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

Pick the option with the slogan that is likely to be used by a person selling at the roadside stand.

I see humans but no humanity.

By the people and for the people.

Men and women inequality; a road to dignity.

Corruption, corruption, you leave my country. That’s all I pray!

2 / 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?

Satire

Simile

Irony

Metaphor

3 / 15

Choose the option that correctly categorizes the given literary devices as per the given analogy.

selfish cars : __________ :: __________ : metaphor

oxymoron; greedy good-doers

metaphor; pitiful kin

transferred epithet; trusting sorrow

personification; polished traffic

4 / 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

frustrated.

emotional.

introspective.

commanding.

5 / 15

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

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

Simile

6 / 15

Based on your reading of the poem, choose the option that correctly lays out the difference between the city dwellers and the countryside people.

	City dwellers	Countryside people
1.	• unaware • casual	• greedy • concerned
2.	• indifferent • grumpy	• suffering • disappointed
3.	• short-tempered • materialistic	• optimistic • savage
4.	• stressed • dismissing	• protesting • objectionable

Option 1

Option 2

Option 4

Option 3

7 / 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.

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What is the tone of the poet in the above lines?

aggressive

tolerant

sarcastic

resigned

sentimental

Choose the most appropriate option.

(1), (4), and (5)

Only (3)

Only (1)

(2) and (3)

8 / 15

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

The poet emphasizes the need for more research on the issue

Yes, the poet provides a clear solution

No, the poet does not provide a conclusive solution

The poet suggests that the issue is not important

9 / 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.

Choose the correct option with respect to the two statements given below.

Statement 1: The poet is agitated and depressed.

Statement 2: The poet realizes the futility of his thought about giving up.

Statement 1 and Statement 2 cannot be inferred.

Statement 1 and Statement 2 can be inferred.

Statement 1 can be inferred but Statement 2 cannot be inferred.

Statement 1 cannot be inferred but Statement 2 can be inferred.

10 / 15

The ‘country money’ contextually here refers to

riches collected by the ancestral farmers over time.

money kept aside for rural development.

meager income earned by the countryside people.

wealth accumulated by the whole country.

11 / 15

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

hypocritical

ambitious

gullible

futuristic

12 / 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.

1, 4

3, 4

2, 3

1, 2

13 / 15

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

To display the peasants' wares

To provide a place for the peasants to rest

To make a living out of the city money

To block the view of the speeding traffic

14 / 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)

Read the assertion and the reason below, with reference to the given extract.

Assertion: The poet criticizes the way the rural poor are treated by benefactors, suggesting it instills ambition.

Reason: The interventions are overwhelmingly calming and lead to a loss of critical thinking among the rural poor.

Choose the correct option regarding their relationship:

The assertion is true, but the reason is false.

The assertion is false, but the reason is true.

Both the assertion and the reason are true, and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.

Both the assertion and the reason are true, but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.

15 / 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.

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

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

(2) is the reason for (1).

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

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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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