1. The writer of this poem is:
a. Raja Rao
b. Nayantara
Sehgal
c. Sarojini Naidu
d. Kamala Das
2. Sarojini Naidu was born in:
a. Kolkata
b. Hyderabad.
c. Delhi
d. Mumbai
3. Sarojini Naidu was born:
a. 15/05/1879
b. 13/02/1880
c. 13/02/1879.
d. 13/03/1879
4. Sarojini Naidu is known as:
a. Parrot of
India
b. Nightingale of
India
c. Goddess of
Verse
d. Saraswati of
India.
5. This poem was published in?
a. The Bird of
Time
b. The Passage of
Time
c. Best of Naidu
d. Collection of
Nightingale
6. This poem was published in:
a. 1910
b. 1911
c. 1912.
d. 1915
7. Who are the speakers/ narrators in
this poem?:
a. Poetess
herself
b. Young girls
c. House wives
d. Bangle Sellers
8. The bangle sellers are going to:
a. Village market
b. Temple fair
c. Village fair
d. Home
9. The bangle sellers selects Temple
fair to sell bangles because:
a. Most of the
visitors are women/ girls
b. Rich men visit
temple
c. Temple does
not charge from them
d. None of above
10. The bangle sellers are bearing:
a. Shining loads
of bangle
b. Ice-cream
c. Old clothes
d. Basket full of
toys
11. “Bangle sellers are we who bear/
our shining loads”—'Shining loads’ refer to load of: a. Glass Utensils
b. Dress
c. Toys
d. Bangles
12. The bangle sellers are calling
their customer in:
a. Harsh tone
b. Joyful tone
c. Inviting tone
d. Both b &
c.
13. The bangles were:
a. Delicate
b. Heavy
c. Hard
d. Dark
14. ‘Circle of light’ means:
a. Rainbow
b. Bangle
c. Sun
d. Moon
15. ‘Rainbow-tinted’ means:
a. Rainbow in the
sky
b. Rainbow
coloured
c. Name of
bangles
d. Happy girls
16. “Lustrous tokens” refers to:
a. Food tokens
b. Dress
c. Toys
d. Bangles
17. ‘Lustrous’ means:
a. Bright
b. Dark
c. Green
d. Happy
18. Bangles are token of:
a. Dull lives
b. Radiant lives
c. Maiden’s life
d. Marriage life
19. Bangles are token of radiant
lives for:
a. Happy
daughters
b. Happy wives
c. Happy bangle
sellers
d. Both happy
daughters and happy wives.
20. “Lustrous tokens of radiant
lives”—The word ‘radiant’ means:
a. Dull
b. Happy
c.
Lively/ bright.
d. Reddish
21. Delicate, bright bangles are
suitable for:
a. Happy
daughters
b. Happy wives
c. Happy bangle
sellers
d. Both happy
daughters and happy wives.
22. Silver and blue bangles are
suitable for:
a. Middle-aged
woman
b. Happy wives
c. Maiden.
d. Bride
23. Silver and blue bangles are
compared to:
a. Flowers
b. Leaves
c. River
d. Mountain mists
24. The buds beside the woodland
stream are:
a. Red/ flushed.
b. Yellow
c. White
d. Bright
25. The word ‘flushed’ means:
a. Crimson/ Red
b. Yellow
c. Purple
d. Green
26. The buds dream beside the-
a. Spring
b. Woodland
Stream
c. Pond
d. Lake
27. “….buds that dream”—The figure of speech used here-
a. Metaphor
b. Personification
c. Simile
d. Alliteration
28. Here the ‘buds’ signifies the:
a. Maiden Girl
b. House wife
c. Matron
d. Old woman
29. Flushed/ red coloured bangles
are compared to:
a. Buds that
bloom beside the woodland river.
b. Fish that
swims in river
c. Leaves that
sprout in jungle
d. Blood
30. Bangles flushed like buds are
suitable for:
a. House wife
b. Maiden Girl.
c. Matron
d. Old woman
31. ‘Limpid glory’ means:
a. Pure beauty.
b. Reddish beauty
c. Sleepy flowers
d. Buds
32. The bank of woodland stream
was:
a. Noisy
b. Crowded
c. Full of light
d. Tranquil /
calm.
