| No. |
Question |
Year |
Exam / Board |
| 1 |
Why was it hard for the author to believe that his grandmother was once young and pretty? |
2011, 2012 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 2 |
Mention three ways in which the author's grandmother spent her days after he grew up. |
2011, 2017 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 3 |
How does Khushwant Singh describe his grandmother in "The Portrait of a Lady"? |
2013 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 4 |
Explain: "Old, so terribly old that she could not have grown older." |
2014 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 5 |
How could the grandmother be "beautiful" without being "pretty"? |
2014 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 6 |
Why did the grandmother always accompany the author to school in the village? |
2014, 2017 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 7 |
How did the sparrows react to the death of the author's grandmother? |
2015, 2016 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 8 |
What is the difference between village school education and urban (city) school education as brought out in the lesson? |
2015 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 9 |
Mention three reasons why the author's grandmother was disturbed when he started going to the city school. |
2016 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 10 |
What are the different ways in which we come to know that the author's grandmother was a deeply religious person? |
2017 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 11 |
Describe the changing relationship between the author and his grandmother. Did their feelings for each other change? |
2017, 2022 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 12 |
Would you agree that the author's grandmother was a person strong in character? Give instances that show this. |
2018 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 13 |
Give two examples of the author's grandmother's love of animals. |
2018 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 14 |
Why have the sparrows refused to eat the crumbs of bread on the death of the author's grandmother? |
2019 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 15 |
How did the author's grandfather look in his portrait? |
2020, 2021 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 16 |
How did the author's grandmother prepare to take him to the village school? |
2020, 2021 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 17 |
How did the author's grandmother look? (Physical description) |
2021 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 18 |
Why did the author's grandmother not like his city school? |
2021 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 19 |
How do you know that the author's grandmother was a deeply religious person? |
2022, 2025 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 20 |
How did the grandmother celebrate the homecoming of the author? |
2022, 2025 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 21 |
Why did the grandmother always accompany the author to the school (city context)? |
2022 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 22 |
Give a pen picture of the narrator's grandfather as he appeared in the portrait. |
2023 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 23 |
Why did the narrator's grandmother give the impression of a "winter landscape in the mountains"? |
2023 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 24 |
Why was it hard for the author to believe that his grandmother had a divine beauty? |
2024 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
| 25 |
How did the sparrows mourn the grandmother's death? |
2024 |
AHSEC - HS 1st Year Final Exam |
These are compiled by coaching/notes websites as "CBSE Class 11" questions, drawn from school unit tests and pre-boards following the NCERT Hornbill syllabus. Since CBSE has no official Class XI board paper, treat the year tags below as indicative of when a school/pre-board test used the question, not an official CBSE archive.
| No. |
Question |
Year |
Exam |
| 1 |
How does Khushwant Singh describe his grandmother in "The Portrait of a Lady"? |
2013 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
| 2 |
Give the author's views about the grandmother's apprehension for music. |
2014 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
| 3 |
Have you known someone like the author's grandmother? Do you feel the same sense of loss with regard to someone whom you have loved and lost? |
2014 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
| 4 |
Mention three ways in which the author's grandmother spent her days after he grew up. |
2012, 2017 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
| 5 |
Describe the changing relationship between the author and his grandmother. Did their feelings for each other change? |
2012, 2015, 2017 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
| 6 |
How did the sparrows react to the death of the author's grandmother? |
2015, 2016 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
| 7 |
What is the difference between village school education and urban school education as brought out in the lesson "The Portrait of a Lady"? |
2015 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
| 8 |
Mention three reasons why the author's grandmother was disturbed when he started going to the city school. |
2016 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
| 9 |
Describe the childhood days spent in the village by the author with his grandmother. |
2018 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
| 10 |
Give two examples of the author's grandmother's love of animals. |
2018 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
| 11 |
Why have the sparrows refused to eat the crumbs of bread on the death of the author's grandmother? |
2019 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
| 12 |
Give a description of the author's grandmother after your reading of "The Portrait of a Lady". |
2019 |
CBSE Class 11 (School/Pre-Board pattern) |
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