question: Steve Flaig of Grand Rapids, Michigan, knew he'd been adopted as a baby, and when he turned 18, in 2003, he decided he'd try to track down his birth mother. The agency from which he'd been adopted gave him his mother's name: Christine Tallady. But online searches didn't turn up any results, and Flaig let it go.

In 2007, though, he searched for the name again online. This time, the search results included a home address near the Lowe's store where Flaig, then 22, worked as a deliveryman.When he mentioned the coincidence to his boss, his boss said, " You mean Chris Tallady, who works here?"

Flaig and Tallady, 45, a cashier, had said hi to each other a few times at thestore, but they'd never really talked. He hadn't even known her name. Flaig thought, " There's no possible way she's my mother."

For a few months, Flaig avoided Tallady. " I wasn't sure how to approach her," he told a local reporter. Finally, an adoption agency employee volunteered to call Tallady for him.

When Tallady realized that the nice guy she'd been waving at was her son, she _ . " I wasn't ready to be a mother at that time." She'd given him up for adoption in 1985, when she was 23. However, she'd always hoped to meet her birth son one day. Later that day, mother and son talked for almost three hours at a nearbybar.

Married with two other children, Tallady said, "I have a complete family now."
1. How long did Flaig avoid Tallady?
2. Was he sure how to approach her?
3. Whom did he tell that?
4. Who finally made the call to Tallady?
5. What Steve given up for adoption?
6. What year?
7. How old was his mother?
8. Did she hope to meet her son someday?
9. Did they talk that day?
10. For how long?
11. Where?
12. Where did Steve live?
13. Did he know he was adopted?
14. How old was he when he decided to track down his mother?
15. What year was that?
16. Did he know his mothers name?
17. What was it?
18. Did an online search in 2007 reveal an address?
19. What was it near?
20. What did Steve do there?
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answer: 1. For a few months.
2. No.
3. A local reporter.
4. Adoption agency employee.
5. Yes.
6. 1985.
7. 23.
8. Yes.
9. Yes.
10. Almost three hours.
11. A nearby bar.
12. Grand Rapids, Michigan.
13. Yes.
14. 18.
15. 2003
16. Yes.
17. Christine Tallady.
18. Yes.
19. Lowe's store.
20. Deliveryman.

Collections were the inspiration for a project at Thomas Tallis School, which formed part of the Imagine Children's Literature Festival last autumn. Each child (aged 12-13) beatified a box and wrote a story on the subject of collections to throw inside it. The boxes were spread within the Royal Festival Hall's Ballroom. Some were left empty to encourage

The subject chosen by Luren was an imaginative one. "It's a sort o f Cinderella story," she told me, inspired by a collection of letters from her cousin, ha the story these become love letters, burned by a creel stepmother. Lauren's best friend Charlotte is the stepmother. "I'm in Charlotte's story too," says Lauren, "and I get run over." Charlotte's tale was inspired by the girls' coin collection. "We've collected foreign coins for years - since our families went on holiday to Tenerife." she explains. "That was before the Euro, so we put pesetas in." Lauren continues: "I fred a coin in the road, go to get it and get run over. I'm in hospital and then I die." Charlotte adds: "Or she might not die. I haven't decided yet."

Millie Murray, who is a tea-novel author, thinks that setting the subject of collections was a useful inspiration to their creativity rather than a restriction . "In the beginning I thought, 'Will the children be able to do it?'" she says. "But it's been fruitful. Some have their own collection, some have parents who do, and some have wlstten complete stories. It's made them think about something they wouldn't have otherwise, winch can only be a good thing." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What was the inspiration for the project?
2. Which school?
3. Which festival did it help form
4. When?
5. What age were the children?
6. What did they do?
7. Anything else?
8. What was it?
9. Where were the boxes spread?
10. Which child chose a Cinderella story?
11. What was she inspired by?
12. Who is Lauren's best friend?
13. What is Charlotte's story inspired by?
14. What have they done for years?
15. Since when?
16. Who is Millie Murray
17. What kind?
18. What does she think?
19. Did she question if the children could do it?
20. Had it been fruitful?
Answer: 1. Collections
2. Thomas Tallis
3. Imagine Children's Literature Festival
4. Literature Festival last autumn
5. 12-13
6. beatified a box
7. yes
8. wrote a story
9. within the Royal Festival Hall's Ballroom
10. Luren
11. a collection of letters
12. Charlotte
13. a coin collection
14. collected coins
15. since they went to Tenerife
16. an author
17. tea-novel
18. thinks that setting the subject was useful
19. yes
20. yes

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Bacliff, Texas (CNN) -- Sitting on their front porch in this Houston suburb, Edmond Demiraj and his family seem the picture of a contented family.

But the Department of Justice now wants to upend the family: threatening to deport his wife and 19-year-old son back to their native Albania, even though he says federal prosecutors a decade ago promised him help and a Green Card in exchange for Edmond's promised testimony in a human smuggling case against a fellow Albanian immigrant. For the Demiraj family, they believe it will mean great harm, even death, for those deported.

A decade ago, Edmond Demiraj (pronounced: dem-EAR-eye) was himself an illegal immigrant. He told CNN he had walked across the U.S. border from Mexico to Brownsville, Texas without any paperwork. He found work as a painter, he says, with a fellow Albanian named Bill Bedini.

Not long afterwards, the Justice Department indicted Bedini, accusing him and others of running a human smuggling ring, bringing illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States. Demiraj was named in the original indictment but charges against him were later dropped.

Attorneys for the Justice Department based in Houston wanted Demiraj to testify against Bedini. In exchange, Demiraj told CNN that prosecutors promised him and his family protection and promised him a Green Card, which would lead to citizenship. The offer, he says, was verbal and not on paper.

"I'm ready to work for the U.S. government, whatever they need from me," Demiraj told CNN.

But Bedini entered a plea of not guilty, was granted bail and soon fled to Albania, according to the U.S. Marshal's office in Houston. Federal prosecutors didn't need Demiraj's testimony and handed him over to immigration officials, who quickly deported him as well. 1. Where were they sitting?
2. Did they seem happy?
3. Where did he flee to?
4. What is the DOJ threatening his family with?
5. To where?
6. WHy does he say this shouldn't happen?
7. Why did they promise that?
8. Against who?
9. Did he come to America legally?
10. When did he come here?
11. How did he get here?
12. To what US city?
13. What did he begin working at?
14. Who was he working with?
15. Who was charged with illegally smuggling people in?
16. From where?
17. What was he promised to get him to testify?
18. What happened?
19. WHat happened then?
numbered_answers:
1. on their front porch
2. yes
3. Albania
4. threatening to deport his wife and 19-year-old son
5. Albania
6. the government promised him help
7. n exchange for Edmond's promised testimony in a human smuggling case
8. a fellow Albanian immigrant
9. no
10. A decade ago
11. walked across the U.S. border from Mexico
12. Brownsville, Texas
13. a painter
14. Bill Bedini
15. Bedini
16. Mexico
17. protection and a Green Card
18. Bedini entered a plea of not guilty, was granted bail and soon fled to Albania
19. he was deported