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(iv) Both Assertion and Reason cannot be inferred.

1. My Mother At Sixty-Six (d) Choose the option that displays the same literary
- Kamala Das device as in the given lines of the extract.
"her face ashen like that of a corpse ... "
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions (i) Just as I had this thought, she appeared and ...
that follow.
(ii) My thoughts were as heavy as lead that
1. Driving from my parent's home to Cochin last Friday evening w hen ...
morning, I saw my mother,
(iii) I think like everyone else w ho ...
beside me, doze, open mouthed, her face
(iv) I like to think aloud when ...
ashen like that of a corpse and realized with
2. A nd
pain that she was as old as she
looked out at Young
looked but soon put that thought away ...
Trees sprinting, the mem; children spilling
[NCERT]
out of their homes, but after the airport's
(a) Choose the option that best applies to the given
extract. security check, standin~ a f ew yards
(1) a conversation away, I looked again at her, wan, pale
(2) an argument as a late w inter's moon and felt that old
(3) a piece of advice famil iar ache.. . [NCERT]
(4) a strategy (a) What is the most likely reason the poet capitalised
'Young Trees'?
(5) a recollection
This was to:
(6) a su ggestion
(i) 1, 3 and 6 (ii) 2, 4, and 5 (i) convey a clearer meaning
(iii) Only 5 (iv) Only 1 (ii) highlight the adjective noun combination.
(b) Choose the book title that perfectly describes the (iii) enl1ance the contrast.
condition of the poet's mother. (iv) draw a connection with the title.
Title 1 You're only Old Once! - by Dr. Seuss (b) Choose the option that appropriately describes
the relationship between the two statements
Title 2 The Gift of Years -by Joan Chittister
given below.
Title 3 Somewhere Towards the End Statem ent 1: TI1e poet knows her mother has aged.
-by Diana Athill
Statement 2: The poet feels the pain of separation.
Title 4 The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (i) Beginn ing - Ending
-by Philippa Perry
(ii) Cause - Effect
(i) Title 1 (ii) Title 2 (iii) Question - Answer
(iii) Title 3 (iv) Title 4 (iv) Introduction - Conclusion
(c) Choose the option that applies correctly to the (c) Choose the option that completes the sentence
two statements given below.
given below.
Assertion: The poet wards off the thought of her
Just as the brightness of the winter's moon is veiled
mother getting old quickly. behind the haze and mist, similarly, _ _ _ _ _.
Reason: The poet didn' t want to confront the
(i) the p ain of separation h as shaded mother' s
inevitability of fate that was to dawn upon her
expression.
mother.
(i) Assertion can be inferred but the Reason (ii) age has fogged m other's youthful appearance.
cannot be inferred. (iii) growing up has developed a seasoned
(ii) Assertion cannot be inferred but the Reason maturity in the poet.
can be inferred. (iv) memories warm the heart like the pale moon
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 (d) Choose the correct option out of the ones given (c) headache
below. (d) children screaming at her
(1) Simile Metaphor 11. What did the poet realise with pain?
the merry children old familiar ache. (a) her mother's appearance like a corpse
spilling. (b) she is inconsiderate
(c) old age is pleasant
(2) Metaphor Imagery
(d) she has duties
pale as the late Young trees sprinting. 12. What is the familiar ache?
writer's moon.
(a) poet's childhood fear
(3) Imagery Personification (b) poet's mother's weak health
all I did was smile the merry children (c) poet's duties
spilling. (d) poet's helplessness
13. What was the poet's childhood fear?
(4) Personification Simile
(a) Parting from her husband
Young tree sprinting. pale as a late writer's
(b) Parting from her friends
moon.
(c) Parting from her siblings
(i) option 1 (ii) option 2
(d) Losing her mother
(iii) option 3 (iv) option 4
3. Who is the poet of poem 'My Mother at Sixty-Six'? 14. Which poetic device is used in "Trees sprinting-" ?
