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ASSESSMENT

LESSON NOTES-21

Subject-English

Class-VIII

CHAPTER-6 “The Portrait of a Lady”

By - Khushwant Singh

Write Away: (Writing Skill)

CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE (CYK): (Do it
in the Notebook)

A1. Answer the following questions:

Q.1-Describe how the narrator’s grandmother looked?
Q.2-Did the grandmother like what they taught at the school in the city?
How did she feel?
Q.3-What did the grandmother do during the “happiest half-hour of the
day?
Q.4-How did the grandmother’s daily routine change when she shifted
from her village to a city?
Q.5-What did the sparrows do when the grandmother died?

A2.Answer these questions with reference to the context: (Each
answer is to be written in about 20-30 words)
Q.1-People said that she had once been young and pretty and had even
had a husband, but that was hard to believe.
a) Who is ‘she’ being referred to in the above sentences?
b)Why was it ‘hard to believe’ that she had a husband ?
c) How did her husband look like?

Q.2-…I was sure, my grandmother would be upset.
a)Why did the narrator think his grandmother would be upset?
b) Was the grandmother upset? How did she react?
c) What did the narrator take as the ’last sign of physical contact’ with his
grandmother ?
Q.3-That was the first time since I had known her that she did not pray.
a)Who is ‘she’ being referred to in the above sentence?
b)What did she do instead of praying?
c) How did she feel the next morning?