input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

DINNER AT BICKERSTAFF'S--HIFFERNAN AND HIS IMPECUNIOSITY--KENRICK'S EPIGRAM--JOHNSON'S CONSOLATION--GOLDSMITH'S TOILET--THE BLOOM-COLORED COAT--NEW ACQUAINTANCES--THE HORNECKS--A TOUCH OF POETRY AND PASSION--THE JESSAMY BRIDE

In October Goldsmith returned to town and resumed his usual haunts. We hear of him at a dinner given by his countryman, Isaac Bickerstaff, author of Love in a Village, Lionel and Clarissa, and other successful dramatic pieces. The dinner was to be followed by the reading by Bickerstaff of a new play. Among the guests was one Paul Hiffernan, likewise an Irishman; somewhat idle and intemperate; who lived nobody knew how nor where, sponging wherever he had a chance, and often of course upon Goldsmith, who was ever the vagabond's friend, or rather victim. Hiffernan was something of a physician, and elevated the emptiness of his purse into the dignity of a disease, which he termed _impecuniosity_, and against which he claimed a right to call for relief from the healthier purses of his friends. He was a scribbler for the newspapers, and latterly a dramatic critic, which had probably gained him an invitation to the dinner and reading. The wine and wassail, however, befogged his senses. Scarce had the author got into the second act of his play, when Hiffernan began to nod, and at length snored outright. Bickerstaff was embarrassed, but continued to read in a more elevated tone. The louder he read, the louder Hiffernan snored; until the author came to a pause. "Never mind the brute, Bick, but go on," cried Goldsmith. "He would have served Homer just so if he were here and reading his own works." 1. What chapter are we discussing?
2. What month is it?
3. What happened in October?
4. Where did he go?
5. Who was giving the dinner?
6. Who was Isaac Bickerstaff?
7. What did he write?
8. What was he going to read?
9. who else was attending?
10. What was his profession
11. Do he do anything else?
12. Was he drunk?
13. What did that cause him to do?
14. Was he loud?
15. What country was he from?
16. Did the snoring make him quit?
17. Who encouraged him to continue?
18. Did Hifferman ever take advantage of Goldsmitih?
19. Did they know where he lived?
20. Where did he get his money when he could?
numbered_answers: 1. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
2. October
3. Goldsmith returned to town and resumed his usual haunts
4. to a dinner
5. A dinner that was to be followed by the reading by Bickerstaff
6. An author
7. Love in a Village, Lionel and Clarissa, and other successful dramatic pieces.
8. a new play
9. Paul Hiffernan
10. a physician
11. a scribbler for the newspapers, and a dramatic critic,
12. yes
13. He began to nod, and at length snored outright
14. Yes
15. He was Irish in decent
16. Bickerstaff didn't stop his reading
17. Goldsmith
18. yes
19. It doesn't explicitly say
20. sponging wherever he had a chance, and often of course upon Goldsmith

Q: Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated /1e6 round 1 million inhabitants , it is the world's 14th-most-populous country, and the ninth-most-populous Asian country. Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest, and the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia across the South China Sea to the east and southeast. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976, with Ho Chi Minh City as a historical city as well.

The northern part of Vietnam was part of Imperial China for over a millennium, from 111 BC to AD 939. An independent Vietnamese state was formed in 939, following a Vietnamese victory in the Battle of Bach ang River. Successive Vietnamese imperial dynasties flourished as the nation expanded geographically and politically into Southeast Asia, until the Indochina Peninsula was colonized by the French in the mid-19th century.

Following a Japanese occupation in the 1940s, the Vietnamese fought French rule in the First Indochina War, eventually expelling the French in 1954. Thereafter, Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North Vietnam (officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and South Vietnam (officially the Republic of Vietnam). Conflict between the two sides intensified in what is known as the Vietnam War, with heavy intervention by the United States on the side of South Vietnam from 1965 to 1973. The war ended with a North Vietnamese victory in 1975.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who controlled this area in acient times?
2. When?
3. What is the official name?
4. Who won the conflict with the US?
5. When?
6. When was it previously divided?
7. How?
8. Where is it located?
9. What is its rank in population?
10. And in Asia?
11. What was the first time they were independent?
12. When did other people come?
13. By whom?
14. Who came later?
15. How many countries border this one?
16. How many years did the conflict with the US last?
17. Spanning what years?
18. When did the two parts become one again?
19. What has been the capital since?
20. What other city is important?
A:
1. China
2. from 111 BC to AD 939
3. the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
4. North Vietnam
5. in 1975
6. after 1954
7. between North and South
8. in Southeast Asia
9. the world's 14th-most-populous country
10. the ninth-most-populous
11. 939
12. in the mid-19th century
13. the French
14. the Japanese
15. six
16. eight
17. 1965 to 1973
18. 1975
19. Hanoi
20. Ho Chi Minh City