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