Q: CHAPTER XXII

THE FIGHT WITH THE BUCK

"Look out!"

These were the only words Henry had time to utter and as they left his lips he leaped to one side as swiftly as possible.

Hardly knowing what Henry meant, Dave and Barringford stood their ground, looking first one way and then another.

On the instant the big buck came forward. His rush was aimed at Henry, but missing that youth, he went onward with a wild plunge, directly between Dave and Barringford.

"A buck!" yelled the frontiersman. "Back out, Dave, an' be quick about it!"

He himself started on a run, reloading his rifle as he went. Dave wanted to do as bidden, but he had been so surprised that before he could turn his heel caught on a rock and down he went flat on his back. His gun struck on the trigger and went off, the charge tearing over the top of the cave into the tree branches beyond.

Dave was now helpless and if the truth must be told the fall had more than half dazed him, for his head came down on a spot that was far from soft and comfortable. More than this, with an empty gun he could do but little to defend himself.

The big buck had now come to a halt and turned around. He stood as if uncertain whether to renew the attack or take to his heels. Then he gazed at his mate and a strange red light shone in his angry eyes. He was "blood struck," as old hunters call it, and drawing in a sharp, hissing breath, he leaped forward once again, straight for Dave, who was now trying to rise.

1. yes
2. Dave and Barringford
3. leaped to one side
4. no
5. yes
6. yes
7. a big buck
8. Henry
9. no
10. he went onward with a wild plunge
11. turned around
12. yes
13. his mate
14. Dave
15. the frontiersman
16. yes
17. on a rock
18. yes
19. yes
20. the fall

Numbered questions:
1. Did Henry warn someone of danger?
2. Who did he warn?
3. What did Henry do after giving the warning?
4. Did other two understand him?
5. Did they stand their ground?
6. Did they look around?
7. Who appeared in the scene?
8. Who did it target?
9. Did it hit him?
10. What did it do then?
11. What it did when it stopped?
12. Was it perplexed?
13. Who did it look at?
14. Who did it target then?
15. Who asked him to be quick?
16. Was his gun out of bullet?
17. On what Dave stumble?
18. Did he fall?
19. Did he accidentally fire?
20. What caused him become dizzy?

Q: (Oprah) -- Kick back there's a reason they call them beach reads.

"Seating Arrangements" by Maggie Shipstead

Winn Van Meter has everything an affluent person could hope for: a devoted wife of almost 30 years, two daughters, a privileged life in Connecticut, and a summer home on Waskeke a fictional island resembling Nantucket.

Despite his comforts, Winn suffers from a typical midlife dissatisfaction: "He had almost everything he could think to want, and yet still ambivalence bleached his world to an anemic pallor."

Maggie Shipstead's "Seating Arrangements" is a whip-smart and engaging debut novel, set on Waskeke over the course of three days. Winn's oldest daughter, Daphne, is pregnant and getting married. His youngest daughter is lovelorn and mourning a recent abortion.

Strong personalities clash as Winn struggles with his long-burning attraction to one of Daphne's gorgeous and wildly flirtatious bridesmaids, Agatha, as his marriage grows stale. "He could not be sure that he had ever been in love with Biddy, or with anyone for that matter, but Biddy was the woman he had felt the most for."

Shipstead observes the absurdity of the upper class in Winn's trivial anxieties; he's incensed that he wasn't invited to join an elite golf club, and he carries on a rivalry with another island couple. This is the best kind of smart beach read: a book that expertly examines social life with heart and wit.

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"Heading Out to Wonderful" by Robert Goolrick

"Heading Out to Wonderful" about a drifter who takes up with the wife of the richest man in small-town Virginia is by "A Reliable Wife" author Robert Goolrick, which means it's deliciously dark and dangerous. Oprah.com: 7 books that will take you on an inner journey

1. Yes
2. "Seating Arrangements"
3. Maggie Shipstead
4. Winn Van Meter
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. 30 years
8. two
9. three
10. yes
11. Agatha
12. Daphne's bridesmaid
13. His youngest daughter
14. lovelorn and mourning
15. Biddy

Numbered questions:
1. Is this a book review?
2. What is the title?
3. Written by Whom?
4. What is the main characters name?
5. Was he wealthy?
6. Married?
7. For how long?
8. How many children did he have?
9. How many days did the story cover?
10. Was this the authors first book?
11. Who was the father attracted to?
12. Who was she?
13. Who recently had an abortion?
14. What state was she in?
15. what was her mothers name?

Q: Operation Barbarossa (German: "Unternehmen Barbarossa") was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, starting Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs as a slave-labour force for the Axis war-effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories.

In the two years leading up to the invasion, Germany and the Soviet Union signed political and economic pacts for strategic purposes. Nevertheless, the German High Command began planning an invasion of the Soviet Union in July 1940 (under the codename Operation Otto), which Adolf Hitler authorized on 18 December 1940. Over the course of the operation, about four million Axis personnel, the largest invasion force in the history of warfare, invaded the western Soviet Union along a front. In addition to troops, the Wehrmacht employed some 600,000 motor vehicles, and between 600,000 and 700,000 horses for non-combat operations. The offensive marked an escalation of the war, both geographically and in the formation of the Allied coalition.

Operationally, German forces achieved major victories and occupied some of the most important economic areas of the Soviet Union, mainly in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and inflicted, as well as sustained, heavy casualties. Despite these Axis successes, the German offensive stalled in the Battle of Moscow and subsequently the Soviet winter counteroffensive pushed German troops back. The Red Army absorbed the Wehrmacht's strongest blows and forced the unprepared Germans into a war of attrition. The Wehrmacht would never again mount a simultaneous offensive along the entire strategic SovietAxis front. The failure of the operation drove Hitler to demand further operations of increasingly limited scope inside the Soviet Union, such as Case Blue in 1942 and Operation Citadel in 1943 all of which eventually failed.

1. Operation Barbarossa
2. In 1941
3. Germany
4. the Soviet Union
5. The Germans
6. unknown
7. the German High Command
8. Invade the Soviet Union
9. Operation Otto
10. Yes
11. The operation

Numbered questions:
1. What is the main subject here?
2. When did it start?
3. What was one country that signed a pact two years prior?
4. And the other?
5. Which country broke the pact?
6. What organization plotted against them?
7. Which German organization plotted against their foe?
8. What were they going to do?
9. What was the name of that operation?
10. Was the Nazi leader for or against this?
11. When did he give consent to carry on?