(a) John Keats (a) Metaphor (b) Simile
(b) Rudyard Kipling (c) Alliteration (d) Personification
(c) William Wordsworth 15. What do the running trees signify?
(d) Kamala Das (a) fast moving appearance
4. What is the significance of the title 'My Mother at (b) speed of the m oving car
Sixty-Six'? (c) fast m oving change in human life from childhood
(a) Poet's fear of losing her old mother to old age
(b) Poet's fear of moving fast (d) None of the above
(c) Poet's inability to express her feelings 16. What does the poet notice outside the car ?
(d) All of these (a) sprinting trees and running children
5. What is the main idea of the poem 'My Mother at (b) schools and roads
Sixty-Six'?
(c) other vehicles
(a) Painful old age
(d) many people on the road
(b) Discolouration of skin
17. Why has the poet used the imagery of merry children
(c) Carelessness of a daughter
spilling out of their homes?
(d) Lack of strength
(a) to show hope
6. What is the distinctive feature of the poem?
(b) to show happiness
(a) metaphors are used
(b) simile is used (c) to show youthfulness of her age
(c) alliteration is used (d) to show hope and happiness in children
(d) narrative style u sing a single sentence in a set of 14 18. What does the narrative single sentence style of the
lines poem highlight?
7. What does the narrative style of the poem signify? (a) Poet's feelings
(a) differing thoughts (b) Poet's insecurities
(b) many thoughts (c) Poet's thoughts
(c) contrasting thoughts (d) Poet's intertwining thoughts
(d) a single thread of thought mixed w ith harsh 19. Which rhyming scheme is used in the poem?
realities (a) coupled rhyme (b) monorhyme
8. Who lives in Cochin?
(c) Alternate rhyme (d) free verse
(a) Poet (b) Her parents
20. Quote an example of a simile used in the poem.
(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of these
(a) familiar ache
9. Name the poetic devices used in the poem.
(b) like that of a corpse
(a) m etaphor (b) simile
(c) wan and pale
(c) alliteration (d) all of these
10. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels (d) the merry children
in the poem 'My Mother at Sixty-Six'? 21. Quote an example of a metaphor used in the poem.
(a) losing her mother (a) As a late winter's moon
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 (c) Driving from my parent's home 31. What does the expression smile, smile and smile
(d) None of the above signify?
22. Quote an example of alliteration used in the poem. (a) poet was going home and was elated
(a) like ashen (b) poet was happy
(b) smile, smile and smile (c) poet was hopeless
(c) Friday morning (d) poet's desperate efforts to hide her fears
(d) None of the above 32. What does the poet's smile signify in the poem?
23. Quote an example of personification used m the (a) her assurance to mother and helplessness inside
poem. (b) she has responsibilities
(a) sprinting trees (c) she has to do her duty first
(b) home to Cochin (d) she is a loving daughter
(c) airport's security check 33. 'Smile and smile and smile' is an_ _ _.
(d) All of these (a) anaphora (b) simile
24. How is the imagery of 'young trees and merry children' (c) alliteration (d) personification
a contrast to the mother? 34. The poetess says her mother looked pale like a_ _.
(a) mother is old in comparison to the trees and (a) corpse (b) ghost
children (c) malnourished child (d) anaemic person
(b) mother is like ash while the trees are green and 35. Kamala Das is a _ __
children are happy
(a) Bengali (b) Punjabi
(c) like spring and autumn season
(c) Keralite (d) Gujarati
(d) mother's health-hopelessness and trees and merry
36. The tone of the poet in the poem IS primarily a
children- youthfulness and hope
combination of and [NCERT]
25. What was the expression of the poet's face while
1. dauntlessness 2. apprehension
parting from her mother?
3. dejection 4. disappointment
(a) satirical (b) funny
(c) sad (d) smiling (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3

