CBSE Class 12 English Aunt Jennifers Tigers MCQs

Question. 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 : A

Question. What lies heavily on aunt Jennifer's hand?
(a) needles
(b) embrideries
(c) work pressure
(d) wedding ring

Answer : D

Question. What issue does the poem Aunt Jennifer's Tigers address?
(a) constraints of women
(b) constraints of married life a woman experiences
(c) constraints of women as a poet
(d) None

Answer : B

Question. 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 : A

Question. Which words depict the dominant and arrogant attitude of the wild animal in the poem ?
(a) dominant
(b) arrogant
(c) adorable
(d) denizens and chivalric

Answer : D

Question. 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 : A

Question. Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull?
(a) because of fluttering fingers
(b) because of trembling hands
(c) because of her fears
(d) because of the heavy weight of her marriage ring

Answer : D

Question. 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 : A

Question. What is the poet conveying through aunt Jennifer's tiger?
(a) wild life
(b) courageous tigers
(c) tigers and their courage
(d) female existence and their fear of men

Answer : D

Question. Who is the poet of the poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?
(a) Adrienne Rich
(b) Jonathan Aaron
(c) J. H. M. Abbott
(d) Mark Abley

Answer : A

Question. How many volumes of poetry has she published?
(a) 18
(b) 29
(c) 39
(d) 19

Answer : D

Question. Of what or of whom is aunt Jennifer terrified of in the 3rd stanza?
(a) of tigers
(b) of her death
(c) of her old age
(d) of her dominant husband

Answer : D

Question. 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 : D

Question. 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 : C

Question. What is the meaning of the word 'Chivalric'?
(a) ferocious
(b) fearless
(c) commanding and demanding high respect
(d) None

Answer : C

Question. What would Jennifer's terrified hands tell after her death? 
(a) story of her life
(b) her constrained married life
(c) her strength to find her ways and beat the fears
(d) All these

Answer : D

Question. Tell and interpret the meaning of 'Denizen of aworld of green'.
(a) forest haters
(b) forest lovers
(c) forest dwellers
(d) all

Answer : C

Question.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 : D

Question. Does Aunt Jennifer need sympathy?
(a) yes
(b) no
(c) no, more than sympathy she deserves praise
(d) none

Answer : C

Question. What is the wedding band?
(a) ring
(b) ring ceremony
(c) marriage between uncle and aunt
(d) All

Answer : C

Question. What did marriage bring for Jennifer?
(a) unhappiness
(b) loss of freedom
(c) loss of freedom and burden as if she has put on a heavy band
(d) a heavy mountain

Answer : C

Question. 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 : D

Question. What did ordeals or tough times do in Jennifer's life?
(a) they made her a hard hearted person
(b) she developed hatred
(c) she became weak
(d) they crushed her artistic personality

Answer : D

Question. Where do aunt's tigers belong?
(a) to a cage
(b) zoo
(c) mountains
(d) world of green forests

Answer : D

Question. What is the purpose of creating animals which are completely a contrast to aunt's character?
(a) to show her strength and ability of not giving up in the face of difficulties
(b) her courage
(c) her fears and strengths
(d) none

Answer : A

Question. What is the tone of the poem towards the end?
(a) happy moments
(b) resolving 
(c) hopeful
(d) sad and tensed

Answer : D

Question. 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
(c) tigers are courageous and carefree and aunt is terrified
(d) none

Answer : C

Question. What is aunt Jennifer loaded with?
(a) weight of rings
(b) weight of tigers
(c) burden of household work
(d) heavy responsibilities of married life

Answer : D

Question. What does wedding ring represent?
(a) beauty
(b) expenses
(c) unnecessary pressures of her dominant husband and responsibilities of married life
(d) none

Answer : C

Question. Why did aunt embroider tigers on the panel?
(a) to express her supressed feelings
(b) to express her strenghths
(c) to express her fighting spirit of a warrior
(d) All these

Answer : D

Question. 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 : A

Question. How are tigers described in the poem?
(a) as ferocious
(b) fearless
(c) chivalric
(d) All these

Answer : D

Question. What is presented through uncle's character?
(a) Male strength
(b)Man is powerful
(c) man is like tigers
(d) male chauvinism

Answer : D

Question. 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 : C

Question. Where are the tigers sleeping?
(a) on the trees
(b) on the mountain top
(b) in the cage
(d) in the caves

Answer : D

Question. How do the Prancing tigers look? 
(a) just like diamond
(b) just like Topaz
(c) just like coal
(d) just like stone

Answer : B

Question. What is the significance of the word ringed?
(a) responsibilities
(b) heavy duties
(c) fatty people
(d) responsibilities that formed circles like a ring eurrounding her finger

Answer : D

Question. What is Aunt doing in the poem?
(a) Cooking
(b) Embroidery
(b) Reading
(d) Sleeping

Answer : B

Question. Interpret terrified hands.
(a) Physical condition of aunt
(b) mental stae of aunt
(c) tensed ,troubled physical and mental state of aunt Jennifer
(d) fears of aunt

Answer : C

Question. What is the poet known for?
(a) She is widely known for her involvement in contemporary women’s movement as a poet and theorist
(b) for her beauty
(c) for her philosophy
(d) for her poems

Answer : A