MCQ ON “THE BANGLE SELLERS” BY SAROJINI NAIDU. CLASS XI. 1ST SEMESTER.

MCQ ON “THE BANGLE SELLERS” BY SAROJINI NAIDU

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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