My Mother at Sixty-six Class 12 MCQ Questions with Answers English Poem 1

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Q1. Who is the poet of this poem?

A) John Keats
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) William Wordsworth
D) Kamala Das

D) Kamala Das

Q2. What is her work known for?

A) for its originality, versatility and flavour of the soil
B) for its popularity
C) for its style
D) for the expressions used

A) for its originality, versatility and flavour of the soil

Q3. 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

A) Losing her mother

Q4. In which languages has Kamla Das written stories and novels?

A) English and Tamil
B) English and Hindi
C) English and Urdu
D) English and Malayalam

D) English and Malayalam

Q5. Name the poetic devices used in the poem.

A) metaphor
B) similie
C) alliteration
D) all of these

D) all of these

Q6. What is the significance of the title My Mother at Sixty Six?

A) Poet’s fear of losing her old mother
B) Poet’s fear of moving fast
C) Poet’s inability to express her feelings
D) All of these

A) Poet’s fear of losing her old mother

Q7. Which poetic device is used in “Trees sprinting-” ?

A) metaphor
B) simile
C) alliteration
D) Personification

D) Personification

Q8. What is the distinctive feature of the poem?

A) its metaphors
B) simile used
C) alliteration used
D) narrative style using a single sentence in a set of 14 lines

D) narrative style using a single sentence in a set of 14 lines

Q9. 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

D) a single thread of thought mixed with harsh realities

Q10. What is the main idea of the poem?

A) Painful old age
B) discolouration of skin
C) carelessness of a daughter
D) lack of strength

A) Painful old age

Q11. 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

A) her mother’s appearance like a corpse

Q12. The poetess says her mother looked pale like a

(a) corpse
(b) ghost
(c) malnourished child
(d) anaemic person

(a) corpse

Q13. The person in the car, beside the poetess, was,

(a) her aunt
(b) her niece
(c) her uncle
(d) her mother

(d) her mother

Q14. She was going to

(a) Goa
(b) Mumbai
(c) Cochin
(d) Kolkata

(c) Cochin

Q15. Kamala Das was an

(a) Bengali
(b) Punjabi
(c) Keralite
(d) Gujarati

(c) Keralite

Q16. 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

(d) See you soon, amma

Q17. 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

(d) her parents’ house

Q18. 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

(d) poet’s desperate efforts to hide her fears

Q19. 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

(d) How to strike a balance between duties and responsibilities

Q20. 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

(d) poet’s intertwining thoughts

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