11th English, CBSE Class Test, The Portrait Of A Lady,A Photograph, 25M

11th Class Test 

 MR Citi Public school Balachaur 

Sub- ENG.             MM.25

Class 11

Time: Zero period 

Q1 A.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 (1x4=4M)

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

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

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

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

B.Read the given stanzas and answer the questions that follow:(1x4=4M) 

“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

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

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

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

Q2. Answer The following questions given Any five 2x5=10M

A.How were the grandmother and the narrator good and intimate friends?                                                                      

B.How did the grandmother celebrate the homecoming of her grandson? 

C.How did the sparrows pay tribute over the death of grandmother?      

D.The three stanzas depict three different phases, What are they?   

E.What does the sea represent in the poem?                                                

F.How did The Grandmother behave just before she died?

Q3. Answer Anyone of the following 

 A.Would you agree that author's grandmother was a person strong in character? if yes give instances that shows this. 1x3=

B. Write a critical note on a photograph.

Q 4.Answers the following questions any eight 1/2x8=4

1 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

 2. Which animal did the grandmother used to feed in the village?
A .Dogs
B. Cows
C. Sparrows
D. Cats

 

3. What did the author eat for breakfast?
A. thick and stale chapatis with a little butter and sugar spread in it
B. thick bread with butter
C. upma
D. rice and curd

 

4. Why would grandmother accompany the author to his school?
A. to keep an eye on him
B. to wait for him to take him back to home
C. because of the temple attached to school
D. she wanted to meet villagers

5. 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

 

6. When did her mother die ?
A. two years ago
B. five years ago
C. thirteen years ago
D. twelve years ago

 

7. How many people were in the photograph?
A. two girls
B. three girls
C. two girls and one boy
D. only her mother

8. Who are on both sides of her mother?
A. Cousins, Betty and Dolly
B. Parents
C. Cousins, Dolly and Adam
D. Friends

 

9. 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

 

10. Who took the photograph of her mother with her cousin?
A. Her grandfather
B. Her uncle
C. Her mother’s friend
D. Her grandmother

Photograph 

https://englishscholarhubclgautam.blogspot.com/2024/04/11th-eng-photograph-poetic-devices.html

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The Portrait Of A Lady 

https://englishscholarhubclgautam.blogspot.com/2024/04/11th-eng-portrait-of-lady-extract-mcqs.html

https://englishscholarhubclgautam.blogspot.com/2024/02/class-11eng-portrait-of-lay-ch-1.html