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When Mr. Brown entered the classroom that Friday morning, he stopped at the blackboard. For there, on the blackboard, were words in huge red letters: BROWN IS STUPID! Mr. Brown thought for a moment. This could only have been the work of one of the four boys who had been kept in after school the day before. Mr. Brown turned the blackboard around so that the words could not be seen. Half an hour later,Mr. Brown wrote four names on the board: Gerald, Alex, Michael and Laurie. Then he said, "I want these four to stay in the classroom. The rest of you may go to the playground." The four boys came to the blackboard. "One of you has written a most impolite remark on the blackboard," he stared at them and _ , "which one of you did it?" The four boys gathered closer together, afraid of what was to come. "Was it you, Gerald?" Gerald shook his head. "No, it was not me, Sir," he gave the teacher a most sincere look in his wide eyes. "What do you have to say, Alex?" "I don't know anything about it, Sir," said Alex, and his ears turned red. Michael had a bright idea. "Perhaps someone broke in during the night," he said. "And when he saw the lovely red chalk lying there, he wrote something on the blackboard." "Is that the best you can think so, Michael?" asked the teacher. "I only thought ..." "And what about you, Laurie?" Laurie said in a rather low voice, "I didn't do it, Sir. I don't even know what it says on the blackboard." "You really don't know what's written there?" Mr. Brown asked. "And I don't think dear Gerald knows either." "No, Sir. No idea." "Michael, Alex, can either of you tell me what it says on the blackboard?" "No, Sir!" the two boys answered together. Brown walked forward and his fingers seized a schoolboy. He said in his kindest and softest voice to the other three boys, "Very well. I only punish the one who has been telling lies, and you three may go to the playground!"
1. How many young men are involved in the story?
2. what were they called?
3. were they well behaved?
4. Did they all get to go to recess?
5. Who was the instructor?
6. Did the story take place in church?
7. Where were they?
8. Was the instructor happy with the young men?
9. why?
10. what did they write?
11. did the instructor send the other students home?
12. Where did he send them?
13. was the writing in small letters?
14. what color was it?
15. did they use a marker to write on the board?
16. what did they use?

Numbered answers:
1. four
2. Gerald, Alex, Michael and Laurie.
3. No
4. No
5. Mr. Brown
6. No
7. a classroom
8. No
9. they wrote something bad on the blackboard
10. BROWN IS STUPID!
11. No
12. to the playground
13. No
14. red
15. No
16. chalk

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(CNN) -- The Connecticut Senate on Thursday voted to repeal the death penalty, setting the stage for Connecticut to join several states that have recently abolished capital punishment.

In the last five years, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Illinois have repealed the death penalty. California voters will decide the issue in November.

The bill now goes to the House of Representatives, where it is also expected to pass. Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, has vowed to sign the measure into law should it reach his desk, his office said.

"For everyone, it's a vote of conscience," said Senate President Donald Williams Jr., a Democrat who says he's long supported a repeal. "We have a majority of legislators in Connecticut in favor of this so that the energies of our criminal justice system can be focused in a more appropriate manner."

In 2009, state lawmakers in both houses tried to pass a similar bill, but were ultimately blocked by then-Gov. Jodi Rell, a Republican.

Capital punishment has existed in Connecticut since its colonial days. But the state was forced to review its death penalty laws beginning in 1972 when a Supreme Court decision required greater consistency in its application. A moratorium was then imposed until a 1976 court decision upheld the constitutionality of capital punishment.

Since then, Connecticut juries have handed down 15 death sentences. Of those, only one person has actually been executed, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonpartisan group that studies death penalty laws.

Michael Ross, a convicted serial killer, was put to death by lethal injection in 2005 after giving up his appeals.
1. Who was executed in Connecticut after 1976?
2. How?
3. When?
4. Who voted on Thursday?
5. To do what?
6. Who will vote next?
7. What states already have?
8. When will the next state choose?
9. Who will vote in Connecticut next?
10. Is it going to be successful?
11. Where will it go next?
12. What will he do?
13. What party is he?
14. Who stopped the previous bill?
15. What party?
16. How many sentences have been given since 1976?

Numbered answers:
1. Michael Ross,
2. by lethal injection
3. in 2005
4. The Connecticut Senate
5. to repeal the death penalty
6. California
7. New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Illinois
8. in November.
9. the House of Representatives,
10. it is expected to
11. Gov. Dannel Malloy
12. sign the bill
13. a Democrat
14. Jodi Rell
15. Republican.
16. 15

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CHAPTER 6.

AN APPRENTICESHIP TO THE TEMPLE.

The action of our characters during the night included in the last two chapters has now come to a pause. Vetranio is awaiting his guests for the banquet; Numerian is in the chapel, preparing for the discourse that he is to deliver to his friends; Ulpius is meditating in his master's house; Antonina is stretched upon her couch, caressing the precious fragment that she had saved from the ruins of her lute. All the immediate agents of our story are, for the present, in repose.

It is our purpose to take advantage of this interval of inaction, and direct the reader's attention to a different country from that selected as the scene of our romance, and to such historical events of past years as connect themselves remarkably with the early life of Numerian's perfidious convert. This man will be found a person of great importance in the future conduct of our story. It is necessary to the comprehension of his character, and the penetration of such of his purposes as have been already hinted at, and may subsequently appear, that the long course of his existence should be traced upwards to its source.

It was in the reign of Julian, when the gods of the Pagan achieved their last victory over the Gospel of the Christian, that a decently attired man, leading by the hand a handsome boy of fifteen years of age, entered the gates of Alexandria, and proceeded hastily towards the high priest's dwelling in the Temple of Serapis.
1. Where is everybody from the story right now?
2. Who's in the chapel?
3. What is he preparing to give his friends?
4. Where is Ulpius?
5. Doing what?
6. Who is Vetranio expecting?
7. Why are the coming over?
8. Where's Antonina?
9. What's she rubbing?
10. Of what?
11. Did something happen to it?
12. What?
13. Where does the author want our attention to go?
14. From what?
15. Who will be a person of significance later in the story?
16. Has the story already given some clues as to his purposes?
17. Who was in charge during the Pagan gods' last win?
18. Who did they fight against?
19. How old was the boy who entered Alexandria?
20. Whose residence was he going to?
Numbered answers:
1. in repose.
2. Numerian
3. discourse
4. in his master's house
5. meditating
6. his guests
7. for the banquet
8. on her couch
9. fragments
10. her lute
11. yes
12. unknown
13. to a different country
14. from the one in the romance scene
15. Numerian's perfidious convert
16. ye
17. Julian
18. the Gospel of the Christian
19. 15
20. the high priest's