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Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow each:
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
1. How long does the poet want to stay still?
2. What does he hope to achieve by keeping quiet?
3. What does the poet mean by ‘not move our arms so much’?


1. The poet wants to stay still till he will count upto twelve “respite and peace”.
2. He hopes to achieve by keeping quiet because we always remain in rash and hurry. These bring ills and trouble in the world.
3. Here the poet means that we should cease all activities. Man has used his arms to kill and destroy the other. So we should not let arms move to harm others.

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 We shall be threatening ourselves with death:

  • if we indulge in wars

  • if we spread baseless rumours

  • if we grab others’s properties

  • if we grab others’s properties


D.

if we grab others’s properties

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The poet’s counting upto twelve with help us:

  • in keeping quiet

  • in retrospection

  • in getting together

  • in getting together


D.

in getting together

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The earth can teach us:

  • how to grow

  • how to survive

  • how to live on it by doing some activity

  • how to live on it by doing some activity


C.

how to live on it by doing some activity

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Being quiet will help us:

  • in realising the exotic moment

  • in assessing our follies

  • in doing retrospection

  • in doing retrospection


D.

in doing retrospection

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