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Ch- The Last Leaf (Answer Key), Q/A, A1. Johnsy’s illness is that she is suffering from pneumonia. Due to continuously lying in her bed and gazing out of the window she is depressed and gloomy and loses the hope to survive., The willingness to live can only cure her., A2. Like the two sides of a coin there are two aspects towards life i.e. positive and negative. So we can say that the teenagers who take the challenges in a negative sense go through this feeling of depression more commonly., A3. Yes, Behrman has a dream to paint a masterpiece. This dream remained a dream until he got an opportunity to paint the last leaf of an ivy creeper that gave the hope of living to Johnsy. So we can say that Behrman's dream comes true., A4. Behrman’s masterpiece is the painting of an ivy leaf., Sue says so because he painted it in such a way that it looked like real leaf of an ivy creeper. His this way of painting and clinging it strongly to the creeper gave the hope of life to her friend Johnsy and later recover from her illness both mentally and physically. A person saving other’s life at the cost of his own life can only give a true masterpiece.