Test: An Elementary School Classroom in a slum- Extract Based Type Questions- 2 - Commerce MCQ

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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……

Q. How is the boy described above?

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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……

Q. How is the girl?

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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.

Q. Which game is referred to in the last line?

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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.

Q. Name the poem and the poet.

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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.

Q. What is meant by ‘sour cream walls’?

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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.

Q. The lives of the children are confined in

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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.

Q. Which of the following words imply a bleak future?

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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 ?

Q. Who is wicked above ?What is the figure of speech used in

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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 ?

Q. Which map is a bad example?

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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 ?

Q. What does ‘cramped holes’ mean?

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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 ?

Q. What is the figure of speech used in ‘Far far from rivers….’

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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 ?

What is the figure of speech used in ‘Far far from rivers….’

Q. What does the poem describe?