CBSE Class 12 English HOTs An elementary School Classroom in a Slum

Stanza 3
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.

Question. Why is the map a bad example for the children?
(a) because map shows a world that is far different from the world of the poor children
(b) because it does not show the children’s slums and narrow lanes
(c) both ‘a’ & ‘b’
(d) reflects everything related to them

Answer : C

Question.What does not prove a good example for the slum children?
(a) the picture of Shakespeare
(b) the map
(c) both ‘a’ & ‘b’
(d) none of the above

Answer : D

Question. What does the map not show?
(a) the children’s slums
(b) the narrow lanes
(c) both ‘a’ and ‘b’
(d) the ships and sun

Answer : C

Question. Where do these children live?
(a) big houses
(b) small and dingy houses
(c) open area houses
(d) all of the above

Answer : B

Question. Who lives in cramped holes?
(a) the poet
(b) the slum children
(c) the rich people
(d) all of the above

Answer : B

Question. How do children live in their ‘holes’?
(a) like ants
(b) like rats
(c) like lions
(d) all of the above

Answer : B

Question. What is tempting them to steal?
(a) Shakespeare’s picture
(b) map of the world
(c) love of such a big and sunny world
(d) all of the above

Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'bad'?
(a) tempting
(b) slyly
(c) wicked
(d) steal

Answer : C

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'alluring'?
(a) tempting
(b) wicked
(c) slag
(d) mended

Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'secretly'?
(a) slag
(b) cramped
(c) tempting
(d) slyly

Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'narrow'?
(a) wicked
(b) cramped
(c) steal
(d) peeped

Answer : B

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'waste material'?
(a) slyly
(b) slag
(c) doom
(d) cramped

Answer : B

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'misty'?
(a) foggy
(b) tempting
(c) steal
(d) blot

Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'blemish'?
(a) tempting
(b) steal
(c) cramped
(d) bits

Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'ruin'?
(a) doom
(b) wicked
(c) slag
(d) blessing

Answer : A

Question. Which poetic device is used in ‘spectalcles of steel’?
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) assonance
(d) oxymoron

Answer : B

Stanza 4
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 leaves open
History theirs whose language is the sun.

Question. Towards whom do all the responsible citizens have a duty?
(a) the leaders
(b) the film heroes
(c) the slum children
(d) the doctor

Answer : C

Question.Who have a duty towards these poor slum children?
(a) governor
(b) inspector
(c) visitor
(d) all of the above

Answer : D

Question. Which people create history, according to the poet?
(a) who are rich
(b) who are poor
(c) who are famous
(d) whose growth is healthy

Answer : D

Question. Which people are possessor of history?
(a) whose language is strong
(b) slum children
(c) poor people
(d) all of the above

Answer : A

Question. What is poet’s appeal to the upper - class people?
(a) to help the poor slum children
(b) to possess history
(c) to make themselves strong
(d) all of the above

Answer : A

Question. Where does the poet want to take the poor slum children?
(a) to open fields
(b) on golden sands
(c) to a different world
(d) both ‘a’ & ‘b’

Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'blue'?
(a) azure
(b) catacombs
(c) tongues
(d) language

Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'graves'?
(a) fields
(b) catacombs
(c) naked
(d) shut

Answer : B

Question. What is meant by ‘white and green leaves'?
(a) books, leaves of trees
(b) sky, leaves of trees
(c) classroom, leaves of trees
(d) children’s face, leaves of trees

Answer : A

Question. Which poetic device is used in ‘lives like catacombs’?
(a) metaphor
(b) simile
(c) oxymoron
(d) alliteration

Answer : B