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