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 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Silence Silences refer to A) Silence of past good memories caused void. B) Silence caused by mother's death further caused void. C) Both i and ii. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Silence caused by mother's death further caused void. 2. When did the author's parents leave him with his grandmother? A) When he was a kid. B) When he was an infant. C) When he became a teenager. D) When he failed and became a teenager. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When he was a kid. 3. The meaning of the word, 'immoral' as used in the sentence below is ..... For my grandmother, singing any song that was not religious was considered as immoral. A) Correct and good. B) A good deed. C) Wrong, bad. D) Modern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wrong, bad. 4. Which thought was almost revolting? A) Grandmother being young and pretty. B) Games grandmother used to play as a child. C) Grandfather being young and handsome. D) Grandfather's long and white beard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grandmother being young and pretty. 5. How did the grandmother look? A) Old, Fat, Long. B) Old, Short, Slightly Bent, Fat. C) Long, Fat, Slightly Bent. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Old, Short, Slightly Bent, Fat. 6. The grandmother was unhappy because A) The author went to school in a bus. B) The author did not talk to her. C) The author went to a local school. D) They did not teach about God and the scriptures in the English school. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They did not teach about God and the scriptures in the English school. 7. The grandmother was against the teaching of music because she considered music to besublimegood for hima monopoly of harlots and beggars A) A part of western culture. B) Sublime. C) A monopoly of harlots and beggars. D) Not for decent and culture eople. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A monopoly of harlots and beggars. 8. Why was it hard for the author to believe his grandmother was once young? A) He only knew her as an old woman. B) She told him stories about her youth. C) He had never seen her young. D) People in the village said so. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He only knew her as an old woman. 9. When the writer was at school, what did the grandmother do? A) She fed stray dogs. B) She went home. C) She gossiped with ladies. D) She sat in the temple and read scriptures. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She sat in the temple and read scriptures. 10. Grandmother was courageous because A) She could lift 50 kg. B) She could catch snakes and fry them in evening snacks. C) She couldn't speak. D) She concealed her pain of separation from her grandson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She concealed her pain of separation from her grandson. 11. "See Betty and Dolly"she would say, who is the speaker and whom is she addressing? A) Mother to poetess. B) Poetess to mother. C) Poetess to readers. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mother to poetess. 12. When the writer came back after his studies, the grandmother met him: A) At the station. B) On the roof where she fed the sparrows. C) At home. D) In the street. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the station. 13. The grandmother carried stale chapatis to ..... A) Throw them away. B) Feed the stray dogs. C) To feed the poor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feed the stray dogs. 14. What did the author's grandmother do when the author woke up in the morning? A) Played with the village dogs. B) Sang a morning prayer. C) Cooked breakfast. D) Went for a walk. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sang a morning prayer. 15. What was the grandmother's appearance described as? A) Old and frail. B) Young and vibrant. C) Short, healthy, and slightly bent. D) Tall and slender. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Short, healthy, and slightly bent. 16. The writer's grandmother was: A) Short and fat. B) Tall and slim. C) Dark and ugly. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Short and fat. 17. "mine is her laughter."When was the mother laughing here? A) Just before her death. B) After her return from holiday. C) 20-30 years after the sea holiday. D) During the sea holiday. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 20-30 years after the sea holiday. 18. How did Khushwant's grandmother behave just before her death? A) By eating and drinking. B) By sleeping. C) By singing and dancing. D) By reciting prayers and telling the beads of her rosary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By reciting prayers and telling the beads of her rosary. 19. "And the sea, which appears to have changed less ..... " ..... The sea symbolises: A) Large body of water. B) Eternal time. C) Immortality. D) Silence and peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Silence and peace. 20. What was the real name of the author Khushwant singh? A) Khushwant. B) Shoba SIngh. C) Khushan Singh. D) Khushal singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Khushal singh. 21. Meaning of whose name was-the lord of the universe A) The ragpicker. B) The banglemaker. C) The car mechanic. D) The instructor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ragpicker. 22. What would the mother show to her daughter while showing her the photograph? A) How her parents dressed her for the beach. B) Her own childhood photograph. C) Her cousins. D) The background. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How her parents dressed her for the beach. 23. What are the names of the girls in the photograph? A) Betty and Pretty. B) Dolly and Polly. C) Letty and Drolly. D) Betty and Dolly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Betty and Dolly. 24. How old was the poetess when this photograph was taken? A) Ten years. B) Twelve years. C) Twenty years. D) She was not born. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She was not born. 25. What was the turning point in the author and grandmother's relationship? A) Not sharing the room anymore. B) Not reading religious text anymore. C) Going to school by bus. D) Moving from village to city. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moving from village to city. 26. The grandmother's one hand was on her waist.What was in her other hand? A) A rod. B) A pen. C) A book. D) A rosary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A rosary. 27. After five years, I came back home. Who is 'i' here? A) Author. B) Author's grandfather. C) Author's grandmother. D) Author's mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Author. 28. What is the name of Isabel's cousin who becomes very fond of her? A) Mr. Osmond. B) Mr. Bantling. C) Ralph Touchett. D) Lord Warburton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ralph Touchett. 