Keeping Quiet Class 12 MCQ Practice Questions

• Poem: Keeping Quiet
• Poet: Pablo Neruda
• Number of Questions: 10
• Target: Class 12th Board Exam

Let’s Start

1. Keeping Still and Counting to twelve helps in-

1. Building Perception
2. Inspection
3. Introspection
4. None of the above

2. Why the poet asks to not speak in any language?

1. Self introspection is done in silence
2. To ensure peace and prosperity.
3. Speech possess conflicts
4. Both (1) & (3)

3. Why does the poet say not to move our arms?

1. To spread peace and universal brotherhood
2. To maintain silence
3. To keep still and self-introspect
4. None of the above

4. Which poetic device is used in the line “On the Face of Earth”?

1. Pun
2. Repetition
3. Personification
4. Alliteration

5. “It would be an exotic moment”. What does “it” refer to?

1. Moment of silence
2. Strangeness
3. Language
4. Peace

6. What will happen if there is no running of engine and rush?

1. There will be peace and harmony
2. Feeling of togetherness
3. Sudden strangeness
4. Both (1) & (2)

7. What does “Sudden Strangeness” means?

1. The moment when everyone become strangers
2. The moment when everyone would be together
3. The moment when everything becomes still
4. None of the above

8. Which poetic device is used in “Sudden Strangeness”?

1. Alliteration
2. Transferred Epithet
3. Both (1) & (2)
4. None

9. Why should the salt gatherers do self-introspection?

1. To realise how he is harming himself by his own activities
2. To realise how much hardwork he is doing
3. To heal his wounds
4. None of the above

10. Which poetic device is used in “Fisherman in the cold sea”?

1. Alliteration
2. Metaphor
3. Transferred epithet
4. None