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This section includes 44 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
What blots the maps of the slum children? |
| A. | garbage |
| B. | blockage |
| C. | stones in the streets |
| D. | Dirty slums |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
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» E. | |
| 3. |
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» E. | |
| 4. |
What other freedom the poet wants the slum children to enjoy? |
| A. | Freedom of roaming |
| B. | freedom to spend money |
| C. | freedom to eat |
| D. | freedom of knowledge, wisdom and expression |
| Answer» E. | |
| 5. |
What does the poet want? |
| A. | to send the children out of the slums |
| B. | to send the children to America |
| C. | to send the children to open fields |
| D. | to send the children to a beach |
| Answer» B. to send the children to America | |
| 6. |
What kind of life the children living in slums have? |
| A. | full of love |
| B. | full of care and warmth |
| C. | Hopeless and full of struggle |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» D. all these | |
| 7. |
What does the poet portray in the poem? |
| A. | young minds |
| B. | playfulness of the children |
| C. | questions of young mind |
| D. | the plight of young children in the slums |
| Answer» E. | |
| 8. |
Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum? |
| A. | Kipling |
| B. | Wordsworth |
| C. | Kamlanath |
| D. | Stephen Spender |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
Who sits at the back of the class? |
| A. | a sweet and young pupil |
| B. | a paper seeming boy |
| C. | a tall girl |
| D. | a girl with hair like rootless weeds |
| Answer» B. a paper seeming boy | |
| 10. |
The colour of sour cream is |
| A. | white |
| B. | yellow |
| C. | off-white |
| D. | pale |
| Answer» D. pale | |
| 11. |
On sour cream walls. Donations suggests |
| A. | schools are well equipped |
| B. | schools are small but they try to impart education |
| C. | schools have a poor and ill-equipped environment |
| D. | schools meet the education requirements of the children through donations |
| Answer» D. schools meet the education requirements of the children through donations | |
| 12. |
What does the map represent? |
| A. | world of the rich and powerful |
| B. | world of the poor |
| C. | world of the slum school children |
| D. | world the poet wants for the slum children |
| Answer» B. world of the poor | |
| 13. |
Shakespeare is wicked because he the children. |
| A. | educates |
| B. | tempts |
| C. | loves |
| D. | hates |
| Answer» C. loves | |
| 14. |
Identify the literary device in future s painted with a fog . |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | personification |
| Answer» C. alliteration | |
| 15. |
The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of |
| A. | the beautiful world |
| B. | cleaner lanes |
| C. | the political structure |
| D. | the civil design |
| Answer» B. cleaner lanes | |
| 16. |
Where do their lives slyly turn ? |
| A. | in their cramped holes |
| B. | towards the sun |
| C. | towards the school |
| D. | towards the windows |
| Answer» B. towards the sun | |
| 17. |
The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem. |
| A. | long |
| B. | short |
| C. | optimistic |
| D. | pessimistic |
| Answer» D. pessimistic | |
| 18. |
The imprisoned minds and lives of the slum children can be released from their bondage if they are given an experience of the outer world. |
| A. | never |
| B. | soon |
| C. | eventually |
| D. | magically |
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. |
Identify the literary device in spectacles of steel . |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | personification |
| Answer» C. alliteration | |
| 20. |
Identify the literary device in whose language is the sun . |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | personification |
| Answer» C. alliteration | |
| 21. |
Break O break . What should they break? |
| A. | the donations |
| B. | all bathers |
| C. | the slums |
| D. | the schools |
| Answer» C. the slums | |
| 22. |
Identify the literary device in slums as big as doom . |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | personification |
| Answer» B. metaphor | |
| 23. |
What attracts the slum children? |
| A. | The animals |
| B. | The movies |
| C. | icecream |
| D. | All beautiful things like ship, Sun |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
What was the boy with rat s eyes trying to escape from? |
| A. | bright light outside |
| B. | openness of trees |
| C. | dim light of the class |
| D. | children in the room |
| Answer» D. children in the room | |
| 25. |
Mention any two images used to explain the plight of the slum children. |
| A. | open handed map |
| B. | from his desk |
| C. | belled, flowery |
| D. | foggy slums and bottle bits on stones |
| Answer» E. | |
| 26. |
What do Catacombs signify? |
| A. | underground cemetry showing irrelevance of the map hanging on the wall of the classroom |
| B. | irrelevance of the classroom |
| C. | irrelevance of the school |
| D. | irrelevance of the children |
| Answer» B. irrelevance of the classroom | |
| 27. |
What does gusty waves imply? |
| A. | slum children |
| B. | energetic children |
| C. | deceased children |
| D. | unhappy children |
| Answer» C. deceased children | |
| 28. |
What does the poet show through expressions so blot their maps with slums as big as doom ? |
| A. | his clot the street |
| B. | enjoy the maps |
| C. | big maps |
| D. | poet s protest against social injustice and inequalities |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
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» E. | |
| 30. |
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 |
| Answer» D. None | |
| 31. |
Identify the literary device in `rat s eyes . |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | personification |
| Answer» C. alliteration | |
| 32. |
Identify the literary device in like roofless weeds . |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | personification |
| Answer» B. metaphor | |
| 33. |
Identify the literary device in father s gnarled disease . |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | personification |
| Answer» C. alliteration | |
| 34. |
The paper-seeming boy with rat s eyes means the boy is |
| A. | sly and secretive |
| B. | short and lean |
| C. | hungry and thin |
| D. | sad and depressed |
| Answer» D. sad and depressed | |
| 35. |
Why is the head of the tall girl weighed down ? |
| A. | by the burden of studies |
| B. | by the burden of work |
| C. | by the burden of the world |
| D. | All these |
| Answer» D. All these | |
| 36. |
What kind of look the faces and hair of the children give? |
| A. | a rich and beautiful |
| B. | organized |
| C. | healthy |
| D. | pale faces and scattered and undone hair |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
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» D. by fighting with the rich | |
| 38. |
What does the poet wish for the children of the slums? |
| A. | He wish them to be happy and healthy |
| B. | He wishes a good change for them |
| C. | he wants them to lead a healthy and happy life |
| D. | All these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
Who was sitting at the back of the dim class? |
| A. | a girl |
| B. | an old man |
| C. | a teacher |
| D. | an unnoticed young boy |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
What does the expression Open handed map show? |
| A. | power of the poor |
| B. | the poor are powerful |
| C. | the poor are powerless |
| D. | maps are drawn at the orders of the powerful people like hitler |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
What is the stunted boy reciting? |
| A. | a happy song |
| B. | a religious song |
| C. | a sad song |
| D. | a lesson from desk |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
In what sense are the slum chidren different? |
| A. | their IQ |
| B. | their wisdom |
| C. | their dresses |
| D. | because of no access to hope and openness of the world |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
What are the poetic devices used in the poem? |
| A. | alliteration and simile |
| B. | metaphor and imagery |
| C. | synecdoche, and irony |
| D. | All these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 44. |
What do the faces of children in the slum areas reflect? |
| A. | happiness |
| B. | their aspirations |
| C. | their happiness |
| D. | sadness and lack of enthusiasm |
| Answer» E. | |