Question : Who is the author of the lesson Memories of childhood?
a) Zitkala-Sa and Bama
b) Emily Brontë
c) Charles Dickens
d) None
Answer : A
Question : What does the story present?
a) An autobiography of the author
b) An autobiography of a man
c) An autobiographical episode from the lives of two women
d) None
Answer : C
Question : What are the names of the two women?
a) Zitkala Sa a Native American and Bama Tamilian Dalit
b) Zitkala and Sa
c) Ba and Ma
d) Annan and Bama
Answer : A
Question : What advice did Annan give to Bama?
a) to go away from the place
b) to leave the house
c) to study hard and progress to rise above all shackels of indignity
d) All
Answer : C
Question : Who was Zitkala Sa?
a) A tamilian
b) A protester
c) A native American
d) None
Answer : C
Question : What did Zitkala Sa find?
a) discrimination against native American culture and women
b) her dignity was in danger
c) women were in danger
d) all these
Answer : A
Question : What did the cutting of long hair of Zitkala Sa symbolise in the lesson?
a) subjection to the rulers
b) her wish to dominate
c) her wish to get justice
d) her wish to look modern
Answer : A
Question : Who is Bama's brother?
a) A boy
b) A young boy
c) Annan
d) None
Answer : C
Question : How much time did Bama take to reach home?
a) 2 hours
b) 3hours
c) 4hours
d) 1 hour
Answer : D
Question : What is the meaning of childhood memories?
a) memories with a child
b) memories of the times spent with a child
c) memories of olden times
d) memories formed during childhood period
Answer : D
Question : Why did Bama reach home in one hour in place of 10 minutes?
a) she was watching shows on the road
b) she was stopping at every shop
c) she was enjoying all fun on the roads
d) all these
Answer : D
Question : What did Zitkala Sa feel when her long hair was cut?
a) oppression and victimization
b) happy and delidhted
c) relaxed
d) None
Answer : A
Question : What was Bama victim of?
a) gender prejudice
b) violence
c) child abuse
d) caste system
Answer : D
Question : What did Annan tell Bama?
a) Education is the only way to break the chains of caste system
b) running away is the only way out to solve the problem
c) keeping quiet is the only way to solve the issue
d) none
Answer : A
Question : What did Zitkala mean by Eating By Formula?
a) Set pattern of sitting
b) set pattern of standing in lines
c) set pattern of rules
d) set pattern of eating decorum
Answer : D
Question : Why did Zitkala not like her hair cut?
a) because her mother told her that mourners and cowards keep such hair.
b) she liked long hair
c) she wanted different style
d) she didn't like anyone to touch her hair
Answer : A
Question : Who told Bama that untouchability is a crime?
a) her mother
b) Zitkala and Sa
c) her sister
d) Her brother Annan
Answer : D
Question : What comic incident did Bama mention to her brother?
a) a man bringing vadas for his landlord by holding the vada packet by a string.
b) a man bringing vadas in a basket
c) a man bringing vadas in a tiffin
d) all these
Answer : A
Question : Which community does Bama belong to?
a) rich
b) Brahmins
c) Untouchable low caste
d) None
Answer : C
Question : What is the meaning of untouchability?
a) segregating a minority from the mainstream social group
b) not to touch anyone
c) keep distance from
d) none
Answer : A
Question : Why did Zitkala find Eating by formula a hard trial?
a) because of her inability to follow the bell taps
b) because of too many rules
c) because of restrictions
d) none
Answer : A
Question : What attracted Bama in the street?
a) monkeys
b) the cyclist
c) Pongal offerings
d) all these
Answer : D
Question : Why did Zitkala feel oppressed in her new establishment?
a) because of indignities shown to her
b) because she didn't like the place
c) she wanted to be with her mother
d) none
Answer : A
Question : When did Bama first come to know of social discrimination?
a) in class 1
b) when she was in class 3
c) when she was in class 2
d) when she was in class 4
Answer : B
Question : Why did the Landlord's man ask Bama's brother on which street did they live?
a) to know his class
b) to know his background
c) to know his work
d) to know his caste
Answer : D
Question : "I felt like sinking to the floors" why did Zitkala feel so?
a) because her blanket was stripped off from her shoulders and she felt uncomfortable
b) because she didn't like her short hair
c) because she didn't like her dress
d) because she felt cold
Answer : A
Question : What did Judewin tell Zitkala?
a) A new dress is comimng
b) she will meet her mother
c) she will go to a new place
d) her hair would be cut
Answer : D
Question : How did Bama earn respect of the people of higher class?
a) by shopping
b) by spending money
c) by studying hard and earning first position in her class
d) all these
Answer : C
Question : What sort of shows attracted Bama?
a) shows by jugglers
b) shows by monkeys
c) shows by shopkeepers
d) shows by political people
Answer : D
Question : Why was Zitkala in tears on her first day in the land of apples?
a) because of new environment
b) cultural differences
c) eating by formula and cutting of her hair
d) all these
Answer : D
Question : What was common between Bama and Zitkala?
a) belonged to minority
b) victims of cultural differences
c) were struggling because of class
d) all these
Answer : D
Question : Why did Zitkala start crying at the dining table ?
a) she didn't like the food
b) she was a stranger
c) because of eating by formula
d) all these
Answer : C
Question : Why did Zitkala hide herself?
a) to save herself
b) to save herself from a woman
c) to save herself from other chidren
d) to stop people from cutting her hair
Answer : D
Question : How did the scene in the market change Bama's life?
a) because of that she decided to study hard and stand against discrimination
b) she became fearful
c) she became stubborn
d) she was irritated
Answer : A
Question : What was the author's original name?
a) Zitkala
b) Zitkala sa
c) Zitkala Bama
d) Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
Answer : D
Question : What did the story showcase?
a) Discrimination on the basis of casteism specially with Indians in western culture
b) difference of Indian and Western culture
c) views of minorities
d) none
Answer : A
Question : What was the name of the school where Zitkala studied?
a) Carlisle Indian school
b) Carlisle Western school
c) Carlisle Indonesian school
d) Carlisle American school
Answer : A
Question : What is Belfry?
a) part of a bell tower
b) part of a tower
c) part of a music tower
d) part of a silver tower
Answer : A
Question : Which family did Bama belog to?
a) A jewish family
b) a rich family
c) a poor catholic family
d) all
Answer : C
Question : What had hurt Bama in the society?
a) Political plays
b) class students
c) Road shows
d) Practice of untouchability
Answer : D
Short / Long Answer Type Questions-
Question : ”It is better to have tried & failed than never to have tried at all”.How would you relate this observation to the author of the episode “The cutting of my Long Hair.”?
Answer : Revolt Against the practice , thoughts coming in to her related to a culture or ultimate forceful cutting of hair.
Question : What contrast do you find between the author & her friend,Judewin’s view about hair-shingling ?
Answer : Author opposed, Judewin’s accepted ,that is their character traits.
Question : From your study of the episode & the intensity with which the author misses her mother,what idea do you form about the role of a mother in a child’s life?
Answer : Mother first friend , guide , facilitator, moulds the entire life of a child.
Question : Sparks of rebellion can be witnessed right from one’s childhood. Explain co-relation between the text “ The Cutting Of My Long Hair” and the society at large.
Answer : Her revolt against her cutting of the hair.
Question : Elicit an example of discrimination which you may have witnessed in the society around you. How did it affect your personality?
Answer : the untouchables not allowed in the temple – felt sympathy towards them.
