My Mother at Sixty-six Class 12 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. How is the imagery of ‘young trees and merry children’ a contrast to the mother?

2. Which Rhyming scheme is used in the poem?

3. ‘Sprinting’ means

4. The poetess says her mother looked pale like a

5. What do the parting words “See you soon Amma” signify?her carelessness

6. Kamala Das was an

7. ‘Children spilling out’ is an

8. What does ‘ashen face ‘ signify?+colour of face

9. What is the universality of the theme of the poem?

10. Whose house the poet was leaving?

11. Kamala Das has successfully drawn comparisons between the

12. Who is the poet of this poem?

13. What was the poet’s childhood fear?

14. What question arises from the complexity of the situation in the poem?

15. The image of merry children has been brought out by the narrator in order to

16. What do the running trees signify?

17. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?

18. Which poetic device is used in “Trees sprinting-” ?

19. The mother’s old age and lack of energy is a depiction of

20. Smile and smile and smile is