Please refer to Poem 6 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers MCQ Class 12 English with answers below. These multiple-choice questions have been prepared based on the latest NCERT book for Class 12 English. Students should refer to MCQ Questions for Class 12 English with Answers to score more marks in Grade 12 English exams. Students should read the Poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers and then attempt the following objective questions.

MCQ Questions Class 12 English Poem 6 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers MCQ Class 12 English provided below covers all important topics given in this Poem. These MCQs will help you to properly prepare for exams.

Question- Tell and interpret the meaning of ‘Denizen of aworld of green’.
(a) forest haters
(b) forest lovers
(c) forest dwellers
(d) all

Question- What is still fresh in Jennifer’s mind?
(a) happy moments
(b) early days of marriage
(c) uncle’s attitude
(d) the old unhappy memories

Question- What is the tone of the poem towards the end?
(a) happy moments
(b) resolving
(c) hopeful
(d) sad and tensed

Question- How do the Prancing tigers look?
(a) just like diamond
(b) just like Topaz
(c) just like coal
(d) just like stone

Question- What is presented through uncle’s character?
(a) Male strength
(b)Man is powerful
(c) man is like tigers
(d) male chauvinism

Question- What is the poet known for?
(a) She is widely known for her involvement in contemporary women’s movement as a poet and theorist
(b) for her beauty
(c) for her philosophy
(d) for her poems

Question- How many volumes of poetry has she published?
(a) 18
(b) 29
(c) 39
(d) 19

Question- Which words depict the dominant and arrogant attitude of the wild animal in the poem ?
(a) dominant
(b) arrogant
(c) adorable
(d) denizens and chivalric

Question- What do aunt Jennifer’s fluttering hands through her wool in the second stanza tell us?
(a) the lost freedom and fear of Jennifer’s mind because marital restraints
(b) her old age
(c) her love for embridery and knitting
(d) her love for tigers

Question- What lies heavily on aunt Jennifer’s hand?
(a) needles
(b) embrideries
(c) wedding ring
(d) work pressure

Question- Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull?
(a) because of fluttering fingers
(b) because of trembling hands
(c) because of her fears
(d) because of the heavy weight of her marriage ring

Question- What does the image ‘massive weight of the wedding band ‘ mean?
(a) wedding bond of hard married life
(b) fatty structure of uncle
(c) fatty body of aunty
(d) heavy body of tiger

Question- Of what or of whom is aunt Jennifer terrified of in the 3rd stanza?
(a) of tigers
(b) of her death
(c) of her old age
(d) of her dominant husband

Question- Interpret terrified hands.
(a) Physical condition of aunt
(b) mental stae of aunt
(c) tensed ,troubled physical and mental state of aunt Jennifer
(d) fears of aunt

Question- What is the tone of the poem towards the end?
(a) sad and tensed
(b) resolving
(c) hopeful
(d) happy moments

Question- What are the ordeals aunt Jennifer is surrounded by?
(a) wild animals
(b) old people
(c) a heavy crowd
(d) heavy responsibilities of married life

Question- What is the attitude of the poet or speaker towards aunt Jennifer?
(a) critic
(b) very harsh and rude
(c) indifferent
(d) full of appreciation and sympathy

Question- What is the significance of the word ringed?
(a) responsibilities
(b) heavy duties
(c) fatty people
(d) responsibilities that formed circles like a ring surrounding her finger

Question- What is the meaning of the word ‘ringed’?
(a) circles of a ring
(b) her wedding ring around finger
(c) circles of responsibility of married life
(d) none

Question- What does echo through her work?
(a) A strong resistance to racism and militarism
(b) her love for poetry
(c) her passion of essay writing
(d) her wish to publish her work

Question- What issue does the poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers address?
(a) constraints of women
(b) constraints of married life a woman experiences
(c) constraints of women as a poet
(d) None

Question- Tell and interpret the meaning of ‘Denizen of aworld of green’.
(a) forest haters
(b) forest lovers
(c) forest dwellers
(d) all

Question- Does Aunt Jennifer need sympathy?
(a) yes
(b) no
(c) no, more than sympathy she deserves praise
(d) none

