JAC 12th English PYQs With Answer Ch-2 An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum

🏢Name of the Organization	Jharkhand Academic Council, Ranchi
🗂️Category	English Core PYQs
📜Article	JAC 12th English Core PYQs With Answer Ch2
✍️Years	2010-2023
👨‍🎓Class	12th
📋Exam Mode	Offline
📒Stream	Science, Commerce & Arts
📑Subject	English Core
📝Chapter	2. An Elementary School Classroom in A Slum
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JAC 12th English Core Chapter 2. Chapter Wise PYQs

Chapter 2. An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum

Q1. Read the following extract and answer the following questions- [JAC – 2016, 2020]
Far from the gusty waves these children’s faces
Like rootless weeds , their turn round polar
The tall girl with her weighed –down head

A. Name the poem and the poet.
Ans. Poem Name – An Elementary Classroom In a Slum
Poet Name- Stephen Spender
b. Whom does the poet call you ‘rootless weeds’?
Ans. The Poet Compares the face of children of small areas with rootless weeds.
C. How does the poet describe the tall girl?
Ans. The tall girl was looking pale. Due to the burden her head was weighed down.

Q2. Describe the devices used by Stephen spender in the poem to create the desired poetic effect. [JAC-2010]
The poet uses modern imagery. He employs similes,metaphors and contrasts as poetic devices to create the desired effect. ‘Open-handed map’ and ‘slag-heap’ are modern images. They are conveyed through very effective metaphors. The faces and hair of children in slums are like ‘rootless weeds’. Their spectacles are like ‘bits (chips) of stones’. The use of similes has been done judiciously.

Q3. What is the poet wants for the children of the slum? How can there lives be made to change? [JAC-2011]
Ans. The poet wants these children to be removed from their dull, drab and dirty surroundings. They should share the bright, healthy and spacious surroundings. This would provide ideal conditions for their learning. They will then land in a world full of progress and prosperity. There will be no social injustice.

Q4. Where is the small boy lost in this slum School?[JAC-2013, 2019]
The small boy lost in the slum school in his dreams. He wanted that he also live in a good and healthy environment. So, he started to see the dreams. That’s why the small boy lost in the slum school in his beautiful dreams.

Q5. What were the things on the wall of the classroom?[JAC-2014, 2017]
Ans. The walls of the classroom have pictures of Shakespeare,buildings with domes, world maps and ‘beautiful valleys’.
Q6. What do the poor children in the slum classroom looks like?[JAC-2015]
Ans. Their disorderly hair are turn around and look like rootless wild plants. They are depressed and keep their heads down. Their growth is blocked and they inherit the diseases of their parents. They do have dreams.

Q7. What is the poet say about the world children living in the a slum? [JAC-2018]
Ans. The school children of slums present a very pathetic picture. They have pale and lifeless faces. Their disorderly hair are torn around and look like rootless wild plants. They are depressed and keep their heads down. Their growth is blocked and they inherit the diseases of their parents. They do have dreams. They sweet young boy sitting at the back of his dim classroom dreams of squirrel’s gave and of other interesting places than his dull and drab classroom.

Q8. Who is sitting at the back of the dim Classroom? [JAC-2022]
A. A tall boy
B. A tall Girl
C. A Sweet young boy
D. A Paper seeming boy
Q9. What kind of look do the faces and hair of the children give ?[JAC-2022]
A. A rich and beautiful
(b) bright, neat faces
(c) healthy appearance
(d) pale faces and scattered and undone hair

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