ch 5 a) The professor allowed the narrator back into his house because of the narrator’s answer to the policeman that the fault of the incident lay on the narrator. b) We know that the deceased white man was an artist because his knapsack contained scraps of verse, pictures of sceneries, a paint box, a box of coloured chalk, a few paint brushes and a cheap revolver. c) The narrator was ‘scared out of his wits’ when he saw the full page picture picture of the most extraordinary creature he had ever seen. The animal appeared monstrous and grotesque. . d) The ‘extraordinary creature’s’ head was like that of a fowl, the body of a bloated lizard, the trailing tail was furnished with upward-turned spikes and the curved back was edged with a high serrated fringe. e) The narrator and McArdle’s attempts to get in touch with Professor Challenger were unsuccessful. Their first attempt to contact him was met with abuse against the press. The second attempt failed to ge...