet accuses the people of something. What is it?
(a) Just surviving and not living
(b) Letting our inner child die
(c) Not listening to our hearts
(d) Suffocating our talents
(iii) The poet remarks, “...huge silence might interrupt this sadness.” This is a/an
(a) symbolism.
(b) allegory.
(c) motif.
(d) irony.
(iv) According to the poet, ‘...might interrupt this sadness’, what is the sadness about?
(a) Not understanding others
(b) Not understanding ourselves
(c) Not living cordially
(d) Not finding time for each other
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