The mother’s old age and lack of energy is a depiction of
  • the poet’s helplessness in old age
  • joy and fun of old age
  • bonding of mother with family members
  • sickness and ill-health
The poem is made up of
  • twenty lines
  • a single sentence
  • ten stanzas
  • five stanzas
The image of merry children has been brought out by the narrator in order to
  • show energy and exuberance of young children
  • to show the children playing
  • to show the children playing pranks
  • to compare with herself
The narrator is only using her smile to
  • cover up her pain
  • make herself happy
  • to make her mother happy
  • to make her father happy
Smile and smile and smile is
  • alliteration
  • repetition
  • simile
  • metaphor
She said to her mother
  • goodbye
  • au revoir
  • good morning go.
  • see you soon, Amma
When the narrator looked at her mother again she felt a pang of
  • her familiar ache
  • guilt
  • heartache
  • a headache
The narrator again compared her mother too
  • summer’s sun
  • rain clouds
  • late winter’s moon
  • trees and plants
‘Children spilling out’ is an
  • simile
  • metaphor
  • personification
  • transferred epithet
‘Trees sprinting’ is a poetic device. It is
  • personification
  • alliteration
  • repetition
  • simile
She soon put that thought out of her mind and
  • smiled
  • laughed heartily
  • cried bitterly
  • looked out of the window
The poetess says her mother looked pale like a
  • corpse
  • ghost
  • malnourished child
  • anaemic person
The person in the car, beside the poetess, was,
  • her aunt
  • her niece
  • her uncle
  • her mother
She was going to
  • Goa
  • Mumbai
  • Cochin
  • Kolkata
Kamala Das was an
  • Bengali
  • Punjabi
  • Keralite
  • Gujarati
What were the words she used while parting from her mother?
  • See you soon Ba
  • See you soon beeji
  • See you soon mata ji
  • See you soon, amma
Whose house the poet was leaving?
  • her friend’s house
  • in-law’s house
  • her husband’s house
  • her parents’ house
What does the expression smile, smile and smile signify?
  • poet was going home and was elated
  • poet was happy
  • poet was hopeless
  • poet’s desperate efforts to hide her fears
What arises from the complexity of the situation in the poem?
  • Poet’s feelings
  • Poet’s insecurities
  • poet’s thoughts
  • poet’s intertwining thoughts
Why does the poet feel parted, upset and sad?
  • because of her fears
  • because she was getting late
  • fear of missing her flight
  • because of her duty towards mother and her own needs
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