

MCQOPTIONS
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. | |