NCERT English Class 11 | Chapter 6 | The Ghat of the Only World | MCQs |

1. When did Shahid have his first blackout?

A. April 2001

B. March 2000

C. February 2000

D. April 2000

Answer: (C) February 2000


2. What was Shahid diagnosed with?

A. Malignant brain tumour

B. Leukaemia

C. Chickenpox

D. Arthritis

Answer: (A) Malignant brain tumour


3. Why did Shahid decide to move to Brooklyn?

A. To teach at the near University

B. To be close to his younger brother, Iqbal

C. To be close to his youngest sister Sameetah

D. To be with the author

Answer: (C) To be close to his youngest sister Sameetah.


4. Which of the following was loved by Shahid?

A. Music

B. Food

C. Clothes

D. All of the above

Answer: (D) All of the above


5. Which work of Shahid’s work was the author familiar with?

A. The Half-Inch Himalayas

B. A Walk through the Yellow Pages

C. Rooms are Never Finished

D. The Country without A Post Office

Answer: (D) The Country without A Post Office.


6. Which Kashmiri delicacy was often prepared at Shahid’s home?

A. Haak

B. Nadru

C. Rogan Josh

D. Kehwa

Answer: (C) Rogan Josh


7. Who is the author of the story ‘The Ghat of the Only World’?

A. Amitav Ghosh

B. Vikram Seth

C. Suketu Mehta

D. Begum Akhtar

Answer: (A) Amitav Ghosh


8. Why did Shahid want to learn Spanish?

A. Because he wanted to listen to Spanish music

B. Because he wanted to read Lorca

C. Because he wanted to taste the Spanish cuisine

D. Because he wanted to visit Spain

Answer: (B) Because he wanted to read Lorca.


9. Who was Shahid’s poetry influenced by?

A. James Merill

B. William Wordsworth

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Ted Hughes

Answer: (A) James Merill


10. Why was Shahid passionate about ‘Kashmiri food in the Pandit Style’?

A. Because of his love for Kashmir

B. Because of his nightmare that Kashmiri Pandits have vanished

C. Because of the nightmare that the food of the Kashmiri Pandits has extinct.

D. Both B and C

Answer: (D) Both B and C


11. How can you describe Shahid’s vision?

A. Inclusive

B. Ecumenical

C. Exclusive

D. Both A and B

Answer: (D) Both A and B


12. How did Shahid reply to Muslim fanaticism?

A. He talked about democracy

B. He quoted poems

C. He told how his mother helped him to make a temple in his room

D. He told how his father explained to him about brotherhood

Answer: (C) He told how his mother helped him to make a temple in his room.


13. What is the antonym ‘lucid’?

A. Dark

B. Ambiguous

C. Clear

D. Forged

Answer: (B) Ambiguous


14. What is the synonym of ‘Feigned’?

A. Act

B. Pretend

C. Dodge

D. Hustle

Answer: (B) Pretend


15. What is the meaning of the phrase ‘bardic register’?

A. Angrily

B. In a peculiar tone

C. In a poetic style

D. On a sad note

Answer: (C) In a poetic style.


Read the following and answer the questions

“I love to think that I will meet my mother in the afterlife, if  there is an afterlife.”

16. Who said these words?

A. Iqbal said this to the author

B. Sameeta said this to the author

C. Suketu said this to the author

D. Shahid said this to the author

Answer: (D) Shahid said this to the author.


17. What did the speaker request the author to do?

A. To help him financially

B. To write about him

C. To replace him in the university

D. To cook with him

Answer: (B) To write about him


18. How has the friendship of the speaker affected the author?

A. Left a vast void

B. Changed him negatively

C. Changed him positively

D. Made him indifferent

Answer: (A) Left a vast void.


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