11th Eng.CBSE A PHOTOGRAPH, EXTRACT AND MCQS
English Confluence by CLGautam
Poem -1 Hornbill A PHOTOGRAPH Extract Based Questions
EXTRACT -
Read the given stanzas and answer the questions that follow:
"Some twenty-thirty-years later She’d laugh at the snapshot.“See Betty And Dolly, she’d say, “and look how they dressed us for the beach. The sea holiday Was her past, mine is her laughter Both wry With the laboured ease of loss.”
1. Why did she laugh?
A Seeing the absurd dresses they were sporting while on holiday by the sea
B One of them cracked a joke
C Seeing the weird dresses they were wearing at the party
D Because they saw a funny man at the sea holiday
Ans A Seeing the absurd dresses they were sporting while on holiday by the sea
2. Who are Betty and Dolly?
A They are poet’s cousins
B They are poet’s friends
C They are poet’s mother’s friends
D They are poet’s mother’s cousins
Ans D They are poet’s mother’s cousins
3. The word ___________ in the extract is the synonym of photograph.
A Snapshot
B Picture
C Mine
D Laboured
Ans A Snapshot
4. What do you mean by the word ‘wry’?
A ironic
B cry
C sad
D None of the above
Ans A Ironic
EXTRACT -2 Read the given stanzas and answer the questions that follow:
“Now she’s been dead nearly as many years
As that girl lived
And of this circumstance
There is nothing to say at all
Its silence silences”
1. Who does she refer to?
A The poet’s dead aunt
B The poet’s dead mother
C The poet’s dead cousin
D The poet’s sister
Ans B The poet’s dead mother
2. Why is there nothing to be said regarding the poet’s mother’s passing?
A The poet is perplexed
B When her mother passed away, the poet was not in her senses
C The death of the poet’s mother has left a deep void in the poet’s heart
D The poet and her mother did not get along well
Ans C The death of the poet’s mother has left a deep void in the poet’s heart
3. The phrase “events that change your life, over which you have no control” is synonymous to which word in the extract?
A Silences
B Circumstances
C Situation
D Circumstance
Ans D Circumstance
4. What does the author feel in the last phase?
A pain and grief
B happy and nostalgic
C sad and nostalgic
D pain and nostalgic
Ans A pain and grief
Photograph Questions And answers
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EXTRACT -3 Read the given stanzas and answer the questions that follow:
“The cardboard shows me how it was
When the two girl cousins went paddling,
Each one holding one of my mother’s hands,
And she the big girl- some twelve years or so”
1. What does cardboard mean in this context?
A A thick paper on which the poet’s photograph was pasted
B A thick envelope
C A thick piece of paper with a photo of the poet’s mother attached
D A paper boat
Ans C A thick piece of paper with a photo of the poet’s mother attached
2. What does the cardboard depict?
A A scenery
B The picture of a house
C The picture of a school
D The picture of three girls
Ans D The picture of three girls
3. Who is the big girl mentioned here?
A The poet herself
B The poet’s mother
C The poet’s relative
D The poet’s friend
Ans B The poet’s mother
4. In the picture, what are the three of them doing?
A playing in the sand
B standing beside house
C holding hands
D holding hands and paddling
Ans C holding hands
EXTRACT -4 Read the given stanzas and answer the questions that follow:
“All three stood still to smile through their hair
At the uncle with the camera.
A sweet face, My mother’s,
that was before I was born.
And the sea, which appears to have changed less.
Washed their terribly transient feet.
1. What does the phrase “smiling through their hair” signify in the poem?
A The girls who were photographed had their hair decorated
B The photographed girls were wearing a mask
C When the girls were smiling for the camera, their hair was covering their faces.
D The hair of the girls in the picture was smiling as well
Ans C When the girls were smiling for the camera, their hair was covering their faces.
2. What has remained constant over time?
A The photo
B The cardboard
C The girls
D The sea
Ans D The sea
3. Identify a term in the extract that describes something as “lasting only briefly”?
A Still
B Transient
C Changed
D Less
Ans B Transient
4. What poetic device involving epithets was used in the poem?
A Terribly transient
B Through their
C Both wry
D Laboured ease
Ans A Terribly transient
A Photograph Questions And answers
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Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Q1. 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
Ans A after her mother died
Q2 What does she feel in the last phase?
A pain and grief
B happy and nostalgic
C sad and nostalgic
D pain and nostalgic
Ans A pain and grief
Q3 How many phases were depicted in the poem by the poet?
A one
B two
C three
D four
Ans C three
Q4 What Oxymoron literary device was employed in the poem?
A Terribly transient
B Through their
C Both wry
D Laboured ease
Ans D Laboured ease
Q5 In the picture, what are the three of them doing?
A playing
B standing beside house
C holding hands
D holding hands and went for paddling
Ans C holding hands.
Q6.What is the subject of the poem “A Photograph”?
A About poet’s childhood memories
B tribute to the poet’s mother
C Poet’s photograph
D Poet’s father
Ans B tribute to the poet’s mother
Q7 What Epithet poetic device was used in the poem?
A Terribly transient
B Through their
C Both wry
D Laboured ease
Ans A Terribly transient
Q8 What do you mean by the word ‘wry’?
A ironic
B cry
C sad
D None of the above
Ans A Ironic
Q9 What is the most cherished memory of the poet?
A her mother’s memories
B her mother’s laughter
C her own vacation memories
D her childhood memories
Ans B her mother’s laughter
Q10 After how many years did her mother laugh on seeing the photograph?
A twenty-one
B twenty-three
C twelve
D twenty-five|
Ans B twenty-three
Q11. Who was the photographer for the picture of her mother and cousin?
A Her grandfather
B Her uncle
C Her mother’s friend
D Her grandmother
Ans B Her uncle
Q12. Who is on both sides of her mother?
A Cousins, Betty and Dolly
B Parents
C Cousins, Dolly and Adam
D Friends
Ans A Cousins, Betty and Dolly
Q13. How many people were in the photograph?
A two girls
B three girls
C two girls and one boy
D only her mother
Ans B three girls
Q14. What was the age of the poet’s mother when the photograph was taken?
A eleven years old
B thirteen years old
C twelve years old
D fourteen year old
Ans C twelve years old
Q15. Who is the poet/poetess of the poem “A Photograph”?
A Shirley Toulson
B Rudyard Kipling
C Elizabeth Jennings
D Markus Natten
Ans A Shirley Toulson
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