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Very Short Answer
Questions: (1 mark each)
1.Who is the poet
of “keeping Quiet”?
Answer: Pablo
Neruda is the poet of “keeping Quiet”.
2.What is the real
name of Pablo Neruda?
Answer:
The real name of Pablo Neruda is Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto.
3.What does the
poet, in keeping Quiet’ wish us to do?
Answer: The poet,
in keeping Quiet’ wishes us to keep still at least for a few moment or until
count to twelve.
4.What is an
‘exotic moment’ in a “keeping Quiet”?
Answer:
An ‘exotic moment’ is a moment with keep stilling without rush and without
engines along with the other works. It would all be together in a sudden
strangeness.
5.How can we all be
together in a ‘sudden strangeness’?
Answer: When we
keep still without rush and without engines along with the other works. Then,
it would all be together in a sudden strangeness.
6.What is meant by
‘green wars’?
Answer: The ‘green
wars’ means the wars or struggles for the environment. It refers the wars wherein people utilize nature.
7. How can we all
be together, according to Neruda?
Answer: According
to Neruda, when we keep still without rush and without engines along with the
other works and our body parts. Then, we can be all together at this moment.
8. ‘What is the
‘huge silence’ that the poet talks about in the poem?
Answer: The poet
talks about the ‘huge silence’ where all the people in this world will keep
still in the entire sections and quiet for a moment at least until count to
twelve.
9. What is the ‘sadness’
that grips us’?
Answer:
The sadness, which does never understand ourselves and of threatening ourselves
with death that grips us.
10.What does
‘Earth’ signify in the poem?
Answer: In the
poem, ‘Keeping Quiet’, the earth signifies as
alive and activeness even everything else in the world seems to be dead.
11. “Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
And walk about with their brothers
in the shade, dong nothing.
(i)What are the different kind of war
mentioned by the poet in the passage ?
ans: The different kinds of war are green
wars or wars for the environment, wars with gas and wars with fire that
mentioned by the poet in the passage.
(ii)What kind of victory do they achieve?
ans: They achieve the victory where no
survivors are available to celebrate the victory.
(iii)What
should the warmongers (যুদ্ধলৈ উদগনি দিওঁতা) do ?
ans:
The warmongers should put on new and clean clothes and walk about or come out
with their brothers. They should stop the wars and should think as brotherhood
in the shade doing nothing.
(iv) Find words in the passage that mean
“those left alive” and ‘win’
ans: Those left alive—survivors
win—victory
12. “Now we will count 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 arms so much.”
(i)How long does the poet want to stay still?
Ans: The poet wants to stay still until count
to twelve.
(ii)Why does he ask us to keep still and not
use any language?
Ans: He asks us to keep still and not use any
language to achieve an exotic moment and a huge silence without rush, without engines
and the other works.
(iii)What does the poet mean by ‘not move our
arms so much”.
Ans: By this statement, ‘not move our arms so
much’, the poet means that everyone should not involve any physical activity.
13. “It would be an exotic moment
Without rush, without engines,
We would all be together
In a sudden strangeness.”
(i)What is the name of the poem from which
these lines are taken?
Ans: These lines are taken from the poem,
‘Keeping Quiet’.
(ii)What kind of moment will it be?
Ans: It will be an exotic or strange moment
without rush, without engines and totally calm and quiet.
(iii)What will happen if there is no rush or
running of engines?
Ans: If there is no rush or running of
engines then it will be an exotic or strange moment of totally calm and quiet as
well as peaceful.
(iv)How all of us would feel at that moment?
Ans: At that moment, all of us would feel together
in a sudden strangeness.
14. “Fisherman in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.
(i)Who is the poet of the poem from which
these lines are extracted ?
ans: Pablo Neruda is the poet of the poem
from which these lines are extracted.
(ii) What do the fishermen do in the cold
sea?
ans: The fishermen catch the fishes and harm
or kill the whales in the cold sea.
(iii)What has happened to the man gathering
salt ?
Ans: The man who gathering salt has hurt his
hands.
(iv)Find words from the passage that mean
‘those who catch fish’ and ‘collecting’.
Ans: ‘Those who catch fish’—fisherman,
Collecting—gathering
15. “What I want should not be confused
With total inactivity
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.
If we were not single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
Of never understanding ourselves
And of threatening ourselves with death.”
(i)What does the poet not want to be ?
ans: The poet does not want to be confused
with total inactivity for the silent moment.
(ii) What does the poet mean by ‘I want no
truck with death.”
Ans: By ‘I want no truck with death”, the
poet means that he does not want to truck or relation with death or total
inactivity.
(iii)What is the sadness that the poet refers
to ?
ans: The poet refers to the sadness that we
are never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death.
16. “Perhaps the Earth can teach us
As when everything seems dead
Ans later proves to be alive.
Now I’ll count up to twelve
And you keep quiet and I will go.”
(i)_What can the Earth teach us ?
Answer:
The earth can ‘finally teach us’ as when everything seems dead and later proves
to be alive.
(ii) Why does the poet count up to twelve?
Answer: The poet,
Neruda ‘wishes to count twelve’ that everybody will keep still for a moment or
just until count to twelve. He expects an ‘exotic moment’ and a huge silence
where everyone should not use any language and keep stop the entire body parts
as well as the other works.
(iii) What will keeping quiet help us achieve?
Answer: Keeping quiet will help us to achieve
an exotic moment without rush, without engines and the other works. We would
all be together in a sudden strangeness and a huge silence.
