MCQ My Mother at Sixty-six Poem 1 Class 12 English Flamingo

MCQ’s For All Poems – Flamingo Class 12th

1. 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

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Question 1 of 30

2. The poem is made up of

(a) twenty lines

(b) a single sentence

(c) ten stanzas

(d) five stanzas

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Question 2 of 30

3. 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

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4. 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

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Question 4 of 30

5. Smile and smile and smile is

(a) alliteration

(b) repetition

(c) simile

(d) metaphor

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Question 5 of 30

6. She said to her mother

(a) goodbye

(b) au revoir

(c) good morning go.

(d) see you soon, Amma

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Question 6 of 30

7. When the narrator looked at her mother again she felt a pang of

(a) her familiar ache

(b) guilt

(c) heartache

(d) a headache

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Question 7 of 30

8. The narrator again compared her mother too

(a) summer’s sun

(b) rain clouds

(c) late winter’s moon

(d) trees and plants

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Question 8 of 30

9. ‘Children spilling out’ is an

(a) simile

(b) metaphor

(c) personification

(d) transferred epithet

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Question 9 of 30

10. ‘Trees sprinting’ is a poetic device. It is

(a) personification

(b) alliteration

(c) repetition

(d) simile

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Question 10 of 30

11. She soon put that thought out of her mind and

(a) smiled

(b) laughed heartily

(c) cried bitterly

(d) looked out of the window

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Question 11 of 30

12. The poetess says her mother looked pale like a

(a) corpse

(b) ghost

(c) malnourished child

(d) anaemic person

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Question 12 of 30

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

(a) her aunt

(b) her niece

(c) her uncle

(d) her mother

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Question 13 of 30

14. She was going to

(a) Goa

(b) Mumbai

(c) Cochin

(d) Kolkata

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Question 14 of 30

15. Kamala Das was an

(a) Bengali

(b) Punjabi

(c) Keralite

(d) Gujarati

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Question 15 of 30

16. 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

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17. 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

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Question 17 of 30

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

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Question 18 of 30

19. 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

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Question 19 of 30

20. 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

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Question 20 of 30

21. 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

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Question 21 of 30

22. 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

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Question 22 of 30

23. 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

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Question 23 of 30

24. Which Rhyming scheme is used in the poem?

(a) coupled rhyme

(b) monorhyme

(c) Alternate rhyme

(d) free verse

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Question 24 of 30

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

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Question 25 of 30

26. 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

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Question 26 of 30

27. 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

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Question 27 of 30

28. 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

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Question 28 of 30

29. 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

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Question 29 of 30

30. 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

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