Q: (CNN) -- The way some Republicans talk about the Environmental Protection Agency, you would think it was created by a bunch of pot-smoking hippies communing at a nudist camp in northern California -- when in fact, the EPA was created by one of their own, Richard Nixon, in 1970.

Much as Republicans don't like to bring up the huge tax increases instituted by their hero, Ronald Reagan, they prefer to sidestep their role in the EPA's humble beginnings and blame it on Democrats. They characterize the whole thing as an albatross hanging around the economy's neck.

To be fair, Nixon did not ride into the White House as a conservationist, and he did veto the Clean Water Act. But he said he did so because of the price tag of the policy, not its purpose. After the Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969 -- which at the time was the largest in U.S. history -- Nixon agreed with the rest of thinking society that clean water and air were a good thing. And his fingerprints are all over such tree-hugging initiatives as the Clean Air Act.

Sadly, if he tried any of that funny business today, his own party would probably impeach him. That's how far down the oil well some in the Republican leadership have fallen.

Rep. Michelle Bachmann said she would lock the EPA's doors and turn off its lights if she were president (thankfully there's no chance of that); Newt Gingrich said he would shut down the EPA and create a replacement to work with businesses to create jobs (making it more of a lapdog than watchdog); Rick Perry asked the president to halt all regulations, adding "his EPA regulations are killing jobs all across America."

1. Environmental Protection Agency
2. 1970
3. Richard Nixon
4. Republicans
5. no
6. yes
7. Ronald Reagan
8. increased taxes
9. unknown
10. No
11. veto
12. because of the price tag
13. yes
14. the Santa Barbara oil spill
15. 1969
16. helped with Clean Air Act
17. his own party would probably impeach him

Numbered questions:
1. What organization is in the topic?
2. When they started this organizaion?
3. Who did that?
4. Who are talking about it?
5. Are they positive about it?
6. Is there any other president mentioned?
7. Who was that?
8. What he did?
9. Are the political parties pointing fingers at each other?
10. Was the earlier POTUS mentioned really positive about all these?
11. What he did?
12. Why?
13. Did he change his mind afterwards?
14. Why?
15. When did that happen?
16. What else the POTUS did?
17. How he would have been regarded today for these?

Q: The Axis powers (, "Sujikukoku", ), also known as the Axis and the RomeBerlinTokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces. The Axis powers agreed on their opposition to the Allies, but did not completely coordinate their activity.

The Axis grew out of the diplomatic efforts of Germany, Italy, and Japan to secure their own specific expansionist interests in the mid-1930s. The first step was the treaty signed by Germany and Italy in October 1936. Benito Mussolini declared on 1 November that all other European countries would from then on rotate on the RomeBerlin axis, thus creating the term "Axis". The almost simultaneous second step was the signing in November 1936 of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty between Germany and Japan. Italy joined the Pact in 1937. The "RomeBerlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called "Pact of Steel", with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany, Italy and Japan.

At its zenith during World War II, the Axis presided over territories that occupied large parts of Europe, North Africa, and East Asia. There were no three-way summit meetings and cooperation and coordination was minimal, with a bit more between Germany and Italy. The war ended in 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers and the dissolution of their alliance. As in the case of the Allies, membership of the Axis was fluid, with some nations switching sides or changing their degree of military involvement over the course of the war. The term "axis" was first applied to the Italo-German relationship by the Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini in September 1923, when he wrote in the preface to Roberto Suster's "Germania Repubblica" that "there is no doubt that in this moment the axis of European history passes through Berlin" ("non v'ha dubbio che in questo momento l'asse della storia europea passa per Berlino"). At the time he was seeking an alliance with the Weimar Republic against Yugoslavia and France in the dispute over the Free State of Fiume.

1. The Axis powers
2. The nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces
3. Not always
4. October 1936
5. Germany and Japan
6. Italy joined
7. Yes
8. 1939
9. Large parts of Europe, North Africa, and East Asia
10. No
11. 1945
12. World War II

Numbered questions:
1. What is Sujikukoku?
2. Which means?
3. Did they work together?
4. When did it start?
5. between who?
6. What happened n 1937?
7. Was the Axis membership fluid?
8. When was the Pact of Steel?
9. What parts of the world did they control?
10. Did they win?
11. When did they lose?
12. What War?

Q: Edith Cavell was born in a little English village. She was a clever; hard-working girl and did well at school; especially in music and French. After she left school; her first job was to take care of the children of a rich family in Belgium . The language they spoke was French; so she found that her school studies were useful. She could understand them easily; at the same time she taught the children to speak English and play the piano. After hearing that her father was seriously ill; Edith returned home to look after him. She then decided to become a nurse. Afterwards for five years she worked in an English hospital where she proved to be highly professional at her job. A Belgian doctor was so impressed that he invited her to his country to organize a training school for nurses. The First World War broke out in 1914 and Edith Cavell's school of nursing became a hospital. She stayed there to look after the sick and wounded soldiers . Edith treated them with kindness. Between November 1914 and August 1915 she secretly helped about 200 wounded soldiers and prisoners escape from the Germans. Later the German army found out what Edith had done and they arrested her. Finally; the Germans killed her; but they could not _ . A tall statue has been built in Trafalgar Square; London; in honor of the brave English nurse.

1. Edith
2. Cavell
3. in a village
4. Yes
5. music
6. French
7. to take care of children
8. in Belgium
9. Yes
10. unknown
11. Yes
12. become a nurse
13. in an English hospital

Numbered questions:
1. Who is the main character?
2. Last name?
3. Where was she born?
4. Was she clever?
5. Especially in what?
6. and what else?
7. What was her first job?
8. Where exactly?
9. DId Edith hear about her father?
10. What happened to him?
11. Did she go back to look after him?
12. What did she decide to do then/
13. Where did she work?