QUESTION BANK CLASS 11

Writing Skills
1. In order to promote reading habits in the students, your school has organised
a Library Week. You are Ranjan/Reena. You have to speak in the morning
assembly and inform the students about the week-long programme. Write your
speech in 150-200 words.
2. You are Ankita\Ankit. You being the in charge of “The Annual Day”
programme have to give a speech in 120-150 words about its conduction.
Delegate the duties to the respective programme in charges.
3. You Rishi\ Rishta has been elected as the president of an NGO, “Udaan”.
Give a speech delegating the duties to the different coordinators of the
managing committee.
4. You are Shishir/Swati. Write a speech to be delivered at the morning
assembly in your school about the increase in violence and social unrest in your
area. interpreting the data given below. Also give suggestions to curb them.

II
1. The following passage has not been edited There is an error relating to
determiners in each line Write the incorrect word and the correction in your
answer sheet as given below. Remember to underline the word that you have
supplied.
2. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line.
Write incorrect word and the correction in your answer sheet as given below.
Remember to underline the word that you have supplied.

3. In the following passage, one word (determiner) has been omitted in each line
Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word
that comes after it in your answer sheet Ensure that the word that forms your
answer is underlined as shown below:
LITERATURE
1. Write about the three phases of the author’s relationship with his
grandmother before he left his country.
2.The grandmother had a divine beauty. How does the author bring this out?
3. When did the common link of friendship between the grandmother and the
author finally snap off?
4. What are the three phases of life depicted in the three stanzas of the poem “A
Photograph”?
5.What is the meaning of the line “Both wry with the laboured ease of loss”?
6. Why did the narrator of the story want to forget the address in the prose “The
Address”?
7.What impression do you form of the narrator’s mother on basis of her
conversation with ( i.) MRS Doring (ii) the narrator ?
8. Why did the boys return back the horse in the chapter “The Summer of the
Beautiful Horse”?
9. What points were forward by Aram in defence of Mourad’s act of stealing the
horse?
10.” A suspicious man would believe his eyes instead of his heart.” In what
context was this observation made and by whom ?