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Question
Answer the following question based on the reading of the story. Do not forget to go back to the passage whenever necessary to find and confirm the answer.
| Action | Effect |
| While you warm yourself | I will prepare the best tea. |
| I saved enough money | |
| Six hundred and two villages were destroyed. | |
| It was a terrible earthquake and it was felt | |
| I ran back to the village | |
| They lifted the door | |
| I went to thank the Army Officer |
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Solution
| Action | Effect |
| While you warm yourself | I will prepare the best tea. |
| I saved enough money | I started my own little shop. |
| It was a terrible earthquake | Six hundred and two villages were destroyed. |
| It was a terrible earthquake and it was felt | as far as away Delhi and Lucknow |
| I ran back to the village | I was searching, crying, and searching |
| They lifted the door | My sister was alive |
| I went to thank the Army Officer | But he was gone. I could not meet him. |
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