REVISION OF SAMPLE Extract – 1

An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

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,

1. Through the description of the slum children, the poet wants to express the prevailing in
society A)social injustice and class inequalities
B)poverty
C)disease
D)slum

2. ‘The stunted unlucky heir of twisted bones’ means the boy

A) is short and bony
B) is poor and unlucky
C) is sad and unwell
D) has an inherited disability

3. ‘The tall girl with her head weighed down’ means

A) the girl is ashamed of something
B) has untidy hair
C) is ill and exhausted
D) is shy

4. One of the following phrases implies unhealthy children. It is

A) unlucky heir
B) these children’s faces
C) a paper seeming boy
D) from gusty waves

2. 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?’’
1 What all tempts these children?
 a. Pictures of Shakespeare
b. Pictures of sun, ships and love
c. Pictures of Tyrolese valley
d. All of these

2. What does the expression ‘cramped holes’ imply?

a. Small holes in school walls
b. Very small houses
c. Dingy congested shacks
d. None of above

3. Who is the poet of these lines?

a. W.B. Yeats
b. Stephen spender
c. Robert Frost
d. Pablo Neruda

4. What does the map represent?

a. World of the rich and the powerful
b. World of the poor
c. World of the slum children
d. A world which poet desires for these slum children

3. 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,

1. Which are the two worlds does the poet is bringing out here?
a) beautiful scenes & slum children
b) The poverty world and the slum children.
c) Map of the rich and slum children
d) The world of poverty of the slum children & the prosperity of the rich. Answer D
2. What do the pictures on the wall suggest?
a) happiness, richness, well- being and beauty
b) donations of the rich people.
c) generosity of the rich
d) charity of the rich
3. How are the pictures in contrast to the classroom life of the children? a) walls are not
clean
b) brightness required in the class to see the pictures clearly.
c) sour cream walls are not a good background
d) dull and dim class with weak children.

4. What does 'open-handed map' mean?

A) maps are drawn on the orders of powerful people or conquerors expanding their
territories.
B) map of the children where they can go
C) Powers of the rulers who command the teachers
D) open map or political map of the country

4. And yet, for these

Children, these windows, not this map, their
world, Where all their future's painted with a
fog.

1. Which is their world mentioned here?

A) The rich world is reflected
B) Their world is limited to the window of the classroom.
C) the beautiful scenes of the class room
D) the outside world is beautiful

2. How is the world of the slum children?

A) It is full of happiness
B) It is full of hopelessness.
C) It is full of beautiful scenes.
D) It is full of despair and despondency.

3. Who is the poet of the poem 'An Elementary School Clssroom in a Slum'?
A) Stephen Spender
B) Slender
C) Kamal Das
D) John Keats

4. 'future painted with fog' means

A) Classroom is as foggy and unclear
B) Fog is painted in the wall
C) Future of slum children is unclear
D) Broken classroom walls
5.A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky.
Far far from rivers, capes and stars of words.
1. What does the poet mean by 'a narrow street'?
A) There is no wide scope available for the slum children' future growth.
B) roads are very narrow
C) Narrow roads traffic jam
D) Narrow roads in their streets

2. How are the 'rivers , capes and star of words' far for the slum children?
a) They are away from the books.
b) They are living far away from their rivers.
c) peaceful living and deprived from knowledge and education.
d) There are no schools.

3. What does 'stars of words' mean?

A) Literacy aspect of books that these slim children don't understand
B) Stars in the sky are far away
C) Words which are written in the book
D) Stars that look bright in the sky

4. Far far from rivers, capes and stars of words. Which poetic device is used.
A) simile
B) metaphor
C) repetition
D) pun