R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | NCERT Class 10 MCQ Questions for Class 12 English Flamingo Poem 3 Keeping Quiet

The poet uses conversational style and personal pronouns as ‘you’, ‘we’ and `I’ because

1. he wants to be intimate with mankind
2. he tries to read out to the readers
3. he wants to establish contact easily
4. third person is ineffective

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The last line of the poem is

1. and later proves to be alive
2. life is what it is about
3. I want no truck with death
4. and you keep quiet and I will go

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Man needs to learn a lesson from

1. moon
2. stars
3. earth
4. sun

✅ Correct Answer: 3

According to the poet wars that are fought have no

1. soldiers
2. weapons
3. fighter planes
4. survivors

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Cold sea’ is a poetic device

1. personification
2. transferred epithet
3. metaphor
4. alliteration

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Without rush, without engines’ refers to

1. no noise
2. no hurry to go to the office
3. no travelling
4. no holidaying

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The poet wants the entire humanity to

1. keep talking
2. keep running
3. keep laughing
4. keep still

✅ Correct Answer: 4

‘Have no truck with death’ means

1. will not die of the truck accident
2. remove poverty and illiteracy
3. have no association or deal with death
4. will not drive a truck

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The poet advocates the balance of nature to be

1. maintained
2. destroyed
3. temporarily disturbed
4. ignored

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What does man threaten himself with?

1. death
2. birth
3. robbery
4. suicide

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Where would they be walking?

1. in the park
2. long the river
3. in the shade
4. on the road

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The types of wars the poet talks about are

1. green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
2. verbal wars
3. technological warfare
4. nuclear wars

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm

1. seahorses
2. mermaids
3. whales
4. tortoises

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent

1. terrible
2. painful
3. exotic
4. unforgettable

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet for (a)

1. twenty seconds
2. 1 hour
3. thirty seconds
4. twelve seconds

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What can human beings learn from nature? (a)

1. beauty
2. keeping quiet
3. to be happy
4. working with silence

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping quiet is not total inactivity?

1. Sun
2. Soil
3. earth
4. Nature and earth

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What would everyone feel at that exotic moment? (a)

1. happy
2. content
3. dancing
4. strange blissful oneness

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How does the poet perceive life?

1. as stillness
2. as silence
3. a noisy place
4. a continuous evolution of nature

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the poet expecting from fishermen?

1. to find more fish
2. to go deeper into the sea
3. to think and stop harming the fish
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3