Question- What do you understand by the words ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ in the poem?
(a) The dominant and highly arrogant attitude of the wild animal-tiger
(b) tiger is a wild animal
(c) tiger is hungry
(d) beauty of the tiger

Question- Where are the tigers sleeping?
(a) on the trees
(b) on the mountain top
(c) in the cage
(d) in the caves

Question- What is Aunt doing in the poem?
(a) Cooking
(b) Embroidery
(c) Reading
(d) Sleeping

Question- What is the wedding band?
(a) ring
(b) ring ceremony
(c) marriage between uncle and aunt
(d) All

Question- What did ordeals or tough times do in Jennifer’s life?
(a) they crushed her artistic personality
(b) she developed hatred
(c) she became weak
(d) they made her a hard hearted person

Question- What is the purpose of creating animals which are completely a contrast to aunt’s character?
(a) to show her strength and ability of not giving up in the face of difficulties
(b) her courage
(c) her fears and strengths
(d) none

Question- What is the poet suggesting through the different nature of characters in the poem?
(a) Diversity in nature
(b) all are different and unique
(c) simultaneous nature of fears and strengths of aunt. Though she has fears, yet she is not defeated by them
(d) all

Question- Where do aunt’s tigers belong?
(a) to a cage
(b) zoo
(c) mountains
(d) world of green forests

Question- What would Jennifer’s terrified hands tell after her death?
(a) story of her life
(b) her constrained married life
(c) her strength to find her ways and beat the fears
(d) All these

Question- What is presented through uncle’s character?
(a) Male strength
(b) male chauvinism
(c) man is like tigers
(d) Man is powerful

Question- What is the poet conveying through aunt Jennifer’s tiger?
(a) wild life
(b) female existence and their fear of men
(c) tigers and their courage
(d) courageous tigers

Question- How are aunt Jennifer’s tigers different from her?
(a) aunt lives in a city and tigers in forests
(b) aunt is old and tigers are young
(c) tigers are courageous and carefree and aunt is terrified
(d) none

Question- What is aunt Jennifer loaded with?
(a) weight of rings
(b) heavy responsibilities of married life
(c) burden of household work
(d) weight of tigers

Question- How are tigers described in the poem?
(a) as ferocious
(b) fearless
(c) chivalric
(d) All these

Question- What does wedding ring represent?
(a) beauty
(b) expenses
(c) unnecessary pressures of her dominant husband and responsibilities of married life
(d) none

Question- Who is the poet of the poem Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers?
(a) Adrienne Rich
(b) Jonathan Aaron
(c) J. H. M. Abbott
(d) Mark Abley

Question- What does echo through her work?
(a) A strong resistance to racism and militarism
(b) her love for poetry
(c) her passion of essay writing
(d) her wish to publish her work

Question- How do the Prancing tigers look?
(a) just like diamond
(b) just like Topaz
(c) just like coal
(d) just like stone

Question- Why did aunt embroider tigers on the panel?
(a) to express her supressed feelings
(b) to express her strenghths
(c) to express her fighting spirit of a warrior
(d) All these

Question- What did marriage bring for Jennifer?
(a) unhappiness
(b) loss of freedom
(c) loss of freedom and burden as if she has put on a heavy band
(d) a heavy mountain

Question- What is still fresh in Jennifer’s mind?
(a) happy moments
(b) early days of marriage
(c) uncle’s attitude
(d) the old unhappy memories

Question- Why are tigers given the name Aunt Jennifer’s tigers?
(a) because she created them as an expression to her inner feelings
(b) because she brought them
(c) because she bought them
(d) because she nurtured them

Question- What is the meaning of the word ‘Chivalric’?
(a) ferocious
(b) fearless
(c) commanding and demanding high respect
(d) None

Question- What do aunt Jennifer’s fluttering hands through her wool in the second stanza tell us?
(a) the lost freedom and fear of Jennifer’s mind because marital restraints
(b) her old age
(c) her love for embridery and knitting
(d) her love for tigers

Question- What is the significance of the word ringed?
(a) responsibilities
(b) heavy duties
(c) fatty people
(d) responsibilities that formed circles like a ring surrounding her finger

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