My Mother at Sixty Six Objective Questions Part 1 – Class 12 English Poem 1 Objective Questions in English

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My Mother at Sixty Six

Class 12 English Poem 1 My Mother at Sixty Six Objective Questions in English. These Objective Questions are helpful for the students who are in class 12 and have English. Attempt These Objective Questions to Check your knowledge and the status of your preparation. These Objective Questions are also helpful for the preparation of 1 Mark Questions

Board	CBSE Board, UP Board, JAC Board, Bihar Board, HBSE Board, UBSE Board, PSEB Board, RBSE Board
Textbook	NCERT
Class	Class 12
Subject	English
Chapter no.	Poem 1
Chapter Name	My Mother at Sixty Six
Category	Class 12 English Objective Questions in English
Medium	English

1. Who is the author of this poem?
   1. John Keats
   2.  Rudyard Kipling
   3. William Wordsworth
   4. Kamala Das
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   Answer: (D) Kamala Das

2. For what is hir work known?
   1. for its originality, versatility and flavor of the soil
   2. for its popularity
   3.  for its style
   4. for the expressions used
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   Answer: (A) for its originality, versatility and flavor of the soil

3. What kind of aches and pains does the poet feel?
   1. Losing her mother
   2.  heart attack
   3. headache
   4. children screaming at her
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   Answer: (A) Losing her mother

4. In which language did Kamala Das write stories and novels?
   1.  English and Tamil
   2. English and Hindi
   3. English and Urdu
   4. English and Malayalam
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   Answer: (D) English and Malayalam

5. What poetic devices are used in the poem?
   1. metaphor
   2.  simile
   3. alliteration
   4. all of these
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   Answer: (D) all of these

6. What is the significance of the title “My Mother” in Sixty Six?
   1. Poet’s fear of losing her old mother
   2. Poet’s fear of moving fast
   3. Poet’s inability to express her feelings
   4.  All of these
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   Answer: (A) Poet’s fear of losing her old mother

7. Which one of the following poetic devices is used in “Trees sprinting-” ?
   1.  metaphor
   2. simile
   3.  alliteration
   4. Personification
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   Answer: (D) Personification

8. What is the special feature of poetry?
   1. its metaphors
   2. simile used
   3. alliteration used
   4. narrative style using a single sentence in a set of 14 lines
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   Answer: (D) narrative style using a single sentence in a set of 14 lines

9. What does the narrative style of the poem represent?
   1. differing thoughts
   2.  many thoughts
   3. contrasting thoughts
   4. a single thread of thought mixed with harsh realities
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   Answer: (D) a single thread of thought mixed with harsh realities

10. What is the main thought of the poem?
    1. Painful old age
    2.  discolouration of skin
    3.  carelessness of a daughter
    4.  lack of strength
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    Answer: (A) Painful old age

11. What did the poet feel in pain?
    1. her mother’s appearance like a corpse
    2.  she is inconsiderate
    3. old age is pleasant
    4. she has duties
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    Answer: (A) her mother’s appearance like a corpse

12. What is familiar pain?
    1. her childhood fear of losing her mother
    2.  her mother’s weak health
    3.  her duties
    4. her helplessness
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    Answer: (A) her childhood fear of losing her mother

13. What do running trees represent?
    1. fast moving appearance
    2. speed of the moving car
    3. fast moving change in human life from childhood to old age
    4.  none
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    Answer: (C) fast moving change in human life from childhood to old age

14. Who lives in Cochin?
    1. Poet
    2.  Her parents
    3.  Both A and B
    4. None of them
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    Answer: (A) Poet

15. What does ‘ashen face ‘ represent?
    1. color of face
    2.  face is covered with ash
    3. Pale and lifeless face of poet’s mother
    4.  to show ugly face
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    Answer: (C) Pale and lifeless face of poet’s mother

16. What does the poet see outside of the car?
    1. sprinting trees and running children
    2. schools and roads
    3. other vehicles
    4. many people on the road
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    Answer: (A) sprinting trees and running children

17. What does the parting word “see you soon Amma” mean?
    1.  her carelessness
    2. Her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness
    3. she bids goodbye like this
    4.  she is in a hurry
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    Answer: (B) Her optimistic farewell full of cheerfulness

18. What does the poet’s smile represent 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
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    Answer: (A) Her assurance to mother and helplessness inside

19. What is the universality of the poem’s subject matter?
    1. death is a truth
    2.  Life is a reality
    3. everyone is happy
    4. to show old age
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    Answer: (A) death is a truth

20. When he looked at his mother, what worried the poet?
    1. her face
    2. her broken arm
    3.  her loving words
    4. her declining age
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    Answer: (D) her declining age

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