input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Bum rate is the speed at which a startup business consumes money. My rate would be $ 50,000 a month when my new media company started. So, I began looking around for individuals who would be my first investors. "Angel money" it was called. But when I reviewed my list of acquaintances to find those who might be able to help, I found the number got small.

With no other choices, I began meeting with the venture-capital companies. But I was warned they took a huge share of your company for the money they put in. And if you struggled, they could drop you cold.

As I was searching for "angel money", I started to build a team who trusted me even though I didn't have money for paychecks yet.

Bill Becker was an expert in computer programming and image processing at a very famous Media Lab at M. I.T. With his arrival, my company suddenly had a major technology "guy" in-house.

Katherine Henderson, a filmmaker and a former real-estate dealer, joined us as our director of market research. Steve White came on as operating officer. He had worked for the developer of a home-finance software, Quicken. We grabbed him.

We had some really good people, but we still didn't have enough money. One night, my neighbor, Louise Johnson, came for a visit. She and I were only nodding acquaintances, but her boys and ours were constant companions. She ran a very good business at the time.

Louise was brilliant and missed nothing. She had been watching my progress closely. She knew I was dying for money and I had prospects but could offer no guarantees of success.

She told me that her attorney had talked to mine and the terms had been agreed upon. She handed me an envelope. Inside was a check for $ 500,000.

I almost fell down. I heard her voice as if from heaven.

"I have confidence in your plan," she said. "You' 11 do well. You're going to work hard for it, but it' s satisfying when you build your own company."

Who would have thought I'd find an angel so close to home? There were no words sufficient for the moment. We just said good night. She left and I just stood there, completely humbled and completely committed. 1. What is early investment money called?
2. How much did the author's new enterprise cost per month?
3. What term is used to define that?
4. Did they have a lot of friends willing to assist?
5. Who else did the author look to for assistance?
6. What is one disadvantage to bringing them aboard?
7. What is another?
8. Where was Bill Becker working?
9. Was he in an unknown lab?
10. What was nice about Becker joining the group?
11. Who else came on?
12. Anybody else?
13. Which of them had software development experience?
14. Which software?
15. What did Katherine Henderson do before?
16. Was the owner of the company able to pay all these people right away?
17. Why did they join then?
18. Who came to the rescue?
19. Who was that?
20. How much did she contribute?
numbered_answers: 1. Angel money
2. $ 50,000
3. Bum rate
4. Yes
5. venture-capital companies
6. they took a huge share of your company
7. if you struggled, they could drop you cold.
8. M. I.T.
9. No
10. they had a major technology "guy" in-house.
11. Katherine Henderson
12. Steve White
13. Steve White
14. Quicken
15. a filmmaker and a former real-estate dealer,
16. no
17. They trusted him
18. his neighbor
19. Louise Johnson
20. $ 500,000.

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. The trial of Oscar Pistorius, accused of killing his former girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was postponed until April 7 because one of two assessors was hospitalized.

The assessors will help the judge decide the verdict. South Africa does not have jury trials.

Pistorius killed Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year. Of that, there is no doubt.

But was it murder?

One of South Africa's toughest prosecutors, Gerrie Nel, has been fighting for most of this month to prove it was.

On Friday, one of the country's shrewdest defense lawyers, Barry Roux, was scheduled to begin convincing a judge that it wasn't.

Now he will have to wait.

The verdict will hinge on two questions:

Did the Olympic sprinter know his girlfriend was behind the door in the bathroom of his house when he fired four hollow-point bullets through it in the middle of the night?

And if he did not -- if he thought she was a burglar, as he insists -- did he act as a reasonable person would have?

Critical testimony will come from the only living person who was in the house at the time, the "Blade Runner" himself.

Pistorius was expected to take the stand for the first time Friday to give his side of a story he's been telling for more than a year.

He woke up in the middle of the night, went to his balcony to bring in a fan -- or two fans, in his most recent version -- heard his bathroom window opening, took his gun, went to the bathroom and fired through the door when he heard a noise in the toilet. 1. Who doesn't use a jury?
2. What do they use instead?
3. How many?
4. Who do they assist?
5. with what?
6. Who is on trial?
7. For what?
8. Who was that?
9. When did he do it?
10. What day?
numbered_answers: 1. South Africa
2. assessors
3. two
4. the judge
5. the verdict
6. Oscar Pistorius
7. killing his girlfriend
8. Reeva Steenkamp
9. last year
10. Valentine's Day

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER VIII

THE MAGIC IMAGE

That night Pharaoh and Tua rested in privacy with those members of the Court whom they had brought with them, but on the morrow began a round of festivals such as history scarcely told of in Egypt. Indeed, the feast with which it opened was more splendid than any Tua had seen at Thebes even at the time of her crowning, or on that day of blood and happiness when Amathel and his Nubian guards were slain and she and Rames declared their love. At this feast Pharaoh and the young Queen sat in chairs of gold, while the Prince Abi was placed on her right hand, and not on that of Pharaoh as he should have been as host and subject.

"I am too much honoured," said Tua, looking at him sideways. "Why do you not sit by Pharaoh, my uncle?"

"Who am I that I should take the seat of honour when my sovereigns come to visit me?" answered Abi, bowing his great head. "Let it be reserved for the high-priest of Osiris, that Holy One whom, after Ptah, we worship here above all other deities, for he is clothed with the majesty of the god of death."

"Of death," said Tua. "Is that why you put him by my father?"

"Indeed not," replied Abi, spreading out his hands, "though if a choice must be made, I would rather that he sat near one who is old and must soon be called the 'ever-living,' than at the side of the loveliest queen that Egypt has ever seen, to whom it is said that Amen himself has sworn a long life," and again he bowed. 1. What is Tua's uncle's name?
2. Would he sit beside the Pharaoh?
3. who did the Pharaoh and Tua spend the night in the company of?
4. in public?
5. where did the people come from?
6. what did they start the next day?
7. was the first feast small?
8. wahat was it bigger than?
9. spcifically?
10. or when else?
11. what were the seats made of that the couple sat on?
12. where was the prince sitting?
13. did she object?
14. how did she look at him?
15. Who else shoukld have the seat next to the Pharaoh
16. who did Abi say should have it?
17. wearing what?
18. why did ABi prefer the priest there?
19. how did he describe Tua?
20. who was the Pharaoh?
numbered_answers:
1. Abi
2. he should have
3. members of the Court
4. no
5. Thebes
6. a round of festivals
7. no
8. any Tua had seen at Thebes
9. even at the time of her crowning
10. on that day of blood and happiness when Amathel and his Nubian guards were slain and she and Rames declared their love
11. gold
12. on her right hand
13. yes
14. sideways
15. Prince Abi
16. the high-priest of Osiris
17. the majesty of the god of death
18. He would rather that he sat near one who is old
19. the loveliest queen that Egypt has ever seen
20. unknown