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MCQ Questions for Class 12 English Flamingo Poem 3 Keeping Quiet
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1. The poet uses conversational style and personal pronouns as ‘you’, ‘we’ and `I’ because
he wants to be intimate with mankind
he tries to read out to the readers
he wants to establish contact easily
third person is ineffective
2. The last line of the poem is
and later proves to be alive
life is what it is about
I want no truck with death
and you keep quiet and I will go
3. Man needs to learn a lesson from
moon
stars
earth
sun
4. According to the poet wars that are fought have no
soldiers
weapons
fighter planes
survivors
5. Cold sea’ is a poetic device
personification
transferred epithet
metaphor
alliteration
6. Without rush, without engines’ refers to
no noise
no hurry to go to the office
no travelling
no holidaying
7. The poet wants the entire humanity to
keep talking
keep running
keep laughing
keep still
8. ‘Have no truck with death’ means
will not die of the truck accident
remove poverty and illiteracy
have no association or deal with death
will not drive a truck
9. The poet advocates the balance of nature to be
maintained
destroyed
temporarily disturbed
ignored
10. What does man threaten himself with?
death
birth
robbery
suicide
11. Where would they be walking?
in the park
long the river
in the shade
on the road
12. The types of wars the poet talks about are
green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
verbal wars
technological warfare
nuclear wars
13. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm
seahorses
mermaids
whales
tortoises
14. What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent
terrible
painful
exotic
unforgettable
15. The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet for (a)
twenty seconds
1 hour
thirty seconds
twelve seconds
16. What can human beings learn from nature? (a)
beauty
keeping quiet
to be happy
working with silence
17. What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping quiet is not total inactivity?
Sun
Soil
earth
Nature and earth
18. What would everyone feel at that exotic moment? (a)
happy
content
dancing
strange blissful oneness
19. How does the poet perceive life?
as stillness
as silence
a noisy place
a continuous evolution of nature
20. What is the poet expecting from fishermen?
to find more fish
to go deeper into the sea
to think and stop harming the fish
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