Our Casuarina Tree MCQ

Correct Answer: (D) Toru Dutt.

Explanation: Toru Dutt, an Indian Bengali poet, wrote the poem ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ in 1873 during the final years of her life.

Correct Answer: (C) Tarulatta Dutta.

Explanation: Toru Dutt’s childhood name was Tarulatta Dutta, but she was popularly known as Toru Dutt.

Correct Answer: (A) March 4, 1856.

Explanation: The Indian Bengali poetess Toru Dutt was born on March 4, 1856 at 12 Maniktollah Street, Rambagan, Calcutta, Bengal, British India.

Correct Answer: (D) Christianity.

Explanation: Along with her family, Toru Dutt embraced Christianity later in life, a shift that profoundly influenced her personal views and cross-cultural themes.

Correct Answer: (C) Indo-Anglian poetry.

Explanation: Toru Dutt is regarded as a foundational figure in Indo-Anglian poetry, paving the way for future generations of Indian authors writing in English.

Correct Answer: (A) 1874.

Explanation: Toru Dutt’s literary debut occurred in 1874 when her earliest essay and translations began appearing in local publication channels like the Bengal Magazine.

Correct Answer: (D) Kolkata.

Explanation: Born in an aristocratic family in Kolkata (then Calcutta) Toru Dutt received her primary education and tutoring in this cultural hub.

Correct Answer: (A) 1862.

Explanation: Led by her father Govind Chandra Dutt the entire family officially converted and was baptized into Christianity in the year 1862.

Correct Answer: (B) 1869.

Explanation: In 1869 the Dutt family left India and traveled to Europe making Toru and her sister among the first Bengali girls to make a sea voyage to the West.

Correct Answer: (A) 1881.

Explanation: Her most famous lyrical literary piece ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ was originally published in the year 1881.

Correct Answer: (D) Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan.

Explanation: The poignant poem ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ is a core inclusion within Toru Dutt’s famous posthumous poetry collection Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan.

Correct Answer: (D) Casuarina.

Explanation: The specific tree celebrated throughout the verses of the poem as a symbol of nostalgic childhood memories is the Casuarina tree.

Correct Answer: (A) a serene garden.

Explanation: Toru Dutt chooses a serene garden as the setting of the poem, which serves as the peaceful backdrop where she fondly recalls her childhood.

Correct Answer: (A) Aru and Abju.

Explanation: In her autobiographical poem ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ Toru Dutt mentions her two dear siblings Aru and Abju, whose memory and companionship are deeply intertwined with her love for the tree.

Correct Answer: (C) personal relation.

Explanation: Toru Dutt, in her autobiographical poem, presents the tree as a powerful symbol of her intense emotional bond with her two dear lost siblings, so the is obviously a deep personal one.

Correct Answer: (A) childhood.

Explanation: The Casuarina tree, the central to the poet’s happy memories, represents the innocence and joy of her early childhood spent with her brother and sister.

Correct Answer: (C) majestic and grand.

Explanation: Toru Dutt describes the tree as majestic and grand, standing tall as a magnificent giant covered in a colorful creeper that acts like a scarf.

Correct Answer: (B) a creeper.

Explanation: In the poem ‘python’ refers to a massive creeper winding tightly around the rugged trunk, winding up like a huge snake up to its summit.

Correct Answer: (B) nature.

Explanation: Using the grand Casuarina tree as a bridge to her deepest personal emotions and memories, Toru Dutt, in this poem, presents her strong connection with nature.

Correct Answer: (B) winter.

Explanation: The poet presents winter, which is highlighted when a gray baboon sitting alone like a statue on the tree’s crest at dawn.

Correct Answer: (D) a python.

Explanation: The creature described as wrapping around the tree is a python, which wraps tightly around the rugged trunk of the tree.

Correct Answer: (B) rough.

Explanation: In the poem the trunk of the tree is described as rough and rugged, bearing deep marks and scars where the python-like creeper winds tightly around it.

