WHERE LOVE IS GOD IS…BY LEO TOLSTOY

(YOU ARE FREE TO REFRAME THE ANSWERS IN YOUR OWN WORDS AND DON’T FORGET TO REMOVE THE BACKETS)

1.Who was Martin Avdeiteh? 

(He was a cobbler, who had 

plenty to do, for he worked very well and used good material.)

2.Why did Martin stop going to church?

 (Because after everyone he cared for died, he stopped believing in God.)

3.What kind of life did he live?

 (He lived a very miserable life in the sense that all his children and wife had died.)

4.Why did Martin keep looking out of his window that day?

 (Because he was waiting for the person whose voice he had heard the day before to come and meet him.)

 5.What was the mental state of Martin?

 (He was very sad and depressed. In his old age he had no will to live and he was hoping that soon he may die too.)

6.What advice did he get from old pilgrim? 

(The old man told him that he had no right to

wish for his death. He should live for God as God gives life to us and wants us to live for him. The way will be shown by the Christ.)

 7.How did Martin’s life change?

 (His whole life changed when he bought an old

Testament in large print. He read it every night and he realized how he might live for God.)

8.Why did Martin invite the woman with the baby inside? 

(The woman was carrying her baby. She was shabbily and sparsely dressed. On a very cold windy day, she did not have anything to wrap her baby around and the baby was crying, probably because of hunger. Seeing their plight Martin invited them inside)

9.What did Martin say when Stepanitch asked, are you expecting anyone?”

(He said he did not really expect anyone but he had heard something last night that he could not get out of his mind. While reading  the Gospel he had heard someone call his name and whisper to him, “Expect me. I will come tomorrow”)

10. How did Martin convince the apple woman to pardon the boy? 

(He told her that God’s way is more kind. God would not want the boy to be whipped. If the boy should be whipped for stealing the apple, what should be done to us for our sins?”

11.What did the boy do later to the woman?

(Later the boy offered to help her by carrying her sack for her.)

 12.Why Martin’s soul did grow glad? 

(The soul grew glad, when he realized that the people who he had helped the day before were all messengers of God. He realized that all the good deeds that he did the day before was in fact done for the God.)

 THE LAST LEAF-BY O.HENRY

(YOU ARE FREE TO REFRAME THE ANSWERS IN YOUR OWN

 WORDS AND DON’T FORGET TO REMOVE THE BACKETS)

NEW WORDS

traversing :to pass or move over

quaint : strange

prowling : searching stealthily

gables : the portion of the front or side of a building enclosed by or masking the end of a

pitched roof

chafing dish : an apparatus consisting of a metal dish with a lamp or heating appliance

beneath it, for cooking food or keeping it hot at the table.

congenial : agreeable, suitable,

ravager: to work havoc upon; damage

chivalric: Being generous and pertaining to chivalry

zephyrs: a gentle, mild breeze.

Pharmacopoeia: a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and

containing a list of drugs

swaggered : to walk or strut with a defiant

Contempt: the state of being despised; dishonour; disgrace

Derision: ridicule ,mockery

 Confounded: confused

Morbid: gloomy, unhealthy mental attitude

Persistent : constantly repeated, continued

 Wearily: tiredly

 Masterpiece: a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.

Gusts : strong blast of winds

Serrated: having a notched edge or saw-like teeth,

Wielded: to exercise (power, authority, influence, etc.), as in ruling or dominating.

Mysterious: involving mystery

Twilight: the soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon,

Janitor : a person employed in an apartment house, office building, school, etc., to

clean the public areas,attics and low rent places)

EXTRA QUESTIONS

1.Where did Johnsy and Sue meet? Who were they?

(They were painters and they had met at a café called Delmonicos.)

2.Did they have similar tastes?

 ( Yes , their taste in art , chicory salad were the same)

 3.Who was the cold unseen stranger? 

(The stranger was Pneumonia, the disease. This stranger had stalked the colony and struck many people, means many people were down with pneumonia)

4.What did the doctor say after examining Johnsy?

 (He said that Johnsy had made up her mind that she would not get well. She should think about other things than her sickness. She should generate in her will to live.) 

5.What did Sue hear while she was painting?

 ( she heard a low sound that happened to be Johnsy counting the leaves falling from an old ivy vine)   

6.What reason did Johnsy give to Sue for counting the leaves? (She said that when the last

one falls she will die.)

7.How did Sue react? 

( She said that it was all nonsense and doctor had given her one in ten chance to love and one in chance is as good a chance you have in New York when you ride on the street cars or walk past new buildings.)

 8.Who was Old Behrman?

 (He was a painter who lives on the ground floor. He was past sixty and he had spent his life dreaming to paint a masterpiece .)

9.Do you think that pneumonia was really a ravager?

( yes)

10.Why do think so?

 ( Because it was ravaging lives of people by making them sick)

11.Why is pneumonia not chivalric?

 ( because chivalric attitude is one gentlemanly attitude )

12.How will you describe the attitude of Sue?

 ( she was very negative in her thinking. She given up on her life. And was not fighting the disease )

13.What did Johnsy and Sue find the next morning when they got up? 

( when they got up the next morning and worriedly pulled the shades up they were surprised to find that single ivy leaf still clung to the vine after the whole night of storm and gusty winds)

14.What did Johnsy tell Sue after they found the ivy leaf still clinging to the vine?

 (She said that she had been a bad girl. She agreed that it was a sin to want to die; She asked for a broth and milk to drink. She also asked for a hand mirror. She wanted to sit up and watch Sue cook. She looked cheerful)

15.How was Johnsy saved?

 (Johnsy was Saved by Old Behrman, Who painted the Last leaf , his masterpiece around the ivy vine, braving cold wind and rain. He caught Pneumonia and died following that. But his masterpiece saved the life of Johnsy)

 16.What was Behrman’s dream? 

(His dream was to paint a masterpiece and his dream came true when he painted the Last Leaf)

17.What was Berhman’s masterpiece? What makes Sue Say so?

 (The leaf that he painted to save the life of Johnsy. It was a masterpiece because masterpiece is usually an artist’s best work of art and this was certainly the best of Behrman because it saved alife!)

 18.Justify the title the last leaf.

 (It was the last leaf painted by Behrman that saved the life of Johnsy. So the title is very much apt.) 

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