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Class 11 English Chapter 1 – The portrait of a Lady Important Questions 2024
Class 11 English Chapter 2 – We’re Not Afraid to Die Important Questions 2024
On January 4, after 36 hrs of continuous pumping, we reached the last few centimeters of water. Now, we had only to keep pace with the water still coming in. We could not set any sail on the main mast. Pressure on the rigging would simply pull the damaged section of the hull apart, so we hoisted the, storm jib and headed for where I thought the two islands were. Mary found some corned beef and cracker biscuits, and we are ate our first meal in almost two days. But our respite was short lived. At 4 p.m. black clouds began building up behind us; within the hour the wind was back to 40 knots and the seas were getting higher. The weather continued to deteriorate throughout the night, and by dawn on January 5, our situation was again desperate. When I went in to comfort the children, Jon asked, “Daddy, are we going to die ?” I tried to assure him that we could make. “But, Daddy, “he went on, “We aren’t afraid of dying, if we can all be together-you and Mummy, Sue and I”.
Questions :
(i) Name the chapter and the author.
(ii) Why were they pumping water ?
(iii) Why was their respite short lived ?
(iv) How did John reassure the author ?
(v) Give the word from the passage which means :
(a) become worse (b) day break
Somehow I managed to stretch canvas and secure waterproof hatch covers across the gaping holes. Some water continued to stream below, but most of it was now being deflected over the side. More problems arose when our hand pumps started to block up with the debris floating around the cabins and the electric pumps short-circuited. The water level rose threateningly. Back on dack, I found that one two square hand pumps had been wrenched overboard-along with the forestay sail, the jib, the dingies and the main anchor.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) From which chapter have these lines been taken ?
(A) The Portrait of a Lady
(B) We Are Not Afraid to Die …… if we can All be Together
(C) Landscape of the Soul
(D) The Browning Version
(ii) Who is/are the authors of these lines ?
(A) Khushwant Singh
(B) Nani Palkhiwala
(C) A. R. Williams
(D) Gordon Cook and Alan East
(iii) What did he manage to do ?
(A) To stretch bedsheet
(B) To stretch the rope
(C) To stretch canvas
(D) To stretch the cloth
(iv) What problem occurred with the electric pump ?
(A) They were lost
(B) They were short-circuited
(C) They were burnt
(D) They were swept with water
(v) How did the hand pumps start to block ?
(A) Started blocking with water
(B) Blocked with dust
(C) Short-circuited and got blocked
(D) Blocked with debris
By morning on January 3, the pumps had the water level sufficiently under control for us to take two hours’ rest in rotation. But we still had a tremendous leak somewhere below the waterline and, on checking, I found that nearly all the boat’s main rib frames were smashed down to the keel. In fact, there was nothing holding up a whole section of the starboard hull except a few cup board partitions. We had survived for 15 hours since the wave hit, but Wavewalker wouldn’t hold together long enough for us to reach Australia. I checked our charts and calculated that there were two small islands a few hundred kilometres to the east. One of them, Ile Amsterdam, was a French scientific base. Our only hope was to reach these pinpricks in the vast ocean. But unless the wind and sea abated so we could hoist sail, our chances would be slim indeed.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) What was the name of the boat in which the narrator and his family were travelling ?
(iii) What did the narrator calculate after checking his charts ?
(iv) What happened to the boat ?
(v) Would the boat be able to reach Australia in that condition ?
Class 11 English Chapter 3 – Discovering Tut : The Saga Continues
“The mummy is in very bad condition because of what Carter did in the 1920s,” said Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, as he leaned over the body for a long first look, Carter-Howard Carter, that is-was the British archaeologist who in 1922 discovered Tut’s tomb after years of futile searching. Its contents, though hastily ransacked in antiquity, were surprisingly complete. They remain the richest royal collection ever found and have become part of the pharaoh’s legend. Stunning artefacts in gold, their eternal brilliance meant to guarantee resurrection, caused a sensation at the time of the discovery-and still get the most attention. But Tut was also buried with everyday things he’d want in the afterlife : board games, a bronze razor, linen undergarments, cases of food and wine.
Questions :
(i) Name the chapter and its author.
(ii) Why was the mummy in a bad condition ?
(iii) When did Carter discover Tut’s tomb ?
(iv) What remains the richest royal collection ?
(v) Why was Tut buried with gold artefacts ?
