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Class 12 - English Core

Term 1 - Flamingo Keeping Quiet - 03

1. What would the period of inactivity and silence promote? (Keeping quiet)
a. Peace
b. All of these
c. Harmony
d. Universal brotherhood
2. What do we learn from earth? (Keeping quiet)
a. To be punctual
b. To be productive under the apparent stillness
c. To show compassion towards all
d. How to move slowly and steadily
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3. The poet asks the reader to count up to ________. (keeping quiet)
a. Fifteen
b. Twenty
c. Forty
d. Twelve
4. What did the poet urge to mankind in the poem, Keeping quiet?
a. To cease their actions
b. To promote education
c. To fight for their rights
d. To help their fellow beings
5. What does the phrase, truck with death refer to in the poem, Keeping quiet?
a. Association with death
b. Death due to truck accident
c. Have a truck
d. To ride a truck
6. What is the poet's pen name? (Keeping Quite)
a. Pablo
b. Pable
c. Neruda
d. Pablo Neruda

Question No. 7 to 11 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:

What I want should not be confused with total inactivity.

Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.

7. What is it that should not be confused with total inactivity?

a. Silence
b. Illness

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c. Sufferings
d. Lack of desires
8. What is life all about?
a. Attaining our goals
b. Introspecting deeply
c. All of these
d. Moving forward
9. Explain no truck with death?
a. Silence is not completely associated with death
b. Death caused due to a silent disease
c. No accident with a truck
d. Death caused by a truck
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10. What should be the aim of our life?
a. To travel
b. To reach heights
c. To walk on a meaningful and purposeful path
d. To fight our foes
11. The name of the poet is:
a. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
b. Pablo Neruda
c. Kamala Das
d. None of these

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