Problem: The children's father wanted to know what every one wanted on their pizza. Andy wanted a strawberry on his pizza. Father thought that was funny. Father asked if anyone wanted chicken on the pizza. Sue did not want chicken. Andy wanted chicken. Dan did not want chicken, but their father wanted to get chicken on the pizza. Dan asked if they could have mushrooms on the pizza. Father did not like mushrooms. Andy and Sue wanted to have mushrooms, so their father had them put mushrooms on the pizza. Sue wanted to have green onions on the pizza. Father also wanted green onions. Dan and Andy did not like green onions, so they did not get green onions on the pizza. Father wanted to order thin crust pizza. Dan thought that thin crust pizza had the taste of an old shoe. Sue thought Dan was wrong. Sue wanted thin crust pizza also. Andy wanted thick crust pizza. He did not want thin crust, so their father ordered the pizza with thick crust. The pizza was very good and they ate it all.
1. What did the man want to know?
2. Who wanted something unusual?
3. What was it?
4. What did his dad think about that?
5. Did anyone want mushrooms on it?
6. How many people?
7. What were their names?
8. Did everyone agree on the crust?
9. What kind did Sue want?
10. And Andy?
11. How much of it did they all eat in the end?
12. DId someone want to put olives on it?
13. Who did not like mushrooms?
14. How many kids did he have?
15. How many were boys?
16. And girls?
17. Which one of them thought thin crust tastes like an old shoe?
18. How did he feel about green onions?
Answer: 1. what every one wanted on their pizza
2. Andy
3. a strawberry
4. That it was funny.
5. Yes.
6. Two
7. Andy and Sue
8. No.
9. thin crust pizza
10. thick crust.
11. All.
12. No.
13. Father.
14. Three
15. Two
16. One
17. Dan
18. Didn't like them.

Q: Chapter 13: An Abortive Attack.

Three weeks passed. James kept his men steadily at work, and even the scouts allowed that they made great progress. Sometimes they went out in two parties, with an officer and a scout to each, and their pouches filled with blank cartridge. Each would do its best to surprise the other; and, when they met, a mimic fight would take place, the men sheltering behind trees, and firing only when they obtained a glimpse of an adversary.

"I did not think that these pipe-clayed soldiers could have been so spry," Nat said to James. "They have picked up wonderfully, and I wouldn't mind going into an Indian fight with them. They are improving with their muskets. Their shooting yesterday wasn't bad, by no means. In three months' time, they will be as good a lot to handle as any of the companies of scouts."

Besides the daily exercises, the company did scouting work at night, ten men being out, by turns, in the woods bordering the lake. At one o'clock in the morning, on the 19th of March, Nat came into the officers' tent.

"Captain," he said, "get up. There's something afoot."

"What is it, Nat?" James asked, as he threw off his rugs.

"It's the French, at least I don't see who else it can be. It was my turn tonight to go round and look after our sentries. When I came to Jim Bryan, who was stationed just at the edge of the lake, I said to him, 'Anything new, Jim?' and he says, 'Yes; seems to me as I can hear a hammering in the woods.' I listens, and sure enough axes were going. It may be some three miles down. The night is still, and the ice brought the sound.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did James do with his people?
2. Were they progressing well?
3. Was the fighting between them real?
4. Did they shoot real bullets?
5. What was in their bags?
6. What did they do when night fell?
7. Where did they keep watch?
8. Is it evening when Nat wakes James?
9. What time is it?
10. Was James sleeping?
11. What position does he hold?
12. Does Nat believe the men will be skilled after a few months?
13. Who would he fight with them at his side?
14. Who was in the woods with them?
15. Who heard them?
16. What did they detect?
17. How far away?
18. Was it cold?
19. What did Nat call the others?
20. Were they agile?
A: 1. He kept them at work
2. Yes
3. No
4. No
5. blank cartridges
6. scouting work
7. in the woods bordering the lake
8. No
9. one o'clock in the morning
10. Yes
11. Captain
12. Yes
13. Indians
14. The French
15. Nat and Jim
16. Hammering in the woods
17. Three miles
18. Yes
19. pipe-clayed soldiers
20. Yes

Problem: Willie Stewart still remembers his first day of kayaking through the grand Canyon. He was getting bounced around in the roughest white water he had ever seen. There was nothing the river threw at him.

There he was in a 40-pound boat, with only a few months of training and one arm. Tied to his left shoulder was a prosthetic limb that he'd had for just about a week. The plan was to paddle for 20 days over 227 miles of the roughest white water in the United States. It was one of the most remarkable adventures that the Grand Canyon had ever seen.

It started with a casual phone call in the spring of 2005. A good friend, Mike Crenshaw, finally got a permit from the National Park Service to lead a private party of 16 boaters down the Colorado River that coming August. He had a slot open for Willie, "Was he interested ?"

"It was the chance of a lifetime," Stewart said. He had been waiting years for this trip to happen. "How could I refuse ?"

But before they set off, Stewart had a couple of things to take care of. He had to get a white-water kayak, learn how to use it, and get an arm.

For most of his life, the _ 45-year-old man has lived with only his right arm. He lost his left arm in a horrible accident when he was 18.Stewart was doing a summer construction job inprefix = st1 /Washington,D.C.The trailing end of rope he was carrying got twisted in an industrial fan. Before he could react, the fan reeled in the rope tight and cut his arm just above the elbow.

He became a bitter young man, angry at the unfairness of what had happened ,and often got into fights. In time, he learned to channel his rage into sports. He joined a rugby team, established a reputation as a fearless player and eventually was elected captain. His days of rage long gone, he found peace and purpose in his life.
1. Who got a permit to lead a party of boaters down the Colorado River?
2. Who had only one arm?
3. How old was he when he lost it?
4. What kind of job was he doing at the time?
5. What got twisted in a fan?
6. Were there 15 boaters in the party going down the Colorado?
7. Where was Stewart kayaking on his first day?
8. How much did the boat weigh?
9. How many days were they supposed to paddle for?
10. Over how many miles?
11. When was the phone call about the trip made?
12. Of what year?
13. Did Stewart have anything tied over his shoulder?
14. What?
15. How long had he had it?
16. How old was he?
17. Was he mad about what happened to him?
18. How did he act out?
19. What positive thing did he learn to do with his anger?
20. What did he join?
Answer:
1. Mike Crenshaw
2. Willie Stewart
3. 18
4. construction
5. rope
6. No
7. through the grand Canyon
8. 40lbs
9. 20
10. 227
11. In the Spring
12. 2005
13. Yes
14. a prosthetic limb
15. for just about a week
16. 45
17. Yes
18. often got into fights
19. to channel into sports
20. a rugby team