The Bangle Sellers MCQ

The Bangle Sellers

Sarojini Naidu [1879-1949]

The Bangle Sellers MCQ – 1 Mark Important Questions

30 Important Questions

Q1. The poet of the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ is —

• (A) Rabindranath Tagore.
• (B) William Shakespeare.
• (C) William Wordsworth.
• (D) Sarojini Naidu.

Q2. The poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ was first published in —

• (A) 1921.
• (B) 1912.
• (C) 1932.
• (D) 1919.

Q3. The poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ is taken from —

• (A) The Song of Time.
• (B) The Bird of Time.
• (C) The Collection of Poems.
• (D) The History of Time.

Q4. The main theme of the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ is —

• (A) Indian freedom struggle.
• (B) celebration of colour.
• (C) celebration of Indian womanhood.
• (D) man and nature.

Q5. Different stanzas of ‘The Bangle Sellers’ describe —

• (A) women’s struggle in society.
• (B) women’s achievement in different spheres of life.
• (C) different stages of life of women and their connection with colours of the bangles.
• (D) different colours of bangles.

Q6. The speaker of the poem is —

• (A) the poet herself.
• (B) a bride.
• (C) a politician.
• (D) a hawker.

Q7. The mood of the bangle sellers in the poem is —

• (A) happy and cheerful.
• (B) gloomy and hopeless.
• (C) aggressive.
• (D) indifferent.

Q8. How many stages of woman’s life is described in the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’?

• (A) Two
• (B) Three
• (C) Four
• (D) Five

Q9. The poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ is written in —

• (A) free verse.
• (B) rhyming couplet.
• (C) sonnet form.
• (D) limerick style.

Q10. The speakers of the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ are going to —

• (A) a village fair.
• (B) a weekly market.
• (C) a temple fair.
• (D) a fair of a big city.

Q11. According to the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’, for a married woman the bangles represent —

• (A) health.
• (B) monetary luck.
• (C) martial auspiciousness.
• (D) thrill.

Q12. The loads of the bangle sellers are —

• (A) dull.
• (B) costly.
• (C) broken.
• (D) glittering.

Q13. The fair will take place near a —

• (A) temple.
• (B) banyan tree.
• (C) river.
• (D) palace.

Q14. The bangles are —

• (A) bright.
• (B) rainbow-coloured.
• (C) of delicate design.
• (D) all of these.

Q15. The bangles are described as —

• (A) items of pride.
• (B) circles of hope.
• (C) unending circles.
• (D) circles of light.

Q16. The bangles are token of —

• (A) luxurious life.
• (B) colourful life.
• (C) dull life.
• (D) innocent life.

Q17. Those who are mentioned as happy in the poem are —

• (A) daughters and wives.
• (B) sons and daughters.
• (C) men and women.
• (D) husbands and wives.

Q18. The colours of the bangles for maiden’s wrist are —

• (A) blue and red.
• (B) black and blue.
• (C) blue and silver.
• (D) silver and golden.

Q19. The colour of the bangles for maiden’s wrist is like —

• (A) cloudy day.
• (B) sunlight.
• (C) mountain mist.
• (D) sea water.

Q20. The bangles are tinged with —

• (A) blue colour.
• (B) red colour.
• (C) rainbow colour.
• (D) white colour.

Q21. The potential consumer of the bangles are —

• (A) each and every people.
• (B) young women only.
• (C) only unmarried girls.
• (D) women of different age group.

Q22. The rhyme-scheme of each stanza of the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ is —

• (A) abbaab.
• (B) abcbca.
• (C) abccab.
• (D) aabbcc.

Q23. The bangles of blue and silver colour are suitable for —

• (A) bride.
• (B) maiden.
• (C) middle-aged women.
• (D) everyone.

Q24. The three stages mentioned in the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ are —

• (A) sister, mother and wife.
• (B) mother, wife and grandmother.
• (C) grandmother, mother-in-law and wife.
• (D) maiden, bride and wife.

Q25. In the third stage of the poem a woman worships God side by side with —

• (A) father-in-law.
• (B) mother-in-law.
• (C) husband.
• (D) daughter.

Q26. The expression ‘buds that dreams’ presents the image of —

• (A) young brides.
• (B) young girls.
• (C) middle-aged women.
• (D) bangle sellers.

Q27. The colour of the bangles that looks like field of sunlit corn is of —

• (A) yellow colour.
• (B) white colour.
• (C) green colour.
• (D) blue colour.

Q28. The colour of bangles for middle-aged women are —

• (A) purple and silver.
• (B) purple and gold.
• (C) gold and silver.
• (D) silver and blue.

Q29. The second stanza of the poem is all about —

• (A) different types of bangles.
• (B) Indian landscape.
• (C) the mountain mist.
• (D) new born leaves.

Q30. The poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ is rich in —

• (A) colour imagery.
• (B) Indiannes.
• (C) lyrical quality.
• (D) all of these.