MCQ Class 12 English Poem 2 Keeping Quiet Flamingo

MCQ’s For All Poems – Flamingo Class 12th

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

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Question 1 of 30

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

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Question 2 of 30

3. Man needs to learn a lesson from

(a) moon

(b) stars

(c) earth

(d) sun

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Question 3 of 30

4. According to the poet wars that are fought have no

(a) soldiers

(b) weapons

(c) fighter planes

(d) survivors

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5. ‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device

(a) personification

(b) transferred epithet

(c) metaphor

(d) alliteration

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Question 5 of 30

6. Without rush, without engines’ refers to

(a) no noise

(b) no hurry to go to the office

(c) no travelling

(d) no holidaying

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Question 6 of 30

7. The poet wants the entire humanity to

(a) keep talking

(b) keep running

(c) keep laughing

(d) keep still

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Question 7 of 30

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

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Question 8 of 30

9. The poet advocates the balance of nature to be

(a) maintained

(b) destroyed

(c) temporarily disturbed

(d) ignored

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Question 9 of 30

10. What does man threaten himself with?

(a) death

(b) birth

(c) robbery

(d) suicide

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Question 10 of 30

11. Where would they be walking?

(a) in the park

(b) along the river

(c) in the shade

(d) on the road

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Question 11 of 30

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

(a) green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire

(b) verbal wars

(c) technological warfare

(d) nuclear wars

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Question 12 of 30

13. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm

(a) seahorses

(b) mermaids

(c) whales

(d) tortoises

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Question 13 of 30

14. What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent

(a) terrible

(b) painful

(c) exotic

(d) unforgettable

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Question 14 of 30

15. The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet for

(a) twenty seconds

(b) 1 hour

(c) thirty seconds

(d) twelve seconds

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Question 15 of 30

16. What can human beings learn from nature?

(a) beauty

(b) keeping quiet

(c) to be happy

(d) working with silence

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Question 16 of 30

17. What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping quiet is not total inactivity?

(a) Sun

(b) Soil

(c) earth

(d) Flower and earth

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Question 17 of 30

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

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Question 18 of 30

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

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Question 19 of 30

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

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Question 20 of 30

21. What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?

(a) happy

(b) content

(c) dancing

(d) strange blissful oneness

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Question 21 of 30

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

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Question 22 of 30

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

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Question 23 of 30

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

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Question 24 of 30

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

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Question 25 of 30

26. What should not be confused with total inactivity or death?

(a) no movement

(b) a statue

(c) talking people

(d) Stillness and silence

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Question 26 of 30

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

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Question 27 of 30

28. What does number 12 represent?

(a) hours of the day and months of a year

(b) earth

(c) clock

(d) cricket players

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Question 28 of 30

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

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Question 29 of 30

30. What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem?

(a) enclosed rhyme

(b) Monorhyme

(c) sonnet

(d) Free verse

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Question 30 of 30

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