Chapter-22 The Photograph
1. Who is looking at the photograph in the story?
Answer: A young boy is looking at the photograph.
2. How old was the boy at that time?
Answer: The boy was ten years old.
3. Where was the grandmother sitting?
Answer: She was sitting on a string bed under a mango tree.
4. What season is described in the beginning of the story?
Answer: It was late summer.
5. What was the grandmother doing?
Answer: She was knitting a woollen scarf.
6. Why was the grandmother knitting a scarf?
Answer: For the winter months.
7. How was the grandmother dressed?
Answer: She was dressed in a plain white sari.
8. What does the author say about grandmother’s appearance?
Answer: She had white hair but very few wrinkles.
9. What had the boy been doing before coming home?
Answer: He had been playing cricket on the maidan.
10. What box was the boy searching through?
Answer: A box of old books and family heirlooms.
11. Who brought the box from the attic?
Answer: The boy’s mother.
12. What interested the boy most in the box?
Answer: A book with pictures of birds and butterflies.
13. Where did the boy find the photograph?
Answer: Between the pages of the book.
14. What was the condition of the photograph?
Answer: It was faded, yellow, and foggy.
15. Who was shown in the photograph?
Answer: A young girl standing against a wall.
16. What was behind the wall in the photograph?
Answer: Nothing but the sky.
17. What unusual detail did the boy notice in the photograph?
Answer: A pair of hands reaching up from the other side of the wall.
18. Where did the boy take the photograph?
Answer: To his grandmother in the garden.
19. Why did the grandmother scold the boy?
Answer: Because he jumped on the bed and disturbed her knitting.
20. What threat did grandmother often give the boy?
Answer: That she would teach him how to knit.
21. Why did the boy dislike knitting?
Answer: He thought it was disgraceful for a boy.
22. What punishment had the grandmother once given the boy?
Answer: She made him stitch the torn curtain.
23. How were the boy’s stitches?
Answer: They were long and uneven.
24. How was the girl in the photograph dressed?
Answer: She wore a long dress, bangles, and had loose hair.
25. What was special about the girl’s posture?
Answer: She stood confidently with legs apart and hands on hips.
26. What kind of expression did the girl have?
Answer: A wide, almost devilish smile.
27. What feeling did the girl in the photograph give?
Answer: A sense of freedom and movement.
28. How did the boy feel about the photograph?
Answer: He felt curious and excited.
29. What question does the boy repeatedly ask?
Answer: “Whose picture is it?”
30. What is the central theme of the lesson?
Answer: Memories, curiosity, childhood, and family bonds.
Answer by Dimpee Bora
