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The Portrait of a Lady Module 1/2 Worksheet

Answer all the questions briefly 10x3=30
1. Why was the author’s grandmother disturbed when Kushwant Singh started
going to the city school?
2. Mention at least three different ways in which we come to know that the
author’s grandmother was a religious person
3. Compare and contrast the routine of the grandmother in the village with that of it
in the city
4. Describe the grandmother in your own words.
5. How were the narrator and the grandmother’s good friends in the village?
6. What was the turning point in their friendship?
7. Why was the author's grandmother unhappy with the city education?
8. Why did the grandmother hate learning music in the school?
9. Mention the way in which the sparrows expressed their sorrow when the
author’s grandmother died.
10. Highlight the odd ways in which the author’s grandmother behaved just before
she died.