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MCQ Questions for Class 11 English Chapter 1 The Portrait of a Lady Hornbill

MCQ Questions for Class 11 English Chapter 1 The Portrait of a Lady Hornbill

Here you will find MCQ Questions for Class 11 English Chapter 1 The Portrait of a Lady Hornbill with answers that can come in the exams and get the highest marks possible. You will learn about the different types of questions that can be formed from a particular concept. With the help of the given MCQ Questions for Class 11 English, you can effectively prioritize the topics for easier understanding.

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MCQ Questions for Class 11 English Chapter 1 The Portrait of a Lady Hornbill

MCQ Questions for Class 11 English Chapter 1 The Portrait of a Lady Hornbill


1. Why did the grandmother keep one hand on her waist?
(a) To pick up things easily
(b) To balance her stoop
(c) To correct her posture
(d) To eat food
► (b) To balance her stoop

2. The portrait of grandmother was hanging in ____.
(a) the drawing room
(b) the store room
(c) the bedroom
(d) the home temple
► (a) the drawing room

3. The narrator had known his grandmother to be  old and wrinkled for _______.
(a) ten years.
(b) twenty years
(c) thirty years 
(d) twenty five years
► (b) twenty years

4. 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
► (a) It was the monopoly of harlots and beggars and not meant for gentlefolk

5. What did the author eat for breakfast?
(a) rice and curd
(b) thick bread with butter
(c) apples and bread
(d) thick and stale chapatis with a little butter and sugar spread in it
► (d) thick and stale chapatis with a little butter and sugar spread in it

6. The author treated the stories of grandmother’s youth and beauty as ______.
(a) poetry
(b) fables
(c) dreams
(d) none of the above
► (b) fables

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

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

9. 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
► (a) by feeding hundred of sparrows

10. 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
► (d) Because she didn’t understand English and could no longer help him with the lessons

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

12. What did the grandmother do in her final hours?
(a) Talked to everyone in the house
(b) Worried about everyone
(c) Silently praying and telling her beads
(d) Went to temple
► (c) Silently praying and telling her beads

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

14. How did the sparrows express their sorrow at the death of their grandmother?
(a) They didn’t come that day
(b) They chirruped a lot
(c) They ate the bread crumbs
(d) They came and sat silently in the verandah
► (d) They came and sat silently in the verandah

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

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