1. What does Ulysses want to say by “I cannot rest from travel”?
3. In which season did the fateful bet take place?
4. Where does Bartley want to go?
5. How many lines are there in the poem?
6. APJ Abdul Kalam’s birthplace was in the town of -
7. Who is the narrator of the story?
9. How old was the lawyer at the time of the bet?
10. “By this still hearth…..”- Here ‘still hearth’ symbolizes -
11. What does Ulysses’ statement “know not me” indicate about his relationship with his subjects?
12. How does the narrator describe Deoli as a place?
13. Most of the guests found capital punishment unfitted to -
15. How was the night when the story begins?
16. Due to the embrace of the creeper, the other tree would have -
17. The major characters in the short story are -
19. Where in Dehra did the narrator spend his summer vacations?
20. Where was the bit of new rope that was bought in Connemara?
21. What did the girl do when she saw that the narrator was looking at her?
22. Which object in the kitchen is meant for the coffin in Synge’s ‘Riders to the Sea’?
23. According to mythology, Ulysses is the king of -
24. Kalam and his family lived in their -
25. Which item, as mentioned in Synge’s ‘Riders to the Sea’, is an unusual item in an Irish kitchen?
26. The darkling’s song seems -
27. The tree wears the creeper as a -
28. The narrator returned to the plains
29. What was the banker’s initial attitude towards the bet?
30. What did the banker bet the lawyer?
31. ‘The Bet’ was first published in -
32. Where does the narrator meet the young girl in the story?
33. For whom is Cathleen preparing a cake?
34. How does Ulysses view his current role as the king of Ithaca?
35. What is the name of the ‘aged wife’ of Ulysses?
36. What is the colour of the clusters of flowers hanging from the boughs of the Casuarina tree?
37. The huge python here is -
38. The play ‘Riders to the Sea’ opens with the speech: “Where is she?”—Who is ‘she’?
39. What is the speaker in ‘Ulysses’ longing for?
41. Kalam’s father used to avoid all -
42. Who are found in the opening scene of ‘Riders to the Sea’?
43. The poet imagines that the summit of the tree has reached the -
44. Where did the girl stop at the platform?
45. What did the banker believe was his mistake in making the bet?
46. Which among the following poet’s portrayal of Ulysses has a similarity with that of Tennyson’s Ulysses?
47. The narrator was looking at the girl –
48. Why does Ulysses refer to the barren crags?
50. How does the poet describe the tree’s appearance?
51. For how many days is Michael missing?
52. What hangs from the boughs of the Casuarina tree?
53. The girl’s clothes were -
54. ‘Strong Roots’ is part of
55. Which phrase best describes the Casuarina tree in the poem?
56. Abdul Kalam’s ancestral house was built in -
57. What did the banker offer as a warning to the lawyer?
58. Who are regarded as ‘savage race’?
59. What physical characteristic of the young girl draws the narrator’s attention?
60. What was the girl doing at Deoli station?
61. Abdul Kalam describes his parents as being -
62. Who says, “It’s hard set we’ll be surely the day you’re drowned with the rest”?
63. The poet’s attitude towards the tree can be called -
64. APJ Abdul Kalam’s mother was -
65. On the trunk of the tree the creeper makes -
66. What, according to Nora, is the condition of the sea by the White rocks?
67. Which genre of poem is “Ulysses”?
68. The train used to reach Deoli station at around-
69. Kalam’s father possessed -
70. What did the most part of the guests disapprove of?
71. What does the bundle that Nora takes out contain?
72. At night, the garden gets overflowed by a sweet song which actually refers to the -
73. Kalam was a short boy with -
74. How did the banker feel about the bet after fifteen years?
75. Who is Jainulabdeen in the extract?
76. The Casuarina tree’s creeper climbs up to its very -
77. How does the poet feel when her casement is thrown wide open in the morning?
78. For Kalam’s father, his mother was an ideal -
79. Who is found to put her head in at the door in the opening of Synge’s ‘Riders to the Sea’?
80. What is implied by Ulysses’ description of his wife as “aged” in the third line?
81. What does the phrase “Unequal laws unto a savage race” reveal about Ulysses’ view of his own leadership?
82. Where did Cathleen put the bundle to hide it from Maurya?
83. What is Cathleen doing when Synge’s ‘Riders to the Sea’ opens?
84. Who, according to the priest, is supposed to have a ‘clean burial’?
85. Kalam’s parents were widely regarded as -
86. Whose clothes are those that Nora brings home?
87. What is referred to as ‘barren crags’?
88. What is the significance of ‘this still hearth’ in the context of Ulysses’ life?
89. After stopping for ten minutes at the Deoli station a bell would sound and
90. Who was asked to stop Bartley from going to the Galway fair?
91. How did the banker initially describe capital punishment?
92. “I mete and dole” – The quoted phrase means that Ulysses -
93. The poet looks at the Casuarina tree through her casement -
94. The jungle across the station was visible in the faint light of-
95. Kalam normally ate with -
97. ‘The Bet’ was originally written in -
98. The ‘giant’ in the poem is the -
99. Some of the guests of the party opined that death penalty should be replaced by -
100. Who were present at the banker’s party?
101. “Among other things they had talked of….”-Who are referred to as they?
102. Who is referred to as the “idle king” in the poem?
103. ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ is a poem published in -
104. ‘Strong Roots’ is taken from -
105. The trunk of the tree is -
106. Strong Roots’ is written by -
107. “Unequal laws unto a savage race” – Here “unequal laws” mean -
108. What did the platform of Deoli boast of?
109. The word ‘erstwhile’ means -
110. Kalam says, he was born into -
111. The subjects of Ulysses are -
113. What kind of a poem is ‘Our Casuarina Tree’?
114. How many years did the lawyer agree to stay in imprisonment for the bet?
115. What did the banker say the lawyer would lose in the bet?
116. ‘The Night Train at Deoli’ is a
117. Who prepares a cake in Synge’s ‘Riders to the Sea’?
118. What was Maurya’s suggestion to Bartley regarding the rope?
120. Who is the speaker in the poem?
