Our Casuarina Tree MCQ PDF (One Liner Questions for Quick Revision) | Class 12 | Semester 3 | WBCHSE

1) Toru Dutt was called the – Indian Keats.

2) ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ is taken from the collection – Ancient Legends and Ballads of Hindustan.

3) ‘Like a huge Python’ – Here ‘Python’ refers to – a creeper.

4) The trunk of the Casuarina tree is – rugged.

5) The creeper is compared to a – Python.

6) “Like a huge python, winding round and round” – The figure of speech used here is – Simile.

7) “indented deep with scars” – The scars are caused by – a creeper.

8) The creeper climbs near – the stars.

9) The creeper climbs up to the – summit of the Casuarina tree.

10) “in whose embraces bound” – Who is bound in the embraces? – The creeper.

11) Which adverbs describes the fortitude of the Casuarina tree? – Gallantly.

12) “The giant wears the scarf” – The giant refers to – The Casuarina tree.

13) “The giant wears the scarf” – The scarf refers to – The creeper.

14) “The giant wears the scarf” – The figure of speech used here is – Metaphor.

15) The flowers are hung in – crimson cluster.

16) Who gathered all day on the boughs of the Casuarina Tree? – Birds and bees.

17) Often at nights, the garden overflows with one sweet song that seems to be – endless.

18) The garden overflows with – sweet song.

19) When the garden overflows with the sweet song men – repose / take rest.

20) At dawn the poetess looks at the tree through her – casement.

21) The sight of the Casuarina tree delighted the poetess when – She opens her casement at dawn.

22) About the baboon – (i) colour – grey, (ii) sits like a statue, (iii) on the crest of the Casuarina tree. (iv) watching the sunrise, (v) found mostly in – winter.

23) The puny offspring of the grey baboon – (i) found on the lower branches of the tree, (ii) leaps about and plays.

24) Who hail the day? – The Kolilas.

25) The cows – (i) are sleepy, (ii) go to the pastures.

26) The tree is – hoar / grey.

27) The shadow of the Casuarina tree falls on – a broad tank.

28) The shadow is cast by – The Casuarina Tree.

29) The flower that is found blooming in the water of the broad tank is – water-lily.

30) The flower is compared to – enmassed snow.

31) * “Beneath it we have played” – Here ‘we’ refers to – the poetess’s companions (her brother Abju and sister Aru).

32) The poetess related the nostalgic memory of her – siblings.

33) “Beneath it we have played; though years may roll” – The line is soaked with a note of – nostalgia.

34) The memory of her siblings associated with the Casuarina tree will rise in the mind of the poetess till – hot tears will blur her vision.

35) The poetess fancies that se can hear – dirge-like murmur.

36) The poet compares the dirge-like murmur to – sea breaking on the shingle-beach.

37) The dirge-like murmur is actually – the tree’s lament.

38) The ‘eerie speech’ refers to – lament of the tree.

39) “Unknown, yet well-known to the eye of faith!” The phrase ‘eye of faith’ suggests – religious believers.

40) “Ah, I have heard that wail far, far away” – The wail is for – The Casuarina tree.

41) “Ah, I have heard that wail far, far away” – The wail is for – the siblings of the poetess.

42) The poetess fancies that she has heard the wail in distant lands by – many sheltered bay.

43) Who is slumbered in the cave? – The water-wraith.

44) The waves gently kissed the classic shore of – France or Italy.

45) In the inner vision of the poetess, the tree rose in a form – sublime.

46) Who lay tranced in a dreamless swoon? – the earth.

47) “O Tree, as in my happy prime” – Here ‘happy prime’ refers to – the sweet bygone days spent with her siblings in her native land.

48) The poetess desires to dedicate – a lay or song, in the honour of the Casuarina tree.

49) The poetess is willing to dedicate a lay in the honour of the – Casuarina tree.

50) “those/ Who now in blessed sleep, for aye, repose, / Dearer than life to me, alas! Were they!” – Here ‘they’ refers to – her siblings Aru and Abju

51) “when my days are done” – Here the poetess anticipates – her own death.

52) The poetess desire to immortalize the Casuarina tree through her – poetry / verse.

53) Toru Dutt wishes to perpetuate the Casuarina tree like – the yew trees in Borrowdale.

 54) “like those in Borrowdale” – The figure of speech used here is/are – allusion and simile.

55) The deathless trees are in – Borrowdale.

56) “Fear, trembling Hope, and Death, the skeleton / And Time and shadow” – Toru Dutt borrows these lines from – Wordsworth’s ‘Yew Trees’.

57) “May Love defend thee from Oblivion’s curse” – The figure of speech used here is – Personification.

58) What will defend the Casuarina tree from oblivion’s curse? – Love

59) Who is the speaker in the poem? – A person reminiscing about childhood memories under the tree.

60) What feelings does the speaker associate with the Casuarina tree? – Comfort, security and happy memories.

61) What is the tone of the poem ‘Our Casuarina Tree’? – Bittersweet and nostalgic.