Keeping Quiet Class 12 MCQ Quiz – Test Your Understanding!

Are you preparing for CBSE Class 12 English Flamingo? Strengthen your grasp on Pablo Neruda’s poem "Keeping Quiet" with this engaging MCQ quiz. These exam-oriented questions will help you understand the poem’s deeper meaning, themes, and literary devices.

About the Quiz

  • Poem Name: Keeping Quiet
  • Subject: Class 12 English (Flamingo)
  • Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
  • Difficulty Level: Concept-Based & Exam-Oriented
  • Leaderboard: Yes (Compete & See Your Rank!)

Why Take This Quiz?

✔ Covers all important themes & literary devices
✔ Includes competency-based and high-order thinking (HOTs) questions
✔ Ideal for quick revision before exams

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Keeping Quiet

1 / 15

Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with
their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity. (Keeping Quiet)

Which of these uses the same poetic device as used in the third line of the extract?

2 / 15

What statement does Neruda make about wars?

3 / 15

For once on the face of the Earth
let’s not speak in any language,
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

The poet uses the word “let’s” to _______

5 / 15

“Now I’ll count up to twelve and you keep quiet and I will go.” Why does the poet wish to go at the end of the poem?

6 / 15

Which of these is NOT a theme in the poem 'Keeping Quiet'?

7 / 15

“What I want should not be confused with total inactivity.”

Choose the option that draws the most accurate parallel.

keeping quiet: total inactivity = ______ : ______

8 / 15

Choose the option that correctly matches the idioms given in Column A with their meanings in Column B

Column A Column B
1. On the face of the earth (i) In existence
2. What on earth (ii) To do all possible to accomplish something
3. Move heaven and earth (iii) To express surprise or shock
4. The salt of the earth (iv) To be good and worthy

9 / 15

Identify the tone of Pablo Neruda in the following line:

Perhaps the Earth can teach us….

10 / 15

  • Assertion: The poet advocates for 'doing nothing' as a way to prevent the devastation of war.
  • Reason: 'Doing nothing' refers to a time for stopping any action for a few moments.

11 / 15

If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.

What might the “huge silence” signify?

12 / 15

If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.

Look at the images given below. Choose the image to which the above extract can be seen as an appropriate response.

keeping quiet class 12 important questions and answers

13 / 15

In ‘Keeping Quiet’ the poet does not want the reader to confuse his advice for _____ with total inactivity.

14 / 15

‘Keeping Quiet’ uses fishermen to symbolize man’s

15 / 15

For once on the face of the Earth
let’s not speak in any language,
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

Margaret Atwood said, “Language divides us into fragments, I wanted to be whole.”

Choose the option that correctly comments on the relationship between Margaret Atwood’s words and the line from the above extract – “let’s not speak in any language

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Pos.NameScoreDurationPoints
1Bus87 %3 minutes 8 seconds13
2saanvi73 %10 minutes 50 seconds11
3Lomon60 %3 minutes 58 seconds9
4Tanu60 %4 minutes 30 seconds9
5ishika60 %6 minutes 44 seconds9
6keshav60 %12 minutes 4 seconds9
7Saurav53 %9 minutes 41 seconds8
8aditya33 %9 minutes 10 seconds5
9Xyz33 %25 minutes 20 seconds5

Key Topics Covered in the Quiz

✔ Theme of silence and introspection
✔ Role of nature & human behavior
✔ Literary devices: Metaphor, Alliteration, Symbolism
Message & relevance of the poem

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