An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. The classroom walls have

2. Through the description of the slum children, the poet wants to express the prevailing in society

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

4. The word catacombs imply of the slum children.

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

6. Who is the unlucky heir and what will he inherit?

7. What is ironical about the wall hangings and donations in the classroom?

8. What does the poet compare in the poem?

9. “Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces.
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor”:what do these words express?

10. What is Tree Room in the poem?

11. What is the meaning of ‘The paper seeming boy , with rat eyes’?

12. What do the words ‘From fog to endless night ‘ mean?

13. The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes’ means the boy is

14. What do the words “Their future is painted with fog” convey?

15. What does the expression ‘Break O break open’ suggest?

16. What does the map represent?

17. ‘On sour cream walls. Donations’ suggests

18. Identify the literary device in ‘like catacombs’.

19. Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?

20. The lives of slum children are confined in