This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Common Subjects > English Hornbill > Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The author's parents left him with his grandmother when A) When they went to a foreign country. B) They went to live in the city. C) The author did not want to go with them. D) The grandmother told them to leave him there. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They went to live in the city. 2. The meaning of eerie is A) Strange. B) Sudden strangeness. C) Diminishing. D) Gentle whisper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strange. 3. How did the grandmother react to her illness? A) She ignored her health. B) She was admitted to the hospital. C) She said her end was near. D) She took care of herself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She said her end was near. 4. What did the sparrows do when the author's grandmother passed away? A) Attacked the family members. B) Started chirping loudly. C) Flew away quietly. D) Brought more birds to the house. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flew away quietly. 5. What is the meaning of mild fever? A) High fever. B) Slight fever. C) No fever at all. D) Neither of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slight fever. 6. What was the last phase in the poem? A) After her mother died. B) After she grown up. C) After her mother grown up. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) After her mother died. 7. The author's grandmother always went to school with him because the school was attached to the ..... A) Theatre. B) Park. C) Temple. D) Mall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temple. 8. Which poetic device is used in "Terribly transient feet" A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Transferred Epithet. D) Both ii and iii. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both ii and iii. 9. . The portrait of a Lady is written by A) Khushjant Singh. B) Khush Kumar Singh. C) Kulwant Singh. D) Khushwant Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Khushwant Singh. 10. What happened when they took the grandmother's corpse away? A) They mourned her death in her room. B) Nothing happened. C) Neighbours visited them to pay condolences. D) Birds flew away quietly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Birds flew away quietly. 11. Grandmother was not even sentimental when her grandson left for abroad. This shows that A) She was a detached person. B) She was a lady with strong character. C) She did not care about her grandson. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was a lady with strong character. 12. What is the antonym of 'transient'? A) Short-lived. B) Permanent. C) Momentary. D) Fleeting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Permanent. 13. What do you think the author learnt in his village school? A) English. B) Sanskrit. C) Morning prayers and his native language. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morning prayers and his native language. 14. The author's grandmother had always been ..... A) Long, fat and slightly bent. B) Short, thin and slightly bent. C) Long, thin and slightly bent. D) Short, fat and slightly bent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Short, fat and slightly bent. 15. What did the author eat for breakfast? A) Thick and stale chapatis with a little butter and sugar spread in it. B) Thick bread with butter. C) Upma. D) Rice and curd. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thick and stale chapatis with a little butter and sugar spread in it. 16. In order to establish, that the grandmother was a beautiful lady he goes to an extend to say, she was an expanse of pure white ..... A) Spotless. B) Sherinity. C) Serenity. D) Srenity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Serenity. 17. What was the favourite memory of the poet? A) Her own vacation memories. B) Her mother's memories. C) Her childhood memories. D) Her mother's laughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her mother's laughter. 18. "There is nothing to say at all" .Which of the following best explain the meaning of this line? A) The poet's sense of loss is too deep to express. B) It is futile to discuss one's grief. C) Their is no one the poet can share her grief with. D) The poet does not want to talk about her sense of loss. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The poet's sense of loss is too deep to express. 19. "Both wryWith the laboured ease of loss."Are the losses of both the poet and her mother different? A) Yes. B) No. C) Probably. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 20. Author's Grandmother had been old and young for the last A) Thirty years. B) Ten years. C) Fifteen years. D) Twenty years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Twenty years. 21. Grandmother didn't do the following A) Counting rosary. B) Feeding sparrows. C) Weaving. D) Spinning wheel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weaving. 22. Where does Isabel go after refusing Lord Warburton's proposal? A) Rome. B) London. C) Paris. D) Florence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Florence. 23. How did Kushwant Singh's grandmother bid him farewell when he was departing for abroad? A) The grandmother cried a lot. B) The grandmother was in full control of her emotions. C) The grandmother did not come to see him off. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The grandmother was in full control of her emotions. 24. Why does Isabel marry Mr. Osmond? A) She believes he needs her help. B) She wants to travel with him. C) She is pressured by her aunt. D) She loves him deeply. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She believes he needs her help. 25. The grandmother was against the teaching of music because she considered music to be A) Sublime. B) Good for him. C) A monopoly of harlots and beggars. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A monopoly of harlots and beggars. 26. The portrait of a lady has been written in A) Scientific mode. B) Romantic mode. C) Biographical mode. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biographical mode. 27. How did the grandmother spend her afternoon everyday? A) By going to temple. B) By feeding hundred of sparrows. C) By talking to author's mother. D) By taking a nap. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By feeding hundred of sparrows. 28. Mark the false one. In the city, the grandmother spent her time * A) With the spinning wheel. B) Reciting prayers and feeding sparrows. C) Giving stale chapatis to stray dogs. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giving stale chapatis to stray dogs. 29. In the beginning of the story, the writer and his grandmother lived in: A) A hotel. B) A village. C) A city. D) A gurudwara. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A village. 30. In the village the grandmother used to feed the A) Cows. B) Sparrows. C) Dogs. D) Parrots. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dogs. 31. The author's grandmother was beautiful. What does this mean? A) She was fair and beautiful. B) She was kind, gentle and caring person. C) She spoke about beautiful things. D) She was beauty conscious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was kind, gentle and caring person. 32. The beginning and the ending of the poem depict A) Cycle of life and death. B) Flora and fauna. C) Silence and liveliness. D) Young and old stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Silence and liveliness. 