Answer any four of the following questions in 30 – 40 words each :
(a) What does the poet’s smile in the poem, ‘My Mother at Sixty-six’ show?
(b) ‘‘Listening to them, I see two distinct worlds....’’ In the context of Mukesh, the bangle maker’s son, which two worlds is Anees Jung referring to?
(c) Though the sharecroppers of Champaran received only one-fourth of the compensation, how can the Champaran struggle still be termed a huge success and victory?
(d) Which article in McLeery’s suitcase played perhaps the most significant role in Evans’ escape and how?
(e) Why does Derry’s mother not want him to go back to visit Mr. Lamb?
(f) What considerations influenced the Tiger King to get married?
Answers
The correct answers are -
(a) The poet's smile signifies her helplessness and offers reassurance to the aging mother. The poet's smile is false because she's sad inside and fakes it for her mother.
(b) Anees Jung means the two areas in which the family of bangle makers is trapped, the first is the poor-stricken Firozabad families and the second is the vicious circle of middlemen and sahukars corruption.
(e) The mother of Derry had learnt from Mr. lamb that he was a lame old fellow. She had also learnt that he was an egocentric, and didn't wanted Derry to meet him because she felt he might be swayed by Mr. LAMB.
(f) The tiger king was on his mission to kill 100 tigers, and no tigers were left in his village as he had killed them all. Therefore, he decided to marry a girl from a royal family of a state that had a huge tiger population and therefore he killed 5-6 tigers every day after getting the proposal accepted