Deck 2: Brahim Al-Rubaish, Ode to the Sea, Ghanashyam, and Daddy

Question 1

Ibrahim al-Rubaish was born in?

A)Kuwait
B)Saudi Arabia
C)Iran
D)Afghanistan

Answer 1

Saudi Arabia

Question 2

Ibrahim al-Rubaish's ode is addressed to?

A)Sea
B)West wind
C)Nightingale
D)Skylark

Answer 2

Sea

Question 3

In the poem Ode to the Sea, the narrator is longing to:

A)Meet the family
B)Jump in to the sea
C)Kill the soldiers
D)End the life

Answer 3

Meet the family

Question 4

The poet is comparing the calmness of the sea with………?

A)Life
B)Protest
C)Death
D)None of these

Question 5

According to the narrator, the sea is supporting…..?

A)The prisoner
B)Terrorists
C)The US soldiers
D)Narrator

Question 6

What eats the patience of the narrator in Ode to the Sea ?

A)Bitterness of the sea
B)Bitterness of the prisoners
C)Bitterness of the soldiers
D)All the above

Question 7

'Your calm is like death' which figure of speech is used here?

A)Alliteration
B)Assonance
C)Metaphor
D)Simile

Question 8

What has the divine power of a balm to soothe and heal the wounded hearts?

A)Poetry
B)Speech
C)Prison
D)Medicine

Question 9

Guantanamo Bay is in:

A)Canada
B)Cuba
C)US
D)UK

Question 10

Which word is used by the poet to show his anger against the sea?

A)Gentle
B)Mute
C)Deaf
D)All of these

Question 11

The prisoners come to the shore usually out of:

A)Their wish
B)Compulsion
C)Both 1&2
D)None of these

Question 12

According to the narrator what was the gaining of the sea for the last three years?

A)Voyage
B)Dead bodies of the prisoners
C)Poems on sea
D)None of these

Question 13

The silence of the sea is compared to:

A)Chain
B)Captivity
C)Poetry
D)Death

Question 14

According to the narrator, the sea had colluded with whom?

A)Detainee
B)Faithless
C)God
D)All of these

Question 15

The word kafir means:

A)Faithful
B)Faithless
C)Loving
D)Caring

Question 16

Ghanashyam is a …….. poem?

A)Realistic
B)Confessional
C)Satirist
D)Romantic

Question 17

The poem Ghanashyam is written by:

A)Balamani Amma
B)Kamala Das
C)Vijayalakshmi
D)Sugathakumari

Question 18

Kamala Das is comparing Ghanashyam to a……?

A)Skylark
B)Parrot
C)Koel
D)None of these

Question 19

Ghanashyam vanishes like a/an:

A)Magician
B)Air
C)Spectral flame
D)All the above

Question 20

Kamala Das compares life with:

A)Moisture
B)Drought
C)Death
D)None of these

Question 21

She weaves raiment for Ghanashyam with………..

A)Song
B)Cotton
C)Silk
D)Words

Question 22

Which poetic technique is used to show the narrator's search for love?

A)Metaphor
B)Simile
C)Rhyme
D)Rhythm

Question 23

The god referred in Ghanashyam is………?

A)Lord Siva
B)Brahma
C)Krishna
D)Indra

Question 24

With the birth of a child, what does originate?

A)New connection
B)New traps
C)New pains
D)All the above

Question 25

In Ghanashyam, death is compared to:

A)Drought
B)Evil
C)Devil
D)Sorrow

Question 26

How does Kamala Das state her search for love?

A)Game
B)Tragic game
C)Pleasure
D)None of these

Question 27

The poet was led toward Ghanashyam as a/an:

A)Koel
B)Radha
C)Devotee
D)Enchanted fish

Question 28

When does the wisdom must come?

A)In patience
B)With anger
C)In silence
D)All the above

Question 29

More than anything, the narrator loves………..?

A)Her husband
B)The guests
C)Koel
D)The disguise of Krishna

Question 30

'You came in strange forms'. Who?

A)Husband
B)Childhood friend
C)Ghanashyam
D)None of these

Question 31

'His ageing body'. Who is referred here?

A)Ghanashyam
B)Madhava Das
C)Krishna
D)Lover

Question 32

What does the narrator in Ghanashyam want to carry in her arms?

A)An infant
B)A child
C)A friend
D)Peace

Question 33

Raiment means:

A)Silk
B)Paper
C)Dress
D)Water

Question 34

Sylvia Plath is a …….. poet?

A)Surrealist
B)Post colonial
C)Confessional
D)Romantic

Question 35

The word achoo means:

A)Dare
B)Fear
C)Compel
D)It doesn't have a meaning

Question 36

The poem Daddy is against:

A)Autocracy
B)Nazism
C)Terrorism
D)None of these

Question 37

Daddy in the poem is a representative of each……..

A)Italian
B)German
C)Spanish
D)American

Question 38

What does the black shoe suggest in the poem?

A)Death
B)Violence
C)Male domination
D)All the above

Question 39

In the poem, gray colour denotes ……..

A)Life
B)Vitality
C)Death
D)None of these

Question 40

The term 'marble- heavy means:

A)Heaviness of a dead body
B)A huge weight
C)Heavy like marble
D)All the above

Question 41

What does the poet suggest by Freakish Atlantic?

A)Atlantic sea
B)Unpredictable nature of Atlantic
C)Voyages
D)Pirates

Question 42

What does 'engine' refer to?

A)Machine
B)Weapon
C)German language
D)None of these

Question 43

'Lived like a foot' is a ……?

A)Simile
B)Metaphor
C)Assimilation
D)Assonance

Question 44

What does the repetition of the word 'war' mean?

A)The endless s war
B)The relevance of war
C)The horror of war
D)None of these

Question 45

'Pollack' is the derogatory slang of…..?

A)British
B)American
C)Polish
D)None of these

Question 46

Daddy is famous for the vivid use of ………..

A)Imagery
B)Alliterartion
C)Rhyme
D)All the above

Question 47

Sylvia Plath is described as a girl with ………. complex.

A)Superiority
B)Inferiorty
C)Electra
D)None of these

Question 48

Which book is referred to in the poem 'Daddy' to show the Nazi reign?

A)Das Capital
B)Meinkampf
C)The Paradise Lost
D)Odyssey

Question 49

What is Belsen?

A)A place
B)A Nazi leader
C)Name of a concentration camp
D)None of these

Question 50

Sylvia Plath was born in?

A)Moscow
B)Boston
C)Paris
D)Cambridge

Question 51

The word pandemonium means---

A)A noisy place
B)A calm place
C)A garden
D)A seashore