Combining chobera and jeffa's solutions and correcting for array index starting at zero. 
use strict;
use warnings;
my @array = (
    ["error"             ],
    [qw( Red    Angry   )],
    [qw( Green  Sick    )],
    [qw( Blue   Calm    )],
    [qw( Purple Worried )],
    [qw( Black  Sad     )],
);
my $response=0;
while ($response !~ /^[1-5]$/) {
    print "Enter an integer ( 1 through 5 inclusive): ";
    $response = <>;
    chomp $response;
}
print   $array[$response][0], ' ',
        ($response % 2) ? "Odd" : "Even", ' ',
        $array[$response][1],
        "\n";

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