NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English (Hornbill) A portrait of a lady MCQ with Answers
Question: 1 Who was the author of a portrait of a lady?
1. Gorden cook
2. A.R william
3. khushwant singh
4. Naipaul
Answer: Khushwant singh
Question: 2 How did the grandmother spend her time in the city?
1. Singing
2. Spinning the wheel
3. Went to school along with author
4. Making food
Answer: spinning the wheel
Question: 3 How did the grandmother look?
1. Very pretty
2. Old short
3. slightly bent , fat
4. Both 2 and 3
Answer: Both 2 and 3
Question: 4 Which animal did the grandmother used to feed in the village?
1. Cows
2. Sparrows
3. Pigeons
4. Dogs
Answer: Dogs
Question: 5 How did the grandmother die?
1. She met with an accident
2. Heart attack
3. While sleeping
4. While telling her beads laying on the bed
Answer: While telling her beads laying on the bed
Question: 6 Where were the parents of the author?
1. London
2. City
3. Mumbai
4. In another village
Answer: City
Question: 7 The chapter ” The portrait of lady ” is about which character ?
1. Son
2. Father
3. Grandmother
4. Mother in all
Answer: Grandmother
Question: 8 What is the turning point?
1. The writer is going to school
2. The writer and his grandmother are moving to the city
3. The grandmother teaches him his lessons
4. Both of them are staying back in the village
Answer: The writer and his grandmother are in the moving in the city
Question: 9 What disturbed grandmother?
1. Western Science and english
2. No teaching about God
3. Music lessons
4. Traveling in a bus
Answer: Both 2 and 3
Question: 10 What was the writer’s plan for his studies?
1. He wanted to go abroad for further studies
2. He wanted to work in some concern in the city
3. He wanted to take his grandmother along with him
4. He planned for no further studies
Answer: He wanted to go abroad for further studies
Question: 11 What did grandmother think differently?
1. That she will feel better soon
2. She may not be able to speak
3. She is going to sit up and talk
4. Her end is near
Answer: Her end is near
Question: 12 Why did they feel sorry for the birds?
1. Thousands of sparrows gathered and chirruped loudly
2. Thousands of sparrows gathered and were silent
3. The birds were hungry
4. The birds were waiting for food from the writer’s mother
Answer: Thousands of sparrows gathered and were silent
Question: 13 Why did the sparrows gather around the corpse?
1. They were mourning the loss of their grandmother
2. They came to eat food.
3. They came there everyday.
4. They wanted to say goodbye to their grandmother
Answer: They were mourning the loss of grandmother
Question: 14 How did sparrows behave?
1. They are noisy
2. They showed their sorrow by flying around the corpse.
3. They were silent and did not eat the food given by the writer’s mother.
4. They never came near a corpse .
Answer: They were silent and did not eat the food given by the writer’s mother
Question: 15 What has she looked like for the last 20 year?
1. Old and wrinkled
2. very old
3. slightly wrinkled
4. Very healthy
Answer: Old and wrinkled
Question: 16 What do you mean by silver locks?
1. Lock made of silver.
2. Gray hair.
3. Silver utensils in the house .
4. Silver ornaments.
Answer: Gray hairs
Question: 17 What is meant by stale chapatis?
1. Fresh chapatis
2. Old chapatis that are not fresh
3. Delicious chapatis
4. Bitter chapatis
Answer: Old chapatis that are not fresh
Question: 18 There was no teaching about God and scriptures . How did the grandmother feel?
1. Unhappy
2. Distressed
3. Disturbed
4. Angry
Answer: Distressed
Question: 19 The grandmother always carried with her _____ ?
1. stick
2. saree
3. drum
4. rosary
Answer: Rosary
Question: 20 What did the priest teach at the village school?
1. Bhajan
2. Alphabet
3. Morning prayers
4. Both 2 and 3
Answer: Both 2 and 3
Question: 21 Where did the author go to study in the city?
1. In temple
2. English school
3. In Government school
4. None of the above
Answer: English school
Question: 22 How did the author go to school in the city?
1. By motor car
2. By Rickshaw
3. By motor Bus
4. None of these above.
Answer: By motor Bus
Question: 23 In the city the author and his grandmother used to live in a _____ room?
1. Same
2. Small
3. Different
4. Big
Answer: Same
Question: 24 Why didn’t my grandmother like music?
1. She didn’t listen to it before.
2. It was the monopoly of harlots and beggars
3. Because she doesn’t understand English
4. None of the above.
Answer: It was the monopoly of harlots and beggars
Question: 25 ” The happiest half – hour of the day ” For the half grandmother was?
1. Feeding the dogs
2. Feeding the sparrows in the afternoon for half an hour
3. Getting ready to author
4. None of the above
Answer: Feeding the sparrows in the afternoon for half an hour