Gujarat Board Class 11 English — Flashcards for Quick Revision

A: Khushwant Singh is the author of 'The Portrait of a Lady'. He was a renowned Indian author and journalist known for his humor and candid writing style.

A: The grandmother was short, fat, and slightly bent. Her face was criss-crossed with wrinkles. She had silver locks scattered untidily over her pale, puckered face. She always wore spotless white clothe

A: Phase 1: Village life - They were constantly together, she took him to school attached to the temple. Phase 2: City life - They shared the same room but she no longer went to school with him; he atten

A: The narrator (Gordon Cook, a 37-year-old businessman), his wife Mary, son Jonathan (6 years old), daughter Suzanne/Sue (7 years old), and two crewmen - American Larry Vigil and Swiss Herb Seigler.

A: The boat was called Wavewalker. It was a 23-metre, 30-ton wooden-hulled vessel that was professionally built and tested in rough weather conditions.

A: The family wanted to duplicate the round-the-world voyage made 200 years earlier by Captain James Cook. Gordon Cook and Mary had dreamt of sailing in the wake of the famous explorer for the longest ti

A: King Tutankhamun (King Tut) was a teenage pharaoh who ruled Egypt over 3,300 years ago. He became famous after Howard Carter discovered his intact tomb in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. He was the l

A: CT (Computed Tomography) scan uses hundreds of X-rays in cross-section to create a three-dimensional virtual body. It was used on King Tut to solve mysteries about his death and age without damaging t

A: Carter had to cut the mummy free from its gold coffin because ritual resins had hardened, cementing Tut to the bottom. He removed the head and severed major joints to separate Tut from his golden ador