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  1. "Beneath it we have played; though years may roll, / O sweet companions, loved with love intense, / For your sakes shall the tree be ever dear." These lines are from —
    1. The Lotus
    2. Our Casuarina Tree
    3. Lakshman
    4. Sita
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    Answer: (B) Our Casuarina Tree

    They come from stanza 3 of "Our Casuarina Tree" by Toru Dutt.

  2. "Our Casuarina Tree" was written by —
    1. Sarojini Naidu
    2. Toru Dutt
    3. Kamala Das
    4. Sri Aurobindo
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    Answer: (B) Toru Dutt

    It is Toru Dutt’s best known poem.

  3. In the opening lines the creeper round the tree is compared to —
    1. a python
    2. a rope
    3. a serpent of fire
    4. a garland
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    Answer: (A) a python

    Like a huge Python, winding round and round — the most quoted image in Indian English poetry.

  4. The poem appears in which collection?
    1. A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields
    2. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
    3. The Golden Threshold
    4. Summer in Calcutta
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    Answer: (B) Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan

    It was published in Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan in 1882, after her death.

  5. Toru Dutt died at the age of —
    1. eighteen
    2. twenty-one
    3. twenty-five
    4. thirty
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    Answer: (B) twenty-one

    She died of tuberculosis at twenty-one.

  6. Why is the tree dear to the poet?
    1. It gives the best shade
    2. Her brother and sister played beneath it
    3. It was planted by her father
    4. It bears sweet fruit
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    Answer: (B) Her brother and sister played beneath it

    The tree is a memorial to the dead companions of her childhood.

  7. In the poem, the water-lilies in the tank are compared to —
    1. scattered stars
    2. snow enmassed
    3. white sails
    4. floating lamps
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    Answer: (B) snow enmassed

    They spring and look like snow enmassed — a cool, massed whiteness.

  8. Where does the poet say she has heard the tree’s lament?
    1. In Calcutta and Delhi
    2. In France and Italy
    3. In England and Scotland
    4. In Japan and China
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    Answer: (B) In France and Italy

    The sound follows her to France and Italy, because it comes from memory.

  9. The rhyme scheme of each stanza is —
    1. ababccdd
    2. abba cddc eee
    3. ababbcbcc
    4. aabbccddeee
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    Answer: (B) abba cddc eee

    Two enclosed quatrains and a closing triplet.

  10. Each stanza of the poem has —
    1. eight lines
    2. nine lines
    3. eleven lines
    4. fourteen lines
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    Answer: (C) eleven lines

    Eleven lines, in iambic pentameter.

  11. Which English poet is echoed in the closing stanza?
    1. Keats
    2. Wordsworth
    3. Shelley
    4. Tennyson
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    Answer: (B) Wordsworth

    The ending echoes Wordsworth, who wrote of yew-trees in the same spirit.

  12. Toru Dutt is often described as the —
    1. Nightingale of India
    2. Keats of Indo-English literature
    3. Father of Indian English poetry
    4. Mother of Indian fiction
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    Answer: (B) Keats of Indo-English literature

    The comparison with Keats reflects her early death and her sensuous gift.

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