1. How old did the author’s grandfather
look in the painting?
A. 80 years old
B. 90 years old
C. 100 years old
D. 200 years old
Answer:
(C) 100 years old
2. Which of the following adjective is
not used to describe the author’s grandmother?
A. Short
B. Fat
C. Slightly bent
D. Reserved
Answer:
(D) Reserved
3. What did the priest teach the author
when he was a kid?
A. Morning Prayer
B. The Alphabet
C. Chorus
D. Both A and B
Answer:
(D) Both A and B
4. What did the author’s grandmother do
while he was being taught by the priest?
A. Read scriptures
B. Perform rituals
C. Sing bhajans
D. None of the above
Answer:
(A) Read scriptures
5. Who followed the author and his
grandmother back home?
A. Little kids
B. Dogs
C. Cats
D. Crows
Answer:
(B) Dogs
6. Whom did the grandmother feed when
they lived in the city?
A. Dogs
B. Parrots
C. Sparrows
D. Crow
Answer:
(C) Sparrows
7. Why did the author’s grandmother
accompany her to the village school?
A. Because she wanted to protect her grandchild
B. Because she wanted to complete her morning walk
C. Because the pool was attached to the school
D. Because the school was attached to the temple
Answer:
(D) Because the school was attached to the temple.
8. Who is the author of the story ‘The
Portrait of a Lady?
A. Kishwer Desai
B. Vikram Seth
C. V. S. Naipaul
D. Khushwant Singh
Answer:
(D) Khushwant Singh
9. Why was the author’s grandmother
unhappy?
A. Because she could visit the temple
B. Because she was unwell
C. Because she could not help the author with his
lessons
D. Because she could not prepare breakfast for the
author.
Answer:
(C) Because she could not help the author with his lessons.
10. When was the turning point of the
author and his grandmother’s friendship?
A. When they went to stay in the city
B. When they were in the village
C. When they were in the temple
D. None of the above
Answer:
(A) When they went to stay in the city.
11. When did the author’s grandmother
accept her seclusion?
A. When the author went to a new school
B. When the author went to the University
C. When the author went out of the country
D. When the author changed the city
Answer:
(B) When the author went to the University.
12. Why did the author’s grandmother go
to the railway station?
A. To see off the author
B. To move into another city
C. To welcome a guest arriving from another city
D. None of the above
Answer:
(A) to see of the Author.
13. What is the antonym of the word
‘frivolous’?
A. Joke
B. Impractical
C. Important
D. Essential
Answer:
(C) Important
14. What is the synonym of the word
‘rebuke’?
A. Lecture
B. Admonish
C. Praise
D. Seclude
Answer:
(B) Admonish
15. What does the following phrase
‘spotless white’ mean in the following sentence?
“She hobbled
about the house in spotless white…”
A. Without a dirt
B. Wearing white attire
C. Being clean
D. Wearing clean clothes
Answer:
(B) Wearing white attire.
Read the following lines and answer the
questions
“For several hours she thumped the sagging skin of the dilapidated drum…”
16. Who is ‘she’ in the above lines?
A. The author’s mother
B. The old lady
C. The author’s grandmother
D. The author’s old aunt
Answer:
(B) The old lady
17. Why was she beating the drum?
A. Because a change came over her
B. Because she was not herself anymore
C. Because she wanted to enjoy her last day
D. All of the above
Answer:
(A) Because a change came over her.
18. What happened to her the next
morning?
A. She fell ill
B. She was dead
C. She was back to normal life
D. Both A and B
Answer:
(D) Both A and B
Poem: A Photograph by Shirley Toulson
1. What does the cardboard show?
A. a picture
B. a box
C. a gift
D. All of the above
Answer:
(A) a picture
2. How many people were in the
photograph?
A. Three
B. Five
C. Two
D. One
Answer:
(A) Three
3. Whom were they looking at?
A. The man with the camera
B. The uncle with the camera
C. The lady with the lantern
D. The boy playing in the sea
Answer:
(B) The uncle with the camera.
4. Who is the poet of the poem ‘A
Photograph’?
A. Shirley Hudson
B. Shirley Richardson
C. Shirley Toulson
D. Shirley Adamson
Answer:
(C) Shirley Toulson
5. Whom did the poet show the ‘cardboard’
to?
A. Her aunt
B. Her daughter
C. Her sister
D. Her mother
Answer:
(D) Her mother
6. How old was her mother when the
photograph was taken?
A. Seven
B. Twelve
C. Ten
D. Eleven
Answer:
(B) Twelve
7. What was the past for the poet?
A. Sea holiday
B. Winter vacations
C. Her mother’s laughter
D. Her aunt’s laughter
Answer:
(C) Her mother’s laughter
8. What do you understand by the term
‘transient feet’?
A. Feet that will stay in a place for a short time
B. Feet that wish to stay in a palace for a short
time
C. Impermanent feet
D. None of the above
Answer:
(A) Feet that will stay in a place for a short time.
9. Who else was present in the
photograph?
A. Kitty and Betty
B. Dolly and Kitty
C. Betty and Dolly
D. Kitty, Betty and Dolly
Answer:
(C) Betty and Dolly
10. What incident makes the poet silent?
A. Her father’s death
B. Her mother’s death
C. Her aunt’s death
D. Both A and B
Answer: (B) Her mother’s death.
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