Father to Son Class 11 MCQ Practice

• Chapter: Father to Son
• Author: Elizabeth Jennings
• Number of Questions: 10
• Target: Class 11th Exam

Let’s Start

1. Who is the poet of the poem ‘ Father to Son’?

1. Walt Whitman
2. Shirley Toulson
3. Elizabeth Jennings
4. Kushwant Singh

2. What is the poem ‘Father to Son’ about ?

1. Unsettling relationship between father and son
2. Father’s old age
3. Son comparing him to his father
4. Father talking to son about his childhood

3. How old is the son when his father rants about his agony to his son

1. Teenager
2. Grown-up
3. Child
4. Just became adult

4. Father tells him that although they have lived in the same house for years , he …………..

1. Envy him
2. Adore him
3. Doesn’t understand him
4. Finds him cunning

5. What happened when he tried to build a relationship with him in his childhood ?

1. He was successful
2. His efforts were in vain
3. He was half-way successful
4. None of the above

6. Does father know about his son’s likes and dislikes ?

1. Yes
2. No
3. Maybe
4. Can’t say

7. “Why does the father use ‘I’ in a ine ‘ The seed I spent or spon it where ‘ where he was talking about communication gap “?

1. To acknowledge his role in the communication gap
2. To acknowledge himself
3. To let his son know his importance
4. To make him understand about him

8. Despite all his efforts to fix the communication gap, was the son able to understand him ?

1. Yes
2. No
3. Can’t say
4. Maybe

9. “What is the meaning of ‘ This child is built to my design Yet what he loves I cannot share’?”

1. His son looks like him and they share everything with each other
2. His son looks like him yet they don’t have anything to share
3. His son doesn’t look like him
4. Neither does his son looks like him nor he understand him

10. What is the meaning of word ‘ Prodigal’ used in the third stanza ?

1. Understanding son
2. Someone who is smart
3. Spending money freely
4. Someone who doesn’t spend money freely