Question

I turned toward the ticket windows knowing that here — on the third level at Grand Central — I could buy tickets that would take Louisa and me anywhere in the United States we wanted to go. In the year 1894. And I wanted two tickets to Galesburg, Illinois. 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, and 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 twenty years off, and World War II over forty years In the future ... I wanted two tickets for that.

What were the women doing on long summer evenings?

विकल्प

• They were waving palm-leaf fans.

• They were sitting beside the fireflies all around.

• They were talking quietly sitting on the ground.

• They were talking about the peaceful world.

Answer 1

They were waving palm-leaf fans.

Explanation:

Summer evenings were twice as long in 1894, and people sat on their lawns, the men smoking cigars and peacefully conversing, the women waving palm-leaf fans, the fires crackling all around them, in a serene environment.