1. Who is the speaker in the poem?
2. Strong Roots’ is written by -
3. The train used to reach Deoli station at around-
4. The jungle across the station was visible in the faint light of-
5. ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ is a poem published in -
6. What is referred to as ‘barren crags’?
7. ‘Strong Roots’ is part of
9. What does the bundle that Nora takes out contain?
10. ‘The Bet’ was originally written in -
11. The poet imagines that the summit of the tree has reached the -
13. “By this still hearth…..”- Here ‘still hearth’ symbolizes -
14. Which object in the kitchen is meant for the coffin in Synge’s ‘Riders to the Sea’?
15. After stopping for ten minutes at the Deoli station a bell would sound and
16. Whose clothes are those that Nora brings home?
17. How many lines are there in the poem?
18. Some of the guests of the party opined that death penalty should be replaced by -
19. The word ‘erstwhile’ means -
20. ‘Strong Roots’ is taken from -
21. In which season did the fateful bet take place?
22. What is the significance of ‘this still hearth’ in the context of Ulysses’ life?
23. What is Cathleen doing when Synge’s ‘Riders to the Sea’ opens?
24. For whom is Cathleen preparing a cake?
25. Where in Dehra did the narrator spend his summer vacations?
26. Where does Bartley want to go?
27. Who prepares a cake in Synge’s ‘Riders to the Sea’?
28. How does Ulysses view his current role as the king of Ithaca?
29. The trunk of the tree is -
30. The play ‘Riders to the Sea’ opens with the speech: “Where is she?”—Who is ‘she’?
31. The tree wears the creeper as a -
32. Due to the embrace of the creeper, the other tree would have -
33. The poet’s attitude towards the tree can be called -
34. What is the colour of the clusters of flowers hanging from the boughs of the Casuarina tree?
35. Who are found in the opening scene of ‘Riders to the Sea’?
36. Kalam’s father possessed -
37. According to mythology, Ulysses is the king of -
38. The narrator returned to the plains
39. The Casuarina tree’s creeper climbs up to its very -
40. What did the most part of the guests disapprove of?
41. On the trunk of the tree the creeper makes -
42. APJ Abdul Kalam’s birthplace was in the town of -
43. Which item, as mentioned in Synge’s ‘Riders to the Sea’, is an unusual item in an Irish kitchen?
44. Who, according to the priest, is supposed to have a ‘clean burial’?
45. How does the narrator describe Deoli as a place?
46. How was the night when the story begins?
47. Who is the narrator of the story?
48. The major characters in the short story are -
49. APJ Abdul Kalam’s mother was -
51. Which genre of poem is “Ulysses”?
52. Kalam says, he was born into -
53. Most of the guests found capital punishment unfitted to -
54. What did the platform of Deoli boast of?
55. Who is found to put her head in at the door in the opening of Synge’s ‘Riders to the Sea’?
56. What, according to Nora, is the condition of the sea by the White rocks?
57. Why does Ulysses refer to the barren crags?
58. ‘The Bet’ was first published in -
59. The huge python here is -
60. How does the poet describe the tree’s appearance?
61. What kind of a poem is ‘Our Casuarina Tree’?
62. The ‘giant’ in the poem is the -
63. Who is Jainulabdeen in the extract?
64. For how many days is Michael missing?
65. “Among other things they had talked of….”-Who are referred to as they?
66. Which among the following poet’s portrayal of Ulysses has a similarity with that of Tennyson’s Ulysses?
67. What hangs from the boughs of the Casuarina tree?
68. Who is referred to as the “idle king” in the poem?
69. For Kalam’s father, his mother was an ideal -
70. ‘The Night Train at Deoli’ is a
