The Last Leaf Class 7 English |Questions And Answers |
About the passage
A. Tick the correct answer.
1. The story is set in
(a) 1820.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1900
(d) 1990.
Answer: 1820
2. The setting of the play is
(a) a small room on the first floor of a building in New York
(b) an apartment in a three-storey building in Greenwich Village.
(c) a house in a street in Washington Square.
(d) a loft in a building in Sebastopol, a town near San Francisco
Answer: an apartment in a three-storey building in Greenwich Village.
3. Sue and Johnsy met
(a) on a holiday in Maine
(b) in San Francisco
( c) at a restaurant in Greenwich Village
(d) at a doctor's clinic,
Answer : ( c) at a restaurant in Greenwich Village
4. Johnsy was in bed suffering from (a) depression
(b) pneumonia
(c) typhoid.
(d) cancer
Answer:(b) pneumonia
5. Johnsy counted the leaves of the ivy vine because
(a) she was bored
(b) to her, the leaves represented her life.
(c) she had a bet with Sue.
(d) she wanted to paint the ivy vine.
Answer : (b) to her, the leaves represented her life.
6. Behrman painted the leaf because
(a) he wanted to paint a masterpiece.
(b) he liked painting leaves.
(c) he knew it would save Johnsy's life.
(d) he was free and had nothing better to do.
Answer: (c) he knew it would save Johnsy's life.
Answer The Following Questions
1. Why did artists choose to live in Greenwich Village?
Answer: The artists chose Greenwich because it was a centre that promoted and supported art and culture. It attracted artists from all over and a number of studio apartments were available for these artists.
Q.2. What brought the doctor to the house of Sue and Johnsy?
Answer:
Pneumonia had struck Greenwich Village. Johnsy was down with the disease. Her frail body was unable to cope with the severity of the attack. She lay in her bed miserable, forlorn and delirious. Her condition was deteriorating fast. Alarmed at her friend’s plight, Sue had asked the doctor to come and examine Johnsy.
OR
Johnsy’s illness brought the doctor Sue and Johnsy’s house.
Q.3. What did the doctor say to Sue about Johnsy's illness? How did Sue react to the doctor’s advice?
Answer:
The doctor told Sue that chances of Johnsy to live was like one in ten. She had made up her mind that she was not going to get well. He added that medicines will only work when the patient wishes to live.
The doctor declared that there were fewer chances for her friend's survival. It was a grim warning for her. She thought that she must do something so that her friend Johnsy could get back her will to live and may recover soon.
Q.4. What was bothering Johnsy as she lay in her sick bed?
Pneumonia had ravaged Johnsy’s body and mind. The acute suffering robbed her of all desire to patiently wait out the crisis. She convinced herself that the time to depart had indeed come. She became obsessed with an old vine creeper that was shedding leaves one by one due to seasonal reasons. Quite illogically, she linked the dwindling number of vine leaves to her remaining life span. She concluded that the fall of the last leaf would herald the arrival of her death. Thus, she waited, quite foolishly, for the last leaf to fall.
Q.5. Who was Behrman? How did he save Johnsy 's life ?
Answer:
Behrman was a sixty year old painter whose only ambition was to paint a masterpiece. He lived in the same building as Sue and Johnsy, and sometimes acted as a model for their paintings.
Behrman saved Johnsy's life by painting the last ivy leaf on the wall, which gave realistic impression. He did so to save her life as the last ivy leaf had fallen last night.
Q.6 Why did Sue refer to the last leaf as Berhman's masterpiece?
Berhman's masterpiece is the last leaf on the ivy creeper. Sue refered to the last leaf as Berhman's masterpiece because this painting rekindled the willingness to live in Johnsy's heart and she was able to recover from her illness. Johnsy had eventually developed a fear that she would die when the last leaf fell from the ivy creeper
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