Question

John's apprehensions about his wife's reaction to her encounter with the ghost are unfounded. Justify.

Solution

John feared that his wife would faint on an encounter with the ghost. But this didn't happen as when she saw her, a broad and satisfied smile spread over her face. So his apprehensions about his wife's reaction were baseless.

Some More Questions From A Shady Plot Chapter

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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A Shady Plot

John's apprehensions about his wife's reaction to her encounter with the ghost are unfounded. Justify.

Some More Questions From A Shady Plot Chapter

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?

The narrator earns his living by

The writer was overconfident about his ability to write ghost stories because .....................

The sight of the ghost materialising in his room filled the narrator with.......

The ghost wanted John to...............

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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