My Childhood

 

My Childhood

Additional Questions:

  1.  Comment on the kind of life that Abdul lived as a young boy.
  2.  Why did the new teacher ask Kalam to go and sit on the back bench?
  3.   How did Abdul Kalam science teacher react when his wife refused to serve food to him in her kitchen?
  4.  In what way Abdul Kalam science teacher was a rebel?
  5. Write your comment on the social engagement of various societies among themselves in Rameswaram.

6.    Read the following extract and answer the question that follow

His wife watched us from behind kitchen door. I wondered whether she had observed any difference in the way I ate rice, drank water or cleaned the floor after meal. When I was leaving his house Subramania Iyer invited me to join him

(a)          Who is ‘his’ referred to in the extract?

(b)          Why was his wife watching from behind the kitchen?

(c)          What kind of different does the author want to mention here?

(d)          Why was he invited again by Siva Subramania Iyer?

(e)          What changes did he find during his second visit to Siva Subramania Iyer’s house?

 

7.    Read the following extract and answer the question that follow

Does the seagull not fly across the sun alone and without the nest? Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of the life’s longing itself. They came through you but not from you,

(a)          Who is the speaker in the extract?

(b)          Whom does he quote here?

(c)          In what context does he speak and to whom?

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