Q: Boston (pronounced i/bstn/) is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston also served as the historic county seat of Suffolk County until Massachusetts disbanded county government in 1999. The city proper covers 48 square miles (124 km2) with an estimated population of 655,884 in 2014, making it the largest city in New England and the 24th largest city in the United States. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.7 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 8.1 million people, making it the sixth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon American independence from Great Britain, the city continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub, as well as a center for education and culture. Through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year. Boston's many firsts include the United States' first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and first subway system (1897).

1. Boston
2. 1630
3. Puritan settlers from England
4. Yes
5. Yes, many tourists
6. Massachusetts
7. 4.7 million
8. 8.1 million people
9. 48 square miles
10. 24th
11. Yes
12. subway system
13. 1897
14. Boston Tea Party
15. Yes
16. port and manufacturing hub
17. Puritan settlers
18. Faneuil Hall
19. 20 million

Numbered questions:
1. What is one of the oldest cities in the US?
2. When was it founded?
3. By whom?
4. Has it expanded at all since it was found?
5. Does it have many people from out of state who visit?
6. It is the largest city in what state?
7. How many people live in the actual city?
8. What about the greater Boston areas?
9. How big is the city in miles?
10. What is the ranking of this city as far as large cities in the US?
11. Did it have the first public school?
12. What else did this place have first?
13. What year did they come out with that?
14. Name one of the key events that took place there?
15. Did the Battle of Bunker Hill also occur there?
16. The city was known for being an important what?
17. Who founded it?
18. What attraction draws the most tourists per year?
19. And how many visitors do they get per year?

Q: Once there was a young boy named Bret who had a cat named Wolfgang. The boy had really wanted a wolf for a pet, but his mother said wolves liked to hog the bathroom and liked to blow things down and they snored. So the boy had to call his cat Wolfie.

He had also thought about naming his cat Sir Purrsalot. Bret himself planned to become a knight when he grew up (or maybe a cowboy) and thought Sir Purrsalot sounded like a good name for his brother knight. The difficulty there was that Wolfie didn't purr a lot. He purred when he was being fed or petted, but no one could say he purred a lot. Plus Bret's mother said knights liked to poke things with their swords and they also liked to hog the bathroom and they clanked.

So Bret was left with a cat named Wolfgang. The neighbors gave him strange looks when he stood in the front yard in the evening and yelled "Wolfie! Here Wolfie!!!", to get Wolfgang to come in for the night. But Bret didn't care what anyone else thought. He had a Wolfie and maybe he'd end up becoming a pet doctor when he grew up instead.

1. Bret
2. To become a knight or a cowboy
3. Wolfie
4. No
5. No
6. A cat
7. Knights poke things with their swords, hog the bathroom, and clank
8. Yes
9. No

Numbered questions:
1. Who planned something?
2. what?
3. Who purred?
4. is it something he did all the time?
5. was wolfie a dog?
6. what was he?
7. what did Bret's mother say?
8. did he yell in the yard at night?
9. was he a vet?

Q: CHAPTER X.

He looked expectantly on the cabin table for a letter upon his return to the ship, but was disappointed, and the only letter yielded by the post next morning came from Captain Barber. It was couched in terms of great resignation, and after bemoaning the unfortunate skipper's untimely demise in language of great strength, wound up with a little Scripture and asked the mate to act as master and sail the schooner home.

"You'll act as mate, Ben, to take her back," said the new skipper, thrusting the letter in his pocket.

"Aye, aye, sir," said Ben, with a side glance at Joe, "but I'll keep for'ard, if you don't mind."

"As you please," said Fraser, staring.

"And you're master, I s'pose?" said Joe, turning to Fraser.

Fraser, whose manner had already effected the little change rendered necessary by his promotion from mate to master, nodded curtly, and the crew, after another exchange of looks, resumed their work without a word. Their behaviour all day was docile, not to say lamb-like, and it was not until evening that the new skipper found it necessary to enforce his authority.

The exciting cause of the unpleasantness was Mr. William Green, a slim, furtive-eyed young man, whom Fraser took on in the afternoon to fill the vacancy caused by Ben's promotion. He had not been on board half an hour before trouble arose from his attempt to introduce the manners of the drawing-room into the forecastle.

"Mr. Will-yum Green," repeated Joe, when the new arrival had introduced himself; "well, you'll be Bill 'ere."

1. about the letter
2. from Captain Barber
3. the skipper
4. to act as master
5. sail home
6. to act as mate
7. Joe
8. he nodded
9. went back to work
10. Mr. William Green
11. in the afternoon
12. half an hour

Numbered questions:
1. Why was the man upset after returning?
2. Who wrote to him the following day?
3. Who died?
4. What was asked of him in the note?
5. And do what with the vessel?
6. What did the he say to Ben?
7. Who asks Fraser to confirm his promotion?
8. And what is his response to Joe?
9. What is the crew's reaction?
10. Who replaced Ben?
11. When was he hired?
12. How long was he there before the altercation?

Q: John was very hungry. So he chose to make a sandwich. John invited Susan, Tim, and Jack over to help him. They all pulled out bread, lettuce, tomato, meat, pickle, and cheese. Cheese is Johns favorite food. One at a time, they each put one ingredient on the sandwich. John put the bread down. Tim put the tomato down. Susan put the meat down. Jack put the lettuce down. John also put the cheese down. Susan put the pickle down. After they finished, John ate his sandwich and it was delicious.

1. John
2. was hungry
3. a sandwich
4. yes
5. three
6. Susan, Tim, and Jack
7. Cheese
8. six
9. yes
10. the bread
11. the tomato
12. Tim
13. the pickle
14. Susan
15. yes
16. the meat
17. John
18. yes
19. put the lettuce down
20. one
21. two

Numbered questions:
1. Who decided to make food?
2. Why?
3. What did he choose to make?
4. Did he ask for help?
5. How many people?
6. What were their names?
7. What was John's favorite food?
8. How many ingredients did they pull out?
9. Did that include John's favorite?
10. What ingredient went down first?
11. Then?
12. And who did it?
13. What was last?
14. Who did that part?
15. Did she also put down another topping?
16. What was it?
17. Who ate the sandwich?
18. Did he enjoy it?
19. What did Jack do?
20. How man ingredients did Tim touch?
21. What about John?