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An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum, Question 1., Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’., (a) simile, (b) metaphor, (c) alliteration, (d) personification, Answer, Answer: (a) simile, Question 2., Identify the literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’., (a) simile, (b) metaphor, (c) alliteration, (d) personification, Answer, Answer: (b) metaphor, Question 3., ‘Break O break’. What should they break?, (a) the donations, (b) all bathers, (c) the slums, (d) the schools, Answer, Answer: (b) all bathers, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) magically
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Question 5., Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’., (a) simile, (b) metaphor, (c) alliteration, (d) personification, Answer, Answer: (b) metaphor, Question 6., The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem., (a) long, (b) short, (c) optimistic, (d) pessimistic, Answer, Answer: (c) optimistic, Question 7., Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?, (a) in their cramped holes, (b) towards the sun, (c) towards the school, (d) towards the windows, Answer, Answer: (a) in their cramped holes, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (a) the beautiful world, Question 9., Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’., (a) simile, (b) metaphor
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(c) alliteration, (d) personification, Answer, Answer: (b) metaphor, Question 10., Shakespeare is wicked because he the children., (a) educates, (b) tempts, (c) loves, (d) hates, Answer, Answer: (b) tempts, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (a) world of the rich and powerful, Question 12., What is the stunted boy reciting?, (a) the lesson from his desk, (b) Shakespeare’s poetry, (c) leaves of nature, (d) his composition, Answer, Answer: (a) the lesson from his desk, Question 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, Answer
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Answer: (c) schools have a poor and ill-equipped environment, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (a) a sweet and young pupil, Question 15., The colour of sour cream is, (a) white, (b) yellow, (c) off-white, (d) pale, Answer, Answer: (c) off-white, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (c) hungry and thin, Question 17., Identify the literary device in ‘father’s gnarled disease’., (a) simile, (b) metaphor, (c) alliteration, (d) personification, Answer, Answer: (b) metaphor
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Question 18., Identify the literary device in `rat’s eyes’., (a) simile, (b) metaphor, (c) alliteration, (d) personification, Answer, Answer: (b) metaphor, Question 19., Identify the literary device in ‘like roofless weeds’., (a) simile, (b) metaphor, (c) alliteration, (d) personification, Answer, Answer: (a) simile, Question 20., What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?, (a) slum children, (b) energetic children, (c) deceased children, (d) unhappy children, Answer, Answer: (b) energetic children, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (c) barriers of dirty environment must be broken, Question 22., What have the windows done to the children’s lives in the poem?, (a) shut the doors, (b) blocked the passage
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(c) clocked the Sunlight, (d) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth, Answer, Answer: (d) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) foggy slums and bottle bits on stones, Question 25., What attracts the slum children?, (a)The animals, (b) The movies, (c) icecream, (d) All beautiful things like ship, Sun, Answer, Answer: (d) All beautiful things like ship, Sun, Question 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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Answer, Answer: (d) because of no access to hope and openness of the world, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) maps are drawn at the orders of the powerful people like hitler, Question 28., What is the stunted boy reciting?, (a) a happy song, (b) a religious song, (c) a sad song, (d) a lesson from desk, Answer, Answer: (d) a lesson from desk, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) an unnoticed young boy, Question 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 hair, Answer, Answer: (d) pale faces and scattered and undone hair
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Question 31., Why is the head of the tall girl ‘weighed down’?, (a) by the burden of studies, (b) by the burden of work, (c) by the burden of the world, (d) All these, Answer, Answer: (c) by the burden of the world, Question 32., What does the poet wish for the children of the slums?, (a) He wish them to be happy and healthy, (b) He wishes a good change for them, (c) he wants them to lead a healthy and happy life, (d) All these, Answer, Answer: (d) All these, Question 33., How can powerful people help the poor children?, (a) by fighting with the government, (b) by fighting with the powerful, (c) by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice, (d) by fighting with the rich, Answer, Answer: (c) by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice, Question 34., What do Catacombs signify?, (a) underground cemetry showing irrelevance of the map hanging on the wall of the, classroom, (b) irrelevance of the classroom, (c) irrelevance of the school, (d) irrelevance of the children, Answer, Answer: (a) underground cemetry showing irrelevance of the map hanging on the wall of, the classroom, Question 35., What was the boy with rat’s eyes trying to escape from?
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(a) bright light outside, (b) openness of trees, (c) dim light of the class, (d) children in the room, Answer, Answer: (c) dim light of the class, Question 36., What do the faces of children in the slum areas reflect?, (a) happiness, (b) their aspirations, (c) their happiness, (d) sadness and lack of enthusiasm, Answer, Answer: (d) sadness and lack of enthusiasm, Question 37., What are the poetic devices used in the poem?, (a) alliteration and simile, (b) metaphor and imagery, (c) synecdoche, and irony, (d) All these, Answer, Answer: (d) All these, Question 38., What kind of life the children living in slums have?, (a) full of love, (b) full of care and warmth, (c) Hopeless and full of struggle, (d) all these, Answer, Answer: (c) Hopeless and full of struggle, Question 39., What does the poet portray in the poem?, (a) young minds, (b) playfulness of the children, (c) questions of young mind, (d) the plight of young children in the slums
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Answer, Answer: (d) the plight of young children in the slums, Question 40., Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?, (a) Kipling, (b) Wordsworth, (c) Kamlanath, (d) Stephen Spender, Answer, Answer: (d) Stephen Spender, Question 41., 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 42., 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 43., 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
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Question 44., 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 45., 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
