70 MCQs on Toru Dutt's poem "Our Casuarina Tree.

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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