Textual Questions & Answers (Practice Set – 02) for Class

Textual Questions & Answers

Class – XI

(Practice Set – 02)

1. Complete the sentences which follow, choosing the correct option from the alternatives given:

(i) While Sidda was hanging about the gate, Mr Sivashankar was brooding over – (a) Leela's health (b) money matters (c) servant problem (d) Leela’s education

(ii) After boarding the train, Lachmi had – (a) chapati (b) chapati and mango pickle (c) a couple of betel leaves (d) water

(iii) At Elmore, upon his arrival Jimmy stayed in - (a) the Elmore bank (b) the Planters Hotel (c) a shop (d) an inn

(iv) Mother Teresa delivered her Nobel lecture in - (a) Oslo (b) Kolkata (c) London (d) Stockholm

(v) According to Nandalal Bose, the source material for all artistic creation comes from – (a) soul (b) travelling (c) art education (d) nature

Answer: (i) (c) servant problem

(ii) (c) a couple of betel leaves

(iii) (b) the Planters Hotel

(iv) (a) Oslo

(v) (d) nature

2. Answer any five of the following questions in a single sentence:

(i) Whom did Sidda ask to follow them about?

(ii) Who was not a reliable prosecution witness?

(iii) In which compartment did Mohan Lal’s wife travel?

(iv) How would Mohan Lal show off his proficiency in English?

(v) Which art liberates us from the constraints of sorrows and conflicts?

(vi) What does the absence of beauty cheat man of?

(vii) What does Holy Communion commemorate?

(viii) What, according to Mother Teresa, is the greatest destroyer of peace today?

(ix) When did Jimmy learn in prison?

(x) Who were the nieces of Annabel Adams?

Answer:

(i) Sidda asked the moon to follow them about.

(ii) Leela was not a reliable prosecution witness.

(iii) Mohan Lal’s wife travelled in the interclass zenana compartment.

(iv) Mohan Lal would show off his proficiency in English by doing crossword.

(v) Fine art liberates us from the constraints of sorrows and conflicts.

(vi) The absence of beauty cheats man of aesthetic experience.

(vii) Holy Communion commemorates the Last Supper.

(viii) According to Mother Teresa, the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

(ix) Jimmy learned shoemaking in prison.

(x) May and Agatha where the nieces of Annabel Adams.

3. Complete the sentences which follow choosing the correct option from the alternatives given:

(i) In the poem, “Composed upon the Westminster Bridge” the ‘first splendour’ refers to – (a) the wealth of the city (b) the morning sunshine (c) valley, rocks and hill (d) the sparkling riverbed.

(ii) In “Meeting at Night”, the lover signals his arrival at the abode of his beloved by – (a) lightning a match (b) calling (c) tapping (d) waving hands

(iii) In William Blake’s “The Sick Rose”, the worm is a symbol of – (a) ferocity (b) beauty (c) wickedness (d) childhood

(iv) In the poem “Brotherhood”, the brotherhood is between- (a) the poet and the poem (b) the poet and the universe (c) the poet and another poet (d) two starts

(v) In the poem “Daybreak”, the wind does not awaken- (a) the churchyard (b) the farmhouse (c) the forest (d) the fields of corn

Answer: (i) (b) the morning sunshine

(ii) (c) tapping

(iii) (c) wickedness

(iv) (b) the poet and the universe

(v) (a) the churchyard

4. Answer any five of the following questions in a single sentence:

(i) Who would be dull of soul?

(ii) What does the city wear like a garment?

(iii) How are the fiery ringlets generated?

(iv) How is the flame of the lighted match?

(v) When does the invisible worm destroy?

(vi) What is the howling storm symbolic of?

(vii) What does the poet understand unknowingly?

(viii) What do the stars do, according to the poet of “Brotherhood”?

(ix) Whom does the sea-wind hail before reaching the land?

(x) How does the sea-wind stir the field of corn?

Answers:

(i) Those, who would pass by ignoring the majestic beauty of London, would be dull of soul.

(ii) The city wears the beauty of the morning like a garment.

(iii) The fiery ringlets are generated by the movement of the boat.

(iv) The flame of the lighted match is blue.

(v) The invisible worm destroys the life of the rose.

(vi) The howling storm is symbolic of a restless and uncertain mind.

(vii) The poet understands unknowingly that he is also written.

(viii) According to the poet, the stars also write the mind and destiny of men.

(ix) The sea-wind hails the ship and its mariners before reaching the land.

(x) The sea wind makes the field of corn bow to greet the coming morning.

5. Complete the sentences which follow choosing the correct option from the alternatives given (attempt any five):

(i) Aegeon was from (a) - Ephesus (b) Syracuse (c) Epidamnum (d) Corinth

(ii) Adriana got very angry when she heard that - (a) her husband was having a party (b) her husband had had his dinner elsewhere (c) her husband refused to recognise her (d) her husband went on holiday.

(iii) Rosalynd and Celia tried to dissuade Orlando from- (a) going to Forest of Arden, (b) a wrestling match (c) committing suicide, (d) falling in love.

(iv) The name Celia took for her disguised self was – (a) Ganymede (b) Celia (c) Aliena (d) Olivia.

(v) Duncan was killed in- (a) his own palace (b) Macbeth’s castle (c) the Birnamwood (d) on Dunsinane hills.

(vi) Lady Macbeth- (a) was executed (b) died in her sleep (c) committed suicide (d) could not bear the shock of Duncan’s death

(vii) Suspicion was planted in Othello by- (a) Iago (b) Casio (c) Amelia (d) Brabantio.

(viii) Before asking for the handkerchief Othello pretended to have a/an- (a) injury (b) headache (c) sweating (d) pain in the chest

(ix) Sebastian and Viola split apart from each other near the coast of- (a) England (b) Illyria (c) Messaline (d) Ephesus

(x) Olivia was the daughter of a- (a) King (b) Count (c) Duke (d) Baron.

Answers: (i) (b) Syracuse

(ii) (c) her husband refused to recognise her

(iii) (b) a wrestling match

(iv) (c) Aliena

(v) (b) Macbeth’s castle