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Keeping Quiet Class, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (b) he tries to read out to the readers, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) and you keep quiet and I will go, Question 3., Man needs to learn a lesson from, (a) moon, (b) stars, (c) earth, (d) sun, Answer, Answer: (c) earth, Question 4., According to the poet wars that are fought have no, (a) soldiers, (b) weapons, (c) fighter planes, (d) survivors, Answer, Answer: (d) survivors
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Question 5., ‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device, (a) personification, (b) transferred epithet, (c) metaphor, (d) alliteration, Answer, Answer: (b) transferred epithet, Question 6., Without rush, without engines’ refers to, (a) no noise, (b) no hurry to go to the office, (c) no travelling, (d) no holidaying, Answer, Answer: (a) no noise, Question 7., The poet wants the entire humanity to, (a) keep talking, (b) keep running, (c) keep laughing, (d) keep still, Answer, Answer: (d) keep still, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (c) have no association or deal with death, Question 9., The poet advocates the balance of nature to be, (a) maintained, (b) destroyed
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(c) temporarily disturbed, (d) ignored, Answer, Answer: (a) maintained, Question 10., What does man threaten himself with?, (a) death, (b) birth, (c) robbery, (d) suicide, Answer, Answer: (a) death, Question 11., Where would they be walking?, (a) in the park, (b) along the river, (c) in the shade, (d) on the road, Answer, Answer: (c) in the shade, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (a) green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire, Question 13., Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm, (a) seahorses, (b) mermaids, (c) whales, (d) tortoises, Answer
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Answer: (c) whales, Question 14., What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent, (a) terrible, (b) painful, (c) exotic, (d) unforgettable, Answer, Answer: (c) exotic, Question 15., The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet for, (a) twenty seconds, (b) 1 hour, (c) thirty seconds, (d) twelve seconds, Answer, Answer: (d) twelve seconds, Question 16., What can human beings learn from nature?, (a) beauty, (b) keeping quiet, (c) to be happy, (d) working with silence, Answer, Answer: (d) working with silence, Question 17., What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping quiet is not total inactivity?, (a) Sun, (b) Soil, (c) earth, (d) Nature and earth, Answer, Answer: (d) Nature and earth
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Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings, Question 21., What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?, (a) happy, (b) content, (c) dancing, (d) strange blissful oneness, Answer, Answer: (d) strange blissful oneness, Question 22., What will happen if there are no engines and no crowd?, (a) noise will be lessened, (b) no crowd on roads
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(c) no traffic rush, (d) it will create a perfect, happy moment, Answer, Answer: (d) it will create a perfect, happy moment, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) to be silent and motionless, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) Earth and nature are always alive, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (a) violence because of unthoughtful ness of the people, Question 26., What should not be confused with total inactivity or death?, (a) no movement, (b) a statue, (c) talking people, (d) Stillness and silence, Answer
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Answer: (d) Stillness and silence, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (d) sitting still without any movement, Question 28., What does number 12 represent?, (a) hours of the day and months of a year, (b) earth, (c) clock, (d) cricket players, Answer, Answer: (a) hours of the day and months of a year, Question 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, Answer, Answer: (a) by creating peace and brotherhood feelings, Question 30., What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem?, (a) enclosed rhyme, (b) Monorhyme, (c) sonnet, (d) Free verse, Answer, Answer: (d) Free verse
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Question 31., According to the poet what creates barriers?, (a) interactions, (b) reactions, (c) fighting, (d) languages, Answer, Answer: (d) languages, Question 32., What is the essence or message of the poem ?, (a) introspection and retrospection to be more peaceful and be in harmony, (b) to prosper, (c) to be happier, (d) to reach out more people, Answer, Answer: (a) introspection and retrospection to be more peaceful and be in harmony, Question 33., What does the style of the poem symbolise, that the poet used to write with?, (a) desires, (b) happiness, (c) hope, (d) desire and hope, Answer, Answer: (d) desire and hope, Question 34., What does counting upto 12 signify and how will it help?, (a) hours of the day, (b) months of a year, (c) it will help to create peace and harmony, (d) all, Answer, Answer: (d) all, Question 35., What does the title of the poem suggest?, (a) Inactivity, (b) noise
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(c) unhappiness, (d) Maintenance of silence, Answer, Answer: (d) Maintenance of silence, Question 36., How does the poet perceive life?, (a) as stillness, (b) as silence, (c) a noisy place, (d) a continuous evolution of nature, Answer, Answer: (d) a continuous evolution of nature, Question 37., What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem?, (a) War against humanity, (b) War against nature, (c) War with gases and fire, (d) All these, Answer, Answer: (d) All these, Question 38., Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or hate violence?, (a) fishermen not harming whales, (b) wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate, (c) poet’s refusal to deal with death, (d) All these, Answer, Answer: (d) All these, Question 39., What does hurt hand refer to ?, (a) Growing needs of the man, (b) growing greed of man, (c) unfulfilled desires, (d) growing insensitivity of man to pain, Answer
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Answer: (d) growing insensitivity of man to pain, Question 40., What is the poet expecting from fishermen?, (a) to find more fish, (b) to go deeper into the sea, (c) to think and stop harming the fish, (d) none, Answer, Answer: (c) to think and stop harming the fish
