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Class 12 - English Core
Term 1 - Flamingo Keeping Quiet - 02
1. How long does the poet want to cease activity and observe complete silence? (keeping quiet)
a. One hour
b. One day
c. One second
d. One year
2. Who would look at his hurt hands? (Keeping quiet)
a. Rag pickers
b. Salt gatherers
c. Peasants
d. Road dwellers
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3. What is the rhyming meter of the poem, Keeping quiet?
a. Enclosed rhyme
b. Free verse
c. Alternate rhyme
d. Monorhyme
4. Which poetic device was used by the poet in the phrase, sudden strangeness? (Keeping quiet)
a. Transferred Epithet
b. Metaphor
c. Alliteration
d. Simile
5. Who composed the poem, Keeping quiet?
a. Ruskin Bond
b. Pablo Neruda
c. William Shakespeare
d. Robert Frost
6. According to the poet, what creates barriers? (Keeping Quite)
a. interactions
b. languages
c. reactions
d. fights
Question No. 7 to 11 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:
For once on the face of the
Earth let’s not speak in any language,
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
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in a sudden strangeness.
7. The poet uses the word let’s to ________.
a. address readers as fellow members of the human race.
b. welcome readers into the world of the poem and its subject.
c. invite readers as part of the poem’s larger call to humanity.
d. initiate a conversation between the poet and the readers.
8. Margaret Atwood said, Language divides us into fragments, I wanted to be whole.
Choose the option that correctly comments on the relationship between Margaret Atwood’s words and
the line from the above extract – let’s not speak in any language
a. Atwood surrenders to Neruda’s desire for silence and not speak in any language.
b. Atwood endorses Neruda’s call to not speak in any language.
c. Atwood justifies Neruda’s request to not engage in any speaking.
d. Atwood undermines Neruda’s intent to stop and not speak in any language.
9. Why do you think the poet employs words like exotic and strangeness?
a. To direct us towards keeping quiet and how we would all be together in that silence.
b. To highlight the importance of everyone being together suddenly for once.
c. To emphasize the frenetic activity and chaos that usually envelops human life.
d. To indicate the unfamiliarity of a sudden moment without rush or without engine.
10. Choose the option that correctly matches the idioms given in Column A with their meanings in Column
B.
Column I Column II
1. On the face of the earth (i) In existence
2. What on earth (ii) To do all possible to accomplish something
3. Move heaven and earth (iii) To express surprise or shock
4. The salt of the earth (iv) To be good and worthy
a. 1 – (iv); 2 – (ii); 3 – (iii); 4 – (i)
b. 1 – (i); 2 – (iv); 3 – (iii); 4 – (ii)
c. 1 – (i); 2 – (iii); 3 – (ii); 4 – (iv)
d. 1 – (ii); 2 – (i); 3 – (iv); 4 – (iii)
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11. What does he want us to do for one second?
a. silent and motionless
b. None of these
c. dizzy and silent
d. silent and traveling
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