(a) Why was Joe perturbed? (b) What did Emily want to look chosely at Joe?

Question

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions given below.

Man 1: Why, whatever is the matter, Emily?

Woman 1: Joe, Joe, are you all right? Let me look at you, Joe! ,

Man 1: Of course I’m all right. Why shouldn’t I be all right?

Woman 1: But, Joe, all that hammering and sawing.

Man 1: Oh, that! That was only the dentist trying to force open his instrument cabinet. Woman 1: His cabinet? 

Man 1: Yes, you see he lost the key.

Woman 1: So he hasn’t done anything to you, Joe!

Man 1: Not a thing, and I can’t wait any longer this morning. I’ve made an appointment with him for this evening instead. The nurse gave me some pills to deaden the pain in the meantime. Woman 1: Oh, Joe, I was so upset.

Man 1: Well, it’s all right now, Emily, so let’s go.

(a) Why was Joe perturbed?

(b) What did Emily want to look chosely at Joe?

(c) Why did Emily think that her husband must have suffered much?

(d) How did Joe justify the loud noises and groan inside the dentist’s surgery room?

(e) How did the nurse help Joe?

Answer 1

(a) Emily’s face was swollen and obviously she had cried. So, Joe was perturbed.

(b) Emily was frightened that her husband Joe was subjected to some torture by the dentist. She wanted to find out if there were traces of pain or injury on his face. So, she wanted to look closely at Joe’s face.

(c) Emily connected the sawing, hammering and groaning to the extraction of bad tooth. When noises came from the surgery room, Joe was inside it. So, Emily figured out that her husband must have suffered much.

(d) The Dentist was trying to open his instrument key. He had lost his key somewhere. The sawing and screeching were the noises related to it.

(e) The nurse had given him some pills to dull the pain till the evening.