11th Eng The Portrait Of A Lady, Extract, MCQS

Ch-1The Portrait of a Lady  The Portrait of a Lady  Extract Based Questions

A.Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:

She had always been short and fat and slightly bent. Her face was a criss- cross of wrinkles running from everywhere to everywhere. No, we were certain she had always been as we had known her. Old, so terribly old that she could not have grown older, and had stayed at the same age for twenty years. She could never have been pretty; but she was always beautiful.

1. Who is ‘She’ in the above lines?
A Narrator’s Mother
B Narrator’s Grandmother
C Narrator’s Mother-in-law
D None of these

Ans B Narrator’s Grandmother

2. What was the physical state of hers?
A Middle-aged
B Young
C Old
D None of these

Ans C Old

3. Which of the following best describes “Fat”?
A Corpulent
B Skinny
C Lean
D None of these

Ans A Corpulent

4. Name the Chapter.
A Discovering Tut
B Ghat of The Only World
C The Adventure
D None of These

Ans D None of These

B. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:

She hobbled about the house in spotless white with one hand resting on her waist to balance her stoop and the other telling the beads of her rosary. Her silver locks were scattered untidily over her pale, puckered face, and her lips constantly moved in inaudible prayer. Yes, she was beautiful. She was like the winter landscape in the mountains, an expanse of pure white serenity breathing peace and contentment.

1. What does the narrator mean by ‘Silver locks’?
A Lock and Key
B Grey Hair
C Attire of Silver colour
D None of these

Ans B Grey Hair

2. Which poetic device is employed in “Pale puckered face”?
A Simile
B Metaphor
C Alliteration
D Zeugma
Ans C Alliteration

3. Find out the antonym of ‘Audible’ from the following.
A Unhearable
B Unsounded
C Imperceptible
D All of these
Ans D All of these

4. What does the word ‘Hobble’ mean?
A Walk quickly
B Limp
C Rush
D Hasten
Ans B Limp

C. Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:

She used to wake me up in the morning and get me ready for school. She said her morning prayer in a monotonous sing-song while she bathed and dressed me in the hope that I would listen and get to know it by heart; I listened because I loved her voice but never bothered to learn. it. Then she would fetch my wooden slate which she had already washed and plastered with yellow chalk.

1. Who looked after the narrator?
A His Grandmother
B His Mother
C His Father
D Both B and C
Ans A His Grandmother

2. Where did they both live?
A In a village
B In city
C In a metropolitan city
D None of these
Ans A In a village

3. Find out the antonym of ‘Monotonous’ from the following:
A Dull
B Boring
C Obsolete
D Exciting
Ans D Exciting

4. What did his grandmother always hold in her hands?
A Rosary
B Wooden Slate
C Food for Narrator
D All of these
Ans A Rosary

D.Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:

The priest taught us the alphabet and the morning prayer. While the children sat in rows on either side of the verandah singing the alphabet or the prayer in a chorus, my grandmother sat inside reading the scriptures. When we had both finished, we would walk back together. This time the village dogs would meet us at the temple door. They followed us to our home growling and fighting with each other for the chapattis we threw to them.

1. What did the grandmother do in the temple?
A Read scriptures
B Play with the kids
C Feed the dogs
D All of these
Ans A Read scriptures

2. Who made chapatis for dogs?
A Narrator
B His Grandmother
C Both of them
D None of them
Ans B His Grandmother

3. What does the word ‘Chorus’ mean?
A Sing in a group
B Sing alone
C Sing in a group of two
D Sing in a group of three
Ans A Sing in a group

4. Which literary device has been used in the line ‘They followed us to our home growling’?
A Onomatopoeia
B Transferred epithet
C Epithet
D Repetition
Ans A Onomatopoeia

E.Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:

My grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she had once been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather’s portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room. He wore a big turban and loose-fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his chest and he looked at least a hundred years old.

