A Roadside Stand Class 12 MCQ Quiz – Test Your Knowledge!

Are you ready to test your understanding of "A Roadside Stand" from the Class 12 English Flamingo textbook? This MCQ quiz will help you revise important themes, including rural poverty, the indifference of the rich, and the struggles of small vendors.

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Poem Name: A Roadside Stand
Poet: Robert Frost
Subject: English (Flamingo)
Book: NCERT Class 12 English
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
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A Roadside Stand

1 / 15

What figure of speech is used in the line '..That too pathetically pled'?

Hyperbole

Personification

Simile

Metaphor

2 / 15

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.

The ‘country money’ contextually here refers to

wealth accumulated by the whole country.

meager income earned by the countryside people.

riches collected by the ancestral farmers over time.

money kept aside for rural development.

3 / 15

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.

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

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

Statement 1 and Statement 2 cannot be inferred.

Statement 1 and Statement 2 can be inferred.

4 / 15

Why is the stand's existence said to be 'pathetic' in the poem "A Roadside Stand"?

Because they are not skilled at selling their wares

Because their expectations are never fulfilled

Because they are not educated

Because they are not able to compete with city merchants

5 / 15

It is in the news that all these pitiful kin
Are to be bought out and mercifully gathered in
To live in villages, next to the theatre and the store,
Where they won’t have to think for themselves anymore,
While greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey,
Swarm over their lives enforcing benefits
That are calculated to soothe them out of their wits,
And by teaching them how to sleep they sleep all day,
Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way.
(A Roadside Stand)

What quality of the villagers can be inferred through these lines?

ambitious

hypocritical

gullible

futuristic

6 / 15

Based on your reading of the poem, choose the option that correctly lays out the difference between the city dwellers and the countryside people.

	City dwellers	Countryside people
1.	• unaware • casual	• greedy • concerned
2.	• indifferent • grumpy	• suffering • disappointed
3.	• short-tempered • materialistic	• optimistic • savage
4.	• stressed • dismissing	• protesting • objectionable

Option 4

Option 3

Option 2

Option 1

7 / 15

What is the reason for putting up a new shed in the poem "A Roadside Stand"?

To display the peasants' wares

To make a living out of the city money

To provide a place for the peasants to rest

To block the view of the speeding traffic

8 / 15

Pick the option with the slogan that is likely to be used by a person selling at the roadside stand.

Corruption, corruption, you leave my country. That’s all I pray!

I see humans but no humanity.

Men and women inequality; a road to dignity.

By the people and for the people.

9 / 15

Choose the option that correctly paraphrases the given lines from the extract.

“I can’t help owning the great relief it would be
To put these people at one stroke out of their pain.”

The poet wants to eliminate poverty from society.

The poet wants to kill the impoverished people.

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

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

10 / 15

What is the significance of the contrast between the roadside stand and the moving cars in the poem?

It reflects the clash between old and new, tradition and progress

It emphasizes the importance of hard work

It shows the contrast between city and country life

It highlights the beauty of the countryside

11 / 15

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…

What do the urban rich feel about the S and N signs that have been painted wrong?

Annoyed

Tolerant

Amused

Sympathetic

12 / 15

On the basis of the extract, choose the correct option with reference to (1) and (2) given below.

The city dwellers make promises for the betterment of the villagers.

The city dwellers have ulterior motives.

(2) is true but (1) is false.

(1) is true but (2) is false.

(2) is the reason for (1).

Both (1) and (2) cannot be inferred from the extract.

13 / 15

Choose the option that correctly mentions the complaints made by the poet through this poem.

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

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

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

The goods are not being bought by wealthy people even at discounted rates.

1, 2

1, 4

3, 4

2, 3

14 / 15

“I wonder how I should like you to come to me
And offer to put me gently out of my pain.”

The tone of the poem by the end, as depicted by the given lines is

introspective.

emotional.

frustrated.

commanding.

15 / 15

The passers-by find the sign artless but the landscape ___________.

ancient

aesthetic

animated

amusing

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Key Topics Covered in the Quiz

✔ Plight of roadside vendors
✔ Contrast between rural poor and urban elite
✔ Poetic devices used by Robert Frost
✔ Message of social injustice and economic disparity

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