ADDRESS 11th Vocabulary/ Annotations

CH-2 ADDRESS BY Marga Minco

Annotations

Poignant- very touching -पीड़ा जनक

Evoke- bring to mind -उत्तेजित

Resolve- decide firmly -निश्चय

Chink- narrow opening -हल्का खोलना

Fleetingly- for a short time -थोड़े समय के लिए

Musty- smelling damp -दुर्गंध

Jamb- side posts of door way -दरवाजे के बगल में जैम

Lugging- dragging -ले जाना

Reprovingly- scolding manner फटकार

Confronted- come face to face -आमना सामना

Endure- suffered patiently -सहन करना

Errands- to collect something- किसी काम के लिए

Cumbersome- difficult to use or

 carry -मुश्किल

Apprehend- made very anxious चिंतित करना

Muggy- warm and damp -दुर्गंध

Pewter-a grey metal -ग्रे धातु

Fancied- imagined -कल्पना करना

Severed- seperated -अलग होना

Predicament- plight -दुर्दशा


Short type questions

Q1. How did Mrs. Dorling treat the author when the author visited her?

Ans.Cold & inhospitable

Q2-In what attire did the author find Mrs. Dorling?

Ans.Author’s mother’s green knitted cardigan

Q3-What was the address that the author's mother asked her to remember?

Ans.Number 46, Marconi Street

Q4-Mrs. Dorling’s was __----------__of Mrs. S.

Ans.an old acquaintance

Q5-Why had the author come to visit Mrs. Dorling?

Ans.Because Mrs. Dorling had belongings of author’s mother

Q6-Who opened the door upon the author's second visit to Mrs. Dorling’s house?

Ans.Mrs. Dorling’s daughter

Q7-Unlike Mrs. Dorling, her daughter was __________ towards the

Ans.hospitable

Q8-“I was in a room I knew and did not know.” What does author mean by this?

Ans.She saw familiar things but in unfamiliar surroundings


Q9-The author remembered that the woollen table-cloth had

Ans.a burn mark

Q10-What was the ‘silver’ that the author was once asked to clean by her mother?

Ans.Cutlery

Q11-What message does “The Address” talk about?

Ans.Human predicament of war

Q12-Who is the author of “The Address”?

Ans.Marga Minco

Q13-Why did the objects lose their value for the author?

Ans.Because she saw them in different surroundings

Q14-At the end, what does the author decide?

Ans.To forget the address

Q15-The author had come to visit Mrs. Dorling _______ the war.

Ans.After.


Theme

Marga Minco's short story 'The Address' discusses the pain and sufferings brought by war to the individuals and the challenges they had to face in order to bring resolutions to the situation of crisis.

Mrs S,The narrator’s mother whose name Mrs S, was a kind-hearted, generous and liberal lady. She was fond of collecting valuable things. She is middle aged lady

Mrs Dorling

Mrs Dorling was very cunning and clever lady.She was selfish, greedy and money minded lady.She was very insolent and rude lady.She had kept all belonging of narrator's mother and refused to recognise narrator.



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