question: Jill was a normal student. However, she was barely passing her classes this year. Her finals were coming up in a few weeks and Jill was very nervous about her Math test. She was never very good at Math. Her brother always teased her because he was great at Math, History, and Science, but she preferred Art. To raise her grades, Jill spent the week before finals studying every day in the school library. On the last day before the test, Jill walked in and was ready to work hard like she had every day that week. Except this time she looked over and saw her best friend, Michelle, walking up to her. Michelle greeted Jill and told her that she wants to help her study for the Math test. The two girls spend the rest of the afternoon looking over their class notes. By the end of the day, Jill finally felt ready. She left and walked back to her house. That night Jill made sure to get lots of sleep. She awoke early and had a filling breakfast before making her way to school. Her teacher, Mr. Matthews, handed out the Math tests and she began to work. She felt like she did a really good job, but she was scared, too. Jill had to wait until tomorrow to see how she did. The next day she hurried back to class. Jill walked in and grabbed her test from the stack of papers. She let out a yell. Jill had failed. She turned to her friend Michelle and started to cry. She was so upset.
1. What subject was the big test on?
2. Was this Jill's favorite?
3. What was?
4. Who was great at math?
5. Was Jill rested on the day of the test?
6. Was she hungry during it?
7. Who supervised the test?
8. What was their name?
9. Did Jill prepare for the test?
10. Where did she do that?
11. Who helped her?
12. Was she pleased with her grade?
13. Did she display her feelings about it?
14. What was her first reaction?
15. What reaction did she have when she first learned of her grade?
16. Then how did she react?
17. Whom did she turn to?
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answer: 1. math
2. no
3. art
4. Her brother
5. yes
6. no
7. Her teacher
8. Mr. Matthews
9. yes
10. in the school library
11. her best friend, Michelle,
12. no
13. yes
14. yes
15. She let out a yell
16. she cried
17. She turned to her friend Michelle

question: CHAPTER XIII.

HAL SHOWS HIS METTLE.

Hal understood perfectly well that a crisis had come. Hardwick had him by the throat, and unless he acceded to the book-keeper's demand he would be in immediate danger of being choked to death.

"Let--let go of me," he gasped.

"Not until you do as I say," replied Hardwick. "I want you to understand that you can't get the best of me."

Hal tried to push Hardwick away, but the book-keeper made a pass at him with the heavy ruler.

"Keep quiet, if you value your head!" roared Hardwick.

"Let me go!"

"Not until you have told me what you mean by your doings."

"What doings?"

"Your doings up to Mrs. Ricket's."

"Who told you about what happened up there?"

"Never mind; I know all about it."

"Then Ferris saw you last night."

"No, he didn't."

"Or this morning."

"Shut up. You implicated me."

"Did Dick Ferris say I did?" asked Hal.

"Never mind who said so. I want to know what you mean by such work?"

Hal did not reply. He was trying to think. What was Ferris' object in telling Hardwick he had been mentioned in connection with the matter?

Clearly there could be but one reason. Ferris knew Hardwick already disliked Hal, and he wished to put the book-keeper against the youth, so as to get Hal into more difficulties.

"Do you hear me?" demanded Hardwick, giving Hal an extra squeeze on the throat.

"I do," gulped Hal. "Let--go--of me."

"Not until you have answered."
1. What was Hardwick's occupation?
2. What was Hardwick holding?
3. What else?
4. Was he fighting back?
5. In what way?
6. Why was he being attacked?
7. Did something where?
8. Who told Hardwick about this?
9. Why?
10. Why did he want to do that?
11. Why was Hal stalling?
12. Did he answer Hardwick's questions?
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answer: 1. book-keeper
2. a heavy ruler
3. Hal's throat
4. yes
5. he tried to push Hardwick away
6. Hardwick thought he did something
7. at Mrs. Ricket's."
8. Possibly Ferris
9. to put the book-keeper against Hal
10. so that Hal had problems
11. He was thinking
12. not yet

question: CHAPTER XII

So sailed the Ship of Fools--Michael playing with Scraps, respecting Cocky and by Cocky being bullied and wheedled, singing with Steward and worshipping him; Daughtry drinking his six quarts of beer each day, collecting his wages the first of each month, and admiring Charles Stough Greenleaf as the finest man on board; Kwaque serving and loving his master and thickening and darkening and creasing his brow with the growing leprous infiltration; Ah Moy avoiding the Black Papuan as the very plague, washing himself continuously and boiling his blankets once a week; Captain Doane doing the navigating and worrying about his flat-building in San Francisco; Grimshaw resting his ham-hands on his colossal knees and girding at the pawnbroker to contribute as much to the adventure as he was contributing from his wheat-ranches; Simon Nishikanta wiping his sweaty neck with the greasy silk handkerchief and painting endless water-colours; the mate patiently stealing the ship's latitude and longitude with his duplicate key; and the Ancient Mariner, solacing himself with Scotch highballs, smoking fragrant three-for-a-dollar Havanas that were charged to the adventure, and for ever maundering about the hell of the longboat, the cross-bearings unnamable, and the treasure a fathom under the sand.

Came a stretch of ocean that to Daughtry was like all other stretches of ocean and unidentifiable from them. No land broke the sea-rim. The ship the centre, the horizon was the invariable and eternal circle of the world. The magnetic needle in the binnacle was the point on which the _Mary Turner_ ever pivoted. The sun rose in the undoubted east and set in the undoubted west, corrected and proved, of course, by declination, deviation, and variation; and the nightly march of the stars and constellations proceeded across the sky.
1. What was Michael playing with?
2. who was drinking beer?
3. when does he get paid?
4. Who was washing all the time?
5. what was he doing with his blankets?
6. how often?
7. who was the navigator?
8. what was he concerned about?
9. where was it?
10. where were Grimshaw's hands?
11. What was Simon wiping his neck with/
12. was it clean?
13. is he a painter?
14. who was drinnking scotch?
15. does he smoke, too?
16. what?
17. Did Daughtty think the ocean was just like the other parts?
18. Could he see land?
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answer:
1. Scraps
2. Daughtry
3. first of each month
4. Ah Moy
5. boiling
6. once a week
7. Doane
8. flat-building
9. in San Francisco
10. on his knees
11. handkerchief
12. no
13. yes
14. Ancient Mariner
15. yes
16. Havanas
17. yes
18. No