CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 1 – My Mother at Sixty-six
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CBSE Class 12 English – MCQ and Online Tests – Poem – Unit 1 – My Mother at Sixty-six
Question 1.
When the narrator looked at her mother again she felt a pang of
(a) her familiar ache
(b) guilt
(c) heartache
(d) a headache
Answer
Answer: (a) her familiar ache
Question 2.
The poetess says her mother looked pale like a
(a) corpse
(b) ghost
(c) malnourished child
(d) anaemic person
Answer
Answer: (a) corpse
Question 3.
‘Children spilling out’ is an
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) personification
(d) transferred epithet
Answer
Answer: (b) metaphor
Question 4.
The image of merry children has been brought out by the narrator in order to
(a) show energy and exuberance of young children
(b) to show the children playing
(c) to show the children playing pranks
(d) to compare with herself
Answer
Answer: (a) show energy and exuberance of young children
Question 5.
‘Trees sprinting’ is a poetic device. It is
(a) personification
(b) alliteration
(c) repetition
(d) simile
Answer
Answer: (a) personification
Question 6.
She soon put that thought out of her mind and
(a) smiled
(b) laughed heartily
(c) cried bitterly
(d) looked out of the window
Answer
Answer: (d) looked out of the window
Question 7.
The person in the car, beside the poetess, was,
(a) her aunt
(b) her niece
(c) her uncle
(d) her mother
Answer
Answer: (d) her mother
Question 8.
She was going to
(a) Goa
(b) Mumbai
(c) Cochin
(d) Kolkata
Answer
Answer: (c) Cochin
Question 9.
Quote an example of a metaphor used in the poem.
(a) as a late winter’s moon
(b) ‘Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes’
(c) Driving from my parent’s home
(d) None
Answer
Answer: (b) ‘Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes’
Question 10.
Which Rhyming scheme is used in the poem?
(a) coupled rhyme
(b) monorhyme
(c) Alternate rhyme
(d) free verse
Answer
Answer: (d) free verse
Question 11.
The narrator again compared her mother too
(a) summer’s sun
(b) rain clouds
(c) late winter’s moon
(d) trees and plants
Answer
Answer: (c) late winter’s moon
Question 12.
Kamala Das was an
(a) Bengali
(b) Punjabi
(c) Keralite
(d) Gujarati
Answer
Answer: (c) Keralite
Question 13.
What were the words she used while parting from her mother?
(a) See you soon Ba
(b) See you soon beeji
(c) See you soon mata ji
(d) See you soon, amma
Answer
Answer: (d) See you soon, amma
Question 14.
The narrator is only using her smile to
(a) cover up her pain
(b) make herself happy
(c) to make her mother happy
(d) to make her father happy
Answer
Answer: (a) cover up her pain
Question 15.
She said to her mother
(a) goodbye
(b) au revoir
(c) good morning go.
(d) see you soon, Amma
Answer
Answer: (d) see you soon, Amma
Question 16.
Whose house the poet was leaving?
(a) her friend’s house
(b) in-law’s house
(c) her husband’s house
(d) her parents’ house
Answer
Answer: (d) her parents’ house
Question 17.
The poem is made up of
(a) twenty lines
(b) a single sentence
(c) ten stanzas
(d) five stanzas
Answer
Answer: (b) a single sentence
Question 18.
What does the expression smile, smile and smile signify?
(a) poet was going home and was elated
(b) poet was happy
(c) poet was hopeless
(d) poet’s desperate efforts to hide her fears
Answer
Answer: (d) poet’s desperate efforts to hide her fears
Question 19.
Smile and smile and smile is
(a) alliteration
(b) repetition
(c) simile
(d) metaphor
Answer
Answer: (b) repetition
Question 20.
What question arises from the complexity of the situation in the poem?
(a) what to do in old age
(b) how to take care of one’s skin
(c) how to drive
(d) How to strike a balance between duties and responsibilities
Answer
Answer: (d) How to strike a balance between duties and responsibilities
Question 21.
The mother’s old age and lack of energy is a depiction of
(a) the poet’s helplessness in old age
(b) joy and fun of old age
(c) bonding of mother with family members
(d) sickness and ill-health
Answer
Answer: (a) the poet’s helplessness in old age
Question 22
What does the narrative single sentence style of the poem highlight?
(a) Poet’s feelings
(b) Poet’s insecurities
(c) poet’s thoughts
(d) poet’s intertwining thoughts
Answer
Answer: (d) poet’s intertwining thoughts
Question 23.
Why does the poet feel parted, upset and sad?
(a) because of her fears
(b) because she was getting late
(c) fear of missing her flight
(d) because of her duty towards mother and her own needs
Answer
Answer: (d) because of her duty towards mother and her own needs
Question 24.
Quote an example of personification used in the poem.
(a) sprinting trees
(b) home to cochin
(c) airport’s security check
(d) All of these
Answer
Answer: (a) sprinting trees
Question 25.
Why did the poet look at her mother again?
(a) because she was busy
(b) because she was going away
(c) because she wanted to stay back
(d) because of fear and insecurity
Answer
Answer: (d) because of fear and insecurity
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