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G9 - How I Taught My Grandmother To Read - Communicative English

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the writer of this story?

a)

Sarojini Naidu

b)

Sudha Murthy

c)

Arundhati Roy

2.

What is the name of grandmother?

a)

Ajantakka

b)

Krishtakka

c)

Mangalakka

3.

What is the name of the Wednesday magazine?

a)

Sonaveera

b)

Jalveera

c)

Karmaveera

4.

Which was the grandmother's favourite story?

a)

Kashi Yatre

b)

Jungle Book

c)

Panchatantra

5.

What is the meaning of 'Avva' in Kannada?

a)

Sister

b)

Mother

c)

Aunt

6.

What did grandmother want to learn?

a)

Cooking

b)

Stitching

c)

Reading

7.

What was the age of grandmother?

a)

Sixty- year- old

b)

Sixty -two -year -old

c)

Sixty -five -year -old

8.

What did grandmother keep as a deadline during Dussehra?

a)

Laxmi pooja

b)

Mahadev pooja

c)

Sarswati pooja

9.

Which novel did the writer give to her grandmother?

a)

Kashi Yatre

b)

Emma

c)

Malgudi Days

10.

Why did grandmother touch the writer's feet?

a)

Because she was older than her granddaughter.

b)

Because she was her granddaughter's teacher

c)

Because her granddaughter was her teacher.

11.

Where did the the twelve year girl lived ?

a)

In a village in west Punjab

b)

In a village in north Karnataka

12.

When did the regular newspaper came ?

a)

Morning

b)

Evening

c)

Afternoon

d)

Can't say

13.

When would the weekly magazine arrived ?

a)

Saturday

b)

Tuesday

c)

Friday

d)

Wednesday

14.

What was the name of the weekly magazine ?

a)

Can't say

b)

Karmaveera

c)

Kannada

15.

Which was Sudha's first student ?

a)

Renu

b)

Her mother

c)

Her grandfather

d)

Her grandmother

16.

Which gift she has given to her first student ?

a)

Kashi Yatre

b)

A flower

17.

Which is the correct meaning for "frustrating" ?

a)

discouraging

b)

important

c)

overpowering

d)

block

18.

The granddaughter was

a)

caring , innocent , responsible child

b)

innocent, but she not study

c)

caring

19.

In kannada what we say grandmother

a)

amma

b)

Dadi

c)

avva

20.

Sudha Murthy was born

a)

18 August 1949

b)

19 August 1950

c)

15 August 1850

d)

19 August 1951

21.

Author was gone to attend what?

a)

Wedding

b)

School Picnic

c)

Mother's house

22.

Where did the story took place?

a)

Karnataka

b)

Kerala

c)

Arunachal Pradesh

d)

Assam

23.

Krishtakka feel frustrated and embarrassed for not able to read the story

a)

True

b)

False

24.

Krishtakka was not determined to learn Kannada.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

What moral did we get from the story?

a)

If one is determined, he cannot achieve his goal

b)

Learning is boring

c)

Age has no bounds

26.

Fill in the blanks -

I knew then that my student had passed with ________________________.

a)

Black airplanes

b)

Flying Balloons

c)

Flying Colours

d)

Kites

27.

Fill in the blanks -

I was _______________early

a)

bad

b)

good

c)

married

d)

married off

e)

married of

28.

During that time she would forget all her ______ duties and would listen with rapt attention.

a)

country

b)

household

29.

Meaning of essential -

a)

regular

b)

important

c)

essence

30.

I have from time to time _______ not getting any education.

a)

valued

b)

regretted

31.

One can overcome any obstacle if one is ________ to do so.

a)

determined

b)

strong

32.

When I was a girl of about twelve, I used to stay in a village in north __________.

a)

village

b)

Karnataka

33.

________ has no age bar.

a)

Studies

b)

Learning

34.

I have never seen her _________ even during the worst of situations.

a)

break down

b)

angry

35.

Tears were ________ out of her beautiful eyes.

a)

dripping

b)

spilling

36.

It was ________ not being able to read the story.

a)

sad

b)

frustrating