Chapter-10
MY
GRAND MOTHER’S HOUSE
-Kamala Das
The poem “My
grandmother’s house” is written by Kamla Das. In this chapter Kamla Das has
described about her childhood. When Kamla Das was small she used to live with
her grandmother at her home. Her grandmother used to love her very much. When
she was there everything around the home was very beautiful both Kamla Das and
her grandmother used to live happily.
One day
her grandmother died and she started living at different place. But whenever
she gets time she comes at her grandmother’s house and feel the same love as
she used to get but at same time she is also very sad to see the condition of
home. It is damage from all the sides.
Objective
Question Answer
1. My
Grandmother’s House” is written by………………….
a)Keki N. Daruwala b)T.S.
Eliot c) Kamala Das
2. Das was born in …………………………
a)1934 b)1892 c)1936
3. Kamala Das
is a…………………
a)novelist b)dramatist c)poet and short
story writer
4. Her
autobiography, published in……………..
a)1976 b)1970 c)1980
5. ‘The poetess
in ‘The Grandmother’s House’ begs at………doors.
a)friend’s b)family’s c)stranger’s
6. ‘There is a
house now far away where once I received love’…………is from the poem.
a)Song of Myself b)My
Grandmother’s House c)Snake
7. ‘Behind my
bedroom’s door like a brooding’ is written by……..
a)Rupert Brooke b)Kamala
Das c)T.S. Eliot
8. During her
childhood the speaker of ‘My Grandmother’s House’ lived with her…………..
a)aunt b)mother c)grandmother
9. She noticed
a…………behind the door of the bedroom.
a)ox b)cow c)dog
10. In……………..,
she was short listed for the Nobel Prize for literature.
a)1984 b)1976 c)1980
11. “Summer in
Kolkata”, ‘Sirens’, ‘The Descendents’, ‘The Anamatal’ is written by………………………
a)Kamala Das b)John Donne c)Keki N. Daruwala
12. “Summer in
Kolkata” was published in…………….
a)1963 b)1964 c)1965
13. “Sirens” was
published in………………
a)1964 b)1965 c)1966
14. “The
Descendents” was published in………………..
a)1967 b)1968 c)1969
15. “The Old
Playhouse and Other Poems” is written by………………..
a)Walter De La Mare b)Keki N.
Daruwala c)Kamala Das
16. “The Old
Playhouse and Other Poems” was published in………………
a)1973 b)1975 c)1977
17. “The
Anamatal Poems” was published in……………
a)1985 b)1990 c)1995
18. “Only Saint
Knows How to Sing”, ‘Yes Allah’ is written by………………
)Kamala Das b)John Donne c)Keki N. Daruwala
19. “Only Saint
Knows How to Sing” was published in…………………..
a)1996 b)1997 c)1998
20. “Yes Allah”
was published in………………..
a)2001 b)2002 c)2005
21. Kamala Das is an……………… poetess.
a)French b)Indian c)Australian
22. Kamala Das is talking about her………..who is
dead no.
a)grandmother b)grandfather c)brother
23. Kamala Das remembers
the happy days spent in the sweet company of her……………
a)father b)nephew c)grandmother
24. The house
went into silence due to the death of the………………
a)man b)woman c)girl
Questions & Answers
1. Who is ‘I’
in the second line of the poem?
‘I’ is the poetess or the speaker.
2. Where did
the speaker once receive love?
The speaker once received love in her grandmother’s house.
3. Why did the
house go into silence?
The house went into silence because the woman died.
4. Why was the
speaker unable to read the books?
The speaker was unable to read books because she was too young.
5. Why did the
speaker often wish to go to that house?
She often wished to go there because the memories often haunted her. she wanted
to peep into the house and experience its stillness.
6. Why was the
speaker proud of living in that house?
She was proud of living in that house because she got a lot of love there from
her grandmother.
7. Why does the
speaker say that she has lost her way?
The speaker says that she has lost her way because she yearns for love, and she
does not know where she can find it.
Explain
the following lines
1. There is a
house now for away where once
I received love. That women died
Ans. The poet Kamala Das refers to her grandmother’s house where she had spent
her childhood. She had received enormous love and affection. However after the
death of her grandmother the house became deserted with snakes moving around.
जिस poem के लाइन में grandmother, house, moon, receive love, strangers, door लगा रहे तो poet का नाम Kamala Das लिखदेंगे.
