Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Turkish (), also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 1015 million native speakers in Southeast Europe (mostly in East and Western Thrace) and 6065 million native speakers in Western Asia (mostly in Anatolia). Outside of Turkey, significant smaller groups of speakers exist in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested that the European Union add Turkish as an official EU language, even though Turkey is not a member state.

To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkishthe variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empirespread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Ataturk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet.

The distinctive characteristics of the Turkish language are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish is subjectobjectverb. Turkish has no noun classes or grammatical gender. The language has a strong TV distinction and usage of honorifics. Turkish uses second-person pronouns that distinguish varying levels of politeness, social distance, age, courtesy or familiarity toward the addressee. The plural second-person pronoun and verb forms are used referring to a single person out of respect.

1. what language is the article about?
2. is it called something else?
3. what?
4. what countries do most people who speak it in South Eastern Europe live?
5. how many of them are there?
6. is it used in places other than Europe?
7. what makes it distinct?
8. in what order are words used?
9. what happened in 1928?
10. who did that?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Turkish
2. yes
3. Istanbul Turkish
4. East and Western Thrace
5. 1015 million
6. yes
7. vowel harmony and extensive agglutination
8. subjectobjectverb.
9. Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet.
10. Ottoman Empire

Question: (CNN) -- The mother of a 25-year-old woman killed in a Boston hotel more than a week ago said Friday that she will remain haunted by her daughter's death for the rest of her life.

The mother of Julissa Brisman says she remains haunted by her daughter's death.

"Our family has been devastated by the loss of our beautiful daughter, Julissa," Carmen Guzman said in a statement released Friday, which would have been Julissa Brisman's 26th birthday.

"The feeling of losing my daughter in this way and the pain she must have felt will haunt me for the rest of my life," Guzman said. "She won't live to see her dreams. We will hold Julissa in our hearts every day."

Philip Markoff, 23, a second-year student at Boston University's School of Medicine, is charged with killing Brisman on April 14 at Boston's Copley Marriott Hotel.

Police have said that Brisman, a model from New York, advertised as a masseuse on the online classifieds Web site Craigslist. They say Markoff may have met her through the online site.

Prosecutors say Brisman sustained blunt head trauma, and said she was shot three times at close range. One of the bullets passed through her heart, killing her, prosecutors said.

Markoff, who was arraigned Tuesday, is being held without bail. His attorney, John Salsberg, told reporters after the hearing that Markoff is "not guilty of the charges. He has his family's support. I have not received any document or report or piece of evidence other than what I heard in the courtroom. All I have at the moment are words -- no proof of anything." 1. Was the person killed a mother?
2. How old was the woman who was killed?
3. Is her mother alive?
4. Who was killed?
5. Did Carmen Guzman make a statement?
6. When did she do that?
7. What else was that day?
8. Who was charged?
9. When?
10. How old is he?
11. Where does he go to school?
12. For how long?
13. Where did the murder occur?
14. What was Brisman?
15. Who said that?
16. What did she advertise as?
17. Where?
18. Which site?
19. How many times was she shot?
20. At a far range? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. unknown
2. 25
3. Yes
4. Julissa Brisman
5. Yes
6. on Friday
7. Julissa Brisman's birthday.
8. Philip Markoff
9. April 14
10. 23
11. Boston University
12. two years
13. the Copley Marriott Hotel.
14. a model
15. Police
16. a masseuse
17. online classifieds
18. Craigslist.
19. Three
20. close range

Q: CHAPTER XXVII

THE COLLISION IN THE FOG

"Hullo! Mumps isn't keeping this flag of truce very good," remarked Sam, as the seashell dropped at his feet.

"There is something inside of the shell," said Tom. "A bit of paper. Perhaps it's a message?"

"I'll soon see," returned his younger brother, and ran to where he could not be seen from the other yacht.

He pulled from the seashell a small, square of paper, upon which had been hastily scrawled the following in lead pencil:

"I will help you all I can and hope you won't prosecute me. I will see that Dora S. gets something to eat, even if I give her my share. They intend to go to Sand Haven if they can give you the slip."

"Good for Mumps! He's coming to his senses," cried Sam, and showed the others the message. Dick read the words with much satisfaction.

"I hope he does stand by Dora," he said. "If so, I'll shield him all I can when the crowd is brought up for trial."

"If he tells the truth we may as well put into harbor and make for Sand Haven," said Martin Harris, who had now resumed the chase once more.

"Yes; but he may not be telling the truth," was Sergeant Brown's comment. "The whole thing may be a trick to get us to go to Sand Haven while that crowd goes somewhere else."

"I think they are tired of carrying the girl around," said Carter. "To give her up to us would have been no hardship."

1. Mumps
2. Sergeant Brown
3. Sand Haven
4. A bit of pape
5. a message
6. lead penci
7. Mumps
8. Sand Haven
9. Dora
10. no
11. square
12. no
13. satisfied
14. the others

Numbered questions:
1. who sent the message about Dora?
2. who thought it might be a trick?
3. where did he think it was trying to get them to go?
4. what was in the shell?
5. what was on the paper?
6. written in what?
7. who offered to give Dora their food?
8. where did he say they were going?
9. who did carter think they had grown tired of carrying?
10. was the paper in the shape of a circle?
11. what shape was it?
12. was the writing neat?
13. how did Mumps message make Dick feel?
14. who did Sam show it to?