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    The poem describes a daughter saying goodbye to her mother who is ill. In the first line, the daughter smiles to hide her true feelings of ache and sadness at having to leave her mother. Throughout the poem, the daughter uses imagery like children playing and her mother's pale face to express her conflicting emotions. The poem ends on a note of optimism as the daughter tries to maintain hope despite the uncertain prognosis for her mother's health.

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    The poem describes a daughter saying goodbye to her mother who is ill. In the first line, the daughter smiles to hide her true feelings of ache and sadness at having to leave her mother. Throughout the poem, the daughter uses imagery like children playing and her mother's pale face to express her conflicting emotions. The poem ends on a note of optimism as the daughter tries to maintain hope despite the uncertain prognosis for her mother's health.

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    The Parting Words of The Poet 'See You Soon Amma' Suggest

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    The poem describes a daughter saying goodbye to her mother who is ill. In the first line, the daughter smiles to hide her true feelings of ache and sadness at having to leave her mother. Throughout the poem, the daughter uses imagery like children playing and her mother's pale face to express her conflicting emotions. The poem ends on a note of optimism as the daughter tries to maintain hope despite the uncertain prognosis for her mother's health.

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    1.

    The parting words of the poet 1 /1


    'See you soon Amma' suggest *

    0 Passion

    0 happiness

    ® Ache

    0 equilibrium of mind

    2. The poet's smile at the end of 1/1


    the poem is *

    Q sudden, in response to he mother's

    Q meaningful and loaded with love

    Q accompanied with tears of farewell

    @ a facade to hide her true feelings


    3. The poem is written in a lyrical 1/1
    idiom. It means *

    It expresses emotions in an
    imaginative and artistic style

    It captures complex subtleties of


    0 human relationships

    It captures the fear of losing


    0 someone near and dear

    it highlight the universal bond


    0 between mother and daughter

    4. 'Her face ashen like a corpse' 1/1


    means *

    Q the ash colour of the face

    @ the pale face of the mother

    Q the lost beauty of the mother

    Q none of these
    5. The poet uses the image of 1 /1
    'merry children spilling out of their
    homes' because

    Q she likes to see kids play outdoors

    'i'
    to put away the thought of losing
    ~ her mother

    she remembers her own carefree


    0 childhood

    her mother liked when she used


    0 play in the courtyard.

    6. What thought did the poet try 1/1


    to put away *

    ® Mother would not live for long

    0 mother would wake up

    0 mother would continue sleeping

    sad she was going away from her


    0 mother.
    7. Wha t does the imag e of 'mer ry 111
    child ren spilling out' symbolize? *

    Q since rity

    Q respo nsibi lity and duty

    Q carefree attitu de

    @ energy and vitali ty

    8. The poem ends on a note of * 1/1

    0 desp air

    ® optim ism

    0 pess imism

    0 nosta lgia
    9. What were the things taken for 1 /1
    granted by the people of Alsace? *

    0 Teachers of the school

    ® Time and School

    0 People of the town

    0 Money and Power

    10. Why was Franz reluctant to go 1/1


    school that day? *

    0 wanted to enjoy the warm sunlight

    0 wanted to see the soldiers drill

    wanted to enjoy in the woods with


    0 the birds chirping

    hadn't prepared for his grammar


    lesson.
    11. Why had the villagers com e to 1/1
    sch ool that day? *

    Q to say goodbye

    @ to show their grat itude

    Q to show off their Sunday's best

    Q to feel nost algic

    12. The Last Lesson sym boli zes * 1/1

    @ Loss of language and freedom

    Q Loss of right s

    Q Loss of self governance

    Q Loss of terri tory


    13. Why would M. Hamel not scold 1/1
    little Franz? *

    Because Franz must be feeling bad


    0 enough

    Because Franz could neither speak


    0 nor write French

    0 Because Franz was not the worst

    Because Franz alone was not


    responsible for being unable to read
    and write French well.

    14. Why did Franz think that 1/1


    Wachter was making fun of him? *

    Because Franz did not know what


    was on the bulletin board.

    because he was invariably late to


    0 school

    because Wachter would often make


    0 fun of him

    because Wachter thought that


    ■ o Franz hated school
    15. Who were called 'wretches'? * 0/1

    (Q) people of France

    Q the Prussian soldiers

    Ii\
    the people standing in front of the
    ~ bulletin board X

    0 the Germans

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