26. Why does the poet feel parted, upset and sad? (c) 3 and 4 (d) 1 and 4
37. The phrase 'old familiar ache' has been used to refer
(a) because of her fears
to a
(b) because she was getting late
(a) fear (b) sadness
(c) fear of missing her flight
(c) happiness (d) anxiety
(d) because of her duty towards mother and her own
38. Assertion: The poet was worried about her mother.
needs
27. Why did the poet look at her mother again? Reason: Her mother was going to other city.
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
(a) because she was busy
the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) because she was going away
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is
(c) because she wanted to stay back not the correct explanation of assertion.
(d) because of fear and insecurity (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
28. What question arises from the complexity of the (iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
situation in the poem?
39. Assertion: Poet's mother looked very dull and
(a) what to do in old age
lethargic.
(b) how to take care of one's loved ones
Reason: She was tired of her work.
(c) how to drive (i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
(d) how to strike a balance between duties and the correct explanation of assertion.
responsibilities (ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is
29. What is the tone of the poem towards the end? not the correct explanation of assertion.
(a) sad (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(b) hopeless (iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
(c) cheerful 40. Assertion: The poet looked at the young trees and
(d) resignation with acceptance playing children out of the window.
30. What do the parting words "See you soon Amma" Reason: She wanted to avoid the thought of her
signify? mother who was growing old.
(a) her carelessness (i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
(b) her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) she bids goodbye like this (ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is
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 (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false. Children, these windows, not this map, their world,
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true. Where all their future 's painted w ith a fog,
41. Assertion: The smile on the poet's face was natural (a) What does the expression - sour cream walls -
and the outcome of her going to Cochin. suggest?
Reason: The poet was not confident whether she (i) display of d onated artefacts on the walls.
would be able to see her mother again. (ii) badly maintained walls.
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is (iii) wall-to wall furniture.
the correct explanation of assertion. (iv) a poor choice of paint for walls.
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is (b) The map of the world in the classroom
n ot the correct explanation of assertion. symbolises.
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false. (i) hopes and aspirations of the children
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true. (ii) travel p lans of the school authorities
42. Assertion: The poet's mother has been compared to (iii) a world that is unconnected to the children.
the 'late winter's moon' .
(iv) interconnectivity w ithin the world
Reason: She was as beautiful as the moon in her young
(c) The expression, Shakespeare's head is an example
age.
of:
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
(i) pun (ii) satire
the correct explanation of assertion.
(iii) parody (iv) irony
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is
not the correct explanation of assertion. (d) In the extract. 'future's painted with a fog'
suggests that the:
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(i) classroom is as foggy as the paint on the
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
walls.
(ii) beautiful valleys are not a part of the children 's
2. An Elementary School Classroom in future.
Slum (iii) life ahead for the slum child en is as unclear
-Stephen Spender and hazy as fog.
(iv) fog often finds itself in the classrooms through
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions broken wind ows.
that follow. 3. Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example,
1. Far far from gusty waves
With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes
The tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paper- From fog to endless night? On their slag heap, these children
seeming
(a) Why is Shakespeare described as wicked?
boy, with rat's ei;es. The stunted, unluc/a; heir
(i) children h ave no idea of literary genius of
(a) What are the children equaled with?
Shakespeare
(i) gusty waves (ii) rootless w eeds (ii) he m ap a bad example
(iii) rat's eyes (iv) paper
(iii) children are bothered by hunger and despair
(b) Why do you think the tall girl is sitting with a
(iv) all of these
weighed down head?
(b) What is the symbolic meaning of "from fog to
(i) because she is depressed endless night"?
(ii) due to h er miserable life (i) from early m orning to late night
(iii) she feels embarrassed (ii) everyday was the same for the slum children
(iv) all of these
(iii) from w inter' s long night till morning
(c) The literary device used by the poet m 'rat's
(iv) atmosphere without sunlight
eyes' is .............. .
(c) What is the poetic device used in the words 'slag
(i) metaphor (ii) simile
heap'?
(iii) alliteration (iv) symbol
(i) h yperbole (ii) metaphor
(d) What is the condition of the boy?
(iii) imagery (iv) symbol
(i) he is contented (d) Why is it called that children live in holes?
(ii) he is unhappy
(i) their houses look like rat's hole
(iii) he is thin as paper
(ii) their houses are small, dirty and congested
(iv) he wants to revolt
(iii) children live in rat h oles
2. On sour cream walls, donations. Shakespeare's head,
(iv) none of these
Cloudless at dawn, civilised dome riding all cities.
4. This map becomes their windows and these windows
Belled, flowen;, Tyrolese vallei;. Open-handed map
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Break O break open till they break the town (i) option 1 (ii) option 2
And show the children to green fields, and make their world (iii) option 3 (iv) option 4
Run azure on gold sands, and let their tongues 5. Who is the poet of the poem, 'An Elementary School
Run naked into books the white and green leaves open Classroom in a Slum'?
Histon; theirs whose language is the sun. [NCERT] (a) Kipling (b) Wordsworth
(a) Pick the option that is NOT TRUE according to (c) Kamlanath (d) Stephen Spender
this extract. 6. What theme did the poet concentrate on in the poem?
(i) The children should be allowed to read books (a) theme of social injustice and class inequalities
and form their opinions. (b) theme of children and their happiness
(ii) Education without breaking the shackles of (c) theme of insecurities
poverty, is meaningless. (d) None of the above
(iii) The policy makers show the reality of the real 7. What does the poet portray in the poem?
world to the children. (a) young minds
(iv) The children see the world of poverty and (b) playfulness of the children
misery through the windows.
(c) questions of children
(b) Pick the options that matches best with the
(d) the plight of young children in the slums
phrase 'break o break open'.
8. What are the poetic devices used in the poem?
(1) break free (2) break silence
(a) alliteration and simile
(3) break out (4) break even
(b) metaphor and imagery
(5) break through (6) break ground
(c) synecdoche, and irony
(i) 1, 3 and 5 (ii) 2, 3 and 6
(d) All of these
(iii) 1, 4 and 6 (iv) 2, 3 and 5
9. "Far far from gusty waves these children's faces. Like
(c) Look at the given book covers. Pick the option rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor'':
that reflects the meaning of 'catacomb' in the what do these words express?
extract. (a) poor state of the classroom
(b) poor plight of children's homes
(c) poor plight of teachers
(d) poor plight of the slum children
10. Why is the head of the tall girl 'weighed down'?
(a) by the burden of studies
(1) (4) (b) by the burden of work
(i) option 1 (ii) option 2 (c) by the burden of her world
(iii) option 3 (iv) option 4 (d) All of these
(d) On the basis of the extract, pick the opinion that 11. What is the meaning of 'The paper seeming boy,
is closest to that of the poet. with rat eyes'?
(a) rich people

