Read the following extract answer the question that follows...My Mother at Sixty Six
Read the following extract answer the question that follows:
Driving from my parents
home to Cochin last Friday morning,
I saw my mother, beside me, doze, open mouthed,
her face ashen like that of a corpse and realized with pain
that she was as old as she looked but soon put that thought away…
Choose the option that best applies to the given extract.
1. a chat
2. a dispute
3. a suggestion
4. a strategy
5. a recollection
(A) 1 & 3
(B) 2, 4 & 5
(C) Only 5
(D) Only 1
Correct Answer: (C) Only 5
2. Choose the option that applies correctly to the two statements given below.
Assertion : The poet wards off the thought of her mother getting old quickly.
Reason : The poet didn’t want to confront the inevitability of fate that was to dawn upon
her mother.
(A) Assertion can be inferred but the Reason cannot be inferred.
(B) Assertion cannot be inferred but the Reason can be inferred.
(C) Both Assertion and Reason can be inferred.
(D) Both Assertion and Reason cannot be inferred.
Correct Answer: (C) Both Assertion and Reason can be inferred.
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