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

Question. Why is the boy called ‘the stunted unlucky heir’ ?
(a) He has not inherited the property
(b) He has not received education
(c) He has received disability from his father
(d) None of the options

Answer : C

Question. His eyes live in a dream, A squirrel’s game, in the tree room, other than this means the boy is
(a) full of hope
(b) mentally ill
(c) distracted from the lesson
(d) None of the options

Answer : C

Question. Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer : A

Question. Identify the literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer : B

Question. The paper seeming boy with rat’s eyes means :
(a) secretive
(b) thin, hungry, weak
(c) Unpleasant looking
(d) uncomfortable

Answer : B

Question. Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer : B

Question. The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
(a) long
(b) short
(c) optimistic
(d) pessimistic

Answer : C

Question. Who spell hope for the slum children ?
(a) school
(b) Shakespeare
(c) governor, inspector
(d) none of the options

Answer : D

Question. Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification

Answer : B

Question. Shakespeare is wicked because he the children.
(a) educates
(b) tempts
(c) loves
(d) hates

Answer : B

Question. The night is endless as there is no ……………………….. for them.
(a) support
(b) future
(c) education
(d) wealth

Answer : B

Question. ‘Break O break’. What should they break?
(a) the donations
(b) all bathers
(c) the slums
(d) the schools

Answer : B

Question. The imprisoned minds and lives of the slum children can be released from their bondage if they are given an experience of the outer world.
(a) never
(b) soon
(c) eventually
(d) magically

Answer : D

Question. What are the classrooms like ?
(a) temples of learning
(b) dim and pathetic
(c) means of escape
(d) a happy place

Answer : B

Question. Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?
(a) in their cramped holes
(b) towards the sun
(c) towards the school
(d) towards the windows

Answer : A

Question. The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of
(a) the beautiful world
(b) cleaner lanes
(c) the political structure
(d) the civil design

Answer : A

Question. What are children like in the slums ?
(a) underfed and sickly
(b) poor but happy
(c) underfed but energetic
(d) happy and playful

Answer : A

Read the extracts given below and answer any one of the two extracts given below 

EXTRACT 1
Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces.
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor:
The tall girl with her weighed- down head. The paper-
seeming boy, with rat’s eyes……

Question. Which children are referred to in the above lines ?
(a) Street children
(b) Children of an orphanage
(c) Slum children
(d) Children of an asylum

Answer : C

Question. How are the children ?
(a) Happy
(b) Sad and disappointed
(c) smart and active
(d) miserable and depressed

Answer : D

Question. Who are they like ?
(a) rootless weeds
(b) flying birds
(c) floating boats
(d) budding flowers

Answer : A

Question. What are they away from ?
(a) nature/gusty waves
(b) towns and cities
(c) oceans
(d) hills and mountains

Answer : A

OR

Question. Who is speaking the above lines ?
(a) The poet
(b) the administrator
(c) the governor
(d) the masters

Answer : A

Question. Who is the poet ?
(a) Pablo Neruda
(b) Stephen Spender
(c) Kamala Das
(d) Adrienne Rich

Answer : B

Question. How is the girl ?
(a) Her head is down
(b) Her eyes are watchful
(c) Her dress is beautiful
(d) All of the options

Answer : A

Question. How is the boy described above ?
(a) as thin as a paper.
(b) rat’s eyes.
(c) stunted
(d) All of the options

Answer : D

EXTRACT 2
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.

Question. Who is the ‘unlucky heir’ above ?
(a) A young boy
(b) A young girl
(c) A rabbit
(d) An old master

Answer : A

Question. Who is sitting ‘ unnoted’ ?
(a) A young boy
(b) A soldier
(c) A master
(d) A shepherd

Answer : A

Question. What is a tree room here ?
(a) The squirrel’s hole
(b) the branch of a tree
(c) nest of a pigeon
(d) tree leaves

Answer : A

EXTRACT 3 :
On sour cream walls,donations,Shakespeare’s head,
Cloudless at dawn,civilized dome riding all cities.
Belled,flowery,Tyrolese valley.Open handed map
Awarding the world its world.

Question. Name the poem and the poet.
(a) An Elementary School Classroom in A Slum by Stephen Spender
(b) My Mother At Sixty six by Kamala Das
(c) Keeping quiet by Pablo Neruda
(d) A thing of Beauty by John Keats

Answer : A

Question. What are ‘donations’ above ?
(a) Pictures on the walls of the classroom
(b) colour of the walls
(c) Roof of the school
(d) Black board in the classroom

Answer : A

Question. What is not described above ?
(a) Shakespeare’s head
(b) cloudless dawn
(c) Hawaiian islands
(d) Tyrolese valley

Answer : C

EXTRACT 4
And yet, for these
Children,these windows, not this map, their world,
Where all their future’s painted with a fog,
A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky
Far far from rivers,capes, and stars of words.

Question. The lives of the children are confined in
(a) elementary school
(b) Shakespeare’s world
(c) Narrow streets of the slum
(d) Tyrolese valley

Answer : C

Question. What is the future of the children ?
(a) happy and secure
(b) poor and satisfied
(c) uncertain and bleak
(d) unhappy but secure

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following words imply a bleak future ?
(a) sour cream walls
(b) awarding the world its world
(c) future’s painted with fog
(d) Shakespeare’s head

Answer : C

Question. What do the words ‘future’s painted with fog’ imply ?
(a) No love and care
(b) no warmth
(c) no hardwork
(d) no scope for improvement

Answer : D

EXTRACT 5
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 ?

Question. Who is wicked above ?What is the figure of speech used in
(a) Shakespeare
(b) the poet
(c) the administrators
(d) The teachers

Answer : A

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

Answer : D

Question. Which map is a bad example ?
(a) The map of the world hung on the wall of the classroom.
(b) the map in the Geography book
(c) the map of world war
(d) the map of transportation and communication

Answer : A

Question. What are the images of ships and sun signify in the above lines ?
(a) nature
(b) travel
(c) adventure
(d) development

Answer : A

OR

Question. What does ‘cramped holes’ mean ?
(a) They mean small uncomfortable dwellings of slum children
(b) dark shelters
(c) congested dwellings
(d) All of the options

Answer : D

Question. What tempts the children in the classroom to steal ?
(a) The dream of achieving a better life for themselves
(b) desire to travel
(c) dream to work
(d) dream to visit places

Answer : A

Question. What does the poem describe ?
(a) an elementary school classroom in a slum
(b) a social set up
(c) a cinema hall
(d) beautiful scenery

Answer : A

Question. What is the figure of speech used in ‘Far far from rivers….’
(a) Assonance
(b) Alliteration
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphor

Answer : B