Problem: Ally wanted to bake a cake for her best friend Kelly's birthday. Ally called her friend Melissa saying that she needed Melissa's help to make the cake. Melissa wanted to bake cookies and cupcakes too. Ally said that was okay and to buy everything. Melissa went to the store and bought everything. Melissa went to Ally's house and they started to make the cake. After baking the cake, they started making cookies and cupcakes. The house smelled great. They had a lot of fun baking. After cleaning up, they called Kelly to come over to Ally's house and surprise her for her birthday. Kelly was surprised and so was their friend Shannon. The girls ate the cake and snacked on the cookies and cupcakes. The ladies laughed and talked as they ate. After eating, they watched a movie on Ally's TV. It was a good movie and the ladies all laughed and talked about it after. Kelly and Shannon left Ally's house to go home. Melissa and Ally said bye and had big smiles. It was a great day, and Ally was happy.
1. Who was Ally's best friend?
2. What did Ally want to do?
3. Who did she call to help her?
4. Did she want to do anything else?
5. What?
6. Where did they make everything?
7. Did they have fun?
8. Was Kelly surprised?
9. Did anyone else come?
10. Did everyone have a good time?
11. Did they do anything else?
12. Was it a good one?
13. Who purchased the ingredients for everything?
14. What were they all celebrating?
15. Did they clean before or after she came over?
Answer: 1. Kelly
2. To bake a cake
3. Melissa
4. Yes
5. To bake cookies and cupcakes
6. Ally's house
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Shannon
10. Yes
11. They watched a movie
12. Yes
13. Melissa
14. Kelly's birthday
15. After

Problem: A pet parrot that spoke with a British accent when it disappeared from its home four years ago has been reunited with its owner ---- and the bird now speaks Spanish. The reunion was brought about by Teresa Micco, a Southern California veterinarian who mistook Nigel, an African gray parrot, for her own missing bird, the Daily Breeze reported on Sunday. Teresa Micco tracked Nigel's microchip to Darren Chick, a British man who lives in Torrance, California. "I introduced myself and said, 'Have you lost a bird?' "Micco told the newspaper. "He first said, 'No' But he thought I meant recently " When she checked on Chick's name and said she had his African gray parrot, "He looked at me like I was crazy. " He said his bird had gone missing for four years earlier. Little is known about Nigel's whereabouts for the past four years, but Chick says the bird's British accent is gone, and it now chatters in Spanish. Chick says last week's reunion brought tears of joy to his eyes---despite the fact that Nigel bit him when he first tried to pick him up. Micco said the behaviour was not unusual and that Nigel would settle back in soon enough. "He is doing very well," Chick told the newspaper. "It is really strange. I knew it was him from the minute I saw him" It is the fifth parrot reunion helped by Micco, who has been running advertisements for her own missing bird for nine months. That parrot, Benjamin, escaped in February when it flew out through a door that had been left open. Julissa Sperling found Nigel outside her home and brought him to Micco after seeing one of her advertisements. "He was the happiest bird. He was singing and talking all the time," Sperling said. "He was barking like my dogs. I am from Panama, and he was saying, 'What happened?' in Spanish."
1. What is the parrot's name?
2. Does it speak Italian?
3. How many parrots has Micco reunited with their owners?
4. Who is Micco's parrot?
5. Has it been missing since February?
6. Who left the door open?
7. What accent does Nigel have?
8. Any others?
9. Was Nigel missing for more or less time than Benjamin has been missing?
10. Is it an African swallow?
11. In what city does its owner live?
12. What technology helped to locate the owner?
13. Was he happy to get the bird back?
14. How did Nigel react initially?
15. Does that mean the bird doesn't like him anymore?
16. Was the owner actively looking for his bird?
17. Who found the bird?
18. What animal was the bird mimicking?
19. Was he speaking in French?
20. What is Micco's occupation?
Answer: 1. Nigel
2. no
3. five
4. Benjamin
5. yes
6. unknown
7. Spanish
8. it had a British accent but it is gone now
9. more
10. now
11. Torrance, California.
12. microchip
13. yes
14. Nigel bit him
15. no
16. unknown
17. Julissa Sperling
18. dog
19. no
20. veterinarian

Problem: CHAPTER XXX

FINAL SCENES OF THE GREAT FIGHT

"Si has fallen overboard!"

The cry came from half a dozen throats at once, and Walter's heart almost stopped beating, so attached had he become to the Yankee lad.

"If he's overboard, he'll be sucked under and drowned," he groaned. "I wonder if I can see anything of him."

Without a second thought he leaped on the gun and began to crawl out, on hands and knees, as perilous a thing to do, with the vessel going at full speed, as one would care to undertake.

"Come back!" roared Caleb, trying to detain him. "You'll go overboard, too."

At that moment came a cry from below, and looking down the steel side of the _Brooklyn_, Walter beheld Si clinging to a rope ladder, one of several flung over, to be used in case of emergency. "Si, are you all right?" he called loudly.

"I--reckon--I--I am," came with a pant.

"But I had an awful tumble and the wind is about knocked out o' me." And then Si began to climb up to the deck.

"He's on the ladder and he's all right," shouted Walter, to those still behind the gun. Then a sudden idea struck him. "Hand me another rammer, Stuben."

"Mine cracious! don't you try dot," cried the hose-man. "You vos fall ofer chust like Si."

"Yes, come in here," put in Caleb, and Paul also called upon him to return.

"I'm all right," was the boy's reply. "Give it to me, Stuben." And catching the rammer from the hose-man, Steve Colton passed it forward. "In war we have got to take some risks," he reasoned, as Caleb gave him a severe look.
1. What chapter is this?
2. Who fell overboard?
3. What was he?
4. Who went looking for him?
5. Who tired to stop him?
6. How did Si get back on the ship
7. Was he okay?
8. What was Walter calling for when struck with inspiration?
9. Did the other men think it was a good idea?
10. What did steve colton say as he passed the rammer?
Answer:
1. Chapter 30
2. Si
3. A Yankee lad.
4. Walter
5. Caleb
6. a rope ladder
7. Yes
8. another rammer
9. No
10. "In war we have got to take some risks,"