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- 1. Multiple Choice
Who is the poet of this poem 'MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX?
John Keats
Rudyard Kipling
William Wordsworth
Kamala Das
- 2. Multiple Choice
Where was the poet driving to?
home
playground
Cochin
airport
- 3. Multiple Choice
From where were the children spilling out?
home
neighbourhood
school
car
- 4. Multiple Choice
What were the parting words of the poet?
see you soon
Meet you soon
See you later
Call you soon
- 5. Multiple Choice
Where was the mother sitting?
in front of the poet
Beside the poet
behind the poet
beside the driver
- 6. Multiple Choice
Name the literary device used in the line ‘ her face ashen like that of a corpse
metaphor
simile
alliteration
personification
- 7. Multiple Choice
What was the poet’s childhood fear?
flying in a plane
unable to join merry children
separation from her mother
driving in a car
- 8. Multiple Choice
What thought did the poet try to put away?
mother would not live long
mother would continue sleeping
mother would wake up
mother would live long
- 9. Multiple Choice
Why does the poet look out of the window?
to look out at the trees
to distract herself
to look at the children
to cure her boredom
- 10. Multiple Choice
How does the poet distract herself from her unpleasant thoughts?
closes her eyes
looks at her mother’s face
looks at the driver’s face
looks out of the window
- 11. Multiple Choice
Why has the mother been compared to a corpse ?
she is alert
she is active
she is merry
she is passive
- 12. Multiple Choice
What does the image of merry children spilling symbolize?
sincerity
responsibility and duty
carefree attitude
passive acceptance
- 13. Multiple Choice
What does the old age symbolize?
Health and happiness
carefree life
Approaching death
Freedom from responsibility
- 14. Multiple Choice
Why does the poet smile and smile and smile?
to hide her happiness
to hide her relaxed feeling
to hide her old age
to hide her fear
- 15. Multiple Choice
What would happen if the poet did not see her mother again?
The poet would feel relaxed
The poet would be heart broken
The poet would feel confused
The poet would be smiling
- 16. Multiple Choice
What is the familiar ache mentioned in the poem?
Mother's declining health
Poet's childhood fear of losing her mother
Poet's helplessness
Poet's failure to fulfil her duties towards her mother
- 17. Multiple Choice
Why are the tress described as sprinting?
To show the speed of the car
To add visual effect to the poem
To add transition from the stillness of dozing mother to movement outside the car
To show the fast moving change of human life
- 18. Multiple Choice
What do the parting words "See you soon Amma" signify?
Poet's helplessness
Poet's optimism and faith
The intermingled emotions of helplessness, nostalgia, love, faith, and hope
Poet's cheerfulness
- 19. Multiple Choice
What form does the poet use in the poem?
Free verse
Sonnet style
Single sentence
Couplet
- 20. Multiple Choice
The trees and merry children in the poem signify.........
happiness
exuberance of youth/energy
nature
- 21. Multiple Choice
The central idea of the poem ‘My Mother at Sixty-six’ is................
Poet's mother was about to die because of old age
The poet's mother age was 66 and she was old
death is inevitable/aging is inevitable
- 22. Multiple Choice
'Children spelling out' is an
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Transferred Ephithet
- 23. Multiple Choice
'Winter's moon' is a reference to the mother's
Old age
Illness
Colour of skin
Young age
- 24. Multiple Choice
The narrator again compared her mother to
Summer's sun
Rain clouds
Winter's moon
Trees and plants
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhat does 'ashen face ' signify?colour of faceface is covered with ashPale and lifeless face of poet's motherto show ugly face
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