Short Questions with Answer on Our Casuarina Tree' from Ray and Martin Question Bank ,Class 12 Sem 3 2026

  Short Questions with Answer on Our Casuarina Tree' from Ray and Martin Question Bank 

1. 'Our Casuarina Tree' is written by —

Answer: (b) Toru Dutt 

2. Toru Dutt wrote poems both in —

Answer: (c) English and French 

3. 'Our Casuarina Tree' is a poem published in —

Answer: (a) 1881 (Note: Historically published in 1882 in her collection)

4. What kind of a poem is 'Our Casuarina Tree'?

Answer: (a) Ode

5. What is the form of the poem?

Answer: (a) Lyric 

6. Who is the speaker in the poem?

Answer: (c) A person reminiscing about childhood memories under the tree 

7. Where is the tree located according to the poem?

Answer: (c) In the garden of the poet's childhood home 

8. The poet's attitude towards the tree can be described as —

Answer: (b) affection 

9. What does the poem reveal about the poet's childhood?

Answer: (c) It was happy and carefree. 

10. The huge python referred to here is —

Answer: (b) the creeper 

11. How does a creeper wind up the Casuarina tree?

Answer: (a) Round and round like a python making deep wounds up to its summit 

12. Which figure of speech is employed in the line "Like a huge Python, winding round and round..."?

Answer: (a) Simile 

13. The trunk of the tree is —

Answer: (d) rugged 

14. On the trunk of the tree the creeper makes —

Answer: (a) deep scars 

15. A creeper climbs up the Casuarina tree to its very —

Answer: (b) summit 

16. The poet imagines that the summit of the tree has reached the —

Answer: (c) stars 

17. "Up to its very summit near the stars." — What does this line indicate?

Answer: (c) The tree is very tall. 

18. Due to the embrace of the creeper, the other tree would have —

Answer: (c) died 

19. "A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound / No other tree could live." — What does this line tell us about the Casuarina tree?

Answer: (b) The tree is very strong. 

20. How does the poet describe the tree's appearance?

Answer: (a) Tall and majestic 

21. Identify the rhyme scheme of the opening lines: "Like a huge Python, winding round and round / The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars, / Up to its very summit near the stars, / A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound..."

Answer: (c) abba 

22. "The giant wears the scarf..." — 'The giant' here refers to —

Answer: (d) the Casuarina tree 

23. The tree wears the creeper as a —

Answer: (a) scarf 

24. The tree wears the scarf-like creeper —

Answer: (b) gallantly 

25. Which phrase best describes the Casuarina tree in the poem?

Answer: (a) "A giant wears the scarf" 

26. What hangs from the boughs of the Casuarina tree?

Answer: (c) Flowers 

27. What is the colour of the clusters of flowers hanging from the boughs of the Casuarina tree?

Answer: (b) Crimson 

28. The flowers of the tree attract —

Answer: (d) both birds and bees 

29. The sweet song is heard —

Answer: (a) at night 

30. At night, the garden gets overflowed by a sweet song which actually refers to the —

Answer: (a) song of birds 

31. The darkling's song seems —

Answer: (c) to have no close 

32. "Sung darkling from our tree," — Here 'darkling' refers to a —

Answer: (b) bird 

33. The poet looks at the Casuarina tree through her casement —

Answer: (d) at dawn 

34. How does the poet feel when her casement is thrown wide open in the morning?

Answer: (c) Delighted 

35. What is the first thing the poet is delighted to look at in the morning when she opens her window?

Answer: (a) The Casuarina tree 

36. The poet discovers on the top of the tree a —

Answer: (d) baboon 

37. The baboon sits on the top of the Casuarina tree in the season of —

Answer: (a) winter 

38. The colour of the baboon is —

Answer: (b) grey 

39. The grey baboon sits on the crest of the tree —

Answer: (d) alone 

40. How does the grey baboon sit on the top of the tree?

Answer: (b) Like a statue 

41. "A grey baboon sits statue-like alone" implies —

Answer: (b) Here the baboon is perching on the tree's crest observing the sunrise. 

42. On the lower branches, are found the —

Answer: (b) baboon's offspring 

43. The adjective used to describe the offspring of the baboon is —

Answer: (a) puny 

44. What do the baboon's offspring do?

Answer: (c) Leap about and play 

45. Which of the following birds is mentioned in the poem?

Answer: (b) Kokila 

46. In the poem, 'kokilas' mean —

Answer: (c) Cuckoos 

47. In the poem 'Our Casuarina Tree', who are singing?

Answer: (a) Cuckoos 

48. The sleepy cows go to the —

Answer: (b) pastures 

49. The tree's shadow falls on the —

Answer: (a) broad tank 

50. Toru Dutt describes the hoar tree as —

Answer: (d) both (a) & (b) [vast and beautiful] 

51. What spring in the tank?

Answer: (c) Water-lilies 

52. The water-lilies in the tank look like —

Answer: (a) enmassed snow 

53. The literary device used in the line, "The Water-lilies spring, like snow enmassed", is —

Answer: (a) Simile 

54. The Casuarina tree is dear to the poet's —

Answer: (c) soul 

55. The Casuarina tree is dear to the poet because —

Answer: (c) she has many fond memories of the tree 

56. Under the tree the poet played with —

Answer: (a) her sweet companions 

57. What does the poet mean when she says, "Beneath it we have played; though years may roll"?

Answer: (a) The tree reminds her of childhood friends and memories. 

58. The poet had played with her companions under the Casuarina tree —

Answer: (d) many years ago 

59. The 'dear ones' cherished by the poet Toru Dutt are dead —

Answer: (c) relatives 

60. How did the poet love her sweet companions?

Answer: (c) Intensely 

61. The Casuarina tree will be dear to the poet forever for her —

Answer: (d) both (a) & (b) [sweet companions / childhood memories] 

62. 'Blent with your images' — Whose images are being referred to here?

