CBSE Class 12 English A Roadside Stand VBQs

Question. Pick the option with the slogan that is likely to be used by a person selling at the roadside stand.

a) Slogan 1
b) Slogan 2
c) Slogan 3
d) Slogan 4

Answer : C

Question. Choose the option that correctly mentions the complaints made by the poet through this poem.
1. The rich people drive carelessly on the road hitting the poor people on purpose.
2. The city-dwellers remain highly insensitive and offhand towards the poor people.
3. The urban people are unable to understand the struggles of the impoverished people.
4. The goods are not being bought by the wealthy people even at discounted rates.
a) 1, 2
b) 2, 3
c) 3, 4
d) 1, 4

Answer : B

Question. “I wonder how I should like you to come to me
And offer to put me gently out of my pain.”
The tone of the poem by the end, as depicted by the given lines is
a) frustrated.
b) commanding.
c) Introspective.
d) emotional.

Answer : D

Question. Choose the option that correctly categorizes the given literary devices as per the given analogy.
selfish cars : …............. :: …................ : metaphor
a) personification; polished traffic
b) transferred epithet; trusting sorrow
c) metaphor; pitiful kin
d) oxymoron; greedy good-doers

Answer : B

Question. Based on your reading of the poem, choose the option that correctly lays out the difference between the city-dwellers and the countryside people.

a) Option 1
b) Option 2
c) Option 3
d) Option 4

Answer : B

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:

No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
The requisite lift of spirit has never been found,
Or so the voice of the country seems to complain,
I can’t help owning the great relief it would be
To put these people at one stroke out of their pain.
And then next day as I come back into the sane,
I wonder how I should like you to come to me
And offer to put me gently out of my pain.

Question. The ‘country money’ contextually here refers to
a) money kept aside for the rural development.
b) wealth accumulated by the whole country.
c) meagre income earned by the countryside people.
d) riches collected by the ancestral farmers over time.

Answer : C

Question. Choose the option that correctly paraphrases the given lines from the above extract.
“I can’t help owning the great relief it would be
To put these people at one stroke out of their pain.”
a) The poet wants to kill the impoverished people.
b) The poet feels that death is better than living such a miserable life. 
c) The poet wants to eliminate poverty from the society.
d) The poet states that it is important that these people become rich.

Answer : B

Question. Pick the option that mentions elements justifying monetary aspect as the ‘requisite lift of spirit’.
1. confidence
2. ego
3. self-esteem
4. status
5. fame
a) 1, 2, 4
b) 2, 4, 5
c) 1, 3, 4
d) 1, 3, 5

Answer : D

Question. Choose the correct option with respect to the two statements given below.
Statement 1: The poet is agitated and depressed.
Statement 2: The poet realizes the futility of his thought about giving up.
a) Statement 1 can be inferred but Statement 2 cannot be inferred.
b) Statement 1 cannot be inferred but Statement 2 can be inferred.
c) Statement 1 and Statement 2 can be inferred.
d) Statement 1 and Statement 2 cannot be inferred.

Answer : B

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:

The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead,
Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts
At having the landscape marred with the artless paint
Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong…

Question. ‘The urban and educated people have their minds ahead.’
Choose the option suggesting the correct meaning behind this line.
1. The people are welleducated and knowledgeable about the condition of the poor.
2. The people are concentrating on the road that is ahead in order to drive safely.
3. The people are preoccupied only by the thoughts of their lives and nothing else.
4. The people are focused on their goal of bettering the country.
a) Option 1
b) Option 2
c) Option 3
d) Option 4

Answer : C

Question. What do the urban rich feel about the S and N signs that have been painted wrong?
a) Tolerant
b) Amused
c) Sympathetic
d) Annoyed

Answer : D

Question. The polished traffic in particular refers to the
a) sophisticated city dwellers in their vehicles.
b) shiny cars that the poet sees on the road.
c) extremely affluent people living in the neighbourhood.
d) civilized manner in which traffic is coordinated.

Answer : A

Question. The passers-by find the sign artless but the landscape ___________.
a) animated
b) aesthetic
c) amusing
d) ancient

Answer : D

Stanzas for comprehension

Stanza 1
It is the news that all these pitiful kin.
Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in
To live in villages, next to the theatre and the store,
Where they won`t have to think for themselves anymore.
While greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey,
Swarm over their lives enforcing benefits
That are calculated to soothe them out of their wits,
And by teaching them how to sleep they sleep all day.
Destroy their sleeping at night in the ancient way.

Question. Who is the poet of this poem?
(a) William Word worth
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Stephen Spender
(d) Walt Whitman
Answer : B

Question. Name the poem, this extract has been taken from.
(a) My Mother at Sixty-six
(b) Keeping Quiet
(c) A Roadside Stand
(d) None of the above
Answer : C

Question. What was in the news?
(a) miserable people will be rehabilitated
(b) miserable people will be ousted
(c ) miserable people will be given compensation
(d) none of the above
Answer : A

Question. What was intention of ‘greedy good- doers’?
(a) to help the poor people
(b) to make fun of them
(c) to exploit the poor people
(d) none of the above
Answer : C

Question. Find the words in the stanza which mean the same as.
(a) greedy people who pretend to do good for the poor
(b) the old style.
Answer : (i) greedy good doers (ii) the ancient way.

Stanza 2
The little old house was out with a little new shed
In front at the edge of the road where the traffic sped,
A roadside stand that too pathetically pled,
It would not be fair to say for a dole of bread,
But for some of the money, the cash, whose flow supports
The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint.

Question. What is the name of the poem?
(a) A thing of Beauty
(b) A roadside Stand
(c) Keeping Quiet
(d) My Mother at Sixty-six
Answer : B

Question. Who is the poet of this poem?
(a) Walt Whitman
(b) Stephen Spender
(c) John Keats
(d) Robert Frost
Answer : D

Question. Where was this little old house situated?
(a) on the roadside
(b) in the city
(c) near the river
(d) none of the above
Answer : A

Question. Where is the money flowing?
(a) towards the city
(b) towards the Village
(c) towards the capital
(d) all of the above.
Answer : A

Question. What are flowers compared to?
(a) the beauty of the city
(b) the rich
(c) the poor
(d) all of the above. 
Answer : B