(a) What is he supposed to know? (b) Why does the speaker wish so? (c) What is the noun form of the word ‘lost’?

Question

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

“How should I know! I wish to heaven I’d never seen you!” I cried. “Look what you’ve done! You’ve lost me my wife, you’ve lost me my home and happiness, you’ve— you’ve—”

(a) What is he supposed to know?

(b) Why does the speaker wish so?

(c) What is the noun form of the word ‘lost’?

Answer 1

(a) The narrator is asked to ensure that his wife was going to get rid of the Ouija board.

(b) The speaker wishes he had never seen the ghost of Helen. She has created so many problems for him.

(c) loss