Q: (CNN) -- Professional ballet dancer Michaela DePrince was just three years old when she saw a ballerina for the first time.

She was standing near the gate of the orphanage she was living in the West African country of Sierra Leone when she found a magazine with a female ballet dancer on the cover.

The image of the beautiful, smiling ballerina mesmerized the young orphan, who had just lost both of her parents.

"I was just so fascinated by this person, by how beautiful she was, how she was wearing such a beautiful costume," she remembers. "So I ripped the cover off and I put it in my underwear."

At the time, DePrince -- or Mabinty Bangura as she was then called -- had no idea what ballet was. But she kept onto the picture, dreaming of one day becoming as happy as the ballerina on the magazine cover.

"It represented freedom, it represented hope, it represented trying to live a little longer," she recalls. "I was so upset in the orphanage, I have no idea how I got through it but seeing that, it completely saved me."

Shortly after, DePrince was adopted by an American couple and began a new life in the United States. Today, at the age of 17, she is one of the ballet world's rising stars -- last month she traveled to South Africa to make her professional debut in Johannesburg.

"I worked very hard and I was en pointe by the time I was seven years old," says DePrince. "I just moved along fast because I was so determined to be like that person on the magazine and she was what drove me to become a better dancer, a better person -- to be just like her was what I wanted to be."

1. three years old
2. Sierra Leone
3. magazine cover
4. yes
5. an American couple
6. doesn't say
7. Johannesburg
8. yes
9. Mabinty Bangura
10. Michaela DePrince

Numbered questions:
1. How old was she when she first saw a ballerina?
2. Where did she see it?
3. Where was the ballerina?
4. Was she adopted?
5. By who?
6. When did she start dancing?
7. Where did she start dancing professionally?
8. Did she change her name?
9. From what?
10. To what?

Q: Jim was a 15-year-old boy living with his little sister, Joy. Their parents had passed away long ago. Jim took care of Joy by himself. One day, Jim woke up at 3 in the morning as usual. When Joy was sleeping alone, Jim left their little house to deliver newspapers. As he did so, he found something unusual. One man was sitting in front of Jim's house. Jim was so surprised that he stopped to look at him closely. It was an icy morning and he looked very old. The poor old man didn't have anything to cover himself with. Jim went into his house to get the old man a blanket . However, there were no extra blankets, so Jim thought hard and took his father's coat. It was the only thing of his father's that he had left. Jim wrote a short note. "Sir, I found you sleeping in front of my house. This is my father's coat. I hope it fits you well." He put the note in a pocket of the coat, and covered the old man with the coat. Then he went to work. When he came back three hours later, both the man and the coat were gone. Jim thought that it was the best thing he could have done with his father's coat. That afternoon, Jim hurried home after school because Joy was at home alone. However, Joy and the old man were standing in front of the house, and Joy shouted to Jim, "Brother!He's our grandfather!" The grandfather smiled and said, "Jim, I have been looking for you all around the country for eight years. I'm not rich. But I can take care of you two. Thank you for giving me the coat and letting me know what a good person my grandson is. This coat was the very one that I gave my own son, a long time ago."

1. Joy
2. siblings
3. Their grandfather
4. Jim
5. in front Jim's house
6. Jim and his sister
7. they passed away
8. dad
9. a coat
10. it was an icy morning
11. a note
12. Jim
13. the grandfather
14. eight years
15. yes
16. Jim
17. delivering newspapers
18. 3 in the morning

Numbered questions:
1. Who did Jim live with?
2. How were Jim and Joy related?
3. Who else did Jim and Joy meet?
4. Who met the grandfather first?
5. Where did he see his grandfather?
6. Who lived in the house?
7. Where were the mom and dad?
8. Was the grandpa related to their mom or dad?
9. What did he give the old fellow?
10. Why did he give him a jacket?
11. What was in the pocket?
12. Who wrote it?
13. Who was looking for the kids?
14. How long had he tried to find them?
15. Was he happy to find them?
16. Who had to go to work?
17. What was his job?
18. What time did he get up to go?

Q: CHAPTER V

CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME

"It was among the ways of good Queen Bess, Who ruled as well as ever mortal can, sir, When she was stogg'd, and the country in a mess, She was wont to send for a Devon man, sir."

West Country Song.

The next morning Amyas Leigh was not to be found. Not that he had gone out to drown himself in despair, or even to bemoan himself "down by the Torridge side." He had simply ridden off, Frank found, to Sir Richard Grenville at Stow: his mother at once divined the truth, that he was gone to try for a post in the Irish army, and sent off Frank after him to bring him home again, and make him at least reconsider himself.

So Frank took horse and rode thereon ten miles or more: and then, as there were no inns on the road in those days, or indeed in these, and he had some ten miles more of hilly road before him, he turned down the hill towards Clovelly Court, to obtain, after the hospitable humane fashion of those days, good entertainment for man and horse from Mr. Cary the squire.

And when he walked self-invited, like the loud-shouting Menelaus, into the long dark wainscoted hall of the court, the first object he beheld was the mighty form of Amyas, who, seated at the long table, was alternately burying his face in a pasty, and the pasty in his face, his sorrows having, as it seemed, only sharpened his appetite, while young Will Cary, kneeling on the opposite bench, with his elbows on the table, was in that graceful attitude laying down the law fiercely to him in a low voice.

1. CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME
2. Amyas Leigh
3. horse
4. no
5. ten miles
6. Mr. Cary
7. Frank
8. wainscoting
9. Amyas
10. no
11. yes
12. Will Cary,
13. the Irish army
14. unknown
15. in a pasty
16. unknown
17. probably not
18. Mr. Cary
19. Bess
20. eys

Numbered questions:
1. What is the name of this chapter?
2. Who joined the army?
3. How did he travel?
4. Were there places to stay during the journey?
5. How far did he have travel?
6. What was the squires name?
7. Who went after the young man?
8. What was on the walls of the building?
9. Who was seated at the table?
10. Was he happy?
11. Was he hungry?
12. Who occupied the chair next to him?
13. What military was he joining?
14. What color was his face?
15. Where did he bury his head?
16. what is a pasty?
17. Did the young man join the military?
18. Who cared for the animal?
19. What was the queens name?
20. Was she a good ruler?