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Keeping Quiet MCQ

                                       By- Pablo Neruda

1.’Cold sea’ is a poetic device

 (a) personification                          (b)transferred epithet

(c) metaphor                                     (d) alliteration

2. The man looking at his hurt hands is a

 (a) salt gatherer                               (b) diamond cutter

(c) rag-picker                                     (d) surgeon

3. According to the poet wars that are fought have no

 (a) soldiers                                         (b) weapons

(c) fighter planes                              (d) survivors

4. A man should be – with nature

 (a) totally compatible                                    (b) at war

(c) confused                                                       (d) irresponsible

5. Man needs to learn a lesson from

 (a) moon                                            (b) stars

(c) earth                                                (d) sun

6. What will counting up to twelve help us with?

(a) achieving harmony, brotherhood      (b) achieving goals and ambitions

(c) fulfilling wishes                                            (d) winning a race

7. The last line of the poem is

(a) and later proves to be alive                  (c) I want no truck with death

(b) life is what it is about                               (d) and you keep quiet and I will go

8. The poet evokes a symbol in order to invoke that there can be life even with stillness. The symbol is

(a) earth                              (b) rain

(c) storm                              (d) cloud

9. 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

10. The poetic device used in the last line ‘when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive’ is

(a) imagery                                         (b) irony

(c) paradox                                         (d) transferred epithet

11. What does man threaten himself with?

(a) death                                             (b) birth

(c) robbery                                         (d) suicide

12. We can learn a lesson from

 (a) the trees                                      (b) nature

(c) animals                                          (d) The earth

13. The poet advocates the balance of nature to be

 (a) maintained                                                 (b)destroyed

 (c) temporarily disturbed            (d) ignored

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14. In the end, he again appeals to the people that he would

 (a) initiate the state of inactivity (b) will not bother at all

 (c) completely ignore everyone (d) destroy the earth

15. ‘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

16. The poet of ‘Keeping Quiet’ is

(a) P.B Shelley                                   (b) Vikram Seth

(c) Pablo Neruda                              (d) Kamala, Das

17. The poet wants the entire humanity to

 (a) keep talking                                (b) keep running

 (c) keep laughing                            (d) keep still

18. When the poet says ‘we will’ count to twelve he means

(a) entire mankind                          (b) his own family

(c) his friends                                     (d) his wife and himself

19. Without rush, without engines’ refers to

 (a) no noise                       (b) no hurry to go to the office

(c) no travelling                 (d) no holidaying

20. ‘Fishermen not harming whales’ means

(a) not causing extinction of whales        (b) not disturbing balance in nature

(c) not going for fishing                                                 (d) not disturbing the sea

21.’Keeping Quiet’ is written in blank verse by __________.

(A)Pablo Neruda

(B)Ruskin Bond

(C)Stephen Spender

(D)Ogden Nash

22. What does the poet Pablo Neruda urge mankind to do in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)To plant more trees

(B)To cease all activity for a little while

(C)To nurture nature

(D)None of the above

23. What will be the outcome of inactivity and silence, as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)all human beings would be one united

(B)all human beings would be in harmony with each other

(C)all human beings would be in harmony with each nature

(D)All of the above

24. What is most desirable for the survival of earth & human beings, as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)Oneness

(B)Togetherness

(C)Humanity

(D)Both (A) & (B)

25. ‘Keeping Quiet’ is a simple poem about the need for a little _________.

(A)soul searching

(B)self-introspection

(C)greed

(D)Both (A) & (B)

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26. What will be the result of a little soul searching as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)help us make peace with ourselves & others

(B)Make us worse than before

(C)make us realize the importance of humanity

(D)None of the above

27. What will be the result of a moment of silent introspection, as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)make us feel relaxed & rejuvenated

(B)make us realize the utter of our aggressive endeavours

(C)make us better human beings

(D)All of the above

28. In the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’, Pablo Neruda talks about _______.

(A)the need for introspection

(B)to create a feeling of mutual understanding

(C)to promote love and respect in the human world

(D)All of the above

 29. What are human beings engrossed into, as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)in their selfish motives

(B)running behind money

(C)leading a secured life

(D)None of the above

30. What kind of life are human beings living, as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)Lavish life

(B)Full of strife & destruction

(C)Useless life

(D)All of the above

31.How long does the poet ask the world to keep still in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)12 minutes

(B)12 hours

(C)12 days

(D)12 seconds

32. What does the poet want the world to do for 12 seconds in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)all the people on the earth, not to talk in any language

(B)to maintain silence to communicate with each other’s heart

(C)to shout loudly n make merry

(D)Both (A) & (B)

33. What will be an exotic moment, as per the poet of the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)Sudden moment of silence

(B)Sudden communication

(C)Sudden moment of loud shouts

(D)None of the above

34. What will the fishermen in the sea do, as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)They will put their nets in the sea

(B)They will stop killing the Whales

(C)They will fry fish

(D)They will bake fish

35. What will the men who gather salt do, as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)Stop working

(B)Look at their hurt hands

(C)Start selling salt

(D)Both (A) & (B)

36. What will the particular break do as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)Enable both nature & man to embalm their rounds

(B)Enable people to communicate better

(C)Enable mankind to understand each other

(D)None of the above

37. What will be the impact of the break on human beings, as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)human beings will start looking and caring for themselves rather than their work

(B)those who are fighting with each other, will stop and walk about their fellow brethren

(C)they will become more self-centered

(D)Both (A) & (B)

38. What does Pablo Neruda not want to advocate, as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)Total inactivity or death

(B)Inhumane behaviour

(C)Self centered humans

(D)None of the above

39. In the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’, the poet is concerned that ______.

(A)we all are running blindly in a rat race and

(B)we have completely missed our true goal to keep a balance between man and nature

(C)we have become puppets in the hands of this system

(D)Both (A) & (B)

40. What does our survival in this world depend upon, as in the poem ‘Keeping Quiet’?

(A)participating in the rat race

(B)our ability to understand and rectify the problems

(C)our inner instincts

(D)All of the above

 ANSWERS

1. (b) transferred epithet
2.(a) salt gatherer
3. (d) survivors
4.(a) totally compatible
5. (c) earth
6.(a) achieving harmony, brotherhood
7.(d) and you keep quiet and I will go  
8. (a) earth
9.(b) he tries to read out to the readers 
10. (b) irony
11. (a) death       
12. (d) the earth
13. (a) maintained
14. (a) initiate the state of inactivity
15.(c) have no association or deal with death
16.(c) Pablo Neruda
17. (d) keep still
18. (a) entire mankind 
19.(a) no noise
20.(a) not causing the extinction of whales
21. (A) Pablo Neruda
22. (B) To cease all activity for a little while
23. (D) All of the above
24. (D) Both (A) & (B)
25. (D) Both (A) & (B)
26. (A) help us make peace with ourselves & others
27. (B) make us realize the utter of our aggressive endeavours
28. (D) All of the above
29. (A) in their selfish motives
30. (B) Full of strife & destruction
31. (D) 12 seconds
32. (D) Both (A) & (B)
33. (A) Sudden moment of silence
34. (B) They will stop killing the Whales
35. (D) Both (A) & (B)
36. (A) Enable both nature & man to embalm their rounds
37. (D) Both (A) & (B)
38. (A) Total inactivity or death
39. (D) Both (A) & (B)
40. (B) our ability to understand and rectify the problems

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