MCQ Questions for Class 12 English Flamingo Poem 6 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers with Answers
Question 1.
The attitude of the poet towards Aunt Jennifer is that of
(a) hatred
(b) love
(c) sympathy
(d) casual
Answer
Answer: (c) sympathy
Question 2.
‘Massive’ means
(a) high
(b) huge
(c) minimum
(d) small
Answer
Answer: (b) huge
Question 3.
‘Proud’ and ‘unafraid’. These two adjectives have been used for
(a) the uncle
(b) the males in the society
(c) the tigers on the forest
(d) the tigers on the panel
Answer
Answer: (d) the tigers on the panel
Question 4.
She was mastered by is a reference made to the
(a) hardships and difficulties that Aunt Jennifer faced during her lifetime
(b) she was a slave
(c) he had a rude master
(d) her teacher taught her nothing
Answer
Answer: (a) hardships and difficulties that Aunt Jennifer faced during her lifetime
Question 5.
‘Still ringed’ means
(a) oppression will continue
(b) too many rings on her fingers
(c) ring of the bell
(d) quiet and peaceful
Answer
Answer: (a) oppression will continue
Question 6.
Aunt Jennifer’s family consists of
(a) she and her husband
(b) she and her tigers
(c) she and her kids
(d) she and her servants
Answer
Answer: (a) she and her husband
Question 7.
The word ‘chivalric’ in the context means
(a) timid
(b) arrogant
(c) honourable and brave
(d) malicious
Answer
Answer: (c) honourable and brave
Question 8.
The word ‘prance’ in the poem means
(a) to jump ahead
(b) to dance
(c) to eat
(d) to prowl
Answer
Answer: (a) to jump ahead
Question 9.
The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band is a subtle reference to
(a) male oppression
(b) suppression at the hands of her husband
(c) the heavy gold ring
(d) the huge gold wedding band makes her uncomfortable
Answer
Answer: (b) suppression at the hands of her husband
Question 10.
What is Aunt Jennifer doing with wool?
(a) she is embroidering a wall panel
(b) she is knitting a scarf
(c) she is making a ball of wool
(d) she is knitting a cap
Answer
Answer: (a) she is embroidering a wall panel
Question 11.
The rhyme scheme in stanza one is
(a) aabb
(b) abab
(c) ABC
(d) abbe
Answer
Answer: (a) aabb
Question 12.
‘They pace’ is referred to
(a) the human beings
(b) Jennifer’s family members
(c) the tigers
(d) the lions
Answer
Answer: (c) the tigers
Question 13.
‘Denizens’ of a world of green means
(a) residents of forests
(b) residents of green buildings
(c) live in green cages
(d) live in green grasslands
Answer
Answer: (a) residents of forests
Question 14.
What do the Tigers do on the screen? They
(a) sing
(b) jump
(c) catch the prey
(d) prance
Answer
Answer: (d) prance
Question 15.
The poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’ is written by
(a) Elizabeth Arden
(b) Adrienne Rich
(c) Kamla Das
(d) Sarojini Naidu
Answer
Answer: (d) Sarojini Naidu
Question 16.
Where are the tigers sleeping?
(a) on the trees
(b) on the mountain top
(c) in the cage
(d) in the caves
Answer
Answer: (d) in the caves
Question 17.
What would Jennifer’s terrified hands tell after her death?
(a) story of her life
(b) her constrained married life
(c) her strength to find her ways and beat the fears
(d) All these
Answer
Answer: (d) All these
Question 18.
How are tigers described in the poem?
(a) as ferocious
(b) fearless
(c) chivalric
(d) All these
Answer
Answer: (d) All these
Question 19.
Why did aunt embroider tigers on the panel?
(a) to express her suppressed feelings
(b) to express her strengths
(c) to express her fighting spirit of a warrior
(d) All these
Answer
Answer: (d) All these
Question 20.
What does wedding ring represent?
(a) beauty
(b) expenses
(c) unnecessary pressures of her dominant husband and responsibilities of married life
(d) none
Answer
Answer: (c) unnecessary pressures of her dominant husband and responsibilities of married life
Question 21.
What is aunt Jennifer loaded with?
(a) weight of rings
(b) weight of tigers
(c) burden of household work
(d) heavy responsibilities of married life
Answer
Answer: (d) heavy responsibilities of married life
Question 22.
