1. What is the pen name of Kamala Das?
2. What type of poem is “My Mother at Sixty-six”?
3. What core human experience is the poem 'My Mother at Sixty-six' based on?
4. What is the common paradox of human relationships that the poem is said to portray?
5. Where was the poet driving to?
6. What was the expression on the mother’s face as the poet looked at her?
7. To what does the poet compare her mother’s face while driving to the airport?
8. The journey described in the poem took place on which day of the week?
9. What was the mother doing while sitting beside the poet in the car?
10. What realization disturbed the poet when she looked at her mother’s face in the car?
11. What did the poet look at to distract herself from the painful thought of her mother's aging?
12. What emotion did the poet experience after the security check, which is described as an 'old familiar ache'?
13. What did the poet do to 'conceal her emotions' before bidding farewell?
14. What were the poet's final words to her mother?
15. The poem 'My Mother at Sixty-six' is primarily an expression of a daughter's feelings towards her mother's:
16. What contrasting idea is presented by the poet between her mother and the outside world?
17. What figure of speech is used in “trees sprinting”?
18. The poem’s language can best be described as—
19. Kamala Das is known for her—
20. The poem reflects which poetic technique most strongly?
