An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. What does the poet compare in the poem?

2. What do the words “Their future is painted with fog” convey?

3. The word catacombs imply of the slum children.

4. What does the expression ‘Break O break open’ suggest?

5. What do the words ‘From fog to endless night ‘ mean?

6. Identify the literary device in ‘like catacombs’.

7. Who is the unlucky heir and what will he inherit?

8. What is ironical about the wall hangings and donations in the classroom?

9. The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes’ means the boy is

10. “Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces.
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor”:what do these words express?

11. What is Tree Room in the poem?

12. What is the meaning of ‘The paper seeming boy , with rat eyes’?

13. ‘The tall girl with her head weighed down’ means

14. Through the description of the slum children, the poet wants to express the prevailing in society

15. The classroom walls have

16. What does the map represent?

17. ‘The stunted unlucky heir of twisted bones’ means the boy

18. The lives of slum children are confined in

19. ‘On sour cream walls. Donations’ suggests

20. Where do their lives ‘slyly turn’?