JAC Class 12 English MCQ Chapter-5: A Roadside Stand

1.Who is the poet of A Roadside Stand?

•  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
•  Robert Frost
•  Lord Byron
•  Percy Shelley

2. Why was roadside stand built?

• so that people can wait there
• to make it a bus stop
• to earn money from polished city traffic
• none of above

3.The city people proved unjust because –

• they never set up factories in the rural area
•  the did not give meaningful wages to the rural labourers
• they never helped the poor people with money
•  they never thought of opening a charitable dispensary in some village

4.What does I stand for in the poem?

• owner of the stand
• city flower who stopped on the stand
• Poet of the poem-Robert Frost
•  None of above

5.What is a Roadside Stand in the poem?

• a bus stop
•  a waiting point
•  a shed outside a roadside old house
•  none

6.Who is Robert Frost?

•  An American storyteller
•  An American essayist
•  An American narrator
• An American twentieth century poet

7. What does polished traffic refer to?

•  city people
•  smartness of city people
• insensitive attitude of city people and their gentle appearance
• none

8. What would be the state of poor rural folk at new location ?

•  tension free as their needs will be looked after
•  they will be able to visit city malls
•  they will enjoy travelling malls and cinema halls
•  they will be happy

9. Their state in the resettlement are would be –

• they will have enough to eat
• they will get suitable jobs
•  their hygientic conditions will improve
•  their worries and tension would vanish

10. What does ‘Out of their wit’ mean in the poem?

• by helping the poor people
•  by showing rosy pictures to the poor people
• by fooling and exploiting the poor people to their own benefit
•  all these

11. The city people are greedy good doers because –

• they are indifferent to the plight of the poor
•  their good actions enshrine greed
• they hate the poor rural folk
•  they think only of their own benefits

12. Who are the ‘pitiful kin’ in the poem?

• social agencies
•  government officials
•  city people with cars
• The poor rural folk and farmers

13. Why did a stopping car react?

•  to point out at the wrongly marked N and S directions
•  to buy some items
• to appreciate their hardwork
•  to soothe the villagers

14. What is being sold on roadside stand?

•  furniture
• cosmetics
• Diesel
• wild berries, golden squash and some other similar products

15. Polished traffic refers to –

•  those who polish
•  refined traffic of cars
•  rickshaw pullers
•  people of high status

16. Who will soothe the rural poor?

• Government and Social agencies
• Government officials
•  Promises made by the Government
• City people will soothe ‘out of their wits’

17. What was the news?

•  City people will give money
• city people will help the poor
•  Relocation and resettlement of the rural folk to make them tension free by the government
• None of above

18. Who made roadside stand and where?

• The sarpanch made in the village
•  The government made in the village
• social agencies made in the village
• The poor rural people made in the village

19. What promise was the government making to relocate the villagers?

•  to give them all the luxuries
•  to show them movies
•  their all needs will be looked after
•  all these

20. Who are the ‘pitiful kin’ in the poem?

•  social agencies
• government officials
•  city people with cars
• The poor rural folk and farmers

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