The Portrait of a Lady" MCQ Class 11 English

MCQs for Chapter 1 "The Portrait of a Lady" Class 11 English Hornbill book

CBSE Class 11 English Hornbill book Chapter 1 "The Portrait of a Lady" Multiple Choice Questions ‌(MCQs‌) with Answers

Here is a compilation of Free MCQs of Class 11 English Hornbill book Chapter 1– The Portrait of a Lady.  Students can practice free MCQs as have been added by CBSE in the new Exam pattern. 

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•  30 seconds
  Q. Who is the author of 'The Portrait of a Lady'?

  answer choices

  Ruskin Bond

  Kushwant Singh

  Naipaul

  Vikram Bhatt
•  Question 2

   30 seconds
  Q. Who is the main character of the chapter  'The Portrait of a Lady'?

  answer choices

  Mother

  Sister         

  Grandmother         

  Daughter
•  Question 3

   30 seconds
  Q. How did the grandfather in the portrait hung on the wall look like?

  answer choices

  Old, long white beard, worn big turban

  Old, skinny, wrinkly

  Young, Handsome, Well-Built

  Old, Well-Built
•  Question 4

   30 seconds
  Q. How did the grandmother look?

  answer choices

  Old, Fat, Long

  Long, Fat, Slightly Bent

  Old, Short, Slightly Bent, Fat

  Slightly Bent, Fat
•  Question 5

   30 seconds
  Q. When did the author's parents leave him with his grandmother?

  answer choices

  When he was a kid

  When he was an infant

  When he became a teenager       

  When he failed and became a teenager
•  Question 6

   30 seconds
  Q. Which animal did the grandmother used to feed in the village?

  answer choices

  A .Dogs

  Cows

  Sparrows

  Cats
•  Question 7

   30 seconds
  Q. What did the author eat for breakfast?

  answer choices

  thick and stale chapatis with a little butter and sugar spread in it

  thick bread with butter       

  upma         

  rice and curd         
•  Question 8

   30 seconds
  Q. Why would grandmother accompany the author to his school?

  answer choices

  to keep an eye on him

  to wait for him to take him back to home

  because of the temple attached to school

  she wanted to meet villagers
•  Question 9

   30 seconds
  Q.   Where were the parents of the author?

  answer choices

  Abroad

  City

  Other Village

  Other state
•  Question 10

   30 seconds
  Q. What would the grandmother do in the temple on a daily basis?

  answer choices

  Meditation

  Read Scriptures

  Sing religious prayers

  teach other kids religious prayers
•  Question 11

   30 seconds
  Q. What was the turning point of the friendship between grandmother and author?

  answer choices

  When he became an adult

  When his parents called them both to the city

  When he left her to live in the city with his parents

  When they stopped talking
•  Question 12

   30 seconds
  Q. Where did the author go to study in the city?

  answer choices

  English School in motor bus

  by walking down to nearby school

  Hindi School

  Nowhere
•  Question 13

   30 seconds
  Q. What made the grandmother unhappy about the author's new English School?

  answer choices

  the fact that she could no longer help him with the lessons

  Because they were in city

  Because she didn't understand English

  Because she didn't understand English and could no longer help him with the lessons  
•  Question 14

   30 seconds
  Q. Why didn't the grandmother like music?

  answer choices

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

  She liked only religious prayers

  She liked the traditional folk music

  She thought it would distract him from studies
•  Question 15

   30 seconds
  Q. How did the grandmother spend her time in the city?

  answer choices

  feedings dogs

  reading scriptures

  spinning the wheel

  talking to neighbours         
•  Question 16

   30 seconds
  Q. How did the grandmother spend her afternoon everyday?

  answer choices

  by feeding hundred of sparrows

  by taking a nap

  by talking to author's mother

  by going to temple 
•  Question 17

   30 seconds
  Q. What happened when the author moved abroad to study for five years?

  answer choices

  grandmother bid goodbye by silently kissing his forehead

  No one came to see him

  Grandmother moved back to village

  Parents moved with him
•  Question 18

   30 seconds
  Q. What change came in the grandmother's evening schedule?

  answer choices

  She collected the women of the neighbourhood

  She would go for a walk

  She would sleep early

  She would talk to his parents        
•  Question 19

   30 seconds
  Q. What happened when the grandmother didn't pray for the first time?

  answer choices

  She fell ill the next day

  She made this her routine

  She took a break and went to the village

  None of the above
•  Question 20

   30 seconds
  Q. How did the grandmother react to her illness?

  answer choices

  She said her end was near

  She ignored her health

  She took care of her

  She was admitted to the hospital  
•  Question 21

   30 seconds
  Q. What did the grandmother do in her final hours?

  answer choices

  Talked to everyone in the house

  worried about everyone

  Silently praying and telling her beads

  Went to temple      
•  Question 22

   30 seconds
  Q. How did the grandmother die?

  answer choices

  during telling beads laying on the bed

  In the hospital

  While sleeping

  None of the above
•  Question 23

   30 seconds
  Q. How did the sparrows express their sorrow at the death of their grandmother?

  answer choices

  They didn't come that day

  they came and sat silently in the verandah

  C.They ate the bread crumbs

  they chirruped a lot           
•  Question 24

   30 seconds
  Q. What happened when they took the grandmother's corpse away?

  answer choices

  Neighbours visited them to pay condolences

  they mourned her death in her room

  birds flew away quietly

  Nothing happened
•  Question 25

   30 seconds
  Q. How do you feel about the character of the grandmother in the chapter?

  answer choices

  Emotional

  Strong

  Selfless

  Loving
•  Question 26

   30 seconds
  Q. Where was the author's grandfather's portrait placed?

  answer choices

  on a shelf

  hung above the mantelpiece

  put on the mantelpiece

  on a table
•  Question 27

   30 seconds
  Q. Did the author bother to learn the morning prayers that his grandmother recited?

  answer choices

  yes

  he listened but did not bother to learn

  he could not learn

  no
•  Question 28

   30 seconds
  Q. When was their common link of friendship snapped?

  answer choices

  when he went to college

  When he went to the university, they were given seperate rooms

  when he started working

  When he went abroad
•  Question 29

   30 seconds
  Q. What was grandmother's reaction when the author was going abroad?  

  answer choices

  Happy

  sad 

  not even sentimental         

  Sentimental
•  Question 30

   30 seconds
  Q. What was her reaction when he came back after 5 years?

  answer choices

  Overwhelmed

  clasped the author in her arms and said prayers

  happy        

  sentimental

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