LESSON: THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Q.
1. Name the writer of the Story, The Portrait of a LADY
Ans. Khushwant Singh.
Q.
2. Whose portrait does the writer give in ‘The Portrait of a LADY?
Ans. His grandmother.
Q.
3. Was the writer's grandmother still alive or dead?
Ans. She was dead.
Q.
4. Was the writer's grandmother tall or short?
Ans. She was short.
Q.
5. Was the writer's grandmother thin or fat?
Ans. She was fat.
Q.
6. Who accompanied the writer to the village school?
Ans. His grandmother.
Q.
7. Why did the author's grandmother carry stale chapattis with her?
Ans. To feed the village dogs.
Q.
8. Which school was the writer sent to in the city?
Ans. An English school.
Q.
9. Why did the author's grandmother stop feeding the dogs in the city?
Ans. There were no street dogs in the
city.
Q.
10. Who did the author's grandmother feed in the city instead of the dogs?
Ans. The sparrows.
Q.
11. How many years did the author study abroad?
Ans. Five.
Q.
12. Who threw breadcrumbs to the sparrows after the grandmother's death?
Ans. The author's mother.
Short Q/A Pg-15
Ans1- The writer’s Grandfather’s
portrait hung above the mantelpiece in drawing room.
Ans2- When grandmother told about the
games she used to play as a child.
Ans3- So that the author might listen
and learn by heart.
Ans4- They had a thick stale chapatti
with a butter and sugar spread on it.
Ans5- Because the school was attached
to the temple where she read the holy books.
Ans6- Grandmother knew the alphabet
and helped the author in his studies.
Ans7- They feed the village dogs with
stale chapattis.
Ans8- The writer had to adopt a new
life in the city, with the time their friendship was broken.
Ans9- In the city the author went to
school in a motor bus.
Ans10- Because city schools were not
given preaching about God.
Ans11- Because she thought that music
was monopoly of harlots and beggars.
Ans12- When the author was given a
room of his own.
Ans13- She sat by her wheel spinning
and recited prayers from sunrise to sunset.
Ans14- Sparrows took the place of the
village dogs in Grandmother’s life in the city.
Ans15- She had been thumbing the drum
for several hours, so she fell ill.
Ans16- The sparrows took no notice of
the pieces of bread and flew away quietly after her dead body leaving.
Long Q/A Pg-16
Ans6- Grandmother was the main
character of the story ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ penned by Kushwant Singh. She
was an old woman. Her face was a crisscross of wrinkles. She was fat and had a
little stoop (ku`b). The author had lived with her for twenty years. She looked
very attractive. She was deeply religious. She was fond of reading holy books.
She dressed in spotless white. She was also generous lady who fed dogs daily in
the village and sparrows in the city. She was very fond of her grandson. She
celebrated his home coming and it was her last night.
Vocabulary Ex’s Pg. - 16,
17
Ex-1 Antonyms
1. Pretty Ugly
2. Absurd Rational
3. Untidy Smart looking/neat
4. Distressed Happy
5. Sure Doubtful
6. Moist Dry
7. Frivolous Serious
8. Quietly Noisily
9. Western Eastern
10. Stale Fresh
Ex-2 Form Verbs
1. Belief Believe
2. Knowledge Know
3. Prayer Pray
4. Food Feed
5. Association Associate
6. Decision Decide
7. Arrival Arrive
8. Suspicious Suspect
9. Sweeper Sweep
10. Sure Assure/Ensure
Compete the description of
the Grandmother below.
Write
ONE WORD ONLY for each Answer.
The Grandmother had always been
short, fat and 1___________ bent. Her face was a crisscross of 2_________.
She was old enough. She was always 3
________. She hobbled about the house in 4 __________ white with one hand
resting on her waist and the other telling the 5__________of her rosary. Her
silver 6_______ were scattered untidily over her pae, puckered 7_________ and
her lips constantly moved in an inaudible 8 _________. She was like the 9 ________landscape
in the mountains, fu of 10___________ and contentment.
READING
(PASSAGE)
My Grandmother, like everybody’s
grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty
years that I had known her. People said that she had once been young and pretty
and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My Grandfather’s
portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room. He wore a big turban
and loose-fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his
chest and he looked at east a hundred years old. He did not look the sort of
person who would have a wife or children. He looked as if he could only have
lots and lots of grandchildren. As for my grandmother being young and pretty,
the thought was almost revolting.
She often told us of the games she
used to pay as a child. That seemed quite absurd and undignified on her part
and we treated it like the fables of the Prophets she used to tell us.
Question
1-5
Do the following statements
agree with the writer in the Reading Passage?
Write TRUE, if the statement is true.
Write FALSE, if the statement is
false.
Write NOT GIVEN, if the statement is
not given.
1 The Grandmother was very old.
2 The Grandmother used to pay games
as a child.
3 The Grandmother’s portrait hung
above the metal piece.
4 The Grandfather was hundred years
old.
5 The Grandmother used to tell the
fables of the Prophets.
Questions 6-10
Compete the description of the
grandfather below.
Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD for each
Answer
In the picture, the 6 ___________
seemed to be hundred years old. He wore a huge 7 _______________ and baggy
8 ___________. His long, white beard
was up to his 9 _________. He looked old enough to have many 10 _________.
WRITING
1.
Write a few lines on the Grandmother from the chapter ‘THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY’.
2.
Write a few sentences on your own grandmother.