All afternoon the usual line of tourists from around the world had descended into the cramped, rock cut tomb some 26 feet underground to pay their respects. They gazed at the murals on the walls of the burial chamber and peered at Tut’s gilded face, the most striking feature of his mummy-shaped outer Coffin lid. Some visitors read from guide-books in a whisper. Others stood silently, perhaps pondering Tut’s untimely death in his late teens or wondering with a shiver if the pharaoh’s curse-death or misfortune falling upon those who disturbed him − was really true.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Where is King Tut’s tomb situated ?
(ii) Which line in the passage suggests that Tut’s tomb is a popular tourist destination ?
(iii) When was King Tut’s reign ?
(iv) What is the most striking feature of King Tut’s coffin ?
(v) What is believed to be the pharoah’s curse ?
The next phase: scanning the mummies with a portable CT machine donated by the National Geographic Society and Siemens its manufacturer. King Tut is one of the first mummies to be scanned—in death as in life, moving regally ahead of his countrymen. A CT machine scanned the mummy head to toe, creating 1,700 digital X- ray images in cross section. Tut’s head scanned in 0.62 millimetre slices to register its intricate strictures, takes on eerie details in the resulting image.
(i) In C T Machine, C T stands for
(a) Computer Technology
(b) Computed Tomography
(c) Compromising Technology
(d) Circumvented Technology
(ii) On the basis of the extract, study the two statements, I and II given below:
(I) Siemens is the Manufacturer of Portable CT machine
(II) King Tut’s mummy was the last mummy scanned in a CT machine
(a) I can be inferred but II can’t
(b) II can be inferred but I can’t
(c) Both I and II can be inferred
(d) Both I and II cannot be inferred
(iii) Who is the author of this extract?
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Gordon Cook and Alan East
(c) A.R. Williams
(d) Jayant Narlikar
(iv) Change the underlined word with its synonym by choosing correct option.
Old age is the final stage of life.
Choose the correct option
(a) regally (b) ahead (c) Phase (d) eerie
(v) What role did the National Geographic Society and Siemens play in the project?
(a) They charged money for the C.T. machine
(b) They donated C.T. machine for the project
(c) They made palanquin to carry Tut’s body from his tomb
(d) All of the above
Class 11 English Chapter 4 – The Ailing Planet : The Green Movement’s Role Important Questions 2024
One cannot recall any movement in world history which has gripped the imagination of the entire human race so completely and so rapidly as the Green Movement which started nearly twenty five years ago. In 1972 the world’s first nationwide Green party was founded in New Zealand. Since then, the movement has not looked back. We have shifted – one hopes irrevocably – from the mechanistic view to a holistic and ecological view of the world. It is a shift in human perceptions as revolutionary as that introduced by Copernicus who taught mankind in the sixteenth century that the earth and the other planets revolved round the sun. For the first time in human history, there is a growing worldwide consciousness that the earth itself is a living organism – an enormous being of which we are parts. It has its own metabolic needs and vital processes which need to be respected and preserved.
Questions :
(i) Name the chapter and the author.
(ii) When was the article published ?
(iii) What is Green Movement ?
(iv) What change has been brought about by the Green Movement ?
(v) Why and how does the author compare the movement to Copernicus ?
One cannot recall any movement in world history which has gripped the imagination of the entire human race so completely and so rapidly as the Green Movement which started nearly twenty five years ago. In 1972 the world’s first nation wide Green party was founded in New Zealand. Since then, the movement has not looked back. We have shifted – one hopes irrevocably – from the mechanistic view to a holistic and ecological view of the world. It is a shift in human perceptions as revolutionary as that introduced by Copernicus who taught mankind in the sixteenth century that the earth and other planets revolved round the sun. For the first time in human history, there is a growing worldwide consciousness that the earth itself is a living organism – an enormous being of which we are parts. It has its own metabolic needs and vital processes which need to be respected and preserved. The earth’s vital signs reveal a patient in declining health. We have begun to realize our ethical obligations to be good stewards of the planet and responsible trustees of the legacy to future generations.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) When and where was Green Movement started ?
(ii) What shift in perspective was made by the Green Movement ?
(iii) What revolutionary idea was given by Copernicus ?
(iv) In the passage the earth has been compared to whom ?
(v) What are the ethical obligations of the present generation ?
