In This Post we are  providing  My Mother at Sixty Six  NCERT MCQ for Class 12 English Flamingo which will be beneficial for students. These solutions are updated according to 2021-22 syllabus. These MCQS  can be really helpful in the preparation of Board exams and will provide you with a brief knowledge of the chapter.

NCERT MCQ ON MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX

Question 1.
The mother’s old age and lack of energy is a depiction of

(a) the poet’s helplessness in old age
(b) joy and fun of old age
(c) bonding of mother with family members
(d) sickness and ill-health

Answer: (a) the poet’s helplessness in old age

Question 2.
The poem is made up of

(a) twenty lines
(b) a single sentence
(c) ten stanzas
(d) five stanzas

Answer: (b) a single sentence

Question 3.
The image of merry children has been brought out by the narrator in order to

(a) show energy and exuberance of young children
(b) to show the children playing
(c) to show the children playing pranks
(d) to compare with herself

Answer: (a) show energy and exuberance of young children

Question 4.
The narrator is only using her smile to

(a) cover up her pain
(b) make herself happy
(c) to make her mother happy
(d) to make her father happy

Answer: (a) cover up her pain

Question 5.
Smile and smile and smile is

(a) alliteration
(b) repetition
(c) simile
(d) metaphor

Answer: (b) repetition

Question 6.
She said to her mother

(a) goodbye
(b) au revoir
(c) good morning go.
(d) see you soon, Amma

Question 7.
When the narrator looked at her mother again she felt a pang of

(a) her familiar ache
(b) guilt
(c) heartache
(d) a headache

Answer: (a) her familiar ache

Question 8.
The narrator again compared her mother too

(a) summer’s sun
(b) rain clouds
(c) late winter’s moon
(d) trees and plants

Answer: (c) late winter’s moon

Question 9.
‘Children spilling out’ is an

(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) personification
(d) transferred epithet

Answer: (b) metaphor

Question 10.
‘Trees sprinting’ is a poetic device. It is

(a) personification
(b) alliteration
(c) repetition
(d) simile

Answer: (a) personification

Question 11.
She soon put that thought out of her mind and

(a) smiled
(b) laughed heartily
(c) cried bitterly
(d) looked out of the window

Answer: (d) looked out of the window

Question 12.
The poetess says her mother looked pale like a

(a) corpse
(b) ghost
(c) malnourished child
(d) anemic person

Answer: (a) corpse

Question 13.
The person in the car, beside the poetess, was,

(a) her aunt
(b) her niece
(c) her uncle
(d) her mother

Answer: (d) her mother

Question 14.
She was going to

(a) Goa
(b) Mumbai
(c) Cochin
(d) Kolkata

Answer: (c) Cochin

Question 15.
Kamala Das was an

(a) Bengali
(b) Punjabi
(c) Keralite
(d) Gujarati

Answer: (c) Keralite



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