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(b) rich children
(1) The children should be given free
(c) powerful people and their influence
time to play in the fields to develop
their creativity. (d) weak and malnutrition boy
12. What does paper-seeming boy mean?
(a) had a paper in his hand

I (2) The children must be given freedom

to experience the wholesome bounties
of nature.
13.
(b) was as thin as a sheet of paper
(c) was white in colour like a sheet of paper
(d) All of these
What is the stunted boy reciting?

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(a) a happy song from his seat
(3) The condition of the children can
(b) a religious song in a group
improve if they are shown the beautiful
world out of their window. (c) a sad song from the front of the class
(d) a lesson from his desk
14. Who is the unlucky heir and what has he inherited?

I (4) The children can spread light and

awareness if they become morally
responsible.
(a) a fat boy, has inherited obesity from his mother
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 (c) an intelligent boy, has inherited intelligence (c) they show vastness which is opposite to the world
(d) thin boy with rat's eyes, has inherited a deformed and needs of the children in the classroom
body from his father (d) All of these
15. "His eyes live in a dream"- what is the dream? 25. What does the poet wish for the children of the
(a) watching a movie slums?
(b) going abroad (a) He wishes them to be happy and healthy
(c) eating ice cream (b) He wishes a good change for them
(d) dream of better times with games and open spaces (c) He wants them to enjoy the bounties of nature
16. What other freedom does the poet wants the slum (d) All of these
children to enjoy? 26. What does the expression 'Open handed map "
(a) freedom of roaming show?
(b) freedom to spend money (a) power of the poor
(c) freedom to eat (b) the poor can not access the world
(d) freedom of knowledge,wisdom and expression (c) the poor are powerless
17. What does the poet compare the colour of walls with? (d) maps are open to all, they reveal everything
27. What do the words "Their future is painted with
(a) rotten fruits (b) stale chapatis
fog" convey?
(c) rotten vegetables (d) sour cream
(a) no love and care
18. What does the colour of the classroom walls point
(b) no warmth
out?
(c) no hard work
(a) happy and poor state
(d) no hope of improvement
(b) happy and rich state
28. What do Catacombs signify?
(c) p oor condition of the slum
(a) relevance of the map hanging on the wall of the
(d) None of these classroom
19. In what sense are the slum children different? (b) confinement to the slums, the maps being
(a) their IQ irrelevant
(b) their wisdom (c) importance of the school
(c) their dresses (d) death
(d) because of no access to hope and openness of the 29. What have the windows done to the children's lives
world in the poem?
20. Mention any two images used to explain the plight
(a) shut the doors
of the slum children.
(b) blocked the passage
(a) open handed map and rootless weeds
(b) from his desk and rat's eyes (c) clocked the Sunlight
(c) belled and flowery (d) have shut the children inside and blocked their
growth
(d) foggy slums and bottle bits on stones
30. What does the expression 'Break O break open'
21. What do the faces of children in the slum areas
suggest?
reflect?
(a) happiness (a) barriers on the road
(b) their aspirations (b) barriers of garbage heap
(c) their energy (c) barriers of dirty environment must be broken
(d) sadness and lack of enthusiasm (d) None of the above
22. What is the Tree Room in the poem? 31. What do the words 'From fog to endless night' mean?
(a) A tree - shaped room (a) bright light outside
(b) A room on a tree where squirrels play (b) bright future
(c) A room on a tree where rats play (c) hopelessness
(d) A room on a tree where pigeons play (d) dark and uncertain future of slum children from
23. What is ironical about the wall hangings and birth to death
donations in the classroom? 32. 'Awarding the world its world' what do these words
(a) set up in very clean environment express?
(b) completely opposite to the needs of the children in (a) the world is ours
the classroom (b) the world is yours
(c) set up in happy environment (c) the world belong to the poor
(d) set up in gloomy set up (d) the world belongs to the rich
24. Why are the pictures and maps meaningless? 33. What do the 'governor, inspector, visitor' in the poem
(a) they are fake and show a false thing depict?
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 (b) Government officials 43. Assertion: The children of the elementary school lead
(c) Political people w retched lives.
(d) Powerful and influential people Reason: They are deprived of the rights they are
34. How can powerful people help the poor children? entitled to.
