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MCQ Questions for Class 12 English Flamingo Poem 2 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum with Answers
Question 1.
Through the description of the slum children, the poet wants to express the prevailing in society
(a) social injustice and class inequalities
(b) poverty
(c) disease
(d) slums
Answer
Answer: (a) social injustice and class inequalities
Question 2.
The word catacombs imply of the slum children.
(a) diseased existence
(b) secure
(c) near death existence
(d) poverty ridden
Answer
Answer: (c) near death existence
Question 3.
Their world will extend to the golden sands as well as the green fields
(a) azure waves
(b) cities
(c) civilized world
(d) the rich people
Answer
Answer: (a) azure waves
Question 4.
Identify the literary device in ‘like catacombs’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer
Answer: (a) simile
Question 5.
Who spells hope for the slum children?
(a) school
(b) Shakespeare
(c) governor, inspector and visitor
(d) no one
Answer
Answer: (c) governor, inspector and visitor
Question 6.
Identify the literary device in ‘lead sky’.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 7.
Choose the phrase that talks of poverty
(a) ships and sun
(b) on their slag heap
(c) so blot their map
(d) Shakespeare is wicked
Answer
Answer: (b) on their slag heap
Question 8.
They are symbolic of the joy, and the brightness of life which these children are deprived of
(a) elementary school
(b) visitors
(c) ships, sun and love
(d) lead sky
Answer
Answer: (c) ships, sun and love
Question 9.
The lives of slum children are confined in
(a) elementary school
(b) Shakespeare’s world
(c) narrow streets of slums
(d) Tyrolese Valley
Answer
Answer: (c) narrow streets of slums
Question 10.
The night is endless as there is no for them.
(a) future
(b) education
(c) wealth
(d) support
Answer
Answer: (a) future
Question 11.
What is the future of the children?
(a) happy and secure
(b) poor but satisfied
(c) uncertain and bleak
(d) unhappy but secure
Answer
Answer: (c) uncertain and bleak
Question 12.
The classroom walls have
(a) pictures of Shakespeare, buildings with domes, world maps and beautiful valleys
(b) pictures of Shakespeare, rivers, valleys and world maps
(c) pictures of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, rivers buildings and world maps
(d) pictures of Shakespeare, buildings, rivers, mountains and valleys
Answer
Answer: (a) pictures of Shakespeare, buildings with domes, world maps and beautiful valleys
Question 13.
Which of the following words imply a bleak future?
(a) sour cream walls
(b) awarding the world its world
(c) future’s painted with a fog
(d) Shakespeare’s head
Answer
Answer: (c) future’s painted with a fog
Question 14.
His eyes live in a dream. What is the dream?
(a) to eat good food
(b) to be a squirrel
(c) to go out into the world
(d) to see Tyrolese Valley
Answer
Answer: (c) to go out into the world
Question 15.
What are the classrooms like?
(a) dim and pathetic
(b) temples of learning
(c) means of escape
(d) a happy place
Answer
Answer: (a) dim and pathetic
Question 16.
‘The stunted unlucky heir of twisted bones’ means the boy
(a) is short and bony
(b) is poor and unlucky
(c) is sad and unwell
(d) has an inherited disability
Answer
Answer: (d) has an inherited disability
Question 17.
‘The tall girl with her head weighed down’ means
(a) the girl is ashamed of something
(b) has untidy hair
(c) is ill and exhausted
(d) is shy
Answer
Answer: (c) is ill and exhausted
Question 18.
One of the following phrases implies unhealthy children. It is
(a) one unnoted
(b) eyes live in a dream
(c) a paper seeming boy
(d) from gusty waves
Answer
Answer: (c) a paper seeming boy
Question 19.
why are children compared to rootless weeds?
(a) they have no home
(b) they are unwanted like weeds
(c) they are thrown into schools
(d) they are sturdy like weeds
Answer
Answer: (b) they are unwanted like weeds
Question 20.
What are children like in the slums?
(a) underfed and sickly
(b) poor but happy
(c) underfed but energetic
(d) happy and playful
Answer
Answer: (a) underfed and sickly
Question 21.
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
Answer: (a) to send the children out of the slums
Question 22.
What other freedom the poet wants the slum children to enjoy?
(a) Freedom of roaming
(b) freedom to spend money
(c) freedom to eat
(d) freedom of knowledge,wisdom and expression
Answer
Answer: (d) freedom of knowledge,wisdom and expression
Question 23.
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
Answer: (d) Powerful and influential people
Question 24.
What blots the maps of the slum children?
(a) garbage
(b) blockage
(c) stones in the streets
(d) Dirty slums
Answer
Answer: (d) Dirty slums
Question 25.
What do the words ‘From fog to endless night ‘ mean?
(a) bright light outside
(b) bright future
(c) hopelessness
(d) Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death
Answer
Answer: (d) Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death
Question 26.
What kind of future the slum children have?
(a) very hopeful
(b) bright
(c) clear like water
(d) hopeless and uncertain
Answer
Answer: (d) hopeless and uncertain
Question 27.
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
Answer: (d) the world belong to the rich and powerful
Question 28.
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
Answer: (c) offwhite (sour cream) color points out hopeless poor condition of the slum children
Question 29.
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
Answer: (d) thin boy with rat’s eyes and will inherit twisted bones from his father
Question 30.
His eyes live in a dream- what is the dream?
(a) watching a movie
(b) going abroad
(c) eating icecream
(d) dream of better timeswith games and open spaces
Answer
Answer: (d) dream of better timeswith games and open spaces
Question 31.
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
Answer: (d) weak and malnutritioned boy
Question 32.
“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
Answer: (d) poor plight of the slum children
Question 33.
What does the poem describe?
(a) elementary school classroom in a slum
(b) social setup
(c) different mindsets
(d) beauty of the surroundings
Answer
Answer: (a) elementary school classroom in a slum
Question 34.
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
Answer: (d) All these
Question 35.
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
Answer: (b) room on trees where squirrels play
Question 36.
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
Answer: (b) completely opposite to the needs of the children in the classroom
Question 37.
What do the words “Their future is painted with fog” convey?
(a) no love and care
(b) no warmth
(c) no hardwork
(d) no hope of improvement
Answer
Answer:(d) no hope of improvement
Question 38.
What does the poet compare the color of walls with?
(a) rotten fruits
(b) stale chapatis
(c) rotten vegetables
(d) sour cream
Answer
Answer: (d) sour cream
Question 39.
What does the poet compare in the poem?
(a) between young and old
(b) generation gaps
(c) old age and childhood
(d) rich (haves) and poor children (have nots)
Answer
Answer: (d) rich (haves) and poor children (have nots)
Question 40.
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
Answer: (a) themes of social injustice and class inequalities.
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