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This section includes 40 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Keeping Quiet knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
What is the poet expecting from fishermen? |
| A. | to find more fish |
| B. | to go deeper into the sea |
| C. | to think and stop harming the fish |
| D. | none |
| Answer» D. none | |
| 2. |
What does hurt hand refer to ? |
| A. | Growing needs of the man |
| B. | growing greed of man |
| C. | unfulfilled desires |
| D. | growing insensitivity of man to pain |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or hate violence? |
| A. | fishermen not harming whales |
| B. | wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate |
| C. | poet s refusal to deal with death |
| D. | All these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem? |
| A. | War against humanity |
| B. | War against nature |
| C. | War with gases and fire |
| D. | All these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 5. |
The poet advocates the balance of nature to be |
| A. | maintained |
| B. | destroyed |
| C. | temporarily disturbed |
| D. | ignored |
| Answer» B. destroyed | |
| 6. |
What does man threaten himself with? |
| A. | death |
| B. | birth |
| C. | robbery |
| D. | suicide |
| Answer» B. birth | |
| 7. |
Have no truck with death means |
| A. | will not die of the truck accident |
| B. | remove poverty and illiteracy |
| C. | have no association or deal with death |
| D. | will not drive a truck |
| Answer» D. will not drive a truck | |
| 8. |
The poet wants the entire humanity to |
| A. | keep talking |
| B. | keep running |
| C. | keep laughing |
| D. | keep still |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
Man needs to learn a lesson from |
| A. | moon |
| B. | stars |
| C. | earth |
| D. | sun |
| Answer» D. sun | |
| 10. |
Without rush, without engines refers to |
| A. | no noise |
| B. | no hurry to go to the office |
| C. | no travelling |
| D. | no holidaying |
| Answer» B. no hurry to go to the office | |
| 11. |
According to the poet wars that are fought have no |
| A. | soldiers |
| B. | weapons |
| C. | fighter planes |
| D. | survivors |
| Answer» E. | |
| 12. |
Cold sea is a poetic device |
| A. | personification |
| B. | transferred epithet |
| C. | metaphor |
| D. | alliteration |
| Answer» C. metaphor | |
| 13. |
The last line of the poem is |
| A. | and later proves to be alive |
| B. | life is what it is about |
| C. | I want no truck with death |
| D. | and you keep quiet and I will go |
| Answer» E. | |
| 14. |
While gathering salt, what will happen to the man if he keep silent for a moment? |
| A. | he will stop dropping it |
| B. | he will look at the ground |
| C. | he will walk carefully |
| D. | he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15. |
Why is the poet asking everyone not to speak any language? |
| A. | |
| B. | B. |
| C. | C. |
| D. | D. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
How will silence benefit the man and nature? |
| A. | both will be friends |
| B. | man will know nature better |
| C. | man will be healthy |
| D. | man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping quiet is not total inactivity? |
| A. | Sun |
| B. | Soil |
| C. | earth |
| D. | Nature and earth |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm |
| A. | seahorses |
| B. | mermaids |
| C. | whales |
| D. | tortoises |
| Answer» D. tortoises | |
| 19. |
What can human beings learn from nature? |
| A. | beauty |
| B. | keeping quiet |
| C. | to be happy |
| D. | working with silence |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent |
| A. | terrible |
| B. | painful |
| C. | exotic |
| D. | unforgettable |
| Answer» D. unforgettable | |
| 21. |
The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet for |
| A. | twenty seconds |
| B. | 1 hour |
| C. | thirty seconds |
| D. | twelve seconds |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
Where would they be walking? |
| A. | in the park |
| B. | along the river |
| C. | in the shade |
| D. | on the road |
| Answer» D. on the road | |
| 23. |
The types of wars the poet talks about are |
| A. | green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire |
| B. | verbal wars |
| C. | technological warfare |
| D. | nuclear wars |
| Answer» B. verbal wars | |
| 24. |
What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem? |
| A. | enclosed rhyme |
| B. | Monorhyme |
| C. | sonnet |
| D. | Free verse |
| Answer» E. | |
| 25. |
How will keeping quiet protect our environment? |
| A. | by creating peace and brotherhood feelings |
| B. | no noise will be there |
| C. | people will not fight |
| D. | none |
| Answer» B. no noise will be there | |
| 26. |
What does number 12 represent? |
| A. | hours of the day and months of a year |
| B. | earth |
| C. | clock |
| D. | cricket players |
| Answer» B. earth | |
| 27. |
What should not be confused with total inactivity or death? |
| A. | no movement |
| B. | a statue |
| C. | talking people |
| D. | Stillness and silence |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
What is the sadness in the poem that the poet speaks about ? |
| A. | violence because of unthoughtful ness of the people |
| B. | unnecessary movements |
| C. | speaking aloud |
| D. | fighting |
| Answer» B. unnecessary movements | |
| 29. |
Not move our arms what does this expression refer to? |
| A. | sit quietly |
| B. | stand quietly |
| C. | to be inactive |
| D. | sitting still without any movement |
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. |
What is always alive even when everything seems to be dead or still? |
| A. | mountains |
| B. | rivers |
| C. | Sun |
| D. | Earth and nature are always alive |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
What does the poet want people to do for one second? |
| A. | to sing |
| B. | to close eyes |
| C. | to stand quietly |
| D. | to be silent and motionless |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
What will happen if there are no engines and no crowd? |
| A. | noise will be lessened |
| B. | no crowd on roads |
| C. | no traffic rush |
| D. | it will create a perfect, happy moment |
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. |
What would everyone feel at that exotic moment? |
| A. | happy |
| B. | content |
| C. | dancing |
| D. | strange blissful oneness |
| Answer» E. | |
| 34. |
The poet uses conversational style and personal pronouns as you , we and `I because |
| A. | he wants to be intimate with mankind |
| B. | he tries to read out to the readers |
| C. | he wants to establish contact easily |
| D. | third person is ineffective |
| Answer» C. he wants to establish contact easily | |
| 35. |
What does the title of the poem suggest? |
| A. | Inactivity |
| B. | noise |
| C. | unhappiness |
| D. | Maintenance of silence |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
How does the poet perceive life? |
| A. | as stillness |
| B. | as silence |
| C. | a noisy place |
| D. | a continuous evolution of nature |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
What does counting upto 12 signify and how will it help? |
| A. | hours of the day |
| B. | months of a year |
| C. | it will help to create peace and harmony |
| D. | all |
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. |
What does the style of the poem symbolise, that the poet used to write with? |
| A. | desires |
| B. | happiness |
| C. | hope |
| D. | desire and hope |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
What is the essence or message of the poem ? |
| A. | introspection and retrospection to be more peaceful and be in harmony |
| B. | to prosper |
| C. | to be happier |
| D. | to reach out more people |
| Answer» B. to prosper | |
| 40. |
According to the poet what creates barriers? |
| A. | interactions |
| B. | reactions |
| C. | fighting |
| D. | languages |
| Answer» E. | |