01 The Portrait of a Lady - Part - 2
This is from Hornbill_ class XI  . (Paragraph No.7 to 13)
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Listening Activity                                                                                                    Click on the link given below and listen to the audio recording of the text (Para 7 to 13)  and answer the following TRUE/FALSE questions.
1. When the author went to University, the grandmother and the author shared the same room. *
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2. The common link of friendship between the author and his grandmother was snapped when he went to University. *
1 point
3. In the morning the grandmother used to feed the sparrows. *
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4. When hundreds of sparrows came and sat on her legs, shoulders and head, the grandmother became angry and shooed them away. *
1 point
5. The happiest half hour of the day for the grandmother in the city house was when she sat by her wheel spinning and reciting prayers. *
1 point
6. When the author was going abroad for further studies, his grandmother was upset and she was crying. *
1 point
7. After five years when the author came back home, his grandmother did not look a day older. *
1 point
8. Even on the first day of the author’s arrival, his grandmother’s happiest moments were with her sparrows. *
1 point
9. The day when the author came back home, his grandmother collected the women of the neighbourhood, got an old drum and started to sing. *
1 point
10. For several hours, Grandmother thumped the sagging skins of the old drum and sang of the home-coming of warriors. That was the first time since the author had known her that she did not pray. *
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11. The next morning the grandmother fell ill. She was running a high fever and the doctor said that it would go. *
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12. Grandmother was praying even in the last moments of her life. *
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13. All over the verandah and in the room right up to where the grandmother lay dead, thousands of sparrows sat scattered on the floor and they were making a lot of noise. *
1 point
14. The sparrows expressed their sorrow over the death of the grandmother by eating the bread crumbs thrown to them. *
1 point
15. Even after they carried the grandmother’s corpse off, the birds stayed there and flew away next morning. *
1 point
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