Class 11 English Chapter 5 – The Adventure Important Questions 2024
Class 11 English Chapter 6 – Silk Road Important Questions 2024
Tsetan took me to Darchen medical collage the following morning. The medical college at Darchen was new and looked like a monastery from the outside with a very solid door that led into a large courtyard. We found the consulting room which was dark and cold occupied by a Tibetan doctor who wore none of the paraphernalia that I’d been expecting. No white coat , he looked like other Tibetan with a thick pullover and a wooly hat. When I explained my sleepless symptoms and my sudden aversion to lying down, he shot me a few questions while feeling the veins in my wrist.
(i) Find the correct statement
(a) Tsetan took the author to a monastery
(b) Tsetantook the author to a medical college
(c) The doctor was in the dress which the author had expected
(d) The consulting room was quite warm
(ii) Choose the antonym of ‘ liking’ from the options given below
(a) Aversion (b) symptoms (c) occupied (d) paraphernalia
(iii) Why was the writer taken to the hospital?
(a) Because he wanted to visit the hospital
(b) Because he was ill
(c) Because Tsetan had some important work at the hospital
(d) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
(iv) How did the hospital look?
(a) It looked like a monastery
(b) It looked like a Church
(c) It looked like a mosque
(d) It looked like a hospital
(v) Identify the author of the above extract:
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Nick Middleton
(c) A.R. Williams
(d) None of the above
Poetry Section
Class 11 English Poem 1 – A Photograph Important Questions 2024
All three stood still to smile through their hair
At the uncle with the camera, A sweet face,
My mother’s that was before I was born.
And the sea, which appears to have changed less
Washed their terribly transient feet.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name of the poem is ……………
(A) A Photograph
(B) The Laburnum Top
(C) Childhood
(D) The Voice of the Rain
(ii) Name of the poet of these lines is …………….
(A) Shirley Toulson
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) Ted Hughes
(D) Markus Natten
(iii) Who was/were going to smile through their hair ?
(A) Dolly
(B) Betty
(C) Poet’s mother
(D) all of them
(iv) What has changed less ?
(A) Poet’s mother
(B) Uncle
(C) Sea
(D) Two cousins
(v) What was the poet looking at ?
(A) her mother
(B) at photograph
(C) at sea
(D) at camera
Some twenty-thirty-years later
She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty
And Dolly,” she’d say, “and look how they
Dressed us for the beach.” The sea holiday
Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
With the laboured ease of loss.
Questions:1×5=5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) How many years have passed since the photograph was taken ?
(iii) Name the girls referred by the mother in the stanza.
(iv) For what were they dressed ?
(v) Find words from the stanza which mean the same as:
(a) Photograph
(b) Shore
Class 11 English Poem 2 – The Laburnum Top Important Questions 2024
Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup
A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end.
Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,
She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up
Of chitterrings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings-
The whole tree trembles and thrills.
It is the engine of her family.
Questions:1×5=5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Where does the goldfinch set as it comes
(iii) How is goldfinch compared to the lizard ?
(iv) What happens when the goldfinch enters the tree ?
(v) Find words from the stanza which mean the same as:
(a) Excited
(b) Shake
It is the engine of her family
She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch end
Showing her barred face identity mask
Then with eerie delicate whistle-chirrup whisperings
She launches away, towards the infinite
(i) what is the name of the poem?
(ii) who is the poet of this poem?
(iii) who is ‘she’ my in the poem?
(iv) who is the engine of the family in this poem?
(v) where does she launch is away?
She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-end
Showing her barred face identity mask
Then with eerie delicate whistle – chirrup whisperings
She launches away, towards the infinite
And the laburnum, subsides to empty.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Who does the word ‘she’ refer to in the first line ?
(iii) What does she do before flirting out ?
(iv) What does the bird show ?
(v) What happens to the tree when she flies away ?
Class 11 English Poem 3 – The Voice of the Rain Important Questions 2024
And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it,
(For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering
Reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love returns.)
Questions :
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) What does “I” refer to in these lines ?
(iii) What is meant by “My Own Origin” ?
(iv) How does the rain do good to the earth ?
(v) What do you think is the birth-place of a song ?
I descend to lave the droughts, atomies
dust-Layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were
seeds only, latent, unborn;
And forever, by day and night, I
give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it; Most Important
Questions :
(i) Name the poet and the poem.
(ii) Who is ‘I’ in the passage ?
(iii) How does it generate life ?
(iv) How does it help the ecosystem ?
