MCQ Questions of A Roadside Stand | English - Flamingo Poems

Q1)  What does the speaker or narrator call the thought of the owner of the stand?

(A) A chid like longing

(B) a very good thought

(C) a wise thought

(D) A childish longing in vain

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Q2)  What would be the state of poor rural folk at new location ?

(A) tension free as their needs will be looked after

(B) they will be able to visit city malls

(C) they will enjoy travelling malls and cinema halls

(D) they will be happy

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Q3)  What was the news?

(A) City people will give money

(B) city people will help the poor

(C) Relocation and resettlement of the rural folk to make them tension free by the government

(D) None of these

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Q4)  Who wanted to feel the money at hand and from whom?

(A) The rural folk from the government

(B) The rural folk from the social agencies

(C) The rural folk from the government officials

(D) The rural folk from the city people

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Q5)  Why is the word pathetic used for road side stand?

(A) for city people’s attitude

(B) for government’s declaration

(C) for poor condition of the owner of the stand

(D) for city people’s behavior

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Q6)  What is the poet’s call to the polished traffic passing ahead?

(A) he admires this

(B) he is indifferent to this

(C) he condemns this indifferent attitude of the city folk and feels the pain of the rural folk

(D) all of these

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Q7)  Why did a stopping car react?

(A) to point out at the wrongly marked N and S directions

(B) to buy some items

(C) to appreciate their hard work

(D) to soothe the villagers

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Q8)  What does support the flow of cities?

(A) travelling

(B) flow of money

(C) government

(D) rural people

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Q9)  Who will soothe the rural poor?

(A) Government and Social agencies

(B) Government officials

(C) Promises made by the Government

(D) City people will soothe ‘out of their wits’

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Q10)  Why didn’t the polished traffic stop at the roadside stand?

(A) they didn’t like that place

(B) their focus was their interest of earning huge benefits

(C) they were greedy

(D) all of these

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Q11)  What news in the poem ‘A Roadside Stand’ is making rounds in the village?

(A) City people are connive

(B) Villagers will be given homes near theatre and shopping malls

(C) Rural folk is earning money

(D) None of these

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Q12)  Why are the city people called beasts of prey?

(A) because of their selfishness and tendency to dupe others for it

(B) because they are well dressed

(C) they know how to earn money

(D) All of these

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Q13)  What is the special quality of the city people or folk?

(A) They are connive

(B) They are smart

(C) They are snobbish

(D) know how to get benefits in a calculative manner

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Q14)  Who are the greedy Doers?

(A) the government

(B) old people

(C) The Rural people

(D) The polished city folk

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Q15)  Why was the childish longing in vain ?

(A) because it was useless

(B) because they were shifting

(C) because their wish of earning from city folk couldn’t be realized or fulfilled

(D) None of these

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Q16)  What is being sold on roadside stand?

(A) furniture

(B) cosmetics

(C) Diesel

(D) wild berries, golden squash and some other similar products

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Q17)  Why was roadside stand built?

(A) so that people can wait there

(B) to make it a bus stop

(C) to earn money from polished city traffic

(D) None of these

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Q18)  What does Frost describe in the poem?

(A) the feelings of the owners of a roadside shed

(B) the feelings of passengers

(C) the feelings of people on footpath

(D) None of these

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Q19)  Who is the poet of A Roadside Stand?

(A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(B) Robert Frost

(C) Lord Byron

(D) Percy Shelley

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Q20)  What is the open prayer from near the open window?

(A) For money to fall from the sky

(B) for more number of people to stop

(C) for getting money from the government

(D) for the sound of coming cars to stop at the road stand to help the owner to earn money from them

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Q21)  What does I stand for in the poem?

(A) owner of the stand

(B) city flower who stopped on the stand

(C) Poet of the poem-Robert Frost

(D) None of these

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Q22)  Who are the ‘pitiful kin’ in the poem?

(A) social agencies

(B) government officials

(C) city people with cars

(D) The poor rural folk and farmers

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Q23)  Who went and waited in the lines?

(A) The rural folk to hear the government’s declaration

(B) The rural folk to talk to the social agencies

(C) The rural folk to have a word with the government officials

(D) The rural folk went to hear the sound of stopping cars

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Q24)  Who made roadside stand and where?

(A) The sarpanch made in the village

(B) The government made in the village

(C) social agencies made in the village

(D) The poor rural people made in the village

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12th Class - English - Flamingo Poems | Chapter: A Roadside Stand MCQs

Q1) What does the speaker or narrator call the thought of the owner of the stand?

Q2) What would be the state of poor rural folk at new location ?

Q3) What was the news?

Q4) Who wanted to feel the money at hand and from whom?

Q5) Why is the word pathetic used for road side stand?

Q6) What is the poet’s call to the polished traffic passing ahead?

Q7) Why did a stopping car react?

Q8) What does support the flow of cities?

Q9) Who will soothe the rural poor?

Q10) Why didn’t the polished traffic stop at the roadside stand?

Q11) What news in the poem ‘A Roadside Stand’ is making rounds in the village?

Q12) Why are the city people called beasts of prey?

Q13) What is the special quality of the city people or folk?

Q14) Who are the greedy Doers?

Q15) Why was the childish longing in vain ?

Q16) What is being sold on roadside stand?

Q17) Why was roadside stand built?

Q18) What does Frost describe in the poem?

Q19) Who is the poet of A Roadside Stand?

Q20) What is the open prayer from near the open window?

Q21) What does I stand for in the poem?

Q22) Who are the ‘pitiful kin’ in the poem?

Q23) Who went and waited in the lines?

Q24) Who made roadside stand and where?

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