Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XI--THE PORT ADAMS CROWD

"And so it was all settled easily enough," Sheldon was saying. He was on the veranda, drinking coffee. The whale-boat was being carried into its shed. "Boucher was a bit timid at first to carry off the situation with a strong hand, but he did very well once we got started. We made a play at holding a court, and Telepasse, the old scoundrel, accepted the findings. He's a Port Adams chief, a filthy beggar. We fined him ten times the value of the pigs, and made him move on with his mob. Oh, they're a sweet lot, I must say, at least sixty of them, in five big canoes, and out for trouble. They've got a dozen Sniders that ought to be confiscated."

"Why didn't you?" Joan asked.

"And have a row on my hands with the Commissioner? He's terribly touchy about his black wards, as he calls them. Well, we started them along their way, though they went in on the beach to _kai-kai_ several miles back. They ought to pass here some time to-day."

Two hours later the canoes arrived. No one saw them come. The house- boys were busy in the kitchen at their own breakfast. The plantation hands were similarly occupied in their quarters. Satan lay sound asleep on his back under the billiard table, in his sleep brushing at the flies that pestered him. Joan was rummaging in the storeroom, and Sheldon was taking his siesta in a hammock on the veranda. He awoke gently. In some occult, subtle way a warning that all was not well had penetrated his sleep and aroused him. Without moving, he glanced down and saw the ground beneath covered with armed savages. They were the same ones he had parted with that morning, though he noted an accession in numbers. There were men he had not seen before.
1. Was Sheldon drinking tea?
2. What was he drinking?
3. Where was he?
4. What was the fine?
5. who was fined?
6. who was he?
7. and?
8. was he allowed to stay?
9. What were the houseboys doing when the canoes arrived?
10. how about Joan?
11. Was Sheldon still on the verenda?
12. what was he doing there?
13. Where/?
14. did he wake?
15. what did he see?/
16. what was there?
17. The ones from earlier?
18. any new ones?
19. How many were there when they left in the morning?
20. and what did they have?

Numbered answers:
1. no
2. coffee
3. on the veranda
4. ten times the value of the pigs
5. Telepasse
6. a Port Adams chief
7. a filthy beggar
8. no
9. making or eating breakfast
10. rummaging in the storeroom
11. yes
12. taking his siesta
13. in a hammock
14. yes
15. the ground beneath
16. armed savages
17. yes
18. yes
19. at least sixty
20. Sniders

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XVIII

ON THE WAY WEST

"Well, we're off for Big Horn Ranch at last!"

"It certainly is a grand prospect, eh, Jack? We ought to have barrels of fun on the ranch."

"Yes, Randy, it certainly ought to make a dandy vacation."

"I'm fairly itching to get on horseback," put in Andy. "What dandy rides we shall have!"

"Maybe we'll get a chance to break in a broncho," put in Fred, with a grin.

"Don't you dare do such a thing, Fred Rover!" burst out his sister Mary. "Most likely the bronco would break your neck."

"Well, we won't bust any broncos until we get to the ranch," came with a smile from Fred's father, who had followed the young people into the sleeping car at the Grand Central Terminal.

It was the day of their departure for the West, and the young folks were quivering with suppressed excitement. Sam Rover and his wife headed the party, which consisted of the four boys and the two girls.

Fourth of July had been spent rather quietly at home preparing for the trip. Of course, Andy and Randy had had some fun, especially with fireworks in the evening, but otherwise the young folks had been too preoccupied with their arrangements for getting away to pay special attention to the national holiday.

It had been arranged that only the Rovers mentioned above should at first make the trip to the ranch, and Gif and Spouter were to meet them in Chicago, where they would change cars for Montana. Tom Rover and his wife were to come to the ranch two weeks later and bring with them May Powell and Ruth Stevenson. Later still it was barely possible that Dick Rover and his wife would come West.
1. Where was the group headed for?
2. Were these old folks?
3. Who was the leader of the pack?
4. Along with?
5. How many boys were going?
6. How many girls?
7. Who couldn't wait to get on a horse?
8. What Terminal were they at?
9. How was 4th of July spent?
10. Doing what?
11. Were Andy and Randy bored?
12. What did they do for fun?
13. At what time of day?
14. What were the others preoccupied with?
15. Where were Gif and Spouter supposed to meet the Rovers?
16. To do what?
17. When would Tom and his wife arrive to the ranch?
18. Would they come alone?
19. Who would they bring?
20. Who else would come west?
Numbered answers:
1. Big horn ranch
2. no
3. Sam
4. his wife
5. Four
6. Two
7. Andy
8. grand central
9. quietly at home
10. preparing for the trip
11. No
12. Fireworks
13. evening
14. with their arrangements
15. in Chicago,
16. change cars for Montana.
17. two weeks later
18. no
19. May Powell and Ruth Stevenson
20. Dick Rover and his wife