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

1. The lives of slum children are confined in

2. Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?

3. What does the map represent?

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

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

6. ‘On sour cream walls. Donations’ suggests

7. What does the poet compare in the poem?

8. The word catacombs imply of the slum children.

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

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

11. What is Tree Room in the poem?

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

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

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

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

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

17. The classroom walls have

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

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

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