Keeping Quiet Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. What is the poet expecting from fishermen?

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

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

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

5. Who would look at his hurt hands?

6. ‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device

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

8. What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?

9. A man should be – with nature

10. The poet of ‘Keeping Quiet’ is

11. What does the earth symbolise?

12. ‘Fishermen not harming whales’ means

13. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm

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

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

16. What does the poem speak about?

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

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

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

20. How does the poet perceive life?