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

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

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

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

4. What does the poet compare in the poem?

5. What is Tree Room in the poem?

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

7. The classroom walls have

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

9. What does the map represent?

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

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

12. The lives of slum children are confined in

13. ‘On sour cream walls. Donations’ suggests

14. Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?

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

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

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

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

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

20. The word catacombs imply of the slum children.