Available Answers

1. 1.

   What were the ponds, in the author's village, generally used for?

2. 2.

   Why did the author not want to dive?

3. 3.

   What is duck-diving? How were the children taught, by the instructor, to duck-dive?

4. 4.

   What did the swimming instructor throw in the pond? What were the instructions?

5. 5.

   How does the narrator describe the changing colour of water? Why do you think the colour changed?

6. 6.

   What were the narrator's fears?