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My Mother At Sixty Six MCQ [Class 12 English]

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My Mother At Sixty Six MCQ

My Mother At Sixty Six-MCQ

Q1 : Who is the author of this poem?

(a) William Wordsworth

(b) John Keats

(c) Rudyard Kipling

(d) Kamala Das

Answer: Kamala Das

Q2 : What is her work known for?

(a) For popularity

(b) For the expressions used

(c) For its originality, versatility and flavor of the soil

(d) For its style

Answer: For its originality, versatility and flavor of the soil

Q3 : In which of these languages has kamala Das written stories and novels?

(a) English and Malayalam

(b) English and Tamil

(c) English and Urdu

(d) English and Hindi

Answer: English and Malayalam

Q4 : What is the kind of ache & pain that the author feels?

(a) Children screaming at her

(b) Headache

(c) Losing her mother

(d) Heart attack

Answer: Losing her mother

Q5 : Identify the poem’s poetic devices.

(a) Alliteration

(b) Metaphor

(c) Simile

(d) All of these

Answer: All of these

Q6 : Which poetic device is ‘Trees sprinting’?

(a) Personification

(b) Simile

(c) Metaphor

(d) Alliteration

Answer: Personification

Q7 : What is the significance of the title My Mother at sixty-six?

(a) Poet’s fear of moving fast

(b) 66th birthday celebration of poet’s mother

(c) Poet’s aging mother

(d) All of these

Answer: Poet’s aging mother

Q8 : Whose house was the poet leaving?

(a) Her own house

(b) Her husband’s

(c) Parent’s house

(d) In-law’s

Answer: Parent’s house

Q9 : What is the poem’s major idea?

(a) Lack of strength

(b) Painful old age

(c) Carelessness of a daughter

(d) Discoloration of skin

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Answer: Painful old age

Q10 : What was the expression of the poet’s face while parting from her mother?

(a) Smiling

(b) Sad

(c) Crying

(d) She was expressionless

Answer: Smiling

Q11 : What did the author realize with pain?

(a) Old age is pleasant

(b) Her mother’s appearance like a corpse

(c) Her mother is happy

(d) Her mother must visit a dermatologist

Answer: Her mother’s appearance like a corpse

Q12 : What is the familiar ache?

(a) Her Duties

(b) Her early anxiety about losing her mother

(c) Her helplessness

(d) Her mother’s weak health

Answer: Her early anxiety about losing her mother

Q13 : What do the running trees signify?

(a) Speed moving appearance

(b) From childhood until old age, human life is undergoing rapid transformation.

(c) Fast moving appearance

(d) None

Answer: From childhood until old age, human life is undergoing rapid transformation.

Q14 : Which of these is an instance of repetition used in the poem?

(a) Amma

(b) Fear

(c) Smile

(d) None of these

Answer: Smile

Q15 : What does ‘ashen face’ signify?

(a) To show ugly face

(b) Color of face

(c) Face covered with ash

(d) Lifeless & pale face of poet’s mother

Answer: Lifeless & pale face of poet’s mother

Q16 : What do the parting words “see you soon Amma” signify?

(a) She is in a hurry

(b) Her carelessness

(c) She bids goodbye like this

(d) Her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness

Answer: Her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness

Q17 : What does the author notice outside the car?

(a) Other vechicles

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(b) Sprinting trees and running children

(c) Schools and roads

(d) Many people on the road

Answer: Sprinting trees and running children

Q18 : What does the author smile signify in the poem?

(a) She has to do her duty 1st

(b) Her assurance to her mother and helplessness inside

(c) She is a loving daughter

(d) She had a responsibility

Answer: Her assurance to her mother and helplessness inside

Q19 : What is the poem’s theme, and how universal is it?

(a) To show old age

(b) Death is a truth

(c) Everyone is happy

(d) Life is a reality

Answer: Death is a truth

Q20 : Quote an example of a simile used in the poem?

(a) Like that of a corpse

(b) The merry children

(c) Familiar ache

(d) Wan and pale

Answer: Like that of a corpse

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