MCQ Poem 2 Class 12 English Flamingo

MCQ’s For All Poems – Flamingo Class 12th

1. Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.

(a) simile

(b) metaphor

(c) alliteration

(d) personification

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Question 1 of 30

2. Identify the literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’.

(a) simile

(b) metaphor

(c) alliteration

(d) personification

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Question 2 of 30

3. ‘Break O break’. What should they break?

(a) the donations

(b) all the barriers

(c) the slums

(d) the schools

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Question 3 of 30

4. 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

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Question 4 of 30

5. Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.

(a) simile

(b) metaphor

(c) alliteration

(d) personification

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Question 5 of 30

6. The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.

(a) long

(b) short

(c) optimistic

(d) pessimistic

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Question 6 of 30

7. Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?

(a) in their cramped holes

(b) towards the sun

(c) towards the school

(d) towards the windows

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Question 7 of 30

8. 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

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Question 8 of 30

9. Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’.

(a) simile

(b) metaphor

(c) alliteration

(d) personification

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Question 9 of 30

10. Shakespeare is wicked because he the children.

(a) educates

(b) tempts

(c) loves

(d) hates

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Question 10 of 30

11. What does the map represent?

(a) world of the rich and powerful

(b) world of the poor

(c) world of the slum school children

(d) world the poet wants for the slum children

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Question 11 of 30

12. What is the stunted boy reciting?

(a) the lesson from his desk

(b) Shakespeare’s poetry

(c) leaves of nature

(d) his composition

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Question 12 of 30

13. ‘On sour cream walls. Donations’ suggests

(a) schools are well equipped

(b) schools are small but they try to impart education

(c) schools have a poor and ill-equipped environment

(d) schools meet the education requirements of the children through donations

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Question 13 of 30

14. Who sits at the back of the class?

(a) a sweet and young pupil

(b) a paper seeming boy

(c) a tall girl

(d) a girl with hair like rootless weeds

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Question 14 of 30

15. The colour of sour cream is

(a) white

(b) yellow

(c) off-white

(d) pale

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Question 15 of 30

16. The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes’ means the boy is

(a) sly and secretive

(b) short and lean

(c) hungry and thin

(d) sad and depressed

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Question 16 of 30

17. Identify the literary device in ‘father’s gnarled disease’.

(a) simile

(b) metaphor

(c) alliteration

(d) personification

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Question 17 of 30

18. Identify the literary device in `rat’s eyes’.

(a) simile

(b) metaphor

(c) alliteration

(d) personification

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Question 18 of 30

19. Identify the literary device in ‘like rootless weeds’.

(a) simile

(b) metaphor

(c) alliteration

(d) personification

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Question 19 of 30

20. What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?

(a) slum children

(b) energetic children

(c) deceased children

(d) unhappy children

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Question 20 of 30

21. What does the expression ‘Break O break open’ suggest?

(a) barriers on the road

(b) barriers of garbage heap

(c) barriers of dirty environment must be broken

(d) None

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Question 21 of 30

22. What have the windows done to the children’s lives in the poem?

(a) shut the doors

(b) blocked the passage

(c) clocked the Sunlight

(d) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth

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Question 22 of 30

23. What does the poet show through expressions ‘so blot their maps with slums as big as doom’?

(a) his clot the street

(b) enjoy the maps

(c) big maps

(d) poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities

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Question 23 of 30

24. Mention any two images used to explain the plight of the slum children.

(a) open handed map

(b) from his desk

(c) belled, flowery

(d) foggy slums and bottle bits on stones

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Question 24 of 30

25. What attracts the slum children?

(a)The animals

(b) The movies

(c) ice cream

(d) All beautiful things like ship, Sun

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Question 25 of 30

26. In what sense are the slum chidren different?

(a) their IQ

(b) their wisdom

(c) their dresses

(d) because of no access to hope and openness of the world

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Question 26 of 30

27. What does the expression ‘Open handed map ” show?

(a) power of the poor

(b) the poor are powerful

(c) the poor are powerless

(d) maps are drawn at the orders of the powerful people like hitler

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Question 27 of 30

28. What is the stunted boy reciting?

(a) a happy song

(b) a religious song

(c) a sad song

(d) a lesson from desk

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Question 28 of 30

29. Who was sitting at the back of the dim class?

(a) a girl

(b) an old man

(c) a teacher

(d) an unnoticed young boy

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Question 29 of 30

30. What kind of look the faces and hair of the children give?

(a) a rich and beautiful

(b) organized

(c) healthy

(d) pale faces and scattered and undone hai

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Question 30 of 30