Assignment 2- My Mother at Sixty-Six (Class XII)

My mother at Sixty Six by Kamala Das

A. Extract questions: (Objective type - 1 mark each)

   1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:         4 Marks          

Driving from my parent’s home to Cochin last Friday

Morning I saw my mother

Doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like

That of a corpse……

i)    Where was the poet going? Where did she come from?            1

ii)    What did the poet see?                                                              1

iii)   What did the poet compare her mother to? Why?                     1

iv)  Name the poetic device used in the last line.                             1

    2. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:          4 Marks

. ………and felt that old

Familiar ache, my childhood’s fear,

But all I said was, see you soon, Amma,

All I did was smile and smile and smile……

(a)    Name the poem and the poet.                                                   1

(b)    What was the poet’s childhood’s fear?                                      1

(c)    What did the poet’s parting words signify?                                1

(d)    What did the poet do before departing? Why?                          1

    3. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:         4 Marks

………and looked out of the window

At young trees sprinting, merry children

Spilling out of their homes…….

(a)    Name the poem and the poet.                                                   1

(b)    Why did the poet look out of the window?                                 1

(c)    What did the poet see outside the car?                                     1

(d)    Why have the trees been described as ‘sprinting’                     1

B. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each: (2 marks each)

1. Why did the poet compare her mother’s face to? Why?

2. What did the poet see outside the window? How do they contrast to the scene inside the car?

3. Why did the poet compare her mother to the late winter’s moon?

4. What were the parting words of the poet? What was its significance?

5. What did the poet do before departing? What did it signify?

Do it yourself:

Look for any other question (both SQ and LQ) asked in the previous year’s Question Papers of CBSE Board Examinations for Class XII. Try to answer them if you find it different from the ones given above.