This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 12 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was the turning point in the author and grandmother's relationship? A) Not sharing the room anymore. B) Moving from village to city. C) Not reading religious text anymore. D) Going to school by bus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moving from village to city. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. What is the name of Isabel's cousin who becomes very fond of her? A) Lord Warburton. B) Ralph Touchett. C) Mr. Osmond. D) Mr. Bantling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Touchett. 5. Who proposes to Isabel first? A) Lord Warburton. B) Ralph Touchett. C) Caspar Goodwood. D) Mr. Osmond. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caspar Goodwood. 6. How was the happiest half an hour of the day spent by the grandmother in the city? A) Feeding dogs. B) Feeding sparrows. C) Reciting prayers. D) Spinning wheels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feeding sparrows. 7. Hundreds of little birds collected round her creating a veritable bedlam of chirruping. A) Peace. B) Calm. C) Confusion. D) Interest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Confusion. 8. Author's Grandfather looked that: A) He was 100 months old. B) He was 100 days old. C) He was 100 years old. D) He was 50 years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was 100 years old. 9. How did the sparrows express their sorrow at the death of the grandmother? A) They didn't come that day. B) They came and sat silently in the verandah. C) They ate the bread crumbs. D) They chirruped a lot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They came and sat silently in the verandah. 10. Who snapped the photograph? A) Poetess' mother. B) Poetess' sister. C) Poetess' uncle. D) Poetess' father. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetess' uncle. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. Find out the phrase that means "peace and serenity" . A) Monotonous sing-song. B) Crisscross of wrinkles. C) Hobbled awkwardly. D) Expanse of pure white serenity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expanse of pure white serenity. 14. 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. 15. After how many years did her mother laugh on seeing the photograph? A) Twenty-one. B) Twenty-three. C) Twelve. D) Twenty-five. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Twenty-three. 16. What do we call to the small pieces of Bread? A) Crums. B) Shrums. C) Crumbs. D) Chrums. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crumbs. 17. The word 'hobble' implies that the manner of walking of the grandmother was ..... A) Un obstructed. B) Normal. C) Very quick. D) Awkward. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Awkward. 18. 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. 19. Fill with the appropriate word.There was ..... in the streets after the verdict was announced A) Contentment. B) Bedlam. C) Hobbled. D) Puckered. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bedlam. 20. 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. 21. 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. 22. 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. 23. 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. 24. The story "The Portrait of a lady" is a ..... text. A) Autobiographical. B) Historical. C) Political. D) Post-colonial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autobiographical. 25. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 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 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 8Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 9Class 11 English (Hornbill) Chapter 1 The Portrait Of A Lady Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books