Class 11 English Practice Questions

Q1. Who is the author of 'The Portrait of a Lady' in Hornbill? 📖

1. Khushwant Singh
2. Ruskin Bond
3. Mulk Raj Anand
4. R.K. Narayan

Q2. In 'A Photograph' (Hornbill), the poet refers to a photograph of her mother taken at the: 📖

1. Sea
2. Mountain
3. River
4. Village

Q3. Who wrote 'The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse' in Snapshots? 📖

1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. O. Henry
3. William Saroyan
4. Anton Chekhov

Q4. The word 'benign' most nearly means: 📖

1. Mysterious
2. Gentle and kindly
3. Harmful
4. Angry

Q5. In 'The Laburnum Top', the bird that comes to the tree is a: 📖

1. Cuckoo
2. Sparrow
3. Robin
4. Goldfinch

Q6. A simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison using: 📖

1. Exaggeration
2. Metaphor directly
3. 'like' or 'as'
4. Repetition of sounds

Q7. In 'Discovering Tut', Zahi Hawass is described as a: 📖

1. Archaeologist and Secretary General
2. Egyptologist
3. Journalist
4. Astronomer

Q8. The word 'articulate' means: 📖

1. Unable to speak
2. Able to express clearly
3. Rude in manner
4. Confused in thought

Q9. In 'The Address' (Snapshots), where does the narrator find her mother's possessions? 📖

1. In the attic of her own house
2. At Mrs Dorling's house
3. In a museum
4. At a neighbour's shop

Q10. Which tense is used to describe actions happening right now? 📖

1. Simple future
2. Simple past
3. Present continuous
4. Present perfect

Q11. A figure of speech that directly compares two things using 'like' or 'as' is a:

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification
4. Hyperbole

Q12. A figure of speech that compares two things WITHOUT using 'like' or 'as' is a:

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Alliteration
4. Hyperbole

Q13. A figure of speech that gives human qualities to non-human things is:

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification
4. Onomatopoeia

Q14. A word that is opposite in meaning to another word is called a/an:

1. Synonym
2. Homonym
3. Pronoun
4. Antonym

Q15. A word that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another is called a/an:

1. Synonym
2. Antonym
3. Homophone
4. Adjective

Q16. A word that names a person, place, thing or idea is called a:

1. Verb
2. Noun
3. Adjective
4. Adverb