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Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She was known around the world for using poetry to increase understanding of black culture in America.

During the 1940's and the 1950's, Gwendolyn Brooks used her poems to describe conditions among the poor,racial inequality and drug use in the black community. She also wrote poems about the struggles of black women.

But her skill was more than her ability to write about struggling black people. She combined traditional European poetry styles with the African American experience.

Gwendolyn Brooks once said that she wrote about what she saw and heard in the street. She said she found most of her materials through looking out of the window of her second-floor apartment in Chicago, Illinois.

In her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the South Side of Chicago, where many black people live. In her poems, the South Side is called Bronzeville. It was "A Street in Bronzeville" that gained the attention of literary experts in 1945. Critics praised her poetic skills and her powerful descriptions about the black experience during the time. The Bronzeville poems were her first published collection.

In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She won the prize for her second book of poems called "Annie Allen". "Annie Allen" is a collection of poetry about a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and a mother. She experiences loneliness, loss, death andpoverty .

Gwendolyn Brooks said that winning the prize changed her life.

Her next work was a novel written in 1953 called "Maud Martha". "Maud Martha" attracted little attention when it was first published. But now it is considered an important work by some critics. Its main ideas about the difficult lives of many women are popular among female writers today.
1. What was Brooks known as?
2. What kind of works did she usually write?
3. Did she ever write anything else?
4. What?
5. When?
6. What was the name of it?
7. Was it a bestseller in 1953?
8. What part of society did she write about?
9. Women and men?
10. What kind of house did she have?
11. Where?
12. What floor was it on?
13. Did it help her get ideas?
14. What did she win in 1950?
15. For which book?
16. Was it a novel?
17. Who is it about?
18. What does she experience?
19. What part of the city does she write about?
20. What does she call it?

Numbered answers:
1. the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
2. poems
3. yes
4. a novel
5. in 1953
6. "Maud Martha".
7. no
8. African Americans
9. mostly women.
10. an apartment
11. in Chicago, Illinois.
12. on the second-floor
13. yes
14. Pulitzer Prize for Literature
15. "Annie Allen"
16. no
17. a Bronzeville girl
18. loneliness, loss, death and poverty
19. the South Side
20. Bronzeville

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(CNN) -- Mike Ellery was always used to having his little sister trying to copy him -- but not even he saw her latest stunt coming.

While the 24-year-old was always destined to be a rugby star for England, never did he think that he'd be traveling across the world with his sister, Megan, in tow.

For the first time ever, England's squad has a brother and sister competing on the international stage -- just a bit different from tackling each other inside the family home.

"I can show you several scars and bruises from our upbringing," Megan told CNN's Rugby Sevens Worldwide show.

"I think we are quite a standard competitive brother and sister, so anything he'd do, I'd try and do better.

"We used to play across the landing at home whenever Mike wanted to try out his new steps, and yeah, it didn't end well for me."

Rugby sevens -- the faster and shorter form of union -- is one of the world's fastest growing sports and will make its Olympic debut at Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Mike, who signed a two-year deal to play sevens for England in 2012, learned his trade in the north of the country under the guidance of his father, Nick, in the family's hometown of Penrith.

It was here, while watching her older brother impress, that Megan dreamed of doing similar.

"Penrith is absolutely rugby mad," she told CNN. "The whole town, the rugby club is just a huge community so we've been brought up with just a passion for rugby.
1. DO England have two siblings on a stage?
2. Has that ever happened before?
3. What is the other name Union is called?
4. What is the world fastest growing sport?
5. Have they gone for Olympics before?
6. Are they going anytime soon?
7. Where will it be?
8. Which name of the players in Play Seven was mentioned?
9. How long did he sign to be with them?
10. Where did he learn the sport

Numbered answers:
1. yes
2. no
3. unknown
4. Rugby sevens
5. no
6. 2016
7. Rio de Janeiro
8. Mike Ellery
9. two years
10. Penrith

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CHAPTER IX

When William Wetherell and Cynthia had reached the last turn in the road in Northcutt's woods, quarter of a mile from Coniston, they met the nasal Mr. Samuel Price driving silently in the other direction. The word "silently" is used deliberately, because to Mr. Price appertained a certain ghostlike quality of flitting, and to Mr. Price's horse and wagon likewise. He drew up for a brief moment when he saw Wetherell.

"Wouldn't hurry back if I was you, Will."

"Why not?"

Mr. Price leaned out of the wagon.

"Bije has come over from Clovelly to spy around a little mite."

It was evident from Mr. Price's manner that he regarded the storekeeper as a member of the reform party.

"What did he say, Daddy?" asked Cynthia, as Wetherell stood staring after the flitting buggy in bewilderment.

"I haven't the faintest idea, Cynthia," answered her father, and they walked on.

"Don't you know who 'Bije' is?

"No," said her father, "and I don't care."

It was almost criminal ignorance for a man who lived in that part of the country not to know Bijah Bixby of Clovelly, who was paying a little social visit to Coniston that day on his way home from the state capital,--tending, as it were, Jethro's flock. Still, Wetherell must be excused because he was an impractical literary man with troubles of his own. But how shall we chronicle Bijah's rank and precedence in the Jethro army, in which there are neither shoulder-straps nor annual registers? To designate him as the Chamberlain of that hill Rajah, the Honorable Heth Sutton, would not be far out of the way. The Honorable Heth, whom we all know and whom we shall see presently, is the man of substance and of broad acres in Clovelly: Bijah merely owns certain mortgages in that town, but he had created the Honorable Heth (politically) as surely as certain prime ministers we could name have created their sovereigns. The Honorable Heth was Bijah's creation, and a grand creation he was, as no one will doubt when they see him.
1. Where did they arrive?
2. Where is that?
3. What is that close to?
4. How far?
5. What are their names?
6. Who did they meet?
7. What was he doing?
8. What did he look like?
Numbered answers:
1. The last turn in the road
2. Northcutt's woods
3. Coniston
4. Quarter mile
5. William Wetherell and Cynthia
6. Samuel Price
7. driving in the other direction
8. Ghost like quality