Q: (CNN) -- The way some Republicans talk about the Environmental Protection Agency, you would think it was created by a bunch of pot-smoking hippies communing at a nudist camp in northern California -- when in fact, the EPA was created by one of their own, Richard Nixon, in 1970.

Much as Republicans don't like to bring up the huge tax increases instituted by their hero, Ronald Reagan, they prefer to sidestep their role in the EPA's humble beginnings and blame it on Democrats. They characterize the whole thing as an albatross hanging around the economy's neck.

To be fair, Nixon did not ride into the White House as a conservationist, and he did veto the Clean Water Act. But he said he did so because of the price tag of the policy, not its purpose. After the Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969 -- which at the time was the largest in U.S. history -- Nixon agreed with the rest of thinking society that clean water and air were a good thing. And his fingerprints are all over such tree-hugging initiatives as the Clean Air Act.

Sadly, if he tried any of that funny business today, his own party would probably impeach him. That's how far down the oil well some in the Republican leadership have fallen.

Rep. Michelle Bachmann said she would lock the EPA's doors and turn off its lights if she were president (thankfully there's no chance of that); Newt Gingrich said he would shut down the EPA and create a replacement to work with businesses to create jobs (making it more of a lapdog than watchdog); Rick Perry asked the president to halt all regulations, adding "his EPA regulations are killing jobs all across America."

1. Richard Nixon
2. 1970
3. Republicans
4. No
5. unknown
6. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. Who created the EPA?
2. When was that?
3. What political part was he part of?
4. Were they proud he started it?
5. Why did he start it?
6. What happened to cause him to start it?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Laura and Graham were having a party for their good friend Judy. Judy had graduated high school and they wanted to show her how proud they were of her, and Judy would be moving far away at the end of the year. Judy was going to college to become a doctor. She thought about becoming a lawyer or an engineer. She even thought about being a scientist. Judy would be bringing her friend Mike. There wouldn't be many people at the party, since this was a celebration with close friends. Laura set out drinks and snacks for Judy and the other guests. The snacks she set out were salty pretzels. 1. Who was throwing a party?
2. For who?
3. What for?
4. Is she planning on staying near her friends?
5. Was the party huge and loud?
6. Where is she going?
7. To become an engineer?
8. What is she going for?
9. Who did she bring to the party?
10. Who sat out the drinks and snacks?
numbered_answers: 1. Laura and Graham
2. Judy
3. Judy's graduation.
4. No
5. No
6. to college
7. No
8. To be a doctor
9. Mike
10. Laura

input: When Brody Roybal was a baby, he didn't have legs. But that didn't make him feel sad or stop him from trying sports. He tried different kinds of sports. When he tried sled hockey at the age of 7, he loved it. " That was it," says Roybal. He is now 15 and a student in a high school in Chicago. " It's all I wanted to do." Roybal joined a sled hockey team. At the age of 12, he started playing in an adult team. It was much harder for him, but he still worked hard. Now Roybal is a player of the sled hockey team in his country. O' Connor, manager of the team, says Roybal is very good. " Everybody dreams of going to the Olympic Games and winning the game," O' Connor says. " That's something that I couldn't do, but Roybal can. He is lucky and he can go to the next Olympics." It's true that when God closes a door, he opens a window for you. 1. What was wrong with Brody?
2. When did that happen?
3. Was he upset?
4. What did he do?
5. When?
6. What sport?
7. Did he like it?
8. How old is he now?
9. Where is he?
10. Does he still play?
11. Where?
12. When did he start doing that?
13. What kind of team?
14. For kids?
15. Was it easy for him?
16. Is he good?
17. How do you know?
18. Who is that?
19. What does he want to do next?
20. Can he?
21. What does his coach think?
22. Did his coach play in the olympics? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. he didn't have legs
2. when he was a baby,
3. no
4. He tried different kinds of sports.
5. Seven
6. hockey
7. yes
8. 15
9. Chicago
10. yes
11. in his country
12. 12
13. sled hockey
14. no
15. no
16. yes
17. his manager said
18. O' Connor
19. go to the olympics
20. no
21. He is lucky and he can go to the next Olympics."
22. no

CHAPTER V.

IN LOWER EGYPT.

"I am going on a journey," Ameres said to his son a few days after the return from the farm. "I shall take you with me, Chebron, for I am going to view the progress of a fresh canal that is being made on our estate in Goshen. The officer who is superintending it has doubts whether, when the sluices are opened, it will altogether fulfill its purpose, and I fear that some mistake must have been made in the levels. I have already taught you the theory of the work; it is well that you should gain some practical experience in it; for there is no more useful or honorable profession than that of carrying out works by which the floods of the Nile are conveyed to the thirsty soil."

"Thank you, father. I should like it greatly," Chebron replied in a tone of delight, for he had never before been far south of Thebes. "And may Amuba go with us?"

"Yes; I was thinking of taking him," the high priest said. "Jethro can also go, for I take a retinue with me. Did I consult my own pleasure I would far rather travel without this state and ceremony; but as a functionary of state I must conform to the customs. And, indeed, even in Goshen it is as well always to travel in some sort of state. The people there are of a different race to ourselves. Although they have dwelt a long time in the land and conform to its customs, still they are notoriously a stubborn and obstinate people, and there is more trouble in getting the public works executed there than in any other part of the country." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who is having a conversation?
2. What's the dad's name?
3. And the son's?
4. Where was the canal being built?
5. Where in Goshen?
6. Who did Chebron want to accompany them?
7. Was the father agreeable?
8. Who did the father want to take?
9. What did the dad think was the problem with the canal?
10. What was the son already schooled in?
11. What part of the work?
12. And what would he attain on this trip hopefully?
Answer:
1. A father and his son
2. Ameres
3. Chebron
4. Goshen
5. far south of Thebes
6. Amuba
7. Yes
8. Jethro
9. that a mistake has been made
10. the work
11. the theory
12. practical experience