Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
(CNN) -- In most of the country, employers can force pregnant workers out of the workplace when their pregnancy interferes with their normal job duties.

Heather Wiseman, a retail sales associate, lost her job because consuming water while working, an activity necessary to maintain a healthy pregnancy, violated store policy.

Victoria Serednyj, a nursing home activity director, lost her job because her pregnancy interfered with her ability to lift heavy tables. Her employer terminated her employment even though lifting tables "took up a small part, roughly five to 10 minutes" of her day and her co-workers volunteered to perform this task.

Workers covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, by contrast, can continue working despite their physical limitations.

The Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008 broadened the ADA to include many short-term and relatively minor physical conditions. Pregnant women who experience comparable physical limitations should also have the opportunity to receive accommodations that will enable them to continue working.

According to EEOC regulations issued in 2011, the amended ADA requires employers to accommodate persons who experience "shortness of breath and fatigue when walking distances that most people could walk without experiencing such effects."

It also requires employers to accommodate persons with back injuries resulting in a "20-pound lifting restriction that lasts or is expected to last for several months." In some circumstances, even a far more common 50-pound lifting restriction may qualify an individual for ADA coverage.

To date, courts have balked at including pregnancy within the Americans with Disabilities Act. They've reasoned the physical limitations accompanying pregnancy are too short-term and minor to qualify as disabilities.
1. What are employers able to do to pregnant workers?
2. Who is Heather Wiseman?
3. Why was she fired?
4. What was the name of the nursing home director who was fired?
5. Why was she fired?
6. How many minutes of her day was spent doing this?
7. Did coworkers offer to help her?
8. What act allows workers with limitations protections in the workforce?
9. What was it broadened to include?
10. In what year?
11. What year were accommodations for shortness of breath added?
12. What other accommodation is included?
13. How many pounds restriction was mentioned?
14. lasting for how long?
15. Is pregnancy covered by ADA?
16. What is one reason why not?
17. and another?
18. What news station reported this?
19. What group issued the 2011 regulations?
20. What does EEOC stand for?

Numbered answers:
1. fired them
2. a retail sales associate
3. for consuming water
4. Victoria Serednyj
5. she couldn't lift tables.
6. five to ten minutes
7. yes
8. Americans with Disabilities Act
9. short-term and minor conditions
10. 2008
11. 2011
12. back injuries
13. a 20 and 50
14. several months
15. no
16. physical limitations too short-term
17. too minor
18. CNN
19. EEOC
20. unknown

Question:
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CHAPTER XL.

HOW HEREWARD BEGAN TO GET HIS SOUL'S PRICE.

And now behold Hereward at home again, fat with the wages of sin, and not knowing that they are death.

He is once more "Dominus de Brunune cum Marisco," (Lord of Bourne with the fen), "with all returns and liberties and all other things adjacent to the same vill which are now held as a barony from the Lord King of England." He has a fair young wife, and with her farms and manors, even richer than his own. He is still young, hearty, wise by experience, high in the king's favor, and deservedly so.

Why should he not begin life again?

Why not? Unless it be true that the wages of sin are, not a new life, but death.

And yet he has his troubles. Hardly a Norman knight or baron round but has a blood-feud against him, for a kinsman slain. Sir Aswart, Thorold the abbot's man, was not likely to forgive him for turning him out of the three Mainthorpe manors, which he had comfortably held for two years past, and sending him back to lounge in the abbot's hall at Peterborough, without a yard of land he could call his own. Sir Ascelin was not likely to forgive him for marrying Alftruda, whom he had intended to marry himself. Ivo Taillebois was not likely to forgive him for existing within a hundred miles of Spalding, any more than the wolf would forgive the lamb for fouling the water below him. Beside, had he (Ivo) not married Hereward's niece? and what more grievous offence could Hereward commit, than to be her uncle, reminding Ivo of his own low birth by his nobility, and too likely to take Lucia's part, whenever it should please Ivo to beat or kick her? Only "Gilbert of Ghent," the pious and illustrious earl, sent messages of congratulation and friendship to Hereward, it being his custom to sail with the wind, and worship the rising sun--till it should decline again.
1. was Hereward burdened with sin?
2. Who was the abbots man?
3. Whas he knighted?
4. How long had he stayed in the Manors which he was thrown out of?
5. Who would be upset with him just for existing within a hundred miles of him?
6. Who was the only one to send messages of congratulation and friendship to Hereward?
7. was Hereward high in the kings favor?
8. Was Gilbet of ghent considered pious and illustrious?
9. Was hereward questioning his life and trying to give things rationel?
10. Were there lots of people disguntled or in blood fued with him?
Numbered answers:
1. sin
2. Thorold
3. Sir yes
4. two years
5. Ivo Taillebois
6. Gilbert of Ghent
7. high in the king's favor yes he was
8. the pious and illustrious earl yes he was
9. Why should he not begin life again yes
10. Hardly a Norman knight or baron round but has a blood-feud against him