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 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What change came in the grandmother's evening schedule? A) She would go for a walk. B) She would talk to his parents. C) She would sleep early. D) She collected the women of the neighbourhood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She collected the women of the neighbourhood. 2. What would the grandmother do in the temple on daily basis? A) Teach other kids religious prayers. B) Read scriptures. C) Sing religious prayers. D) Meditation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Read scriptures. 3. Who is the poet of the poem 'A Photograph'? A) Khushwant Singh. B) Ted Huges. C) Shirley Toulson. D) Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shirley Toulson. 4. The poetic device used in '' Her face was a crisscross of wrinkles running from everywhere" . A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 5. How long, do you think, the poet's mother has been dead for? A) Nearly twelve years. B) Nearly twenty years. C) Nearly two years. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nearly twelve years. 6. The laburnum top refers to A) Bird. B) Tree. C) Thickness of the tree. D) Serene and quiet tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tree. 7. The author's grandfather in the photo looked at least ..... A) 50 years old. B) 100 years old. C) 150 years old. D) 20 years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 100 years old. 8. Find the odd one outunheard, muted, imperceptible, unperceivable, audible A) Muted. B) Imperceptible. C) Unperceivable. D) Audible. E) Un heard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Audible. 9. Who had always been short and fat and slightly bent? A) Garndfather. B) Narrator's Grandmother. C) Narrator's Great grand mother. D) Narrator's mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrator's Grandmother. 10. What did the grandmother say about her end? A) She was happy. B) She wanted to live longer. C) She was not afraid. D) It was near. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It was near. 11. Where is the mother of the poetess now? A) She has gone to another city. B) She has gone abroad. C) She is in the hospital. D) She is dead. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She is dead. 12. ''And of this circumstances there is nothing to say at all"which phase of life is depicted in this stanza? A) Mother's childhood. B) Poetess adulthood. C) Poetess childhood. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetess adulthood. 13. Who was standing in the middle in the photograph in the poem? A) Uncle. B) The poet's mother. C) Dolly. D) Betty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The poet's mother. 14. The dead body of the writer's grandmother was covered with a: A) Green shroud. B) Red shroud. C) Blue shroud. D) White shroud. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red shroud. 15. How many persons are there in a photograph? A) Three. B) Four. C) Two. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Three. 16. Grandmother used to wear A) Yellow saree. B) Black saree. C) Punjabi suit. D) Spotless white saree. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spotless white saree. 17. Where does Isabel Archer come from? A) England. B) France. C) America. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) America. 18. How is the lady here related to the young boy? A) She is his mother. B) She is his grandmother. C) She is his maternal aunt. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She is his grandmother. 19. The picture at the grandmother's belongs to ..... A) Her grandfather. B) Her father. C) Her husband. D) Her son. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her husband. 20. WHO WERE THE GOOD FRIENDS? A) GRANDMOTHER AND THE GRANDSON. B) MOTHER AND THE GRANDSON. C) FATHER AND THE MOTHER. D) NONE OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) GRANDMOTHER AND THE GRANDSON. 21. How does Isabel feel about Mr. Osmond initially? A) She admires him. B) She is indifferent. C) She is afraid of him. D) She dislikes him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She admires him. 22. What was her reaction when he came back after 5 years? A) Overwhelmed. B) Clasped the author in her arms and said prayers. C) Happy. D) Sentimental. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clasped the author in her arms and said prayers. 23. Who is Madame Merle? A) Lord Warburton's sister. B) Ralph's mother. C) A friend of Mrs. Touchett. D) Isabel's aunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A friend of Mrs. Touchett. 24. What did the grandmother do during afternoon hours in the city? A) Used to take rest. B) Sat by her spinning wheel. C) Used to feed the sparrows. D) Had a bath. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Used to feed the sparrows. 25. When the author went abroad, his grandmother spent her time by ..... A) Spinning on the spinning wheel. B) Feeding sparrows. C) Reciting prayers. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 26. The grandmother is compared to ..... A) Peaceful pigeons. B) Winter landscape in the mountains. C) Peaceful morning prayers. D) Chirping birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Winter landscape in the mountains. 27. The grandmother used to utter monotonous songs, while she ..... Khushwant. A) Cooked for. B) Accompanied. C) Bathed. D) Ate with. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bathed. 28. How did the grandmother die? A) During telling beads laying on the bed. B) In the hospital. C) While sleeping. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) During telling beads laying on the bed. 29. What does Isabel realize about herself by the end of the novel? A) She should never have married. B) She values her freedom above all. C) She is stronger than she thought. D) She regrets leaving America. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She is stronger than she thought. 30. The day the writer came back was the first time when the grandmother: A) Did not pray. B) Sang songs. C) Did not talk to him. D) Did not feed the sparrows. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Did not pray. 31. Where were the parents of the author? A) City. B) Other Village. C) Abroad. D) Other state. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) City. 32. What can be inferred about the grandmother's values and worldview? A) She believed education was unnecessary for children. B) She was open to modern ideas but skeptical of religion. C) She valued traditional religious teachings and disapproved of Western influences. D) She believed music was essential to a well-rounded education. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She valued traditional religious teachings and disapproved of Western influences. 33. The meaning of the word, 'puckered' in the sentence below means ..... Her silver locks were scattered untidily all over her puckered face ..... A) Gentle. B) Large. C) Peaceful. D) Wrinkled. