would u please provide me extract based questions of chapter portrait of a lady class 11
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Answer:
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions:
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.
1. Who is ‘he’ in the extract? Where was he?
2. Why did the author find it hard to believe that his grandmother was once young and pretty?
3. What things would she tell the narrator when he was young?
I would tell her English words and little things of western science and learning, the law of gravity, Archimedes’ Principle, the world being round, etc.
1. What were the grandmother’s views about western education?
2. What was the grandmother’s reaction to author’s learning music at school?
3. What was the difference between education in village and education in the city?
Explanation:
who is he in the extract? where was he?