(a) by fighting with the government (i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) by fighting with the powerful
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is
(c) by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice
not the correct explanation of assertion.
(d ) by fighting with the rich
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
35. The literary device in 'slums as big as doom
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
is_ __
44. Assertion: The future of the slum children is painted
(a) simile (b) metaphor
w ith fog.
(c) alliteration (d ) personification
Reason: They live in cold places w ith dark rooms.
36. The literary device in 'whose language is the sun' is
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
the correct explanation of assertion.
(a) simile (b) metaphor (ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is
(c) alliteration (d) personification not the correct explanation of assertion.
37. The literary device in 'spectacles of steel' is _ _ __ (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(a) simile (b) metaphor (iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
(c) alliteration (d) personification
38. The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem _ __ 3. Keeping Quite
(a) long (b) short -Pablo Neruda
(c) optimistic (d ) pessimistic
39. Shakespeare 1s wicked because he_ __ the Read the extracts given below and answer the questions
children. that follow.
1. For once on the face of the Earth
(a) educates (b) tempts
let's not speak in any language,
(c) loves (d) hates
40. Assertion: Shakespeare has been described as wicked let's stop for one second,
in the p oem. and not move our arms so much.
Reason: He has made the lives of the slum children It would be an exotic moment
horrible. without rush, without engines,
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is we would all be together
the correct explanation of assertion. in a sudden strangeness. [NCERTJ
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is (a) The poet uses the word "let's" to _ __
not the correct explanation of assertion. (i) initiate a conversation between the poet and
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false. the readers.
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true. (ii) invite readers as part of the poem's larger call
41. Assertion: The walls of the elementary school to humanity.
classroom in slum are beautifully decorated. (iii) welcome readers into the world of the poem
Reason: As they have not been painted recently. and its subject.
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is (iv) address readers as fellow members of the
the correct explanation of assertion. human race.
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is (b) Margaret Atwood said, "Language divides us
not the correct explanation of assertion. into fragments, I wanted to be whole."
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false. Choose the option that correctly comments on
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true. the relationship between Margaret Atwood's
words and the line from the above extract - "let's
42. Assertion: The poet wants that the children of the
not speak in any language"
slum school should be given basic facilities.
(i) Atwood endorses Neruda's call to not speak
Reason: He appeals to the people in power.
in any language.
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
(ii) Atwood ju stifies Neruda's request to not
the correct explanation of assertion.
en gage in any speaking.
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is
(iii) Atwood undermines Neruda's intent to stop
not the correct explanation of assertion.
and n ot speak in any language.
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(iv) Atwood surrenders to Neruda's desire for
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
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 (c) Why do you think the poet employs words like might interrupt this sadness
"exotic" and "strangeness"? of never understanding ourselves
(i) To highlight the importance of everyone being and of threatening ourselves with death.
together suddenly for once. (a) Whom does 'we' refer to in the above lines?
(ii) To emphasize the frenetic activity and chaos (i) army men (ii) human beings
that usually envelops human life. (iii) citizens of US (iv) men
(iii) To indicate the unfamiliarity of a sudden (b) Why does the poet want us to 'do nothing' for
moment without rush or without engine. once?
(iv) To direct us towards keeping quiet and how (i) to give rest to our body
we would all be together in that silence. (ii) to experience the freedom
(d) Choose the option that correctly matches the (iii) to enjoy the leisure time
