CBSE Class 12 English A Roadside Stand MCQs Set B

Question. What does polished traffic refer to?
(a) city people
(b) smartness of city people
(c) insensitive attitude of city people and their gentle appearance
(d) none of the options

Answer : C

Question. ‘A roadside stand that too pathetically pled’- what is the figure of speech in this line from the poem ‘A roadside stand’?
(a) Alliteration
(b) Personification
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphor

Answer : B

Question. Name the figure of speech in this line from the poem ‘A roadside stand’- ‘greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey’.
(a) Repetition
(b) Oxymoron
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphor

Answer : B

Question. What promise was the government making to relocate the villagers?
(a) to give them all the luxuries
(b) to show them movies
(c) their all needs will be looked after
(d) all of the options

Answer : C

Question. Who are called greedy good doers?
(a) Selfish rich peoples
(b) Selfish poor peoples
(c) Both A and B
(d) none of the options

Answer : A

Question. Who has been referred as “Pitiful Kin”?
(a) The poor farmers
(b) Other deprived Classes
(c) Both A and B
(d) none of the options

Answer : C

Question. What does I stand for in the poem?
(a) owner of the stand
(b) city flower who stopped on the stand
(c) Poet of the poem-Robert Frost
(d) None of the options

Answer : C

Question. What did the small old house have, as in the poem ‘A roadside stand’?
(a) huge doors & windows
(b) a tiny newly constructed shelter
(c) cemented walls
(d) All of the options

Answer : B

Question. What did the road stand do to sustain itself, as in the poem ‘A roadside stand’?
(a) Offer good discounts
(b) Offer a wide range of products
(c) Offer good price structure
(d) beg pathetically for financial assistance

Answer : D

Question. Where had the roadside stand been set up?
(a) At the edge of road
(b) In the front of an old house
(c) Both A and B
(d) None of the options

Answer : C

Question. If the poor could be brought out of their pain, this will give poet a great ……….. .
(a) Happiness
(b) Relief
(c) Sadness
(d) None of the options

Answer : B

Question. Which one stopped the car to use the yard in order to turn back.
(a) 1st one
(b) 2nd one
(c) another one
(d) none of the options

Answer : A

Question. In this poem cars are called?
(a) Gaint
(b) King
(c) Selfish
(d) Poor

Answer : C

Question. What did the 2nd stopper do in the poem ‘A roadside stand’?
(a) Asked direction
(b) Bought goods
(c) Left immediately
(d) All of the options

Answer : A

Question. Who will soothe the rural poor?
(a) Government and Social agencies
(b) Government officials
(c) Promises made by the Government
(d) City people will soothe ‘out of their wits’

Answer : D

Question. Who is the poet of A Roadside Stand?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Lord Byron
(d) Percy Shelley

Answer : B

Question. What is the poet’s call to the polished traffic passing ahead?
(a) he admiress this
(b) he is indifferent to this
(c) he condemns this indiiferent attitude of the city folk and feels the pain of the rural folk
(d) all of the options

Answer : C

Question. What does Frost’s poem deal with?
(a) human tragedies , fears and their solutions
(b) humans
(c) nature
(d) buildings

Answer : A

Question. What sad condition of the rural people is depicted in the poem ‘A roadside stand’?
(a) They are barely noticed by their more fortunate counterparts
(b) They wait in vain for the passing cars to stop, for selling their products
(c) They have a had to mouth living
(d) All of the options

Answer : D

Question. Where was the poor community provided space, as in the poem ‘A roadside stand’?
(a) At the mall & supermarket
(b) At the theatre & store
(c) At the showrooms
(d) All of the options

Answer : B