Class 11 Model Questions with Answers (ENGLISH - B) SET-I

Class 11 (English – B) Model Questions and Answers from Prose, Poetry and Rapid Reader are placed in accordance with Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ), Short Answer Type Questions (SAQ), Descriptive Answer Type Questions (DAQ), Textual Grammar and Writing Skill. Specially, Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are given in a quizzer mode with a limited time. Do practice all of them properly.

Short Answer Type Questions (Prose - XI)

1. Answer any five of the following questions in a single sentence: 1x5=5

(i) What was Sidda given for his service in Mr. Sivasanker's house?

(ii) Where did Leela's mother find the gold chain at last?

(iii) Why did Lachmi stop by a hawker's stall on the platform?

(iv) How many years had Sir Mohan Lal stayed abroad for?

(v) What did the warden advise Jimmy Valentine?

(vi) Why did Jimmy Valentine write a letter to his old friend?

(vii) How many professors come to Mother House from the United States?

(viii) Why did Jesus come to the earth?

(ix) How does the absence of a sense of beauty affect man?

(x) What is the vehicle for literature, science and philosophy?

Answers:

(i) Sidda was given two meals a day and four rupees per month for his service in Mr. Sivasanker's house.

(ii) Leela's mother found the gold chain in the tamarind pot kept in their kitchen.

(iii) Lachmi stopped by a hawker's stall on the platform to replenish her silver betel leaf case.

(iv) Sir Mohan Lal had stayed abroad for five years.

(v) The warden advised Jimmy Valentine to stop cracking safes and live straight.

(vi) Jimmy Valentine wanted to give away his burglar's set to his old friend.

(vii) About fourteen professors came to Mother House from the United States.

(viii) Jesus came to the earth to bring the good news of peace to all human beings.

(ix) The absence of a sense of beauty cheats human beings of their aesthetic experience and harms their physical and mental well-being.

(x) According to Nandalal Bose, language is the vehicle for literature, science and philosophy.

Multiple Choice Questions (Prose & Poetry - XI)

2. Choose the correct option from the alternatives given: 1x5=5

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Short Answer Type Questions (Poetry - XI)

3. Answer any five of the following questions in a single sentence: 1x5=5

(i) What does the city of London wear like a garment?

(ii) What is referred as 'mighty heart' in the poem 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'?

(iii) How many fields does the poet cross to reach the farmhouse of his beloved?

(iv) How is the moon described in the poem "Meeting at Night"?

(v) When does the invisible worm fly?

(vi) What does the dark secret love of the worm do to the rose?

(vii) What does the poet see when he looks up in "Brotherhood"?

(viii) What does the poet feel at the very moment when he knows that he too is written?

(ix) Whom does the wind request to 'proclaim the hour'?

(x) Why does the wind ask the fields of corn to bow?

Answers

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

(ii) The city of London is referred as 'mighty heart' in the poem Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'

(iii) The poet crosses three fields to reach the farmhouse of his beloved.

(iv) The moon is described as yellow and half in the poem "Meeting at Night".

(v) The invisible worm flies at night.

(vi) The dark secret love of the worm destroys the life of the rose.

(vii) The poet sees that the stars write when he looks up.

(viii) At the very moment when he knows that he too is written, the poet feels that someone spells him out.

(ix) The wind requests the bell of the belfry-tower to 'proclaim the hour'.

(x) The wind asks the fields of corn to bow to hail or welcome the morning.

Multiple Choice Questions (Rapid Reader - XI)

4. Choose the correct option from the alternatives given (attempt any five): 1x5=5

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Descriptive Answer Type Questions (Prose - XI)

5. Answer any two of the following questions in not more than 100 words each: 5×2 = 10

(i) How did Leela try to teach Sidda? What was the result?

(ii) Describe the experience of Sir Mohan Lal in the first class compartment of the train.

(iii) Why did Jimmy go to Elmore? How did he settle himself there?

(iv) What was Mother Teresa's view about drug addiction?

(v) Why did Nandalal Bose insist on inclusion of art training in our traditional education system?

Descriptive Answer Type Questions (Poetry -XI)

6. Answer any two of the following questions in not more than 100 words each: 5x2=10

(i) How does William Wordsworth vividly portray the city of London close to nature in the sonnet "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802?"

(ii) How does the poet describe the sea in the poem "Meeting at Night"? How does he describe his journey through the sea?

(iii) Give the substance of the poem "The Sick Rose."

(iv) Analyse the title of the poem "Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy"

(v) Briefly narrate the activities of the wind in H.W. Longfellow's poem 'Daybreak'.

Descriptive Answer Type Questions (Rapid Reader - XI)

7. Answer any one of the following questions in not more than 100 words each: 5x1=5

(a) Describe the first meeting of Macbeth with the three weird sisters?

(b) What causes compelled Othello to kill Desdemona?

(d) Who was Aegeon? Why was he brought before the duke? What was the result?

(e) Compare Orsino and Olivia to discuss how their attitudes about strong emotions are similar or different.

Textual Grammar (Class 11, English – B)

8. (A) Rewrite the following sentences as directed without changing their meanings: 1x7=7

(a) "How did it get into the tamarind pot?" Mother asked. (Change the mode of Narration)

(b) He glanced at his watch. (Change the Voice)

(d) I never forget an opportunity. (Change into an Affirmative Sentence)

(e) Lachmi chatted away merrily. She was fond of a little gossip. (Join into a Complex Sentence)

(f) They cannot differentiate between a painting and a photograph. (Rewrite the sentence using the noun form of 'differentiate')

(g) He is a thief. He has taken away your gold chain. (Join into a Complex Sentence)

Answers

(A) (a) Mother asked (Leela) how it had got into the tamarind pot.

(b) His watch was glanced at (by him).

(d) An opportunity is never forgotten by me.

(e) Lachmi chatted away merrily because she was fond of a little gossip.

(f) They cannot find the difference between a painting and a photograph.

(g) He is a thief who has taken away your gold chain.

(B) Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and prepositions: 1/2 × 6=3

After dinner Leela ran _____ (i) ______ her bed. Sidda had _____(ii)_____ be ready _____(iii)__________ (iv)_____ story. He sat down _____(v)_____ the floor ______(vi)_______the bed and told incomparable stories.

Answer: (B) (i) to (ii) to (iii) with (iv) a (v) on (vi) near

Writing Skill (Class 11, English – B)

9. Write a paragraph in about 150-200 words on 'The use and abuse of smart phones"

[Hints: necessary for communication - easy to use easy to use - entertainment and information learning apps easy access of internet obscene entertainment - careless movement causing accidents - cyber crimes] 10

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10. Develop the following outline into a short story in about 150 to 200 words. Add a title to the story. 2+8

The town of Hamelin badly infested with rats the Mayor of the town promises a handsome reward to get rid of them a piper comes and plays his magic pipe - the rats follow him - the piper leads them into river - the Mayor refuses any reward the piper plays a different tune - all the children follow him - Mayor is compelled to pay him his due.

11. You want to give science tuition to the students of class VII to X. Draft an advertisement for the classified column of an English daily in not more than 50 words announcing the same. 5

Or, Write an advertisement on behalf of a shopping mall of your area for some sales boys and girls mentioning necessary details in not more than 50 words. 5

12. You are going to launch a departmental store in your locality. Prepare a commercial leaflet for the same in not more than 50 words. Or, Prepare a commercial leaflet in not more than 50 words announcing the reduction in price in computer and computer parts for a certain period of time. 5

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