Title 1 HOW I TAUGHT MYGRANDMOTHER TO READ.pdf ✅

Class 9th English Fiction How I Taught My Grandmother To Read Extracts for comprehension Read the following extracts ands answer the questions that follow in one or two lines 1. So more than anybody else she was the one most interested in knowing what happened next in the story and used to insist that I read the serial out to her. a. Who is ‘she ‘in the above lines? Ans. She in the above lines is Sudha Murty’s grandmother, Krishtakka. b. Why was she ‘the most interested’ in knowing the next development in the story? Ans. She was most interested in the development of the story because she identified herself with the chief protagonist of the story. c. Why did she insist that the story be read out to her? Ans. Since she was illiterate and could not read the novel herself, she insisted that its story should be read out aloud to her. 2. At times I used to regret not going to school, so I made sure that my children and grandchildren studied well... a. Who is ‘I’ in the above lines? Ans. ‘I’ is krishtakka, Sudha Murty’s grandmother.
b. Why did she regret ‘not going to school’ at times? Ans. She regretted not going to school because she too wanted to be able to read and write like her children and grandchildren but household chores and care of family never left her with enough time for school. c. How did she try to make up for the opportunity denied to her? Ans. She made up for it by ensuring that her children and grandchildren studied well. Also in her later years she learned how to read Kannada. 3. Those days, the transport system was not very good, so we used to get the morning paper only in the afternoon. The weekly magazine used to come one day late. a) “Those days” in the above extract refers to Ans. Narrator’s childhood days. b) Why did the people in the narrator’s village get the morning paper by afternoon? Ans. They got it in the afternoon because it arrived by transport, which was not very efficient. c) Why did the narrator’s family wait for the weekly magazine eagerly those days? Ans. They waited for it eagerly so that they could read the next episode of Triveni’s novel ‘Kashi Yatre’. 4. All your hair is grey, your hands are wrinkled, you wear spectacles and you work so much in the kitchen..... Childishly I made fun of the old lady. a. Who is the ‘old lady’ in the above extract? Ans. The old lady is Sudha Murty’s grandmother. b. Why did the narrator make fun of the old lady?
Ans. The narrator thought that at 62, the old lady was too old to learn to read. c. How did the ‘old lady’ react to the narrator’s comment? Ans. She just smiled and laughed it off. 5. When I came back to my village, I saw my grandmother in tears. I was surprised, for I had never seen her cry even in the most difficult situations. a. Who is ‘I’ in the above extract? Where did she/he return from? Ans. ‘I’ in the above extract is the narrator, Sudha Murty. She returned from a neighbouring village where she had gone with her cousins to attend a wedding. b. Why was the grandmother in tears? Ans. In her granddaughter’s absence, Krishtakka was unable to find out what had happened in that week’s episode of kashi Yatre. A sense of being helpless and dependent on others brought tears to her eyes. c. What does the last time of the extract tell you about the grandmother’s character? Ans. It shows that the grandmother was a woman of strong and determined character and that she had always taken the ups and downs of life in her stride. 6. I knew then that my student had passed with flying colours. a. Who are ‘I’ and ‘my student’ in the above line? Ans. Sudha Murty, the narrator and her grandmother, Krishtakka respectively. b. What test had ‘the student’ passed?
Ans. The test of being able to read independently before the deadline of Dassara. c. What quality of the student’s character is revealed here? Ans. She is tenacious, hardworking and determined. 7. For a good cause if you are determined, you can overcome any obstacle.I will work harder than anybody but I will do it. For learning there is no age bar. a. “Good cause” referred to here is Ans. The grandmother’s determination to learn how to read. b. What quality of the grandmother’s character is revealed here? Ans. The quality of being tenacious, determined and confident. c. Who helped the speaker in her ‘good cause’? Ans. Her granddaughter, Sudha Murty. 8. Secretly I bought Kashi Yatre which had been published as a novel by that time. My grandmother called me to the pooja place and made me sit down on a stool. a. On what occasion did the grandmother call the narrator to the pooja place? Ans. She called the narrator to the pooja place on the occasion of Dassara Festival. b. Why did she make the narrator sit down on a stool? Ans. She made the narrator sit down on a stool so that she could venerate and thank her little ‘teacher’. c. How had the narrator planned to surprise to surprise her grandmother? How was she herself surprised? Ans. The narrator had planned to surprise her grandmother with a gift of a copy of the novel Kashi Yatre. However, the old lady surprised her by gifting her frock material and touching her feet in gratitude for teaching an old parrot like her to read.