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