A Ghostly Wife DQ
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1. How did the Ojha help in revealing the Sankchinni?
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[I] How did the Ojha free the woman possessed by a ghost?
[II] How the exorcist expel the evil spirit?
[III] How was the exorcist recovered the wife of the Brahman from the ‘She-Ghost’?
[IV] Why was an Ojha sent for? How did he disclose the real fact about the ghostly wife? [2+3]
[V] “An Ojha was therefore sent for.” Why was the Ojha called on? How was the wife of Brahman rescued? [2+3]
[VI] Why was an Ojha called in? How did the Ojha ascertain the identity of ‘Sankchinni’? [3+2]
[VII] Why was an Ojha called? How did the Ojha bring the Brahman and his family out of the grasp of the Sankchinni? [2+3]
[VIII] How did the Ojha drive away the Sankchinni from the Brahman’s house?
[IX] How did the exorcist prove that the young woman in the house of the Brahman was not his real wife? When was the she-ghost released from the spell of the exorcist? [3+2]
[X] How was it realized that the daughter-in-law was a ghost? How did the Ojha help in revealing the Sankchinni? [3+2]
[XI] Why did the Ojha begin to belabour the ghost with his slippers? What did the ghost reveal then? [2+3]
[XII] How did the Ojha helped the Brahman family to get rid of the Sankchinni?
[XIII] What measures were taken to rescue the Brahman’s wife from the clutches of Sankchinni?
[XIV] How was the identity of the Sankchinni ascertained by the Ojha? What did the ghost do then? [3+2]
[XV] How did the Brahman and his family get released from the Sankchinni in ‘A Ghostly Wife’?
[XVI] What did the Brahman do to get his wife back from the Sankchinni’s capture?
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2. Describe how the Brahman got his wife back from the Sankchinni’s capture.
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[I] How did the Brahman get his wife back from the Sankchinni’s capture?
[II] How did the Brahman recover his wife from Sankchinni?
[III] What did the son and his mother do realizing that it was ghost in his wife’s place?
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3. How did the son and his mother realize it was ghost in his wife’s place?
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[I] How did the son and his mother come to know it was in fact a ghost in his wife’s place?
[II] When did the Brahman and his mother realize that it was ghost in his wife’s appearance?
[III] How did the son and his mother realize it was ghost in his wife’s place? How did the Ojha help in revealing the Sankchinni? [3+2]
[IV] How did the mother-in-law come to know that her daughter-in-law was actually a ghost? How was her daughter-in-law rescued? [2+3]
[V] How did the Brahman and his mother realize that the young woman in the house was not his wife, but a Sankchinni i.e. she-ghost? And how was the young Brahmani brought back? [2+3]
[VI] “The old mother told her son what she had seen….” What had the old mother seen? What did the mother and son conclude?
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4. What activities of the ghost wife made her mother-in-law suspicious about her? How did her mother-in-law and husband come to the conclusion that she was not the real wife? [3+2]
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[I] What incidents led the Brahman and his mother to conclude that the young woman in their house was a ghost?
[II] What were the peculiar activities that the ghostly wife performed in the Brahman’s house?
[III] Describe the household chores performed by ‘A Ghostly Wife’.
[IV] Describe the activities of ‘Sankchinni’ in the story ‘A Ghostly Wife’.
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5. What did the Sankchinni do to the Brahman’s wife and why? How could the mother-in-law recognize her? [2+3]
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[I] What did the Sankchinni do with the Brahman’s wife in the story ‘A Ghostly Wife’? What surprised the Brahman’s mother? [3+2]
[II] Where did Sankchinni live and what did she do with the wife of the Brahman? What did the mother-in-law see in her daughter-in-law? [3+2]
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6. Who seized the Brahman’s wife and why? Why did the Brahman’s old-mother start to suspect her daughter-in-law? [2+3]
7. How did Sankchinni enter the Brahman’s house?
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[I] How did the ghost settle himself at the house of the Brahman?
[II] How did the Sankchinni enter into the house of the Brahman?
[III] How did the Sankchinni capture Brahman’s wife?
[IV] How did the ghostly wife enter the house of the Brahman? How did the Brahman and his mother detect the ghost? [3+2]
[V] How did the she-ghost replace the Brahman’s wife in his house? Why did the mother of the Brahman become more and more surprised every day? [2+3]
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8. Who was the ‘ghostly wife’ and where did she live? How did she come to live at the Brahman’s house? [2+3]
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Why and how did the Sankchinni seize the Brahman’s wife?
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9. Discuss the role of superstition in ‘A Ghostly Wife’ and how it influences the characters’ actions and beliefs.
10. “She only rejoiced that her daughter-in-law had turned over a new leaf” What changes did come over the daughter-in-law that made the speaker ‘inly rejoiced’? Did her rejoicing last long? [2+3]
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“She only rejoiced that her daughter-in-law had turned over a new leaf” What did the mother mean by ‘turned over a new leaf’?
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11. How is the character of the mother-in-law drawn in the story ‘A Ghostly Wife’?
12. How does the use of supernatural in the story ‘A Ghostly Wife’ complicate the exploration of human themes?
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[I] What role does supernatural element play in ‘A Ghostly Wife’?
[II] What supernatural elements do you find in the story ‘A Ghostly Wife’?
[III] How does the author establish an eerie and supernatural atmosphere in the story?
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13. Who noticed the changes first in the Sankchinni’s behaviour and how?
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[I] Who noticed the changes first in the activities of the Brahman’s wife and how did she discover it in the story ‘A Ghostly Wife’?
[II] Who found the changes first in Sankchinni’s behaviour and how?
[III] “Next the mother-in-law discovered some change in her daughter-in-law” What change did the mother discover in her daughter-in-law? What shocked the mother-in-law later? [2+3]
[IV] “Next the mother-in-law discovered some change in her daughter-in-law” What changes did she notice in her daughter-in-law? Which ghostly activities of her daughter-in-law made her shocked and surprised? [2+3]
[V] Which changes were seen in the character of the daughter-in-law by the mother-in-law? How did the Ojha save the family? [3+2]
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