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

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

2. Smile and smile and smile is

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

4. ‘Sprinting’ means

5. What was the poet’s childhood fear?

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

7. Whose house the poet was leaving?

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

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

10. Who is the poet of this poem?

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

12. Which Rhyming scheme is used in the poem?

13. Kamala Das was an

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

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

16. ‘Children spilling out’ is an

17. Kamala Das has successfully drawn comparisons between the

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

19. The poetess says her mother looked pale like a

20. What do the running trees signify?