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