A Photograph written by Shirley Toulson is a verse taken from the ncert book of class 11. It is the first poetry of the book hornbill. We have brought some important questions that would be very helpful for your final examination. We made it as per the JAC Board syllabus but it is also helpful for the ncert readers.
A Photograph Class 11 Important MCQ questions
Read the stanza of a photograph class 11 carefully and answer the questions.
The cardbord shows me how it was
When the two girl cousin went paddling,
Each one holding one of my mother’s hand.
And she the big girl-some twelve years or so.
All three stood still through their hair
At the uncle with the camera
Ques.1. What is the cardboard in the poem?
(a) A paper
(b) A wooden board
(c) A photograph
(d) none of these
Ques.2. Who were the two girls referred to?
(a) The two sisters
(b) The poet’s mother’s cousins
(c) The two cousins
(d) The poet’s cousins
Ques.3. Who is the third ‘big girl’?
(a) A younger girl
(b) A tall girl
(c) The poet’s sister
(d) The poet’s mother
Ques.4. ‘All three stood still to simile through their hair’, Which poetic device is used here?
(a) Personification
(b) Alliteration
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphore
Ans: 1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-b
Read the stanza of a photograph class 11 carefully and answer the questions.
A weeet face,
My mother’s, that was before I was born.
And the sea, which appears to have chaged less,
Washed their terribly transient feet.
Ques.1. What reminds the poet of her mother’s face?
(a) Her mother’s memory
(b) Her mother’s gift
(c) A photograph
(d) Her mother’s birthday
Ques.2. What does the sea in the poem represent?
(a) God’s power
(b) The changelessness of nature
(c) God
(d) Nature
Ques.3. The passage is about:
(a) The shortness of human life
(b) The mother’s life
(c) The mother
(d) A cardboard
Ques.4. Why does the poet refer to the sea?
(a) because the sea is changeless
(b) because the sea is powerful
(c) because she loves the sea
(d) because she looks at the sea in the photograph
Ans: 1-c, 2-c, 3-a, 4-d
Read the stanza of a photograph class 11 carefully and answer the questions.
Some twenty-thirty-years later
She’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty
And Dolly,” she’d day, “and look how they
Dressed us for the beach.” The sea holiday
Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry
Withthe laboured ease of loss.
Ques.1. Who would laugh at the snapshot?
(a) The sister of the poet’s mother
(b) The poet’s mother
(c) The poet
(d) The cousin of the poet’s mother
Ques.2. What type of loss did mother feel while looking at her photograph?
(a) The loss of her youth
(b) The loss of her beauty
(c) The loss of her childhood
(d) The loss of her innocence
Ques.3. What kind of loss did the poet feel?
(a) The loss of her mother’s laughter
(b) The loss of her mother
(c) The loss of her cousins
(d) The loss of her fortune
Ques.4. Past is associated with poet’s:
(a) mother
(b) childhood
(c) good life
(d) memories
Ans: 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-a
Read the stanza of a photograph class 11 carefully and answer the questions.
Naw she’s been dead nearly as many years
As that girl lived. And of this circumstance
There is nothing to say at all.
Its silence silences.
Ques.1. Who is ‘she’ referred to ……….?
(a) the cousin of the poet’s mother
(b) the poet’s mother
(c) the poet
(d) the sister of the poet’s mother
Ques.2. That ‘girl lived’ refers to:
(a) the poet’s mother in the photograph
(b) the poet’s mother
(c) the cousin of the poet’s mother
(d) the sister of the poet’s mother
Ques.3. In which mood is the poet?
(a) happy
(b) excited
(c) sad
(d) reminiscent
Ques.4. Whose silence is suggested here?
(a) The silence of the poet’s mother
(b) The silence of the photograph
(c) The silence of the situation
(d) The silence of the poet’s heart
Ans: 1-b, 2-b, 3-d, 4-c
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