idioms given in Column A with their meanings (iv) to analyse our actions
in Column B.
(c) Which figure of speech is used in the first line?
Column-A Column- B (i) personification (ii) allegory
1. On the face of the (a) In existence (iii) alliteration (iv) repetition
earth
(d) How can a huge silence do good to us?
2. What on earth (b) To do all possible to (i) we can achieve peace in this silence only
accomplish something
(ii) it helps us in analysing ourselves
3. Move heaven and (c) To express surprise or
(iii) interrupts the sadness of threatening ourselves
earth shock
with death.
4. The salt of the (d) To be good and (iv) all of these
earth worthy
4. Perhaps the Earth can teach us
(a) 1-a, 2-d, 3-c, 4-b (b) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b, 4-d
as when even;thing seems dead
(c) 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-c (d) 1-d, 2-b, 3-c, 4-a
and later proves to be alive
2. Those who prepare green wars,
Now I1l count upto twelve
wars with gas, wars with fire,
and you keep quiet and I will go.
Victon; with no survivors,
(a) What does the Earth teach us?
would put on clean clothes
(i) that people should live in harmony
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing. (ii) that there is life under stillness
(a) Who are 'those' in line 1? (iii) that people should not indulge in war
(i) politicians (ii) scientists (iv) that all people are its children
(iii) statesman (iv) all of these (b) What does the poet mean to achieve by counting
(b) What are 'green wars'? up to twelve?
(i) war with the trees (i) peace by introspecting
(ii) war with the vegetables (ii) experience happiness
(iii) war against nature (iii) knowledge of controlling anger
(iv) war for nature (iv) achieving power
(c) Identify the figure of speech used m 'clean (c) From the above lines, what do you guess about
clothes' the poet's thought process?
(i) personification (ii) alliteration (i) he is hypothetical
(iii) metaphor (iv) h yperbole (ii) he is practical
(d) What does the poet expect from the men? (iii) he is philosophical
(i) to indulge in Chemical wars rather than fire (iv) he is emotional
arms (d) What is always alive, even when everything
(ii) to fight harmoniously seems to be dead?
(iii) co-exist in peaceful atmosphere (i) our deeds
(iv) to spare atmosphere and then fight (ii) our memories
3. If we were not so single-minded (iii) people's behaviour
about keeping our lives moving, (iv) activities beneath the earth's surface
and for once could do nothing, 5. What is the pen name of the poet of the poem
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 (a) Neruda (b) Pable 16. What is the sadness in the poem that the poet speaks
(c) Pablo (d) Pablo Neruda about?
6. What does the poem 'Keeping Quiet' speak about? (a) violence because of unthoughtfulness of the
(a) the necessity to be happy people
(b) the necessity to introspect , understand and have (b) unnecessary movements
feelings of brotherhood (c) speaking aloud
(c) the necessity to work quietly (d) fighting
(d) None of above 17. What does the poet want people to do for one second?
7. What is the essence or message of the poem ? (a) to sing
(a) introspection and retrospection to be more (b) to close eyes
peaceful and be in harmony
(c) to stand quietly
(b) to prosper
(d) to be silent and motionless
(c) to be happier
18. How does the poet perceive life?
(d) to reach out more people
(a) as stillness
8. What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem
(b) as silence
'Keeping Quite'?
(c) a noisy place
(a) enclosed rhyme (b) Monorhyme
(d) a continuous evolution of nature
(c) Sonnet (d) Free verse
19. Not move our arms' what does this expression refer
9. What does the poet feel is needed to be at peace?
to?
(a) meeting with people
(a) sit quietly
(b) talking w ith people
(b) stand quietly
(c) interaction with the people
(c) to be inactive
(d) soul searching
(d) sitting still w ithout any movement
10. How will counting upto 12 help?
20. What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?
(a) improve our maths
(a) happy
(b) helps in knowing months of a year
(b) content
(c) it will help to create peace and harmony
(c) dancing
(d) All of the above
(d) strange blissful oneness
11. According to the poet what creates barriers?
21. Why is the moment of silence called Exotic?
(a) interactions (b) reactions
(a) because of the beautiful scenery around
(c) fighting (d) languages
(b) because of the small gathering
12. What does the style of the poem symbolise?
(c) because of large gathering
(a) desires (b) happiness
(d) because of perfect peace and harmony
(c) hope (d) desire and hope
22. What is the poet expecting from fishermen?
13. How is keeping quiet related to life and can change
attitude? (a) to find more fish
(a) it helps to think and search soul (b) to go deeper into the sea

