Activity 5 – Answer the following questions

Question

Answer the following questions:

1. How old was Astri when she died?
2. Why was pneumonia a very dangerous disease?
3. What made the narrator’s father reluctant to fight against the disease?

Answer

1. Astri was seven years old when she died.
2. In those days, there was not yet the discovery of penicillin to cure pneumonia. So this is why it was considered a dangerous disease.
3. According to the narrator, his father wanted to join his sister Astri in heaven so his father didn’t fight enough to live.