Correct Answer: (B) dusk.

Explanation: At the end of the first stanza it is clearly mentioned the garden overflowing with a sweet song at night while men repose, which means the time of day is dusk.

Correct Answer: (A) the Casuarina tree.

Explanation: Here the ‘giant’ refers to the majestic Casuarina tree which is deeply intertwined with the poet’s childhood memories.

Correct Answer: (C) crimson blooms

Explanation: Toru Dutt mentions bright crimson blooms seen hanging in clusters all among the boughs of the tree, attracting birds and bees to its colorful branches.

Correct Answer: (C) a murmur.

Explanation: In her autobiographical poem ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ Toru Dutt symbolically evokes the tree’s sound as a gentle, mysterious murmur which is considered as tree’s emotional lament.

Correct Answer: (C) birds and bees.

Explanation: It is clearly mentioned that all day vibrant birds and bees gather among all the boughs with bright crimson flowers.

Correct Answer: (A) darkling.

Explanation: At night the sweet melody of one overflowing the garden is described as being sung darkling (in the dark) from the tree while human beings rest.

Correct Answer: (D) in the morning.

Explanation: The poem clearly states that far and near the kokilas (cuckoos) wake up to hail the dawn.

Correct Answer: (B) it beautifies the scene.

Explanation: According to Toru Dutt, the giant Casuarina tree enhances the atmosphere with a grey baboon sitting statue-like on the top of the tree and its offspring leaping about and playing, cuckoos singing, and water-lilies blooming in its shadow.

Correct Answer: (D) dawn.

Explanation: The poet explicitly states that her casement (window) is thrown wide open at dawn.

Correct Answer: (B) window.

Explanation: When the poet wide opens her casement (window) at dawn, her eyes instantly fall on the majestic Casuarina tree and become delighted.

Correct Answer: (D) winter.

Explanation: In winter the poet most often observes the tree’s top because, at that time, generally a grey baboon sits statue-like alone on its crest.

Correct Answer: (D) alone.

Explanation: Mostly in winter the poet observes a grey baboon sits completely statue-like alone on the very top branch of the tree.

Correct Answer: (B) the sunrise.

Explanation: At dawn, it is mentioned that a gray baboon, sitting statue-like alone on the very top of the tree, quietly watches the beautiful sunrise.

Correct Answer: (D) small and weak.

Explanation: When the gray baboon watches the sunrise, sitting on the top of the tree, its young offspring actively leap about and and play in the lower branches of the tree.

Correct Answer: (D) pastures.

Explanation: As far and near kokilas (cuckoos) hail the day, the sleepy cows are slowly headed out towards their pastures (open grazing fields).

Correct Answer: (C) broad tank.

Explanation: The giant casuarina tree casts its vast, beautiful shadow directly on the water of the broad tank by the tree.

Correct Answer: (D) snow.

Explanation: The white water-lilies blooming beautifully in the water tank are described as looking snow enmassed.

Correct Answer: (B) the tree’s beauty is not the reason for its importance.

Explanation: By the phrase ‘not because of its magnificence’, the poet clarifies that the tree is precious to her because of the sweet childhood memories shared with her siblings beneath it, rather than just its grand physical appearance.

Correct Answer: (C) dear to her soul.

Explanation: The poet considers the Casuarina tree dear to her soul because of its very deep connection to her childhood memories shared with her beloved siblings beneath it.

Correct Answer: (D) playing.

Explanation: The poet fondly remembers her childhood memories of the sweet, carefree days when she and her siblings used to play together underneath its massive branches.

Correct Answer: (C) love.

Explanation: Toru Dutt enjoys an emotional warmth of love, an intense affection with her siblings beneath her dear Casuarina tree.

Correct Answer: (B) the memories of her companions.

