question: Tasha and Hassan went to their grandma's house. They were going to stay there for two days. Tasha was happy because she likes to play with the farm animals. She wanted to milk the cow. She also wanted to play with the baby pig. Hassan wanted to stay in the house and bake sugar cookies. He also wanted to make fresh cocoa. When Hassan started to make the cookies he saw that there was no milk in the fridge to make the cookies and cocoa. He walked outside and asked Tasha to fill up the bucket with fresh milk from the cow. Hassan used the milk to make the cookies and hot cocoa. Tasha and Hassan shared the cookies with their grandma. They ate all of the cookies and drank the hot cocoa in front of the TV. Their grandma promised to make them apple pie the next morning. She had picked a basket full of apples the day before.
1. How did Tasha feel?
2. Why?
3. Which ones?
4. What did Hassan want to do?
5. What did he end up doing?
6. Where did he get the milk from?
7. What did they do with what they made?
8. Where did they do all of this?
9. Where did they create these things?
10. How many people were there?
11. How much did they eat?
12. What was their reward from grandma?
13. When?
14. Why did she offer this?
15. When?
16. How long would they be staying?
17. Did Hassan want to go outside?
18. What type of cookies did he want to make?
19. Where did he look for ingredients?
20. What was the fresh milk put into?
21. What chore did Tasha want to complete?
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answer: 1. happy
2. she likes to play with the farm animals
3. the cow and baby pig
4. to stay in the house and bake sugar cookies
5. used milk to make cookies and hot cocoa
6. from the cow
7. shared the cookies with their grandma
8. in front of the TV
9. their grandma's house
10. three
11. all of the cookies
12. apple pie
13. the next morning
14. She had picked a basket full of apples
15. the day before
16. two days
17. no
18. sugar cookies
19. in the fridge
20. the bucket
21. milking the cow

question: Chapter 16: A Treasure Room.

"'Tis infamous," Cacama said, as he paced up and down the room; "but what is to be done? They hold him in their hands as a hostage, in the heart of his own capital, and among his own people; and are capable of hanging him from the walls, should a hostile movement be made against them.

"You were right, Roger Hawkshaw, in warning us against these men. They are without faith and honor, thus to seize a host who has loaded them with presents, who has emptied his treasuries to appease their greed, and who has treated them with the most extraordinary condescension. It is a crime unheard of, an act of base ingratitude, without a parallel. What is to be done?"

Roger was silent. Such a situation, so strange and unlooked for, confounded him.

"I should say," Cuitcatl burst out passionately, "that every Mexican should take up arms, and annihilate this handful of invaders. What though Montezuma fall? Better that a monarch should perish than a nation. Besides, Montezuma has shown himself unfit to govern. It is his weakness that has brought things to this pass. Think you that the white men could ever have advanced beyond the plateau of Tlascala, had all the forces of Mexico barred the way? Think you that they could ever have entered the capital, had it been defended with resolution? One moment he flattered the strangers and loaded them with gifts; the next he was ready to send his forces against them. The Cholulans had good reason for believing that he designed the annihilation of the Whites, if he did not actually order the attack upon them.
1. Who is the hostage?
2. Where is he being held?
3. Who is holding him?
4. What do they plan to do with him?
5. Who is not fit to rule?
6. Why is he not fit?
7. What's an example of his weakness?
8. What did the Cholulans think of him?
9. Was he consistent in his treatment of outsiders?
10. How so?
11. What does Roger think of this?
12. Who is guilt of lack of thankfulness?
13. What does Cuitcatl think should be done?
14. Who asks him?
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answer: 1. unknown
2. In the heart of his own capital.
3. Invaders.
4. Hang him from the walls.
5. Montezuma.
6. He is weak.
7. Because he didn't send forces out to stop the invaders early on.
8. They believed that he designed the annihilation of the Whites
9. No.
10. One moment he flattered the strangers and loaded them with gifts; the next he was ready to send his forces against them.
11. He doesn't approve.
12. The Choulans.
13. That all Mexicans should fight to annihilate the invaders.
14. Roger Hawkshaw.

question: The term Carnival is traditionally used in areas with a large Catholic presence. However, the Philippines, a predominantly Roman Catholic country, does not celebrate Carnival anymore since the dissolution of the Manila Carnival after 1939, the last carnival in the country. In historically Lutheran countries, the celebration is known as Fastelavn, and in areas with a high concentration of Anglicans and Methodists, pre-Lenten celebrations, along with penitential observances, occur on Shrove Tuesday. In Eastern Orthodox nations, Maslenitsa is celebrated during the last week before Great Lent. In German-speaking Europe and the Netherlands, the Carnival season traditionally opens on 11/11 (often at 11:11 a.m.). This dates back to celebrations before the Advent season or with harvest celebrations of St. Martin's Day.

Traditionally a carnival feast was the last opportunity to eat well before the time of food shortage at the end of the winter during which one was limited to the minimum necessary. On what nowadays is called vastenavond (the days before fasting) all the remaining winter stores of lard, butter and meat which were left would be eaten, for it would soon start to rot and decay. The selected livestock had in fact already been slaughtered in November and the meat would be no longer preservable. All the food that had survived the winter had to be eaten to assure that everyone was fed enough to survive until the coming spring would provide new food sources.
1. What is a carnival feast?
2. Why would they need to do this?
3. when is there likely to be a shortage?
4. what is vastenavond
5. what types of foods were consumed
6. Which countries celebrate Carnival
7. Do the Phillipines celebrate?
8. When did they stop?
9. What was the last carnival there called?
10. What do Lutheran countries call it?
11. what is Shrove Tuesday?
12. When does the carnival season traditionally start?
13. What does it coincide with?
14. How did they get meat?
15. When did they do that?
16. Why did they have to eat it quickly?
17. When would they get abundant food sources again?
18. Where is the term Carnival most recognized from?
19. Was the Phillipines Catholic
20. What time do people generally start celebrating Carnival
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answer:
1. an opportunity to eat well
2. before a food shortage
3. the end of the winter
4. the days before fasting
5. lard, butter and meat
6. Eastern Orthodox nations
7. no
8. after 1939
9. Manila Carnival
10. Fastelavn
11. unknown
12. on 11/11
13. harvest celebrations
14. slaughtered livestock
15. in November
16. it would rot
17. spring
18. areas with a large Catholic presence
19. yes
20. at 11:11 a.m.