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
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