Episode 3 – Questions on the text
Are the following statements True or False according to the story?
1. [Multiple choice]
The writer’s therapist is male.
(in the opening paragraph ‘I’ve tended to come round to his way of thinking ‘)
Answers for Quiz [1].
- 1. True (correct)
- 2. False
2. [Multiple choice]
The writer is an optimist.
(We can see the answer in paragraph 2 where the writer always imagines the worst)
Answers for Quiz [2].
- 1. True
- 2. False (correct)
3. [Multiple choice]
Someone tried to kidnap the writer when he was young
(The writer tells this story, but in paragraph 5 we learn that it isn’t really true ‘It might have happened”
“But it didn’t did it? ‘
)
Answers for Quiz [3].
- 1. True
- 2. False (correct)
4. [Multiple choice]
The writer met his counsellor yesterday.
(He is actually with his therapist now. The conversation takes place in the episode.)
Answers for Quiz [4].
- 1. True
- 2. False (correct)
5. [Multiple choice]
The writer relates events exactly as they happened
(He exaggerates events and sometimes makes them up.)
Answers for Quiz [5].
- 1. True
- 2. False (correct)
6. [Multiple choice]
According to the therapist, people worry about unimportant things.
(The answer is in paragraph 7 ‘most of the things we feel are affecting us are mere trifles ‘ i.e. unimportant)
Answers for Quiz [6].
- 1. True (correct)
- 2. False