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y. What is the matter? Can I help you in anyway?”. “Yes I need your help. You know
when you were away, Karmaveera came as usual. I opened the magazine. I saw the picture that
accompanies the story of Kashi Yatre but I couldn’t understand anything that was written. Many a
times I rubbed my hands over the pages wishing I could understand what was written. But I knew it
wasn’t possible. If only I was educated enough! I waited eagerly for you to return. I thought you would
come quickly and read to me. I even thought of going to the village and ask you to read it for me. I
could have asked somebody in this village but I was too embarrassed to do so. I felt so very dependent
and helpless. We are well off but what use is money when I cannot be independent?”.
I didn’t know what to answer. Avva continued: “I have decided to learn the Kannada language from
tomorrow onwards. I’ll work very hard. I’ll keep Saraswati Puja day during Dussehra as the deadline.
That day I should be able to read a novel on my own. I want to be independent.” I stared at her for a
while. She looked very determined, yet I laughed at my grandmother .
A1. Choose the option which is correct or most appropriate. 5
1. Who was crying?
a. a young woman b. an old woman
c. the old grandmother d. the old grandfather
2. Avva was in distress because of ________
a. the absence of her granddaughter b. the absence of her daughter
c. her inability to read her favourite story d. her illiteracy
3. What did she wish for?
a. for being rich b. for the company of her granddaughter
c. for being educated d. for Kashi Yatre
4. Avva was not happy with their being merely _________
a. rich b. educated
c. narrow-minded d. illiterate
5. The grandmother’s decision to learn Kannada was _____
a. usual b. unusual
c. sudden d. impractical
A.2.
1. Which word in para 1 means ‘unable to do anything’? 1
2. Find a word in para 2 which means ‘to look fixedly’? 1
3. Find the antonym ‘closed’ from (para 1)