Question

(THE SHADY PLOT)
read the extract and answer the questions that follow:

"Of course. How can you keep a lady working all night and then expect her to retain all her faculties for the next day? I am just too tired to materialise."

1. who is the speaker of above lines?
2.whom is the speaker taking to?
3. why is the speaker tired?
4. what does the word materialise and faculties mean?
5. give the synonymn to the word retain.

Answer 1

1.helen
2.john hallock
3.because she was called for answering questions on ouiza board
4.materialise means coming in parts and adjust herself
faculties meaning energy
5.revive
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Answer 2

1. Helen, the ghost, is the speaker of above lines.
2. She is speaking to John Hallock, the narrator.
3. Helen is tired as she had been working all night and expected to retain all her faculties on the next day. 
4. Faculties - plural of faculty  - an inherent mental or physical power.
    Materialise - represent or cause to appear in bodily or physical form for the ghost.
5. Retain - keeping possession or maintaining something.

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