question: CHAPTER VII

THE STATEMENT OF TIBBIE BIRSE

On a Thursday Pete Lownie was buried, and when Hendry returned from the funeral Jess asked if Davit Lunan had been there.

"Na," said Hendry, who was shut up in the closet-bed, taking off his blacks, "I heard tell he wasna bidden."

"Yea, yea," said Jess, nodding to me significantly. "Ay, weel," she added, "we'll be hae'n Tibbie ower here on Saturday to deave's (weary us) to death aboot it."

Tibbie, Davit's wife, was sister to Marget, Pete's widow, and she generally did visit Jess on Saturday night to talk about Marget, who was fast becoming one of the most fashionable persons in Thrums. Tibbie was hopelessly plebeian. She was none of your proud kind, and if I entered the kitchen when she was there she pretended not to see me, so that, if I chose, I might escape without speaking to the like of her. I always grabbed her hand, however, in a frank way.

On Saturday Tibbie made her appearance. From the rapidity of her walk, and the way she was sucking in her mouth, I knew that she had strange things to unfold. She had pinned a grey shawl about her shoulders, and wore a black mutch over her dangling grey curls.

"It's you, Tibbie," I heard Jess say, as the door opened.

Tibbie did not knock, not considering herself grand enough for ceremony, and indeed Jess would have resented her knocking. On the other hand, when Leeby visited Tibbie, she knocked as politely as if she were collecting for the precentor's present. All this showed that we were superior socially to Tibbie.
1. When was the funeral?
2. Who is Davit's wife related to?
3. Who was she married to?
4. Who was fashionable?
5. Where do they live?
6. Who lived shabbily?
7. When did she show up?
8. Did she seem nervous?
9. Does she knock upon entering?
10. Who is better than Tibbie?
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answer: 1. Thursday
2. Marget
3. Pete
4. Marget
5. Thrums
6. Tibbie
7. Saturday
8. yes
9. no
10. Leeby

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, "The Age" primarily serves Victoria but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered in both hardcopy and online formats. The newspaper shares many articles with other Fairfax Media metropolitan daily newspapers, such as "The Sydney Morning Herald".

As at February 2017, "The Age" had an average weekday circulation of 88,000, increasing to 152,000 on Saturdays (in a city of 4.2million). "The Sunday Age" had a circulation of 123,000. These represented year-on-year declines of 8% to 9%. "The Age"s website, according to third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, is the 44th and 58th most visited website in Australia respectively, as of July 2015. SimilarWeb rates the site as the seventh most visited news website in Australia, attracting more than 7 million visitors per month.

The management board announced on 18 June 2012, that during the following three years, 1,900 positions were expected to be terminated from Fairfax Media, including many from "The Age", that the broadsheet format would be changed to a compact format and that the online version would no longer have free access after the introduction of a paywall to protect content with an expectation of increased revenue. The newspaper went compact in March 2013, with the Saturday and Sunday editions retaining the broadsheet format. On 22/23 February 2014, the final weekend edition were produced in broadsheet format with these too converted to compact format on 1/2 March 2014. The Age's parent company Chief executive officer, Greg Hywood, has foreshadowed the end of the print edition of the newspaper, with some analysts saying this will occur during 2017. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is The Age?
2. When did it begin?
3. Where?
4. What is it's primary service area?
5. Can you buy it elsewhere?
6. Who owns it?
7. Who publishes it?
8. How many jobs were being eliminated starting in 2012?
9. Who announced it?
10. When?
11. How long would it take to complete the cuts?
12. What was the broadsheet format being converted to?
13. When did that happen?
14. What month?
15. How much longer was the weekend paper offered in broadsheet?
16. In 2017 what was the circulation during the week?
17. What about Sunday?
18. And Saturday?
19. How many people view the website every month?
20. How does that rank among the websites in Australia?
Answer: 1. a daily newspaper
2. 1854
3. Melbourne
4. Victoria
5. Yes
6. Fairfax Media
7. Fairfax Media
8. 1,900
9. management board
10. 18 June 2012
11. three years
12. compact format
13. 2013
14. March
15. 1 year
16. 88,000
17. 123,000
18. 152,000
19. more than 7 million
20. seventh

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN) -- Ukraine has been wracked with ceaseless demonstrations for weeks as protesters demand constitutional reform and a closer relationship with Europe instead of Russia. A breakthrough finally came Tuesday: Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and his government resigned, and the national parliament voted overwhelmingly to repeal sweeping anti-protest laws passed earlier this month.

Still, activists say that while they're pleased by these developments, their fundamental concerns have yet to be addressed. Amid the protests are accounts of police brutality and government intimidation. The desire for a government shake-up was spurred by the government's decision in November to forgo a planned trade deal with the European Union, which many interpreted as a turn away from Europe and toward Russia instead.

CNN iReport had the opportunity to speak to a native Ukrainian who has spent days on the streets of central Kiev, the power base of the opposition. The 31-year-old, who works as a project manager, has been photographing and standing alongside those who are protesting. He shared his thoughts and photos to provide a firsthand view of the demonstrations and the motivations behind them.

Freddy UA asked to be identified with an alias for his protection because of the current state of his country. The interview below has been edited for clarity and brevity.

CNN: When did you first get interested in the protesting?

UA: The Ukrainian people started protesting in November, after the authorities announced they were not ready to sign an agreement with the European Union. A lot of people, including me, were disappointed by this action. 1. Who has been taking pictures of protesters?
2. Is that his real name?
3. Why a fake name?
4. How old is he?
5. What is his job?
6. Where is he from?
7. When did protests begin?
8. Why?
9. How long did they go on?
10. Would they prefer more closeness with Europeans or Russians?
11. Who was in charge when this began?
12. Did he remain so?
13. What was undone after he left?
14. Did this fully satisfy the rebels?
15. How did various authority groups come off?
16. What was a catalyst for all this?
17. Did the rebellions have an ebb and flow, or were they constant?
18. What day did the governmental body step down?
19. What still needs to be acknowledged?
20. Are the cops polite and gental?
numbered_answers:
1. Freddy UA
2. no
3. for his protection
4. 31
5. project manager
6. Ukraine
7. November
8. the government did not sign an agreement with the European Union
9. weeks
10. Europe
11. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov
12. no
13. anti-protest laws
14. no
15. unknown
16. the government's decision to not make a trade deal with the European Union
17. they have been ceaseless
18. Tuesday
19. their fundamental concerns
20. no