Explore topic-wise MCQs in Keeping Quiet.

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.