What is the tone of the poem towards the end?
(a) happy moments
(b) resolving
(c) hopeful
(d) sad and tensed
Answer
Answer: (d) sad and tensed
Question 23.
What is the poet conveying through aunt Jennifer’s tiger?
(a) wild life
(b) courageous tigers
(c) tigers and their courage
(d) female existence and their fear of men
Answer
Answer: (d) female existence and their fear of men
Question 24.
What did ordeals or tough times do in Jennifer’s life?
(a) they made her a hard hearted person
(b) she developed hatred
(c) she became weak
(d) they crushed her artistic personality
Answer
Answer: (d) they crushed her artistic personality
Question 25.
What did marriage bring for Jennifer?
(a) unhappiness
(b) loss of freedom
(c) loss of freedom and burden as if she has put on a heavy band
(d) a heavy mountain
Answer
Answer: (c) loss of freedom and burden as if she has put on a heavy band
Question 26.
Does Aunt Jennifer need sympathy?
(a) yes
(b) no
(c) no, more than sympathy she deserves praise
(d) none
Answer
Answer: (c) no, more than sympathy she deserves praise
Question 27.
Tell and interpret the meaning of ‘Denizen of a world of green’.
(a) forest haters
(b) forest lovers
(c) forest dwellers
(d) all
Answer
Answer: (c) forest dwellers
Question 28.
What is the purpose of creating animals which are completely a contrast to aunt’s character?
(a) to show her strength and ability of not giving up in the face of difficulties
(b) her courage
(c) her fears and strengths
(d) none
Answer
Answer: (a) to show her strength and ability of not giving up in the face of difficulties
Question 29.
What is the significance of the word ringed?
(a) responsibilities
(b) heavy duties
(c) fatty people
(d) responsibilities that formed circles like a ring surrounding her finger
Answer
Answer: (d) responsibilities that formed circles like a ring surrounding her finger
Question 30.
Of what or of whom is aunt Jennifer terrified of in the 3rd stanza?
(a) of tigers
(b) of her death
(c) of her old age
(d) of her dominant husband
Answer
Answer: (d) of her dominant husband
Question 31.
Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull?
(a) because of fluttering fingers
(b) because of trembling hands
(c) because of her fears
(d) because of the heavy weight of her marriage ring
Answer
Answer: (d) because of the heavy weight of her marriage ring
Question 32.
Which words depict the dominant and arrogant attitude of the wild animal in the poem ?
(a) dominant
(b) arrogant
(c) adorable
(d) denizens and chivalric
Answer
Answer: (d) denizens and chivalric
Question 33.
What issue does the poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers address?
(a) constraints of women
(b) constraints of married life a woman experiences
(c) constraints of women as a poet
(d) None
Answer
Answer: (b) constraints of married life a woman experiences
Question 34.
How many volumes of poetry has she published?
(a) 18
(b) 29
(c) 39
(d) 19
Answer
Answer: (d) 19
Question 35.
Who is the poet of the poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?
(a) Adrienne Rich
(b) Jonathan Aaron
(c) J. H. M. Abbott
(d) Mark Abley
Answer
Answer: (a) Adrienne Rich
Question 36.
What is Aunt doing in the poem?
(a) Cooking
(b) Embroidery
(c) Reading
(d) Sleeping
Answer
Answer: (b) Embroidery
Question 37.
What is presented through uncle’s character?
(a) Male strength
(b)Man is powerful
(c) man is like tigers
(d) male chauvinism
Answer
Answer: (d) male chauvinism
Question 38.
What is the meaning of the word ‘Chivalric’?
(a) ferocious
(b) fearless
(c) commanding and demanding high respect
(d) None
Answer
Answer: (c) commanding and demanding high respect
Question 39.
Why are tigers given the name Aunt Jennifer’s tigers?
(a) because she created them as an expression to her inner feelings
(b) because she brought them
(c) because she bought them
(d) because she nurtured them
Answer
Answer: (a) because she created them as an expression to her inner feelings
Question 40.
How do the Prancing tigers look?
(a) just like diamond
(b) just like Topaz
(c) just like coal
(d) just like stone
Answer
Answer: (b) just like Topaz