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Easy and Scoring Areas Chapter
Wise
Class IX
Fiction
How I Taught My Grandmother to Read
Author: Sudha Murty

Read the given extracts and answer the following questions:

1. ‘‘She nodded but did not reply. I did not understand and forget about it. In the
night, after dinner, we were sleeping in the open terrace of the house. It was a
summer night and there was a full moon.’’

Q. 1. Who are ‘she’ and ‘I’ in the above extract?

Q. 2. What did ‘I’ forget about?

Q. 3. What was ‘she’ upset about?

Ans. (1) ‘She’ is the grandmother and ‘I’ is the author.
(2) The author forgot about the grandmother’s crying.
(3) She was upset because she was not able to read.

2. ‘‘I am touching the feet of a teacher, not my granddaughter.’’

Q. 1. Who speaks the above line?

Q. 2. Why does the speaker touch the feet of the person much younger than
her?

Q. 3. On whom did the speaker depend to read the magazines??

Ans. (1) The speaker is the narrator’s grandmother.
(2) The speaker touched the feet of the person much younger than her because she
has taught her to read confidently and independently.
(3) The speaker depended on her granddaughter to read the magazine.

3. “For a good cause if you are determined, you can overcome any obstacle. I
will work harder than anybody but I will do it. For learning there is no age
bar.”

Q. 1. What is the good cause the speaker is talking about?

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Q. 2. What does hard work refer to?

Q. 3. What was the cause of this determination?

Ans. (1) The good cause is to become literate and independent so that the
grandmother is not dependent on any one to read out the story.
(2) Hard work refers to putting in a lot of efforts to learn to read and write.
(3) The cause of this determination was her helplessness in being able to read her
favourite story.

Answer the following question in about 30-40 words:

Q. 1. How does the grandmother fulfil her desire to read?

Ans. With her strong will power and determination, the grandmother was able to fulfil
her desire to read and write. She was determined to learn the alphabet of Kannada
language. She considered that the age is no bar to learn and start taking tuitions
from anyone ever from her granddaughter.

Q. 2. What did the grandmother do to express her gratitude?

Ans. The grandmother called her to the Pooja place and made her sit down on a
stool. She gave her a gift of a frock material. Then, she bent down and touched the
feet of her granddaughter as a mark of respect and gratitude. The grandmother
treated her like a teacher and showed her the respect and honour that she deserved.
It was an unusual gesture that signified her wisdom.

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