A Roadside Stand Class 12 MCQ Quiz – Test Your Knowledge!

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Are you ready to test your understanding of "A Roadside Stand" from the Class 12 English Flamingo textbook? This MCQ quiz will help you revise important themes, including rural poverty, the indifference of the rich, and the struggles of small vendors.

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Poem Name: A Roadside Stand
Poet: Robert Frost
Subject: English (Flamingo)
Book: NCERT Class 12 English
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
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A Roadside Stand

1 / 15

It is in the news that all these pitiful kin
Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in
To live in villages, next to the theatre and the store,
Where they won’t have to think for themselves anymore,
While greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey,
Swarm over their lives enforcing benefits
That are calculated to soothe them out of their wits,
And by teaching them how to sleep they sleep all day,
Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way.
(A Roadside Stand)

What quality of the villagers can be inferred through these lines?

gullible

ambitious

hypocritical

futuristic

2 / 15

The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead,
Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts
At having the landscape marred with the artless paint
Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong…

'The urban and educated people have their minds ahead.’ Choose the option suggesting the correct meaning behind this line.

The people are well-educated and knowledgeable about the condition of the poor.

The people are concentrating on the road that is ahead in order to drive safely.

The people are preoccupied only with the thoughts of their lives and nothing else.

The people are focused on their goal of bettering the country.

3 / 15

What literary device is used by the poet to illustrate the irony in the situation where those claiming to help the rural poor actually impose self-serving and detrimental actions on them?

Metaphor

Satire

Irony

Simile

4 / 15

Why is the stand's existence said to be 'pathetic' in the poem "A Roadside Stand"?

Because they are not able to compete with city merchants

Because they are not skilled at selling their wares

Because they are not educated

Because their expectations are never fulfilled

5 / 15

No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
The requisite lift of spirit has never been found,
Or so the voice of the country seems to complain,
I can’t help owning the great relief it would be
To put these people at one stroke out of their pain.
And then next day as I come back into the sane,
I wonder how I should like you to come to me
And offer to put me gently out of my pain.

The ‘country money’ contextually here refers to

wealth accumulated by the whole country.

riches collected by the ancestral farmers over time.

meager income earned by the countryside people.

money kept aside for rural development.

6 / 15

While greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey,
Swarm over their lives enforcing benefits
That are calculated to soothe them out of their wits,
And by teaching them how to sleep they sleep all day,
Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way. (poem-The Roadside Stand)

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What does the imagery of ‘swarm’ NOT represent in the given extract?

Overwhelming force

Neglect of individual needs

Discomfort and chaos

Coordinated help

7 / 15

What do the urban rich feel about the S and N signs that have been painted wrong?

Annoyed

Sympathetic

Tolerant

Amused

8 / 15

What is the reason for putting up a new shed in the poem "A Roadside Stand"?

To block the view of the speeding traffic

To make a living out of the city money

To provide a place for the peasants to rest

To display the peasants' wares

9 / 15

The passers-by find the sign artless but the landscape ___________.

animated

ancient

aesthetic

amusing

10 / 15

“I wonder how I should like you to come to me
And offer to put me gently out of my pain.”

The tone of the poem by the end, as depicted by the given lines is

emotional.

commanding.

frustrated.

introspective.

11 / 15

Choose the option that correctly paraphrases the given lines from the extract.

“I can’t help owning the great relief it would be
To put these people at one stroke out of their pain.”

The poet wants to eliminate poverty from society.

The poet feels that death is better than living such a miserable life.

The poet wants to kill the impoverished people.

The poet states that it is important that these people become rich.

12 / 15

What figure of speech is used in the line '..That too pathetically pled'?

Simile

Hyperbole

Personification

Metaphor

13 / 15

On the basis of the extract, choose the correct option with reference to (1) and (2) given below.

The city dwellers make promises for the betterment of the villagers.

The city dwellers have ulterior motives.

(1) is true but (2) is false.

Both (1) and (2) cannot be inferred from the extract.

(2) is the reason for (1).

(2) is true but (1) is false.

14 / 15

Choose the option that correctly mentions the complaints made by the poet through this poem.

The rich people drive carelessly on the road hitting the poor people on purpose.

The city-dwellers remain highly insensitive and offhand towards the poor people.

The urban people are unable to understand the struggles of the impoverished people.

The goods are not being bought by wealthy people even at discounted rates.

3, 4

1, 4

1, 2

2, 3

15 / 15

Does the poet provide a conclusive solution for the issue at hand in the poem?

The poet suggests that the issue is not important

No, the poet does not provide a conclusive solution

Yes, the poet provides a clear solution

The poet emphasizes the need for more research on the issue

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Key Topics Covered in the Quiz

✔ Plight of roadside vendors
✔ Contrast between rural poor and urban elite
✔ Poetic devices used by Robert Frost
✔ Message of social injustice and economic disparity

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