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

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.”

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)

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

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

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:

What distinction does the poet draw between city money and country money?

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)

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

1. The city dwellers make promises for the betterment of the villagers.
2. The city dwellers have ulterior motives.

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

What does the symbol of the car represent in the poem?

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.

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

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

selfish cars : __________ :: __________ : metaphor

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.

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

1. aggressive
2. tolerant
3. sarcastic
4. resigned
5. sentimental

Choose the most appropriate option.

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

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?

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