Problem: (CNN) -- Today is the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a champion for freedom, civil rights and justice.

I was blessed to be with him the last weekend before his death. I remember the trauma he felt as a result of his opposition to the war in Vietnam.

Before going to Memphis, King had the Rev. Ralph Abernathy call for a staff meeting in his church study on a Saturday morning. His close aides came. King complained that he had felt the pain of "a migraine headache for four days." He said, "Maybe I've done as much as I could. We've come from the back of the bus, gotten the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act..." One of us -- Andy Young -- asked him not to talk that way. King responded, "Don't say peace when there is no peace."

Many of his supporters had turned against him because of his position on the war in Vietnam, but King felt he had to do what was right. He contended, "There are those who want me to confine my morality to the war on poverty and overlook the war in Vietnam. However, the bombs in Vietnam ultimately explode at home because of poverty." He contemplated fasting until he was near the point of death, anticipating that "those who disagree with me would come to my bedside and we could reconcile."

But then he shook off his pessimism and declared, "Let's turn a minus into a plus, like we did before. Let's make this nation deal forthrightly with the issue of poverty."
1. What is today?
2. Who was he?
3. Why were people upset with him?
4. What was he suffering from?
5. What had he accomplished?
6. how long had he suffered?
7. Where was the staff meeting?
8. When?
9. Where was he about to go?
10. What did someone tell him?
11. What did he answer?
12. Why were people upset with him?
13. Why?
14. What was his response?
15. How did the war affect home?
16. What did he contemplate?
17. For how long?
18. What did he want America to deal with?
19. Who would come to his bed?
Answer: 1. 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. a champion for freedom, civil rights and justice.
3. opposition to the war in Vietnam
4. migraine headache
5. the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act
6. four days
7. church study
8. Saturday morning
9. Memphis
10. not to talk that way
11. "Don't say peace when there is no peace."
12. his position on the war in Vietnam
13. There are those who want me to confine my morality to the war on poverty and overlook the war in Vietnam
14. had to do what was right.
15. the bombs in Vietnam ultimately explode at home because of poverty."
16. fasting
17. near the point of death
18. the issue of poverty.
19. "those who disagree with me

Q: CHAPTER V

In the misty morning twilight Colonel Zane, fully armed, paced to and fro before his cabin, on guard. All night he had maintained a watch. He had not considered it necessary to send his family into the fort, to which they had often been compelled to flee. On the previous night Jonathan had come swiftly back to the cabin, and, speaking but two words, seized his weapons and vanished into the black night. The words were "Injuns! Wetzel!" and there were none others with more power to affect hearers on the border. The colonel believed that Wetzel had signaled to Jonathan.

On the west a deep gully with precipitous sides separated the settlement from a high, wooded bluff. Wetzel often returned from his journeying by this difficult route. He had no doubt seen Indian signs, and had communicated the intelligence to Jonathan by their system of night-bird calls. The nearness of the mighty hunter reassured Colonel Zane.

When the colonel returned from his chase of the previous night, he went directly to the stable, there to find that the Indians had made off with a thoroughbred, and Betty's pony. Colonel Zane was furious, not on account of the value of the horses, but because Bess was his favorite bay, and Betty loved nothing more than her pony Madcap. To have such a march stolen on him after he had heard and seen the thieves was indeed hard. High time it was that these horse thieves be run to earth. No Indian had planned these marauding expeditions. An intelligent white man was at the bottom of the thieving, and he should pay for his treachery.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was the threat?
2. WHat did they do?
3. Who did they steal from?
4. Did he know they were a threat?
5. How?
6. Who was he?
7. Who did he comminucate with?
8. What method did he use?
9. Why would Wetzel contact Jonathan?
10. WHat did JOnathan do after hearing that?
11. What did Colonel Zane do?
12. Why did he stay behind?
13. What could he have done instead?
14. How long did he stay up?
15. Were they successful in stopping the Indians?
16. Were the stolen items valuble?
17. Was that why people were upset?
18. Why then?
19. What other reasons?
20. Did they think the natives were working alone?
21. Who did they think was responsible?
A: 1. Indians
2. made off with a thoroughbred, and Betty's pony.
3. Colonel Zane
4. yes
5. Wetzel had signaled
6. a mighty hunter
7. Jonathan
8. system of night-bird calls
9. seen Indian signs
10. seized his weapons
11. maintained a watch.
12. his family
13. send his family into the fort
14. All night
15. no
16. yes
17. no
18. Bess was his favorite
19. Betty loved her pony
20. no
21. An intelligent white man

Problem: CHAPTER XIV

There were times during their rapid journey when Seaman, studying his companion, became thoughtful. Dominey seemed, indeed, to have passed beyond the boundaries of any ordinary reserve, to have become like a man immeshed in the toils of a past so absorbing that he moved as though in a dream, speaking only when necessary and comporting himself generally like one to whom all externals have lost significance. As they embarked upon the final stage of their travels, Seaman leaned forward in his seat in the sombrely upholstered, overheated compartment.

"Your home-coming seems to depress you, Von Ragastein," he said.

"It was not my intention," Dominey replied, "to set foot in Germany again for many years."

"The past still bites?"

"Always."

The train sped on through long chains of vineyard-covered hills, out into a stretch of flat country, into forests of pines, in the midst of which were great cleared spaces, where, notwithstanding the closely drawn windows, the resinous odour from the fallen trunks seemed to permeate the compartment. Presently they slackened speed. Seaman glanced at his watch and rose.

"Prepare yourself, my friend," he said. "We descend in a few minutes."

Dominey glanced out of the window.

"But where are we?" he enquired.

"Within five minutes of our destination."

"But there is not a house in sight," Dominey remarked wonderingly.

"You will be received on board His Majesty's private train," Seaman announced. "The Kaiser, with his staff, is making one of his military tours. We are honoured by being permitted to travel back with him as far as the Belgian frontier."
1. How many characters are in the passage?
2. What are their names?
3. What type of vehicle are they traveling in?
4. Who doesn't seem to be excited?
5. What country is he from?
6. How long is it until their next stop?
7. Where are they headed to next?
8. How will they get there?
9. Who is the more quiet companion?
10. Does he have fond memories of his homeland?
Answer:
1. Two.
2. Seaman and Dominey.
3. A train.
4. Dominey.
5. Germany.
6. A few minutes.
7. The Belgian frontier.
8. On board His Majesty's private train.
9. Dominey.
10. No.