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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