quiz

1.The pact was signed by the author and Hillary on ______________

June 22 , 1953 at Kathmandu

June 22 , 1953 at Nepal

June 23,1943 at Kathmandu

2.Who is known as Indian Sherpa?

answer choices

Edmund Hillary

Tenzing Norgay

Colonel Hunt

True or False

3. The man who follows while climbing is the anchor

True

False

True or False

4. Colonel Hunt had given Tenzing the flags when they reached the summit

True

False

5. Tenzing and Edmund Hillary reach to the summit of Mount Everest on_________

29 May, 1953

29 June, 1953

19 May, 1963

29 March, 1953

6.When we left Camp ________ on _________morning.

Nine, Friday

Nine, Saturday

7. The leader of the 1952 Swiss expedition

Colonel Hunt

Edmud

Lambert

Hillary

8. Tenzing Norgay raised my arm with my thumb up ________ and _________ saw us and their faces flushed with joy..

(C.W.F) Noyce ad (W.G) Lowe

English mountaineer, Lowe

Newzealand Mountaineer, Noyce

9. Rope being called a symbol of__________

To maintain distance between two

To tie each other

It tied Hillary and Tenzing together, & worked as team

10.Nima's offering carried to the summit by the author

Blue pencil 

Biscuits

Candy

money questions

The speaker of the poem is...........

a poor man 

a middle class person

a rich man

a begger 

2. When the poet/speaker was rich he had many true friends.

True

False

3. Match the 'A' collumn with Collumn 'B' following

A

The poet as a rich man

The poet as a poor man 

Poor man's wife

Rich man 

B

Has few true friends

Had many friends

Is full of worries 

work morning till night 

4 a. Many people visit him for money

True

False

4.b. Compose four lines poem on a Friend

5. Find out the example of Onomatopoeia figure of speech from the poem

A trumpet that he must not blow.

Much have I thought of life and seen.

Hum like bees about their work from morn till night.

Came knocking all day at my door .

6. Choose the two appropriate statements which shows the theme of the poem.

Rich person don't have friends,poor person have many friends.

To get real happiness one must live the life of poor.

The wives of poor person are contented.

Only poor person's friends are true.

6. The rich person became angry when they saw poor ones.

True

False

7. The rhymes scheme of the poem is.

abcb,cbdb,efgh,hijk,lmnm

abcd,efgh,hijk,lnmo,pqrs

abcb,defe,ghih,jklk,mnon

No rhymes scheme

8. Write the rhyming words of first two stanzas are

Ist stanza..........,............IInd stanza............,...........

9. What the importance of money in life according to you.

10. Give the reason for the following.

1) Friends came knocking all day at the poet's door.

11.Match the figure of speech in A with it's appropriate example/line from the poem in B

A

1 Simile

2 Repetition

3 Antithesis

4 Onomatopoeia

B

i About their work from morn till night

ii Then I felt like a child that holds

iii When I had money,money O!

iv Came knocking all day at my door

12. Give the reason for "Poor men's wives hum like bees".

13. The poor men's heart's are always light.

True

False

14. Then felt I like a child that holds" figures of speech in this line is.........

Simile

Alliteration

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

15. The poem Money is taken from the poetic volume......

The collected poems

The soul's destroyer and other poems

The Farmhouse

Non of the above

 16. What kind of friends did the poet have when he was rich ?

 A. true friends B. false friends

: 17. According to the poet, poor people are. A. good B. happier C. false D. money minded

 18. . ....... The rich one's coldly frown........ What does 'coldly frown' refer to ? 

A. Think seriously B. Feeling cold C. remain in unhappiness D. indifferent and uncaring ---William Henry Da 

19. The poet finds the rich are not happier. Because........ 

A. they don't have friends C. they want more money C. best friends D. no friends B. the material richness doesn't give happiness D. they had no true friends 

20 According to the poet, poor people are:

A. good

B. happier

C. false

D. money-minded

21 "The rich one's coldly frown" refers to:

A. Think seriously

B. Feeling cold

C. remain in unhappiness

D. indifferent and uncaring

Answer: D. indifferent and uncaring

22. What kind of friends did the poet have when he was rich?

A. true friends

B. false friends

C. best friends

D. no friends

23. The poet finds the rich are not happier because:

A. they don't have friends

B. the material richness doesn't give happiness

C. they want more money

D. they had no true friends

24. According to the poet, poor people are:

A. good

B. happier

C. false

D. money-minded

25. "The rich one's coldly frown" refers to:

A. Think seriously

B. Feeling cold

C. remain in unhappiness

D. indifferent and uncaring

26. What kind of friends did the poet have when he was rich?

A. true friends

B. false friends

C. best friends

D. no friends

27. The poet finds the rich are not happier because:

A. they don't have friends

B. the material richness doesn't give happiness

C. they want more money

D. they had no true friends

money

father returning home summary

: The poem, Father Returning Home is based on the themes of estrangement and alienation faced by the old people in their twilight years. Dilip Chitre pays attention to his own father’s loneliness and isolation from the man-made world.

The speaker begins by describing the daily routine of his father. On his way back home after an exhausting day, the speaker’s father travels on the late evening train. He does not engage in any conversations with the other commuters in the train. The silence and the unseeing eyes of the speaker’s father show that he is a lonesome human who finds little joy in the company of others. 

The soggy shirt and pants imply that his job requires a lot of hard work. The father’s muddied raincoat and the dilapidated bag also mean that his own mental and physical state is in a terrible condition. Burdened by the load of work and tired of leading a life of monotony, the speaker’s father is a classic example of the modern man caught in the clutches of a meaningless existence and deprived of all spiritual joy. 

Back to home, the father resumes his same routine of drinking weak tea, eating a stale chapati and reading a book. The speaker observes his father contemplating about the paradox of man’s existence. “Man’s estrangement from a man-made world” here refers to the paradox of man’s existence. Though humans have themselves created their society and chosen to toil each day, most humans remain aloof and alienated from this world that is their own creation. 

His body too seems to be giving up on him as he trembles while walking and has greying hair on his wrists. He is deprived of familial joys because of an emotional rift between him and his children. The speaker’s father is thus a tired man deprived of happiness and weighed down by the unchanging nature of human life. No hopes or joys come his way and he is burdened by the monotony of a dull life. 

The subject of this poem is a father figure who can be equated to any man in today’s world. His life routine can be paralleled to that of any modern day human living a meaningless life in midst of a spiritual crisis. The poem is as much a depiction of the mid-life existential crisis of a hardworking father, as it is a comment on the modern man’s dilemma over his meaningless life. The modern man leads a life with no spiritual or emotional fulfilment, which drains out all his zest and zeal to enjoy life. 

Note: Dilip Chitre highlights the daily routine and schedule of his father to portray the isolation and suffering hiding inside his father. His father remains isolated from both, the family and the man-made world

The poem is a Dramatic Monologue, that involves dramatic speech presented by a person to his own self or presented by someone else to reveal the opinion of the writer.

Dilip Chitre was a famous writer, painter and filmmaker of Post-Independence India. His poem, Father Returning Home talks about an aged man, who is left in isolation by his family members in a modern city. The aged man is forced to live in the modern world, even though he reflects his traditional values and roots. You can understand Chitre’s explanation of the aged man’s estrangement from the man-made world by looking at his daily routine; The aged man wears a black coat but chooses to wear traditional chappals even in the rainy season, he carries a bag full of books and travels locally by the train. He doesn’t share much happiness with his children and remains immersed in his books and radio. One thing you can understand by his schedule is that he tries to keep himself distant from the man-made world and is lost in his own misery and loneliness. He doesn’t share the same ideas or the modern world as his children.

estrangement in old age -theme of the poem

How does Dilip Chitre in the poem, Father Returning Home, highlight man's estrangement from a man-made world?

: The poem, Father Returning Home is based on the themes of estrangement and alienation faced by the old people in their twilight years. Dilip Chitre pays attention to his own father’s loneliness and isolation from the man-made world.

: The poem, Father Returning Home is based on the themes of estrangement and alienation faced by the old people in their twilight years. Dilip Chitre pays attention to his own father’s loneliness and isolation from the man-made world.

Complete step-by-step answer:

 The poem is a Dramatic Monologue, that involves dramatic speech presented by a person to his own self or presented by someone else to reveal the opinion of the writer.

