NCERT English Class 12 | Chapter 9 | My Mother At Sixty Six | MCQs |

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.


1. The Last Lesson MCQs

2. Lost Spring MCQs

3. Deep Water MCQs

4. The Rattrap MCQs

5. Indigo MCQs

6. Poets and Pancakes MCQs

7. The Interview MCQs

8. Going Places MCQs

9. My Mother  at Sixty-six MCQs

10. An Elementary School  Classroom in a Slum MCQs

11. Keeping Quiet MCQs

12. A Thing of Beauty MCQs

13. A Roadside Stand MCQs

14. Aunt Jennifer's Tigers MCQs

 

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