70 MCQs on Toru Dutt's poem "Our Casuarina Tree.
MCQs from "Our Casuarina Tree"
MCQ on Toru Dutt's poem "Our Casuarina Tree.
🌳 Stanza 1: Imagery and Nature
1. What is winding around the Casuarina tree?
a) A vine
b) A huge python
c) A creeper
d) A rope
Answer: c) A creeper
2. What poetic device is used in the line "Like a huge python, winding round and round"?
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Personification
d) Alliteration
Answer: b) Simile
3. What is the "giant" referred to in the poem?
a) The creeper
b) The python
c) The Casuarina tree
d) The poet
Answer: c) The Casuarina tree
4. What color are the flowers mentioned in the stanza?
a) Yellow
b) White
c) Crimson
d) Blue
Answer: c) Crimson(
5. What creatures gather on the tree during the day?
a) Birds and bees
b) Monkeys and squirrels
c) Butterflies and ants
d) Cows and goats
Answer: a) Birds and bees
🌅 Stanza 2: Morning Scene and Wildlife
6. What does the poet do at dawn?
a) Goes for a walk
b) Opens her casement
c) Waters the tree
d) Feeds the birds
Answer: b) Opens her casement
7. What animal is described as sitting alone on the tree's crest?
a) A gray baboon
b) A parrot
c) A peacock
d) A squirrel
Answer: a) A gray baboon
8. What do the baboon's offspring do?
a) Sleep
b) Leap about and play
c) Eat fruits
d) Sing
Answer: b) Leap about and play()
9. Which birds are mentioned as hailing the day?
a) Sparrows
b) Cuckoos
c) Kokilas
d) Nightingales
Answer: c) Kokilas
10. What blooms in the shadow of the tree on the broad tank?
a) Lotuses
b) Water-lilies
c) Roses
d) Lilies
Answer: b) Water-lilies
💭 Stanza 3: Personal Memories and Emotions
11. Why is the Casuarina tree dear to the poet?
a) Because of its beauty
b) Because it provides shade
c) Because of memories with her loved ones
d) Because it's rare
Answer: c) Because of memories with her loved ones
12. What does the poet recall doing beneath the tree?
a) Sleeping
b) Playing
c) Reading
d) Singing
Answer: b) Playing
13. What is the "dirge-like murmur" the poet hears?
a) The wind
b) The tree's lament
c) Birds chirping
d) Water flowing
Answer: b) The tree's lament
14. What does the poet compare the murmur to?
a) A lullaby
b) A sea breaking on a shingle-beach
c) A thunderstorm
d) A whisper
Answer: b) A sea breaking on a shingle-beach
🌍 Stanza 4: Distant Lands and Universal Connection
15. Where has the poet heard the tree's wail?
a) Only in her homeland
b) In distant lands by sheltered bays
c) In dreams
d) In forests
Answer: b) In distant lands by sheltered bays
16. What mythical figure is mentioned in this stanza?
a) Mermaid
b) Water-wraith
c) Fairy
d) Elf
Answer: b) Water-wraith
17. What does the poet see in her inner vision?
a) A new tree
b) A form sublime of the Casuarina tree
c) Her childhood home
d) A distant mountain
Answer: b) A form sublime of the Casuarina tree
🕊️ Stanza 5: Immortality and Tribute
18. What does the poet wish to consecrate to the tree?
a) A song
b) A monument
c) A lay (poem)
d) A painting
Answer: c) A lay (poem)()
19. What does the poet hope for the tree after her death?
a) That it will be cut down
b) That it will be forgotten
c) That it will be remembered among deathless trees
d) That it will bear more flowers
Answer: c) That it will be remembered among deathless trees
20. Which poet's work is alluded to in the final stanza?
a) John Keats
b) William Wordsworth
c) Robert Frost
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b) William Wordsworth
Part-B
1. What creeps up the casuarina tree in the opening line?
A) A snake
B) A creeper (✔)
C) A bird
D) A monkey
2. What is the creeper compared to in the poem?
A) A ribbon
B) A python (✔)
C) A vine
D) A rope
3. What is meant by "girth"?
A) Height
B) Width
C) Thickness around the trunk (✔)
D) Color
4. What does the creeper do to the tree?
A) Kills it
B) Strangles it like a snake (✔)
C) Decorates it
D) Waters it
5. What hangs on the tree like a scarlet blaze?
A) Creepers
B) Flowers (✔)
C) Leaves
D) Birds
6. What does "gargoyle" refer to in this poem?
A) A fairy
B) A scary face
C) An old tree with twisted roots (✔)
D) A statue
7. What type of tree is mentioned in the poem?
A) Peepal
B) Banyan
C) Casuarina (✔)
D) Neem
8. What does the tree appear to do in the poet’s imagination?
A) Dance
B) Moan and groan (✔)
C) Laugh
D) Whisper
9. Which animal is seen on the tree at night?
A) Dog
B) Owl (✔)
C) Bat
D) Snake
10. What do the flowers in the tree symbolize?
A) Hope
B) Blood
C) Beauty (✔)
