Important Questions for Class 11 The Portrait of a Lady Chapter 1 Hornbill
Question 1:
Read the given extract and answer the questions:
She had always been short and fat and slightly bent. Her face was a criss-cross of wrinkles running from verywhere to everywhere. No, we were certain she had always been as we had known her. Old, so terribly old that she could not have grown older, and had stayed at the same age for twenty years. She could never have been pretty; but she
was always beautiful.
(1) Who is ‘She’ in the above lines?
(A) Narrator’s Mother
(B) Narrator’s Grandmother
(C) Narrator’s Mother-in-law
(D) None of these
(2) What did the grandmother look like?
(A) old, fat and tall
(B) tall, fat and bent
(C) old, short and fat
(D) slim and slightly bent
(3) What does the author mean by the statement ‘She was never pretty but she was always beautiful’?
Long-Questions (100-120 words)
Question 1:
What type of relationship did the grandmother have with dogs and sparrows in the lesson “Portrait of a Lady”? Describe any one animal you love and how you spend time with it.
Write your thoughts in about 120–150 words.