Explanation: The poet firmly believes that the Casuarina tree will forever hold a special place in her heart because of her childhood memories of her childhood companions, her beloved brother and sister, with whom she played beneath the grand Casuarina tree.

Correct Answer: (B) sorrow.

Explanation: By this poignant phrase ‘hot tears blind mine eyes’, the poet conveys her overwhelming grief as she remembers her deceased siblings, Aru and Abju.

Correct Answer: (A) the tree’s lament.

Explanation: The phrase actually indicates the rustling of the tree’s leaves that is personified as a mournful song or funeral chant, expressing deep sympathy and grief for the poet’s heavy personal losses.

Correct Answer: (D) the sea crashing against a shingle.

Explanation: To the poet, the mournful murmur of the tree is like the sound of the sea waves crashing against a pebbled shoreline.

Correct Answer: (D) her infancy.

Explanation: According to Toru Dutt’s thinking, the mournful murmur of the tree is so powerful that it can travel across space and reach the mysterious, distant land where her deceased siblings now rest.

Correct Answer: (B) mysterious but somewhat familiar.

Explanation: By this phrase the poet signifies the unknown, well-known life after death, the life which remains physically hidden and mysterious, but it is deeply familiar and real through one’s spiritual intuition and belief.

Correct Answer: (C) France or Italy.

Explanation: In the poem the poet clearly mentions two European countries, France and Italy, where she thinks she still can hear the mournful, nostalgic echo of her dear Casuarina tree in her mind.

Correct Answer: (C) the water spirit.

Explanation: The poem mentions the water-wraith slumbers in his cave, emphasizing the peaceful silence in the landscape.

Correct Answer: (D) shore.

Explanation: The poet describes the sea waves gently kissed the classic shore of France or Italy, beneath the bright moonlight.

Correct Answer: (B) classic.

Explanation: The poet explicitly mentions the sea waves gently kissed the classic shore of France or Italy.

Correct Answer: (A) moonlight.

Explanation: Toru Dutt imagines the landscape of these two European countries illuminated by moonlight, as noted in the line describing the shores of France or Italy ‘beneath the moon’.

Correct Answer: (D) in a deep sleep.

Explanation: By using the phrase, the poet symbolizes the earth being in a profound, peaceful sleep, capturing a state of utter stillness and quiet trance at night.

Correct Answer: (D) A form sublime

Explanation: As the mournful murmur of the Casuarina tree rises, an exalted (sublime) form of the tree appears clearly before the poet’s inner vision.

Correct Answer: (A) a song.

Explanation: To honor the beloved casuarina tree, the poet wishes to dedicate a ‘lay’ which directly translates to a song.

Correct Answer: (C) her loved ones who have passed away.

Explanation: By using the phrase ‘blessed sleep’, the poet refers to the eternal sleep (death) of her two beloved siblings, Aru and Abju, who passed away at a young age.

Correct Answer: (D) gladly.

Explanation: The nearest meaning of the archaic word ‘fain’ is to do something ‘gladly’ or willingly.

Correct Answer: (D) dearer than life.

Explanation: The poet clearly mentions ‘Dear is the Casuarina to my soul’ because beneath this grand tree she played with her beloved siblings who were ‘dearer than life’ to her.

Correct Answer: (C) deathless trees.

Explanation: After her death, the poet passionately desires that her beloved casuarina tree be immortalized and numbered among the world’s ‘deathless trees’, untouched by the passage of time.

Correct Answer: (D) legendary or eternal trees.

Explanation: The phrase ‘deathless trees’ symbolizes legendary or eternal trees that have been permanently preserved through great literature.

Correct Answer: (B) Borrowdale.

Explanation: The poet directly refers Borrowdale alongside the deathless trees, evoking William Wordsworth’s famous poem about the sacred, eternal yew-trees of that valley.

Correct Answer: (D) a shadow.

Explanation: To emphasize the transience of human life, the poet personifies time as a fleeting shadow alongside fear, hope, and death.

Correct Answer: (C) weakness.

