NCERT English Class 12 | Chapter 10 | An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum | MCQs |

1. The poet wants to

A. Send the children out of the slums

B. Send the children to America

C. Send the children to open fields

D. Send the children to a beach

Answer: (A) Send the children out of the slums.


2. What kind of life do the slum children have?

A. Full of love

B. Full of care and warmth

C. Hopeless and full of struggle

D. All these.

Answer: (C) Hopeless and full of struggle.


3. The boy with rat’s eyes is trying to escape from

A. Bright light outside

B. Openness of trees

C. Dim light of the class

D. Children in the room

Answer: (C) Dim light of the class.


4. The poet wishes the slum children

A. To be happy and healthy

B.  A good change for them

C. To lead a healthy and happy life

D. All these.

Answer: (D) All these.


5. Which among the following, best describes the look on the faces and hair of the children?

A. Rich and beautiful

B. Organized

C. Healthy

D. Pale faces and scattered and undone hair

Answer: (D) Pale faces and scattered and undone hair.


6. Whose sitting at the back of the dim class?

A. A girl

B. An Old man

C. A teacher

D. An unnoticed young boy

Answer: (D) An unnoticed young Boy.


7. The governor, the inspector and the visitor in the poem depict

A. Higher officials

B. Government officials

C. Political people

D. Powerful and influential people

Answer: (D) Powerful and influential people.


8. The poet portrays ________ 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: (D) The plight of young children in the slums.


9. The faces of children in the slum areas reflect

A. Happiness

B. Their aspirations

C. Their happiness

D. Sadness and lack of enthusiasm

Answer: (D) Sadness and lack of enthusiasm.


10. Catacombs signify

A. Underground cemetery 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: (A) Underground cemetery showing irrelevance of the map hanging on the wall of the classroom.


11. 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: (C) By bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice.


12. The head of the tall girl is ‘weighed down’ by

A. The burden of studies

B. The burden of work

C. The burden of the world

D. All these.

Answer: (C) The burden of the world.


13. What does the phrase ‘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: (D) Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death.


14. Name the poet of Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?

A. Kipling

B. Wordsworth

C. Kamlanath

D. Stephen Spender

Answer: (D) Stephen Spender.


15. Through the given expression, ‘so blot their maps with slums as big as doom’, the poet shows

A. His clot the street

B. Enjoy the maps

C. Big maps

D. Poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities

Answer: (D) Poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities.


16. In the poem, the windows have ______________.

A. Shut the doors

B. Blocked the passage

C. Clocked the Sunlight

D. Have shut the children inside and blocked their growth

Answer: (D) Have shut the children inside and blocked their growth.


17. The word 'cramped' means

A. Evil

B. Confined

C. Rough

D. Not fully grown due to malnutrition

Answer: (B) Confined


18. The antonym of 'sealed' is

A. Locked

B. Confined

C. Pallor

D. Slagged

Answer: (A) Locked


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