Question

es1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: (8)

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,

Bright denizens of a world of green.

They do not fear the men beneath the tree;

They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool

Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.

The massive weight of uncle’s wedding band

Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.

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.

Answer the following questions by choosing the most appropriate option: (1x8=8)

1. Aunt Jennifer’s tigers are called ‘chivalric’ because……………………………

(a) they live far away from human settlements

(b) they are very respectful and courteous to women

(c) they occupy majestic and honorable position among the animals

(d) they don’t fear the men beneath the tree

2. The poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ is clearly a……………………………

(a) revolutionary poem (b) feminist poem (c) critical poem (d) endymion poem

3. Aunt Jennifer’s tigers will survive because.…………………………..

(a) they are proud and unafraid (b) they are objects of art

(c) they have longer life (d) they are free from ordeals and sufferings

4. For Aunt Jennifer ‘the massive weight of wedding-band’ symbolises……………………………

(a) ordeals and hardships of married life (b) shackles constraining her individual freedom

(c) restraints on her freedom of creation (d) indicator of her social status​

Answer 1

they pace in sleek chivalrac

because humans can be hurt by the tigers

Explanation: