English - Poetry Chapter 10: My Grandmother's House short Answer Questions

Question 1.Who is “I” in the second line of the poem?

Answer:“I” is the speaker (the poet) “Kamala Das” in the second line of the poem.

Question 2.Where did the speaker once receive love?

Answer:The speaker once received love in a house where she lived with her grandmother in the past.

Question 3.Why did the house go into silence?

Answer:The house went into silence because the woman who used to live there was dead.

Question 4.Why was the speaker unable to read the books?

Answer:The speaker was unable to read the books because at that time she was too young to read.

Question 5.Why did the speaker often wish to go to that house?

Answer:The speaker often wished to go to that house because in that house she felt her grandmother’s memory. Her grandmother lived there and died in the house. She also lived with her grandmother in her childhood days.

Question 6.Why was the speaker proud of living in that house?

Answer:The speaker was proud of living in that house because in that house she received love for a long time. For love, she moved, but she got it in her old house.

Question 7.Why does the speaker say that she has lost her way?

Answer:The speaker said that she had lost her way to receive love at that time at stranger’s door, at least in small change.

Question 8.Is the speaker satisfied with her present life? If not, why?

Answer:No, the speaker is not satisfied with her present life because at present she lost her grandmother and the house where she received love.

Question 9 Autobiography of Kamla Das was published in-

Answer:1976

Question 10  Kamala Das was born in …………….

Answer:Kamala Das was born in  1934