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This section includes 40 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your My Mother at Sixty six knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
What does the poem revolve around? |
| A. | poet s fears |
| B. | poet s love for her mother |
| C. | Theme of old age |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
How is the imagery of young trees and merry children a contrast to the mother? |
| A. | mother is old in comparison to the trees and children |
| B. | mother is like ash while the trees are green and children are happy |
| C. | like spring and autumn season |
| D. | Mother s health-hopelessness and trees and merry children- youthfulness and hope |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
What was the expression of the poet s face while parting from her mother? |
| A. | satirical |
| B. | funny |
| C. | sad |
| D. | smiling |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
What was the poet s childhood fear? |
| A. | Parting from her husband |
| B. | Parting from her friends |
| C. | Parting from her siblings |
| D. | losing her mother |
| Answer» E. | |
| 5. |
What pangs did she feel when she looked at her mother? |
| A. | Pangs of headache |
| B. | Pangs of stomachache |
| C. | Pangs of knee pain |
| D. | Pangs of heartache |
| Answer» E. | |
| 6. |
Who is the poet of this poem? |
| A. | John Keats |
| B. | Rudyard Kipling |
| C. | William Wordsworth |
| D. | Kamala Das |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels? |
| A. | Losing her mother |
| B. | heart attack |
| C. | headache |
| D. | children screaming at her |
| Answer» B. heart attack | |
| 8. |
Which poetic device is used in Trees sprinting- ? |
| A. | metaphor |
| B. | simile |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | Personification |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
Name the poetic devices used in the poem. |
| A. | metaphor |
| B. | similie |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
What does this narrative style of the poem signify? |
| A. | differing thoughts |
| B. | many thoughts |
| C. | contrasting thoughts |
| D. | a single thread of thought mixed with harsh realities |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
What did the poet realize with pain? |
| A. | her mother s appearance like a corpse |
| B. | she is inconsiderate |
| C. | old age is pleasant |
| D. | she has duties |
| Answer» B. she is inconsiderate | |
| 12. |
What do the running trees signify? |
| A. | fast moving appearance |
| B. | speed of the moving car |
| C. | fast moving change in human life from childhood to old age |
| D. | none |
| Answer» D. none | |
| 13. |
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» E. | |
| 14. |
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» E. | |
| 15. |
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» E. | |
| 16. |
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» E. | |
| 17. |
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» E. | |
| 18. |
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» E. | |
| 19. |
Kamala Das was an |
| A. | Bengali |
| B. | Punjabi |
| C. | Keralite |
| D. | Gujarati |
| Answer» D. Gujarati | |
| 20. |
She was going to |
| A. | Goa |
| B. | Mumbai |
| C. | Cochin |
| D. | Kolkata |
| Answer» D. Kolkata | |
| 21. |
The person in the car, beside the poetess, was, |
| A. | her aunt |
| B. | her niece |
| C. | her uncle |
| D. | her mother |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
The poetess says her mother looked pale like a |
| A. | corpse |
| B. | ghost |
| C. | malnourished child |
| D. | anaemic person |
| Answer» B. ghost | |
| 23. |
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» B. joy and fun of old age | |
| 24. |
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» E. | |
| 25. |
Children spilling out is an |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | personification |
| D. | transferred epithet |
| Answer» C. personification | |
| 26. |
The narrator again compared her mother too |
| A. | summer s sun |
| B. | rain clouds |
| C. | late winter s moon |
| D. | trees and plants |
| Answer» D. trees and plants | |
| 27. |
She said to her mother |
| A. | goodbye |
| B. | au revoir |
| C. | good morning go. |
| D. | see you soon, Amma |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
Smile and smile and smile is |
| A. | alliteration |
| B. | repetition |
| C. | simile |
| D. | metaphor |
| Answer» C. simile | |
| 29. |
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» B. guilt | |
| 30. |
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» B. make herself happy | |
| 31. |
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» B. to show the children playing | |
| 32. |
The poem is made up of |
| A. | twenty lines |
| B. | a single sentence |
| C. | ten stanzas |
| D. | five stanzas |
| Answer» C. ten stanzas | |
| 33. |
Trees sprinting is a poetic device. It is |
| A. | personification |
| B. | alliteration |
| C. | repetition |
| D. | simile |
| Answer» B. alliteration | |
| 34. |
What do the parting words See you soon Amma signify? |
| A. | her carelessness |
| B. | Her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness |
| C. | she bids goodbye like this |
| D. | she is in a hurry |
| Answer» C. she bids goodbye like this | |
| 35. |
What is the universality of the theme of the poem? |
| A. | death is a truth |
| B. | Life is a reality |
| C. | everyone is happy |
| D. | to show old age |
| Answer» B. Life is a reality | |
| 36. |
What does ashen face signify? |
| A. | colour of face |
| B. | face is covered with ash |
| C. | Pale and lifeless face of poet s mother |
| D. | to show ugly face |
| Answer» D. to show ugly face | |
| 37. |
Which Rhyming scheme is used in the poem? |
| A. | coupled rhyme |
| B. | monorhyme |
| C. | Alternate rhyme |
| D. | free verse |
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. |
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» C. Driving from my parent s home | |
| 39. |
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» E. | |
| 40. |
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» B. home to cochin | |