Aunt Jennifer's Tigers MCQ Part 1

Who is the poet of the poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?

• Adrienne Rich
• Jonathan Aaron
• J. H. M. Abbott
• Mark Abley

What is the poet known for?

• She is widely known for her involvement in contemporary women’s movement as a poet and theorist
• for her beauty
• for her philosophy
• for her poems

How many volumes of poetry has she published?

• 18
• 29
• 39
• 19

What does echo through her work?

• A strong resistance to racism and militarism
• her love for poetry
• her passion of essay writing
• her wish to publish her work

What issue does the poem Aunt Jennifer's Tigers address?

• constraints of women
• constraints of married life a woman experiences
• constraints of women as a poet
• None

What do you understand by the words ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ in the poem?

• The dominant and highly arrogant attitude of the wild animal-tiger
• tiger is a wild animal
• tiger is hungry
• beauty of the tiger

Which words depict the dominant and arrogant attitude of the wild animal in the poem ?

• dominant
• arrogant
• adorable
• denizens and chivalric

What do aunt Jennifer's fluttering hands through her wool in the second stanza tell us?

• the lost freedom and fear of Jennifer's mind because of marital restraints

• her old age

• her love for embridery and knitting

• her love for tigers

Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull?

• because of fluttering fingers
• because of trembling hands
• because of her fears
• because of the heavy weight of her marriage ring

What does the image 'massive weight of the wedding band ' mean?

• wedding bond of hard married life
• fatty structure of uncle
• fatty body of aunty
• heavy body of tiger