Keeping Quiet Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?

2. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm

3. ‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device

4. What is the poet expecting from fishermen?

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

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

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

8. A man should be – with nature

9. How does the poet perceive life?

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

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

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

13. What does the poem speak about?

14. What does the earth symbolise?

15. Who would look at his hurt hands?

16. ‘Fishermen not harming whales’ means

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

18. The poet of ‘Keeping Quiet’ is

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

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