A Roadside Stand Text-Flamingo Multiple Choice Questions based on an extract.

 No, in country money, the country scale of gain,  

The requisite lift of spirit has never been found, 

 Or so the voice of the country seems to complain, 

 I can’t help owning the great relief it would be 

To put these people at one stroke out of their pain. 

 And then next day as I come back into the sane, 

I wonder how I should like you to come to me 

And offer to put me gently out of my pain.

  i The ‘country money’ contextually here refers to

  a) money kept aside for the rural development.

  b) wealth accumulated by the whole country. 

 c) meagre income earned by the countryside people. 

d) riches collected by the ancestral farmers over time. 

 ii Pick the option that mentions elements justifying monetary aspect as the ‘requisite lift of spirit’. 

 1. confidence 2. ego 3. self-esteem 4. status  5. fame 

 a) 1, 2, 4

 b) 2, 4, 5

 c) 1, 3, 4

 d) 1, 3, 5 

iii Choose the correct option with respect to the two statements given below.   

Statement 1: The poet is agitated and depressed. 

 Statement 2: The poet realizes the futility of his thought about giving up.  

 a) Statement 1 can be inferred but Statement 2 cannot be inferred. 

 b) Statement 1 cannot be inferred but Statement 2 can be inferred.  

c) Statement 1 and Statement 2 can be inferred. 

 d) Statement 1 and Statement 2 cannot be inferred.  iv Choose the option that correctly paraphrases the given lines from the above extract.   “I can’t help owning the great relief it would be To put these people at one stroke out of their pain.” 

 a) The poet wants to kill the impoverished people. 

 b) The poet feels that death is better than living such a miserable life. 

 c) The poet wants to eliminate poverty from the society.  

d) The poet states that it is important that these people become rich. 

 B The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead,

 Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts 

At having the landscape marred with the artless paint  

Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong… 

 i The polished traffic in particular refers to the

  a) sophisticated city dwellers in their vehicles. 

 b) shiny cars that the poet sees on the road.

 c) extremely affluent people living in the neighbourhood. 

 d) civilized manner in which traffic is coordinated. 

Choose the option that correctly categorizes the given literary devices as per

the given analogy.

selfish cars : …............. :: …................ : metaphor

a) personification; polished traffic

b) transferred epithet; trusting sorrow

c) metaphor; pitiful kin

d) oxymoron; greedy good-doers

v Choose the option that correctly mentions the complaints made by the poet

through this poem.

1. The rich people drive carelessly on the road hitting the poor people on

purpose.

2. The city-dwellers remain highly insensitive and offhand towards the

poor people.

3. The urban people are unable to understand the struggles of the

impoverished people.

4. The goods are not being bought by the wealthy people even at

discounted rates.

a) 1, 2

b) 2, 3

c) 3, 4

d) 1, 4