essay
Q 1 What made Triveni a popular writer?
Q 2 Why did grandmother depend on her granddaughter to enjoy the serialised story in a magazine?
Q 3 How had the student passed with flying colours?
Q 4 Why was the granddaughter surprised when her grandmother touched her feet?
Q 5 How did the grandmother eventually succeed in getting over her handicap of being illiterate?
Q 6 Which traits in the grandmother’s character played a vital role in her success story?
Q 7 Briefly describe the condition of transport and postal services during grandmother’s childhood.
Q 8 Why could the grandmother identify with the main protagonist in the novel ‘Kashi Yatre?’
Q 9 Did the narrator enjoy her holidays? Give evidence from the text.
Q 10 Was the grand daughter shocked when she came back? Why?
Q 11 Why did the grandmother never go to school?
Q 12 What change came over the grandmother when the granddaughter went to attend a wedding?
Q 13 ‘Yes, I need your help. You know when you were away, Karmaveera came as usual’.
(a)Who is the speaker of these lines?
(b)Who was away and where?
(c)What is ‘Karmaveera’ referred to?
Q 14 ‘I did return namaskara to her and gave my gift to my first student. She opened it and read. I knew then that my student had passed with flying colours’.
(a) How did the speaker return the ‘namaskara’?
(b) Who is being referred to as ‘first student’?
(c) How did she know that her student had passed with flying colours?
Q 15 What were the feelings of grandmother when her granddaughter had gone for a wedding?
Q 16 What change came over the grandmother when the granddaughter went to attend a wedding?
Q 17 You are the grandmother. How did you feel when your granddaughter gave you a novel to read after you learnt how to read? Record your feelings in your diary.
Q 18 Imagine that you are the granddaughter in the story. Write a diary entry on the day of Dassara when your grandmother accomplishes her
Q 2 Why did grandmother depend on her granddaughter to enjoy the serialised story in a magazine?
Q 3 How had the student passed with flying colours?
Q 4 Why was the granddaughter surprised when her grandmother touched her feet?
Q 5 How did the grandmother eventually succeed in getting over her handicap of being illiterate?
Q 6 Which traits in the grandmother’s character played a vital role in her success story?
Q 7 Briefly describe the condition of transport and postal services during grandmother’s childhood.
Q 8 Why could the grandmother identify with the main protagonist in the novel ‘Kashi Yatre?’
Q 9 Did the narrator enjoy her holidays? Give evidence from the text.
Q 10 Was the grand daughter shocked when she came back? Why?
Q 11 Why did the grandmother never go to school?
Q 12 What change came over the grandmother when the granddaughter went to attend a wedding?
Q 13 ‘Yes, I need your help. You know when you were away, Karmaveera came as usual’.
(a)Who is the speaker of these lines?
(b)Who was away and where?
(c)What is ‘Karmaveera’ referred to?
Q 14 ‘I did return namaskara to her and gave my gift to my first student. She opened it and read. I knew then that my student had passed with flying colours’.
(a) How did the speaker return the ‘namaskara’?
(b) Who is being referred to as ‘first student’?
(c) How did she know that her student had passed with flying colours?
Q 15 What were the feelings of grandmother when her granddaughter had gone for a wedding?
Q 16 What change came over the grandmother when the granddaughter went to attend a wedding?
Q 17 You are the grandmother. How did you feel when your granddaughter gave you a novel to read after you learnt how to read? Record your feelings in your diary.
Q 18 Imagine that you are the granddaughter in the story. Write a diary entry on the day of Dassara when your grandmother accomplishes her