Explanation: The poet humbly refers to her own creative effort as a ‘weak’ verse that might not do justice to the immense beauty of the tree.

Correct Answer: (D) forgetting’s fate.

Explanation: At the end of the poem, the poet wishes that the enduring power of Love will protect the tree from ‘Oblivion curse’ (forgetting’s fate).

Correct Answer: (B) five.

Explanation: Toru Dutt’s ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ consists of five stanzas, each following an intricate eleven-line rhyme scheme.

Correct Answer: (D) dedicate.

Explanation: The word ‘consecrate’ means to dedicate or to make holy something sacred to a specific, revered purpose.

Correct Answer: (A) death.

Explanation: The phrase ‘blessed sleep’ is used as a peaceful euphemism for death, referring to the eternal rest of the poet’s departed siblings.

Correct Answer: (A) obscurity.

Explanation: The poet uses the word ‘oblivion’ to signify the state of being forgotten, unremembered, or fading away into total obscurity.

Correct Answer: (C) top

Explanation: It is clearly mentioned that the heavy creeper winding round and round, climbs up to the very top summit of the giant Casuarina tree.

Correct Answer: (D) giant

Explanation: The poet personifies the massive, majestic Casuarina tree as a giant that gallantly wears the winding creeper like a scarf.

Correct Answer: (B) crimson

Explanation: Toru Dutt describes the boughs of the tree beautifully covered with rich, vibrant clusters of crimson flowers that hung all around the branches of the tree and attract birds and bees all day long.

Correct Answer: (C) darkling

Explanation: It is clearly mentioned that at night, while the rest of the world reposes, a sweet, unending song is sung darkling (in the dark of night) from the branches of the tree and overflows the garden of the poetess.

Correct Answer: (B) casement

Explanation: Toru Dutt vividly remembers her delight in throwing open her casement at dawn to gaze upon their beautiful, massive casuarina tree.

Correct Answer: (A) baboon

Explanation: The poet remembers that mostly in winter a gray baboon sits statue like alone on the very top branch of the tree, watching the sunrise.

Correct Answer: (A) greet

Explanation: It is clearly noted that the local kokilas (cuckoos) joyfully greet the dawn and welcome the new day with their melodies.

Correct Answer: (D) pastures

Explanation: The poet mentions that as morning breaks, the sleepy, drowsy cows of their locality are seen slowly making their way toward the open pastures to graze.

Correct Answer: (B) water-lilies

Explanation: It is clearly mentioned that in the shadow of the giant Casuarina tree, the beautiful water-lilies, blooming in the pond, spring like snow enmassed.

Correct Answer: (D) companions

Explanation: Toru Dutt expresses that she cherishes joyful memories with her siblings playing with them beneath the casuarina tree.

Correct Answer: (B) hot

Explanation: The dirge-like murmur of the tree that she hears in the foreign land brings back intense memories that fill the poet’s eyes with hot tears.

Correct Answer: (C) France or Italy

Explanation: It seems to the poet that even while living far away in the foreign lands of France or Italy, she still clearly hears the spiritual lament of their childhood tree.

Correct Answer: (B) brother – sister

Explanation: The tree’s mournful rustle serves as a dirge for Toru Dutt’s beloved, deceased siblings, her brother Abju and sister Aru.

Correct Answer: (A) clime

Explanation: Though the poet was far away from her native land, she fondly recalls how the memory of the tree remained vivid in her eyes.

Correct Answer: (D) Casuarina

Explanation: Toru Dutt explicitly dedicates the song to honor the majestic casuarina tree of her native land.

Correct Answer: (B) (i)–(b), (ii)–(c), (iii)–(d), (iv)–(a)

Explanation: This option pairs correctly matching with the key poetic vocabulary like python (large snake), embraces (holds tightly), scarf (neck fabric), and crimson (deep red).

