2nd May, 2020
Day 5
Good morning gentlemen
“Positive mind. Positive vibes. Positive life.”
We lack optimism in the world today. In these days of struggle, when the an individual is afraid of even meeting and greeting another individual, we need positivism to flow around. There is enough hatred in the world. Come, let us make this world a better place to dwell in. Let us do our bit to bring positive vibes around us.
I hope that you all must have done the short questions given to you in yesterday's blog yet
I am sharing the answers to them in today's blog. Have a look at them, in case you were not able to get through any.
Tomorrow being a Sunday, You are getting a day to complete your work, if pending.
Today's work includes Long Answer type questions for the lesson. Value points are given to you for framing answers. Be free to expand your vocabulary. As i always say, write to impress.
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Take care
Be safe
Happy learning
God bless you all!
Day 5
Good morning gentlemen
“Positive mind. Positive vibes. Positive life.”
I hope that you all must have done the short questions given to you in yesterday's blog yet
I am sharing the answers to them in today's blog. Have a look at them, in case you were not able to get through any.
Short Answer Type
Questions
Q.1 How does Khushwant Singh
describe his old grandmother?
Ans: Khushwant Singh says that his
grandmother was so old that she could not get any way older. Her face was full
of wrinkles. She was short, fat and somewhat bent. It was unbelievable to
imagine that she had once been young and pretty, and had a husband. The thought
of her being once was almost revolting to him.
Q.2 Why did narrator’s
grandmother give the impression of ‘winter landscape in the mountains’?
Ans: The author’s grandmother used to
wear spotless white clothes. She had silvery hair. White all over, she looked
like the winter landscape in the mountains covered with snow. She recited her
prayers all the time, so had a serene expression on her face which was like
peaceful, white mountains.
Q.3 How can you say that the
grandmother was a religious – minded lady?
Ans: The author’s old grandmother was deeply religious-minded. She all day long
counted the beads of rosary and recited prayers. She read scriptures inside the
temple. She was disturbed to know that there was no teaching about God and
scriptures at the city school. She fed the dogs in the villages and the birds
in the city.
Q.4 ‘The thought was almost
revolting’. What was the thought and why was it disgusting?
Ans: The old grandmother often told
the children of the games she used to play as a child. It seemed absurd or
believable and even indecent on her part. The children treated those stories
like fables. They found it hard to believe that their grandmother could have
ever been young and pretty. They had always seen her as an old lady: so they
liked to think of her only as their grandmother.
Q.5 Why was the grandmother unhappy
in the city?
Ans: In the city, the friendship
between the old lady and the little grandson came under strain. She was
disturbed because she could not go with him to school, nor help him with his
lessons. She did not approve of English education, particularly the music
lessons. The author, as he grew up, got a room of his own. The growing
distances between them upset her. All this made her unhappy.
Q. 6 Give a brief account of the
grandmother’s friendship with sparrows.
Ans: The old grandmother lost even the
last link of friendship with the author so she made friends with the sparrow.
In the Afternoon, she threw small bits of bread to the birds who even sat on
her shoulders and her head. After her death, the sparrows, also grieved for
her. Thousands of them made a circle round her. They refused to eat the crumbs
offered to them. They flew away only after her dead body was taken away.
Q.7 ‘And at her age, one could
never tell’. What was it that one could never tell?
Ans: The author was going abroad for five years. He had a fear that the grandmother would be badly upset, and might not be able to bear the separation. At her age, she could die any day, any moment. Nobody could tell how long she would stay alive.
Ans: The author was going abroad for five years. He had a fear that the grandmother would be badly upset, and might not be able to bear the separation. At her age, she could die any day, any moment. Nobody could tell how long she would stay alive.
Q.8 Only once the grandmother did
not pray. What was the reason and why?
Ans: The grandmother was a very
punctual and regular in her prayers and counting of beards. She missed them
only on the day of the return of the author from abroad. She collected some
women, got an old drum, beat it and sang of the warriors' homecoming. That was
the only day in her life she broke the routine.
Q.9 Describe in brief how the old
lady die in peace.
Ans: Because of over-straining at such
an old stage, the grandmother was taken ill. She knew for certain that her end
was near. So she declined to talk to anybody. She wanted to spend the last
moments of her life praying and telling the beads of her rosary. Then slowly
her lips stopped and the rosary fell from her lifeless fingers. Thus, she died
peacefully.
Q.10 How did the sparrows mourn
over the death of grandmother?
Ans: The association or friendship of
the old lady with the sparrows began in the city. Left alone, she sought the
company of the sparrows. She fed them every day in the afternoon. The birds
became very friendly and attached with her. So, they felt bereaved when she
died. They gathered around her and sat quietly until the dead body was carried
off.
Tomorrow being a Sunday, You are getting a day to complete your work, if pending.
Today's work includes Long Answer type questions for the lesson. Value points are given to you for framing answers. Be free to expand your vocabulary. As i always say, write to impress.
Long Answer Type Questions
Q1. Would
you agree that the author’s grandmother was a person strong in character?
• very
religious and conservative lady who hated modern views and ways.
• had
very strong personal likings and dislikes
• led
her own kind of life and never compromised with her principals.
• loved
the narrator deeply but never tried to be sentimental or emotional.
• had
her own thoughts about the learning at school. She considered the teaching of
scriptures to be more fruitful than science and music.
• took
to wheel-spinning and feeding sparrows in loneliness and seclusion
appeared composed and did not display any emotion when the author decided to go abroad
appeared composed and did not display any emotion when the author decided to go abroad
• Ignoring
everyone who tried to stop her, she sang for several hours celebrating the
home-coming of her grandson.
• During
the last few hours of her life, ignoring the protests of her family members,
she stopped talking to everyone and took to reciting prayers and telling her
beads.
Q.2 Describe how the bond of
friendship between the author and grandmother grew strong and then weak with
the passage of time?
·
Both
were best friends in the village
·
Grandmother
took care of almost everything for the
boy,
·
Went
to school with him, sat in the temple
·
Bond
was very strong
·
Boy
moved to city and bond suffered a crack
·
Grandmother
did not accompany him to school anymore
·
She
did not like what he learned at school
·
Withdrew
herself from the boy
·
Concern
and affection was not affected (give instances)
Q.3 Throw some light on the different phases
of relationship which the author shared with his grandmother.
FIRST PHASE – (Village Life)
• Took care of all
his needs (Examples??)
• Helped in his
lessons
• Undisputed
custodian and mentor of the child
• Dynamic , agile
and active (HOW?)
• They fed street
dogs with stale chapaties on their way to school which was a great fun
• It was her realm
and she was the queen of her realm
SECOND
PHASE (City Life):-
• Her role in
bringing up the child curtailed a little bit
• Found herself at
a loss – Why?
• She doesn’t
articulate her disapproval – (About what?)
• Withdrew herself
. Retreats with dignity
• Common nexus of
friendship was fading away
• Contrast with Village
life?
• Differences in
both the phases??
Third phase :-
• Common nexus of
friendship – disrupted
• Her only happy
pursuit was….?
• Lonely and aloof
, secluded
• Held back her
emotions
• Weathered this
closing off with grace and dignity
• Differences from
the previous phases? (Point out few examples)
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God bless you all!