(b) helps to scratch one's soul (c) to think and stop harming the fish
(c) helps to develop new thinking process (d) None of the above
(d) All of the above 23. While gathering salt, what will happen to the man if
he keep silent for a moment?
14. What does the poem 'Keeping Quiet' teach us?
(a) he will stop dropping it
(a) how to maintain silence
(b) he will look at the ground
(b) not to make noise
(c) he will walk carefully
(c) speaking creates noise
(d) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his
(d) to be peaceful, thoughtful and have feelings of
hands
brotherhood
24. What does hurt hand refer to ?
15. Why is silence treated as a big issue?
(a) it helps to search our soul (a) growing needs of the man

(b) helps us to analyse our actions (b) growing greed of man

(c) helps us to be thoughtful and find our true self (c) unfulfilled desires
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25. Which images in the poem show that the poet 34. What is destroying the environment?
condemns or hate violence? (a) unthoughtful actions
(a) fishermen not harming whales (b) violent actions
(b) wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate (c) speaking without thinking
(c) poet's refusal to deal with death (d) All of the above
(d) All of the above 35. How will keeping quiet protect our environment?
26. What does the poet say that the people who prepare (a) by creating peace and brotherhood feelings
for war will do, when they keep quiet? (b) no noise will be there
(a) put on clean clothes (c) people will not fight
(b) walk about with their brothers (d) None of the above
(c) do nothing 36. Man needs to learn a lesson from _ _ _ __
(d) all of these (a) Moon (b) Stars
27. What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in (c) Earth (d) Sun
the poem? 37. According to the poet wars that are fought have no
(a) War against humanity
(b) War against nature (a) soldiers (b) weapons
(c) War with gases and fire (c) fighter planes (d) survivors
(d) All of the above 38. 'Cold sea' is a _ _ _poetic device.
28. What can be a cure or an antidote to violent actions? (a) personification (b) transferred epithet
(a) speaking practice (b) wise words (c) metaphor (d) alliteration
(c) polished language (d) practice of silence 39. 'Without rush, without engines' refers to _ _ __
29. What will happen if there are no engines and no (a) no noise
crowd? (b) no hurry to go to the office
(a) noise will be lessened (c) no travelling
(b) no crowd on roads (d) no holidaying
(c) no traffic rush 40. Man threatens himself with _ _ __
(d) it will create a perfect, happy moment (a) death (b) birth
30. What should not be confused with total inactivity or (c) robbery (d) suicide
death? 41. Assertion: The self- introspection is necessary for all
(a) no movement literary persons.
(b) a statue ♦ Reason: Then only they will be able to meditate and
save mankind from destruction.
(c) talking people
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
(d) stillness and silence
the correct explanation of assertion.
31. How can the moments of no activity help people?
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is
(a) they w ill be healthy not the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) they will be happy (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(c) they will work easily (iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
(d) to relax and be more thoughtful 42. Assertion: The poet wants everyone to remain quiet
32. What does the Earth symbolise? for some time.
(a) perseverance and new beginning from seemingly Reason: Silence will allow to listen to the voices of
stillness quiet and serene nature.
(b) stillness (i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
(c) greenery the correct explanation of assertion.
(d) prosperity (ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is
not the correct explanation of assertion.
33. How will silence benefit the man and nature?
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(a) both will be friends
(b) man will know nature better (iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.

(c) man will be healthy 43. Assertion: The exercise of counting up to twelve is
suggested by the poet.
(d) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal
Reason: It helps to sit still and achieve a sense of
themselves
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 (i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
the correct explanation of assertion. (iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is 45. Assertion: The poet wants everyone to learn from the
not the correct explanation of assertion.
nature to create and not to destroy.
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
Reason: He wants to escape from his duty towards the
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true. mankind.
44. Assertion: Pablo Neruda desires to stop inhuman (i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
activities. the correct explanation of assertion.
Reason: He wants to live in a peaceful atmosphere. (ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
the correct explanation of assertion. (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is (iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
not the correct explanation of assertion.

Answers
24. ( d) mother's health-hopelessness and trees and merry
children- youthfulness and hope
1. My Mother At Sixty-Six
25. ( d) smiling
-Kamala Das
26. (d) because of her duty towards m other and her own
1. (a) (iii) Only 5 needs
(b) (iii) Title 3 27. (d) because of fear and insecurity
(c) (iii) Both Assertion and Reason can be inferred. 28. (d) how to strike a balance between duties and
(d) (ii) My thoughts were as heavy as lead that responsibilities
evening when ... 29. (c) cheerful
2. (a) (iii) enhance the contrast. 30. (b) her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness
(b) (ii) Cause - Effect 31. (d) poet's desperate efforts to hide her fears
(c) (ii) age has fogged mother's youthful appearance. 32. (a) her assurance to mother and helplessness inside
(d) (iv) option 4 33. (a) anaphora
3. (d) Kamala Das 34. (a) corpse
4. (a) Poet's fear of losing her old mother 35. (c) Keralite
5. (a) Painful old age 36. (b) 2 and 3
6. (d ) narrative style using a single sentence in a set of 14 37. (a) fear
lines 38. (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
7. (d) a single thread of thought mixed with harsh 39. (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
realities
40. (i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
8. (a) Poet the correct explanation of assertion.
9. (d) all of these 41. (iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
10. (a) losing her mother 42. (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
11. (a) her mother's appearance like a corpse
12. (a) her childhood fear 2. An Elementary School Classroom in
13. (d) Losing her mother
14. (d) Personification
Slum
- Stephen Spender
15. (c) fast moving change in human life from childhood
to old age 1. (a) (ii) rootless weeds
16. (a) sprinting trees and running children (b) (iv) all of these
17. (d) to show hope and happiness in children (c) (i) metaphor
18. (d) Poet's intertwining thoughts (d) (iii) he is thin as paper
19. (d) free verse 2. (a) (ii) badly maintained walls.
20. (b) like that of a corpse (b) (i) hopes and aspirations of the children.
21. (b) The merry children spilling out of their homes (c) (iv) irony.
22. (d) None of the above (d) (iii) life ahead for the slum children is as unclear
23. (a) sprinting trees and hazy as fog.