Correct Answer: (C) (i)–(d), (ii)–(c), (iii)–(a), (iv)–(b)

Explanation: The option successfully aligns textual definitions for baboon (large monkey), offspring (young animal), hail (enthusiastic greeting), and pastures (grazing land).

Correct Answer: (D) (i)–(c), (ii)–(d), (iii)–(a), (iv)–(b)

Explanation: The option correctly matches and connects literary words from the poem, pairing magnificence (splendour), companions (friends), dirge (lament), and eerie (frightening).

Correct Answer: (A) (i)–(d), (ii)–(a), (iii)–(b), (iv)–(c)

Explanation: All these archaic terms correctly carry their meanings by following the correct option mentioned above, following haply (by any chance), sheltered (protected), tranced (sleep-like state), and sublime (noble).

Correct Answer: (D) (i)–(c), (ii)–(d), (iii)–(a), (iv)–(b)

Explanation: The option correctly follows emotional keywords of the final stanza with their meanings: fain (gladly), consecrate (dedicate), lay (a song), and oblivion (obscurity).

Correct Answer: (B) Both A and R are true.

Explanation: The poet clearly mentions the casuarina tree as a giant wearing the winding creeper like a scarf, so, both statements are true.

Correct Answer: (D) A and R are both correct.

Explanation: Both statements are correct as the tree is deeply tied to the poet’s childhood memories of playing beneath it with her dear companions.

Correct Answer: (C) A is correct but R is incorrect.

Explanation: The poet’s reminiscence of playing during her childhood with her dear siblings beneath the giant Casuarina tree actually holds incredibly fond, lasting recollections of those times.

Correct Answer: (D) A is incorrect, but R is correct.

Explanation: The assertion is incorrect because the poet explicitly wishes to immortalize the tree through her verse.

Correct Answer: (B) Statement B is the cause of Statement A.

Explanation: It is clearly mentioned that the vibrant crimson flowers are hung among all boughs whereon all day birds and bees are gathered.

Correct Answer: (A) Statement A and B are not related.

Explanation: It is mentioned that the tree’s wide shadow extends over the water tank creating the specific backdrop where the white blooming water-lilies are poetically described as a mass of gathered snow.

Correct Answer: (B) Statement A leads to Statement B.

Explanation: As the majestic form of the casuarina tree never fades from the poet’s mind, living in a foreign country, either in France or Italy, has no negative impact to her memory.

Correct Answer: (A) Statement A and Statement B are not linked.

Explanation: As the grand Casuarina tree is connected to her pure childhood memories with her dear deceased siblings (Statement A), the poet passionately desires to include the tree among Borrowdale’s immortal trees (Statement B). (i.e. The poet wants to immortalise the tree in verse.)

Correct Answer: (C) ⚪ ——> ⚫

Explanation: The vertical diagram following the option (C) correctly portrays the father baboon sitting statue-like alone on the top of the tree watching the sunrise while his puny offspring leap about and play on lower boughs.

Correct Answer: (D) 🧬⚕️🌳

Explanation: The chosen diagram following the option (D) accurately illustrates the creeper, like a python, winding round and round continuously upward the rugged trunk of the Casuarina tree.

Correct Answer: (B) (ii) → (iii) → (i) → (iv)

Explanation: The correct chronological order (ii –> iii –> i –> iv) follows Stanza 1, moving from the creeper wrapping the rugged trunk of the tree like a scarf, to the blooming crimson flowers hung among the boughs, and finally the gathering of birds and bees, and the sweet night song filling the air.

Correct Answer: (D) (iii) → (iv) → (i) → (ii)

Explanation: The correct sequence (iii –> iv –> i –> ii) follows a winter morning progression in Stanza 2, starting with a gray baboon perching on the top of the tree watching sunrise, his offspring leaping about and playing on lower branches, the sunrise, and far and near the kokilas hailing the day.

