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Answer the Very short type question number 3 GENERO, ENGLISH My Mother at Sixty-six Very Short Answer Questions: (1 mark each) I. Who •is the poet of the poem My Mother at Sixty-six'? 2. Where is the poet Kamala Das driving to? Q UEsnom 3. What did the poet Kamala Das notice when her mother sat beside her? 4. Find words from the passage that mean 'sleep lightly' and 'dead body'. 5. Why is her mother's face like that ofa corpse? 6. What do the words, 'ashen', 'open mouthed', and 'corpse' signify? 7. Who looked out at 'young trees' from the car window? Short AnswerQuestions: Type-2 (2 marks each) 1. Where is the poet going and who is with her? 2. Which thought does the speaker put away? 3. What do the young sprinting trees signifr? 4. What are the 'merry children spilling out oftheirhomes' symbolic of? 5. What is the kind ofpain and ache that the poet feels? 6. Explain the statement, 'l saw my mother her face ashen like that of acorpse 7. W"hy are the young trees described as 'sprinting'? 8. Why does the poet compare her mother's face to 'a late winter's moon'? 9. What is the poet'S childhood fear? I O. Why does her childhood fear surface at this stage? Long Answer Questions: Type-I (5 mark) 2. 3. 4. 5. What did the speaker do after the security check? What did she notice? How did the poet's mother look like? What kind of images has the poet used to • her ageing candition? What does the poet see happening as she drives along? Why does the poet feel her old familiar ache and what is her childhood fear? Explain the following: (i) I saw my mother beside me, doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that ofa corpse .... (ii) and realised with pain that she thought away, and looked but soon put that thought away, and looked out at young trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out oftheir homes ... I looked again at her, wan, pale (ill). as a late winter's moon and felt that old 1361 Artk allldid face, the kierx:es'! ry Short Answer l. 2. What isa 3. Whaeistbeiiflet 4. What 5. Why istlEwordt ortAnswer l. Whoare 2. 3. Whydidthecihl 4. What are*g: 5. Why dote peo 6. Who hß 7. IhntisintEl 8. Why won't the 9. What isthepli 10. 11. ng Answer QuestM l. Howdoesthl 2. Howwiiltlv 3. Whatisthep 4, Why do car 6. Whatdtrsh ngShort l. Showhowt