A Roadside Stand MCQs with Answers NCERT Class 12 English Poem 4

 

“A Roadside Stand” MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 12 English Flamingo Book Poem 4

MCQs of Class 12 English Flamingo Book Poem 4 A Roadside Stand by Robert Frost. Students of Class 12 can prepare the MCQs of Poem 4 from the Flamingo reader published by NCERT. Each question has four options followed by the correct answer. Students can also take a free test of A Roadside Stand MCQ Question Answers Quiz. These MCQ Questions have been selected based on the latest exam pattern as announced by CBSE.

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  1. Who is the poet of A Roadside Stand?
    A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    B) Robert Frost
    C) Lord Byron
    D) Percy Shelley
  2. What does Frost present in the poem A Roadside Stand?
    A) the lives of poor rural people
    B) the lives of people who stand on bus stand
    C) lives of travellers
    D) none
  3. What does Frost describe in the poem?
    A) the feelings of the owners of a roadside shed
    B) the feelings of passengers
    C) the feelings of people on footpath
    D) none
  4. What does ‘the flowers of cities’ in A Roadside Stand refer to?
    A) city people
    B) city cars
    C) urban crowd
    D) The pleasures of cities
  5. What is being sold on roadside stand?
    A) furniture
    B) cosmetics
    C) Diesel
    D) Farm produce
  6. What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to?
    A) to travel to the city malls
    B) to travel to the city showrooms
    C) to interact with city people
    D) hope of getting some financial help from city people
  7. Why was the childish longing in vain?
    A) because it was useless
    B) because they were shifting
    C) because their wish of earning from city folk couldn’t be fulfilled
    D) none
  8. Who are the greedy good-doers?
    A) the government
    B) old people
    C) The Rural people
    D) The polished city folk
  9. ‘Selfish cars’ is the device of _______
    A) transferred epithet
    B) metaphor
    C) symbolism
    D) hyperbole
  10. Who are selfish?
    A) Rural people
    B) City folks
    C) Government officials
    D) All of them
  11. What news in the poem ‘A Roadside Stand’ is making rounds in the village?
    A) City people are not selfish
    B) Villagers will be given homes near theatre and shopping malls
    C) Rural folk is earning money
    D) None
  12. Why didn’t the polished traffic stop at the roadside stand?
    A) they didn’t like the roadside stand
    B) their focus was on their destination
    C) they were selfish
    D) all these
  13. What does ‘polished traffic’ refer to?
    A) clean and bright cars
    B) attractive urban people
    C) Rich urban people travelling in fancy cars
    D) none of these
  14. How did a stopping car react?
    A) for pointing out the wrongly marked N and S directions
    B) to buy some items from the shed
    C) to appreciate their hardwork
    D) to soothe the rural folk
  15. Which word in the poem means ‘fading’?
    A) quarts
    B) relief
    C) marred
    D) withering
  16. Who do selfish cars refer to?
    A) social agencies
    B) Government officials
    C) Car manufacturers
    D) car owners who do not stop on the stand
  17. Why is the word ‘pathetic’ used for roadside stand?
    A) for city people’s attitude
    B) for government’s declaration
    C) for city people’s behavior
    D) for poor condition of the owner of the stand
  18. Who are the ‘pitiful kin’ in the poem?
    A) social agencies
    B) government officials
    C) city people with cars
    D) The poor rural folk and farmers
  19. The dream life of the rural people is inspired by __________
    A) Corporate work culture
    B) Moving-pictures
    C) Lives of billionaires
    D) None of these
  20. Who made the roadside stand and where?
    A) The sarpanch made in the village
    B) The government made in the village
    C) social agencies made in the village
    D) The poor rural people made in the village
  21. What is the open prayer from near the open window?
    A) For money to fall from the sky
    B) for rainfall
    C) for getting money from the government
    D) for the passing cars to stop and buy the farm produce

22, Based on your reading of the poem, choose the option that correctly lays out the difference between the city-dwellers and the countryside people. (CBSE QB, 2021)

A) Option 1
B) Option 2
C) Option 3
D) Option 4

23. Whom does ‘I’ stand for in the poem?

A) owner of the stand
B) city flower who stopped on the stand
C) Poet of the poem-Robert Frost
D) None

24. “I wonder how I should like you to come to me
And offer to put me gently out of my pain.” (CBSE QB, 2021)
The tone of the poem by the end, as depicted by the given lines is
A) frustrated.
B) commanding.
C) Introspective.
D) emotional.

25. Pick the option with the slogan that is likely to be used by a person selling at the roadside stand. (CBSE QB, 2021)

A) Slogan 1
B) Slogan 2
C) Slogan 3
D) Slogan 4

26. Choose the option that correctly categorizes the given literary devices as per the given analogy. (CBSE QB, 2021)
selfish cars : ……………. :: ………………. : metaphor
A) personification; polished traffic
B) transferred epithet; trusting sorrow
C) metaphor; pitiful kin
D) oxymoron; greedy good-doers

27. Choose the option that correctly mentions the complaints made by the poet through this poem. (CBSE QB, 2021)

1. The rich people drive carelessly on the road hitting the poor people on purpose.
2. The city-dwellers remain highly insensitive and offhand towards the poor people.
3. The urban people are unable to understand the struggles of the impoverished people.
4. The goods are not being bought by the wealthy people even at discounted rates.

A) 1, 2
B) 2, 3
C) 3, 4
D) 1, 4

28. Which figure of speech is used in ‘A Roadside stand that too pathetically pled’?

A) Repetition
B) Metaphor
C) Simile
D) Personification

29. Which two figures of speech have been used in –
“Greedy good-doers”
A) Personification, oxymoron
B) Oxymoron, alliteration
C) Alliteration, personification
D) Onomatopoeia, oxymoron

30. Which figure of speech has been used in –
“Of all the thousand selfish cars that pass”
A) Personification
B) Oxymoron
C) metaphor
D) Transferred epithet

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ANSWER KEY

1 B 16 D
2 A 17 D
3 A 18 D
4 D 19 B
5 D 20 D
6 D 21 D
7 C 22 B
8 A 23 C
9 A 24 D
10 B 25 C
11 B 26 B
12 D 27 B
13 C 28 D
14 A 29 B
15 D 30 D

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