Father To Son

Who is the poet of the poem 'Father to Son'?

• Walt Whitman        
• ShirleyToulson
• Elizabeth Jennings
• Kushwant Singh

What is the poem 'Father to Son' about?

• Unsettling relationship between father and son
• father's old age
• son comparing him to his father
• father talking to son about his childhood

How old is the son when his father rants about his agony to his son?

• teenager
• grown-up
• child
• just became adult

Father tells him that although they have lived in the same house for years, he ______

• envy him
• adore him
• doesn’t understand him
• finds him cunning

What happened when he tried to build a relationship with him in his childhood?

• he was successful
• his efforts were in vain
• he was half-way successful
• None of the above

Does father know about his son's likes and dislikes?

• Yes
• No
• Maybe
• Can't say

"Why does the father use 'I' in a line 'The seed I spent or sown it where ' where he was talking about communication gap?"

• to acknowledge his role in the communication gap
• to acknowledge himself
• to let his son know his importance
• to make him understand about him

Despite all his efforts to fix the communication gap, was the son able to understand him?

• Yes
• No
• Can't say
• Maybe       

"What is the meaning of 'This child is built to my design Yet what he loves I cannot share'?"

• his son looks like him and they share everything with each other
• His son looks like him yet they don't have anything to share
• his son doesn't look like him
• neither does his son looks like him nor he understand him

What is the meaning of word 'Prodigal' used in the third stanza?

• understanding son
• someone who is smart
• spending money freely
• someone who doesn't spend money freely