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
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