Question

Read the following passage carefully :
(1) My grandmother‟s house is like a chambered sea shell ; it has many
rooms, yet it is not a mansion. Its proportions are small and its design simple.
It is a house that has grown organically, according to the needs of its
inhabitants. To all of us in the family it is known as la casa de Mama. It is the
place of our origin ; the stage for our memories and dreams of Island life.
(2) I remember how in my childhood it sat on stilts ; this was before it had
a downstairs--it rested on its perch like a great blue bird-not a flying sort of
bird, more like a nesting hen, but with spread wings. Grandfather had built it
soon after their marriage. He was a painter and house builder by trade-a poet
and meditative man by nature. As each of their eight children were born, new
rooms were added. After a few years, the paint didn‟t exactly match, nor the
materials, so that there was a chronology to it, like the rings of a tree, and
Mama could tell you the history of each room in her casa, and thus the
genealogy of the family along with it.
(3) Her own room is the heart of the house. Though I have seen it
recently- and both woman and room have diminished in size, changed by the
new perspective of my eyes, now capable of looking over countertops and tall
beds-it is not this picture I carry in my memory of Mama‟s casa. Instead, I see
her room as a queen‟s chamber where a small woman loomed large, a throne
room with a massive four poster bed in its center, which stood taller than a
child‟s head. It was on this bed, where her own children had beem born, that
the smallest grandchildren were allowed to take naps in the afternoons ; here
too was where Mama secluded herself to dispense private advice to her
daughters, sitting on the edge of the bed, looking down at whoever sat on the
rocker where generations of babies had been sung to sleep. To me she looked
like a wise empress right out of the fairy tales I was addicted to reading.
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(4) And there was the monstrous wardrobe she kept locked with a little
golden key she did not hide. This was a test of her dominion over us ; though
my cousins and I wanted a look inside that massive wardrobe more than
anything, we never reached for that little key lying on top of her Bible on the
dresser. This was also where she placed her earrings and rosary when she
took them off at night. God‟s word was her security system. This wardrobe
was the place where I imagined she kept jewels, satin slippers, and elegant
silk, sequined gowns of heartbreaking fineness. I lusted after those imaginary
costumes. I had heard that Mama had been a great beauty in her youth, and
the belle of many balls. My cousins had ideas as to what she kept in that
wooden vault : its secret could be money (Mama‟s did not hand cash to
strangers, banks were out of the question, so there were stories that her
mattress was stuffed with dollar bills, and that she buried coins in jars in her
garden under rose-bushes, or kept them in her untouched wardrobe ; there
might be that legendary gun salvaged from the Spanish American conflict
over the Island. We went wild over suspected treasures that we made up
simply because children have to fill locked trunks with something wonderful.
(1.1) On the basis of your reading of the passage complete the statements
that follow:
(a) Memory helps people to stay connected to __________ .
(b) The changing structure of the house reflected -----------
(c) When the author says woman and room have diminished in
size he means Mama and her room are ------------------
(d) The author‟s use of images such as “queen‟s chamber,”and
“throne room, “ show that Mama -----------------.
(e) God‟s word was her security system because ----------------.
(1.2) Answer briefly the following questions :
(a) Why did Mama not keep the little golden key hidden ?
(b) What had the author heard of Mama as a young woman ?
(1.3) Find the words from the passage which mean the same as the
following.
(a) very large/huge (para 4)
(b) authority/control (para 4)
(c) a string of beads to count prayers (para 4)
plz give all answers
AND WRONG ANSWERS WOULD BE REPORTED

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

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