Keeping Quiet Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. What does the poet feel is needed to be at peace?

2. What does the earth symbolise?

3. Sudden strangeness is one of the following poetic devices:

4. How can the moments of no activity help people?

5. The poet of ‘Keeping Quiet’ is

6. The poet evokes a symbol in order to invoke that there can be life even with stillness. The symbol is

7. Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or hate violence?

8. A man should be – with nature

9. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm

10. Who would look at his hurt hands?

11. How does the poet perceive life?

12. The poet uses conversational style and personal pronouns as ‘you’, ‘we’ and `I’ because

13. What is the poet expecting from fishermen?

14. ‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device

15. ‘Fishermen not harming whales’ means

16. What does the poem speak about?

17. The poetic device used in the last line ‘when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive’ is

18. Why does the poet ask people not to speak?

19. What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?

20. What, according to the poet, would interrupt the sadness of man’s life?