JAC 12th English PYQs With Answer Ch3 Keeping Quiet

🏢Name of the Organization	Jharkhand Academic Council, Ranchi
🗂️Category	English Core PYQs
📜Article	JAC 12th English Core PYQs With Answer Ch3
✍️Years	2010-2023
👨‍🎓Class	12th
📋Exam Mode	Offline
📒Stream	Science, Commerce & Arts
📑Subject	English Core
📝Chapter	3. Keeping Quiet
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JAC 12th English Core Chapter 3. Chapter Wise PYQs

Chapter 3. Keeping Quiet

Q1. Read the following poem extract and answer the questions that follows :[JAC-2011]
Now we will come to twelve
And we will all keep still
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 arm so much.

a. For whom has this stanza been referred?
Ans. This stanza has been referred for the readers including himself.
B. What does the poet ask in the second line?
Ans. In the second line, the poet asks to keep quiet
c. Write down the poet’s urge?
Ans. The poet urges that we should cease all activities for a second. People keep quiet and not speak in any language. By doing so peace is ensured.

Q2. Read the following poem extract and answer the questions that follows : [JAC-2014]
If we were not so single minded
about keeping ourselves ,
and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and threatening ourselves with death.

A. Name the poem and the poet.
Ans. Poem Name – Keeping Quiet
Poet Name- Pablo Neruda
b. Why does the poet wants to do nothing?
Ans. The poet wants us to do nothing because people pursue single-mindedly on keeping their lives moving. The poet suggests that it would be better if they give themselves rest for sometime. For once they may do nothing.
c. Explain how man understands himself.
Ans. According to the poet men fail to understand themselves. They are always threatening themselves with death. When they realize this they become sad and helpless. Only a huge silence can interrupt this sadness and can be good to men. Therefore men understand him selves to have peace or silence.

Q3. Read the following poem extract and answer the questions that follows :[JAC-2015, 2017, 2020, 2023]
Fisherman in the cold sea
Would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
Would look at his hurts hands.

A. Name the poem and the poet.
Ans. Poem Name – Keeping Quiet
Poet Name- Pablo Neruda
b. What would the fishermen do?
Ans. Fisherman catch fish, particular whales in the cold seas.
C. What would the salt gathering man do?
Ans. The man gathering salt with his own hands must take care of his hurt hands.

d. What should fisherman not do?
Ans. The fisherman should not burt or injuries the whales in the seas.
e. Why do fisherman go to the sea?
Ans. The Fisherman usually go to the sea for catching fish particularly whales in the cold sea.

Q4. What will counting upto twelve and keeping still help up to achieve? [JAC-2012]
Ans. The poet urges us counting upto twelve and keeping still. Perhaps ‘twelve’ here represents the twelve hour-marks on the clock. Most of the ills and troubles of the world were caused because of our rush and hurry. Keeping still will give us the necessary respite for peace.

Q5. According to Pablo Neruda would to be an exotic moment? [JAC-2014, 2017]
Ans. Unnecessary rush and noise has made living unpleasant and troublesome. The poet wants that people may stop rushing and running. Even the noise of engines and machines must stop at once. If it happens, that moment would be an exotic or a fascinating moment. All of us will enjoy the sudden strangeness or uniqueness of that moment.

Q6. Pablo Neruda wants us to keep quiet for Some times. Why?[JAC-2015, 2016, 2020]
Ans. Pablo Neruda is convinced that most of human ills and troubles are caused due to rush and hurry of human beings. The poet only wishes that we may withdraw ourselves from the undesirable actions and learn to keep still. It will give us time for introspection and soul searching.

Q7. The Poet Pablo Neruda wishes the fisherman not to harm-[JAC-2022]
(1) Shark
(2) Rats
(3) Whales
(4) Squirrel

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