33. On his homecoming, what unusual happened, that too for the first time? A) She danced like anything. B) She did not pray. C) She sang devotional songs. D) She sat continuously praying. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She did not pray. 34. What happened to the grandmother after the author returned home? A) She was very happy and celebrated. B) She fell ill and passed away. C) She moved to another city. D) She forgot who he was. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She fell ill and passed away. 35. Pick evidence from passage that suggests that the protagonist's grandmother was unhappy with the content of his school education. A) The grandmother complained that the subjects taught at school were useless. B) The grandmother praised the school for its excellent curriculum. C) The grandmother was excited about the new subjects being introduced at school. D) The grandmother encouraged the protagonist to study harder for his school exams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The grandmother complained that the subjects taught at school were useless. 36. Why would grandmother accompany the author to his school? A) To wait for him to take him back to home. B) She wanted to meet villagers. C) To keep an eye on him. D) Because of the temple attached to school. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because of the temple attached to school. 37. What was a turning point in the grandmother's and author's friendship? A) The grandmother stopped telling stories. B) The author spent all his time playing music. C) Moving to the city and the author going to an English school. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moving to the city and the author going to an English school. 38. On the day before her death, the author's grandmother A) Sat in a comer and said her prayers. B) Beat an old drum and sang songs. C) Talked to the members of the family. D) Slept in her room soundly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beat an old drum and sang songs. 39. Which animal did the grandmother used to feed in the village? A) C. Sparrows. B) B. Cows. C) D. Cats. D) A .Dogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A .Dogs. 40. Which among these does not include the routine of the grandmother? A) Gossiping with neighbours. B) Wake the narrator. C) Bathe him. D) Reciting prayers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gossiping with neighbours. 41. Who wrote The Portrait of a Lady? A) Khushwant Singh. B) Henry James. C) Henry Fielding. D) Virginia Woolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Khushwant Singh. 42. What change came in the grandmother's evening schedule when the author returned from abroad? A) She would sleep early. B) She would go for a walk. C) She would talk to his parents. D) She collected the women of the neighbourhood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She collected the women of the neighbourhood. 43. What was the happiest half-hour for her grandmother in the city A) Feeding the little birds. B) Spending time in praying to god. C) Spend time with the narrator. D) Feeding the street dogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feeding the little birds. 44. What is untrue about appearance of the grandmother? * A) She was short fat, slightly bent. B) She walked straight with her rosary and chanting prayers. C) She had criss-cross of wrinkles all over her face. D) She did not walk straight with her rosary and chanting prayers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She walked straight with her rosary and chanting prayers. 45. What did the author's grandmother do when he announced music lessons? A) Encouraged him to practice. B) Joined the music class. C) Bought him a musical instrument. D) Expressed her disapproval. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expressed her disapproval. 46. The narrator's parents went to the ..... in search of good future. A) Abroad. B) City. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) City. 47. What did the author's grandmother do when the author returned after five years? A) Started a new hobby. B) Went on a trip. C) Ignored him. D) Fed the sparrows with frivolous rebukes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fed the sparrows with frivolous rebukes. 48. WHAT WAS THE HAPPIEST MOMENT OF THE DAY FOR THE GRANDMOTHER? A) WHEN SHE FED THE SPARROWS. B) WHEN SHE READ THE SCRIPTURES. C) WHEN SHE COUNTED THE BEADS. D) NONE OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) WHEN SHE FED THE SPARROWS. 49. While waking the author up in the village grandmother used to constantly mutter her prayers in the hope that he would imbibe some religious verses which he A) Never did. B) Did. C) Imbibed partially. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Never did. 50. What is the poem 'A Photograph' about? A) Poet's father. B) About poet's childhood memories. C) Tribute to the poet's mother. D) Poet's photograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tribute to the poet's mother. 51. What did the author's grandmother do when the author started going to an English school? A) Encouraged him to study hard. B) Joined the school as a teacher. C) Bought him new school supplies. D) Expressed her disapproval. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expressed her disapproval. 52. How did the grandmother react when the author left for his studies abroad? A) She cried loudly. B) She was indifferent and prayed silently. C) She packed his bags. D) She gave him a long lecture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was indifferent and prayed silently. 53. Where did the author go to study in the city? A) Nowhere. B) English School in motor bus. C) By walking down to nearby school. D) Hindi School. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English School in motor bus. 54. Narrator's Grandmother had been old and young for the last A) Thirty years. B) Fifteen years. C) Ten years. D) Twenty years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Twenty years. 55. What was the last sign of physical contact between the author and the grandmother? A) She touched his face. B) She kissed his forehead. C) She took his hand in her own hands. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She kissed his forehead. 56. What did the grandmother do the night before she passed away? A) She prayed. B) She sang. C) She slept. D) She cooked. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She sang. 57. "She'd laugh at the snapshot"Who does 'She' refer to here? A) The youngest girl in the snapshot. B) The poet. C) The poet's mother. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The poet's mother. 58. The author had known his grandmother for A) Ten years. B) Fortry years. C) Twenty years. D) Five years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Twenty years. 59. As the grandson, the best way to persuade your grandmother that music and English education are valuable, considering her disapproval and traditional beliefs, is to: A) Explain how music and English can help connect with the modern world and offer more opportunities. B) Ignore her beliefs and pursue your interests secretly. C) Tell her that traditional beliefs are outdated and should be abandoned. D) Promise to only study subjects she approves of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Explain how music and English can help connect with the modern world and offer more opportunities. 60. The grandmother always mumbled to ..... A) Say her prayers. B) Sing songs. C) Express her inner self. D) None of the above. 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