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Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers, Question 1., The beautiful and lifelike tigers on the panel, show Aunt Jennifer’s, (a) hatred for life, (b) hatred for men, (c) creativity, (d) suffering, Answer, Answer: (c) creativity, Question 2., The poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ uses ‘wedding bands’, ‘tigers’, ‘terrified hands’ etc as, (a) symbols, (b) poetic devices, (c) as alliteration, (d) as a metaphor, Answer, Answer: (a) symbols, Question 3., Will go on prancing’ means the, (a) spirit of freedom of the tigers will continue to exist, (b) tigers will dance, (c) tigers will kill, (d) tigers will show tricks, Answer, Answer: (a) spirit of freedom of the tigers will continue to exist, Question 4., The tigers in the panel that she made’ means, (a) the tigers she sent to the zoo, (b) the tigers embroidered by Jennifer, (c) the tigers that do tricks, (d) the tigers that killed her husband, Answer, Answer: (b) the tigers embroidered by Jennifer
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Question 5., ‘Ordeals’ refers to, (a) happy times, (b) hardships, (c) joy and splendour, (d) party time, Answer, Answer: (b) hardships, Question 6., ‘Terrified hands’ of Aunt Jennifer means, (a) hard and bitter experience of married life, (b) scared hands, (c) un-manicured hands, (d) soft and nice hands, Answer, Answer: (a) hard and bitter experience of married life, Question 7., Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand. This line means that, (a) Aunt Jennifer is a sufferer in a male-dominated society, (b) is a heavy object, (c) hard to carry, (d) cannot lift it at all, Answer, Answer: (a) Aunt Jennifer is a sufferer in a male-dominated society, Question 8., ‘Denizens’ in the poem means, (a) resting place, (b) forest, (c) residents, (d) slum areas, Answer, Answer: (c) residents, Question 9., What was lying heavily?, (a) her wedding band, (b) the Tigers on the screen
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(c) uncle of the poet, (d) Aunt Jennifer’s cat, Answer, Answer: (a) her wedding band, Question 10., What do her ‘fluttering fingers’ find hard?, (a) to pull the ivory needle, (b) to roll the ball off the wall, (c) to thread the needle, (d) to draw the sketch of tigers, Answer, Answer: (b) to roll the ball off the wall, Question 11., ‘Fingers fluttering through her wool’. The poetic device used here is, (a) simile, (b) metaphor, (c) alliteration, (d) personification lie, Answer, Answer: (c) alliteration, Question 12., ‘Sleek chivalric certainty’ of the tigers means, (a) totally free movement of the tigers, (b) ensure tiger in the cage, (c) tiger moving in his cage, (d) tiger trying to be chivalrous, Answer, Answer: (a) totally free movement of the tigers, Question 13., The Tigers are not afraid of, (a) the hunters, (b) the elephants, (c) the lions, (d) the men beneath the tree, Answer
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Answer: (d) the men beneath the tree, Question 14., The poet describes the colour of the tigers as, (a) brown, (b) light brown, (c) dark brown, (d) topaz coloured, Answer, Answer: (d) topaz coloured, Question 15., Aunt Jennifer’s tigers are actually, (a) Bengal tigers, (b) Assam tigers, (c) embroidered tigers, (d) white tigers, Answer, Answer: (c) embroidered tigers, Question 16., What is Aunt doing in the poem?, (a) Cooking, (b) Embroidery, (c) Reading, (d) Sleeping, Answer, Answer: (b) Embroidery, Question 17., What is presented through uncle’s character?, (a) Male strength, (b)Man is powerful, (c) man is like tigers, (d) male chauvinism, Answer, Answer: (d) male chauvinism
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Question 18., What is the meaning of the word ‘Chivalric’?, (a) ferocious, (b) fearless, (c) commanding and demanding high respect, (d) None, Answer, Answer: (c) commanding and demanding high respect, Question 19., Why are tigers given the name Aunt Jennifer’s tigers?, (a) because she created them as an expression to her inner feelings, (b) because she brought them, (c) because she bought them, (d) because she nurtured them, Answer, Answer: (a) because she created them as an expression to her inner feelings, Question 20., How do the Prancing tigers look?, (a) just like diamond, (b) just like Topaz, (c) just like coal, (d) just like stone, Answer, Answer: (b) just like Topaz, Question 21., What lies heavily on aunt Jennifer’s hand?, (a) needles, (b) embrideries, (c) work pressure, (d) wedding ring, Answer, Answer: (d) wedding ring, Question 22., How are aunt Jennifer’s tigers different from her?, (a) aunt lives in a city and tigers in forests, (b) aunt is old and tigers are young
