According to the poet wars that are fought have no
1.soldiers
2.weapons
3.fighter planes
4.survivors
‘Have no truck with death’ means
1.will not die of the truck accident
2.remove poverty and illiteracy
3.have no association or deal with death
4.will not drive a truck
Cold sea’ is a poetic device
1.personification
2.transferred epithet
3.metaphor
4.alliteration
Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm
1.seahorses
2.mermaids
3.whales
4.tortoises
How does the poet perceive life?
1.as stillness
2.as silence
3. a noisy place
4.a continuous evolution of nature
Man needs to learn a lesson from
1.moon
2.stars
3.earth
4.sun
The last line of the poem is
1.and later proves to be alive
2. life is what it is about
3.I want no truck with death
4.and you keep quiet and I will go
The poet advocates the balance of nature to be
1.maintained
2.destroyed
3.temporarily disturbed
4.ignored
The poet appeals to the readers to keep quiet for (a)
1.twenty seconds
2.1 hour
3.thirty seconds
4.twelve seconds
The poet uses conversational style and personal pronouns as ‘you’, ‘we’ and `I’ because
1.he wants to be intimate with mankind
2.he tries to read out to the readers
3.he wants to establish contact easily
4.third person is ineffective
The poet wants the entire humanity to
1.keep talking
2.keep running
3.keep laughing
4.keep still
The types of wars the poet talks about are
1.green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
2.verbal wars
3. technological warfare
4.nuclear wars
What can human beings learn from nature? (a)
1. beauty
2.keeping quiet
3.to be happy
4.working with silence
What does man threaten himself with?
1. death
2.birth
3.robbery
4.suicide
What is the poet expecting from fishermen?
1.to find more fish
2.to go deeper into the sea
3. to think and stop harming the fish
4.None
What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent
1.terrible
2.painful
3.exotic
4.unforgettable
What symbol from nature the poet uses to prove that keeping quiet is not total inactivity?
1.Sun
2.Soil
3.earth
4.Nature and earth
What would everyone feel at that exotic moment? (a)
1.happy
2.content
3.dancing
4.strange blissful oneness
Where would they be walking?
1.in the park
2.long the river
3.in the shade
4.on the road
Without rush, without engines’ refers to
1.no noise
2.no hurry to go to the office
3.no travelling
4.no holidaying