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NCERT: CLASS XII, ENGLISH, Flamingo: Quiz on Poem- ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum’

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Poem ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum’ Quiz

For better understanding of the poem ‘An Elementary School Classroom in Slum’, solve this Quiz carefully. Different types of questions are added quite skillfully for perfect appreciation of the Poem.

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1. 'An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum’ is a poem about ___________________.

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2. In the poem 'An Elementary School Classroom in Slum', the poet describes-
a. the harsh living conditions of poor kids
b. the crime against women
c. the loss of biodiversity
d. the lack of opportunities

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3. The faces of the children are compared to ‘rootless weeds’. It means that-

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4. 'The tall girl with her weighed-down head'. This line indicates that-

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5. 'The paper-seeming boy, with rat’s eyes'. This line proves that-

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6. 'On sour cream walls, donations'. Here, the words 'sour cream' indicate __________________.

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7. The walls of the classroom are decorated with the pictures of-

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8. 'A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky'. This line symbolizes-

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9. The poet thinks that the __________, __________, and __________ in Shakespeare’s works might have tempted the slum children to dream.

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10. Which of the following point/points reveal the note of optimism for slum children in the poem-
a. they will break open the shackles
b. they will run to the green fields
c. the golden sands will be their world
d. nature will provide them knowledge and inspiration

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11. 'With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal'
(Name the Figure of Speech used in this line)

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12. When non-living things are given human traits, it is 'Personification'.
(Choose the example of the Figure of Speech 'Personification')

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13. The poet appeals governor, inspector and visitor to-

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14. 'Break O break open till they break the town'. It means that-

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15. Who is the speaker in ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?’

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16. The poem ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum’ mainly concentrated on-

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17. 'History theirs whose language is the sun'.
(The poet uses the sun as a symbol of nature and power in this line. Hence it is an instance of ______________.)

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18. What does the poet evoke the nature in the last stanza?

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19. Choose the correct example of 'Simile' from the following lines-

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20. The poet concludes the poem 'An Elementary School Classroom in Slum' with _______________.

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About the Poet
Sir Stephen Harold Spender (1909 – 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1965. He was a member of the generation of British poets who came to prominence in the 1930s, a group-sometimes referred to as the Oxford Poets, that included W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, C. Day Lewis, and Louis MacNeice.

 

About the Poem
The poem An Elementary School Classroom in Slum throws light on the dark reality of poor students of slums. The poet describes the the worst condition of poor students and their faded future. The poet also talks about the lack of opportunities from which they are betrayed. The difference between the educational institutions of the higher class and lower class people makes it clear why the latter is lagging.

 

Poem
Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces.
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor:
The tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paper-
seeming boy, with rat’s eyes. The stunted, unlucky heir
Of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease,
His lesson, from his desk. At back of the dim class
One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream
Of squirrel’s game, in tree room, other than this.
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On sour cream walls, donations. Shakespeare’s head,
Cloudless at dawn, civilized dome riding all cities.
Belled, flowery, Tyrolese valley. Open-handed map
Awarding the world its world. And yet, for these
Children, these windows, not this map, their world,
Where all their future’s painted with a fog,
A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky
Far far from rivers, capes, and stars of words.
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Surely, Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example.
With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal —
For lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes
From fog to endless night? On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.
All of their time and space are foggy slum.
So blot their maps with slums as big as doom.
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Unless, governor, inspector, visitor,
This map becomes their window and these windows
That shut upon their lives like catacombs,
Break O break open till they break the town
And show the children to green fields, and make their world
Run azure on gold sands, and let their tongues
Run naked into books the white and green leaves open
History theirs whose language is the sun.

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