The Bangle Sellers MCQ
The Bangle Sellers
Sarojini Naidu [1879-1949]
MCQ – 1 Mark
1. The poet of the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ is
(D) Sarojini Naidu.
2. The poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ was first published in
(A) 1921
(B) 1912
(C) 1932
(D) 1919.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. The speaker of the poem is
(A) the poet herself
(B) a bride
(C) a politician
(D) a hawker.
7. The mood of the bangle sellers in the poem is
(A) happy and cheerful
(B) gloomy and hopeless
(C) aggressive
(D) indifferent.
8. How many stages of woman’s life is described in the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’?
(A) two
(B) three
(C) four
(D) five
9. The poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ is written in
(A) free verse
(B) rhyming couplet
(C) sonnet form
(D) limerick style.
10. 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.
11. According to the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’, for a married woman the bangles represent
(A) health
(B) monetary luck
(C) martial auspiciousness
(D) thrill.
12. The loads of the bangle sellers are
(A) dull
(B) costly
(C) broken
(D) glittering.
13. The fair will take place near a
(A) temple
(B) banyan tree
(C) river
(D) palace.
14. The bangles are
(A) bright
(B) rainbow-coloured
(C) of delicate design
(D) all of these.
15. The bangles are described as
(A) items of pride
(B) circles of hope
(C) unending circles
(D) circles of light.
16. The bangles are token of
(A) luxurious life
(B) colourful life
(C) dull life
(D) innocent life.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. The colour of the bangles for maiden’s wrist is like
(A) cloudy day
(B) sunlight
(C) mountain mist
(D) sea water.
20. The bangles are tinged with
(A) blue colour
(B) red colour
(C) rainbow colour
(D) white colour.
21. 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.
22. The rhyme-scheme of each stanza of the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ is
(A) abbaab
(B) abcbca
(C) abccab
(D) aabbcc.
23. The bangles of blue and silver colour are suitable for
(A) bride
(B) maiden
(C) middle-aged women
(D) everyone.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. The expression ‘buds that dreams’ presents the image of
(A) young brides
(B) young girls
(C) middle-aged women
(D) bangle sellers.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. The poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’ is rich in
(A) colour imagery
(B) Indiannes
(C) lyrical quality
(D) all of these.