Assignment of English
Grade : 11
* Do all multiple choice questions:
1. What would the grandmother do in the temple on a daily basis?
A. Meditation
B. Read Scriptures
C. Sing religious prayers
D. teach other kids religious prayers
2. 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
3. What change came in the grandmother’s evening schedule?
A. She collected the women of the neighborhood
B. She would go for a walk
C. She would sleep early
D. She would talk to his parents
4. What was the name of the ship of the author?
A. Amazon
B. Wavewalker
C. Waveship
D. Sailorship
5. What part of the journey was pleasant for them?
A. First leg – from England to Cape town
B. Last part of the journey
C. First few months
D. Never
6. What were the names of the two crewmen whom the author hired?
A. Shelly and Cabil
B. Larry Vigil and Herb Seigler
C. Herb Seigler and Shelly Cooper
D. Larry Vigil and Adam Moore
7. What was in the first coffin?
A. garlands of olives, lotus petals, and cornflowers
B. flowers and coins
C. gold, wealth, bronze razor, games, clothes, cases of food and wine
D. It was empty
8. Why did the third coffin put Carter in trouble?
A. It was empty
B. The resins used to cement Tut to the bottom of the solid gold coffin which was hardened enough
C. The material found inside was already looted
D. None of the above
9. How did Carter remove the resins?
A. with the help of chisel and hammer
B. with the help of chemicals
C. with the help of machinery
D. with the help of man power
10. What did the Professor start investigating at Town Hall?
A. American History
B. Battle of Plassey
C. the period of Asoka to the third battle of Panipat.
D. About East India Company
11. What did Professor find in the fifth volume of ‘Bhausahebanchi Bakhar’?
A. Marathas had won the Battle of Panipat
B. India has never been under British Raj
C. Marathas had won battle of Plassey
D. None of the above
12. What happened after the Battle of Panipat in India?
A. India merged with neighbouring nations
B. India moved to the path of democracy
C. New ruler
D. British rule ended
13. What is Kora?
A. Yoga Aasan
B. Medication
C. name of a small town
D. meditation performed by Buddhist believers
14. What did Lhamo give to the protagonist as a farewell gift?
A. long sleeved sheepskined coat
B. Flowers
C. leather coat
D. shoes
15. Who are Drokbas?
A. Hill Tribe
B. sheeps
C. local people
D. cuisine
16. What is the poem ‘A Photograph’ about?
A. About poet’s childhood memories
B. tribute to the poet’s mother
C. Poet’s photograph
D. Poet’s father
17. What are the three of them doing in the photograph?
A. playing
B. standing beside house
C. holding hands
D. holding hands and went for paddling
18. What happened to the leaves of the Laburnum tree?
A. they were green
B. turned yellow
C. fallen down
D. new leaves growing
19. How was the tree standing in the month of September?
A. still and death-like
B. alive
C. green and happy
D. still and green
20. What does the rain reply to the poet’s question ‘Who are you’?
A. she is rain
B. she is poem of earth
C. she is rain from mountains
D. she is poem of mountains
21. Why does the rain tell the poet that she cannot be touched?
A. because she is water
B. because she rises in the form of water vapour
C. because she is in the form of clouds
D. None of the above
22. What did the poet find out about Hell and Heaven?
A. They could be found in Geography books
B. They were imaginary places
C. They were in America
D. They were in Indi
23. What did the poet realise about adults?
A. That they are mature
B. They have to earn money
C. They are not what they seem to be
D. They are cunning
24. Who is the poet of the poem ‘Father to Son’?
A. Walt Whitman
B. ShirleyToulson
C. Elizabeth Jennings
D. Kushwant Singh
25. What is the poem ‘Father to Son’ about?
A. Unsettling relationship between father and son
B. father’s old age
C. son comparing him to his father
D. father talking to son about his childhood
26. “The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse” is a story of two _________ boys.
A. Armenian
B. Arabian
C. Assyrian
D. African
27. Mourad enjoyed being _______ more than anybody else.
A. crazy
B. alive
C. funny
D. None of the above
28. What according to Aram, was his first longing?
A. To own a horse
B. To become rich
C. To ride a horse
D. To visit a vineyard
29. In what attire did the author find Mrs. Dorling?
A. Author’s mother’s green knitted cardigan
B. Author’s green knitted cardigan
C. Author is unable to recognise it
A. Not mentioned in the story
30. “I thought that no one had come back.” Why does Mrs. Dorling say this?
A. Because she was happy to see the protagonist
B. Because she had been waiting for the protagonist for a long time
C. Because she thought everyone in the protagonist’s family were dead
D. None of the above
31. What was the address that the author’s mother asked her to remember?
A. Number 50, Marconi Street
B. Number 46, Baker Street
C. Number 54, Marconi Street
D. Number 46, Marconi Street
32. What does the play “Mother’s Day” talk about?
A. Status of the mother in the family
B. Status of the father in the family
C. Status of the children in the family
D. Status of the family in the society
33. How does the author describe Mrs. Fitzgerald?
A. Worried looking
B. Sinister looking
C. Has a deep voice
D. Both (B) and (C)
34. Mrs. Fitzgerald is a __________ of Mrs. Pearson.
A. relative
B. neighbour
C. maid
D. None of the above
35. How does the author describe the bedroom of Joe’s house?
A. Well furnished
B. Poorly furnished
C. Dirty
D. Both (B) and (C)
36. How has the author described Mrs. Morgan’s mother?
A. Wise
B. Grey-haired
C. In her seventies
D. All of the above
37. When Andrew approached, Susan was accompanied by her mother and _________.
A. Joe
B. father
C. a midwife
D. mother-in-law
38. What order did the King give after the incident?
A. He ordered workmen to be hanged
B. He ordered to hang the chief of builders
C. He ordered to summon the architect
D. He ordered to gather all people
39. Who did the chief of builders blame?
A. The public
B. The architect
C. The masons
D. The workmen
40. What reason did the workmen give to the King?
A. Instructions given were wrong
B. Time provided was less
C. Bricks were of the wrong size
D. Changes were made at the last point
