1. Why did Mr. Cowlishaw refuse to fall in with Rannock’s scheme but give in ti Mrs. Clowes demand?

He refused Rannock because he considered his plan to be unprofessional. It was his first day at practice and he had a desire to become a professional and efficient dentist. Moreover, his career didn’t depend on this situation and he could refuse without having any bad consequences.

But there was a big reason of his agreement to Mrs. Clowes-he had a choice: to ruin his career by saying no to mayoress or to agree with having grave doubts:(her tooth was colossal and she told him he mustn’t hurt her) so if he obeyed, the patronage of the aristocracy of Hanbridge would be within his grasp. Although taking it out was absolutely unreasonable, he would get a great benefit for his work, but it would cost him lots of nerves.

2. Why did Rannock call Mr. Cowlishaw an amateur? What did being professional men to each of them?

Mr. Rannock was a professional himself, but professionalism, in his opinion, was the ability of making money in every possible situation. So he called Cowlishaw “an amateur” because he refused to fall in with his plan (to put his teeth in a bit of green velvet in the case in his window with a big card to say that they’re guaranteed to be Rannock’s genuine teeth), and it was a plan of genius for the both of them: rannock would get his teeth implanted for free and Cowlishaw would get as many clients as he couldn’t imagine before. Although it was a great possibility of getting enormous benefit for Cowlishaw, he refused.

They had different opinions about being a professional and Cowlishaw’s answer seemed unprofessional to rannock, that was the reason.

3. Why did Mrs. Clowes insist on having her tooth out? Wouldn’t it have been more reasonable to have it filled?

In Mrs Clows’s young days the only way of curing teeth of pain was extracting. She got used to it and thought that other methods were not useful. She believed her body could decide whether she would have that tooth out or not. She wouldn’t accept any other suggestions of curing her tooth. She was very stubborn, downright and always sure in her rightness. Mr. Cowlishaw suggested her filling the tooth, because the mere reason of her terrible pain was the exposed nerve. It was quite simple to his mind and they could simply avoid having it out.

Of course it would have been more reasonable to fill the tooth without any pain and Mr. Cowlishaw’s nervousness, but because of Mrs. Clowes was hard to deal with and more harder to persuade it was impossible.

4. When did Ichabod Crane feel he’d lost his heart to Katrina?

Katrina was the only child of a reach Dutch farmer. Moreover, she was the prettiest girl in Sleepy Hollow and had lots of admirers. She was a coquette and wore lots of golg ornaments which had been handled down from mother to daughter for generations in their family.

Ichabod lost his heart to her especially after visiting her father’s farm. Everything was comfortable there< the had lots of goods he couldn’t even dream of: lots of fields of rye, buckwheat, indian corn and the orchads full of ripe fruit. His mouth watered with the thought roast pig with apple, goose in gravy, duck with onion sauce, and, of course bacon and ham he liked most of all. From moment to moment, when he saw these dishes he began to build plans and invent ways of winninf the heart of Katarina Van Tassel.