Short Answer Questions:, Type-A (2 mark each)
1.Why does the poet
Neruda ‘wish to count twelve’?
Or: Why does the
poet say: “Now we will count to twelve/ and we will keep still”?
Answer: The poet,
Neruda ‘wishes to count twelve’ that everybody will keep still for a moment or
just until count to twelve. He expects an ‘exotic moment’ and a huge silence
where everyone should not use any language and keep stop the entire body parts
as well as the other works.
2.What is the
significance of the phrase ‘the face of the earth’ in Neruda’s poem?
Answer: The significance of the phrase ‘the face
of the earth’ is that although different languages are used in different parts
on the earth but for a moment it should be stopped the entire languages of the
earth and keep still and quiet for an exotic moment of huge silence.
3.What is
considered to be ‘an exotic moment’ in the poem?
Ans:
In the poem, “Keeping Quiet”, an ‘exotic moment’ is a moment of keeping still
without rush and without engines along with the other works. Then, it would all
be together in a sudden strangeness.
4.’Fisherman in the
cold sea/ would not harm whales.’ What is meant by the above lines by Neruda?
Answer: By this
statement, Neruda means a moment where the entire people along with the
fisherman should be keeping still without any works like harm whales, moving
arms and others.
5.
….and the man gathering salt would look at his hurt hands..’ What, is meant by
‘gathering salt in the above lines? How are his hands hurt?
Answer: By the statement, ‘gathering salt’, the poet means the works of
gathering salt where the workers collect salt by their hand with very hard.
His hands are hurt during the salt gathering process from
the sea.
6. What is the meaning of
a)wars with gas
Answer: The meaning of “wars with gas” refers some kind of wars where most chemical-weapons, bombs, atomic bombs, chlorine,
phosgene, and mustard gas are used.
b)wars with fire.
Answer: The meaning of “wars with fire” refers some kind of wars where
fire is used for attack by the bomb, pistols, rifles and so on.
7.What are the ‘brothers’ mentioned in the poem?
Answer:
The entire people of the earth are the ‘brothers’ mentioned in the poem. The poet
expects everybody feeling with brotherhood and lives with together prevented
from all kinds of wars.
8.What is the likely confusion regarding Neruda’s desire?
Answer:
The likely confusion regarding Neruda’s desire is with total inactivity. It
confuses the life of truck with death. Neruda just wants everybody to keep
still for a moment but does not confusion as total inactivity like death of a
man.
9.What is the meaning of ‘want no truck with death’?
Answer: By this statement ‘want no truck with death’, the poet Neruda
does not want to truck with death for the keeping still moment. He does not
want total inactivity with relation to death instead just keep still for a little
bit of time until count to twelve.
10.About what are we so single-minded?
Answer:
We are so singled-minded at keeping our lives moving, and for once could do
nothing for our selfish minds. We are usually busy with our own works without
rest and without keep still.
11.What is ‘this sadness’ that Neruda talks of?
Or: What is the sadness that the poet refers to in the poem, “Keeping Quiet”?
Answer:
In the poem, “Keeping Quiet”, the poet, Neruda talks of /refers the sadness
that we do never understand ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death
that grips us.
12.What can ‘finally teach us’ as noted in Neruda’s poem?
Answer:
The earth can ‘finally teach us’ as when everything seems dead and later proves
to be alive.
13.What
does the poet want to convey by addressing the fishermen and the man gathering
salt?
Answer: The poet wants to convey the
harmful works on the other animal and the rushes of men without rest by
addressing the fishermen and the man gathering salt. He wishes both of them to
stop their works for a moment and keep still until count to twelve.
Short Answer Questions:, Type-B (2 mark each)
1.What will ‘counting up to twelve’ and ‘keeping still’ helps us
achieve?
Answer:
Counting up to twelve’ and ‘keeping still’ help us to achieve an exotic moment
without rush, without engines and the other works. We would all be together in
a sudden strangeness and a huge silence.
2.Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death?
Answer: No, I do not think so. Because, the poet, Neruda does not want to
truck with death for the keeping still moment. He just wants to keep still for
a moment and wishes an exotic strange moment.
3.What symbol from nature the poet invoke to say that there can be life
under apparent stillness?
Answer:
The poet invokes a powerful
symbol of the earth to say that there can be life under apparent
stillness. He says that the earth is a great teacher for its quietness and
its strong messages. According to the poet, the earth can teach us as
when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive.
Short Answer Questions:, Type-C (2 mark each)
1.What does Neruda wish to achieve by maintaining silence?
Answer:
By maintaining silence, Neruda wishes to achieve an exotic moment without rush,
without engines and the other works. He expects to all be together in a sudden
strangeness and a huge silence.
2.Explain the flowing lines:
a)Let’s not speak in any language.
Answer: By this statement, the poet expects everybody not to speak in
any language and remain silence for a moment.
b)It would be an exotic moment
Anwer:
By this statement, the speaker mentions an exotic moment without rush, without
engines and the other works. He expects to all be together in a sudden
strangeness and huge silence.
c)would put on clean clothes….
Answer: By this statement, the poet expects everybody to give up
different kind of wars. He expects the people put on clean clothes or clean
mind and walk with the others as own brothers.
d)I want no truck with death
Answer: By this statement, the poet mentions that he does not want to
truck with death for the silent moment. That means, he does not want to truck with
total inactivity by the keeping silent.
e)now I’ll count up to twelve.
Answer: By this statement, the poet mentions a moment where he readies
to count to twelve for keep silent everybody just twelve bit of time or moment.
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