What does the expression ‘Break O break open’ suggest?
  • barriers on the road
  • barriers of garbage heap
  • barriers of dirty environment must be broken
  • None
What have the windows done to the children’s lives in the poem?
  • shut the doors
  • blocked the passage
  • clocked the Sunlight
  • have shut the children inside and blocked their growth
What does the poet show through expressions ‘so blot their maps with slums as big as doom’?
  • his clot the street
  • enjoy the maps
  • big maps
  • poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities
Mention any two images used to explain the plight of the slum children.
  • open handed map
  • from his desk
  • belled, flowery
  • foggy slums and bottle bits on stones
In what sense are the slum chidren different?
  • their IQ
  • their wisdom
  • their dresses
  • because of no access to hope and openness of the world
What does the expression ‘Open handed map ” show?
  • power of the poor
  • the poor are powerful
  • the poor are powerless
  • maps are drawn at the orders of the powerful people like hitler
Who was sitting at the back of the dim class?
  • a girl
  • an old man
  • a teacher
  • an unnoticed young boy
What kind of look the faces and hair of the children give?
  • a rich and beautiful
  • organized
  • healthy
  • pale faces and scattered and undone hair
Why is the head of the tall girl ‘weighed down’?
  • by the burden of studies
  • by the burden of work
  • by the burden of the world
  • All these
What does the poet wish for the children of the slums?
  • He wish them to be happy and healthy
  • He wishes a good change for them
  • he wants them to lead a healthy and happy life
  • All these
How can powerful people help the poor children?
  • by fighting with the government
  • by fighting with the powerful
  • by bridging gaps of inequalities and injustice
  • by fighting with the rich
What do Catacombs signify?
  • underground cemetry showing irrelevance of the map hanging on the wall of the classroom
  • irrelevance of the classroom
  • irrelevance of the school
  • irrelevance of the children
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
What do the faces of children in the slum areas reflect?
  • happiness
  • their aspirations
  • their happiness
  • sadness and lack of enthusiasm
What are the poetic devices used in the poem?
  • alliteration and simile
  • metaphor and imagery
  • synecdoche, and irony
  • All these
What kind of life the children living in slums have?
  • full of love
  • full of care and warmth
  • Hopeless and full of struggle
  • all these
What does the poet portray in the poem?
  • young minds
  • playfulness of the children
  • s of young mind
  • the plight of young children in the slums
Who has written Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
  • Kipling
  • Wordsworth
  • Kamlanath
  • Stephen Spender
What does the poet want?
  • to send the children out of the slums
  • to send the children to America
  • to send the children to open fields
  • to send the children to a beach
What other freedom the poet wants the slum children to enjoy?
  • Freedom of roaming
  • freedom to spend money
  • freedom to eat
  • freedom of knowledge, wisdom and expression
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