Read the pssage carefully and answer the questions given below. \( 1 \times 3=3 \) When I went in to comfort the children, Jon asked, "Daddy are we going to die?" I tried to assure him that we could make it. "But Daddy," he went on, "we aren't afraid of dying if we can all be together you and mummy, Sue and I." That evening, Mary and I sat together holding hands, as the motion of the ship brought more and more water in through the broken planks. We both felt the end was very near. Questions : (i) What did Jon ask his father? (ii) Was Jon afraid of dying? (iii) What did the writer and his wife felt?

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Read the pssage carefully and answer the questions given below. \( 1 \times 3=3 \) When I went in to comfort the children, Jon asked, "Daddy are we going to die?" I tried to assure him that we could make it. "But Daddy," he went on, "we aren't afraid of dying if we can all be together you and mummy, Sue and I." That evening, Mary and I sat together holding hands, as the motion of the ship brought more and more water in through the broken planks. We both felt the end was very near. Questions : (i) What did Jon ask his father? (ii) Was Jon afraid of dying? (iii) What did the writer and his wife felt?

Answer 1

(i) Jon asked his father, "Daddy, are we going to die?"

(ii) Jon wasn't afraid of dying as long as they could all be together – his parents and himself with his sister, Sue.

(iii) The writer and his wife felt that the end was very near as they sat together holding hands while the ship continued to take in more water through the broken planks.