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    My Mother at Sixty-six

    WORKSHEET1

    Multiple Choice Questions based on an extract

    A Driving from my parent’s home to Cochin last Friday morning, I saw my mother, beside me,
    doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that
    of a corpse and realized with pain that she was as old as she
    looked but soon
    put that thought away…
    I Choose the option that best applies to the given extract.
    1) a conversation
    2) an argument
    3) a piece of advice
    4) a strategy
    5) a recollection
    6) a suggestion

    a) 1, 3 & 6 b) 2, 4 & 5 c) Only 5 d) Only 1

    II Choose the book title that perfectly describes the condition of the poet’s mother.
    a) Title 1 b) Title 2 c) Title 3 d) Title 4

    Title 1 Title 2 Title 3 Title 4


    Somewhere The Book You Wish
    You’re Only The Gift of Towards the End Your Parents Had
    Old Once! Years Read
    by Diana Athill
    by Dr. Seuss by Joan by Philippa Perry
    Chittister

    III Choose the option that applies correctly to the two statements given below. Assertion: The poet wards off
    the thought of her mother getting old quickly.
    Reason: The poet didn’t want to confront the inevitability of fate that was to dawn upon her mother.

    a) Assertion can be inferred but the Reason cannot be inferred.


    b) Assertion cannot be inferred but the Reason can be inferred.
    c) Both Assertion and Reason can be inferred.
    d) Both Assertion and Reason cannot be inferred.

    IV Choose the option that displays the same literary device as in the given lines of the extract.

    her face
    ashen like that
    of a corpse…

    a) Just as I had I had this thought, she appeared and…


    b) My thoughts were as heavy as lead that evening when …
    c) I think like everyone else who…
    d) I like to think aloud when …
    B) And looked out at Young
    Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes, but after the airport’s security check, standing a
    few yards
    away, I looked again at her, wan, pale
    as a late winter’s moon and felt that old
    familiar ache…

    I What is the most likely reason the poet capitalised ‘Young Trees’?

    This was to
    a) convey a clearer meaning.
    b) highlight the adj.-noun combination.
    c) enhance the contrast.
    d) draw a connection with the title.

    II Choose the option that appropriately describes the relationship between the two statements given below.
    Statement 1: The poet knows her mother has aged.
    Statement 2: The poet feels the pain of separation. a) Beginning – Ending
    b) Cause – Effect
    c) Question – Answer
    d) Introduction – Conclusion
    Choose the option that completes the sentence given below.

    III. Just as the brightness of the winter’s moon is veiled behind the haze and mist, similarly,
    .a) the pain of separation has shaded mother’s expression.
    b) age has fogged mother’s youthful appearance.
    c) growing up has developed a seasoned maturity in the poet. d) memories warm the heart like the pale
    moon in winter.
    IV. Choose the correct option out of the ones given below.

    a) Option 1 b) Option 2 c) Option 3 d) Option 4


    V) The phrase ‘old familiar ache’ has been used to refer to a fear, in this extract. This phrase can also be used to
    a) compare physical pain with mental agony.
    b) elicit someone’s unanswered queries.
    c) substantiate reasons for aches and pains.
    d) describe a longing one has been aware of.
    The tone of the poet in the poem is primarily a combination of_______and _______ _.

    1. dauntlessness
    2. apprehension
    3. dejection
    4. disappointment

    a) 1, 2 b) 2, 3 c) 3, 4 d) 1, 4

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