CBSE Class 12 English HOTs An elementary School Classroom in a Slum

Stanza 3
Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example,
With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal—
For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes
From fog to endless night? On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.
All of their time and space are foggy slum.
So blot their maps with slums as big as doom.

Question. Why is the map a bad example for the children?
(a) because map shows a world that is far different from the world of the poor children
(b) because it does not show the children’s slums and narrow lanes
(c) both ‘a’ & ‘b’
(d) reflects everything related to them

Answer : C

Question.What does not prove a good example for the slum children?
(a) the picture of Shakespeare
(b) the map
(c) both ‘a’ & ‘b’
(d) none of the above

Answer : D

Question. What does the map not show?
(a) the children’s slums
(b) the narrow lanes
(c) both ‘a’ and ‘b’
(d) the ships and sun

Answer : C

Question. Where do these children live?
(a) big houses
(b) small and dingy houses
(c) open area houses
(d) all of the above

Answer : B

Question. Who lives in cramped holes?
(a) the poet
(b) the slum children
(c) the rich people
(d) all of the above

Answer : B

Question. How do children live in their ‘holes’?
(a) like ants
(b) like rats
(c) like lions
(d) all of the above

Answer : B

Question. What is tempting them to steal?
(a) Shakespeare’s picture
(b) map of the world
(c) love of such a big and sunny world
(d) all of the above

Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'bad'?
(a) tempting
(b) slyly
(c) wicked
(d) steal

Answer : C

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'alluring'?
(a) tempting
(b) wicked
(c) slag
(d) mended

Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'secretly'?
(a) slag
(b) cramped
(c) tempting
(d) slyly

Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'narrow'?
(a) wicked
(b) cramped
(c) steal
(d) peeped

Answer : B

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'waste material'?
(a) slyly
(b) slag
(c) doom
(d) cramped

Answer : B

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'misty'?
(a) foggy
(b) tempting
(c) steal
(d) blot

Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'blemish'?
(a) tempting
(b) steal
(c) cramped
(d) bits

Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'ruin'?
(a) doom
(b) wicked
(c) slag
(d) blessing

Answer : A

Question. Which poetic device is used in ‘spectalcles of steel’?
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) assonance
(d) oxymoron

Answer : B

Stanza 4
Unless, governor, inspector, visitor,
This map becomes their window and these windows
That shut upon their lives like catacombs,
Break O break open till they break the town
And show the children to green fields, and make their world
Run azure on gold sands, and let their tongues
Run naked into books the white and green leaves open
History theirs whose language is the sun.

Question. Towards whom do all the responsible citizens have a duty?
(a) the leaders
(b) the film heroes
(c) the slum children
(d) the doctor

Answer : C

Question.Who have a duty towards these poor slum children?
(a) governor
(b) inspector
(c) visitor
(d) all of the above

Answer : D

Question. Which people create history, according to the poet?
(a) who are rich
(b) who are poor
(c) who are famous
(d) whose growth is healthy

Answer : D

Question. Which people are possessor of history?
(a) whose language is strong
(b) slum children
(c) poor people
(d) all of the above

Answer : A

Question. What is poet’s appeal to the upper - class people?
(a) to help the poor slum children
(b) to possess history
(c) to make themselves strong
(d) all of the above

Answer : A

Question. Where does the poet want to take the poor slum children?
(a) to open fields
(b) on golden sands
(c) to a different world
(d) both ‘a’ & ‘b’

Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'blue'?
(a) azure
(b) catacombs
(c) tongues
(d) language

Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'graves'?
(a) fields
(b) catacombs
(c) naked
(d) shut

Answer : B

Question. What is meant by ‘white and green leaves'?
(a) books, leaves of trees
(b) sky, leaves of trees
(c) classroom, leaves of trees
(d) children’s face, leaves of trees

Answer : A

Question. Which poetic device is used in ‘lives like catacombs’?
(a) metaphor
(b) simile
(c) oxymoron
(d) alliteration

Answer : B

Stanza 5
Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example,
With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal—
For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes
From fog to endless night? On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.
All of their time and space are foggy slum.
So blot their maps with slums as big as doom.

Question. Why is the map a bad example for the children?
a) because map shows a world that is far different from the world of the poor children
b) because it does not show the children’s slums and narrow lanes
c) both ‘a’ & ‘b’
d) reflects everything related to them
Answer : C

Question. What does not prove a good example for the slum children?
a) the picture of Shakespeare
b) the map
c) both ‘a’ & ‘b’
d) none of the above
Answer : D

Question. What does the map not show?
a) the children’s slums
b) the narrow lanes
c) both ‘a’ and ‘b’
d) the ships and sun
Answer : C

Question. Where do these children live?
a) big houses
b) small and dingy houses
c) open area houses
d) all of the above
Answer : B

Question. Who lives in cramped holes?
a) the poet
b) the slum children
c) the rich people
d) all of the above
Answer : B

