MCQs For NCERT Class 12 English Chapter 3 Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda)

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Keeping Quiet Class 12 MCQ Questions with Answers

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Question: What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent 
(a) terrible
(b) painful
(c) exotic
(d) unforgettable

Question: Who would look at his hurt hands?             
(a) man gathering salt
(b) man gathering stones
(c) boys picking rags
(d)grave-diggers

Question: The man looking at his hurt hands is a     
(a) salt gatherer
(b) diamond cutter
(c) rag-picker
(d) surgeon

Question: 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

Question: What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem?       
(a) War against humanity
(b) War against nature
(c) War with gases and fire
(d) All these

Question: What is always alive even when everything seems to be dead or still?       
(a) mountains
(b) rivers
(c) Sun
(d) Earth and nature are always alive

Question: ‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device     
(a) personification
(b) transferred epithet
(c) metaphor
(d) alliteration

Question: The poet advocates the balance of nature to be         
(a) maintained
(b) destroyed
(c) temporarily disturbed
(d) ignored

Question: What is poet’s pen name?     
(a) Pablo Neruda
(b) Pable
(c) Pablo
(d) Neruda 

Question: How will silence benefit the man and nature?     
(a) both will be friends
(b) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves
(c) man will be healthy
(d) man will know nature better 

Question: What does counting up to 12 signify and how will it help?         
(a) it will help to create peace and harmony
(b) months of a year
(c) hours of the day
(d) all

Question: What does the poet feel is needed to be at peace? 
(a) meeting with people
(b) Soul searching
(c) interaction with the people
(d) talking with people 

Question: What is the original language of the poem ?     
(a) Spanish
(b) French
(c) Pali
(d) English 

Question: What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping quiet is not total inactivity?     
(a) Sun
(b) Soil
(c) Nature and earth
(d) earth

Question: Why does the poet ask people not to speak?     
(a) because it creates noise
(b) he doesn’t like noise
(c) it makes things unpleasant
(d) because it creates barriers or obstacles in the form of misunderstanding amongst people

Question: Why is the poet asking everyone not to speak any language?   
(a) to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings
(b) to avoid loud voices
(c) to avoid people
(d) to avoid noise 

Question: What does the title of the poem suggest?                  
(a) Inactivity
(b) unhappiness
(c) Maintenance of silence 
(d) noise 

Question: What does the poem speak about?       
(a) the necessity to work quietly
(b) the necessity to introspect, understand and have feelings of brotherhood
(c)  the necessity to be happy
(d) none

Question: Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or hate violence?   
(a) fishe men not harming whales
(b) poet’s refusal to deal with death
(c) wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate
(d) All these

Question: Why is the poet asking everyone not to speak any language?       
(a) to avoid noise
(b) to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings
(c) to avoid people
(d) to avoid loud voices 

Question: What will happen if there are no engines and no crowd?   
(a) it will create a perfect, happy moment
(b) no crowd on roads
(c) no traffic rush
(d) noise will be lessened 

Question: What can human beings learn from nature?     
(a) beauty
(b) keeping quiet
(c) to be happy
(d) working with silence

Question: What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?     
(a) happy
(b) content
(c) dancing
(d) strange blissful oneness

Question: What should not be confused with total inactivity or death?     
(a) talking people
(b) a statue
(c) no movement
(d) Stillness and silence

Question: The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet for
(a) twenty seconds
(b) one hour
(c) thirty seconds
(d) twelve seconds

Question: What can human beings learn from nature?
(a) beauty
(b) keeping quiet
(c) working with silence
(d) to be happy

Question: Why is the poet asking everyone not to speak any language?
(a) to avoid noise
(b) to avoid conflicts
(c) to avoid people
(d) to avoid loud voices

Question: What does the poet want people to do for one second?
(a) to sing
(b) to close eyes
(c) to stand quietly
(d) to be silent and motionless

Question: What will happen if there are no engines and no crowd?
(a) no mechanical noise
(b) no crowd on roads
(c) no traffic rush
(d) all of the above

Question: What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?
(a) happy
(b) content
(c) dancing
(d) strange blissful oneness

Question: How will silence benefit the man and nature?
(a) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves
(b) both will be friends
(c) man will know nature better
(d) man will be healthy

Question: Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm……..
(a) seahorses
(b) whales
(c) mermaids
(d) dolphins

Question: Where would they be walking?
(a) on the road
(b) in the park
(c) in the shade
(d) along the river

Question: The types of wars the poet talks about are
(a) green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
(b) nuclear wars
(c) verbal wars
(d) technological wars

Question: What should not be confused with total inactivity or death?
(a) no movement
(b) a statue
(c) talking people
(d) stillness and silence

Question: What does the title of the poem suggest?
(a) inactivity
(b) maintenance of silence
(c) noise
(d) unhappiness

Question: What is always alive even when everything seems to be dead or still?
(a) mountains
(b) sun
(c) earth or nature are always alive
(d) universe

Question: What does man threaten himself with?
(a) death
(b) birth
(c) suicide
(d) life

Question: Which poetic device is used in the phrase “Cold sea” ?
(a) personification
(b) transferred epithet
(c) metaphor
(d) alliteration