Activity 4 Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements in the given boxes. Give supporting statements for each of your answers

Question

Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements in the given boxes. Give supporting statements for each of your answers:

1.  The narrator was the eldest child in the family.
2. Astri was the favourite child of the narrator’s father.
3. The narrator’s father died of appendicitis.
4. After his father’s death, the narrator along with his other family members moved to Llandaff.

Answer

1. False; In 1920, when I was still three, my mother’s eldest child, my own sister Astri, died from appendicitis.
2. True; Astri was far and away my father’s favourite.
3. False; He was so overwhelmed with grief that when he himself went down with pneumonia a month or so afterwards, he did not much care whether he lived or died.
4. True; She sold the big house and moved to a smaller one a few miles away in Llandaff.