Unit Test: A Photograph
Time: 1 hour
M.M. 30
Attempt all questions.
- Question numbers 1 to 5 carry 1 mark each .
- Question numbers 6 to 8 carry 2 marks each.
- Question number 9 carry 4 marks each.
- Question numbers 10 and 11 carry 5 marks each
Q.1 Who is the poet of "A Photograph"? (1 mark)
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Ted Hughes
(c) Shirley Toulson
(d) Walt Whitman
Q.2 The word "cardboard" in the poem refers to: (1 mark)
(a) The camera
(b) The sea
(c) The stiff backing of the old photograph
(d) The uncle's hat
Q.3 What has "changed less" over the years according to the poem? (1 mark)
(a) The girls
(b) The uncle
(c) The sea
(d) The laughter
Q.4 The girls stood still to smile through their ________ at the uncle with the camera. (1 mark)
Q.5 The mother's feet are described as "terribly ________". (1 mark)
Q.6 Explain why the poet uses the phrase "laboured ease of loss". (2 marks)
Q.7 What do the names "Betty and Dolly" refer to in the poem? Give the context in which they appear. (2 marks)
Q.8 How does the poet contrast human life with nature in the first stanza? (2 marks)
Q.9 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (4 marks)
Some twenty - thirty - years later
She'd laugh at the snapshot. "See Betty
And Dolly," she'd say, "and look how they
Dressed us for the beach." The sea holiday
Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
With the laboured ease of loss.
(i) Who is "she" in the above lines?
(a) Betty
(b) Dolly
(c) The poet
(d) The poet's mother
(ii) The sea holiday was her ________.
(iii) The poet's inheritance is her mother's ________.
(iv) Assertion (A): Both the mother's laughter and the poet's memory are free from sorrow.
Reason (R): They are described as "wry with the laboured ease of loss".
(a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true, but R is false.
(d) A is false, but R is true.
Q.10 Describe the three different phases depicted in the three stanzas of the poem "A Photograph". Support your answer with examples from the text. (5 marks)
Q.11 How does Shirley Toulson use the metaphor of silence in the final stanza to convey the depth of grief? Elaborate with reference to the poem's theme of transience. (5 marks)
You can find the solutions of this Unit Test here: Unit Test Solutions: A Photograph
FAQs on Unit Test: A Photograph
| 1. What is the significance of the Photograph in the context of literature? |  |
| 2. Who is the author of the Photograph, and what is the central theme of the poem? | |
| 3. How does the structure of the Photograph contribute to its overall meaning? | |
| 4. What literary devices are employed in the Photograph, and how do they enhance the poem? | |
| 5. How does the Photograph reflect the relationship between the speaker and her mother? | |
