Keeping Quiet MCQs with Answers NCERT Class 12 English Poem 2

1- What does the title of the poem suggest?
A) Inactivity
B) noise
C) unhappiness
D) Maintenance of silence

2- 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

3- What can human beings learn from nature?
A) beauty
B) keeping quiet
C) to be happy
D) working with silence

4- What is always alive even when everything seems to be dead or still?
A) mountains
B) rivers
C) Sun
D) Earth and nature

5- 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

6- What is the original language of the poem ?
A) English
B) French
C) Pali
D) Spanish

7- 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

8- 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

9- According to the poet what creates barriers?
A) interactions
B) reactions
C) fighting
D) languages

10- 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

11- What is the rhyming scheme used in the poem?
A) enclosed rhyme
B) Monorhyme
C) sonnet
D) Free verse

12- 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

13- 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

14- What is destroying the environment?
A) unthoughtful actions
B) violent actions
C) speaking without thinking
D) All

15- What does number 12 represent?
A) hours of the day and months of a year
B) earth
C) clock
D) cricket players

16- 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

17- 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

18- 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

19- What should not be confused with total inactivity or death?
A) no movement
B) a statue
C) talking people
D) Stillness and silence

20- What can be a cure or an antidote to violent actions?
A) speaking practice
B) wise words
C) polished language
D) Practice of silence

21- What is the sadness in the poem that the poet speaks about ?
A) violence because of unthoughtfulness of the people
B) unnecessary movements
C) speaking aloud
D) fighting

22- What does the earth symbolise?
A) perseverence and new beginning from seemingly stillness
B) stillness
C) greenery
D) prosperity

23- 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

24- How does the poet perceive life?
A) as stillness
B) as silence
C) a noisy place
D) a continuous evolution of nature

25- 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

26- 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

27- 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

28- 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

29- What would everyone feel at that exotic moment?
A) happy
B) content
C) dancing
D) strange blissful oneness

30- Read the statements given below carefully. Choose the option that best describes these statements, with reference to the poem. (CBSE QB, 2021)
Statement 1 – The poem ‘Keeping Quiet’ calls for change as much in the individual as human society at large.
Statement 2 – The poem ‘Keeping Quiet’ implies that individual change will lead to bigger societal change.
Statement 3 – Neruda believes that when people come together as a community, they will be able to bring a transformation in each person.
A) Statement I is True, Statement II is False, and Statement III cannot be inferred.
B) Statement I and II cannot be inferred, Statement III is True.
C) Statement I is True, Statements II and III cannot be inferred.
D) Statement I cannot be inferred, Statement II cannot be inferred, Statement III is False.

31- 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

32- 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

33- 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

34- 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

35- Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or hate violence?
A) fishemen not harming whales
B) wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate
C) poet’s refusal to deal with death
D) All these

36- 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

37- 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

38- Identify the tone of Pablo Neruda in the following line: Perhaps the Earth can teach us…. (CBSE SQP 2021-22)
A. Confident and clear about the future events.
B. Dramatic about the prediction he made.
C. Convinced about the sequence of events to follow.
D. Uncertain, yet hopeful about the possibility.

39- What statement does Neruda make about wars? (CBSE QB, 2021)
A) Wars are of varied kinds – internal, green wars, wars with gas, with fire etc.
B) Wars are wasteful and cause irrecoverable loss and damage to property and life.
C) Wars never yield any winners, and the loss is far greater than what can be measured.
D) Wars are unavoidable in the enduring struggle for human dignity and power.

40- “Now I’ll count up to twelve and you keep quiet and I will go.” Why does the poet wish to go at the end of the poem? (CBSE QB, 2021)
A) The poet does not believe people will be quiet.
B) The poet has already invested enough time.
C) The poet will move on and seek to inspire others.
D) The poet is marking the end of the poem by leaving.