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 3. (a) (ii) he map a bad example 39. (b) tempts
(b) (ii) from early morning to late night 40. (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(c) (ii) metaphor 41. (iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
(d) (ii) their houses are small, dirty and congested 42. (i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason
4. (a) (iii) The policy makers show the reality of the real is the correct explanation of assertion.
world to the children. 43. (i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason
(b) (ii) 2, 3 and 6 is the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) (iii) option 3 44. (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(d) (ii) option 2
5. (d) Stephen Spender 3. Keeping Quite
6. (a) themes of social injustice and class inequalities -Pablo Neruda

7. (d) the plight of young children in the slums 1. (a) (ii) invite readers as part of the poem's larger call
8. (d) All of these to humanity.
9. (d) poor plight of the slum children (b) (i) Atwood endorses Neruda's call to not speak
10. (c) by the burden of her world in any language.
11. (d) weak and malnutrition boy (c) (ii) To emphasize the frenetic activity and chaos
that usually envelops human life.
12. (b) was as thin as a sheet of paper
(d) (ii) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b, 4-d
13. (d) a lesson from his desk
2. (a) (iv) all of these
14. (a) thin boy with rat's eyes, has inherited a deformed
(b) (iii) war against nature
body from his father
(c) (ii) alliteration
15. (d) dream of better times with games and open spaces
(d) (iii) co-exist in peaceful atmosphere
16. (d) freedom of knowledge,wisdom and expression
3. (a) (ii) human beings
17. (d) sour cream
(b) (iv) to analyse our actions
18. (c) poor condition of the slum
(c) (iii) alliteration
19. (d) because of no access to hope and openness of the
world (d) (iv) all of these
20. (d) foggy slums and bottle bits on stones 4. (a) (ii) that there is life under stillness

21. (d) sadness and lack of enthusiasm (b) (i) peace by introspecting
22. (b) A room on a tree where squirrels play (c) (ii) he is practical
23. (b) completely opposite to the needs of the children in (d) (iv) activities beneath the earth's surface
the classroom 5. (d) Pablo Neruda
24. (c) they show vastness which is opposite to the world 6. (d) the necessity to introspect , understand and have
and needs of the children in the classroom feelings of brotherhood
25. (d) All of these 7. (a) introspection and retrospection to be more
26. (d) maps are open to all, they reveal everything peaceful and be in harmony
27. (d) no hope of improvement 8. (d) Free verse
28. (b) confinement to the slums, the maps being 9. (d) soul searching
irrelevant 10. (d) it will help to create peace and harmony
29. (d) have shut the children inside and blocked their 11. (d) languages
growth 12. (d) desire and hope
30. (c) barriers of dirty environment must be broken 13. (d) All of the above
31. (d) dark and uncertain future of slum children from 14. (d) to be peaceful , thoughtful and have feelings of
birth to death brotherhood
32. (d) the world belongs to the rich 15. (d) All of the above
33. (d) Powerful and influential people 16. (a) violence because of unthoughtfulness of the
34. (c) by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice people
35. (a) simile 17. (d) to be silent and motionless
36. (b) metaphor 18. (d) a continuous evolution of nature
37. (b) metaphor 19. (d) sitting still without any movement
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21. (d) because of perfect peace and harmony 34. (d) All of the above
22. (c) to think and stop harming the fish 35. (a) by creating peace and brotherhood feelings
23. (d) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his 36. (c) Earth
hands 37. (d) survivors
24. (d) growing insensitivity of man to pain 38. (b) transferred epithet
25. (d) All of the above 39. (a) no noise
26. (d) all of these 40. (a) death
27. (d) All of the above 41. (iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
28. (d) practice of silence 42. (iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
29. (d) it will create a perfect, happy moment 43. (i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
30. (d) stillness and silence the correct explanation of assertion.
31. (d) to relax and be more thoughtful 44. (i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is
32. (a) perseverance and new beginning from seemingly the correct explanation of assertion.
stillness 45. (ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is
33. (d) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal not the correct explanation of assertion.
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