 

1. Name the chapter.
A The Portrait of a Lady
B Landscape of the Soul
C Discovering Tut
D We are not Afraid to Die if we can all be Together
Ans A The Portrait of a Lady

2. Name the author.
A Khushwant Singh
B A.R. Williams
C Marga Minco
D Kalki
Ans A Khushwant Singh

3. What literary device is employed in “Like everyone’s grandmother”?
A Metaphor
B Simile
C Transferred Epithet
D Enjambment
Ans B Simile

4. Find out the synonym of ‘Pretty’ from the following?
A Beautiful
B Ugly
C Unattractive
D None of these
Ans A Beautiful

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Multiple Choice Questions

Q1 Where were the parents of the author?
A Abroad
B City
C Other Village
D Other state

Ans B City

Q2 What literary device is employed in “Like everyone’s grandmother”?
A Metaphor
B Simile
C Transferred Epithet
D Enjambment

Ans B Simile

Q3 What did the author eat for breakfast?
A thick, stale chapatis with a thin layer of butter and sugar.
B thick bread with butter
C upma
D rice and curd

Ans A thick, stale chapatis with a thin layer of butter and sugar.

Q4 What did the grandmother do in the temple?
A Read scriptures
B Play with the kids
C Feed the dogs
D All of these

Ans A Read scriptures

Q5 What does “Silver locks” mean in the narrator’s context?
A Lock and Key
B Grey Hair
C Attire of Silver colour
D None of these

Ans B Grey Hair

Q6 Which poetic device is employed in “Pale puckered face”?
A Simile
B Metaphor
C Alliteration
D Zeugma

Ans C Alliteration

Q7 Where did the grandmother and the narrator live?
A In a village
B In ashram
C In a metropolitan city
D None of these

Ans A In a village

Q8 What did his grandmother always hold in her hands?
A Rosary
B Wooden Slate
C Food for Narrator
D All of these

Ans A Rosary

Q9 What was the grandmother’s view about music?
A she was neutral
B she liked musicians
C she disliked it
D not mentioned

Ans C she disliked it

Q10 Which literary device has been used in the line ‘They followed us to our home growling’?
A Onomatopoeia
B Transferred epithet
C Epithet
D Repetition

Ans A Onomatopoeia

Q11 What did grandmother feel when the author left for another country?
A Happy
B sad
C not even sentimental
D Sentimental
Ans C not even sentimental

Q12 Did the author take the time to memorise his grandmother’s morning prayers?
A yes
B he listened but did not bother to learn
C he could not learn
D no

Ans B he listened but did not bother to learn

Q13 What do you think of the grandmother’s character in the chapter?
A Emotional
B Strong
C Selfless
D Loving

Ans B Strong

Q14 How did the sparrows express their grief over grandmother’s passing?
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

Ans B they came and sat silently in the verandah

Q15 How did the grandmother spend her last moments?
A Talked to everyone in the house
B warned about everyone
C Silently praying and telling her beads
D Went to temple

Ans C Silently praying and telling her beads

Q16 What happened when the grandmother didn’t pray for the first time?
A She fell ill the next day
B She made this her routine
C She took a break and went to the village
D None of the above

Ans A She fell ill the next day

Q17 What happened after the author spent five years studying abroad?
A grandmother silently kissed his forehead as she said farewell.
B No one came to see him
C Grandmother moved back to village
D Parents moved with him

Ans. A grandmother silently kissed his forehead as she said farewell.

Q18 What did the grandmother do in the city?
A feedings dogs
B reading scriptures
C spinning the wheel
D talking to neighbours

Ans C spinning the wheel

Q19 What made the grandmother unhappy about the author’s new English School?
A the fact that she could no longer help him with the lessons
B Because they were in city
C Because she didn’t understand English
D Because she didn’t understand English and could no longer help him with the lessons

Ans D Because she didn’t understand English and could no longer help him with the lessons

Q20 What event marked the friendship between the grandmother and the author as a turning point?
A When he became an adult
B When both of his parents summoned them to the city
C When he abandoned her to move home with his parents in the city
D When they stopped talking

Ans B When both of his parents summoned them to the city

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