Problem: CHAPTER IX

A silence ensued, fraught with poignant fear for Helen, as she gazed into Bo's whitening face. She read her sister's mind. Bo was remembering tales of lost people who never were found.

"Me an' Milt get lost every day," said Roy. "You don't suppose any man can know all this big country. It's nothin' for us to be lost."

"Oh!... I was lost when I was little," said Bo.

"Wal, I reckon it'd been better not to tell you so offhand like," replied Roy, contritely. "Don't feel bad, now. All I need is a peek at Old Baldy. Then I'll have my bearin'. Come on."

Helen's confidence returned as Roy led off at a fast trot. He rode toward the westering sun, keeping to the ridge they had ascended, until once more he came out upon a promontory. Old Baldy loomed there, blacker and higher and closer. The dark forest showed round, yellow, bare spots like parks.

"Not so far off the track," said Roy, as he wheeled his horse. "We'll make camp in Milt's senaca to-night."

He led down off the ridge into a valley and then up to higher altitude, where the character of the forest changed. The trees were no longer pines, but firs and spruce, growing thin and exceedingly tall, with few branches below the topmost foliage. So dense was this forest that twilight seemed to have come.

Travel was arduous. Everywhere were windfalls that had to be avoided, and not a rod was there without a fallen tree. The horses, laboring slowly, sometimes sank knee-deep into the brown duff. Gray moss festooned the tree-trunks and an amber-green moss grew thick on the rotting logs.
1. Who was Helen looking at?
2. Was it turning red?
3. What was Bo remembering?
4. About what?
5. Who was talking about getting lost?
6. Who did he say got lost with him?
7. What did Roy say he wanted a peek at?
8. What did Roy ride toward?
9. Did this make Helen feel confident?
10. What was Roy keeping to?
11. Were they ascending it?
12. Where were they going to set up camp?
13. Where exactly?
14. What did the horses do in the duff?
15. What was on the tree trunks?
16. What was on the logs?
17. Were the logs healthy-looking?
18. What kind of logs were they described as?
19. Was the moss growing thick or thin on those logs?
20. What time of day did the denseness of the forest make it seem like?
Answer: 1. Bo's face
2. No
3. Some tales
4. Lost people who never were found
5. Roy initially.
6. Milt
7. Old Baldy.
8. The westering sun,
9. Yes
10. The ridge
11. Yes
12. Yes
13. Milt's senaca
14. They sometimes sank knee-deep
15. Gray moss
16. Amber-green moss
17. No
18. Rotting logs
19. Thick
20. Twilight

Problem: Tel Aviv is a major city in Israel, located on the country's Mediterranean coastline. It is the financial center and the technology hub of Israel, with a population of , making it Israel's second-largest city. Tel Aviv is the largest city in the Gush Dan region of Israel. Tel Aviv is also a focal point in the high-tech concentration known as the Silicon Wadi.

Tel Aviv is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, headed by Ron Huldai, and is home to many foreign embassies. Tel Aviv is a global city and is the 32nd most important financial center in the world. Tel Aviv is known to have the third-largest economy of any city in the Middle East after Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City. The city has the 31st highest cost of living in the world. Known as "The City that Never Sleeps," Tel Aviv receives over a million international visitors annually. A "party capital" in the Middle East, it has a lively nightlife and 24-hour culture.

The city was founded in 1909 by Jews on the outskirts of the ancient port city of Jaffa. Its name means Spring Hill, though the hill was mostly sand. The modern city's first neighborhoods had already been established in 1886, the first of which was Neve Tzedek.
1. What city is ranked the 32nd most important financial center in the world?
2. Which city has the largest economy in in the Middle East?
3. Which city is second?
4. What city has the 31st highest cos of living anywhere?
5. What's it's nickname?
6. How many international visitors does the city get?
7. Yearly?
8. What's a college student sounding description of the city?
9. Why is the city described that way?
10. What people founded the city?
11. From where?
12. What was the first neighborhood in Tel Aviv?
13. Where is Tel Aviv located?
14. Is it on a coastline?
15. Which one?
16. Is it the largest city in Israel?
17. Is it the biggest city in the Gush Dan region?
18. Who is the leader of Tel Aviv?
19. What is the governing municipality?
20. Is Tel Aviv considered a tech hub?
Answer: 1. Tel Aviv
2. Kuwait City
3. Abu Dhabi
4. Tel Aviv
5. The City that Never Sleeps
6. over a million
7. yes
8. party capital
9. for it's nightlife and 24-hour culture
10. Jews
11. unknown
12. Neve Tzedek
13. Israel
14. yes
15. the Mediterranean coastline
16. no
17. yes
18. Ron Huldai
19. Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality
20. yes

Problem: Within IOC, Samaranch was a man much admired and sometimes loved, the Spanish who made the organization into one that is rich and so powerful. No one doubted Samaranch's ability to make something impossible come true. In 1981 he ensured that Seoul was elected to be the host of the 1988 Olympics. Remember, that was a time when the two Koreas were at war with each other. And because Samaranch helped swing Spanish votes across to London, rather than to Paris, London was made host for the 2012. To China and the Chinese people, Samaranch was considered a great friend. Thanks to his efforts during his last term as IOC president, Beijing and China won the Olympics for the first time. Samaranch led the IOC from 1980 to 2001. Certainly, throughout his IOC presidential term, he had a soft spot for Moscow, for it was there that he was elected president of the IOC in 1980, and it was there that he managed to reach his final wishes as IOC president. Very early on in that 2001 Moscow session he wanted the Belgian surgeon, Jacques Rogge, a newcomer to the Olympic Movement, to replace him as president, for China to host the 2008 Olympic Games and for his son, Juan Antonio Samaranch junior, to become an IOC member. He got all three wishes. Samaranch's death came three months before his 90th birthday on April 21st, 2010.
1. Who was admired?
2. What was powerful?
3. Who hosted 1988 Olympics?
4. What about the 2012 Olympics?
5. Who considered Samaranch a great pal?
6. How long did Samaranch lead IOC?
7. Where was he selected to be president at?
8. Who is Jacques Rogge?
9. Who hosted Olympics in 2008?
10. When did Samaranch pass away?
11. How old was he when he passed away?
Answer:
1. Samaranch
2. the IOC
3. Seoul
4. London
5. China and the Chinese people
6. 21 years from 1980 to 2001
7. Moscow
8. a Belgian surgeon
9. China
10. April 21st, 2010.
11. 89