Question

Have you ever been there? It's a wonderful town still with big old frame

houses, huge lawns and tremendous trees whose branches meet overhead and

roof the streets. And in 1894, summer evenings were twice as long can people sat

out on their lawns, the men smoking cigars and talking quietly, the women

waving palm leaf fans, with the fireflies all around, in a peaceful world. To be back

there with the first world war still 20 years off, and World war II over 40 years in

the future…. I wanted two tickets for that.

a. Who does ‘I’refer to?
b. Which place is being described in the passage?

c. For whom did the narrator want two tickets ?

d. Find out the same word in the passage which means 'huge'.​

Answer 1

Answer:

a. NARRATOR

b.A WONDERFUL TOWN WITH BIG OLD FRAME

c.THE WOMEN

d.BIG

Answer 2

The answers to the following questions are:-

a. Here in the given passage 'I' refers to the reader.

b. The passage is extracted from the story The third level by Jack Finney. In the story, the place is described as a wonderful town with big old frame houses, huge lawns, and tremendous trees whose branches meet overhead and roof the streets is called Galesburg Illinois. Charley wanted to travel back in time to 1894 because he enjoyed that time of romance, leisure, and repose which he missed in the modern age.

c. The narrator wanted two tickets from the clerk who sold tickets in the third level.

d. The same word from the passage which means 'huge' is tremendous.