JAC Class 12 English MCQ Chapter-6: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

1. Who is the poet of the poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?

•  Adrienne Rich
•  Jonathan Aaron
• J. H. M. Abbott
• Mark Abley

2. What is the poet known for?

• She is widely known for her involvement in the contemporary women’s movement as a poet and theorist
•  for her beauty
•  for her philosophy
•  for her poems

3. What is still fresh in Jennifer’s mind?

• happy moments
•  early days of marriage
•  uncle’s attitude
• the old unhappy memories

4. The attitude of the poet towards Aunt Jennifer is that of –

•  hatred
• love
• sympathy
•  casual

5. What is the tone of the poem towards the end?

• happy moments
•  resolving
•  hopeful
• sad and tensed

6. How are Aunt Jennifer’s tigers different from her?

• aunt lives in a city and tigers in forests
• aunt is old and tigers are young
• tigers are courageous and carefree and aunt is terrified
• none of above

7. How do the Prancing tigers look?

•  just like diamond
• just like Topaz
• just like coal
• just like stone

8. What is presented through uncle’s character?

•  Male strength
• Man is powerful
•  man is like tigers
•  male chauvinism

9. The poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ uses ‘wedding bands’, ‘tigers’, ‘terrified hands’ etc as –

• symbols
•  poetic devices
•  as alliteration
•  as a metaphor

10. How many volumes of poetry has she published?

•  18
•  29
•  39
•  19

11. Will go on prancing’ means the –

•  spirit of freedom of the tigers will continue to exist
• tigers will dance
•  tigers will kill
•  tigers will show tricks

12. What lies heavily on Aunt Jennifer’s hand?

•  needles
•  embroideries
• wedding ring
•  work pressure

13. What does echo through her work?

• Strong resistance to racism and militarism
•  her love for poetry
•  her passion for essay writing
•  her wish to publish her work

14. Interpret terrified hands.

•  The physical condition of aunt
•  the mental state of aunt
•  tensed, troubled physical and mental state of aunt Jennifer
•  fears of aunt

15. What is the meaning of the word ‘ringed’?

• circles of a ring
• her wedding ring around her finger
•  circles of responsibility of married life
•  none

16. The beautiful and lifelike tigers on the panel, show Aunt Jennifer’s

•  hatred for life
•  hatred for men
•  creativity
•  suffering

17. The attitude of the poet towards Aunt Jennifer is that of

•  hatred
•  love
• sympathy
•  casual

18. Proud’ and ‘unafraid’. These two adjectives have been used for

• the uncle
• the males in the society
•  the tigers on the forest
•  the tigers on the panel

19.She was mastered by is a reference made to the

•  hardships and difficulties that Aunt Jennifer faced during her lifetime
•  she was a slave
•  he had a rude master
•  her teacher taught her nothing

20. Will go on prancing’ means the

• spirit of freedom of the tigers will continue to exist
• tigers will dance
•  tigers will kill
• tigers will show tricks

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