State true or false: (a) The author received an urgent telephone call in the morning. Supporting statement: ____. (b) People attempted to break into the Birla House. Supporting statement: ____. (c) The news of Gandhiji’s death did not shock the people. Supporting statement: ____.

(a) False

Supporting statement: “I was having tea at home on the evening of 30ᵗʰ January, 1948, when I was called to Birla House by an urgent telephone.”

(b) True

Supporting statement: “They jostled one another in a stampede to break into the house.”

(c) False

Supporting statement: “The people were too stunned to speak in the beginning.”