My mother at sixty-six class 12 MCQ Question and Answer

My mother at sixty-six class 12 MCQ Question and Answer

My mother at sixty-six class 12 MCQ

Question:1 who is the poet of this poem ?

1. John Keats
2. Rudyard kipling
3. william wordsworth
4. Kamala Das

Question:2 what is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels ?

1. Losing her mother
2. heart attack
3. headache
4. children screaming at her

Question:3 In which langauages has kamala das written stories and novels?

1. English and Tamil
2. English and Hindi
3. English and Urdu
4. English and malayalam

Question:4 Name the poetic devices used in the poem.

1. Metaphor
2. similie
3. alliteration
4. all of these

Question:5 which poetic device is used in”trees sprinting ?

1. Metaphor
2. simile
3. alliteration
4. personification

Question:6 what is the main Idea of the poem ?

1. painful old age
2. discolouration of skin
3. carelessness of a daughter
4. lack of strength

Question:7 what did the poet realize with pain ?

1. Her mother’s appearance like a corpse
2. she is inconsiderate
3. old age is pleasant
4. she has duties

Question:8 what is the familiar ache ?

1. her childhood fear of losing her mother
2. her mother’s weak health
3. her duties
4. her helplessness

Question:9 what do the running trees signify ?

1. fast moving appearance
2. speed of the moving car
3. fast moving change in human life from childhood to old age
4. None

Question:10 who lives at Cochin?

1. poet
2. her parents
3. Both A andB
4. None of them

Question:11 what does the poet notice outside the car ?

1. sprinting trees and running children
2. schools and roads
3. other vehicles
4. many people on the road

Question:12 what do the parting words’see you soon Amma’ signify ?

1. her carelessness
2. her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness
3. she bids goodbye like this
4. she is a hurry

Question:13 what does the poet’s smile signify in the poem ?

1. her assurance to mother and helplessness inside
2. she has a responsibility
3. she has to do her duty first
4. she is a loving daughter

Question:14 what worried the poet when she looked at her mother ?

1. Her face
2. her broken arm
3. her loving words
4. her declining age

Question:15 why did the poet look at her mother again ?

1. because she was busy
2. because she was going away
3. because she wanted to stay back
4. because of fear and insecurity

Question:16 Driving from my parent’s home to cochin last friday morning, I saw my mother, beside me doze, open mouthed her face ashen like that of a corpse and realised with pain that she was as old she put that thought away …

Choose the option that best applies to the given extract.

1a conversation

2an argument

3 a piece of advice

4 a strategy

5 a recollection

6 a suggestion

1. 1, 3, and 6
2. 2, 4 and 5
3. only 5
4. only 1
5. d

Question:17 why does the poet feel scared ?

1. Because of her duties and commitments
2. because of her job
3. because of her children
4. because of her mother’s deteriorarting health

Question:18 why does the poet feel parted, upset and sad ?

1. because of her fears
2. because she was getting late
3. fear of missing her flight
4. because of her duty towards mother and her own needs

Question:19 what does the poem revolve around ?

1. Poet’s fears
2. Poet’s love for her mother
3. Theme of old age
4. All of these

Question:20 what was the expression of the poet’s face while parting from her mother ?

1. satirrical
2. funny
3. sad
4. smiling

Question No	Answer	Question No	Answer
1	D	11	A
2	A	12	B
3	D	13	A
4	D	14	D
5	D	15	D
6	A	16	C
7	A	17	D
8	A	18	D
9	C	19	D
10	A	20	D