Q: Joe got a new bicycle as a gift from one of his friends. He wanted to ride it so he looked outside his window to check the weather. There was lots of daylight and it was bright and sunny. The sky was clear and there was only a little bit of wind. He was excited that the weather was good because it meant that he can go and ride his bicycle. He took his bicycle down the stairway and told his parents that he wanted to go ride his bicycle for a little bit. After his parents said OK, he put on his helmet and went outside with his bicycle to ride it around the block. It was very fun and Joe had a great time riding his bicycle. While he was riding, he saw many interesting things like some insects that would fly around and some pets that were in peoples' backyards. He also saw some flowers growing in peoples' yards. He got back home from riding his bicycle and told his parents he had a great time.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who got a gift?
2. What did he get?
3. Did he like it?
4. How was the weather?
5. Who did he ask permission from?
6. What did he put on first?
7. What did he do while out on his ride?
8. Like what?
9. Did he enjoy himself?
10. did he tell anyone that?
11. who?
A: 1. Joe
2. a new bicycle
3. yes
4. it was bright and sunny
5. his parents
6. his helmet
7. he saw many interesting things
8. insects, pets and flowers
9. yes
10. yes
11. his parents
Q: CHAPTER ELEVEN

EXPERIMENTS

"The first of June! The Kings are off to the seashore tomorrow, and I'm free. Three months' vacation--how I shall enjoy it!" exclaimed Meg, coming home one warm day to find Jo laid upon the sofa in an unusual state of exhaustion, while Beth took off her dusty boots, and Amy made lemonade for the refreshment of the whole party.

"Aunt March went today, for which, oh, be joyful!" said Jo. "I was mortally afraid she'd ask me to go with her. If she had, I should have felt as if I ought to do it, but Plumfield is about as gay as a churchyard, you know, and I'd rather be excused. We had a flurry getting the old lady off, and I had a fright every time she spoke to me, for I was in such a hurry to be through that I was uncommonly helpful and sweet, and feared she'd find it impossible to part from me. I quaked till she was fairly in the carriage, and had a final fright, for as it drove of, she popped out her head, saying, 'Josyphine, won't you--?' I didn't hear any more, for I basely turned and fled. I did actually run, and whisked round the corner where I felt safe."

"Poor old Jo! She came in looking as if bears were after her," said Beth, as she cuddled her sister's feet with a motherly air.

"Aunt March is a regular samphire, is she not?" observed Amy, tasting her mixture critically.

Answer the following questions:
1. When will the Kings depart?
2. what date?
3. Is Meg happy about it?
4. Who was home when she arrived?
5. Did Jo greet her at the door?
6. what was she doing?
7. Was Beth making lemonade?
8. who did?
9. What was Beth doing?
10. were they clean?
11. Why was Amy making lemonade?
12. What was Jo afraid of?
13. to where?
14. why didn't she want to go?
15. What did Beth say Jo looked like?
16. Are Jo and beth cousins?
17. are they related?
18. how?
19. what did she do to Jo's feet?
20. with what?
A: 1. tomorrow
2. "The first of June
3. yes
4. Jo, Beth and Amy
5. no
6. laying upon the sofa
7. no
8. Amy
9. taking her boots off
10. no
11. for the refreshment of the whole party
12. that Aunt March would ask her to go with her
13. Plumfield
14. because she says it's as gay as a churchyard
15. as if bears were after her,
16. no
17. yes
18. they're sisters
19. cuddled them
20. a motherly air
Q: When, after a year of being alone on his island, Robinson Crusoe sees a footprint in the sand, the reader of Robinson Crusoe trembles. Will Crusoe find another human being to end his loneliness? Is the footprint the sign of an enemy? Since 1719, when Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe, thousands of people who enjoy English novels have thrilled to this great adventure story. But few know how the story came to be written. Robinson Crusoe was the first English novel. Its birth brought together the misadventures of a Scotch "failure" and the untapped imagination of an aging English scribbler. Near the end of the Seventeenth Century, the hot-tempered Alexander Selkirk was charged with bad conduct while in church. Rather than face this charge, he ran away to sea. Several years later, Selkirk found himself on the ship of an English privateer. The privateer was preying on Spanish shipping. But Selkirk quarreled bitterly with the Captain. So, when the ship came to the island of Juan Femandez in the South Seas, Selkirk asked to be put ashore. When he saw that there were no people on the island, he begged to be taken back on board. But the Captain refused--Selkirk had gone too far. Over four years later, Selkirk was rescued by another ship. When Selkirk got back to England, the story of his life on the island fired the imagination of Daniel Defoe. Defoe had been earning a living by his pen since he was thirty. He was amazingly hard-working. He wrote a whole newspaper three times a week. He also made part of his living from politics. He supported both political parties. He told each party that it had his sole support. Defoe's morals were weak. But he was a fine writer. He was almost sixty when, in the midst of his work in politics, he wrote Robinson Crusoe. In it, Defoe--said one critic--"forged a story, and forced it on the world for truth." The detail of Crusoe's battle for survival on a lonely island is so vivid that the reader of Robinson Crusoe accepts the product of the author's imagination for reality. Robinson Crusoe became the first of a long line of heroes and heroines that have peopled English novels since Defoe's time.

Answer the following questions:
1. What was the first English novel?
2. Who was it based off?
3. Who was charged for being bad in church?
4. When?
5. Did he accept his penatily?
6. What did he do?
7. Defoe has been earning income by writing since what age?
8. Which political party did he support?
9. Was he considered a man with morals?
10. What did he do three times a week?
11. What age did he write Robinson Crusoe?
12. And the year he wrote it?
A:
1. Robinson Crusoe
2. English scribbler
3. Alexander Selkirk
4. Near the end of the Seventeenth Century
5. No
6. bad conduct while in church
7. thirty
8. both
9. No
10. wrote a whole newspaper
11. almost sixty
12. 1719