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Class - 12
English Core
Flamingo Poetry Chapter- 2 AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM IN A SLUM
QUESTIONS:-
Q1. What do you think is the colour of 'sour cream' ?Why do you
think the poet has used this expression to describe the classroom walls?
Ans.
The colour of 'sour cream' is off-white. The poet has used this expression to
suggest the decaying aspect of all around. Actually the dull and dirty walls
symbolise the pathetic conditions of the lives of these children. There is no
hope or brightness in their lives.
Q2. The walls of the classroom are decorated with the pictures
of 'Shakespeare' 'buildings with domes', 'world maps' and beautiful valleys.
How do these contrast with the world of these children?
Ans.
The pictures hung on the wall beautifully contrast with the world of the Slum
children. These pictures mean art, progress, prosperity and well-being .But the
present conditions of these children is quite pathetic. They are underneath,
poor and live in grim poverty.
Q3. What does the poet want for the children of the slums? How
can their lives be made to change?
Ans.
The poet wants the people in authority to realise their responsibility towards
the children of the slums. All sort of social injustice and class inequalities
must be ended by eliminating the obstacles that confine the slum children to
their ugly and filthy surroundings. Let them study and learn to express
themselves freely. Then they will share the fruit of progress and prosperity
and their lives will change for the better.
Q4. What should governors, teachers, inspectors and other
important and powerful persons do to improve the lot of children living in
slums?
Ans.
There are two worlds which exist. The gap between them must be abridged.
Governors, teachers and powerful persons must help in removing social injustice
and class inequalities. They must bring slum children out of their ugly and
dirty surroundings. Their world must extend to the open sea and green fields.
Q5. How does the poet describe the classroom walls?
Ans.
According to the poet, the walls of the classroom are discoloured and have a
faded look which looks like sour cream. The poet compares the faded walls to
that of the faces of the children who look pale.
Q6. What message does Stephen Spender convey through the poem,
'An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum'?
Ans.
The need is to free these children, liberate them and bring them into the
mainstream by bringing meaningful changes to improve the standard of life and
education in the slums. The poet deals with the theme of social injustice and
class inequalities. There are two different worlds. Art, culture and literature
have no relevance to the slum children. They live in dark, narrow, cramped
holes and lanes. Unless the gap between the two worlds is abridged, there can't
be any real progress or development. The children will have to be made mentally
and physically free to lead happy lives.
Multiple Choice Question
Read the given extract and answer the
questions from 1 to 9.
Far
far from gusty waves these children's faces.
Like
rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor:
The
tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paper-
seeming
boy, with rat's eyes. The stunted, unlucky heir
Of
twisted bones, reciting a father's gnarled disease,
His
lesson, from his desk. At back of the dim class
One
unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream
Of
squirrel's game, in tree room, other than this.
Q1. The given extract is taken from the poem
A.
keeping Quiet
B.
My Mother at Sixty-six
C.
A Thing of Beauty
D. An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum
Q2. The paper-seeming boy with rat's eyes' means the boy is
A.
sly and secretive
B.
short and lean
C. thin, hungry and weak
D.
sad and depressed
Q3. Identify the literary device in 'like rootless weeds'.
A. simile
B.
metaphor
C.
alliteration
D.
personification
On
sour cream walls, donations. Shakespeare's head,
Cloudless
at dawn, civilized dome riding all cities.
Belled,
flowery, Tyrolese valley. Open-handed map
Awarding
the world its world. And yet, for these
Children,
these windows, not this map, their world,
Where
all their future's painted with a fog,
A
narrow street sealed in with a lead sky
Far
far from rivers, capes, and stars of words.
Q4. The classroom walls have
A. pictures of Shakespeare, buildings with domes, world maps and
beautiful valleys
B.
pictures of Shakespeare, rivers, valleys and world maps
C.
pictures of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, rivers buildings and world maps
D.
pictures of Shakespeare, buildings, rivers, moun tains and valleys
Q5. The colour of sour cream is
A.
white
B.
yellow
C. off-white
D.
pale
Q6. What does the expression "Open -handed map show?
A.
power of the poor
B.
the poor are powerful
C.
the poor are powerless
D. maps are drawn at the orders of the powerful peo ple like
Hitler
Surely,
Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example.
With
ships and sun and love tempting them to steal -
For
lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes
From
fog to endless night? On their slag heap, these children
Wear
skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With
mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.
All
of their time and space are foggy slum.
So
blot their maps with slums as big as doom.
Q7. What do the words 'From fog to endless night' mean?
A.
bright light outside
B.
bright future
C.
hopelessness
D. Dark and uncertain future of slum children from birth to
death
Q8. What blots the maps of the slum children?
A.
garbage
B.
blockage
C.
stones in the streets
D. Dirty slums
Q9. Where do their lives 'slyly turn'?
A. in their cramped holes
B.
towards the sun
C.
towards the school
D.
towards the windows
Q10. What is the meaning of 'The paper seeming boy, with rat
eyes'?
A)
rich people
B)
rich children
C)
powerful people and their influence
D) weak and malnutritioned boy
Q11. What kind of future do the slum children have?
A)
very hopeful
B)
bright
C)
clear like water
D) hopeless and uncertain
Q12. Who has written the poem Elementary School Classroom in a
Slum?
A) Stephen Spender
B)
Wordsworth
C)
Kamlanath
D)
Kipling
Q13. What do the faces of children in the slum areas show?
(a)
their wisdom
(b)
their aspirations
(c) sadness and lack of enthusiasm
(d)
their happiness
Q14. Shakespeare is wicked because of he________the children:
(a)
educates
(b) tempts
(c)
loves
(d)
hates
Q15. The word catacombs imply of the slum children.
(a)
diseased existence
(b)
secure
(c) near death existence
(d)
poverty ridden
Q16. The lives of slum children are confined in
(a)
elementary school
(b)
Shakespeare's world
(c) narrow streets of slums
(d)
Tyrolese Valley
Q17. The night is endless as there is no___________for them.
(a) future
(b)
education
(c)
wealth
(d)
support
Q18. What do the 'governor', inspector,visitor in the poem
depict?
(a)
higher officials
(b)
Government officials
(c)
Political people
(d) Powerful and influential people
Q19. What do the words "Their future is painted with
fog" convey?
(a)
no love and care
(b) no hope of improvement
(c)
no hardwork
(d) no warmth
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Index
Flamingo | |
Poetry Section | |
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Prose Section | |
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Vistas | |
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