Keeping Quiet Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. What does the poem speak about?

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

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

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

5. Who would look at his hurt hands?

6. What is the poet expecting from fishermen?

7. The poet of ‘Keeping Quiet’ is

8. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm

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

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

11. What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?

12. A man should be – with nature

13. ‘Fishermen not harming whales’ means

14. What does the earth symbolise?

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

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

17. ‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device

18. How does the poet perceive life?

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

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