1. The story “The Portrait of a Lady” is written by –
2. Why did the grandmother keep one hand on her waist?
Answer
To balance her stoop
3. Where did the author spend his childhood?
Answer
In the village with his grandmother
4. The grandmother accompanied her family to see off and receive …….
5. The grandmother always carried with her
6. The grandmother and the author were good-
7. The turning point of the author’s friendship with the grandmother was-
Answer
the settlement of their parents in the city
8. The author’s grandmother was unhappy with city education because –
Answer
she was conservative and religious
9. How did the sparrows react after grandmother’s death? They …
Answer
Sat scattered on the floor
10. Grandmother has been portrayed as a very ….. lady –
11. What did the sparrows do when the dead body of the grandmother was carried off?
Answer
They flew away quietly
12. The grandmother believed that education should
13. Who did appear like the ‘winter landscape in the mountains?
Answer
Narrator’s grandmother
14. Narrator’s grandmother had been old and wrinkled
15. What for did the grandmother prepare the author
16. What was grandmother’s reaction when the author was going abroad?
Answer
not even sentimental
17. Did the author bother to learn the morning prayers that his grandmother recited?
Answer
he listened but did not bother to learn
18. How do you feel about the character of the grandmother in the chapter?
19. How did the sparrows express their sorrow at the death of their grandmother?
Answer
they came and sat silently in the verandah
20. What did the grandmother do in her final hours?
Answer
Silently praying and telling her beads
