Keeping Quiet Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. How does the poet perceive life?

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

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

4. ‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device

5. What does the earth symbolise?

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

7. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm

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

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

10. Who would look at his hurt hands?

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

12. The poet of ‘Keeping Quiet’ is

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

14. What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?

15. ‘Fishermen not harming whales’ means

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

17. A man should be – with nature

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

19. What does the poem speak about?

20. What is the poet expecting from fishermen?