Students of class 12 English should refer to MCQs Class 12 English An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum answers provided here which is an important chapter in Class 12 English NCERT textbook. These Multiple Choice Questions have been prepared based on the latest CBSE and NCERT syllabus for Class 12 English. The following MCQs can help you to practice and get better marks in the upcoming class 12 english examination

Question. What attracts the slum children?
A)The animals
B) The movies
C) ice cream
D) All beautiful things like ship, Sun

Question. What theme did the poet concentrate on in the poem?
A) themes of social injustice and class inequalities.
B) theme of children and their happiness
C) theme of insecurities
D) none

Question. What is the Tree Room in the poem?
A) A tree – shaped room
B) A room on a tree where squirrels play
C) A room on a tree where rats play
D) A room on a tree where pigeons play

Question. What does the color of the classroom walls point out?
A) happy and poor state
B) happy and rich state
C) poor condition of the slum
D) none of these

Question. What blots the maps of the slum children?
A) garbage
B) blockage
C) stones in the streets
D) Dirty slums

Question. What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
A) slum children
B) energetic children
C) deceased children
D) unhappy children

Question. What have the windows done to the children’s lives in the poem?
A) shut the doors
B) blocked the passage
C) clocked the Sunlight
D) have shut the children inside and blocked their growth

Question. Shakespeare is wicked because he the children.
A) educates
B) tempts
C) loves
D) hates

Question. How can powerful people help the poor children?
A) by fighting with the government
B) by fighting with the powerful
C) by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice
D) by fighting with the rich

Question. Identify the literary device in ‘future’s painted with a fog’.
A) simile
B) metaphor
C) alliteration
D) personification

Question. Why is the head of the tall girl ‘weighed down’?
A)by the burden of studies
B) by the burden of work
C) by the burden of her world
D) All of these

Question. What does the map represent?
A) world of the rich and powerful
B) world of the poor
C) world of the slum school children
D) world the poet wants for the slum children

Question. Identify the literary device in `rat’s eyes’.
A) simile
B) metaphor
C) alliteration
D) personification

Question. What does the expression ‘Open handed map ” show?
A) power of the poor
B) the poor can not access the world
C) the poor are powerless
D) maps are open to all, they reveal everything

Question. The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
A) long
B) short
C) optimistic
D) pessimistic

Question. The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of
A) the beautiful world
B) cleaner lanes
C) the political structure
D) the civil design

Question. What is ironical about the wall hangings and donations in the classroom?
A) set up in very clean environment
B) completely opposite to the needs of the children in the classroom
C) set up in happy environment
D) set up in gloomy set up

Question. The color of sour cream is
A) white
B) yellow
C) off-white
D) pale

Question. Identify the literary device in ‘whose language is the sun’.
A) simile
B) metaphor
C) alliteration
D) personification

Question. Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?
A) in their cramped holes
B) towards the sun
C) towards the school
D) towards the windows

Question. What do the faces of children in the slum areas reflect?
A) happiness
B) their aspirations
C) their energy
D) sadness and lack of enthusiasm

Question. Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
A) Kipling
B) Wordsworth
C) Kamlanath
D) Stephen Spende

Question. Identify the literary device in ‘like roofless weeds’.
A) simile
B) metaphor
C) alliteration
D) personification

Question. What does the poet compare the colour of walls with?
A) rotten fruits
B) stale chapatis
C) rotten vegetables
D) sour cream

Question. What is the stunted boy reciting?
A) the lesson from his desk
B) Shakespeare’s poetry
C) leaves of nature
D) his composition

Question. The imprisoned minds and lives of the slum children can be released from their bondage if they are given an experience of the outer world.
A) never
B) soon
C) eventually
D) magically

Question. Identify the literary device in ‘spectacles of steel’.
A) simile
B) metaphor
C) alliteration
D) personification

Question. What was the boy with rat’s eyes trying to escape from?
A) bright light outside
B) openness of trees
C) dim light of the class
D) children in the room

Question. Identify the literary device in ‘father’s gnarled disease’.
A) simile
B) metaphor
C) alliteration
D) personification