29. Who proposes to Isabel first? A) Ralph Touchett. B) Lord Warburton. C) Caspar Goodwood. D) Mr. Osmond. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caspar Goodwood. 30. How was the happiest half an hour of the day spent by the grandmother in the city? A) Feeding dogs. B) Spinning wheels. C) Reciting prayers. D) Feeding sparrows. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feeding sparrows. 31. Hundreds of little birds collected round her creating a veritable bedlam of chirruping. A) Calm. B) Confusion. C) Interest. D) Peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Confusion. 32. Author's Grandfather looked that: A) He was 100 months old. B) He was 100 years old. C) He was 100 days old. D) He was 50 years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He was 100 years old. 33. Who snapped the photograph? A) Poetess' uncle. B) Poetess' mother. C) Poetess' sister. D) Poetess' father. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetess' uncle. 34. The chief character in the Portrait of a lady is Kushwant Singh's A) Mother. B) Father. C) Brother. D) Grandmother. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grandmother. 35. What does "Silver locks" mean in the narrator's context? A) Lock and Key. B) Attire of Silver colour. C) None of these. D) Grey Hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grey Hair. 36. Find out the phrase that means "peace and serenity" . A) Crisscross of wrinkles. B) Monotonous sing-song. C) Expanse of pure white serenity. D) Hobbled awkwardly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expanse of pure white serenity. 37. What does she feel in the last phase? A) Pain and grief. B) Happy and nostalgic. C) Sad and nostalgic. D) Pain and nostalgic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pain and grief. 38. After how many years did her mother laugh on seeing the photograph? A) Twenty-three. B) Twenty-five. C) Twenty-one. D) Twelve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Twenty-three. 39. What do we call to the small pieces of Bread? A) Crumbs. B) Shrums. C) Crums. D) Chrums. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crumbs. 40. The word 'hobble' implies that the manner of walking of the grandmother was ..... A) Very quick. B) Normal. C) Un obstructed. D) Awkward. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Awkward. 41. Did the author brother to learn the morning prayers that his grandmother recited A) Learn. B) He listened but did not brother to learn. C) Not listen. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He listened but did not brother to learn. 42. Fill with the appropriate word.There was ..... in the streets after the verdict was announced A) Bedlam. B) Contentment. C) Puckered. D) Hobbled. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bedlam. 43. The Chief character in The Portrait of a Lady is ..... A) Grandfather. B) Jasswant Singh. C) Grandmother. D) Sparrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grandmother. 44. What did people say about the narrator's grandmother? A) She was always old and wrinkled. B) She was once young and pretty. C) She was a famous actress. D) She was a teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was once young and pretty. 45. What Oxymoron literary device was used in the poem? A) Terribly transient. B) Through their. C) Both wry. D) Laboured ease. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Laboured ease. 46. Mention the adjective used to describe the face of the grandmother . A) Puckered. B) Hobbled. C) Undignified. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puckered. 47. The story "The Portrait of a lady" is a ..... text. A) Historical. B) Autobiographical. C) Post-colonial. D) Political. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autobiographical. 48. What is the tone of the passage? A) Nostalgic and reflective. B) Joyful and celebratory. C) Satirical and humorous. D) Angry and confrontational. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nostalgic and reflective. 49. Who is the author of "A Portrait Of A Lady" ? A) Shirley Toulson. B) William Saroyan. C) Khushwant Singh. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Khushwant Singh. 50. The author's mother brought breadcrumbs for the birds which A) They ate and flew away. B) They did not take any notice of. C) They scattered them all over the place. D) They took the breadcrumbs and flew away. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They did not take any notice of. 51. How did the grandfather in the portrait hung on the wall look like? A) Old, long white beard, worn big turban. B) Old, skinny, wrinkly. C) Young, Handsome, Well-Built. D) Old, Well-Built. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Old, long white beard, worn big turban. 52. What did the author think was the sign of last physical contact between him and his granmother? A) She kissed his forehead. B) She kissed his hand. C) She kissed his cheek. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She kissed his forehead. 53. What subject did the author study that upset his grandmother? A) Music. B) Mathematics. C) History. D) Biology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Music. 54. How do you feel about the character of the grandmother in the chapter? A) Loving. B) Strong. C) Selfless. D) Emotional. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strong. 55. With whom/what did the author compared her grandmother with? A) Old and ugly women. B) Winter landscape in the mountains. C) A summer landscape. D) A beautiful women. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Winter landscape in the mountains. 56. Another word for'clasped'? A) Gripped. B) Shunned. C) Called. D) Shooed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gripped. 57. "And she the big girl" whom does she refers to? A) Mother. B) Dolly. C) Betty. D) Poetess. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mother. 58. In the village the grandmother used to feed ..... A) Cows. B) Dogs. C) Cows. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dogs. 59. The common link between the grandmother and grandson was snapped when A) He went to the university. B) He was given a room of his own. C) Both a and b. D) Neither a nor b. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 60. The grandmother has been depicted as a very devout woman. What elements in the narrative contribute to this perception? A) She fed chapattis to stray dogs. B) She fed bread crumbs to birds. C) She used to spend most of her time around the spinning wheel. D) She recalled her morning prayers at the temple. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She recalled her morning prayers at the temple. ← 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 3Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 4Class 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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