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My Mother At Sixty-Six Poem 1
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The mother’s old age and lack of energy is a depiction of
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(a) the poet’s helplessness in old age
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(b) joy and fun of old age
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(c) bonding of mother with family members
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(d) sickness and ill-health
The poem is made up of
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(a) twenty lines
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(b) a single sentence
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(c) ten stanzas
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(d) five stanzas
The image of merry children has been brought out by the narrator in order to
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(a) show energy and exuberance of young children
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(b) to show the children playing
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(c) to show the children playing pranks
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(d) to compare with herself
The narrator is only using her smile to
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(a) cover up her pain
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(b) make herself happy
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(c) to make her mother happy
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(d) to make her father happy
Smile and smile and smile is
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(a) alliteration
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(b) repetition
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(c) simile
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(d) metaphor
She said to her mother
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(a) goodbye
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(b) au revoir
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(c) good morning go.
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(d) see you soon, Amma
When the narrator looked at her mother again she felt a pang of
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(a) her familiar ache
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(b) guilt
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(c) heartache
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(d) a headache
The narrator again compared her mother too
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(a) summer’s sun
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(b) rain clouds
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(c) late winter’s moon
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(d) trees and plants
‘Children spilling out’ is an
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(a) simile
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(b) metaphor
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(c) personification
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(d) transferred epithet
‘Trees sprinting’ is a poetic device. It is
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(a) personification
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(b) alliteration
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(c) repetition
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(d) simile
She soon put that thought out of her mind and
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(a) smiled
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(b) laughed heartily
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(c) cried bitterly
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(d) looked out of the window
The poetess says her mother looked pale like a
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(a) corpse
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(b) ghost
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(c) malnourished child
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(d) anaemic person
The person in the car, beside the poetess, was,
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(a) her aunt
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(b) her niece
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(c) her uncle
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(d) her mother
She was going to
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(a) Goa
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(b) Mumbai
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(c) Cochin
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(d) Kolkata
Kamala Das was an
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(a) Bengali
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(b) Punjabi
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(c) Keralite
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(d) Gujarati
What were the words she used while parting from her mother?
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(a) See you soon Ba
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(b) See you soon beeji
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(c) See you soon mata ji
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(d) See you soon, amma
Whose house the poet was leaving?
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(a) her friend’s house
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(b) in-law’s house
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(c) her husband’s house
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(d) her parents’ house
What does the expression smile, smile and smile signify?
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(a) poet was going home and was elated
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(b) poet was happy
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(c) poet was hopeless
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(d) poet’s desperate efforts to hide her fears
What question arises from the complexity of the situation in the poem?
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(a) what to do in old age
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(b) how to take care of one’s skin
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(c) how to drive
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(d) How to strike a balance between duties and responsibilities
What does the narrative single sentence style of the poem highlight?
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(a) Poet’s feelings
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(b) Poet’s insecurities
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(c) poet’s thoughts
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(d) poet’s intertwining thoughts
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