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

3. What was the poet’s childhood fear?

4. Whose house the poet was leaving?

5. ‘Children spilling out’ is an

6. Kamala Das was an

7. Kamala Das has successfully drawn comparisons between the

8. Who is the poet of this poem?

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

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

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

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

13. Smile and smile and smile is

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

15. Which Rhyming scheme is used in the poem?

16. What do the running trees signify?

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

18. The poetess says her mother looked pale like a

19. ‘Sprinting’ means

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