Problem: CHAPTER VII

IN WHICH MIKE IS DISCUSSED

Trevor and Clowes, of Donaldson's, were sitting in their study a week after the gramophone incident, preparatory to going on the river. At least Trevor was in the study, getting tea ready. Clowes was on the window-sill, one leg in the room, the other outside, hanging over space. He loved to sit in this attitude, watching some one else work, and giving his views on life to whoever would listen to them. Clowes was tall, and looked sad, which he was not. Trevor was shorter, and very much in earnest over all that he did. On the present occasion he was measuring out tea with a concentration worthy of a general planning a campaign.

"One for the pot," said Clowes.

"All right," breathed Trevor. "Come and help, you slacker."

"Too busy."

"You aren't doing a stroke."

"My lad, I'm thinking of Life. That's a thing you couldn't do. I often say to people, 'Good chap, Trevor, but can't think of Life. Give him a tea-pot and half a pound of butter to mess about with,' I say, 'and he's all right. But when it comes to deep thought, where is he? Among the also-rans.' That's what I say."

"Silly ass," said Trevor, slicing bread. "What particular rot were you thinking about just then? What fun it was sitting back and watching other fellows work, I should think."

"My mind at the moment," said Clowes, "was tensely occupied with the problem of brothers at school. Have you got any brothers, Trevor?"
1. Had there been an incident with a gramophone?
2. Who does Trevor think is a silly ass?
3. Was his mind occupied with thoughts of girls?
4. Then who?
5. Is he interested in Trevor's siblings?
6. Does he also think on life?
7. What type of chap does he think Trevor to be?
8. How much butter does Trevor need to have a good time?
9. What else does he need?
10. Does Clowes think Trevor capable of deep thought?
11. Does Trevor think Clowes is a go-getter or a slacker?
12. What academy are the boys from?
13. Where are they sitting?
14. How long's it been since that record player incident?
15. Where are they preparing to go?
16. Is Clowes all the way in the room?
17. What's hanging out in space?
18. Is Clowes short or tall?
19. Is he sad?
20. What's Trevor making for them to drink?
Answer: 1. yes
2. Clowes
3. no
4. brothers at school
5. yes
6. yes
7. good
8. half a pound
9. a tea-pot
10. no
11. slacker
12. Donaldson's
13. in their study
14. a week
15. on the river
16. no
17. his leg
18. tall
19. no
20. tea

Problem: Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States. The state is the tenth largest by area, the least populous and the second least densely populated state in the country. Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana, on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska, on the south by Colorado, on the southwest by Utah, and on the west by Idaho. The state population was estimated at 586,107 in 2015, which is less than 31 of the largest U.S. cities including neighboring Denver. Cheyenne is the capital and the most populous city, with population estimated at 63,335 in 2015.

The western two-thirds of the state is covered mostly by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie called the High Plains. Almost half of the land in Wyoming is owned by the U.S. government, leading Wyoming to rank sixth by area and fifth by proportion of a state's land owned by the federal government. Federal lands include two national parksGrand Teton and Yellowstonetwo national recreation areas, two national monuments, several national forests, historic sites, fish hatcheries, and wildlife refuges.

Original inhabitants of the region include the Crow, Arapaho, Lakota, and Shoshone. Southwestern Wyoming was in the Spanish Empire and then Mexican territory until it was ceded to the United States in 1848 at the end of the MexicanAmerican War. The region acquired the name "Wyoming" when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress in 1865 to provide a "temporary government for the territory of Wyoming". The name was used earlier for the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, and is derived from the Munsee word "", meaning "at the big river flat".
1. Which region Wyoming is in?
2. Who were the original inhabitants there?
3. Which part of it went under an Empire?
4. Which empire?
5. After that what it became?
6. Which year it became part of US?
7. Which war led that?
8. What is its rank by area?
9. How about population?
10. How many states border it?
11. Can you name two of them?
12. Which state is to its north?
13. And south?
14. What is Wyoming's population?
15. When the it was named Wyoming?
16. Which state had a similarly named place?
17. What Wyoming means?
18. Is the state mountainous?
Answer: 1. western United States
2. Crow, Arapaho, Lakota, and Shoshone
3. Southwestern Wyoming
4. Spanish
5. Wyoming
6. 1848
7. MexicanAmerican War.
8. tenth
9. second least densely
10. Six
11. South Dakota and Nebraska
12. Montana
13. Colorado
14. 586,107
15. 1865
16. Pennsylvania
17. at the big river flat
18. yes

Problem: CHAPTER XXXIII

RALPH FINDS THE DREAM MOUNTAIN

Now I must go back to that evening when we learned the great tidings from the lips of the lad Gaasha, whose life Ralph had saved after the attack by the Kaffirs upon the laager. There sat Gaasha on the ground staring, and there, not far away, Ralph was lying in his swoon, while Jan and I looked at each other like people who have suddenly beheld a sign from heaven.

"What evil magic is there in my words," said Gaasha presently, "that they should strike the Baas yonder dead like a spear?"

"He is not dead," I answered, "but for long he has sought that mountain Umpondwana of which you speak. Tell us now, did you hear of any white woman dwelling with the chieftainess Sihamba?"

"No, lady, I heard of none."

This answer of Gaasha's saddened me, for I made sure that if so strange a thing had happened as that a white woman had come to live among his tribe, the man who told him of the return of Sihamba would have told him of this also. Therefore, so I argued, either Suzanne was dead or she was in the power of Piet Van Vooren, or Sihamba had deserted her, though this last I did not believe. As it turned out afterwards, had not Gaasha been the stupidest of Kaffirs, we should have been saved those long days of doubt and trouble, for though he had not heard that Sihamba was accompanied by a white woman, he had heard that she brought with her a white _bird_ to the mountain Umpondwana. Of course if he had told us this we should have guessed that the white bird could be none other than Suzanne, whose native name was Swallow.
1. Who was on the ground?
2. Who was the most stupid of Kaffirs?
3. What was Suzanne's native name?
4. Whose life did Ralph save?
5. Who was lying in a swoon?
6. What mountain was being sought?
7. Did someone inquire about the presence of a white woman?
8. Was it possible that Suzanne was deceased?
9. Who possibly deserted her?
10. What color was the bird mentioned?
Answer:
1. Gaasha
2. she was
3. Swallow
4. Gaasha
5. Ralph
6. Umpondwana
7. yes
8. yes
9. Sihamba
10. white