Problem: Editor's note: Jane Velez-Mitchell is host of the HLN show, "Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell," a topical event-driven show with a wide range of viewpoints. Velez-Mitchell is the author of "Secrets Can Be Murder: What America's Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us About Ourselves."

Jane Velez-Mitchell says the targets of stalkers aren't just celebrities and that millions are victims.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Hollywood starlet Jennifer Love Hewitt recently obtained a restraining order against a man who she claims had been stalking her since 2007.

The man sent hundreds of threatening letters, as well as plane tickets to Australia, and he left flowers at the home of Hewitt's mother.

Uma Thurman had even more frightening brushes with her stalker before he was convicted. Jack Jordan visited her house and also tried to get into her on-set trailer.

Thurman eventually faced Jordan in court, where he was convicted of stalking and aggravated harassment and sentenced to three years probation and psychiatric counseling. This, to me, sounds like a victory for Jordan, since he was placed in the same courtroom as his victim and could eventually go right back to stalking.

Many assume this type of thing is relegated only to those who grace the covers of gossip magazines and movie posters. Sheila Ann Grayson wasn't famous, but that didn't save her. Police in South Carolina say Grayson was killed by her stalker last May, two weeks after taking out a restraining order against him.

A new study published this month by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated based on a survey that 3.4 million Americans per year are victims of stalking. For some perspective, that's more than the entire population of Chicago, Illinois.
1. Who obtained a restraining order?
2. How long had she been stalked?
3. What did he send to her?
4. How many?
5. What did he send to her mother?
6. Who did Jack Jordan stalk?
7. Where did he try to find her?
8. Was he convicted?
9. Of what?
10. Did he receive jail time?
11. How long was his probation sentence?
12. Who was ultimately killed by her stalker?
13. Was she famous?
14. Did she have a restraining order in place?
15. How many people are estimated to be stalking victims?
16. According to whom?
17. Where did Hewitt's stalker send her tickets to?
18. How much time passed between Sheila's restraining order and her death?
Answer: 1. Jennifer Love Hewitt
2. since 2007
3. letters
4. hundreds
5. flowers
6. Uma Thurman
7. her house and trailer
8. yes
9. stalking and aggravated harassment
10. no
11. three years
12. Sheila Ann Grayson
13. no
14. yes
15. 3.4 million Americans
16. the Department of Justice
17. Australia
18. two weeks

Problem: Near East (French: Proche-Orient) is a geographical term that roughly encompasses Western Asia. Despite having varying definitions within different academic circles, the term was originally applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire. The term has fallen into disuse in English, and has been replaced by the term Middle East.

The Encyclopdia Britannica defines the Near East as including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the West Bank, and Yemen. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations defines the region similarly, but also includes Afghanistan while excluding the countries of North Africa and the Palestinian territories. According to the National Geographic Society, the terms Near East and Middle East denote the same territories and are 'generally accepted as comprising the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories, Syria, and Turkey'.
1. How many countries are in an encyclopedia's definition of a term?
2. What is the term?
3. Is that term still used?
4. What is used now?
5. What is a more rough definition of the area?
6. How was it used at the beginning?
7. What is the French version of the term?
8. What areas does a society think is a part of it?
9. Do groups agree on the meaning of it?
10. Who else has a meaning for it?
Answer: 1. 22
2. the Near East
3. not in English
4. Middle East.
5. Western Asia
6. it applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire
7. Proche-Orient
8. the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories, Syria, and Turkey'.
9. No
10. The Food and Agriculture Organization

Problem: CHAPTER VII. AN EMPTY NEST

There had been no injunctions of secrecy, and though neither Miss Mohun nor Gillian had publicly mentioned the subject, all Rockquay who cared for the news knew by Sunday morning that Lady Merrifield's two elder daughters were engaged.

Gillian, in the course of writing her letters, had become somewhat familiarised with the idea, and really looked forward to talking it over with Kalliope. Though that young person could hardly be termed Alethea's best friend, it was certain that Alethea stood foremost with her, and that her interest in the matter would be very loving.

Accordingly, Kalliope was at the place of meeting even before Gillian, and anxiously she looked as she said---

'May I venture---may I ask if it is true?'

'True? Oh yes, Kally, I knew you would care.'

'Indeed, I well may. There is no expressing how much I owe to dear Miss Alethea and Lady Merrifield, and it is such a delight to hear of them.'

Accordingly, Gillian communicated the facts as she knew them, and offered to give any message.

'Only my dear love and congratulations,' said Kalliope, with a little sigh. 'I should like to have written, but---'

'But why don't you, then?'

'Oh no; she would be too much engaged to think of us, and it would only worry her to be asked for her advice.'

'I think I know what it is about,' said Gillian.

'How? Oh, how do you know? Did Mr. Flight say anything?'

'Mr. Flight?' exclaimed Gillian. 'What has he to do with it?'
1. Whose daughters were engaged?
2. How many daughters were engaged?
3. Were they the youngest daughters?
4. What city do they live in?
5. When did the people learn the news
6. What hadn't talked about it?
7. Who else?
8. Where did Gillian go?
9. Who got there first?
10. What is one of Merrifield's daughters named?
11. Did Kalliope write the daughters?
12. What message did Kalliope want to send?
13. Did Gillian know what happened?
14. What did Gillian offer to do?
15. Is Gillian Aleathea's best friend?
16. What about Kalliope?
17. What does Gillian write?
18. Was the engagement supposed to be secret?
19. Did Kalliope know for sure if Alethea was enegaged?
20. Does she owe anything to Alethea?
Answer:
1. Lady Merrifield's
2. two
3. no
4. Rockquay
5. Sunday morning
6. Miss Mohun
7. Gillian
8. the place of meeting?
9. Kalliope
10. Alethea
11. no
12. love and congratulations
13. yes
14. give a message
15. unknown
16. no
17. letters
18. no
19. no
20. yes