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

Poem-4_A Roadside Stand

“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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Who is the poet of A Roadside Stand?
A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B) Robert Frost
C) Lord Byron
D) Percy Shelley
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 of these
What prevents the ‘flowers of cities’ from sinking and withering faint?
A) warm weather
B) cash
C) Food
D) Polished cars
The phrase ‘Flowers of cities’ indicates-
A) the cities have many flowers
B) city people are pretty and delicate like flowers
C) Both A and B
D) None of these
What is being sold on roadside stand?
A) furniture
B) cosmetics
C) Diesel
D) Farm produce
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
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 of these
Who are the greedy good-doers?
A) the government
B) old people
C) The Rural people
D) The polished city folk
‘Selfish cars’ is the device of _______
A) transferred epithet
B) metaphor
C) symbolism
D) hyperbole
Who are selfish?
A) Rural people
B) City folk
C) None of them
D) All of them
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 of these
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
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
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
Which word in the poem means ‘fading’?
A) quarts
B) relief
C) marred
D) withering
Whom do ‘selfish cars’ refer to?
A) social agencies
B) Government officials
C) Car manufacturers
D) car owners who do not stop on the stand
Why is the word ‘pathetic’ used for roadside stand?
A) for city people’s attitude
B) for government’s declaration
C) for poor condition of the shed
D) for poor condition of the owner of the stand
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
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
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
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

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
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 of these
“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.
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
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
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
Which figure of speech is used in ‘A Roadside stand that too pathetically pled’?
A) Repetition
B) Metaphor
C) Simile
D) Personification
Which two figures of speech have been used in –
“Greedy good-doers”
A) Personification, oxymoron
B) Oxymoron, alliteration
C) Alliteration, personification
D) Onomatopoeia, oxymoron
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
“Swarm over their lives enforcing benefits”
Who swarms over whom?
A) City people over the rural folk
B) Rural folk over the city people
C) Politicians over rural people
D) Politicians over city people
“Trusting sorrow” means-
A) Sorrow caused due to breach of trust
B) Trust that sorrow will be caused
C) Both A and B
D) None of these
Find the meaning of ‘dole of bread’
A) Food given to the unemployed as charity
B) Piece of bread
C) Loaf of bread
D) Food given to the homeless
How is the landscape marred?
A) By the crooked produce kept for sale
B) By the untidy paint of the shed
C) By the damaged direction indicators
D) All of these
The city people DO NOT complain about –
A) Untidy paint of the shed
B) Direction sign turned wrong
C) Expensive produce
D) Spoiled landscape
The city people DO NOT stop for –
A) Inquiring prices of the produce
B) Buying produce
C) Back and turn around
D) Buying gas
The city people stop for –
A) Asking directions
B) Clicking photos
C) Eating snacks
D) Using washrooms
Who soothes the rural people out of their wits?
A) NGOs
B) Politicians
C) Car manufacturers
D) Urban people
How many selfish cars pass?
A) Hundred
B) Thousand
C) Ten
D) Not mentioned
What does the voice of the country complain?
A) Lack of sunshine
B) Lack of water flow
C) Lack of lift of spirit
D) All of these
Find a synonym of ‘ancient’
A) New
B) Novel
C) Old
D) Precious
Find a synonym of ‘withering’
A) energetic
B) Fading
C) rising
D) Precious
Find a synonym of ‘marred’
A) energy
B) affectionate
C) admire
D) spoiled
Find an antonym of ‘beneficient’
A) generous
B) concerned
C) Helpful
D) maleficient
Find an antonym of ‘sane’
A) mad
B) coherent
C) jovial
D) generous
Find an antonym of ‘quarts’
A) crate
B) box
C) vessel
D) All of these
What will happen when they will sleep all day?
A) They will get good health
B) They will prosper
C) They will become poorer
D) None of these
What is the ‘party in power’ keeping?
A) Promise of watching moving pictures
B) Promise of a life as shown in moving pictures
C) Promise of giving cash
D) Promise of giving own house
‘Crossly’ means-
A) marking cross on the way
B) annoyed or angry manner
C) Happy
D) doing party on the way
Identify the figure of speech-
“And another to ask the way to where it was bound;
And another to ask could they sell it a gallon of gas”
A) Onomatopoeia
B) metaphor
C) anaphora
D) simile