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Question1)Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow

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Question1)Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie 
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by 
The tigers in the panel that she made 
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid
(a) Who is the aunt mentioned here?
(b) Why is she “ringed with ordeals”?
(c) What is the difference between her and the tigers?
(d) Why has Aunt Jennifer created the tigers so different from her own character?
or
(a) Why are Aunt Jennifer’s hands terrified?
(b) Why did she make the tigers? 
(c) What will happen to her tigers after her death? (Delhi 2012; Modified)
(d) How are Aunt Jennifer’s tigers different from her?
 

Question.2. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green 
They do not fear the men beneath the tree,
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty
(a) How are Aunt Jennifer’s tigers described?
(b) Why are they described as denizens of a world of green?
(c) Why are they not afraid of the men? (Delhi 2010; Modified)
(d) What are her tigers symbolic of?
 

Short Answer Type Questions

Question.1. What are the difficulties that Aunt Jennifer faced in her life?
or
What are the ordeals that Aunt Jennifer faced in her life?

Question.2. How are Aunt Jennifer’s tigers different from her?
or
How are the tigers different from her?

Question.3. How does Aunt Jennifer express her bitterness and anger against male dominance?

 

Question.4.What will happen to Aunt Jennifer’s tigers when she is dead?

Question.5.What lies heavily on Aunt Jennifer’s hand? How is it associated with her husband?

or
What is the weight that lies heavy on Aunt Jennifer’s hand? How is it associated with her husband? (Foreign 2010)
 

Question.6. Why did Aunt Jennifer choose to embroider tigers on the panel? (Delhi 2012, All India 2009). Aunt Jennifer chose to embroider tigers on the panel because

Question.7. How do the words, ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of Aunt
Jennifer’s tigers? (All India 2012)
or
How do ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tiger’s attitudes?

Question.8.Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that Die so different from her own
character? What might the poet be suggesting through this difference?

Question.9. How does the poet describe Aunt Jennifer’s tigers?
or
Describe the tigers created by Aunt Jennifer.
 

 

 

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Extra Questions and Answers

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. The poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’ is written by

(a) Elizabeth Arden                         (b) Adrienne Rich

(c) Kamla Das                                     (d) Sarojini Naidu

2. Aunt Jennifer’s tigers are actually

 (a) Bengal tigers                              (b) Assam tigers

(c) embroidered tigers                  (d) white tigers

3. What do the Tigers do on the screen? They

(a) sing                                                                 (b) jump

 (c) catch the prey                            (d) prance

4. The poet describes the colour of the tigers as

(a) brown                                            (b) light brown

(c) dark brown                                  (d) topaz coloured

5. ‘Denizens’ of a world of green means

 (a) residents of forests                                 (b) residents of green buildings

(c) live in green cages                     (d) live in green grasslands

6. The Tigers are not afraid of

 (a) the hunters                                                (b) the elephants

 (c) the lions                                       (d) the men beneath the tree

7. ‘They pace’ is referred to

 (a) the human beings                    (b) Jennifer’s family members

 (c) the tigers                                     (d) the lions

8. ‘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

9. The rhyme scheme in stanza one is

(a) AABB                                              (b) abab

(c) ABC                                                 (d) abbe

10. ‘Fingers fluttering through her wool’. The poetic device used here is

(a) simile                                              (b) metaphor

(c) alliteration                                    (d) personification lie

11. What is Aunt Jennifer doing with wool?

(a) she is embroidering a wall panel         (b) she is knitting a scarf

(c) she is making a ball of wool                   (d) she is knitting a cap

12. 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

13. The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band is a subtle reference to

 (a) male oppression

(b) suppression at the hands of her husband

(c) the heavy gold ring

(d) the huge gold wedding band makes her uncomfortable

14. What was lying heavily?

 (a) her wedding band                   (b) the Tigers on the screen

 (c) uncle of the poet                      (d) Aunt Jennifer’s cat

15. The word ‘prance’ in the poem means

(a) to jump ahead                            (b) to dance

(c) to eat                                              (d) to prowl

16. ‘Denizens’ in the poem means

 (a) resting place               (b) forest 

(c) residents                       (d) slum areas

17. The word ‘chivalric’ in the context means

 (a) timid                                              (b) arrogant

(c) honourable and brave             (d) malicious

18. 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

19. Aunt Jennifer’s family consists of

(a) she and her husband               (b) she and her tigers

 (c) she and her kids                        (d) she and her servants

20. ‘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

21. ‘Still ringed’ means

(a) oppression will continue                        (b) too many rings on her fingers

 (c) ring of the bell                                           (d) quiet and peaceful

22. ‘Ordeals’ refers to

(a) happy times                                                                (b) hardships

 (c) joy and splendour                                    (d) party time

23. She was mastered by is a reference made to the

(a) hardships and difficulties that Aunt Jennifer faced during her lifetime

 (b) she was a slave

(c) he had a rude master

(d) her teacher taught her nothing

24. 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

25. ‘Proud’ and ‘unafraid’. These two adjectives have been used for

(a) the uncle                                      (b) the males in the society

(c) the tigers on the forest           (d) the tigers on the panel

26. 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

27. ‘Massive’ means

(a) high                                 (b) huge

(c) minimum                      (d) small

28. 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

29. The attitude of the poet towards Aunt Jennifer is that of

(a) hatred                            (b) love

(c) sympathy                      (d) casual

30. The beautiful and lifelike tigers on the panel, show Aunt Jennifer’s

(a) hatred for life             (b) hatred for men

 (c) creativity                      (d) suffering