Velammal Vidhyashram, Mambakkam

Session: 2022 – 2023

Holiday Practice Questions

Grade: XI Subject: English

General Instructions:
1. Use A4 sheets.
2. Write legibly.
3. Use borders in every sheet.
4. Do not write only the answers. Writing questions is mandatory.
5. Use cover page. Cover page must contain ‘Velammal Vidhyashram, Mambakkam’ at
top center in first line and ‘Holiday Practice Questions’ in second line, ‘Grade XI’ and
‘English’ in third and fourth line respectively. Bottom right to have your full name,
class and section.

I Answer the following questions in 30 – 40 words.

1. The poet’s mother would laugh looking at the photograph. Why?

2. “This was the turning point in our friendship.” What was the turning point? (The Portrait of
a Lady)
3. How did the narrator get back to the ship after having been thrown into the sea?
4. Where had the narrator come? Why was she back? (The Address)
5. Why did the narrator not want to remember the place? (The Address)
6. What was the narrator’s first reaction to the horse?
7. How did Aram justify the act of stealing the horse?
8. Why is the poem named ‘The Laburnum Top’?
9. What is the significance of ‘yellow’ in the poem? (The Laburnum Top)
10. Why did the tourists throng to see Tut’s tomb? What was their reaction?

II Answer the following questions in 100 – 120 words.

1. What values do you learn from the goldfinch in the poem ‘The ‘Laburnum Top?
2. Describe the narrator’s first post-War meeting with Mrs Dorling.
3. “Its silence silences,” writes Shirley Toulson. The loss of her mother has silenced her. Do
you think that this attitude of the poet is the right attitude to live life? Why/ why not?
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