1. What is the full name of Kamala Das?
a. Kamala Suraiyya Das
2. When was Kamala Das born?
a. 1934
3. Name the poem written by Kamala Das?
a. My Grandmother’s House
4. Kamala Das was a/an ________.
a. Indian English Poet
5. Kamala Das was called ________.
a. The mother of Modern English Indian Poetry
6. Who acclaimed Kamala Das as ‘The mother of Modern English
Indian Poetry’?
a. The Times
7. In which year did The Times, acclaim Kamala Das as ‘The
mother of Modern English Indian Poetry’?
a. 2009
8. What are the key aspects/ elements in the poetry of Kamala Das?
a. Confessional elements and women’s issues (female sexuality)
9. What are
the themes found in the poetry of Kamala Das?
a. Hypocrisy of marital life and constraints imposed by
Patriarchal Society
10. When the Grandmother died, the house withdrew into _____.
a. Silence
11. What is the tone of the poem, ‘My Grandmother’s House’?
a. Sense of discontent at loss of love
12.
What does the final line in the poem, ‘My Grandmother’s House’ indicate?
a. Unhappiness and disillusioned
13. Whose death is the poet lamenting in the poem, ‘My
Grandmother’s House’?
a. Her grandmother
14. What is the poet describing in the poem, ‘My Grandmother’s House’?
a. The poet’s Grandmother’s house
15. When the grandmother died, the house withdrew into _____.
a. Silence
16. The windows are portrayed as having ____
a. Eyes (Peer through blind eyes of windows)
17. The air in the lost house is described as ____
a. Frozen (Just listen to the frozen air)
18. The poet was proud of ______.
a. Living in such a house. (grandmother’s house)
19. The house is portrayed as a place of ____
a. Love
20. The house became cold and dark when _____
a. The grandmother passed away
21. The predominant sense conveyed by the poem is one of ___
a. Loss
22. What is described as lying behind the bedroom door as a brooding
dog?
a. Memories
23.
What imagery is used to establish the tone of the poem?
a. Nature imagery (cold moon, frozen air) and Animal imagery
(snakes and brooding dog)
24. Whom does the poet address as darling?
a. The readers (implying an intimate relationship) or the
speaker’s husband
25. What does the word brood mean in the poem, ‘My Grandmother’s
House’?
a. To think deeply about something that makes one unhappy
26. What does the poet want to receive at least in small
exchange, as in the poem, ‘My Grandmother’s House’?
a. Love
27. Or in wild despair, pick an armful of ______.
a. Darkness
28. I lived in such a house and was _____ and ____.
a. Proud and loved
29. Pick an armful of darkness to bring it here to lie behind my
____
a. Bedroom door
30.
In which year did the poet Kamala Das breathe her last?
a. 2009
