Mock Test -1 The Portrait Of A Lady -25M

Class -XI English.    MM.25

Mock Test The Portrait Of A Lady 

Q1.Write the correct answer for any ten. 1/2x10=5

1.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

2. How did the grandmother look?

A. Old, Fat, Long

B. Long, Fat, Slightly Bent

C. Old, Short, Slightly Bent, Fat

D. Slightly Bent, Fat

3.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

4.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

5.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

6.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

7.How did the grandmother spend her time in the city?

A. feedings dogs

B. reading scriptures

C. spinning the wheel

D. talking to neighbours

8.How did the grandmother react to her illness?

A. She said her end was near

B. She ignored her health

C. She took care of her

D. She was admitted to the hospital

9.What happened when they took the grandmother’s corpse away?

A. Neighbours visited them to pay condolences

B. they mourned her death in her room

C. birds flew away quietly

D. Nothing happened

10.What was her reaction when he came back after 5 years?

A. Overwhelmed

B. clasped the author in her arms and said prayers

C. happy

D. sentimental

11.Why didn’t the grandmother like music?

A.It was the monopoly of harlots and beggars and not meant for gentlefolk

B. She liked only religious prayers

C. She liked the traditional folk music

D. She thought it would distract him from studies

Q2. Write answer of the following questions given 2x5=10

A.The way in which the sparrows expressed their sorrow when the author’s grandmother died.

B.The author’s grandmother was a religious person. What are the different ways in which we come to know this?

C.How did the grandmother celebrate the homecoming of a grandson?

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

E.What was the happiest moment of the day for the grandmother?

F.Describe the author’s grandfather as he looked in his portrait

Q3.Read extract carefully and answer the question 

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.

1x5=5

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
2. Who made chapatis for dogs?
A Narrator
B His Grandmother
C Both of them
D None of them
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
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
5.Name the writer of the chapter.

Q4. Write any one of the following questions 

Hotel Lake View. Udaipur, needs young & smart lady receptionists. Write an advertisement to be published in the ‘Situation Vacant’ column of a local newspaper.

Or

You want to sell your old car as you are planning to buy a new one. Draft a suitable advertisement to be published in a local daily under the classified columns.