Question 65
MediumOriginal questionWhen Dadi got her first smartphone, she held it the way you would hold a hot plate: with two fingers, at arm's length.
"You just touch the picture," said Kabir, who was twelve and had been touching pictures all his life.
"Which picture?"
"The green one. No, not that green. The other green."
By the end of the first week, Dadi could answer a call, but only if Kabir was in the room to tell her which way to . By the end of the second, she could send a voice message, although most of them began with ten seconds of her asking, "Is it recording?"
Kabir grew . He had explained the same things again and again. One evening he said, more sharply than he meant to, "Dadi, it's easy. Why don't you remember?"
Dadi looked at him for a moment. "When you were four," she said, "I taught you to tie your shoes. It took three months. Every morning I showed you again."
Kabir said nothing. The next morning he wrote the steps on a card in large letters: GREEN BUTTON. SWIPE UP. SPEAK. Then he the card to the back of her phone.
By the end of the month, Dadi was sending him photographs of her garden. Most of them were of her thumb.
What is the effect of the last line, "Most of them were of her thumb"?
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: C
Explanation
Dadi is now confident enough to send photographs, but her thumb keeps getting in the way.
The ending is affectionate and funny.
Worth noting
Sending photographs shows progress, not giving up.
- Concept
- Recognising humour in a story's ending
- Typical timeTypical
- 40 s
- Your timeYours
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