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(c) tigers are courageous and carefree and aunt is terrified, (d) none, Answer, Answer: (c) tigers are courageous and carefree and aunt is terrified, Question 23., Interpret terrified hands., (a) Physical condition of aunt, (b) mental state of aunt, (c) tensed, troubled physical and mental state of aunt Jennifer, (d) fears of aunt, Answer, Answer: (c) tensed, troubled physical and mental state of aunt Jennifer, Question 24., Where do aunt’s tigers belong?, (a) to a cage, (b) zoo, (c) mountains, (d) world of green forests, Answer, Answer: (d) world of green forests, Question 25., What is still fresh in Jennifer’s mind?, (a) happy moments, (b) early days of marriage, (c) uncle’s attitude, (d) the old unhappy memories, Answer, Answer: (d) the old unhappy memories, Question 26., What is the wedding band?, (a) ring, (b) ring ceremony, (c) marriage between uncle and aunt, (d) All, Answer
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Answer: (c) marriage between uncle and aunt, Question 27., What is the attitude of the poet or speaker towards aunt Jennifer?, (a) critic, (b) very harsh and rude, (c) indifferent, (d) full of appreciation and sympathy, Answer, Answer: (d) full of appreciation and sympathy, Question 28., What is the poet suggesting through the different nature of characters in the poem?, (a) Diversity in nature, (b) all are different and unique, (c) simultaneous nature of fears and strengths of aunt. Though she has fears, yet she is, not defeated by them, (d) all, Answer, Answer: (c) simultaneous nature of fears and strengths of aunt. Though she has fears, yet, she is not defeated by them, Question 29., What is the meaning of the word ‘ringed’?, (a) circles of a ring, (b) her wedding ring around finger, (c) circles of responsibility of married life, (d) none, Answer, Answer: (c) circles of responsibility of married life, Question 30., What are the ordeals aunt Jennifer is surrounded by?, (a) wild animals, (b) old people, (c) a heavy crowd, (d) heavy responsibilities of married life, Answer, Answer: (d) heavy responsibilities of married life
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Question 31., What does the image ‘massive weight of the wedding band ‘ mean?, (a) wedding bond of hard married life, (b) fatty structure of uncle, (c) fatty body of aunty, (d) heavy body of tiger, Answer, Answer: (a) wedding bond of hard married life, Question 32., What do aunt Jennifer’s fluttering hands through her wool in the second stanza tell us?, (a) the lost freedom and fear of Jennifer’s mind because marital restraints, (b) her old age, (c) her love for embridery and knitting, (d) her love for tigers, Answer, Answer: (a) the lost freedom and fear of Jennifer’s mind because marital restraints, Question 33., What do you understand by the words ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ in the poem?, (a) The dominant and highly arrogant attitude of the wild animal-tiger, (b) tiger is a wild animal, (c) tiger is hungry, (d) beauty of the tiger, Answer, Answer: (a) The dominant and highly arrogant attitude of the wild animal-tiger, Question 34., What does echo through her work?, (a) A strong resistance to racism and militarism, (b) her love for poetry, (c) her passion of essay writing, (d) her wish to publish her work, Answer, Answer: (a) A strong resistance to racism and militarism, Question 35., What is the poet known for?, (a) She is widely known for her involvement in contemporary women’s movement as a, poet and theorist
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(b) for her beauty, (c) for her philosophy, (d) for her poems, Answer, Answer: (a) She is widely known for her involvement in contemporary women’s movement, as a poet and theorist
