My Mother At Sixty Six

The Poet was leaving the house of

• her parents

• her aunt

• her in laws

• her nephew

She was going to

• Goa

• Mumbai

• Cochin

• Kolkata

The mother of the poetess was

• Smiling

• Laughing

• Crying

• Dozing off

The poetess says her mother looked pale like a

• Corpse

• Ghost

• Malnourished child

• Anaemic person

Kamala Das soon put that thought out of her mind and

• Smiled

• Laughed heartily

• Cried bitterly

• Looked out of the window

Out of the car window she saw

• Cows and buffaloes

• Pigs and goats

• Trees sprinting

• People digging

'Trees sprinting' is a poetic device. It is

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Simile

'Children spilling out' is a

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Transferred epithet

The narrator again compared her mother to

• Summer's sun

• Rain clouds

• Late winter's moon

• Trees and plants

'Winter's moon' is a reference to the mother's

• Old age

• Illness

• Colour of skin

• Young age