Problem: CHAPTER VI

THE THORN HEDGE

Mist drifted about the hollows and the new moon shone between the motionless light clouds. The air was damp and Jim buttoned his driving-coat as he talked to Bernard on the steps at Dryholm. His small car stood near the arch, with its lights glistening on the dewy lawn.

"Your lamps are dim," said Bernard. "If you will wait a minute, I'll send them to the garage."

Jim said he knew the road and the lamps would burn until he got home; and Bernard resumed: "I expect you know that what you are doing at the marsh won't make you popular."

"Lance Mordaunt hinted something like that, but I don't see why people should grumble," Jim replied. "The marsh is mine."

"Your title's good," Bernard agreed. "Since the ground is not enclosed, Joseph didn't bother about sporting rights and your neighbors took it for granted they could shoot a few ducks and snipe when they liked. The sport's rough for men who shoot hand-reared pheasants, but there's some satisfaction in killing birds that are really wild."

"There is some satisfaction. The game I've shot was certainly wild; in fact, I sometimes took steep chances when I missed. When you get after a bull moose or a cinnamon bear it's prudent to hold straight. Well, I'd sooner my neighbors liked me, but don't mean to keep my land waste for them to play on."

Bernard nodded. "You are not afraid of unpopularity? However, I think I'd have got rid of Shanks, instead of sending him to Bank-end. The fellow's cunning and there's some ground for believing him revengeful."
1. Who was talking to one another?
2. Where were they?
3. Where was the light coming from?
4. Were his car lights on?
5. Were they bright?
6. According to whom?
7. Did he wwant to get them looked at?
8. Did Jim accept the offer?
9. Why not?
10. Who is shooting difficult for?
11. Who would make him unpopular?
12. Who agreed with Bernard about this?
Answer: 1. Jim and Bernard
2. on the steps at Dryholm
3. the new moon
4. yes
5. no
6. Bernard.
7. yes
8. no
9. e knew the road and they would last until he got home
10. men shooting hand-reared pheasant
11. Shanks
12. jim

Problem: An inventor seeks to create a new product that serves a specific need and fulfills a role that other products do not. Sometimes an inventor comes up with a wholly new idea, but more often inventions are simply improvements on an older design. With a little imagination and creativity , an old idea can suddenly become something new.

However, creating a new invention means much more than having a brilliant idea. A good designer follows the design process: identifying the challenge, researching and brainstorming ideas , designing a solution, testing and evaluating the ideas, and finally building the product. Designers also use science, math, technology, and engineering to design a tool that satisfies the need they identified.

Anyone can be an inventor --even kids! For example, Chester Greenwood was just fifteen years old when he invented a product that changed his life. In fact, his idea was so good that his invention supported him for the rest of his life. You may not know his name, but you probably know his invention --earmuffs !

The inspiration for his earmuff design came to Chester when he was ice-skating. His ears were cold, and he decided to find a way to keep them warm. With the help of his grandmother, he made a new product to protect his ears and at the age of eighteen, Chester patented his earmuff design.

Many other famous inventors started young as well. Margaret Knight --the inventor of the flat-bottomed brown paper bag --is said to have created a safety device for textile looms when she was just twelve years old. Another example is Thomas Edison, one of the greatest inventors in history, who applied for his first patent when he was just twenty-one years old. Over the course of his life, Thomas Edison patented a total of 1,093 inventions!
1. The main topic of the subject?
2. Can non adults become inventors?
3. Is there an example given?
4. How old where they?
5. who was it?
6. What was his brain child?
7. Where did he get that notion?
8. Is ti common for brand new ideas over improvements?
9. Who had over 1,000 patents?
10. Was he considered one of the worst of all time?
Answer: 1. Inventors
2. Anyone can be an inventor --even kids!
3. Yes
4. fifteen
5. Chester Greenwood
6. earmuffs
7. While ice-skating?
8. no
9. Thomas Edison
10. no

Problem: Chapter XXXVII

SECOND JOURNEY OF THE DOMINIE TO THRUMS DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.

Here was a nauseous draught for me. Having finished my tale, I turned to Gavin for sympathy; and, behold, he had been listening for the cannon instead of to my final words. So, like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots, and each thinks his own fire a sun, in presence of which all other fires should go out. I was soured to see Gavin prove this, and then I could have laughed without mirth, for had not my bitterness proved it too?

"And now," I said, rising, "whether Margaret is to hold up her head henceforth lies no longer with me, but with you."

It was not to that he replied.

"You have suffered long, Mr. Ogilvy," he said. "Father," he added, wringing my hand. I called him son; but it was only an exchange of musty words that we had found too late. A father is a poor estate to come into at two and twenty.

"I should have been told of this," he said.

"Your mother did right, sir," I answered slowly, but he shook his head.

"I think you have misjudged her," he said. "Doubtless while my fa- -, while Adam Dishart lived, she could only think of you with pain; but after his death--"

"After his death," I said quietly, "I was still so horrible to her that she left Harvie without letting a soul know whither she was bound. She dreaded my following her."
1. Who is narrating?
2. Who is he speaking with?
3. What is their relationship?
4. Were they close?
5. When did they begin their relationship?
6. Had Gavin's mother been honest with him?
7. Who did Gavin presume his father to be?
8. IS he still alive?
9. Was Gavin told the truth before his death?
10. Was Mr. Ogilvy kind to Gavin's mother?
11. Was she delighted that he followed her?
12. Did Gavin sympathize with him?
13. Did Mr Ogilvy blame Gavin's mother for not telling him?
14. Did Gavin?
Answer:
1. Mr. Ogilvy
2. Gavin
3. Father and son
4. no
5. at two and twenty
6. no
7. Adam Dishart
8. no
9. no
10. unknown
11. no
12. yes
13. no
14. yes