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Unit 10: ‘‘Portrait of a Lady’’ Discussion on All Spheres of the Text and Questions

Despite taking lot of interest in his studies she could not help him in his lessons because he Notes
was learning English, law of gravity, Archimedes’ principle and many more such things which
she could not understand and this made her unhappy. She found herself at loss as she could
not change the things her way. She was dismayed and withdrew herself to some extent.
Perhaps she had realized that in the makeover of the child, her role was finished and this very
thought saddened her most.
After finishing school, the author went to university.

Self Assessment

Multiple Choice Questions:
4. The Portrait of a Lady is written by

(a) Raja Rao (b) Jhumpa Lahiri
(c) Naipaul (d) Khushwant Singh
5. Khushwant Singh was born in which place
(a) Hadali (b) Udaipur
(c) Amritsar (d) Nankana

6. Which has returned the Padma Bhushan in 1984 in protest against the Union Government’s
siege of the Golden Temple in Amritsar?
(a) Kuldip Singh (b) Sandip Sindh

(c) Parmender Singh (d) Khushwant Singh
7. The Portrait of a Lady is written in
(a) second person (b) third person
(c) first person (d) none
8. The Portrait of a Lady is written in

(a) scientific mode (b) romantic mode
(c) biographical mode (d) none
9. Chief character in the Portrait of a Lady is Khushwant Singh’s
(a) father (b) mother
(c) brother (d) grandmother

10.3 Summary

• The writer speaks of his own grandmother. By the time, he wrote the story, she was
quite old and all her hairs had been white. Her wrinkled face and body gave him a kind
of surprise.
• Meet Khushwant Singh’s grandmother, in his own words: ‘...short, fat and slightly bent....
Her face was a crisscross of wrinkles running from everywhere to everywhere’.

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