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Class 11. English: 'Hornbill' Chapter: 1  The Portrait of A Lady TEXTUAL QUESTION AND ANSWER UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT Mention 1. The three phases of the author’s relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad. Ans. (a) The author and his grandmother had a good relationship. She used to wake him up and get him ready for school. She used to pack the things required by him for the day and walked him to school every day. She used to visit the temple that was attached to the school. (b) In the second phase the parents of the author went to the city to settle in and called them. In the city, his relationship with his grandmother took a turn. He started going to an English medium school, she no longer accompanied him to his school. (C) In the third phase he went to the university. He had his own room and this made their relationship sour. She stopped talking to everyone and spent her whole day sitting at her spinning wheel, reciting prayers and moving beads