CBSE Class 12 English An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum MCQs Set 01

Question. What are the poetic devices used in the poem?
(a) alliteration and simile
(b) metaphor and imagery
(c) synecdoche,and irony
(d) All these

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : C

Question. 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

Answer : B

Question. 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

Answer : C

Question. 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

Answer : B

Question. “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

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : A

Question. 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

Answer : A

Question. What do the words “Their future is painted with fog” convey?
(a) no love and care
(b) no warmth
(c) no hope of improvement
(d) no hardwork

Answer : C

Question. What other freedom the poet wants the slum children to enjoy?
(a) Freedom of roaming
(b) freedom of knowledge,wisdom and expression
(c) freedom to spend money
(d) freedom to eat

Answer : B

Question. What does the poem describe?
(a) elementary school classroom in a slum
(b) social setup
(c) different mindsets
(d) beauty of the surroundings

Answer : A

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : C

Question. 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

Answer : C

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. What do the words 'From fog to endless night ' mean?
(a) bright light outside
(b) Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death
(c) bright future
(d) hopelessness

Answer : B

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : A

Question. Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
(a) Kipling
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Kamlanath
(d) Stephen Spender

Answer : D

Question. His eyes live in a dream- what is the dream?
(a) dream of better timeswith games and open spaces
(b) watching a movie
(c) going abroad
(d) eating icecream

Answer : A

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. 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) poet's protest against social injustice and inequalities
(d) big maps

Answer : C

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. What does the poet compare in the poem?
(a) rich (haves) and poor children (have nots)
(b) between young and old
(c) generation gaps
(d) old age and childhood

Answer : A

Question. In what sense are the slum chidren different?
(a) because of no access to hope and openness of the world
(b) their IQ
(c) their wisdom
(d) their dresses

Answer : A

Question. What kind of future the slum children have?
(a) very hopeful
(b) bright
(c) clear like water
(d) hopeless and uncertain

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. What attracts the slum children?
(a)The animals
(b) The movies
(c) icecream
(d) All beautiful things like ship, Sun

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer: C

Question. What blots the maps of the slum children?
(a) garbage
(b) blockage
(c) stones in the streets
(d) Dirty slums

Answer : D

Question. What does the poet compare the color of walls with?
(a) rotten fruits
(b) sour cream
(c) stale chapatis
(d) rotten vegetables

Answer : B

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. What is the stunted boy reciting?
(a) a happy song
(b) a religious song
(c) a lesson from desk
(d) a sad song

Answer : C

Question. What do the 'governor', inspector,visitor in the poem depict?
(a) higher officials
(b) Government officials
(c) Political people
(d) Powerful and influential people

Answer : D