(v) Give the opposite of :
(a) descend
(b) pure
I descend to lave the droughts, atomies
dust layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were
seeds only, latent, unborn;
And forever, by day and night, I
give back life to my own origin,
And make pure and beautify it.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Who is ‘I’ in the poem ?
(iii) Who all are bathed by the rain ?
(iv) What is the rain’s own origin ?
(v) Give opposites of :
(a) descend (b) pure
And who art thou ? Said I to the soft falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated :
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) What is the name of the poem of the above lines ?
(A) A Photograph
(B) The Voice of the Rain
(C) Childhood
(D) The Laburnum Top
(ii) What is the name of the poet of these lines ?
(A) Ted Hughes
(B) Markus Natten
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) Shirley Toulson
(iii) Who is ‘I’ in the above stanza in 3rd and 4th lines ?
(A) Earth
(B) Rain
(C) Poet
(D) Poem
(iv) Who does ‘thou’ refer to in the stanza ?
(A) Earth
(B) Rain
(C) Poet
(D) Poem
(v) Where from does the shower rise according to the above stanza ?
(A) Out of the land
(B) From the sky
(C) Out of bottomless sea
(D) both (A) and (C)
Class 11 English Poem 4 – Childhood Important Questions 2024
When did my childhood go ?
Was it the day I ceased to be eleven,
Was it the time I realized that Hell and Heaven,
Could not be found in Geography
And therefore could not be. Most Important
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Do you think that one grows up at a particular age ?
(iii) What is suggested when the poet says that Hell & Heaven are not geographical locations ?
(iv) What inference does the poet draw when he realizes that Heaven and Hell are not geographical locations ?
(v) What is the poet’s feeling towards childhood ?
When did my childhood go?
Was it when I found my mind was really mine?
To use whichever way I choose
Producing thoughts that were not of other people
But my own, and mine alone
Was that the day!
Questions : 1×5 = 5
(i) Name of the poem.
(ii) who is the poet of these lines?
(iii) what type of thoughts tell that his childhood has gone?
(iv) what is the rhyme scheme in the stanza?
(v) what is the meaning of the word ‘found’ in the stanza?
When did my childhood go ?
Was it the day I ceased to be eleven,
Was it the time I realized that Hell and Heavens,
Could not be found in Geography,
And therefore could not be,
Was that the day.
Questions :
(i) Name the poem and poet.
(ii) What do the adults not do ?
(iii) Who does not act so lovingly ?
(iv) Do the adults follow what they preach ?
(v) What do the adults talk and preach of ?
Where did my childhood go ?
It went to some forgotten place,
That’s hidden in an infant’s face,
That’s all I know.
Questions : 1 × 5 = 5
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Where does the poet think his childhood has gone ?
(iii) Where was that place hidden where the poet’s childhood went ?
(iv) How did the poet feel about his lost childhood ?
(v) Where does the poet think his childhood can be found ?
Where did my childhood go?
Was it the day I ceased to be eleven,
Was it the time I realized that Hell and Heaven,
Could not be found in Geography,
And therefore could not be,
Was that the day
(i) The poet thinks that Hell and Heaven ______
(a ) do not exist
(b ) can be found in Geography
(c ) are located in a remote area
(d ) none of the above
(ii) At this age the poet has become……..
(a ) irrational (b) rational (c ) astrologer (d) Scholar in Geography
(iii) Find the incorrect statement
(a) The poet realizes that his childhood has gone
(b) He is eleven years old
(c) The poet can differentiate between fact and fiction
(d) He is credulous
(iv) Who is ‘I’ in this extract?
(a) Markus Natten
(b) Shirley Toulson
(c) Coates Kinney
(d) Elizabeth Jennings
(v) On the basis of the extract, study the two statements, I and II given below:
(I) The poet is looking for his childhood days.
(II) The poet has become rational.
Choose the correct option;
(a) I can be inferred but II can’t
(b) II can be inferred but I can’t
(c) Both I and II can be inferred
(d) Both I and II cannot be inferred
Class 11 English Poem 5 – Father to Sun Important Questions 2024
We speak like strangers, there’s no sign
of understanding in the air
This child is built to my design
Yet what he loves I cannot share.
Questions :
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Why do they speak like strangers ?
(iii) What does the poet mean when he says that the child is built to his design ?
(iv) Why cannot the poet share with the child ?
(v) Does the poet sound happy or unhappy ? Why ?