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  • 1. 
    She soon put that thought out of her mind and

  • smiled
  • laughed heartily
  • cried bitterly
  • looked out of the window

  • 2. 
    The poetess says her mother looked pale like a

  • corpse
  • ghost
  • malnourished child
  • anaemic person

  • 3. 
    The person in the car, beside the poetess, was,

  • her aunt
  • her niece
  • her uncle
  • her mother

  • 4. 
    She was going to

  • Goa
  • Mumbai
  • Cochin
  • Kolkata

  • 5. 
    Kamala Das was an

  • Bengali
  • Punjabi
  • Keralite
  • Gujarati

  • 6. 
    What were the words she used while parting from her mother?

  • See you soon Ba
  • See you soon beeji
  • See you soon mata ji
  • See you soon, amma

  • 7. 
    Whose house the poet was leaving?

  • her friend’s house
  • in-law’s house
  • her husband’s house
  • her parents’ house

  • 8. 
    What does the expression smile, smile and smile signify?

  • poet was going home and was elated
  • poet was happy
  • poet was hopeless
  • poet’s desperate efforts to hide her fears

  • 9. 
    What arises from the complexity of the situation in the poem?

  • Poet’s feelings
  • Poet’s insecurities
  • poet’s thoughts
  • poet’s intertwining thoughts

  • 10. 
    Why does the poet feel parted, upset and sad?

  • because of her fears
  • because she was getting late
  • fear of missing her flight
  • because of her duty towards mother and her own needs
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