NCERT English Class 12 | Chapter 11 | Keeping Quiet | MCQs |

1. In the poem, which images show that the poet criticizes violence or hate?

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: (D) All these.


2. The different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem are:

A. War against humanity

B. War against nature

C. War with gases and fire

D. All these

Answer: (D) All these.


3. The poet perceives life as

A. Stillness

B. Silence

C. Noisy place

D. Continuous evolution of nature

Answer: (D) Continuous evolution of nature.


4. The title of the poem suggests

A. Inactivity

B. Noise

C. Unhappiness

D. Maintenance of silence

Answer: (D) Maintenance of silence.


5. What does count up to 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 the above

Answer: (D) All the above.


6. What creates barriers as per the poet?

A. Interactions

B. Reactions

C. Fighting

D. Languages

Answer: (D) Languages.


7. In what way 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: (A) By creating peace and brotherhood feelings.


8. What will happen in absence of engines and no crowd?

A. Noise will be lessened

B. No crowd on roads

C. No traffic rushes

D. It will create a perfect, happy moment

Answer: (D) It will create a perfect, happy moment.


9. The poet asking everyone not to speak any language to

A. Avoid noise

B. Avoid loud voices

C. Avoid people

D. Avoid conflicts and misunderstandings

Answer: (D) Avoid conflicts and misunderstandings.


10. Silence benefit the man and nature in a way that

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: (D) Man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves.


11. The poet uses conversational style and personal pronouns as ‘You’, ‘We’ and `I’ to

A. Be intimate with mankind

B. Read out to the readers

C. To establish contact easily

D. Make third person ineffective

Answer: (B) Read out to the readers.


12. What will happen to the man if he keeps silent for a moment while gathering salt?

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: (D) He will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands.


13. The style of the poem symbolises, that the poet used to write with

A. Desires

B. Happiness

C. Hope

D. Desire and hope

Answer: (D) Desire and hope.


14. 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: (A) Introspection and retrospection to be more peaceful and be in harmony.


15. Who is the poet of 'Keeping Quiet'?

A. Rachael Field

B. Robert Frost

C. Pablo Neruda

D. None of these

Answer: (C) Pablo Neruda.


16. ‘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: (C) Have no association or deal with death.


17. The word 'still' means

A. Without movement

B. Calm

C. Active

D. Both (A) and (B)

Answer: (D) Both (A) and (B)


18. The antonym of the word 'interrupt' is

A. Integrate

B. Advance

C. Interject

D. Break

Answer: (B) Advance


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