The type of question you answer based on making connections to your own experiences is an Evaluative Question.
Evaluative questions ask for cognitive and emotional awareness, making you judge the author's point of view in regards of your own understanding. This type of question calls for an answer in which you speak from what you think, feel and experience.
Answer:
1. last year
2.After he had got into the car
3.when he had nearly reached the town
