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MCQ Questions for Class 12 English Flamingo Poem 3 Keeping Quiet with Answers
Question 1.
The poet uses conversational style and personal pronouns as ‘you’, ‘we’ and `I’ because
(a) he wants to be intimate with mankind
(b) he tries to read out to the readers
(c) he wants to establish contact easily
(d) third person is ineffective
Answer
Answer: (b) he tries to read out to the readers
Question 2.
The last line of the poem is
(a) and later proves to be alive
(b) life is what it is about
(c) I want no truck with death
(d) and you keep quiet and I will go
Answer
Answer: (d) and you keep quiet and I will go
Question 3.
Man needs to learn a lesson from
(a) moon
(b) stars
(c) earth
(d) sun
Answer
Answer: (c) earth
Question 4.
According to the poet wars that are fought have no
(a) soldiers
(b) weapons
(c) fighter planes
(d) survivors
Answer
Answer: (d) survivors
Question 5.
‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device
(a) personification
(b) transferred epithet
(c) metaphor
(d) alliteration
Answer
Answer: (b) transferred epithet
Question 6.
Without rush, without engines’ refers to
(a) no noise
(b) no hurry to go to the office
(c) no travelling
(d) no holidaying
Answer
Answer: (a) no noise
Question 7.
The poet wants the entire humanity to
(a) keep talking
(b) keep running
(c) keep laughing
(d) keep still
Answer
Answer: (d) keep still
Question 8.
‘Have no truck with death’ means
(a) will not die of the truck accident
(b) remove poverty and illiteracy
(c) have no association or deal with death
(d) will not drive a truck
Answer
Answer: (c) have no association or deal with death
Question 9.
The poet advocates the balance of nature to be
(a) maintained
(b) destroyed
(c) temporarily disturbed
(d) ignored
Answer
Answer: (a) maintained
Question 10.
What does man threaten himself with?
(a) death
(b) birth
(c) robbery
(d) suicide
Answer
Answer: (a) death
Question 11.
Where would they be walking?
(a) in the park
(b) along the river
(c) in the shade
(d) on the road
Answer
Answer: (c) in the shade
Question 12.
The types of wars the poet talks about are
(a) green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
(b) verbal wars
(c) technological warfare
(d) nuclear wars
Answer
Answer: (a) green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
Question 13.
Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm
(a) seahorses
(b) mermaids
(c) whales
(d) tortoises
Answer
Answer: (c) whales
Question 14.
What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent
(a) terrible
(b) painful
(c) exotic
(d) unforgettable
Answer
Answer: (c) exotic
Question 15.
The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet for
(a) twenty seconds
(b) 1 hour
(c) thirty seconds
(d) twelve seconds
Answer
Answer: (d) twelve seconds
Question 16.
What can human beings learn from nature?
(a) beauty
(b) keeping quiet
(c) to be happy
(d) working with silence
Answer
Answer: (d) working with silence
Question 17.
What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping quiet is not total inactivity?
(a) Sun
(b) Soil
(c) earth
(d) Nature and earth
Answer
Answer: (d) Nature and earth
Question 18.
How will silence benefit the man and nature?
(a) both will be friends
(b) man will know nature better
(c) man will be healthy
(d) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves
Answer
Answer: (d) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves
Question 19.
While gathering salt, what will happen to the man if he keep silent for a moment?
(a) he will stop dropping it
(b) he will look at the ground
(c) he will walk carefully
(d) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands
Answer
Answer: (d) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands
Question 20.
Why is the poet asking everyone not to speak any language?
(a) to avoid noise
(b) to avoid loud voices
(c) to avoid people
(d) to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings
Answer
Answer: (d) to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings
Question 21.
What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?
(a) happy
(b) content
(c) dancing
(d) strange blissful oneness
Answer
Answer: (d) strange blissful oneness
Question 22.
What will happen if there are no engines and no crowd?
(a) noise will be lessened
(b) no crowd on roads
(c) no traffic rush
(d) it will create a perfect, happy moment
Answer
Answer: (d) it will create a perfect, happy moment
Question 23.
What does the poet want people to do for one second?
(a) to sing
(b) to close eyes
(c) to stand quietly
(d) to be silent and motionless
Answer
Answer: (d) to be silent and motionless
Question 24.
What is always alive even when everything seems to be dead or still?
(a) mountains
(b) rivers
(c) Sun
(d) Earth and nature are always alive
Answer
Answer: (d) Earth and nature are always alive
Question 25.
What is the sadness in the poem that the poet speaks about ?
(a) violence because of unthoughtful ness of the people
(b) unnecessary movements
(c) speaking aloud
(d) fighting
Answer
Answer: (a) violence because of unthoughtful ness of the people
Question 26.
What should not be confused with total inactivity or death?
(a) no movement
(b) a statue
(c) talking people
(d) Stillness and silence
Answer
Answer: (d) Stillness and silence
Question 27.
Not move our arms’ what does this expression refer to?
(a) sit quietly
(b) stand quietly
(c) to be inactive
(d) sitting still without any movement
Answer
Answer: (d) sitting still without any movement
Question 28.
What does number 12 represent?
(a) hours of the day and months of a year
(b) earth
(c) clock
(d) cricket players
Answer
Answer: (a) hours of the day and months of a year
Question 29.
How will keeping quiet protect our environment?
(a) by creating peace and brotherhood feelings
(b) no noise will be there
(c) people will not fight
(d) none
Answer
Answer: (a) by creating peace and brotherhood feelings
Question 30.
What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem?
(a) enclosed rhyme
(b) Monorhyme
(c) sonnet
(d) Free verse
Answer
Answer: (d) Free verse
Question 31.
According to the poet what creates barriers?
(a) interactions
(b) reactions
(c) fighting
(d) languages
Answer
Answer: (d) languages
Question 32.
What is the essence or message of the poem ?
(a) introspection and retrospection to be more peaceful and be in harmony
(b) to prosper
(c) to be happier
(d) to reach out more people
Answer
Answer: (a) introspection and retrospection to be more peaceful and be in harmony
Question 33.
What does the style of the poem symbolise, that the poet used to write with?
(a) desires
(b) happiness
(c) hope
(d) desire and hope
Answer
Answer: (d) desire and hope
Question 34.
What does counting upto 12 signify and how will it help?
(a) hours of the day
(b) months of a year
(c) it will help to create peace and harmony
(d) all
Answer
Answer: (d) all
Question 35.
What does the title of the poem suggest?
(a) Inactivity
(b) noise
(c) unhappiness
(d) Maintenance of silence
Answer
Answer: (d) Maintenance of silence
Question 36.
How does the poet perceive life?
(a) as stillness
(b) as silence
(c) a noisy place
(d) a continuous evolution of nature
Answer
Answer: (d) a continuous evolution of nature
Question 37.
What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem?
(a) War against humanity
(b) War against nature
(c) War with gases and fire
(d) All these
Answer
Answer: (d) All these
Question 38.
Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or hate violence?
(a) fishermen not harming whales
(b) wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate
(c) poet’s refusal to deal with death
(d) All these
Answer
Answer: (d) All these
Question 39.
What does hurt hand refer to ?
(a) Growing needs of the man
(b) growing greed of man
(c) unfulfilled desires
(d) growing insensitivity of man to pain
Answer
Answer: (d) growing insensitivity of man to pain
Question 40.
What is the poet expecting from fishermen?
(a) to find more fish
(b) to go deeper into the sea
(c) to think and stop harming the fish
(d) none
Answer
Answer: (c) to think and stop harming the fish
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