Chapter-1: My Mother at Sixty-six 1. Who is the poet of this poem? John Keats Rudyard Kipling William Wordsworth Kamala Das None 2. The poetess says her mother looked pale like a – corpse malnourished child ghost anaemic person None 3. The narrator again compared her mother too – summer’s sun rain clouds late winter’s moon trees and plants None 4. She soon put that thought out of her mind and – smiled laughed heartily cried bitterly looked out of the window None 5. ‘Children spilling out’ is an – simile metaphor personification transferred epithet None 6. What is the main idea of the poem? Painful old age discolouration of skin carelessness of a daughter lack of strength None 7. 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 None 8. What did the poet realize with pain? her mother’s appearance like a corpse with growing age she is helpless old age is painful she has duties None 9. What was the poet’s childhood fear? Parting from her husband Parting from her friends Parting from her siblings losing her mother None 10. Why did the poet look at her mother again? because she was busy because she was going away because she wanted to stay back because of fear and insecurity None 11. What does the narrative single sentence style of the poem highlight? Poet’s feelings Poet’s insecurities poet’s thoughts poet’s intertwining thoughts None 12. What does the expression smile, smile and smile signify? poet was going home and was elated poet was happy poet’s desperate efforts to hide her fears poet was hopeless None 13. Whose house the poet was leaving? her friend’s house in-law’s house her husband’s house her parents’ house None 14. 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 None 15. Kamala Das was an Bengali Punjabi Keralite Gujarati None 16. The person in the car, beside the poetess, was, her aunt her niece her uncle her mother None 17. The poetess says her mother looked pale like a corpse ghost malnourished child anaemic person None 18. The poem is made up of twenty lines a single sentence ten stanzass five stanza None 19. Smile and smile and smile is alliteration repetition simile metaphor None 20. When the narrator looked at her mother again she felt a pang of her familiar ache guilt a headache heartache None 1 out of 2 Time's up
