Q.2 Read the following passage and answer the questions, given bellow: [06]
My grandmother, like everybody's grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for
the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she had once been young and pretty and had even
had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather's portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the
drawing-room. He wore a big turban and loose-fitting clothes. His long, White beard covered the best part of
his chest and he looked at least a hundred years old. He did not look the sort of person who would have a
wife or children. He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren. As for my grandmother
being young and pretty, the thought was almost revolting. She often told us of the games she used to play as
a child. That seemed quite absurd and undignified on her part and we treated it like the fables of the
Prophets she used to tell us.
She had always been short and fat and slightly bent. Her face was a criss-cross of wrinkles running from
everywhere to everywhere.
Questions
1. What was the appearance of the grandmother?
2. What does the narrator say about his grandfather?
3. What thought itself was revolting?
4. What does the narrator say about the grandmother's face?
5.Find the word from the passage that means 'appeared'
6.Find the word from the passage that means 'an old story that teacher?
Answers
Explanation:
1) The appearance of the grandmother is that she was old and wrinkled for twenty years and she was like everybody's grandmother.
2) The narrator said about his grandfather that he wore turban and loose fitting clothes and his long and white beard covered the best part of his chest and he looked like at least a hundred years .
3)His grandfather didn't look the sort of person who would have wife or children. He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren. As his grandmother being young and pretty the thought of this was almost revolting.
4)The narrator said about the grandmother's face that she is old and had wrinkled for twenty years but before she was young and beautiful but now She was short and fat and slightly bent and her face was Criss cross of wrinkles running from everywhere to everywhere.
5) undignified means 'appeared' .(I'm not sure)
6) 'Prophet' means an old story that teacher.
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