33. The buds dreams to be:
a. Plucked
b. a full-fledged
flower
c. Drowned in
stream
d. None of above
34. A maiden girl dreams:
a. To grow up and
to be married to a good groom.
b. To be a flower
c. To be a
rainbow
d. None of the
above
35. Fields of sunlit corn means:
a. Fields of sun
b. Fields near
sun
c. Sun-bathed
corn field
d. Fields that
produce corn named sun
36. On bridal morn, bride wears
bangle of:
a. Red colour
b. Golden colour.
/ (Field of sun-lit corn)
c. Green colour
d. Purple colour
37. The bangle like ‘Fields of
sunlit corn” is suitable for:
a. Maiden
b. Woman passed
her middle of life journey
c. Bride.
d. Old lady
38. ‘Fields of sunlit corn’ refers
to the bangle of:
a. Red colour
b. Golden colour.
c. Green colour
d. Purple colour
39. The bangle colour suitable
during bride’s marriage is:
a. Red colour.
b. Golden colour
c. Green colour
d. Purple colour
40. ‘Bridal laughter and bridal
tear’ refers to :
a. Emotional
feelings of bride
b. Pain of woman
c. Glory of
childhood
d. None of above
41. “Tinkling, luminous, tender
and clear”—Which adjective is used to create auditory image: a.
Tinkling
b. Tender
c. Luminous
d. Clear
42. Bridal tear has been compared
to:
a. Tinkling
bangle
b. Clear/
Transparent bangle
c. Luminous
bangle
d. Red bangle
43. ‘Bridal tear’ indicates the:
a. Joy of
marriage
b. Joy of leaving
parental house
c. Pain for
leaving parental house.
d. Pain for
journey
44. ‘Bridal laughter’ indicates
the:
a. Joy of
marriage/ happy to start a new life.
b. Joy of leaving
parental house
c. Joy of Journey
d. Joy of new
gifts
45. The Tinkling sound of bangles has
been compared to :
a. Cry of bride
b. Laughter of
bride.
c. Smile of bride
d. Marriage song
46. Which coloured bangles are
suitable for middle aged woman?:
a. Red colour
b. Purple
c. Gold flecked
grey
d. both b & c.
47. Purple coloured bangles are
suitable for:
a. Maiden girl
b. Would be wife
c. Married girl
d. Middle aged
woman.
48. Purple colour signifies:
a. Childhood and
spryness
b. Over-confidence
c. Maturity and
Self-confidence.
d. None of the
above
49. Gold flecked grey coloured
bangles are suitable for:
a. Maiden girl
b. Would be wife
c. Married girl
d. Middle-aged
woman.
50. Middle aged woman has cradled
/ brought up her children on her:
a. Faithful
breast
b. Lap
c. Unfaithful
breast
d. Shoulder
51. ___________ has served her
household.
a. Maiden girl
b. Bride
c. Middle-aged
woman
d. None
52. A middle-aged woman serves her
household in:
a. Frustration
b. Weakness
c. Fruitful pride
d. Unwilling way
53. “Whose hand have cherished,
whose love has blest”—The person referred to:
a. Maiden girl
b. Would be wife
c. Bride
d. Middle-aged
woman.
54. A woman performs all the
household rituals sitting by the side of:
a. Father
b. Husband
c. Daughter
d. Neighbour
55. The number of stages of woman life
have been described in this poem:
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
56. The stages of woman life have
been described in this poem are:
a. Maiden life
b. Bride
c. Middle-aged /
Matron
d. All above
57. The total number of stanzas in
this poem is:
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
58. Each stanza of this poem
contains:
a. 5 lines
b. 6 lines
c. 3 lines
d. 8 lines
59. The rhyme scheme of each
stanza is:
a. aaabbb
b. ababab
c. aabbaa
d. aabbcc.
60. Total number of lines in this
poem is:
a. 15
b. 22
c. 24
d. 25
61. The poem explores :
a. The stages of
woman life. / Celebration of Indian womanhood.
b. Life of bangle
sellers
c. Life of Maiden
d. Life of
Fathers
62. The tone of this poem is:
a. Dull
b. Painful
c. Joyous.
d. Melancholic
63. The flow of time in woman’s
life is linked with:
a. Life of bangle
sellers
b. The change of
colour of their bangles.
c. The change of
their cloth’s colour
d. Their
happiness
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