CBSE Class 12 English Aunt Jennifers Tigers MCQs Set B

Question. Who is the poet of the poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?
(a) Adrienne Rich
(b) Jonathan Aaron
(c) J. H. M. Abbott
(d) Mark Abley

Answer : A

Question. What do you understand by the words ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ in the poem?
(a) The dominant and highly arrogant attitude of the wild animal-tiger
(b) tiger is a wild animal
(c) tiger is hungry
(d) beauty of the tiger

Answer : A

Question. What is Aunt doing in the poem?
(a) Cooking
(b) Embroidery
(c) Reading
(d) Sleeping

Answer : B

Question. Who is a symbol of all married women, as in the poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’?
(a) Tigers
(b) Aunt Jennifer
(c) Adrienne Rich
(d) None of the options

Answer : B

Question. What has been the most important value in the United States, as in the poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’?
(a) Society
(b) Freedom
(c) Fame
(d) Glory

Answer : B

Question. Which year was the poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ written in?
(a) 1952
(b) 1951
(c) 1953
(d) 1954

Answer : B

Question. Which of the following character traits suit Aunt Jennifer?
(a) bold and chivalric
(b) old and submissive
(c) cruel and tyrannical
(d) powerful and authoritarian

Answer : B

Question. Aunt Jennifer’s terrified hands would tell ___________ after her death.
(a) story of her life
(b) her strength to find her ways and beat the fears
(c) her constrained married life
(d) All of the options

Answer : D

Question. The tone of the poem towards the end reflects _____________.
(a) happy moments
(b) resolving situation
(c) remorse and tension
(d) bright future

Answer : C

Question. What is the poet conveying through aunt Jennifer’s tiger?
(a) wild life
(b) courageous tigers
(c) tigers and their courage
(d) female existence and their fear of men

Answer : D

Question. The word ‘chivalric’ in the context means
(a) timid
(b) arrogant
(c) honourable and brave
(d) malicious

Answer : C

Question. The rhyme scheme in stanza one is
(a) aabb
(b) abab
(c) ABC
(d) abbe

Answer : A

Question. The poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ is written by ______.
(a) Aunt Jennifer
(b) Adrienne Rich
(c) Ruskin Bond
(d) Ogden Nash

Answer : B

Question. For Aunt Jennifer, what do the tigers symbolise?
(a) Creative energy of women.
(b) Male-dominated society.
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Liberal society.

Answer : C

Question. Read the statements given below. Choose the option that accurately describes the given statements.
Statement I: The poem is a manifesto against the institution of marriage.
Statement II: Aunt Jennifer represents all women artists.
Statement III: The poem embodies an alternative for women to express their repressed desires through art.
(a) Statement I is True, Statement II is False, Statement III cannot be inferred.
(b) Statement I and III are False, Statement II cannot be inferred.
(c) Statement I and II are True, Statement III cannot be inferred.
(d) Statement I is False, Statement II cannot be inferred, Statement III is True.

Answer : B

Question. What conflict is depicted in the poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’?
(a) Between the rich and poor
(b) Between the impulse to freedom and imagination
(c) Between high class and low class
(d) None of the options

Answer : B

Question. What do women all over the world wedge under, as in the poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’?
(a) Parental control
(b) Family pressure
(c) tyrannical hand of a patriarchal society
(d) None of the options

Answer : C

Question. What does the wedding band symbolise, as in the poem ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’?
(a) true love of the bride & groom
(b) the patriarchal society where the command is defined as masculine
(c) a symbol of authority over each other
(d) All of the options

Answer : B

Question. Choose the option that does NOT reflect what the tigers represent in the poem:
(a) Aunt Jennifer’s undying hopes
(b) Aunt Jennifer’s failing marriage
(c) Aunt Jennifer’s artistic merit
(d) Aunt Jennifer’s frustrations

Answer : B

Extract Based MCQs :

I. When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.

Question. What makes the tigers “proud and unafraid”?
(a) They embody the grandeur and supremacy of animals in the wild.
(b) They symbolise authority and are ‘topaz denizens of green’.
(c) They represent Aunt’s repressed desires for freedom and power.
(d) They are a product of Aunt’s imagination and colonial experience.

Answer : C

Question. Choose the option that DOES NOT reflect the movement implied by ‘prancing’.
(a) Bounding
(b) Frolicking
(c) Strutting
(d) Shuffling

Answer : D

Question. Read the statement given below:
Aunt Jennifer’s plight is best explained by her hands, they hold both her freedom and the instrument of her imprisonment.
Choose the option that best explains the above statement, as per the extract.
(a) Aunt Jennifer’s hands are terrified, but when she is dead, her tigers will roam free.
(b) Aunt Jennifer knits her desires, but is overpowered by the wedding ring she wears.
(c) Aunt Jennifer’s tigers are proud and unafraid, but she is mastered by ringed ordeals.
(d) Aunt Jennifer makes panels of tigers when she has time from her responsibilities.

Answer : B

Question. Which of the following CANNOT be inferred from the given extract?
(a) Aunt Jennifer’s tigers will keep her alive in everyone’s memory.
(b) Aunt Jennifer feels oppressed and constricted in her marriage.
(c) Even in death, Aunt Jennifer cannot escape patriarchal subjugation.
(d) Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance as a lasting symbol of her desires.

Answer : A
 

II Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool,
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band,
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.

Question. What is Aunt Jennifer’s state of mind?
(a) Happy
(b) Peaceful
(c) Sad
(d) Perturbed

Answer : D

Question. Why are Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering?
(a) She is embroidering tigers.
(b) She is nervous.
(c) She is suffering from disease.
(d) She has become old.

Answer : B

Question. What does ‘The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band’ mean?
(a) Bound to live with her husband.
(b) Living away from the husband.
(c) Married to her husband as a child.
(d) Forced to lift uncle’s band daily.

Answer : A

Question. How do fluttering fingers affect Aunt Jennifer?
(a) Embroiders elegant tigers.
(b) Can’t pull the ivory needle.
(c) Keeps her work aside.
(d) All of the options

Answer : B
 

III. Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

Question. What does the phrase, ‘a world of green’ mean?
(a) Grass
(b) Grasslands
(c) Forest
(d) Trees

Answer : C

Question. How are the tigers different from their creator?
(a) Tigers are bold.
(b) Tigers are trained.
(c) Tigers are beautiful.
(d) All of the options

Answer : A

Question. Why are the tigers called ‘Aunt Jennifer’s tigers’?
(a) She has tamed them.
(b) She has trained them.
(c) She has sheltered him.
(d) She has embroidered them.

Answer : D

Question. What does the word, ‘chivalric‘ mean?
(a) Bold as compared to women
(b) Sympathetic towards women
(c) Respectful towards women
(d) Quarrelling with women

Answer : C