Chapter 6 - 

The Bangle Sellers-Sarojini Naidu

 

1. The poet of the poem, "The Bangle Sellers' is -

(a) Sarojini Naidu         (b) Toru Dutt         

(c) Kamala Das         (d) Jhumpa Lahiri 

Ans: (a)


2. The Bangle Sellers was published in -

(a) 1902          (b) 1912        

(c) 1918         (d) 1922

Ans: (b)


3. The narrator of this poem is -

(a) the poet             (b) the maiden          

(c) the bride        (d) the bangle sellers

Ans: (d)


4. The bangle sellers sell their bangles in a/the -

(a) city market         (b) temple fair          

(c) roadside             (d) train compartment

Ans: (b)


5. The bangle sellers are -

(a) affluent          (b) lazy           

(c) hard-working          (d) disciplined

Ans: (c)


7. The 'Rainbow-tinted circles of light' refers to -

(a) the maiden            (b) the bride          

(c) the middle-aged woman       (d)  bangles

Ans: (d)


8. The colourful bangles are the symbol of -

(a) happiness          (b) sadness        

(c) depression        (d) suffering

Ans: (a)


9. "Silver and blue-coloured bangles" are compared to the -

(a) rainbow-tinted circles         (b) radiant lives         

(c) mountain mist         (d) bloom that cleaves

Ans: (c)


10. The colour related to the life of a young maiden is -

(a) blue         (b) pink         

(c) silver          (d) yellow

Ans: (a)


11. In the third stanza, the bangle sellers describe the bangles, suitable for a -

(a) bride on her bridal morning         (b) young unmarried girl       

(c) married woman       (d) middle-aged woman

Ans: (a)


15. The symbolic significance of the bangles, mentioned in the third stanza is -

 (a) love and hate        (b) happiness and sorrow     

(c) tranquility        (d) limpid

Ans: (b) 



16. In the third stanza, the bangle sellers depict that the colour of the bangles are of -

(a) green like fields of corn        (b) reddish yellow flame of marriage        

(c) gold-flecked grey       (d) both (a) and (b)

Ans: (d)


17. Along with yellow, the other colour that the speaker uses in the third stanza is -

(a) blue         (b) pink         

(c) black        (d) reddish

Ans: (d)


18. The colour red allegorically hints at -

(a) blood        (b) heart's desire       

(c) hate        (d) battle

Ans: (b)


19. The golden or yellow coloured bangles are suitable for a -

(a) bride         (b) groom       

(c) maiden          (d) none of these

Ans: (a)


20. An Indian wife and mother takes care of her family with -

(a) enmity            (b) detaste          

(c) pride           (d) faithfulness

Ans: (c)