Question

(1) Read the extract and answer the following questions:

We protested. But she ignored our protests . she lay peacefully in bed. praying and telling her beads. Even before we could suspect, her lips stopped moving and the rosary fell from her lifeless fingers. A peaceful pallor spread on her face and we knew that she was dead. We lifted her off the bed and, as is customary, laid her on the ground and covered her with a red shroud. after a few hours of mourning we left her alone to make arrangements for her funeral. In the evening we went to her room with a crude stretcher to take her to be cremated the sun was setting and had lit her room and verandah with a blaze of golden light. We stopped half-way in the courtyard. All over the verandah and in her room right up to where she lay dead and stiff wrapped in the red shroud thousands of sparrow sat scattered on the floor. There was no chirruping. we felt sorry for the birds and my mother fetched some bread for them. she broke it into little crumbs, the way my grandmother used to, and threw it to them. the sparrows took no notice of the bread. when we carried my grandmother's corpse off they flew away quietly. Next morning the sweeper swept the hread crumbs is to the dustbin.

Q1- who were protesting to whom? And why?

Q2- How did everyone know that the grandmother had died?

Q3- Define the word "Customary".

Q4 How did the author's grandmother behave just before she had died?

Q5 How did the sparrows express their sorrow when the author's . grandmother had died?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Q1.  The writer and his family was protesting with his grandmother

Q2. Grandmother's  lips stopped moving and the rosary fell from her lifeless fingers. A peaceful pallor spread on her face. This indicated that she was dead.

Q3. Customary : according to the customs or usual practices associated with a particular society, place, or set of circumstances.

Q4. The authors grandmother ignored her family's protests and lay in tranquility on the beg

Q5. The sparrows did not chirrup. They also did not eat the bread mother had put for them, and flew away quietly when the writer and his family carried his grandmother's corpse away.