Activity 4 – Answer the following questions

Question

Answer the following questions:

1. Pick out the expressions that describe the appearance of the girl.
2. With whom did the girl live?
3. What does the girl say about her living brothers and sisters?
4. Why does the girl say, “We are seven”?

Answer

1. Her hair was thick with many a curl, and she was wildly clad and her eyes were very fair.
2. The girl lived with her mother.
3. She said two of her brothers live at Conway and two are gone to sea.
4. Because she doesn’t understand the meaning of death and she cannot differentiate dead from alive, that’s why she counted seven instead of five.