1. Who was the poet of the poem ‘The bangle sellers’?
A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Kamala Das
C) William Wordsworth
D) WB Yeats
Answer: A) Sarojini Naidu
2. When was the poem ‘The bangle sellers’ published?
A) 1902
B) 1912
C) 1918
D) 1922
Answer: B) 1912
3. Who is the speaker in the poem?
A) A bride
B) A mother
C) The bangle sellers
D) A narrator
Answer: C) The bangle sellers
4. Where do the bangle seller sell their bangles?
A) City market
B) temple fair
C) village
D) train compartment
Answer: B) temple fair
5. “Our shining loads to the temple fair…” What does the ‘shining loads’ refer?
A) loads of bangles
B) loads of pearls
C) loads of gold
D) loads of silver
Answer: A) loads of bangles
6. What poetic device is used in “shining loads”?
A) Imagery
B) Oxymoron
C) Irony
D) Personification
Answer: A) Imagery
7. What does “temple fair” symbolise in the poem, ‘The bangle sellers’?
A) A place of war
B) Cultural tradition and gathering
C) A prison
D) A school
Answer: B) Cultural tradition and gathering
8. What is the symbol of colourful bangles?
A) sadness
B) happiness
C) depression
D) suffering
Answer: B) happiness
9. What do “rainbow-tinted circles” suggest?
A) Emptiness
B) Diversity and beauty of life
C) Pain and suffering
D) Cycles of night and day
Answer: B) Diversity and beauty of life
10. “Rainbow-tinted circles of light?” What figure of speech is used in the line?
A) simile
B) metaphor
C) imagery
D) climax
Answer: B) metaphor
11. What do bangles symbolise in the poem?
A) Different stages of womanhood
B) Wealth and power
C) Education
D) Nature and seasons
Answer: A) Different stages of womanhood
12. The bangle sellers want bangles to be bought for –
A) daughters
B) wives
C) daughters and fives
D) happy daughters and happy wives
Answer: D) happy daughters and happy wives
13. What does the second stanza deal with in the poem ‘The Bangle Sellers’?
A) Days after marriage
B) Middle age
C) Days before marriage
D) Last days of life
Answer: C) Days before marriage
14. “Some are meet for a maiden’s wrist.” Here, “Meet for a maiden’s wrist” means—
A) Suitable for a young girl
B) Made by a maiden
C) Given by her mother
D) Carried to school
Answer: A) Suitable for a young girl
15. Which bangles are fit for a maiden’s wrist?
A) Red and gold
B) Purple and grey
C) Silver and blue
D) Green and white
Answer: C) Silver and blue
16. Silver and blue coloured bangles are compared to –
A) shining loads
B) rainbow-tinged circle
C) Lustrous tokens
D) mountain mist
Answer: D) mountain mist
17. “To the limpid glory of newborn leaves”. What does the line signify?
A) Passionate life
B) carefree life
C) Life after marriage
D) early tender life
Answer: D) early tender life
18. What does the third stanza of the poem ‘ The Bangle Sellers’ signify?
A) The girl as a bride
B) The youth of the bride
C) The rituals of marriage
D) Life after marriage
Answer: B) The youth of the bride
19. “Some are like fields of sunlight corn.” What does the phrase ‘fields of sunlight corn’ signify?
A) The happy life of a bride after marriage
B) The happy life of a maiden before marriage
C) Miseries of a bride after marriage
D) lack of aspiration
Answer: A) The happy life of a bride after marriage
20. What literary device is used in “fields of sunlit corn”?
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Alliteration
D) Hyperbole
Answer: B) Metaphor
21. “The flame of marriage fire.” What does the phrase indicate?
A) The sufferings of the bride after marriage
B) the passionate desire of the bride
C) rituals at the time of marriage
D) All of these
Answer: B) passionate desire of the bride
22. The bangles “tinkling, luminous, tender” reflect—
A) Joy and delicacy
B) Conflict
C) Pain
D) Boredom
Answer: A) Joy and delicacy
23. “Tinkling” refers to the—
A) Sound made by bangles
B) Shimmer of gold
C) Cry of the bangle seller
D) Laugh of the bride
Answer: A) Sound made by bangles
24. What does “luminous” mean in the poem?
A) Dull
B) Shining
C) Heavy
D) Colourless
Answer: B) Shining
25. “……. her bridal laughter and bridal tear.” What does the term ‘bridal laughter’ represent?
A) smile of the bride
B) Happiness of the parents of the bride
C) happiness of the new bride
D) custom of marriage
Answer: C) happiness of the new bride
26. What does the term ‘bridal tear’ represent in the poem, “The Bangle Sellers”?
A) tear of the bride
B) fear of the bride after marriage
C) The pain of separation from her parents
D) All of these
Answer: D) All of these
27. What stage of life is represented by purple and gold-flecked grey bangles?
A) Childhood
B) Teenage
C) Motherhood/mature womanhood
D) Widowhood
Answer: C) Motherhood/mature womanhood
28. “Some are purple and gold flecked grey.” The term ‘gold flecked’ has been described for
A) bangles that are gold in colour
B) bangles that have gold spots
C) bangles that are made of gold
D) all of these
Answer: B) bangles that have gold spots
29. Who buys the purple and grey bangles?
A) A young girl
B) A bride
C) A mature woman/mother
D) A dancer
Answer: C) A mature woman/mother
30. “For she who has journeyed through life midway” refers to—
A) A teenager
B) A middle-aged woman
C) A bride
D) A teacher
Answer: B) A middle-aged woman
31. Who is referred to as “serves her household in fruitful pride”?
A) A teacher
B) A woman
C) A saint
D) A princess
Answer: B) A woman
32. The phrase “fruitful pride” signifies—
A) Failure
B) Arrogance
C) Fulfilment and fertility
D) Greed
Answer: C) Fulfilment and fertility
33. The bangles for mature women reflect—
A) Sadness
B) Wisdom and devotion
C) Rebellion
D) Imprisonment
Answer: B) Wisdom and devotion
34. “And worships the gods at her husband’s side.” Who “prays at her husband’s side”?
A) A widow
B) A girl
C) A mature woman
D) A servant
Answer: C) A mature woman
35. “And worships the gods at her husband’s side.” How are the Indian women represented by this line?
A) self-dependent
B) loved by husband
C) devoted to her husband
D) religious woman
Answer: C) devoted to husband
36. The colour of the bangle changes with –
A) different situation
B) different ages
C) different places
D) none of these
Answer: B) different ages
37. What is the theme of the poem?
A) Social injustice
B) Celebration of Indian womanhood
C) Nature’s beauty
D) Politics
Answer: B) Celebration of Indian womanhood
38. What aspect of Indian life does the poem highlight?
A) Western values
B) Traditional womanhood and rituals
C) Colonisation
D) Modernism
Answer: B) Traditional womanhood and rituals
39. The poem uses bangles as a—
A) Fashion trend
B) Symbol of a woman’s journey
C) Commercial item
D) Political tool
Answer: B) Symbol of a woman’s journey
40. What is the significance of the bangles in the poem, “The Bangle Sellers”?
A) They represent wealth
B) They symbolise love and marriage
C) They are a source of income for the sellers
D) They represent freedom
Answer: B) They symbolise love and marriage
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