The Living Photograph : Form 4 Poem

Who were in the photograph?

• Persona and her mother

• Persona and her grandmother

• Persona and her great-grandmother

The grandmother wore the following attire in the photograph except:

• Broderie Anglaise shirt

• Pleated pants

• Flat shoes

Which line tells the persona and her grandmother are from different ethnic backgrounds?

• White hand in black hand

• Her big hands hold mine

• Somewhere unknown, unthinkable

Describe the grandmother’s shoes

• Heeled

• Flat

• she was barefoot

What is the skin colour of the grandmother?

• White

• Black

• It’s not stated in the poem

What does the line

“Her sharp blue eyes look her death in the eye” mean?

• The persona knows her grandmother’s death will come soon

• The persona knows her grandmother is in better place.

• The persona knows her grandmother can predict death.

Th grandmother became small for the following reasons except

• She lost weight.

• She was aging.

• Her back had hunched.

What does the line

”Her soup forgot to boil” imply?

• Grandmother had become senile.

• Grandmother had become thoughtful.

• Grandmother was getting tired.

What does “awful place” refer to?

• Another planet

• Back then

• Life after death

What does the line

”She went to the awful place grandmothers go” mean?

• The grandmother is terminally ill.

• The grandmother passed away.

• The grandmother is recovering.