Updated on 18/08/2022
Poem-2 An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
1. Who is the poet of the poem 'An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum'?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Kamala Das
(C) Stephen Spender
(D) John Keats
Answer
(C) Stephen Spender
2. Whose picture does the poet see on the wall?
(A) William Douglas
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) William Kinsley
Answer
(B) William Shakespeare
3. Which people are the possesors of history?
(A) whose language is weak
(B) who have no language
(C) whose language is strong
(D) all of the above
Answer
(C) whose language is strong
4. What is the poet's appeal to the upper class people?
(A) to help the rich
(B) to help the builders
(C) to help the politician
(D) to help the slum children
Answer
(D) to help the slum children
5. Where are donations and Shakespear's head placed?
(A) on trees
(B) on blackboard
(C) on walls
(D) all of the above
Answer
(C) on walls
6. Why is the head of the tall girl weighed down?
(A) by the burden of work
(B) by the burden of study
(C) by the burden of country
(D) by the burden of world
Answer
(A) by the burden of work
7. Identify the literary device in 'slums as big as doom'.
(A) metaphor
(B) alliteration
(C) simile
(D) personification
Answer
(C) simile
8. What blots the maps of the slum children?
(A) stones
(B) marbles
(C) dirty slums
(D) garbage
Answer
(C) dirty slums
9. Who is sitting at the back of the class?
(A) a sweet and young girl
(B) a sweet and young boy
(C) a tall girl
(D) a tall boy
Answer
(B) a sweet and young boy
10. What is the stunted boy reciting?
(A) lesson
(B) poem
(C) story
(D) paragraph
Answer
(A) lesson
11. 'Break O Break'. What should they break?
(A) all trees
(B) all windows
(C) all bathers
(D) all doors
Answer
(B) all windows
12. What is the literary device in 'future's painted with a fog'.
(A) metaphor
(B) personification
(C) simile
(D) alliteration
Answer
(A) metaphor
13. How is the colour of sour cream?
(A) yellow
(B) blue
(C) white
(D) off white
Answer
(D) off white
14. Identify the literary device in 'whose language is the sun'?
(A) metaphor
(B) alliteration
(C) simile
(D) personification
Answer
(A) metaphor
15. What is the theme of the poem 'An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum'?
(A) Social injustice
(B) Class ineuqlity
(C) Both (a) and (b)
(D) None
Answer
(C) Both (a) and (b)
16. How is the face of the students in the class look?
(A) pale
(B) lifeless
(C) withering
(D) all of the above