Correct Answer: (B) (i) → (iii) → (iv) → (ii)

Explanation: The correct sequence (i –> iii –> iv –> ii) follows the poem’s stanzaic progression from the tree’s physical beauty, to emotional memories of siblings, resulting in tears, and finally hearing the mournful dirge of the tree.

Correct Answer: (C) (ii) → (iv) → (iii) → (i)

Explanation: The sequence (ii –> iv –> iii –> i), following the closing stanzas, traces the poet’s desire to dedicate a song in honour of the tree, driven by her deep feelings, to grant the tree a lasting legacy alongside history’s immortal trees.

Correct Answer: (B) A creeper twines around the smooth trunk of the tree like a scarf.

Explanation: The statement B is incorrect because it is clearly mentioned that the creeper, like a huge python, winds round and around the rugged, deeply scarred trunk of the giant Casuarina tree, rather than a smooth one.

Correct Answer: (B) A gray baboon is observing the sunrise.

Explanation: The correct statement is B, as the poet explicitly describes how mostly in winter a gray baboon sitting on the top of the tree statue-like alone and watching the sunrise.

Correct Answer: (C) The poet and her friends played beneath the tree during their childhood.

Explanation: The statement C is true as the poet clearly mentions her heartfelt childhood memories of playing beneath the tree with her beloved companions, her dear siblings Aru and Abju.

Correct Answer: (D) The poet believes that the tree will not be valued after her death.

Explanation: The incorrect statement is D because, at the end of the poem, the poet declares that she writes the verses specifically to ensure the tree is honored and immortalized long after her death.

Correct Answer: (A) the poet uses this line to portray the tree as majestic and brave. The ‘scarf’ refers to the creeper that wraps around the tree, enhancing its beauty.

Explanation: Through this personification the poet depicts the grand Casuarina tree as a brave giant beautifully adorned by the climbing creeper.

Correct Answer: (C) it brings out strong emotions of grief and longing. It also represents a lasting emotional connection over time.

Explanation: As the mournful song of the tree is deeply connected to her lost siblings, the tree’s lament seems to her as a ‘dirge-like murmur’.

Correct Answer: (D) he is reminded of the tree by the sound of waves, which brings back cherished memories of home and happiness.

Explanation: As external sounds like crashing waves constantly trigger cherished memories of home, the poet stays deeply tied to the tree, even far away from her native land.

Correct Answer: (C) the poet wants the tree to be remembered like the legendary trees of Borrowdale.

Explanation: As Toru Dutt wishes to immortalize her dear Casuarina tree, she wants the tree to be remembered alongside history’s most legendary, deathless trees in Borrowdale.

Correct Answer: (C) a person reminiscing about childhood memories under the tree.

Explanation: The speaker of Toru Dutt’s poem ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ is a person who deeply reminiscences about their lost youth, family, and childhood experiences spent beneath the tree.

Correct Answer: (C) comfort, security and happiness of childhood

Explanation: Here, in the poem, the Casuarina tree acts as a powerful anchor for the speaker’s core memories of the comfort, security, and pure happiness of childhood spent with her dear deceased siblings.

Correct Answer: (C) bittersweet and nostalgic

Explanation: The overall tone of Toru Dutt’s poem ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ is profoundly bittersweet and nostalgic, blending joyful childhood memories with a deep sorrow for lost loved ones (i.e. for her dear siblings Aru and Abju).

Correct Answer: (B) longing and nostalgia.

Explanation: In this poem the poet-speaker primarily expresses a poignant feeling of longing and nostalgia for her past, her native homeland, and her departed dear siblings Aru and Abju with whom she spent her joyful moments in childhood.

Correct Answer: (A) strength and resilience.

Explanation: Toru Dutt presents the Casuarina tree standing out as a powerful symbol of strength and resilience, standing tall and unbothered despite the tight, heavy creeper binding it.

Correct Answer: (A) a dirge-like murmur.