Dilip Chitre was a famous writer, painter and filmmaker of Post-Independence India. His poem, Father Returning Home talks about an aged man, who is left in isolation by his family members in a modern city. The aged man is forced to live in the modern world, even though he reflects his traditional values and roots. You can understand Chitre’s explanation of the aged man’s estrangement from the man-made world by looking at his daily routine; The aged man wears a black coat but chooses to wear traditional chappals even in the rainy season, he carries a bag full of books and travels locally by the train. He doesn’t share much happiness with his children and remains immersed in his books and radio. One thing you can understand by his schedule is that he tries to keep himself distant from the man-made world and is lost in his own misery and loneliness. He doesn’t share the same ideas or the modern world as his children.

Note: Dilip Chitre highlights the daily routine and schedule of his father to portray the isolation and suffering hiding inside his father. His father remains isolated from both, the family and the man-made world

 The poem is a Dramatic Monologue, that involves dramatic speech presented by a person to his own self or presented by someone else to reveal the opinion of the writer.

Dilip Chitre was a famous writer, painter and filmmaker of Post-Independence India. His poem, Father Returning Home talks about an aged man, who is left in isolation by his family members in a modern city. The aged man is forced to live in the modern world, even though he reflects his traditional values and roots. You can understand Chitre’s explanation of the aged man’s estrangement from the man-made world by looking at his daily routine; The aged man wears a black coat but chooses to wear traditional chappals even in the rainy season, he carries a bag full of books and travels locally by the train. He doesn’t share much happiness with his children and remains immersed in his books and radio. One thing you can understand by his schedule is that he tries to keep himself distant from the man-made world and is lost in his own misery and loneliness. He doesn’t share the same ideas or the modern world as his children.

Note: Dilip Chitre highlights the daily routine and schedule of his father to portray the isolation and suffering hiding inside his father. His father remains isolated from both, the family and the man-made world

father returning home quiz

Father Returning Home

Complete the following Activities 

1. The Poet used to write in.......... And........... Language 

English and Marathi 

English and Gujarati 

English and Panjabi 

English and Tamil 

2. The present poem is an autobiographical poem 

True

False

3. The poet's father coming home by...... 

Car 

Bus 

Train

Auto 

4. The season described in the poem is......

Winter

Autumn 

Summer 

Rainy

5. The poem is free verse because, it has......... 

Rhythm but no Rhyme 

No Rhyme No Rhythm 

Rhymes but no Rhythm 

Both rhyme and rhythm 

6. Which line from the poem indicates that the poet's father was an old man 

Now I can see him getting off the train 

He will now go to sleep 

His chappals are sticky with mud, but he hurries onward. 

His eyes dimmed by age. 

7. Select the correct options 

 Father's attire is _____

Father's tea is _____

Father's footware is _____

Father's food  is ________

Father's eyesight is _______

Options 

muddy

dim 

soggy

weak 

stale 

8. Refusal of the children to share jokes and secrets indicates......... 

They are angry

Generation Gap

Lack of concern 

Non of the above 

9. The example of Code Mixing from the poem are...... 

Chappals and chapati 

Contemplate and estrangement 

Soggy and suffered 

Non of the above 

10. The figure of speech in the line "Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night" 

Simile 

Metaphor 

Alliteration 

Onomatopoeia 

11.The Poet's father is not happy with present, so he takes shelter in past and future. 

True

False

12. The Past and the Future of poet's father is indicated by the words...... 

Gray platform and rain 

Chappals and chapati 

Ancestors and Grandchildren 

Nomads and S Subcontinent 

13. Find out the line which has the figure of speech onomatopoeia 

Sullen children are often refused to share 

Listening to the static on the radio 

He goes into the toilet to contemplate 

Now I can see him getting off the train. 

14. Which line from the poem indicates that there was rainy season. 

His shirt and pants are soggy and his black raincoat. 

I can see him getting off the train 

He goes into the toilet to contemplate 

The water cold was running over his brown hands 

15. "Now I can see him getting off the train. Like a word dropped from a long sentence" The above line has....... figure of speech. 

Onomatopoeia 

Metaphor 

Alliteration 

Simile 

father returning home appreciation