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  Questions-Answers on The Last Leaf   QA. Comprehension   Questions & Answers  [These are sample answers. You can also use your own language to write better answers.} Q1. What do you know about the cold unseen stranger? Ans. The narrator calls Mr. Pneumonia ‘the cold unseen stranger’. It is invisible to all, so it is called unseen and cold because cold icy winds cause it. It is a stranger because no one knows it. Pneumonia, the disease called influenza, has been personified here. He moves in the narrow streets of the town with long steps. He makes people his victims by touching them with his icy fingers. He is no more an old gentleman. Johnsy has also become its victim along with other people. Q2.What is the doctor’s verdict regarding Johnsy’s illness? Ans. The doctor’s verdict (decision) about Johnsy’s illness was that her chances of recovery were ten out of a hundred. It was a very low chance for her survival (life). Q3. What was the scene out...

The Last Leaf by O’ Henry-  Detailed  Summary   Sue and Johnsy lived on the top floor of a building.  They had met at a restaurant and found that they had similar tastes. They liked the same kind of art, the same kind of food and the same kind of clothes. So they became friends and opened a joint studio. It happened in the spring season and now it was winter season. As Jonhsy was a lean and thin structure of the body, she was more prone to fall ill. Sue was healthier than Johnsy. She became a victim of pneumonia. The writer uses the technique of personification here. He describes pneumonia in terms of an old gentleman. The writer calls it ‘a a gentleman’ in a satirical way. A gentleman never harms anybody. But here this so-called gentleman was touching people here and there with its icy fingers to make them victims of pneumonia. Johnsy became one of its victims. So she lay on her bed feeling sick. A doctor started treating her and visited her daily. One day,...