1 . What is the name of the poet?
- Kipling
- Wordsworth
- Kamlanath
- Stephen Spender
2. The last stanza is unlike the rest of the poem.
- long
- short
- optimistic
- pessimistic
3. What was the boy with rat’s eyes trying to escape from?
- bright light outside
- openness of trees
- dim light of the class
- children in the room
Answer
dim light of the class
4. What is the stunted boy reciting?
- the lesson from his desk
- Shakespeare’s poetry
- leaves of nature
- his composition
Answer
the lesson from his desk
5. What kind of life do the children living in slums have?
- full of love
- full of care and warmth
- Hopeless and full of struggle
- all of these
Answer
Hopeless and full of struggle
6. Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.
- simile
- metaphor
- alliteration
- personification
7. What does ‘gusty waves’ imply?
- slum children
- energetic children
- deceased children
- unhappy children
Answer
energetic children
8. Who was sitting at the back of the dim class?
- a girl
- an old man
- a teacher
- an unnoticed young boy
Answer
an unnoticed young boy
9. What attracts the slum children?
- The animals
- The movies
- icecream
- All beautiful things like ship, Sun
Answer
All beautiful things like ship, Sun
10. The map is a bad example as it makes one aware of –