NCERT English Class 12 | Chapter 13 | A Roadside Stand | MCQs |

1. What was the news?

A. City people will give money

B. City people will help the poor

C. Relocation and resettlement of the rural folk to make them tension free by the government

D. None

Answer: (C) Relocation and resettlement of the rural folk to make them tension free by the government.


2. Who wanted to feel the money at hand and from whom?

A. The rural folk from the government

B. The rural folk from the social agencies

C. The rural folk from the government officials

D. The rural folk from the city people

Answer: (D) The rural folk from the city people.


3. What is the poet’s call to the polished traffic passing ahead?

A. He admires this

B. He is indifferent to this

C. He condemns this indifferent attitude of the city folk and feels the pain of the rural folk

D. All these

Answer: (C) He condemns this indifferent attitude of the city folk and feels the pain of the rural folk.


4. Who are the greedy Doers?

A. The government

B. Old people

C. The rural people

D. The polished city folk

Answer: (D) The polished city folk.


5. What is being sold on roadside stand?

A. Furniture

B. Cosmetics

C. Diesel

D. Wild berries, golden squash and some other similar products

Answer: (D) Wild berries, golden squash and some other similar products.


6. What is the open prayer from near the open window?

A. For money to fall from the sky

B. For a greater number of people to stop

C. For getting money from the government

D. For the sound of coming cars to stop at the road stand to help the owner to earn money from them

Answer: (D) For the sound of coming cars to stop at the road stand to help the owner to earn money from them.


7. The speaker or narrator calls the thought of the owner of the stand

A. A chid like longing

B. A very good thought

C. A wise thought

D. A childish longing in vain

Answer: (D) A childish longing in vain.


8. At new location, the state of poor rural folk at new location would be

A. Tension free as their needs will be looked after

B. They will be able to visit city malls

C. They will enjoy travelling malls and cinema halls

D. They will be happy

Answer: (A) Tension free as their needs will be looked after.


9. The word ‘pathetic’ is used with reference to road side stand

A. For city people’s attitude

B. For government’s declaration

C. For city people’s behaviour

D. For poor condition of the owner of the stand

Answer: (D) For poor condition of the owner of the stand.


10.  A stopping car reacted

A. To point out at the wrongly marked N and S directions

B. To buy some items

C. To appreciate their hard work

D. To soothe the villagers

Answer: (A) To point out at the wrongly marked N and S directions.


11. The polished traffic didn’t stop at the roadside stand as

A. They didn’t like that place

B. Their focus was their interest of earning huge benefits

C. They were greedy

D. All these

Answer: (D) All these.


12. The city people are called ‘beasts of prey’ because

A. Of their selfishness and tendency to dupe others for it

B. They are well dressed

C. They know how to earn money

D. All these

Answer: (A) Of their selfishness and tendency to dupe others for it.


13. The rural poor would be soothed by

A. Government and Social agencies

B. Government officials

C. Promises made by the Government

D. City people will soothe ‘out of their wits’

Answer: (D) City people will soothe ‘out of their wits’.


14. The special quality of the city people or folk is that

A. They are conniving

B. They are smart

C. They are snobbish

D. Know how to get benefits in a calculative manner

Answer: (D) Know how to get benefits in a calculative manner.


15. Frost describes _______ in the poem.

A. The feelings of the owners of a roadside shed

B. The feelings of passengers

C. The feelings of people on footpath

D. None

Answer: (A) The feelings of the owners of a roadside shed.


16. The poet of ‘A Roadside Stand’ is?

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Robert Frost

C. Lord Byron

D. Percy Shelley

Answer: (B) Robert Frost


17. The meaning of ‘lurks’ is

A. Spreads

B. Both (A) and (C)

C. Moves close by

D. Speeds up

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


18. The antonym of ‘beneficent’ would be

A. Charitable

B. Generous

C. Mean

D. Benevolent

Answer: (C) Mean


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