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A Shady Plot

Question
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Gladolia wishes to leave the narrator's house as............

  • she does not like the Ouija boards

  • she is afraid of the ghost 

  • she is afraid of magic and hoodoo

  • she likes Ouija boards and hoodoo

Solution

C.

she is afraid of magic and hoodoo

Some More Questions From A Shady Plot Chapter

Read the extract given below and answer briefly the questions that follow:

'I hadn't the shade of an idea, but at the time that didn't worry me in the least. You see, I had often been like that before....'

(i) Who is 'I'? What did he not have an idea about?

(ii) Why was he not worried?

(iii) What had actually happened earlier to make things right for him?

Why does Lavinia feel that the Ouija Board would help her husband?

What problems did Helen, the ghost, cause in John Hallock’s life?

Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
It’s those Ouija board fanatics. There was a time when we had nothing much to occupy us and used to haunt a little on the side, purely for amusement, but not anymore.

(a) Who is the speaker? Who is being addressed?
(b) What is the speaker's complaint?
(c) What is Ouija board?

Why did John want his wife to get rid of the Ouija board she had bought?

Why does Lavinia feel that the Ouija board would help her husband?

What sort of person was Michael's dad ?

Why is John's wife angry 4nd what does she decide to do?

Apparition a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event
Poltergeist a reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the 
grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people
Clairvoyance a conjurer who expels evil spirits by conjuration
Crystal Ball a spelling board device intended to communicate 
with and through the spirit world, obtaining answers to questions 
Eerie beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation
Medium any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical
representations, used for fortune telling
Transmigration a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, a
ghost, spectre or phantom
Psychic  so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine 
Ouija Board the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses
Exorcist  a person through whom the spirits of the dead are 
alleged to be able to contact the living 
Premonition a globe of quartz crystal in which images, believed 
to portend the future, are supposedly visible to fortune tellers
Paranormal to pass into another body after death: going from 
one state of existence or place to another
Tarot Card  capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy
Vampire

German word, meaning 'noisy ghost'- troublesome
spirit that the creation of disorder

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