Question. How do children live in their ‘holes’?
a) like ants
b) like rats
c) like lions
d) all of the above
Answer : B

Question. What is tempting them to steal?
a) Shakespeare’s picture
b) map of the world
c) love of such a big and sunny world
d) all of the above
Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'bad'?
a) tempting
b) slyly
c) wicked
d) steal
Answer : C

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'alluring'?
a) tempting
b) wicked
c) slag
d) mended
Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'secretly'?
a) slag
b) cramped
c) tempting
d) slyly
Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'narrow'?
a) wicked
b) cramped
c) steal
d) peeped
Answer : B

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'waste material'?
a) slyly
b) slag
c) doom
d) cramped
Answer : B

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'misty'?
a) foggy
b) tempting
c) steal
d) blot
Answer : A

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'blemish'?
a) tempting
b) steal
c) cramped
d) bits
Answer : D

Question. Which word in the stanza means 'ruin'?
a) doom
b) wicked
c) slag
d) blessing
Answer : A

Question. Which poetic device is used in ‘spectalcles of steel’?
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) assonance
d) oxymoron
Answer : B

Question. What does the colour of the classroom walls point out?
(a) happy and poor state
(b) happy and rich state
(c) poor condition of the slum
(d) None of these
Answer. C

Question. In what sense are the slum children different?
(a) their IQ
(b) their wisdom
(c) their dresses
(d) because of no access to hope and openness of the world
Answer. D

Question. Mention any two images used to explain the plight of the slum children.
(a) open handed map and rootless weeds
(b) from his desk and rat’s eyes
(c) belled and flowery
(d) foggy slums and bottle bits on stones
Answer. D

Question. What do the faces of children in the slum areas reflect?
(a) happiness
(b) their aspirations
(c) their energy
(d) sadness and lack of enthusiasm
Answer. D

Question. What is the Tree Room in the poem?
(a) A tree - shaped room
(b) A room on a tree where squirrels play
(c) A room on a tree where rats play
(d) A room on a tree where pigeons play
Answer. B

Question. What is ironical about the wall hangings and donations in the classroom?
(a) set up in very clean environment
(b) completely opposite to the needs of the children in the classroom
(c) set up in happy environment
(d) set up in gloomy set up
Answer. B

Question. Why are the pictures and maps meaningless?
(a) they are fake and show a false thing
(b) they are old and have faded away
(c) they show vastness which is opposite to the world and needs of the children in the classroom
(d) All of these
Answer. C

Question. What does the poet wish for the children of the slums?
(a) He wishes them to be happy and healthy
(b) He wishes a good change for them
(c) He wants them to enjoy the bounties of nature
(d) All of these
Answer. D

Question. What does the expression ‘Open handed map “ show?
(a) power of the poor
(b) the poor can not access the world
(c) the poor are powerless
(d) maps are open to all, they reveal everything
Answer. D

Question. What do the words “Their future is painted with fog” convey?
(a) no love and care
(b) no warmth
(c) no hard work
(d) no hope of improvement
Answer. D

Question. What do Catacombs signify?
(a) relevance of the map hanging on the wall of the classroom
(b) confinement to the slums, the maps being irrelevant
(c) importance of the school
(d) death
Answer. B

Question. What have the windows done to the children’s lives in the poem?
(a) shut the doors
(b) blocked the passage
(c) clocked the Sunlight
(d) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth
Answer. D

Question. 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 of the above
Answer. C

Question. 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. D

Question. ‘Awarding the world its world’ what do these words express?
(a) the world is ours
(b) the world is yours
(c) the world belong to the poor
(d) the world belongs to the rich
Answer. D

Question. 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. D

Question. 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. C

Question. The literary device in ‘slums as big as doom is_______.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer. A

Question. The literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’ is________.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer. B

Question. The literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’ is _________.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) alliteration
(d) personification
Answer. B

Question. The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem _______.
(a) long
(b) short
(c) optimistic
(d) pessimistic
Answer. C

Question. Shakespeare is wicked because he_______ the children.
(a) educates
(b) tempts
(c) loves
(d) hates
Answer. B

Question. Assertion: Shakespeare has been described as wicked in the poem.
Reason: He has made the lives of the slum children horrible.
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
Answer. C

Question. Assertion: The walls of the elementary school classroom in slum are beautifully decorated.
Reason: As they have not been painted recently.
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
Answer. D

Question. Assertion: The poet wants that the children of the slum school should be given basic facilities.
Reason: He appeals to the people in power.
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
Answer. A

Question. Assertion: The children of the elementary school lead wretched lives.
Reason: They are deprived of the rights they are entitled to.
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
Answer. A

Question. Assertion: The future of the slum children is painted with fog.
Reason: They live in cold places with dark rooms.
(i) Both assertion and reason are correct and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(ii) Both assertion and reason are correct but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(iii) Assertion is true and reason is false.
(iv) Assertion is false and reason is true.
Answer. C