Problem: CHAPTER II. THE ULTIMATUM

News of the affair at Tavora reached Sir Terence O'Moy, the Adjutant-General at Lisbon, about a week later in dispatches from headquarters. These informed him that in the course of the humble apology and explanation of the regrettable occurrence offered by the Colonel of the 8th Dragoons in person to the Mother Abbess, it had transpired that Lieutenant Butler had left the convent alive, but that nevertheless he continued absent from his regiment.

Those dispatches contained other unpleasant matters of a totally different nature, with which Sir Terence must proceed to deal at once; but their gravity was completely outweighed in the adjutant's mind by this deplorable affair of Lieutenant Butler's. Without wishing to convey an impression that the blunt and downright O'Moy was gifted with any undue measure of shrewdness, it must nevertheless be said that he was quick to perceive what fresh thorns the occurrence was likely to throw in a path that was already thorny enough in all conscience, what a semblance of justification it must give to the hostility of the intriguers on the Council of Regency, what a formidable weapon it must place in the hands of Principal Souza and his partisans. In itself this was enough to trouble a man in O'Moy's position. But there was more. Lieutenant Butler happened to be his brother-in-law, own brother to O'Moy's lovely, frivolous wife. Irresponsibility ran strongly in that branch of the Butler family.

For the sake of the young wife whom he loved with a passionate and fearful jealousy such as is not uncommon in a man of O'Moy's temperament when at his age--he was approaching his forty-sixth birthday--he marries a girl of half his years, the adjutant had pulled his brother-in-law out of many a difficulty; shielded him on many an occasion from the proper consequences of his incurable rashness.
1. What ran powerfully through a branch of the Butler family?
2. Where was the affair that reached O'Moy?
3. What was his title?
4. How did he get wind of the affair?
5. From where?
6. Who was missing from his regiment?
7. Where had he departed, alive?
8. What else was in those dispatches that were about something else?
9. Was he going to handle them immediately?
10. What struck his as the worst part of it all?
11. How was O'Moy's wife described?
12. Did he love her?
13. How is his jealousy of her described?
14. Is that strange for a guy of his temperament?
15. How old is he?
16. And his wife?
17. What is something he'd done for his brother-in-law?
18. And what did he protect him from?
19. Had all this put ammunition in the hands of of Principal Souza?
20. Had it made a situation worse that was already bad?
Answer: 1. Irresponsibility
2. Tavora
3. the Adjutant-General at Lisbon
4. Dispatches
5. Headquarters
6. Lieutenant Butler
7. the convent
8. Other unpleasant matters
9. Yes
10. He was his brother-in-law
11. lovely and frivolous
12. Yes
13. fearful
14. no
15. 46
16. Half his years - 23.
17. Pulled him out of many a difficulty.
18. the consequences of his incurable rashness.
19. Yes
20. Yes

Problem: Rome (CNN) -- The captain of the Costa Concordia did not "fall" into a lifeboat after the ship hit rocks, as he contends, a crew member testified. Instead, Francesco Schettino "jumped into the lifeboat," Stefano Iannelli said.

Schettino is on trial in Grosseto on charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship after 32 people died in the shipwreck off the Tuscan island of Giglio on January 13, 2012.

Iannelli, who was on the bridge when the ship hit the outcropping, testified that Schettino's reaction was, "What have I done?!"

As part of his defense for the abandoning ship charge, Schettino has maintained that by the time he left the crippled vessel, the inclination made it impossible to stay on the ship. He told the court at a hearing in October that the ship was literally falling on top of him and he fell into the lifeboat. The ship ended up lying on its side.

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Iannelli, who followed Schettino off the ship, testified Monday that he did not see passengers when they left the vessel, even though more than 1,000 people were later rescued from the ship. In a taped conversation between the captain and the port authority in Livorno, the port authority ordered Schettino to "get back on board" while passengers were still being rescued from the other side of the ship.

Schettino, who admits that he was in command when the ship veered off course and hit the rocks, also blames a malfunction of the ship's watertight doors for making the situation worse. His defense lawyers say that created a new emergency after the initial accident.
1. who followed Schettino off the ship?
2. who was the captain?
3. when did the ship sink?
4. where did it sink?
5. how many died?
6. did Schettino fall into the lifeboat?
7. how did he get there?
8. did Stefano Iannelli see anyone when they left the vessel?
9. what did the ship hit?
10. of what?
11. was it an outcropping of bananas?
12. who was supposed to be in command?
13. did the ship hit soft sand after it veered off course?
14. what did it contact?
15. what possibly malfunctioned?
Answer: 1. Iannelli
2. Francesco Schettino
3. January 13, 2012
4. off the Tuscan island of Giglio
5. 32
6. no
7. jumped into it
8. no
9. an outcropping
10. of the Tuscan island of Giglio
11. no
12. Schettino
13. no
14. rocks
15. the ship's watertight doors

Problem: CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE.

OUTSIDE THE DUOMO.

While Baldassarre was possessed by the voice of Savonarola, he had not noticed that another man had entered through the doorway behind him, and stood not far off observing him. It was Piero di Cosimo, who took no heed of the preaching, having come solely to look at the escaped prisoner. During the pause, in which the preacher and his audience had given themselves up to inarticulate emotion, the new-comer advanced and touched Baldassarre on the arm. He looked round with the tears still slowly rolling down his face, but with a vigorous sigh, as if he had done with that outburst. The painter spoke to him in a low tone--

"Shall I cut your cords for you? I have heard how you were made prisoner."

Baldassarre did not reply immediately; he glanced suspiciously at the officious stranger. At last he said, "If you will."

"Better come outside," said Piero.

Baldassarre again looked at him suspiciously; and Piero, partly guessing his thought, smiled, took out a knife, and cut the cords. He began to think that the idea of the prisoner's madness was not improbable, there was something so peculiar in the expression of his face. "Well," he thought, "if he does any mischief, he'll soon get tied up again. The poor devil shall have a chance, at least."

"You are afraid of me," he said again, in an undertone; "you don't want to tell me anything about yourself."

Baldassarre was folding his arms in enjoyment of the long-absent muscular sensation. He answered Piero with a less suspicious look and a tone which had some quiet decision in it.
1. who was possessed?
2. by who?
3. their spirit?
4. what possessed him?
5. did someone enter?
6. who?
7. why was he there?
8. who was that?
9. was he bound?
10. did someone release his bindings?
11. who?
12. did he untie them?
13. what did he do?
14. what with?
Answer:
1. Baldassarre was possessed
2. Savonarola
3. No
4. Savonarola's voice
5. Yes
6. Piero di Cosimo
7. to look at the escaped prisoner
8. Baldassarre
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. Piero
12. No
13. he cut the cords
14. a knife