Class 12 English MCQ Chapter 11 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

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Class 12 English MCQ Chapter 11 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

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An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

Chapter: 11

POETRY

Choose The Correct Option:

1. Who is the poet of “An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum”?

(i) T.S. Eliot.

(ii) Stephen Spender.

(iii) William Blake.

(iv) John Keats.

Ans: (ii) Stephen Spender.

2. Where are the children in the poem located?

(i) In a village.

(ii) In an elementary school in a slum.

(iii) In a rural school.

(iv) In a wealthy school.

Ans: (ii)  In an elementary school in a slum.

3. How does the poet describe the children’s faces?

(i) Bright and smiling.

(ii) Like rootless weeds.

(iii) Radiant with life.

(iv) Pale and joyful.

Ans: (ii) Like rootless weeds.

4. What does the ‘stunted, unlucky heir’ recite?

(i) A poem.

(ii) A father’s gnarled disease.

(iii) A Shakespearean sonnet.

(iv) A song.

Ans: (ii) A father’s gnarled disease.

5. What is the child at the back of the class dreaming about?

(i) His future.

(ii) A squirrel’s game in a tree room.

(iii) His family.

(iv) The map on the wall.

Ans: (ii)  A squirrel’s game in a tree room.

6. What does the poet criticize about the map on the wall?

(i) Its outdated information.

(ii) Its failure to represent the children’s world.

(iii) Its beauty.

(iv) Its lack of detail.

Ans: (ii)  Its failure to represent the children’s world.

7. What does the poet think about Shakespeare?

(i) He is a good role model.

(ii) He is wicked and irrelevant to the children.

(iii) He is a symbol of hope.

(iv) He is the best teacher.

Ans: (ii) He is wicked and irrelevant to the children.

8. What does the poet hope the map will do for the children?

(i) Take them to new places.

(ii) Become their window to the world.

(iii) Help them escape poverty.

(iv) Bring them wealth.

Ans: (ii) Become their window to the world.

9. What is the poet’s view on the children’s future?

(i) Bright and full of opportunity.

(ii) Full of wealth and fame.

(iii) Painted with fog and locked in slums.

(iv) Filled with happiness.

Ans: (iii) Painted with fog and locked in slums.

10. What is the condition of the children in the slum?

(i) Healthy and happy.

(ii) Malnourished and frail.

(iii) Wealthy and privileged.

(iv) Well-fed and healthy.

Ans: (ii) Malnourished and frail.

11. What does the poet want to break open for the children?

(i) The map.

(ii) The classroom door.

(iii) The town.

(iv) The slum.

Ans: (iv) The slum.

12. What does the poet hope for the children’s future life to be?

(i) Full of struggle.

(ii) Azure on gold sands.

(iii) Full of despair.

(iv) Surrounded by fog.

Ans: (ii) Azure on gold sands.

13. Which poet’s head is on the wall in the classroom?

(i) William Wordsworth.

(ii) John Milton.

(iii) Shakespeare.

(iv) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Ans: (iii)  Shakespeare.

14. What does the poet compare the children’s condition to?

(i) Trees and flowers.

(ii) Bottles and glass.

(iii) Rats and bugs.

(iv) Slag heaps and bones.

Ans: (iv) Slag heaps and bones.

15. What does the poet want the children to learn?

(i) Practical skills.

(ii) The language of the sun.

(iii) Political ideas.

(iv) History of their slum.

Ans: (ii) The language of the sun.