Updated on 26/10/2022
Poem-1 My Mother at Sixty Six
1. Who is the poetess of the Poem ‘My Mother at Sixty Six’?
(A) William Douglas
(B) Kamala Das
(C) Stephen Spender
(D) Robert Forst
Answer
(B) Kamala Das
2. Where is the poetess going?
(A) To Delhi Airport
(B) To Chennai Airport
(C) To Cochin Airport
(D) To Mumbai Airport
Answer
(C) To Cochin Airport
3. How does the poetess’ mother look?
(A) like dead body
(B) weak, pale
(C) like corpse
(D) all of the above
Answer
(D) all of the above
4. What did the poetess notice about the trees?
(A) running fast
(B) running slow
(C) standing at one place
(D) coming out
Answer
(A) running fast
5. What did the poetess notice about the children?
(A) running fast
(B) running slow
(C) playing in the playground
(D) coming out of their houses
Answer
(D) coming out of their houses
6. What did the poetess say to her mother in last?
(A) see you soon again Amma
(B) don't see you again Amma
(C) I Love you Amma
(D) Miss you Amma
Answer
(A) see you soon again Amma
7. What is the meaning of 'corpse'?
(A) beautiful body
(B) white skin
(C) dead body
(D) old lady
Answer
(C) dead body
8. What do you understand by 'sprinting'?
(A) running slow
(B) running fast
(C) standing at one place
(D) coming out
Answer
(B) running fast
9. What is poetic device in 'Trees sprinting'?
(A) alliteration
(B) repetition
(C) metaphor
(D) personification
Answer
(D) personification
10. Whose house the poet was leaving?
(A) her aunt's house
(B) her friend's house
(C) her parents' house
(D) her uncle's house
Answer
(C) her parents' house
11. Why did the poet look at her mother again?
(A) because she wants to leave her
(B) because she was going away
(C) because of fear and insecurity
(D) because she was busy in her thought
Answer
(C) because of fear and insecurity
12. Which poetic devices are used in poem 'My Mother at Sixty Six'?
(A) simile
(B) alliteration
(C) metaphor
(D) all of the above
Answer
(D) all of the above
13. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
(A) losing her father
(B) losing her mother
(C) losing her friend
(D) losing her sister
Answer
(B) losing her mother
14. With whom the poetess compare her mother to?
(A) the summer moon
(B) the winter moon
(C) the summer sun
(D) the winter sun
Answer
(B) the winter moon
15. To whom does the poetess bid farewell?
(A) her friend
(B) her grandmother
(C) her father
(D) her mother