Problem: (CNN) -- Risking their lives to help disadvantaged Afghans became almost a norm for Tom and Libby Little.

"We raised our three daughters through what was, at times, just hell," Libby Little said. "A hundred rockets a day was a good day."

Family members lived underground to avoid bombings, she said. Yet they stayed out of a love for the people and a passion for providing eye care for the needy.

But violence prevailed on Thursday.

Tom Little, a New York optometrist, was among 10 people killed by gunmen in Badakhshan, a remote northeastern region of the country. The mostly foreign members of a medical team were robbed and shot one-by-one on a remote road. Their bodies were transferred to Kabul early Sunday, authorities said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

"He died right where he loved to be -- and that was doing eye care in remote areas," Little said from her home in New York. "Our daughters are missing him terribly. But I think their feeling is, too, that this is a real passion that he had."

More than 400 people gathered Sunday at Loudonville Community Church in Loudonville, New York, to honor Little. The church supported his trip financially and emotionally.

"Four weeks ago, Tom Little stood right here," an emotional Stan Key, senior pastor, told the congregation.

The church had printed Wednesday in its weekly worship guide, "Praise the Lord that Tom's ministry in conducting outpatient clinics ... in a remote village was successful. God protected Tom and his team." Key said he decided to leave it in the guide even after hearing the news of Little's death.
1. What kind of doctor was Tom Little?
2. Where is he from?
3. What happened to him?
4. How?
5. Where?
6. Was he alone?
7. How many people was he with?
8. Why were they shot?
9. How many daughters did he leave behind?
10. Was he married?
11. To whom?
12. Did they live in a safe area?
13. How did they miss being bombed?
14. Why did they stay there?
15. What were they passionate about?
16. Who killed Tom?
17. What day was it?
18. How many people showed up to his memorial?
19. Where?
20. Who had kept Tom safe?
Answer: 1. optometrist
2. New York
3. he was killed
4. by gunmen
5. Badakhshan
6. no
7. ten
8. they were being robbed
9. three
10. yes
11. Libby Little
12. no
13. by living underground
14. They loved the people
15. providing eye care for the needy
16. The Taliban
17. Thursday.
18. More than 400
19. Loudonville Community Church
20. God

Q: Managua, Nicaragua (CNN) -- Daniel Ortega marked the beginning of his third term as Nicaragua's president during an inauguration ceremony Tuesday -- an event both buoyed by his pledges of moderation and marred by months of discord over voter irregularities.

The Nicaraguan leader pledged that his socialist government would continue efforts to promote peace and attack poverty.

"Savage capitalism, it is no longer possible. There is no space on this planet for savage capitalism," Ortega said in a wide-ranging inauguration speech that touched on a international events, including war in Afghanistan, last year's earthquake in Japan and the killing of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Shortly after taking his oath of office, Ortega hugged Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who were among a number of dignitaries at the ceremony.

"People have tried to give many interpretations to the visit of (Ahmadinejad). I think they still don't understand that it is necessary to look for an authentic path toward peace," Ortega said during his inauguration address, stressing that it was within Iran's right to use nuclear technology for energy needs.

"They cannot deny that right to any people," he said.

Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour

Ortega is known as a Venezuela ally, had been a public supporter of Gadhafi and remains a stalwart U.S. critic.

In his speech Tuesday, the Nicaraguan president decried Gadhafi's killing.

"A head of state in Libya was assassinated in the most brutal manner, with some television media basking in the crime. If there were accusations, it was logical to detain him," he said.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who gave a victory speech?
2. What had he won?
3. For what?
4. As what?
5. Did he embrace anyone?
6. Who?
7. Is he a capitalist?
8. What is he then?
9. Who is he allied with?
10. Who did he used to support?
11. What happened to that guy?
12. By whom?
13. Who does he feel about the USA?
14. Did the vote go smoothly?
15. How long did it drag on?
16. Does he want to fight against peacefulness?
17. What does he want to do then?
18. Did he talk about any natural disasters?
19. From where?
20. What kind of tech does he want to utilize?
A: 1. Ortega
2. An election
3. His third term
4. Nicaragua's president
5. Yes
6. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
7. No
8. A socialist
9. Venezuela
10. Gadhafi
11. He was killed
12. unknown
13. Critical
14. No
15. Months
16. No
17. Promote peace and attack poverty
18. Yes
19. Japan
20. unknown

Problem: Throughout history, forms of art have gone through periodic abrupt changes called artistic revolutions. Movements have come to an end to be replaced by a new movement markedly different in striking ways. See also cultural movements.

The role of fine art has been to simultaneously express values of the current culture while also offering criticism, balance, or alternatives to any such values that are proving no longer useful. So as times change, art changes. If changes were abrupt they were deemed revolutions. The best artists have predated society's changes due not to any prescience, but because sensitive perceptivity is part of their talent of seeing.

Artists who succeeded enough to portray visions that future generations could live to see, often had to navigate an often treacherous path between their own capacity to see and execute what lesser artists could not, while still appealing to powerful patrons who could finance their visions. For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

No art owes quite as much to state power as French painting does. It was in the age of absolute monarchy launched by Louix XIV in the 17th century that the likes of Poussin and Le Brun put France in the forefront of European art. Versailles found its stately mirror in the powerful idea of classicism a painting style, enduring in later artists like Ingres, whose austerity and grandeur express the authority of a world where Jove is very much in his throne.
1. Who put France in the forefront of European art?
2. Who else?
3. What are artistic revolutions?
4. What did paintings glorify in the 17th century?
5. What was classicism?
6. If changes to art were abrupt, what were they called?
7. Why have the best artists predated changes in society?
8. What kind of art owes the most to state power?
9. Who launched the age of absolute monarchy?
10. As times change, what else does too?
11. Who found its mirror in the idea of classicism?
12. What do artists who've succeeded often have to do?
Answer:
1. Le Brun
2. Versailles
3. forms of art having gone through periodic abrupt changes
4. aristocracy
5. a painting style, enduring in later artists like Ingres, whose austerity and grandeur express the authority of a world where Jove is very much in his throne.
6. artistic revolutions
7. sensitive perceptivity is part of their talent of seeing
8. French painting
9. Louix XIV
10. art
11. Versailles
12. navigate an often treacherous path between their own capacity to see and execute what lesser artists could not, while still appealing to powerful patrons who could finance their visions