Aunt Jennifer's Tiger

Previous Years' CBSE Board Questions

SA (2 marks)

1. Explain the significance of the 'denizens pacing in sleek certainty' in the poem 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers'.

(2022) U

1. Describe the appearance of Aunt Jennifer's 'Tigers'. (2022 C)
2. Explain the irony at the end of the poem, 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers'. (Term II, 2021-22) [EV]
3. How did Aunt Jennifer face the ordeals in her life? (2020 C)
4. What are the difficulties that Aunt Jennifer faced in her life? (Delhi 2014) U R

Ó. How are Aunt Jennifer's tigers different from her? (AI 2014) R

1. How does Aunt Jennifer express her bitterness and anger against male dominance? (Delhi 2014C)

SAII (3 marks)

1. How do symbols in the poem, 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' help us understand her plight? (Al 2019) Cr
2. Aunt Jennifer's efforts to get rid of her fear proved to be futile. Comment. (Delhi 2016) (cr
3. What picture of male chauvinism (tyranny) do we find in the poem, 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers'? (Al 2016)
4. How does the poet show the futility of Aunt Jennifer's efforts? (Foreign 2016)
5. What is suggested by the phrase, 'massive weight of uncle's wedding band'? (Delhi 2015) U

Why does Aunt Jennifer create animals that are so different from her own character? (Delhi 2015)

1. What will happen when Aunt Jennifer is dead? (Foreign 2015)
2. How is Aunt Jennifer different from her tigers? (Foreign 2015)
3. For Aunt Jennifer, what do the tigers symbolise? (Foreign 2015)

SA III (4 marks)

The tigers' description as 'chivalric' is a contrast to that of Aunt Jennifer. Explain. (Term II, 2021-22) [An]

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

Aunt Jennifer's fingers fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull

he massive weight of uncle's wedding band

Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand. (2019 C)

(a) Why are Aunt Jennifer's fingers fluttering

through her wool?

What is Aunt Jennifer doing that she finds very

hard to do?

1. Why does the wedding band seem too heavy?
2. What impression do you form of Aunt Jennifer from the extract?

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,

Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.

They do not fear the men beneath the tree;

They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. (d)

1. tigers?
2. (c) How are they different from Aunt Jennifer?

(Delhi 2017) An

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,

Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.

They do not fear the men beneath the tree;

They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

(a) Why are the tigers called 'Aunt Jennifer's tigers'?

(b): What does the phrase, 'a world of green' mean?

1. (d) Why are the tigers not afraid of the men beneath

the trees? (Delhi 2015C) [An]

LAH (6 marks)

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,

Bright topaz denizens of a world of green,

They do not fear the men beneath the tree;

They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

Aunt Jennifer's fingers fluttering through her wool

Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.

The massive weight of uncle's wedding band

Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand.

Denizens of the world of green refer to _____

1. huntsmen (b) Aunt Jennifer
2. uncle (d) tigers

Choose the option that displays the same poetic

device as used in the second line of the extract.

1. (c) silver spoon (d) white murder

The men setting beneath the tree are _

What quality of uncle can be inferred through these

lines?

1. compassionate nature
2. courageous
3. confident
4. dominating
5. The tigers in the extract are symbolic of
6. creativity and courage
7. confidence and gentleness
8. cruelty and fear
9. aggression and starving
10. Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across
11. the screen
12. the fields
13. the embroidered tunic
14. the cage

Which of the following is the most appropriate

choice?

1. (1) and (2) (b) (2) and (4)

1. (1), (2) and (3) (d) (1) and (3) (2023)

CBSE Sample Questions

SAL (2 marks)

1 Adrienne Rich chose to express her silent revolt through her poem, 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers', just as Aunt Jennifer did with her embroidery. Explain. (Term II, 2021-22) Ev Cr

2 How does the poet use the image of 'fingers fluttering through the wool' to highlight Aunt Jennifer's victimisation?

(2020-21) An

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