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wrinkled. 34. What happened when the author moved abroad to study for five years? A) Parents moved with him. B) No one came to see him. C) Grandmother moved back to village. D) Grandmother bid goodbye by silently kissing his forehead. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grandmother bid goodbye by silently kissing his forehead. 35. Who is the main character of the chapter 'The Portrait of a Lady'? A) Mother. B) Sister. C) Grandmother. D) Daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grandmother. 36. When was the turning point in the relationship between the writer and his grandmother? A) When the writer was given a separate room. B) When they went to the city. C) When the writer became mature. D) When she died. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When they went to the city. 37. When the author returned from abroad, he saw a drastic change in grandmother that A) She didn't talk to him properly. B) She didn't feed sparrows. C) She didn't pray. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She didn't pray. 38. Who warns Isabel about Mr. Osmond before she marries him? A) Lord Warburton. B) Ralph Touchett. C) Mrs. Touchett. D) Madame Merle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Touchett. 39. Contentment means A) Content of the story. B) Full of chaos and noise. C) A feeling of satisfaction. D) The state of having little contact with people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A feeling of satisfaction. 40. Why was the author's grandmother disturbed when he started going to the city school? A) She didn't like the school building. B) She was afraid of the city. C) She couldn't help with his lessons. D) She wanted him to learn music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She couldn't help with his lessons. 41. What were her views on music? A) Had lewd association. B) Monopoly of harlots and beggars. C) None of these. D) Both of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both of these. 42. A peaceful pallor spread on her face and we knew that she was died. A) Bright. B) Dark. C) Peaceful. D) Pale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pale. 43. What did the grandmother do in the temple on a daily basis? A) Teach the kids. B) Sing religious prayers. C) Read scriptures. D) Meditation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Read scriptures. 44. The grandmother was distressed about the education the narrator received at the English school because: A) She felt it neglected religious teachings and traditions. B) She thought the teachers were not qualified. C) She believed the school was too far from home. D) She wanted the narrator to learn a foreign language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She felt it neglected religious teachings and traditions. 45. How does Ralph feel about Isabel's marriage to Mr. Osmond? A) He blames himself for her unhappiness. B) He regrets encouraging her independence. C) He supports it. D) He is indifferent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He blames himself for her unhappiness. 46. Did the author bother to learn the morning prayers that his grandmother recited? A) Yes. B) He listened but did not bother to learn. C) He could not learn. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He listened but did not bother to learn. 47. What does Isabel value most in her life? A) Family. B) Wealth. C) Fame. D) Freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Freedom. 48. What did the grandmother do while the children sang the alphabet? A) She played with the dogs. B) She read the scriptures. C) She sang along. D) She taught them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She read the scriptures. 49. While taking the author to school, the grandmother would feed ..... A) Cow. B) Birds. C) Dogs. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dogs. 50. In what way she used to say her morning prayer. A) Monotonous. B) Manytonous. C) Monatonous. D) Magnificent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monotonous. 51. The sea holiday was the past of her mother.What is the poetess' past? A) Her mother's laughter. B) Her mother's photograph. C) Her uncle's camera. D) Her mother's memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her mother's laughter. 52. The grandmother didn't like author's going to an English medium school because ..... A) She didn't know English. B) She didn't approve of the Subjects taught at school. C) The teachings were not related to God or religious scriptures. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 53. Which word among options refer to manner of walking? A) Haggle. B) Paddle. C) Hobble. D) Both i and iii. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both i and iii. 54. The dominant colour in the poem is depicted by A) Leaves, goldfinch, The sunlight. B) Tree's surroundings. C) Goldfinch and her babies. D) The tree in autumn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leaves, goldfinch, The sunlight. 55. When the narrator went up to university, the common link of friendship between the narrator and grandmother ..... A) Was shattered. B) Was snapped. C) Got strengthened. D) Remained as usual. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was snapped. 56. How did the author feel when he heard that his grand mother was also young? A) He didn't believe it. B) He thought it was absurd. She could never be young. C) He thought she was always an old lady and was never young. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 57. After how many years the author returned from abroad? A) Four years. B) Eight years. C) Seven years. D) Five years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Five years. 58. What was the condition of the drum thumped by the grandmother? A) Delapidared. B) Dalapidated. C) Delepidated. D) Dilapidated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dilapidated. 59. What are the three of them doing in the photograph? A) Playing. B) Standing beside house. C) Holding hands. D) Holding hands and went for paddling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Holding hands and went for paddling. 60. What did the author's grandmother do in the afternoon after feeding the sparrows? A) Read a book. B) Sing with the women of the neighbourhood. C) Go for a walk. D) Take a nap. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sing with the women of the neighbourhood. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesCommon Subjects QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 1Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 2Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 4Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 5Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 6Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 7Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 2 We’Re Not Afraid To Die... 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