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Class - 12
English Core
Flamingo Poetry Chapter- 1 MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX
QUESTIONS:-
1. Where is the poet going and who is with her?
Ans.
The poet is driving from her parent's home to the Cochin airport. Her mother is
sitting beside her and dozing with her mouth open. She has come to see her
daughter off.
2. Why does Kamala Das describe the young trees as
"sprinting"?
Ans.
Kamala Das is driving from her parent's home to Cochin airport. When she looks
outside, the young trees seem to be walking across them. They seem to be
running fast or sprinting. The poet presents a contrast-her 'dozing' old mother
and the 'sprinting' young trees.
3. How does the poet's mother look like? What kind of images has
the poet used to signify her ageing decay?
Ans.
The poet's mother is at sixty-six years old. She is sitting beside her. The
mother is dozing as old people usually do during the journey. She keeps her
mouth open. This is also a sign of old age. The poet has signified her ageing
decay with the image of death. Her face looks. pale and faded like ash. Her
'ashen' face looks like that of a corpse.
4. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
Ans.
The poet sees her mother beside her, dozing with her mouth open. She has grown
old and weak. Her face is pale like that of a corpse. With ageing, seperations
and death become inevitable and this fear pains the poet. With ageing, comes
death and this fear pains the poet She is not prepared to think of losing her
mother.
5. Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children
'spilling out of their homes"?
Ans.
The poet has brought in the image of merry children 'spilling out of their
homes' to present a contrast. The poet's mother who is sitting beside her is
dozing with her mouth open. Her ashen face looks lifeless and pale like a
corpse. She is an image of ageing and passivity. On the other hand merry
children come out of their homes in a gay and happy mood. It presents an image
of happiness and spontaneous overflow of life. The contrast of the two image
enhances the poetic effect.
6. Why has the mother been compared to the 'late winter's moon'
?
Ans.
The mother has been compared to late winter's moon because the poet's mother
who is sitting beside her is dozing. Her 'ashen' face looks lifeless and pale
like of a corpse. She is an image of ageing decay and passivity. She has lost
her shine and strength of her youth. Similarly, the late winter moon looks
hazy, obscure, lacking shine and strength. Hence, the comparison is quite
natural and appropriate. The simile used here is full of effective.
7. What does the poet see happening outside?
Ans.
The thought of her aging mother pains the poet. Her mother pale and corpse
looking face brings in her mind the picture of death. The poets needs at
distraction or a change. So, she looks outside and watches young trees. They
appear as if they are sprinting. Then she sees the happy children running out
of their homes and making merry.
8. Why does the poet put that thought away and looks outside?
Ans.
The poet Kamla Das tries to put away the thought of a ageing mother as her
mother gives an image of decay and death. She shifts her attention from the
painful fact of an ageing and dying mother to the children's running out of
their homes and the trees that appears to be sprinting, which gives the picture
of life happiness and activity.
9. What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?
Ans.
The parting words of the poet are 'see you soon Amma'. These words signify the
poets expression of a feelings which she cannot express properly and the words
give an assurance of life to an old and weak lady. Her continuous smile are an
attempt to hide the fear inside her heart that her mother has grown old and
perhaps she might not live long.
Multiple Choice Question
Read the given extract and answer the following questions from
01-09.
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.
Q1. The given extract is taken from the poem
(A)
Keeping Quiet
(B) My Mother at Sixty Six
(C)
A Thing of Beauty
(D)
A Roadside Stand
Q2. Where was poet driving to?
(A)
parent's home
(B) cochin airport
(C)
shopping mall
(D)
cochin market
Q3. Who is sitting beside the poet?
(A)
Her sister
(B) Her mother
(C)
Her daughter
(D)
Her friend
...
but soon
put
that thought away, and
looked
out at young trees
Sprinting,
the merry children spilling
out
of their homes.
Q4. Who looked out at young trees?
(A)
the mother
(B) The poet
(C)
The children
(D)
Poet's friends
Q5. What does sprinting trees signify?
(A) fast moving trees
(B)
Speed of moving car
(C)
young energetic action of youth
(D)
None
Q6. What does the poet notice in the outside world?
(A) sprinting trees and merry childrens running out
(B)
schools and roads
(C)
other vehicles
(D)
market
I
looked again at her,wan,
pale
a slate winter's moon
and
felt that old,
familiar
ache my childhood fear
But
all I said was see you soon Amma,
all
I did was smile and smile and smile....
Q7. The narrator compared her mother to
(A)
summer's sun
(B)
rain clouds
(C) late winter's moon
(D)
trees
Q8. What is the familiar ache which the poet felt?
(A)
her mother's weak health
(B) her childhood fear of losing her mother
(C)
her duties
(D)
her helplessness
Q9. What are the partying words that the poet said?
(A)
Goodbye
(B)
au revoir
(C) see you soon Amma
(D)
see you soon mamma
Q10. 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
Q11. The poem is made up of;
(a)
twenty lines
(b) a single sentence
(c)
ten stanzas
(d)
five stanzas
Q12. 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
Q13. 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
Q14. Smile and smile and smile is
(a) alliteration
(b)
personification
(c)
simile
(d)
metaphor
Q15. 'Children spilling out' is an
(a)
simile
(b) metaphor
(c)
personification
(d)
repetition
Q16. Trees sprinting ' is a poetic device. It is
(a) personification
(b)
metaphor
(c)
repetition
(d)
transferred epitet
Q17. What do the running trees signify?
(A)
fast moving appearance
(B)
speed of the moving car
(C) fast moving change in human life childhood to old age
(D)
none
Q18. What did the poet realize with pain?
(A) her mother's appearance like a corpse
(B)
she is inconsiderate
(C)
old age is pleasant
(D)
she has duties
Q19. What do the parting words "See you soon Amma"
signify?
(A)
her carelessness
(B) her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness
(C)
she bids goodbye like this
(D)
she is in a hurry
Q20. What does 'ashen face' signify?
(A)
colour of face
(B)
face is covered with ash
(C) Pale and lifeless face of poet's mother
(D)
to show ugly face
Q21. Whose house the poet was leaving?
(A)
her friends house
(B)
her in-law's house
(C)
her husband's house
(D) her parent's house
Q22. 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) poets desperate afforts to hide her fears
Q23. Who is the poet of this poem?
(A)
John Keats
(B)
Rudyard Kipling
(C)
William Wordsworth
(D) Kamala Das
Q24. How far was the poet standing away from her mother?
(A)
few miles
(B)
A few kilometres
(C) A few yards
(D)
A few metres
Q25. What did the poet see outside the window?
(A)
Large buildings
(B)
Factories with smoke rising from chimneys
(C) Young trees
(D) None of the above
JCERT/JAC Hindi Elective प्रश्न बैंक - सह - उत्तर पुस्तक (Question Bank-Cum-Answer Book)
Index
Flamingo | |
Poetry Section | |
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Prose Section | |
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2. | |
3. | |
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5. | |
6. | |
7. | |
8. | |
Vistas | |
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2. | |
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5. | |
6. | |
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