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MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX - By KAMLA DAS
FLAMINGO-XII
PREPARED BY :MS VANDANA HARIT-LECTURER ENGLISH,RESOURCE PERSON-DIRECTORATE OF EDUCATION,GOV.T OF DELHI
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1. Where was the poet driving to?
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(a) Home
(b) Airport
(c) Play ground
(d) Garden
2. From where were the children spilling out?
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(a) Home
(b) School
(c) Neighbourhood
(d) Car
3. What were the parting words of the poet?
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(a) See you soon, Amma
(b) Meet you soon, Maa
(c) See you later, Mummy
(d) Call you soon, Beeji
4. Where was the mother sitting?
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(a) In front of the poet
(b) Beside the poet
(c) Behind the poet
(d) Beside the driver
5. Name the literary device used in the line ‘ her face ashen like that of a corpse.
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(a) Metaphor
(b) Simile
(c) Alliteration
(d) Personification
6. What was the poet’s childhood fear?
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(a) Flying in a plane
(b) Unable to join merry children
(c) Separation from her mother
(d) Driving in a car
7. What thought did the poet try to put away?
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(a) Mother would not live for too long
(b) Mother would continue sleeping
(c) Mother would wake up
(d) None of these
8. Why does the poet look out of the window?
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(a) To look out at the trees
(b) To distract herself from the painful thought of losing her mother
(c) To look at the children
(d) As she was bored
9. How does the poet distract herself from her unpleasant thoughts?
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(a) Looks out of the car window
(b) Looks at her mother’s face
(c) Looks at the driver’s face
(d) Closes her eyes
10. Why has the mother's face been compared like that of a corpse ?
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(a) She is alert
(b) She is active
(c) She is merry
(d) She is passive
11. What does the image of "merry children spilling out" symbolize?
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(a) Sincerity
(b) Responsibility and duty
(c) unleashing of energy
(d) Passive acceptance
12. What does the mother's old age symbolize?
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(a) Inching close to death
(b) Carefree life
(c) Freedom from responsibility
(d) Health and happiness
13. Why does the poet smile and smile and smile?
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(a) To hide her happiness
(b) To hide her relaxed feeling
(c) To hide her fear and console her mother
(d) To hide her old age
14. What made the poet realize with pain?
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(a) Her mother seems to be like a corpse .
(b) She is helpless.
(c) Old age is painful.
(d) She has duties and responsibilities.
15. Why are the trees described as sprinting?
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(a)life,energy and vitality running away
(b) To show their running appearance
(c) To tell how trees look from a running car
(d) To show the speed of the car
16. What does "her face ashen like that of a corpse" signify?
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(a) The poet’s fear of losing her mother
(b) Ageing is a natural process
(c) Pale and lifeless face of the poet’s mother
(d) Old age of her mother
17. What do the parting words “See you soon, Amma” signify?
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(b) farewell to mother
(c) Her hopelessness
(d) Her helplessness and cheerfulness
a) her hope
18. What does the poet’s smile signify in the poem?
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(a) Her assurance to mother and helplessness inside
(b) She has a responsibility.
(c) She has to do her duty first.
(d) She is a loving daughter.
19. What is the universality of the theme of the poem?
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(a) Time and ageing spare none.
(b) Death is the only reality and certainty.
(c) Ageing is a natural process; with this ageing death (separation) becomes inevitable.
(d) All of the above
20. What worried the poet when she looked at her mother?
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(a) Her hair
(b) Her pale face
(c) Her loving words
(d) None of these
21. Why did the poet look at her mother again?
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(a) Because of her love
(b) Because of her care
(c) Because of her duties
(d) Because of fear and insecurity
22. What is the tone of the poem towards the end?
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(a) Sad
(b) Hopeless
(c) Cheerful
(d) Resignation with acceptance
23. The poem revolves around the theme of...
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(a) Poet’s fears
(b) Poet’s love for her mother
(c) Poet’s journey
(d) advancing age and fears associated with it
24. How is the imagery of "young trees and merry children" a contrast to the mother?
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(a) Hope is a way of life
(b) Spring and autumn
(c) Mother–ageing; trees & children–youthfulness
(d) None of these
25. What does the expression smile, smile and smile signify?
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(a) Hope is a way of life
(b) Never leave hope
(c) Never feel hopeless
(d) Poet’s desperate efforts to hide her fears
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