Madhya Pradesh 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: William Saroyan, an American writer of Armenian descent who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940.

A: Aram (the narrator, 9 years old) and his cousin Mourad (considered crazy by the family). They are both members of the Garoghlanian family.

A: Their honesty. The family has been famous for their honesty for eleven centuries, even when they were wealthy. They are described as 'proud first, honest next, and after that we believed in right and

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