Answer: (b) The poet's siblings' 

63. "...it shall arise" — What is referred to as 'it'?

Answer: (b) The Casuarina tree 

64. Why do hot tears blind the eyes of the poet?

Answer: (a) The poet reminisces her childhood with her siblings who are now in blessed sleep. 

65. The poet could think of the tree until —

Answer: (a) her eyes were drenched with hot tears 

66. What sound does the tree make, according to the poem?

Answer: (a) A dirge-like murmur 

67. "What is that dirge-like murmur that I hear" — The phrase 'dirge-like' implies —

Answer: (c) mournful sound 

68. What does the poet compare the murmur of the tree to?

Answer: (c) The sound of sea waves breaking on a rocky beach 

69. The 'eerie speech' refers to the —

Answer: (a) lament of the tree 

70. The Casuarina tree laments for —

Answer: (c) the poet's companions who are dead 

71. The poet feels that the tree's lament reaches to the —

Answer: (a) unknown lands 

72. The 'eye of faith' refers to —

Answer: (c) imagination of unknown lands through the mind's eyes 

73. What has the poet heard far, far away?

Answer: (a) The wail of the tree 

74. The 'wail' signifies —

Answer: (b) the tree's lament 

75. In the poem, 'water-wraith' means —

Answer: (d) a water spirit 

76. The water-wraith slumbers —

Answer: (a) in his cave 

77. What do the waves do?

Answer: (c) They gently kiss the classic shore. 

78. Which figure of speech is employed in the line "And the waves gently kissed the classic shore"?

Answer: (c) Personification 

79. Toru Dutt describes the shore of France or Italy as —

Answer: (d) classic 

80. When does the earth lay tranced in a dreamless swoon?

Answer: (a) At night 

81. What is meant by the phrase 'dreamless swoon'?

Answer: (c) A state of sleep without dreams 

82. The memory of the Casuarina tree is aroused whenever the poet hears —

Answer: (d) the music of the waves 

83. Where did the sublime form of the tree rise?

Answer: (b) In the poet's inner vision 

84. How does the poet describe the tree's impact on her imagination?

Answer: (d) It sparks her creativity. 

85. When did the poet see the Casuarina tree?

Answer: (a) In her youth 

86. Where did the poet see the Casuarina tree / In her happy prime?

Answer: (c) In her own motherland / (a) her native clime 

87. What does the poet want to do at the end of the poem 'Our Casuarina Tree'?

Answer: (c) She wants to immortalise the memory of the Casuarina tree. 

88. What is the meaning of the word 'consecrate'?

Answer: (b) To declare something sacred 

89. The poetess in 'Our Casuarina Tree' wishes to preserve the tree through her —

Answer: (d) poetry 

90. "...beloved of those / Who now in blessed sleep, for aye, repose," — Who are referred to as 'those'?

Answer: (c) The poet's siblings 

91. "...beloved of those" — What is referred to as 'beloved'?

Answer: (d) The Casuarina tree 

92. What does the phrase 'blessed sleep' signify?

Answer: (c) Death 

93. The beloved companions of the poet are now —

Answer: (a) in eternal sleep 

94. "...when my days are done" — What is the hidden implication of this line?

Answer: (b) The poet awaits her own death. 

95. The deathless trees are seen in —

Answer: (b) Borrowdale 

96. What is 'Borrowdale'?

Answer: (b) A valley in England 

97. The deathless trees in Borrowdale have seen —

Answer: (a) many deaths 

98. "Fear, trembling Hope, and Death, the skeleton, / And Time the shadow;" — From which poem did Toru Dutt take this line?

Answer: (b) Wordsworth's 'Yew Trees' 

99. "...and though weak the verse..." — Which 'verse' is being referred to here?

Answer: (c) The poetry of Toru Dutt 

100. "That would thy beauty fain, oh fain rehearse," — What does this line indicate?

Answer: (a) Though the poet's verse seems weak, it would gladly continue to beautify the Casuarina tree forever. 

101. What is meant by 'Oblivion's curse'?

Answer: (d) Being forgotten after death 

102. What will the poet's love protect the Casuarina tree from?

Answer: (b) Being forgotten 

103. What feeling(s) does the speaker associate with the Casuarina tree?

Answer: (c) Comfort, security and happy memories 

104. What is the tone of the poem 'Our Casuarina Tree'?

Answer: (c) Bittersweet and nostalgic 

105. The Casuarina tree in the poem is a symbol of —

Answer: (c) strength and resilience 

106. What is the main theme explored in 'Our Casuarina Tree'?

Answer: (d) The passage of time and childhood memories 

107. What is the poet trying to convey through her poem?

Answer: (a) A sense of belonging and the comfort of cherished moments from the past. 

108. What does the poem reveal about the poet's relationship with nature?

Answer: (b) She sees nature as a source of inspiration. 

109. How does the poet describe the tree's presence in her life?

Answer: (c) As a constant companion 

110. The tree is important to the poet because —

Answer: (c) it brings back her childhood memories 

111. What is the poet's attitude towards change and separation?

Answer: (c) She is nostalgic and melancholic about change and separation. 

112. What is the significance of the poem's title 'Our Casuarina Tree'?

Answer: (c) It signifies the poet's memories of her childhood through the image of the tree. 

113. What is the significance of the poem's ending?

Answer: (c) It signifies the poet's continued nostalgia. 

114. The Casuarina tree becomes —

Answer: (a) a symbol of unity bringing the poet's past, her family, her native land and her present all together 

115. What is the poet's message through this poem about the importance of memories?

Answer: (b) Memories are important and should be cherished.