1. Where is the poet going?
A. Trivandrum
B. Bangalore
C. Cochin
D. Pondicherry
Answer:
(C) Cochin
2. Who is with her?
A. Her sister
B. Her mother
C. Her father
D. Her brother
Answer:
(B) Her mother
3. On which day did the poet leave?
A. Friday
B. Saturday
C. Wednesday
D. Sunday
Answer:
(A) Friday
4. 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:
(D) Pangs of heartache.
5. Pick out one thing that makes the poet
worried when she looks at her.
A. Her face
B. Her broken arm
C. Her loving words
D. Her declining age
Answer:
(D) Her declining age.
6. Outside the car, the poet notices
A. Sprinting trees and running children
B. Schools and roads
C. Other vehicles
D. Many people on road
Answer:
(A) Sprinting trees and running children.
7. Who is the poet?
A. Sarojini Naidu
B. Mahasweta Devi
C. Kamala Das
D. Nayantara Sehgal
Answer:
(C) Kamala Das
8. Which of the following images
signifies ‘decay’?
A. The image of ash
B. The image of corpse
C. The twin image of ash and corpse
D. None of the above
Answer:
(C) The twin image of ash and corpse.
9. What was the age of the mother?
A. Sixty two
B. Sixty three
C. Sixty six
D. Sixty
Answer:
(C) Sixty Six
10. What does the poet’s mother look
like?
A. Wan
B. Pale
C. Old
D. All of the above
Answer:
(D) All of the above
11. The words she used while parting from
her mother were
A. See you, amma
B. See you, ba
C. See you, beeji
D. See you, ma
Answer:
(A) See you, amma
12. The poet feels scared because of
A. Her duties and commitments
B. Her job
C. Her children
D. Her mother’s deteriorating health
Answer:
(D) Her mother’s deteriorating health.
Reference to Context
‘Put that
thought away, and looked out at Young Trees sprinting…’
13. What is the ‘thought’ that the poet
put away?
A. Thought of her old mother
B. Thought of her old aunt
C. Thought of her angry mother
D. Thought of herself
Answer:
(A) Thought of her Old mother.
14. What did she look to put her
‘thought’ away?
A. The village passing by
B. The merry children
C. The old houses
D. The railway tracks
Answer:
(B) The merry children.
15. What is the poet’s childhood fear?
A. Fear of drowning
B. Fear of being hit by a car
C. Fear of separation
D. Fear of falling from a height
Answer:
(C) Fear of separation.
16. The expression on poet’s face while
parting from her mother is
A. Satirical
B. Funny
C. Sad
D. Smiling
Answer:
(D) Smiling
17. What question arises from the
complexity of the situation in the poem?
A. What to do in old age
B. How to strike balance between duties and
responsibilities
C. How to drive
D. How to take care of old parents
Answer:
(B) How to strike balance between duties and responsibilities.
18. The poem revolves around
A. Poet’s fears
B. Poet’s love for her mother
C. Old age
D. All the above
Answer:
(D) All the above.
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