Question:
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Charles II (29 May 1630 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until his death.

Charles II's father, Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War. Although the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649, England entered the period known as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth, and the country was a "de facto" republic, led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe. Cromwell became virtual dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland, and Charles spent the next nine years in exile in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands. A political crisis that followed the death of Cromwell in 1658 resulted in the restoration of the monarchy, and Charles was invited to return to Britain. On 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, he was received in London to public acclaim. After 1660, all legal documents were dated as if he had succeeded his father as king in 1649.
1. What position did Charles II hold?
2. What country did he rule over first?
3. Who was his dad?
4. What happened to him?
5. Where?
6. When?
7. Was Charles II ever in a war?
8. Did he lose any battles?
9. Which one?
10. Who beat him?
11. When?
12. What happened after he lost?
13. Did he ever go to France?
14. When did he return to Britain?
15. What city did he return to?

Numbered answers:
1. King of England, Scotland and Ireland
2. Scotland
3. Charles I
4. executed
5. Whitehall
6. January 30 1649
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Battle of Worcester
10. Oliver Cromwell
11. September 3 1651
12. Charles fled to mainland Europe
13. Yes
14. On 29 May 1660
15. London

Question:
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Valentine's Day was coming. Helen felt hurt and lonely because this was her first Valentine's Day after the divorce .

Helen's twelve-year-old son, Jack, looked at his mother, knowing that this was a difficult time for both of them. In order to make his mother happy, he prepared a present, and handed it to her on Valentine's Day.

It was a beautiful gift package .Helen couldn't believe what was happening. She opened it and took out a lovely card and a small box.

"Now," he said, "read the card." It read as follows:

"I know that this isn't easy for you because it has been a hard year for both of us. I know that Valentine's Day is a special day for people in love. I want you to know that I love you. I know that Valentines are supposed to get chocolate. I went to the store today to buy some for you. Luckily, I got the last piece. I told the clerk it was just perfect."

Helen stood there for a moment and looked at her son. Her eyes sparkled in the light as tears formed in each corner. Jack knew he had done the right thing. Slowly she opened the small box, careful not to tear the paper. She would never forget the moment. She found a chocolate heart that was broken into pieces along with a note:

"I am so sorry that Dad left us, Mom. And all you were left with was a broken heart. But I just want you to know we still have each other.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Your son,

Jack"
1. which holiday was going to be difficult?
2. difficult for who?
3. why?
4. how old was jack?
5. who is he?
6. Did he give her a present?

Numbered answers:
1. Valentine's Day
2. Both Helen and Jack
3. His dad left them.
4. twelve
5. Helen's son
6. yes

Question:
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CHAPTER II. THE ULTIMATUM

News of the affair at Tavora reached Sir Terence O'Moy, the Adjutant-General at Lisbon, about a week later in dispatches from headquarters. These informed him that in the course of the humble apology and explanation of the regrettable occurrence offered by the Colonel of the 8th Dragoons in person to the Mother Abbess, it had transpired that Lieutenant Butler had left the convent alive, but that nevertheless he continued absent from his regiment.

Those dispatches contained other unpleasant matters of a totally different nature, with which Sir Terence must proceed to deal at once; but their gravity was completely outweighed in the adjutant's mind by this deplorable affair of Lieutenant Butler's. Without wishing to convey an impression that the blunt and downright O'Moy was gifted with any undue measure of shrewdness, it must nevertheless be said that he was quick to perceive what fresh thorns the occurrence was likely to throw in a path that was already thorny enough in all conscience, what a semblance of justification it must give to the hostility of the intriguers on the Council of Regency, what a formidable weapon it must place in the hands of Principal Souza and his partisans. In itself this was enough to trouble a man in O'Moy's position. But there was more. Lieutenant Butler happened to be his brother-in-law, own brother to O'Moy's lovely, frivolous wife. Irresponsibility ran strongly in that branch of the Butler family.

For the sake of the young wife whom he loved with a passionate and fearful jealousy such as is not uncommon in a man of O'Moy's temperament when at his age--he was approaching his forty-sixth birthday--he marries a girl of half his years, the adjutant had pulled his brother-in-law out of many a difficulty; shielded him on many an occasion from the proper consequences of his incurable rashness.
1. What ran powerfully through a branch of the Butler family?
2. Where was the affair that reached O'Moy?
3. What was his title?
4. How did he get wind of the affair?
5. From where?
6. Who was missing from his regiment?
7. Where had he departed, alive?
8. What else was in those dispatches that were about something else?
9. Was he going to handle them immediately?
10. What struck his as the worst part of it all?
11. How was O'Moy's wife described?
12. Did he love her?
13. How is his jealousy of her described?
14. Is that strange for a guy of his temperament?
15. How old is he?
16. And his wife?
17. What is something he'd done for his brother-in-law?
18. And what did he protect him from?
19. Had all this put ammunition in the hands of of Principal Souza?
20. Had it made a situation worse that was already bad?
Numbered answers:
1. Irresponsibility
2. Tavora
3. the Adjutant-General at Lisbon
4. Dispatches
5. Headquarters
6. Lieutenant Butler
7. the convent
8. Other unpleasant matters
9. Yes
10. He was his brother-in-law
11. lovely and frivolous
12. Yes
13. fearful
14. no
15. 46
16. Half his years - 23.
17. Pulled him out of many a difficulty.
18. the consequences of his incurable rashness.
19. Yes
20. Yes