What does the poet mean by ‘smile through their hair’?
  • (a) It means that a smile was painted on the hair of the photographed girls
  • (b) It means that the photographed girls were wearing a mask
  • (c) It means that the hair of the photographed girls was covering their face when they were smiling
  • (d) It means that the hair of the girls in the photograph was smiling too
What has not changed over a period of time?
  • (a) The photo
  • (b) The cardboard
  • (c) The girls
  • (d) The sea
Find a word from the extract which means “lasting only for a short time”?
  • (a) Still
  • (b) Transient
  • (c) Changed
  • (d) Less
Who are Betty and Dolly?
  • (a) They are poet’s cousins
  • (b) They are poet’s friends
  • (c) They are the poet’s mother’s friends
  • (d) They are the poet’s mother’s cousins
…………. in the extract is the synonym of ‘photograph’.
  • (a) Snapshot
  • (b) Picture
  • (c) Mine
  • (d) Laboured
Why did ‘she’ laugh?
  • (a) Because of the funny dresses that they were wearing at the sea holiday
  • (b) Because one of them cracked a joke
  • (c) Because of the funny dresses they were wearing at the party
  • (d) Because of the funny man they saw at the sea holiday
What does the cardboard depict?
  • (a) It depicts a scenery
  • (b) It depicts the picture of a house
  • (c) It depicts the picture of a school
  • (d) It depicts the picture of three girls
Who wrote this poem?
  • Shirley Pitman
  • Shirley Toulson
  • Shirley Edison
How old is the mother in the Photograph?
  • 10
  • 15
  • 12
  • 30
What is the theme of the poem?
  • The transience of human life
  • The technology and greatness of photography
  • Relationships
  • Friendship
Who is the poet of the poem `A Photograph`?
  • Shirley Toulson
  • Robert Frost
  • Khushwant Singh
  • Ted Huges
How many persons are there in a photograph?
  • two
  • three
  • four
  • one
How old was the poetess when this photograph was taken?
  • ten years
  • twelve years
  • she was not born
  • twenty years
What are the names of the girls in the photograph?
  • Betty and Pretty
  • Dolly and Polly
  • Letty and Drolly
  • Betty and Dolly
The sea holiday was the past of her mother.What is the poetess' past?
  • her mother's memory
  • her mother's laughter
  • her mother's photograph
  • her uncle's camera
Why did the girls went to the sea beach?
  • for swimming
  • for paddling
  • for cycling
  • for surfing
How many years have passed since the photograph was taken?
  • twenty or thirty years
  • four years
  • twelve years
  • fifty years
How many phases are described in the poem?
  • two
  • three
  • four
  • two
Paddling means
  • Walking barefoot
  • Walking barefoot on sand
  • Playing in water
  • walking barefoot in water
which poetic device is used in "Terribly transient feet"
  • simile
  • Alliteration
  • Transferred Epithet
  • both ii and iii
when two contradictory words come together that literary device is known as
  • allusion
  • oxymoron
  • hyperbole
  • personification
Silence Silences refer to
  • silence of past good memories caused void
  • silence caused by mother's death further caused void
  • both i and ii
  • none of them
"There is nothing to say at all".Which of the following best explain the meaning of this line?
  • the poet's sense of loss is too deep to express
  • their is no one the poet can share her grief with
  • the poet does not want to talk about her sense of loss
  • it is futile to discuss one's grief
'Its silence silences' is an example of...
  • simile
  • personification
  • transferred epithet
  • metaphor
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