CLASS 9
THE LAST LEAF
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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because it was difficult to make out whether it was a real leaf or a painting
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because it was very beautiful
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because it’s colours were very bright
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none
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Detailed explanation-1: -The leaf looked green and healthy like a natural leaf. Sue calls the leaf painting a masterpiece because it made Johnsy believe that it was the real, natural leaf left on the creeper and this gave her the will to live and she was able to recover from her illness. Behrman’s masterpiece saved her life but took his own.
Detailed explanation-2: -Behram’s masterpiece is the last ivy leaf on the vine. Sue says this because it looked as original as the real ivy leaf which fell at night. Johnsy was looking at the painting and thinking it to be real. That is how she recovered from her depression as she had linked her death to the last ivy leaf on the vine.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ans. Behrman’s dream was to paint a masterpiece. It eventually comes true when he paints the last leaf on an ivy creeper and that painted last leaf seems to be a real one.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ans: The last leaf on the ivy creeper was Behrman’s masterpiece. Sue believes it to be a masterpiece because it reignited Johnsy’s desire to survive, and she was able to recover from her sickness as a result of it. When the last leaf of the ivy creeper fell, Johnsy believed she would die.
Detailed explanation-5: -“The Last Leaf” concerns Johnsy, a poor young woman who is seriously ill with pneumonia. She believes that when the ivy vine on the wall outside her window loses all its leaves, she will also die.