11th English Unit 1 Online Test – New Book

• “She often told us of the games she used to play as a child”
• Who used to tell this to author?

• “I loved her voice but never bothered to learn it”
• Whose voice is loved by Khushwant Singh the author of the story, “The portrait of a lady”?

• “The common link of friendship was snapped”
• The author’s friendship with whom was snapped

• “She smiled but never shooed them away”
• The grandmother never shooed the

• “Her fingers were busy telling the beads of her rosary”
• The above line describes which character

• “I left I cherished the moist imprint as perhaps the last sign of physical contact between us”
• The above implies the last physical contact between the author and his?

• “I came back home and was met by her at the station. She did not look a day older. “
• Who doesn’t look a day older?

• “But my grandmother thought differently.”
• What was the grandmother’s thought?

• “We protested. But she ignored our protests.”
• Who ignored the protest of the author’s family?

1. “When we carried my grandmother’s corpse off, they flew away quietly.”
2. Who flew away quietly?

• “But now they only laugh with their teeth”
• Who are ‘they’?

• “They used to laugh with their hearts
• And laugh with their eyes:”
• Who laugh with their hearts and eyes?

• “But now they only laugh with their teeth
• While their ice-block-cold eyes”
• Explain the phrase ice-block-cold eyes

• “While their ice-block-cold eyes”
• Find the figure of speech

• “But that’s gone, son
• Now they shake hands without hearts”
• Who are ‘they ‘refer to?

• “While their left hands search
• My empty pockets”
• Whose hands search the empty pocket of the author?

• “While their left hands search
• My empty pockets”
• The above sentence implies

• “For then I find doors shut on me.”
• Who shut down the door?

• “Cocktail face, with all their conforming smiles”
• What do you mean by cocktail face?

• “with all their conforming smiles
• Like a fixed portrait smile”
• What do you mean by portrait smile?

• “And I have learned too
• To laugh with only my teeth”
• Who had learned to laugh only with teeth?

• “Like dresses – home face
• Office face, street face, host face”
• Mention the figure of speech in the above sentence

• “Like a fixed portrait smile”
• Mention the figure of speech in the above sentence

• “And shake hands without my heart”
• Mention the figure of speech in the above sentence

• “Shows only my teeth like a snake’s bare fangs!”
• Mention the figure of speech in the above sentence

• I have also learned to say “Goodbye”
• When I mean “Good-riddance”:
• What do you mean by good radiance?

• At home, once, twice
• There will be no thrice –
• Find the rhyming word in the above line

• Shows only my teeth like a snake’s bare fangs!
• What do you mean by fangs?

• “Shows only my teeth like a snake’s bare fangs!”
• Who is decided to show the teeth just like snake?

• “The impressiveness was habitual and not for show”
• Whose impressiveness is habitual?

• “Made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace”
• The above line describes whom?

• “A man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth”
• From the above line find out the character who belongs to the short story “After twenty years”

• “As the policeman walked up to him the man spoke up quickly”
• Name the man who spoke up when the policeman walked towards him.

• “It’s an appointment made twenty years ago.”
• In the above line an appointment was made by

• “The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar.”
• Identify the character that belongs to the short story “After twenty years”.

• “I dined here at Big Joe Brady’s with Jimmy Wells”
• Who dined with Jimmy Wells in Big Joe Brady’s restaurant before twenty years?

• “He thought it was the only place on earth”
• In the above line ‘He’ refers to whom?

• “He thought it was the only place on earth.”
• In the above sentence from the short story “After twenty years” – ‘it’ refers to which place on earth.

•  “It sounds pretty interesting,”
• Identify the character which belongs to short story “After Twenty years”

• “The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch”
• Who is the waiting man referred in the above sentence.

• “Three minutes to ten”
• Who announced the time?

• “I’ll give him half an hour at least”
• Bob decided to give hour an hour for whose arrival?

• “If ______ is alive on earth he’ll be here by that time”
• Fill in the blank with the character that belongs to the short story “After twenty years”.

• “Oh, I grew a bit after I was twenty”
• Identify the character that belongs to the short story “After twenty years”.

• “The man from the West, his egotism enlarged by success”
• Whose egotism was enlarged by success?

• “Time cannot change a man’s nose from Roman to pug”
• The above sentence is taken from the short story

• “It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one”
• Identify the character that belongs to the short story “After twenty years”.

• Find out the meaning of the phrase that belongs to the short story “After twenty years”.
• On the beat

• Find out the meaning of the phrase that belongs to the short story “After twenty years”.
• A guardian of peace

• Find out the meaning of the phrase that belongs to the short story “After twenty years”.
• Arm in arm

• Find out the meaning of the phrase that belongs to the short story “After twenty years”.
• Plainclothes man

• Choose the correct antonyms for the given word.
• Moist

• Find the suitable word to form a compound word.
• Mantle

• Whom she fed longer and with frivolous rebukes.
• Find the suitable meaning for the underlined word.

• Find the suitable word to form a compound word.
• Bee

• These medicines will ___________ your pain.
• Finally, the manager learnt ___________ the hard way.
• Fill in the blanks with suitable homophones

• The child looks very sick and___________.
• I need a ___________ of water to wash these cups.
• Fill in the blanks with suitable homophones

• Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners.
• The teacher gave __________student a separate topic for the assignment.

• Monotonous