Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XIV.

INVALIDED HOME.

Two days after the battle of Albuera, Lord Wellington himself arrived, and from the officers of his staff Tom heard the details of the battle of Fuentes d'Onoro, which had been fought a few days previously, and which had been nearly as hardly contested as had Albuera itself, both sides claiming the victory.

The next day, the bulk of Beresford's army returned to the neighborhood of Badajos, which they again invested, while a long convoy of wounded started for Lisbon. The Scudamores accompanied it as far as Campo Major, where a large hospital had been prepared for those too ill to bear the journey. Peter was still unconscious. Fever had set in upon the day after the battle, and for three weeks he lay between life and death. Tom's arm was mending very slowly, and he would have had hard work indeed in nursing Peter had it not been for the arrival of unexpected assistance. A large villa had been taken close to the main hospital for the use of officers, and one of the rooms was allotted to the Scudamores.

Upon the evening of the second day after their arrival, Tom was sitting by Peter's bedside, when, after a preliminary tap, the door opened, and to Tom's perfect amazement Sambo entered. The negro hurried forward, threw himself on his knees, seized Tom's hand and kissed it passionately, and then looking at the thin and fever-flushed face of Peter, he hid his face in his hands and sobbed unrestrainedly.

1. Who visited Peter while Tom was by his bed?
2. Is he happy to see them?
3. What race is Sambo?
4. Who starts to cry?
5. Where does most of Beresford's troops go?
6. Had they been there before?
7. Where did the injured go?
8. was there a lot of them?
9. What was at Campo Major?
10. Was it for all the injured?
11. Who could stay there?
12. Where did the Scudamores leave the convoy?
13. Who was sick?
14. Was he awake?
15. How long had he had a high temperature?
16. Was it possible he could die?
17. What was wrong with Tom?
18. Did they have their own room?
19. What type of building were they in?
20. Who was taking care of Peter?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Sambo
2. yes
3. negro
4. Sambo
5. Badajos
6. yes
7. Lisbon
8. yes
9. a hospital
10. no
11. those too ill to bear the journey
12. Campo Major
13. Peter
14. no
15. three weeks
16. yes
17. his arm is injured
18. yes
19. a villa
20. Tom

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Our village carpenter , John Hill, came one day and made a dining table for my wife. He made it just the right size to fill the space between the two windows. When I got home that evening, John was drinking a cup of tea and writing out his bill for the job.

My wife said to me quietly, "It's his ninth cup of tea today." But she said in a loud voice, "It is a beautiful table, dear, isn't it?"

"I will decide about that when I see the bill, " I read:

One dining table, 10 November, 1989.

Cost of wood: $17.00

Paint: $1.50

Work: 8 hours ($1 an hour) $8.00

Total: $36.50

When I was looking at the bill, John said, "It's been a fine day, hasn't it? Quite sunny." "Yes," I said, "I'm glad it is only the 10thof November."

"Me, too," said John. "You wait. It'll be a lot colder by the end of the month."

"Yes, colder.... And more expensive! Dining tables will be $20 more expensive on November 30th, won't they, John?" John looked hard at me for half a minute. Was there a little smile in his two blue eyes? I gave his bill back to him.

"If it isn't too much trouble, John," I said, "Please add it up again and you can forget the date."

I paid him $26.50and he was happy to get it.

1. How much did he pay for the table?
2. Was the carpenter angry about that?
3. Was it less than he billed?
4. By how much?
5. Was there an addition error?
6. What did the carpenter mistakenly add to the priuce?
7. What day of the month was it?
8. What did the man joke would be different at the end of the month?
9. On which date?
10. If that were true, how much more would a table be on the 20th?
11. Does the carpenter have green eyes?
12. What color?
13. What's the carpenter's name?
14. Who was the table for?
15. Why couldn't they just buy any table from a store?
16. Did the husband come home in the afternoon?
17. How many beverages did the worker partake in that day?
18. How much does the carpenter bill for labor?
19. What cost $17?
20. And how much for the paint?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. $26.50
2. No
3. Yes
4. $10.00
5. Yes
6. Too many man hours
7. The 10th
8. $20 more expensive
9. on November 30th
10. $10.00
11. No
12. blue
13. John Hill
14. The wife
15. They wanted it just the right size to fill the space between the two windows.
16. No
17. Nine
18. $1 an hour
19. wood
20. $1.50

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER X

LADY SYBIL SAYS "YES"

The carriage plunged into the shadow of the pine-woods, and commenced the long uphill ascent to Saalburg. Lady Caroom put down her parasol and turned towards Sybil, whose eyes were steadfastly fixed upon the narrow white belt of road ahead.

"Now, Sybil," she said, "for our talk."

"Your talk," Sybil corrected her, with a smile.

I'm to be listener."

"Oh, it may not be so one-sided after all," Lady Caroom declared. "And we had better make haste, or that impetuous young man of yours will come pounding after us on his motor before we know where we are. What are you going to do about him, Sybil?"

"I don't know."

"Well, you'll have to make up your mind. He's getting on my nerves. You must decide one way or another."

Sybil sighed.

"He's quite the nicest young man I know--of his class," she remarked.

"Exactly," Lady Caroom assented. "And though I think you will admit that I am one of the least conventional of mothers, I must really say I don't think that it is exactly a comfortable thing to do to marry a man who is altogether outside one's own circle."

"Mr. Brooks," Sybil said, "is quite as well bred as Atherstone."

"He is his equal in breeding and in birth," Lady Caroom declared. "You know all about him. I admit," she continued, "that it sounds like a page out of a novel. But it isn't. The only pity is--from one point of view--that it makes so little difference."

1. who wants to be the listener?
2. where was the carriage going?
3. who was riding in it?
4. what did CAroom say to sybil?
5. does Caroom like the young man?
6. how is he making her feel?
7. was the conversation one sided?
8. how does Caroom desccribe herself as a mom?
9. why do she think they shouldnt marry?
10. what does she instruct Sybil to do?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Sybil
2. to Saalburg
3. Lady Caroom
4. "Now, Sybil, for our talk."
5. no
6. He's getting on her nerves
7. no
8. one of the least conventional
9. he's outside his own circle
10. make up her mind