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  • 1. 
    What does the expression ‘Break O break open’ suggest?

  • barriers on the road
  • barriers of garbage heap
  • barriers of dirty environment must be broken
  • None

  • 2. 
    What have the windows done to the children’s lives in the poem?

  • shut the doors
  • blocked the passage
  • clocked the Sunlight
  • have shut the children inside and blocked their growth

  • 3. 
    What does the poet show through expressions ‘so blot their maps with slums as big as doom’?

  • his clot the street
  • enjoy the maps
  • big maps
  • poet’s protest against social injustice and inequalities

  • 4. 
    Mention any two images used to explain the plight of the slum children.

  • open handed map
  • from his desk
  • belled, flowery
  • foggy slums and bottle bits on stones

  • 5. 
    What attracts the slum children?

  • 6. 
    In what sense are the slum chidren different?

  • their IQ
  • their wisdom
  • their dresses
  • because of no access to hope and openness of the world

  • 7. 
    What does the expression ‘Open handed map ” show?

  • power of the poor
  • the poor are powerful
  • the poor are powerless
  • maps are drawn at the orders of the powerful people like hitler

  • 8. 
    What is the stunted boy reciting?

  • a happy song
  • a religious song
  • a sad song
  • a lesson from desk

  • 9. 
    Who was sitting at the back of the dim class?

  • a girl
  • an old man
  • a teacher
  • an unnoticed young boy

  • 10. 
    What kind of look the faces and hair of the children give?

  • a rich and beautiful
  • organized
  • healthy
  • pale faces and scattered and undone hair
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