Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

There were four brothers that lived together in a small house on the east side of town. The brothers' names were Bob, Billy, Bryan and Baker. Each brother was one year in age. The oldest brother Bob was nine, the second eight, the third seven and the youngest was only six. Each boy also had something that they were good at that no one else could do. Baker, the youngest boy was good at magic tricks. Bob was the basketball star, Billy was great at football and Bryan was good at baseball. Each boy liked to watch the others show off their skills. One afternoon Baker put on a magic show. For this trick he would need three things. First, he needed four cups each a different color. The cups colors were green, yellow, blue, and white. He would need one white ball and two helpers which the parents happily volunteered for. He started by showing his brothers the inside of each cup as well as the normal white ball. He then placed the white ball inside the white cups and moved them around really fast. Next his parents covered the four cups with a magic blanket. Baker said some magic words and then his helpers removed the blanket. To his brothers amazement there were only the three colored cups left. Each brother got to look under a cup. After flipping up each cup they saw that there was no white ball. Just a single green ball inside the green cup! How did you do that they yelled! A magician never gives up his secrets.

1. How many brothers were there?
2. Did they live together?
3. where?
4. what were their names?
5. How old was Bob?
6. How old was the youngest brother?
7. Did each of them have something they were good at?
8. What was Baker good at?
9. What was Bob good at?
10. What about Billy?
11. What was Brian good at?
12. Did they like watching each other show off what they could do?
13. When Baker put on his Magic show did he need four cups?
14. Did he need helpers?
15. How many?
16. Who volenteered to help?
17. What did his parents cover the Magic cups with?
18. Did baker say any Magic words?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. four
2. yes
3. in a small house on the east side of town
4. Bob, Billy, Bryan and Baker
5. nine
6. six
7. yes
8. magic tricks
9. basketball?
10. football
11. basebal
12. yes
13. yes
14. yes
15. two
16. his parents
17. a magic blanket
18. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XX

Credit me, friend, it hath been ever thus, Since the ark rested on Mount Ararat. False man hath sworn, and woman hath believed-- Repented and reproach'd, and then believed once more. _The New World._

By the time that Margaret returned with Monna Paula, the Lady Hermione was rising from the table at which she had been engaged in writing something on a small slip of paper, which she gave to her attendant.

"Monna Paula," she said, "carry this paper to Roberts the cash-keeper; let them give you the money mentioned in the note, and bring it hither presently."

Monna Paula left the room, and her mistress proceeded.

"I do not know," she said, "Margaret, if I have done, and am doing, well in this affair. My life has been one of strange seclusion, and I am totally unacquainted with the practical ways of this world--an ignorance which I know cannot be remedied by mere reading.--I fear I am doing wrong to you, and perhaps to the laws of the country which affords me refuge, by thus indulging you; and yet there is something in my heart which cannot resist your entreaties."

"O, listen to it--listen to it, dear, generous lady!" said Margaret, throwing herself on her knees and grasping those of her benefactress and looking in that attitude like a beautiful mortal in the act of supplicating her tutelary angel; "the laws of men are but the injunctions of mortality, but what the heart prompts is the echo of the voice from heaven within us."

1. Who had been writing?
2. What did she write on>
3. What is the attendant's name?
4. Who left the room?
5. What did the note mention?
6. Who feels she is wronging Margaret?
7. Is she a woman with much practical knowledge?
8. True or False: Lady Hermione also fears that she might be breaking the law.
9. What part of the Lady does Margaret grab?
10. What is the Lady's role to Margaret?
11. Who is Roberts?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the Lady Hermione
2. a small slip of paper
3. Monna Paula
4. Monna Paula
5. money
6. Lady Hermoine
7. No
8. Yes
9. her knees
10. unknown
11. the cash-keeper

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XVI: The March to Derby.

Two days later when the jailer brought in breakfast to their cell he dropped on the table by the side of the loaf a tiny ball of paper, and then without a word went out and locked the back door. Malcolm put his finger to his lips as Ronald was about to utter an exclamation of joy.

"One's appetite is not as good here as it was when we were tramping the hills, Ronald; but one looks forward to one's meals; they form a break in the time."

So saying, he took up one of the lumps of bread and began to ear, securing at the same time the pellet of paper. "We can't be too careful," he said in a whisper. "It is quite possible that they may be able to overhear us."

"I don't see how," Ronald replied in the same tone; "I see no crack or crevice through which sound could pass."

"You may not see one," Malcolm said, "but it may exist for all that. One of the boards of the ceiling may be as thin as paper, and anyone listening through could hear every word we say when we speak in our natural voices. The magistrates evidently believe that they have made a valuable capture, and would give anything to prove that their suspicions are correct. Now, I will go and stand at that grated opening and look at this paper, if they are watching us they will see nothing then."

1. What was said that meals do?
2. Were they something to look forward to?
3. Were the men actually hungry?
4. Did the jailer speak to them when he brought the food?
5. What meal did he bring?
6. What were the men's names?
7. Was malcolm suspicious?
8. Of what?
9. Did he adjust his volume because of this?
10. Did Ronald believe this was likely?
11. Why not?
12. Where did his cellmate thing they could hear them from?
13. Was he suspicious of them watching him as well?
14. Who had captured them?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. form a break in the time
2. yes
3. no
4. no
5. breakfast
6. Malcolm and Ronald
7. yes
8. that someone might be able to overhear them
9. yes
10. no
11. he saw no crack or crevice through which sound could pass
12. one of the boards of the ceilin
13. yes
14. the magistrates