Q: Luke was starting his first day of day care. He was a little nervous about meeting his new teacher and all of his new friends. When his mother dropped him off, he kissed her goodbye and sat down in the green seat that his teacher showed him. He looked around the room. There were a lot of other kids there. A baby sat in a high chair sucking on a blue pacifier. A kid about Luke's age named George was drawing and tracing his hand on paper. A little girl named Mary raised her hand and asked the teacher if she could go to the toilet. The teacher walked her into the bathroom and then returned to the class. She started helping Luke get to know the other kids in the class. A little girl named Jessica tapped Luke on the shoulder and gave him some candy. He took the pink candy from her and thanked her. Luke smiled and thought, "I'm going to like it here."

Answer the following questions:
1. What color was Luke's chair?
2. Who directed him to the chair?
3. This was his initial day of what?
4. Was he calm to meet his instructor?
5. How did he feel about it?
6. Who brought him there?
7. What did he give her when she left him there?
8. What color were the sweets?
9. What child was drawing something?
10. Who raised a hand?
11. Was she a big girl?
12. Was she small?
13. Who gave Luke sweets?
14. Where did she touch Luke?
15. Did he frown after taking the sweets?
16. Did he seem pleased with the sweets?
A: 1. Green
2. His teacher
3. Day care
4. No.
5. Nervous
6. His mother
7. A kiss
8. Pink
9. George
10. Mary
11. No.
12. Yes.
13. Jessica
14. On his shoulder
15. No.
16. Yes.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Price: PS28.00 Publication Date: 30/11/2006 Publisher's description: Collect Doyle's fifty-six classic short stories, arranged in the order in which they appeared in late-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-century book editions, in a set complemented by four novels, editor biographies of Doyle, Holmes, and Watson as well as literary and cultural details about Victorian society. Breaking Ground by Daniel Libeskind Price: PS16.00 Publication Date:11/10/2006 Brief description: This is a book about the adventure life that can offer each of us if we seize it, and about the powerful forces of tragedy, memory and hope. For Daniel Libeskind, life's adventure has been through architecture, which he has found has the power to reshape human experience. Although often relating to the past, his buildings are about the future. This biology of one man's journey brings together history, personal experience, our physical environment and a fresh international vision. In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman Price: PS16.00 Publication Date:02/09/2006 Brief description: On 11th September 2001, Art Spiegelman raced to the world Trade Center, not knowing if his daughter Nadja was alive or dead. Once she was found safe---in her school at the foot of the burning towers---he returned home, to mediate on the trauma , and to work on a comic strip . In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman's extraordinary account of "the hijacking on 9.11 and the following hijacking of those events" by America. Light on Snow by Anita Shreve Price: PS14.00 Publication Date:07/10/2006 Publisher's description: This is the 11th novel by Anita Shreve, the critically accepted bestseller. A moving story of love and courage and tragedy and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself. Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv Price: PS20.99 Publication Date:11/08/2006 Brief description: Camping in the garden, riding bikes through the woods, climbing trees, picking wildflowers, running through piles of autumn leaves... these are the things childhood memories are made of. But for a whole generation of today's children the pleasures of a free-range childhood are missing, and their indoor habits contribute to obesity, attention disorder and childhood depression. This book shows how our children have become increasingly distanced from nature, why this matters and how we can make a difference. Richard Louv is chairman of the Children and Nature Network and co-chair of the National Forum on Children and Nature. He is the author of seven other books and has written for newspapers and magazines including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

1. Who wrote this book?
2. What's the name of it?
3. When was it published?
4. How much is it?
5. Are the stories put in any certain order?
6. How many stories are there?
7. Does it include information about Victorian society?
8. What kind?
9. Who wrote Last Child in the woods?
10. When was it put into print?
11. How much does it cost?
12. What kind of childhood are kids missing out on?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. 30/11/2006
4. PS28.00
5. yes
6. fifty-six
7. yes
8. cultural details
9. Richard Louv
10. 11/08/2006
11. PS20.99
12. free-range

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XX

A LONG CHASE BEGUN

As they journeyed down the Hudson the boys and Martin Harris scanned the river eagerly for some sign of the _Flyaway_.

"It's ten to one she put down a pretty good distance," remarked Dick. "They wouldn't bring Dora over here unless they were bound for New York or some other place as far or further."

"I believe you," said Tom. "But she may be delayed, and if what Harris says is true the _Searchlight_ ought to make better time than Baxter's craft."

Several miles were covered, when, Sam, who had just come up from the cabin, called attention to a farmer who was ferrying a load of hay across the river.

"If he's been at that sort of work all day he may know something of the _Flyaway_," he suggested.

"We'll hail him, anyway," said Tom. "It won't do any harm, providing we don't lose any time."

So the farmer was hailed and asked if he had seen anything of the craft.

"Waal now, I jest guess I did," he replied. "They war havin' great times on board of her--a takin' care of that crazy gal."

"A crazy girl!" cried Dick. "Who said she was crazy?"

"One of the young men. He said she was his sister and had escaped from some asylum. She called to me to help her. But I don't want nuthin' to do with crazy gals. My wife's cousin was out of his head and he cut up high jinks around the house, a-threatenin' folks with a butcher knife."

1. what boat are they searching for?
2. what river were they on?
3. did they think they were far behind?
4. who did they see on the river?
5. what was he doing?
6. how long had he beebnat it?
7. did they think he had seen the boat?
8. did they ask him?
9. had he seen it?
10. what did they tell him was wrong with Dora?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. the Flyaway
2. the Hudson
3. yes
4. a farmer
5. ferrying a load of hay
6. all day
7. They believed it was a possibility
8. yes
9. yes
10. unknown