Keeping Quiet Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. What is the poet expecting from fishermen?

2. ‘Fishermen not harming whales’ means

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

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

5. ‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device

6. What does the poem speak about?

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

8. Who would look at his hurt hands?

9. How does the poet perceive life?

10. What does the earth symbolise?

11. What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?

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

13. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm

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

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

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

17. The poet of ‘Keeping Quiet’ is

18. A man should be – with nature

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

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