Keeping Quite

The poet uses conversational style and personal pronouns as ‘you’, ‘we’ and `I’ because
(a) he wants to be intimate with mankind
(b) he tries to read out to the readers
(c) he wants to establish contact easily
(d) third person is ineffective

The last line of the poem is

(a) and later proves to be alive
(b) life is what it is about
(c) I want no truck with death
(d) and you keep quiet and I will go

Man needs to learn a lesson from

(a) moon
(b) stars
(c) earth
(d) sun

According to the poet wars that are fought have no

(a) soldiers
(b) weapons
(c) fighter planes
(d) survivors

‘Cold sea’ is a poetic device

(a) personification
(b) transferred epithet
(c) metaphor
(d) alliteration

Without rush, without engines’ refers to

(a) no noise
(b) no hurry to go to the office
(c) no travelling
(d) no holidaying

The poet wants the entire humanity to

(a) keep talking
(b) keep running
(c) keep laughing
(d) keep still

‘Have no truck with death’ means

(a) will not die of the truck accident
(b) remove poverty and illiteracy
(c) have no association or deal with death
(d) will not drive a truck

The poet advocates the balance of nature to be

(a) maintained
(b) destroyed
(c) temporarily disturbed
(d) ignored
What does man threaten himself with?
(a) death
(b) birth
(c) robbery
(d) suicide

Where would they be walking?

(a) in the park
(b) along the river
(c) in the shade
(d) on the road

The types of wars the poet talks about are

(a) green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
(b) verbal wars
(c) technological warfare
(d) nuclear wars

Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm

(a) seahorses
(b) mermaids
(c) whales
(d) tortoises

What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent

(a) terrible
(b) painful
(c) exotic
(d) unforgettable

The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet for

(a) twenty seconds
(b) 1 hour
(c) thirty seconds
(d) twelve seconds

What can human beings learn from nature?

(a) beauty
(b) keeping quiet
(c) to be happy
(d) working with silence

What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping quiet is not total inactivity?
(a) Sun
(b) Soil
(c) earth
(d) Nature and earth

How will silence benefit the man and nature?

(a) both will be friends
(b) man will know nature better
(c) man will be healthy
(d) man will stop hurting nature and both will heal themselves
While gathering salt, what will happen to the man if he keep silent for a moment?
(a) he will stop dropping it
(b) he will look at the ground
(c) he will walk carefully
(d) he will think of the harm the salt is doing to his hands

Why is the poet asking everyone not to speak any language?

(a) to avoid noise
(b) to avoid loud voices
(c) to avoid people
(d) to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings

What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?

(a) happy
(b) content
(c) dancing
(d) strange blissful oneness

What will happen if there are no engines and no crowd?

(a) noise will be lessened
(b) no crowd on roads
(c) no traffic rush
(d) it will create a perfect, happy moment

What does the poet want people to do for one second?

(a) to sing
(b) to close eyes
(c) to stand quietly
(d) to be silent and motionless

What is always alive even when everything seems to be dead or still?

(a) mountains
(b) rivers
(c) Sun
(d) Earth and nature are always alive

What is the sadness in the poem that the poet speaks about ?
(a) violence because of unthoughtful ness of the people
(b) unnecessary movements
(c) speaking aloud
(d) fighting

What should not be confused with total inactivity or death?

(a) no movement
(b) a statue
(c) talking people
(d) Stillness and silence

Not move our arms’ what does this expression refer to?
(a) sit quietly
(b) stand quietly
(c) to be inactive
(d) sitting still without any movement
What does number 12 represent?
(a) hours of the day and months of a year
(b) earth
(c) clock
(d) cricket players

How will keeping quiet protect our environment?

(a) by creating peace and brotherhood feelings
(b) no noise will be there
(c) people will not fight
(d) none

What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem?

(a) enclosed rhyme
(b) Monorhyme
(c) sonnet
(d) Free verse

According to the poet what creates barriers?

(a) interactions
(b) reactions
(c) fighting
(d) languages

What is the essence or message of the poem ?

(a) introspection and retrospection to be more peaceful and be in harmony
(b) to prosper
(c) to be happier
(d) to reach out more people

What does the style of the poem symbolise, that the poet used to write with?
(a) desires
(b) happiness
(c) hope
(d) desire and hope

What does counting upto 12 signify and how will it help?

(a) hours of the day
(b) months of a year
(c) it will help to create peace and harmony
(d) all

What does the title of the poem suggest?

(a) Inactivity
(b) noise
(c) unhappiness
(d) Maintenance of silence

How does the poet perceive life?

