Hi Everyone!! This article will share One Summer Night Questions & Answers.
In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of All The World Her Stage, Somebody’s Mother and The Hobbit so, you can check these posts as well.
One Summer Night Questions & Answers
Question 1: Read and answer the questions:
‘Nothing on earth could have persuaded the two to return.’
(a) Who are the two referred to in the extract?
Answer: The two medical college students are referred here.
(b) Where were they at this moment?
Answer: They were at the cemetery to dig up Henry Armstrong’s coffin.
(c) Why could they not be persuaded?
Answer: When Henry Armstrong sat up in his casket at the sound of lighting. The two medical students were terrorized to see a dead man rise out of his grave. So, they fled from the cemetery in terror. Therefore, they could not be persuaded to return.
Question 2: Read and answer the questions:
“I’m waiting for my pay,” he said.’
(a) Who said these words?
Answer: Jess said these words.
(b) Who was to pay him and for what?
Answer: The medical students were supposed to pay him for the dead body of Henry Armstrong.
(c) Where was the speaker at this moment?
Answer: The speaker was in the dissection room of the medical college at this moment.
Question 3: Why did the young students feel reasonably ‘secure’?
Answer: It was a dark summer night. The flashes of light in the sky indicated about the coming of the storm. On such nights, no one dares to move about a cemetery. So, the two young students felt reasonably ‘secure’ in digging out the grave.
Question 4: What were the horse and the wagon waiting for? Why were they outside the wall?
Answer: The horse and the wagon were waiting for transferring the dead body to dissecting room of the medical college. They were outside wall so that no one would become suspicious about their presence or ask questions.
Question 5: How do you know that Jess was of ‘another breed’?
Answer: We can say that Jess was of ‘another breed’ because he did not run away in terror. His daring response to the unusual sight showed that he was both brave and practical.
Question 6: The two medical students were still in a frightened state the next day. How do you know this?
Answer: The two medical students were still in a frightened state the next day. We know this because their facial expressions – pallid and haggard from lack of sleep and terror – showed this. Also, their short verbal exchange shows that the image of the ‘dead’ man rising was still fresh in their minds.
Question 7: Write True or False:
(a) The weather was quite pleasant – False
(b) Henry Armstrong gained consciousness while he was buried – True
(c) There were other people in the graveyard apart from the three young men – False
(d) Jess was a professor who had offered to help the two students – False
(e) There was a horse and wagon beside the grave – False
(f) The casket was taken out of the grave – True
So, these were One Summer Night Questions & Answers.