CBSE Class 11 English The Portrait of a Lady MCQs

Question. Who is the main character of the chapter 'The Portrait of a Lady'?
(a) Mother
(b) Sister
(c) Grandmother
(d) Daughter

Answer  :   C

Question: 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

Answer  :   D

Question .Where were the parents of the author?
(a) Abroad
(b) City
(c) Other Village
(d) Other state

Answer  :   B

Question: who is the main character of the chapter the portrait of a lady ?
(a) mother
(b) sister
(c) Grandmother
(d) Daughter

Answer  :   C

Question. Where was the author’s grandfather’s portrait placed?
(a) on a shelf
(b) hung above the mantelpiece
(c) put on the mantelpiece
(d) on a table

Answer  :   B

Question. How do you feel about the character of the grandmother in the chapter?
(a) Emotional
(b) Strong
(c) Selfless
(d) Loving

Answer  :   B

Question. Which literary device has been used in ‘Like everybody’s grandmother’?
(a) Metaphor
(b) Simile
(c) Transferred Epithet
(d) Enjambment

Answer  :   C

Question. 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

Answer  :   A

Question; what would the grandmother do in the temple on a daily basis?
(a) Meditation
(b) Read Scriptures
(c) sing religious prayers
(d) Preach religious to others

Answer  :   B

Question. How did the grandmother spend her time in the city?
(a) feedings dogs
(b) reading scriptures
(c) spinning the wheel
(d) talking to neighbours

Answer  :   C

Question. How did the grandmother die?
(a) during telling beads laying on the bed
(b) In the hospital
(c) While sleeping
(d) None of the above

Answer  :   A

Question. Where were the parents of the author?
(a) Abroad
(b) City
(c) Other Village
(d) Other state

Answer  :   B

Question. Where did the author go to study in the city?
(a) English School in motor bus
(b) by walking down to nearby school
(c) Hindi School
(d) Nowhere

Answer  :   A

Question. Was grandfather of the author alive when he wrote this narration?
(a) yes
(b) no
(c) no idea
(d) one cannot know

Answer  :   B

Question. 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

Answer  :   B

Question. How did the grandmother spend her afternoon everyday?
(a) by feeding hundred of sparrows
(b) by taking a nap
(c) by talking to author's mother
(d) by going to temple

Answer  :   A

Question. Which of the following has not been depicted in the portrait?
(a) beard
(b) turban
(c) clothes
(d) ornaments

Answer  :   D

Question: 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

Answer  :   A

Question:. when did the author’s parents leave him with his grandmother?
(a) when he was a kid
(b) when he was on infant
(c) when he become a teenager
(d) they did not leave him with his grandmother

Answer  :   A

Question. What change came in the grandmother’s evening schedule?
(a) She collected the women of the neighbourhood
(b) She would go for a walk
(c) She would sleep early
(d) She would talk to his parents

Answer  :   A

Question. What was grandmother’s reaction when the author was going abroad?
(a) Happy
(b) sad
(c) not even sentimental
(d) Sentimental

Answer  :   C

Question .How did the sparrows express their sorrow at the death of their grandmother?
(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

Answer  :   B

Question: why didn’t the grandmother like music?
(a) It was the monopoly of harlots and beggars
(b) she liked only religious prayers
(c) she liked the traditional folk music
(d) she though it would distract him from studies

Answer  :   A

Question. 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

Answer  :   A

Question. How did the sparrows express their sorrow at the death of their grandmother?
(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

Answer  :   B

Question. What happened when the author moved abroad to study for five years?
(a) grandmother bid goodbye by silently kissing his forehead
(b) No one came to see him
(c) Grandmother moved back to village
(d) Parents moved with him

Answer  :   A

Question. 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

Answer  :   C

Question. Did the author bother to learn the morning prayers that his grandmother recited?
(a) yes
(b) he listened but did not bother to learn
(c) he could not learn
(d) no

Answer  :   B

Question: what happened when the grandmother didn’t pray for the first time?
(a) she fell ill the next day
(b) she started dancing
(c) she took a break and went to the village
(d) all of the above

Answer  :   A

Question . What happened when the author moved abroad to study for five years?
(a) grandmother bid goodbye by silently kissing his forehead
(b) No one came to see him
(c) Grandmother moved back to village
(d) Parents moved with him

Answer  :   A

Question. 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

Answer  :   B

Question. What was grandmother’s reaction when the author was going abroad?
(a) Happy
(b) sad
(c) not even sentimental
(d) Sentimental

Answer  :   C

Question. Where did the author go to study in the city?
(a) English School in motor bus
(b) by walking down to nearby school
(c) Hindi School
(d) Nowhere

Answer  :   B

Question. Who is the author of the above extract?
(a) Kushwant Singh
(b) James Harriot
(c) Gordon Cook
(d) Alan east

Answer  :   A

Question . What was the turning point of the friendship between grandmother and author? 
(a) When he became an adult
(b) When his parents called them both to the city
(c) When he left her to live in the city with his parents
(d) When they stopped talking

Answer  :   B