Explanation: According to the poet, the tree makes a unique, mournful dirge-like murmur that travels across lands to reach the poet’s ears in foreign lands (i.e. in France or Italy).

Correct Answer: (A) ‘a giant wears the scarf’.

Explanation: In the poem ‘Our Casuarina Tree’, the poet, through the highly evocative personification ‘a giant wears the scarf’, describes the tree most, celebrating its majestic form.

Correct Answer: (D) the passage of time and childhood memories.

Explanation: Toru Dutt, in her poem ‘Our Casuarina Tree’, explores the main theme which revolves around the passage of time and childhood memories.

Q122.

Correct Answer: (C) simile.

Explanation: The line employs a simile because here is a direct comparison between the heavy winding creeper and a massive python by using the word ‘like’. Here the creeper is compared to a python.

Q123.

Correct Answer: (A) the Casuarina tree.

Explanation: The poet uses this powerful personification by using the term ‘Giant’ to emphasize the majestic height and grand presence of the Casuarina tree.

Q124.

Correct Answer: (C) the poet has played with her dear companions under this tree and cherished that memory.

Explanation: The poet spent her sweet childhood moments with her dear deceased siblings, playing with them beneath their Casuarina tree, so the tree is very dear to her soul.

Q125.

Correct Answer: (A) the gray baboon is the mother of the young baboon.

Explanation: Statement A is false because the poet explicitly uses the pronoun ‘his’ when describing the gray baboon’s puny offspring playing on the lower branches. So it a father baboon, not mother.

Q126.

Correct Answer: (D) her native land.

Explanation: The entire poem centers on the poet’s nostalgic longing for the beloved Casuarina tree deeply rooted in her native land of India.

Q127.

Correct Answer: (C) Both Assertion and Reason are right.

Explanation: Both statements are correct since while in foreign lands the poet’s intense emotional pull and homesickness for her native tree cause hot tears to blind her eyes.

Q128.

Correct Answer: (C) William Wordsworth.

Explanation: By using the following line, Toru Dutt pays tribute to the romantic poet William Wordsworth, who famously immortalized the legendary ‘Fraternal Four’ yew-trees of Borrowdale.

Q129.

Correct Answer: (A) Tree

Explanation: The missing word is ‘Tree’, which is used in the line where the poet presents the majestic form of the Casuarina tree vividly rises up before the poet’s inner vision.

Q130.

Correct Answer: (B) ‘………in whose embraces bound /No other tree could live.’

Explanation: The tree’s immense strength is expressed by the following expression where the poet expresses that though the python-like creeper embraces the tree where no other tree could live, the Giant Casuarina tree thrives bravely wearing the creeper like a scarf.

Q131.

Correct Answer: (B) kokila.

Explanation: Toru Dutt, in her poem ‘Our Casuarina Tree’, clearly mentions native kokilas (cuckoos) which far and near loudly greet and welcome the arrival of a new day.

Correct Answer: (A) Aru and Abju.

Explanation: In her autobiographical poem ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ Toru Dutt mentions her two dear siblings Aru and Abju whom she misses much, and whose memory and companionship are deeply intertwined with her love for the tree.

Correct Answer: (A) death.

Explanation: The phrase ‘blessed sleep’ is used as a peaceful euphemism for death, referring to the eternal rest of the poet’s departed siblings.

Correct Answer: (A) the tree’s lament.

Explanation: The phrase actually indicates the rustling of the tree’s leaves that is personified as a mournful song or funeral chant, expressing deep sympathy and grief for the poet’s heavy personal losses.

Correct Answer: (B) mysterious but somewhat familiar.

Explanation: By this phrase the poet signifies the unknown, well-known life after death, the life which remains physically hidden and mysterious, but it is deeply familiar and real through one’s spiritual intuition and belief.

Correct Answer: (D) legendary or eternal trees.

Explanation: The phrase ‘deathless trees’ symbolizes legendary or eternal trees that have been permanently preserved through great literature.