Greenwich Village Literary Passage
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What did the streets in the little district west of Washington Square break into?

Small strips called 'places'

What did the art people come prowling for in quaint old Greenwich Village?

North windows, eighteenth-century gables, Dutch attics, and low rents

Where did Sue and Johnsy have their studio?

At the top of a squatty, three-story brick building

What did the doctors call the unseen stranger that stalked about the colony?

<p>Pneumonia</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where did Sue and Johnsy meet and find their tastes in art congenial?

<p>At the table d'hôte of an Eighth Street 'Delmonico's'</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the art people import from Sixth Avenue?

<p>Pewter mugs and a chafing dish</p> Signup and view all the answers

What illness does Johnsy have?

<p>Pneumonia</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the doctor's prognosis for Johnsy?

<p>One chance in ten</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the doctor suggest will improve Johnsy's chances of recovery?

<p>Asking about the new winter styles in cloak sleeves</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Sue's reaction when she hears Johnsy counting backward?

<p>Sue looked solicitously out of the window</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Sue doing when she hears Johnsy counting backward?

<p>Sketching a pair of elegant horseshow riding trousers and a monocle</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Johnsy counting backward?

<p>The numbers</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the doctor say makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly?

<p>The way people have of lining up on the side of the undertaker</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the doctor say he will do to help Johnsy?

<p>Do all that science, so far as it may filter through his efforts, can accomplish</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Sue reveal about Johnsy's desire?

<p>She wanted to paint the Bay of Naples someday</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Johnsy doing when Sue enters her room with the drawing board?

<p>Johnsy lay, scarcely making a ripple under the bedclothes, with her face toward the window</p> Signup and view all the answers

What valuable possibility did an artist once discover in the street of the little district west of Washington Square?

<p>Meeting oneself coming back without a cent having been paid on account</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where did Sue and Johnsy meet and find their tastes in art congenial?

<p>Table d'hôte of an Eighth Street 'Delmonico's'</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, do in the colony?

<p>Stalked about the colony, touching one here and there with his icy fingers</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the art people import from Sixth Avenue to the quaint old Greenwich Village?

<p>Pewter mugs and a chafing dish or two</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the doctor call the ravager that strode boldly on the east side, smiting his victims by scores?

<p>Pneumonia</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where did Sue and Johnsy have their studio?

<p>At the top of a squatty, three-story brick</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the doctor say is the one chance for Johnsy to recover?

<p>To want to live</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the doctor say he will subtract from the curative power of medicines if the patient starts to count the carriages in her funeral procession?

<p>50 per cent</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Sue doing when she hears Johnsy counting backward?

<p>Sketching a pair of elegant horseshow riding trousers and a monocle of the figure of the hero</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the doctor's prognosis for Johnsy?

<p>One chance in ten</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Johnsy counting backward?

<p>The numbers</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the doctor say will promise a one-in-five chance for Johnsy's recovery?

<p>If she asks one question about the new winter styles in cloak sleeves</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the doctor suggest makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly?

<p>The way people have of lining up on the side of the undertaker</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Sue's reaction when she hears Johnsy counting backward?

<p>She went quickly to the bedside</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the doctor say he will do to help Johnsy?

<p>Do all that science, so far as it may filter through my efforts, can accomplish</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Sue reveal about Johnsy's desire?

<p>She wanted to paint the Bay of Naples some day</p> Signup and view all the answers

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