D) Sorrow
11. Where do the gray baboon sit in the morning?
A) In the house
B) On the swing
C) On the tree’s crest (✔)
D) On the grass
12. What does the poet hear from the tree?
A) A lullaby
B) A song
C) A melodious cry (✔)
D) A cry of pain
13. What plays in the tree’s shadow?
A) Deer
B) Children (✔)
C) Monkeys
D) Birds
14. How does the poet describe the day?
A) Long
B) Lazy
C) Lovely (✔)
D) Warm
15. What lies under the shadow of the tree?
A) A river
B) A field
C) A sleeping buffalo (✔)
D) A cart
16. What do the poet’s thoughts travel to?
A) Her garden
B) Her school
C) Her childhood (✔)
D) Her future
17. What do the tree and its memories bring to the poet?
A) Joy
B) Sorrow (✔)
C) Pride
D) Anger
18. Who are the 'dear departed' mentioned in the poem?
A) Teachers
B) Friends
C) Relatives
D) Siblings and loved ones (✔)
19. What does the tree become in memory?
A) A ghost
B) A statue
C) A living symbol of love (✔)
D) A warning
20. What does the poet wish for the tree?
A) That it be cut down
B) That it live forever (✔)
C) That it bear fruit
D) That it become famous
21. What kind of tone does the poet use?
A) Humorous
B) Satirical
C) Melancholic and nostalgic (✔)
D) Angry
22. What do the birds do in the tree?
A) Sleep
B) Sing and chirp (✔)
C) Fly away
D) Attack
23. Why does the poet cherish the tree?
A) It gives fruit
B) It is beautiful
C) It connects her with memories of the past (✔)
D) It gives shade
24. What sound is described as “dirge-like murmur”?
A) The bird’s call
B) The owl’s cry
C) The sea's wave
D) The tree’s rustling (✔)
25. Which poetic device is used in “like a huge python”?
A) Metaphor
B) Simile (✔)
C) Irony
D) Hyperbole
26. What is the main theme of the poem?
A) Love and politics
B) Nature and memory (✔)
C) War and peace
D) Science and religion
27. How is the Casuarina tree treated by the poet?
A) With fear
B) With anger
C) With reverence and love (✔)
D) With confusion
28. What literary device is used in “girt like a huge python”?
A) Irony
B) Alliteration
C) Simile (✔)
D) Apostrophe
29. What is the tone of the final stanza?
A) Hopeful (✔)
B) Comical
C) Mournful
D) Neutral
30. What does the poet seek from the tree at the end?
A) Shade
B) Fragrance
C) Immortality in verse (✔)
D) A branch
31. Who are “they” in “They are dead”?
A) Teachers
B) Children
C) Her siblings (✔)
D) Birds
32. The poet wishes the tree to be blessed by—
A) The king
B) The villagers
C) The unknown bard (✔)
D) The gods
33. What does the poet mean by “the sweet companions of my youth”?
A) Books
B) Childhood friends and siblings (✔)
C) Teachers
D) Pets
34. What emotion does the tree awaken in the poet?
A) Anger
B) Hatred
C) Fond remembrance (✔)
D) Disgust
35. Which color is used to describe the blossoms?
A) Blue
B) Scarlet (✔)
C) Yellow
D) White
36. The line “a vast trunk, clad with the creeper” shows—
A) The tree is dying
B) The tree is protected
C) The tree is overgrown (✔)
D) The tree is new
37. The baboon is accompanied by—
A) His mother
B) His wife
C) His offspring (✔)
D) A bird
38. What kind of days are spent under the tree?
A) Busy days
B) Sad days
C) Happy and peaceful days (✔)
D) Rainy days
39. “Unknown bard” refers to—
A) Shakespeare
B) Homer
C) A future poet (✔)
D) A village singer
40. Which part of the tree is described as “rugged trunk”?
A) The top
B) The base (✔)
C) The branch
D) The leaf
41. What figure of speech is present in “a tree which wounds once healed”?
A) Oxymoron
B) Alliteration
C) Personification (✔)
D) Simile
42. The poet wants the tree to be sung in—
A) Prose
B) Verses (✔)
C) Stories
D) Paintings
43. The “giant tree” is symbolic of—
A) The British Empire
B) Strength and memory (✔)
C) Fear
D) Danger
44. What literary form is "Our Casuarina Tree"?
A) Sonnet
B) Ode
C) Ballad
D) Epic
45. The poem is a tribute to—
A) The nation
B) Childhood memories and lost loved ones (✔)
C) Nature
D) Religion
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46. The poem was written by Toru Dutt in—
A) France
B) India (✔)
C) England
D) Germany
47. Toru Dutt died at a—
A) Very old age
B) Young age (✔)
C) Middle age
D) Unknown time
48. What is the mood of the poem?
A) Dark
B) Joyful
C) Nostalgic (✔)
D) Boring
49. “Tree dearer far than life” shows—
A) Love and devotion (✔)
B) Dislike
C) Hatred
D) Excitement
50. “And oft at nights the garden overflows with one sweet song”—what does this signify?
A) Music from radio
B) Baboon singing
C) Bird’s melody (✔)
D) Rain
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