Q1.
I. State whether the following sentences are true or false. Share your answers with your classmates and teacher.
1. The grandmother wanted to learn the Kannada alphabet to gain independence.
2. The grandmother asked someone in the village to read Kashi Yatre to her while the narrator was away.
3. The narrator was the grandmother’s first teacher and taught her how to read Kannada.
4. The grandmother believed that there was no age limit for learning.
5. The grandmother touched the narrator’s feet as a mark of respect for her as a teacher.
6. The narrator was disappointed with the progress her grandmother made in learning to read.
Answer
| No. | True / False | The line that decides it |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | “That day I should be able to read a novel on my own. I want to be independent.” Independence is her stated motive, not literacy for its own sake. |
| 2 | False | The opposite happened: “I could have asked somebody in this village but I was too embarrassed to do so.” Her silence is the point of the whole episode. |
| 3 | True | “I was her only teacher and she was my first student.” The narrator adds the irony herself — she did not know she would one day teach Computer Science to hundreds. |
| 4 | True | “For learning there is no age bar.” She says it in answer to being laughed at for being sixty-two. |
| 5 | True | “I am touching the feet of a teacher, not my granddaughter… It is my duty to respect a teacher.” She names the reason before anyone can misread the gesture. |
| 6 | False | “I knew then that my student had passed with flying colours.” The narrator is proud, not disappointed — the grandmother read the title and the publisher’s name straight off the cover. |
How to attempt true/false without guessing: every one of these six statements can be settled by a single sentence in the text. Statements 2 and 6 are false because they reverse what the text says — a common trap. Before you tick, find the line; if you cannot find one, you are recalling the plot rather than reading it.