inside questions from the chapter the last leaf
Answers
▫️Question 1.
Where did Sue and Johnsy stay? What was their profession?
▪️Answer:
They lived in a small flat on the fourth storey of an old house. They were both artists.
▫️Question 2.
Why was Sue worried when Johnsy fell ill?
▪️ Answer:
Sue was worried because Johnsy would lie on her bed without moving, and would just gaze out of her window all day. Even though the doctor came every day, there was no change in her condition.
▫️ Question 3.
What illness did Johnsy have? Who looked after her?
▪️ Answer:
Johnsy was suffering from pneumonia. Her friend Sue looked after her.
▫️ Question 4.
What worried the doctor?
▪️ Answer:
The doctor was worried because there was no improvement in Johnsy’s condition. He felt that Johnsy was not responding to treatment because she had made up her mind not to do so. He felt she had lost her will to live and hence the medicines were not going to be useful to her.
▫️Question 5.
How did Sue try to revive Johnsy’s interest in life?
▪️Answer:
Sue talked to her about clothes and fashions. Then she brought her drawing board into Johnsy’s room and started painting. She also whistled while painting, hoping to distracting Johnsy’s mind from her illness.
▫️Question 6.
Why was Johnsy counting the leaves on the creeper outside her window?
▪️Answer:
Johnsy had made up her mind that the day the last leaf fell off the creeper, she would die. So she was counting the leaves as they fell off the creeper.
▫️Question 7.
Why did Sue go to Behrman?
▪️Answer:
Sue went to Behrman because she had to paint an old miner and she wanted him as the model for the painting.