What does the poet wish for the children of the slums?
1.He wish them to be happy and healthy
2. He wishes a good change for them
3.he wants them to lead a healthy and happy life
4.All the these
‘Break O break’. What should they break?
1.the donations
2.all bathers
3.the slums
4.the schools
‘On sour cream walls. Donations’ suggests
1.schools are well equipped
2.schools are small but they try to impart education
3.schools have a poor and ill-equipped environment
4.schools meet the education requirements of the children through donations
dentify the literary device in `rat’s eyes’.
1.simile
2.metaphor
3.alliteration
4.personification
Identify the literary device in ‘father’s gnarled disease’.
1.simile
2.metaphor
3.alliteration
4.personification
Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’.
1.simile
2.metaphor
3.alliteration
4.personification
Identify the literary device in ‘like roofless weeds’.
1.simile
2.metaphor
3.alliteration
4.personification
Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.
1.simile
2.metaphor
3.alliteration
4.personification
Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.
1.simile
2.metaphor
3.alliteration
4.personification
Identify the literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’.
1.simile
2.metaphor
3.alliteration
4.personification
In what sense are the slum chidren different?
1. their IQ
2.their wisdom
3.their dresses
4.because of no access to hope and openness of the world
Shakespeare is wicked because he the children.
1.educates
2.tempts
3.loves
4.hates
The colour of sour cream is
1.white
2.yellow
3.off-white
4.pale
The imprisoned minds and lives of the slum children can be released from their bondage if they are given an experience of the outer world.
1.never
2.soon
3.eventually
4.magically
The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
1. long
2.short
3.optimistic
4.pessimistic
The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of
1.the beautiful world
2.cleaner lanes
3. the political structure
4.the civil design
The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes’ means the boy is
1.sly and secretive
2.short and lean
3.hungry and thin
4.sad and depressed
What do the ‘governor’, inspector, visitor in the poem depict?
1.higher officials
2.Government officials
3.Political people
4.Powerful and influential people
What do the words ‘From fog to endless night mean?
1.bright light outside
2.bright future
3.hopelessness
4.Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to death
What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
1.slum children
2.energetic children
3. deceased children
4.unhappy children
What does the expression ‘Break O break open’ suggest?
1.barriers on the road
2.barriers of garbage heap
3.barriers of dirty environment must be broken
4.None
What does the expression ‘Open handed map †show?
1.power of the poor
2.the poor are powerful
3.the poor are powerless
4. maps are drawn at the orders of the powerful people like hitler
What does the map represent?
1.world of the rich and powerful
2.world of the poor
3.world of the slum school children
4.world the poet wants for the slum children
What does the poet show through expressions ‘so blot their maps with slums as big as doom’?
1.his clot the street
2.enjoy the maps
3.big maps
4.poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities
What have the windows done to the children’s lives in the poem?
1.shut the doors
2.blocked the passage
3.clocked the Sunlight
4.have shut the children inside and blocked their growth
What kind of life the children living in slums have?
1.full of love
2.full of care and warmth
3.Hopeless and full of struggle
4.all these
What kind of look the faces and hair of the children give?
1.a rich and beautiful
2.organized
3.healthy
4.pale faces and scattered and undone hair
Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?
1.(a) in their cramped holes
2.towards the sun
3.towards the school
4.towards the windows
Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
1.Kipling
2.Wordsworth
3.Kamlanath
4.Stephen Spender
Who sits at the back of the class?
1.a sweet and young pupil
2.a paper seeming boy
3. a tall girl
4.a girl with hair like rootless weeds
Why is the head of the tall girl ‘weighed down’?
1. by the burden of studies
2.by the burden of work (c)
3.by the burden of the world
4.All the these