(a) as stillness
(b) as silence
(c) a noisy place
(d) a continuous evolution of nature
What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem?
(a) War against humanity
(b) War against nature
(c) War with gases and fire
(d) All these

Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or hate violence?
(a) fishermen not harming whales
(b) wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate
(c) poet’s refusal to deal with death
(d) All these

What does hurt hand refer to ?

(a) Growing needs of the man
(b) growing greed of man
(c) unfulfilled desires
(d) growing insensitivity of man to pain

What is the poet expecting from fishermen?

(a) to find more fish
(b) to go deeper into the sea
(c) to think and stop harming the fish
(d) none

The poetic device used in the last line ‘when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive’ is
(a) imagery
(b) irony
(c) paradox
(d) transferred epithet

The poet evokes a symbol in order to invoke that there can be life even with stillness. The symbol is
(a) earth
(b) rain
(c) storm
(d) cloud

What will counting up to twelve help us with?

(a) achieving harmony, brotherhood
(b) achieving goals and ambitions
(c) fulfilling wishes
(d) winning a race

A man should be – with nature

(a) totally compatible
(b) at war
(c) confused
(d) irresponsible

The man looking at his hurt hands is a

(a) salt gatherer
(b) diamond cutter
(c) rag-picker
(d) surgeon
 ‘Fishermen not harming whales’ means
(a) not causing extinction of whales
(b) not disturbing balance in nature
(c) not going for fishing
(d) not disturbing the sea

When the poet says ‘we will’ count to twelve he means

(a) entire mankind
(b) his own family
(c) his friends
(d) his wife and himself

The poet of ‘Keeping Quiet’ is

(a) P.B Shelley
(b) Vikram Seth
(c) Pablo Neruda
(d) Kamala, Das

In the end, he again appeals to the people that he would

(a) initiate the state of inactivity
(b) will not bother at all
(c) completely ignore everyone
(d) destroy the earth

We can learn a lesson from

(a) the trees
(b) nature
(c) animals
(d) The earth

What, according to the poet, would interrupt the sadness of man’s life?
(a) great laughter
(b) huge silence
(c) arguments
(d) fights

The men in clean clothes would be walking with their

(a) wives
(b) brothers
(c) nephews
(d) friends

Who would look at his hurt hands?

(a) man gathering salt
(b) man gathering stones
(c) boys picking rags
(d) grave-diggers

Sudden strangeness is one of the following poetic devices:

(a) simile
(b) personification
(c) alliteration
(d) repetition
He advises the people not to speak
(a) French
(b) Spanish
(c) any language
(d) English

How long is the poet expecting everyone to stay still?

(a) for 10 minutes
(b) for 12 minutes
(c) for 15 minutes
(d) for 1 second till we count 12

Why is the moment of silence called Exotic?

(a) because of the beautiful scenery around
(b) because of the gathering
(c) because of large gathering
(d) because of perfect peace and harmony

How can the moments of no activity help people?

(a) they will be healthy
(b) they will be happy
(c) they will work easily
(d) to relax and be more thoughtful

Why does the poet request people to keep quiet?

(a) to maintain silence
(b) to avoid noise
(c) to be friendly
(d) in the hope of becoming more thoughtful and peaceful

What does the earth symbolise?

(a) perseverance and new beginning from seemingly stillness
(b) stillness
(c) greenery
(d) prosperity

What can be a cure or an antidote to violent actions?

(a) speaking practice
(b) wise words
(c) polished language
(d) Practice of silence

Why is silence treated as a big issue?

(a) it helps to search our soul
(b) helps us to analyze our actions
(c) helps us to be thoughtful and find our true self
(d) All these

What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us?

(a) how to maintain silence
(b) not to make noise
(c) speaking creates noise
(d) To be peaceful, thoughtful and have feelings of brotherhood
What is destroying the environment?
(a) unthoughtful actions
(b) violent actions
(c) speaking without thinking
(d) All

How is keeping quiet related to life and can change attitude?

(a) it helps to think and search soul
(b) helps to scratch one’s soul
(c) helps to develop new thinking process
(d) All these

Why does the poet ask people not to speak?

(a) because it creates noise
(b) he doesn’t like noise
(c) it makes things unpleasant
(d) because it creates barriers or obstacles in the form of misunderstanding amongst people

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

(a) meeting with people
(b) talking with people
(c) interaction with the people
(d) Soul searching

What is the original language of the poem ?

(a) English
(b) French
(c) Pali
(d) Spanish

What is poet’s pen name?

(a) Neruda
(b) Pable
(c) Pablo
(d) Pablo Neruda

What does the poem speak about?

(a) the necessity to be happy
(b) the necessity to introspect, understand and have feelings of brotherhood
(c) the necessity to work quietly
(d) none