question: Palermo (Italian: [palrmo] ( listen), Sicilian: Palermu, Latin: Panormus, from Greek: , Panormos, Arabic: , Balarm; Phoenician: , Ziz) is a city in Insular Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is located in the northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

The city was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians as Ziz ('flower'). Palermo then became a possession of Carthage, before becoming part of the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and eventually part of the Byzantine Empire, for over a thousand years. The Greeks named the city Panormus meaning 'complete port'. From 831 to 1072 the city was under Arab rule during the Emirate of Sicily when the city first became a capital. The Arabs shifted the Greek name into Balarm, the root for Palermo's present-day name. Following the Norman reconquest, Palermo became the capital of a new kingdom (from 1130 to 1816), the Kingdom of Sicily and the capital of the Holy Roman Empire under Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor and Conrad IV of Germany, King of the Romans. Eventually Sicily would be united with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies until the Italian unification of 1860.
1. What is the city being discussed?
2. When was it established?
3. What was the name given to it by the Greeks?
4. How does that translate?
5. Which means?
6. How did the Arabs refer to it
7. When did they rule?
8. What occured in 1860?
9. How did the Phoenicians refer to the city?
10. Which means?
11. Where is it located?
12. Is the city recognized for its cousine?
13. What else?
14. Are there any significant bodies of water nearby?
15. Can you name one?
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answer: 1. Palermo
2. 734 BC
3.
4. Panormos
5.
6. Balarm
7. From 831 to 1072
8. Italian unification
9. Ziz
10. flowe
11. northwest of Sicily
12. Yes
13. history, architecture and gastronomy
14. yes
15. Gulf of Palermo

question: It was Saturday afternoon and Andrew was bored. He had been watching TV all day. He told his dad, "There's nothing to do!" Andrew's dad said, "I think the newspaper is here. Maybe we can find an idea in the newspaper." Andrew looked outside the window and saw the newspaper by the door. On the front was a picture of an elephant. He picked up the newspaper and brought it to his dad. Andrew and his dad read the story. The circus was in town! Andrew had never been to the circus. He asked his dad, "Can we go?" "Yes, we can,' Andrew's dad said, 'but first you need to feed your goldfish." Andrew fed his goldfish some goldfish food. He promised to bring it some peanuts from the circus for later. Andrew and his dad went to the circus. The people and animals at the circus did lots of tricks. The elephant even went down a slide! Andrew and his dad ate lots of peanuts. There weren't any peanuts left to bring home to the goldfish. Andrew and his dad had a lot of fun at the circus.
1. Was andrew excited?
2. Why?
3. What had he been doing all day?
4. Did he see a book when he looked out the window?
5. what did he see?
6. Was a tiger on the front?
7. what was?
8. Did he ask his mom if they could go see it at the crcus?
9. Who did he ask?
10. Did he take him?
11. Did he do anything before he left?
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answer: 1. Yes
2. The circus was in town!
3. watching TV
4. No
5. the newspaper
6. no
7. an elephant
8. No
9. his dad
10. Yes
11. Andrew fed his goldfish

question: CHAPTER VII

"ROSARIO IS DEAD!"

Fenella never became absolutely unconscious. She was for some time in a state apparently of intense nervous prostration. Her breath was coming quickly, her eyes and her fingers seemed to be clinging to his as though for support. Her touch, her intimate presence, her reliance upon him, seemed to Arnold to infect the very atmosphere of the place with a thrill of the strangest excitement.

"You think that he is dead?" she faltered once.

"Of course not," he replied reassuringly. "I saw no weapon at all. It was just a quarrel."

She half closed her eyes.

"There was blood upon his waistcoat," she declared, "and I saw something flash through the window."

"I will go and see, if you like," Arnold suggested.

Her fingers gripped his.

"Not yet! Don't leave me yet! Why did you say that you recognized the hand--that it was the same hand you saw upon the window-sill last night?"

"Because of the signet ring," Arnold answered promptly. "It was a crude-looking affair, but the stone was bright scarlet. It was impossible to mistake it."

"It was only the ring, then?"

"Only the ring, of course," he admitted. "I did not see the hand close enough. It was foolish of me, perhaps, to say anything about it, and yet--and yet the man last night--he was looking for Rosario. Why should it not be the same?"

He heard the breath come through her teeth in a little sob.

"Don't say anything at present to any one else. Indeed, there are others who might have worn such a ring."
1. What did the woman say was on the waistcoat?
2. Where did she see something flash?
3. Did the woman grip someone's fingers?
4. Whose?
5. Was Fenella totally unconscious?
6. How was her breath coming?
7. What did she infect the atmosphere with?
8. According to whom?
9. What did Arnold not see?
10. What was the hand wearing?
11. What color was the stone?
12. Bright or dull?
13. Who was the man looking for?
14. Did Arnold witness a quarrel?
15. Did he get a close look at that hand?
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answer:
1. blood
2. through the window
3. yes
4. Arnold
5. no
6. quickly
7. excitement
8. Arnold
9. the hand
10. a signet ring
11. scarlet
12. bright
13. Rosario
14. yes
15. no