Q: CHAPTER II--JUNE'S TREAT

Dinner began in silence; the women facing one another, and the men.

In silence the soup was finished--excellent, if a little thick; and fish was brought. In silence it was handed.

Bosinney ventured: "It's the first spring day."

Irene echoed softly: "Yes--the first spring day."

"Spring!" said June: "there isn't a breath of air!" No one replied.

The fish was taken away, a fine fresh sole from Dover. And Bilson brought champagne, a bottle swathed around the neck with white....

Soames said: "You'll find it dry."

Cutlets were handed, each pink-frilled about the legs. They were refused by June, and silence fell.

Soames said: "You'd better take a cutlet, June; there's nothing coming."

But June again refused, so they were borne away. And then Irene asked: "Phil, have you heard my blackbird?"

Bosinney answered: "Rather--he's got a hunting-song. As I came round I heard him in the Square."

"He's such a darling!"

"Salad, sir?" Spring chicken was removed.

But Soames was speaking: "The asparagus is very poor. Bosinney, glass of sherry with your sweet? June, you're drinking nothing!"

June said: "You know I never do. Wine's such horrid stuff!"

An apple charlotte came upon a silver dish, and smilingly Irene said: "The azaleas are so wonderful this year!"

To this Bosinney murmured: "Wonderful! The scent's extraordinary!"

June said: "How can you like the scent? Sugar, please, Bilson."

Sugar was handed her, and Soames remarked: "This charlottes good!"

The charlotte was removed. Long silence followed. Irene, beckoning, said: "Take out the azalea, Bilson. Miss June can't bear the scent."

Answer the following questions:
1. What season is it?
2. When did it start?
3. What meal are they having?
4. Does June like wine?
5. Does she like cutlets?
6. Is she an agreeable person?
7. Is this a multi-course meal
8. What did they eat first?
9. Was it too thin?
10. What was next?
11. What kind?
12. What was offered to drink with the fish?
13. Who did not want a cutlet?
14. How many times did she decline?
15. Who tried to convince her to have some?
16. How does he feel about the vegetable?
17. Does Bosinney like the smell of the flowers?
18. Who doesn't?
19. Do they get removed?
20. Who does Irene ask to get rid of the azalea?
A: 1. spring
2. the first spring day
3. Dinner
4. no
5. no
6. unknown
7. no
8. soup
9. thick
10. fish
11. sole
12. champagne
13. June
14. twice
15. Soames
16. that is very poor
17. yes
18. Miss June
19. unknown
20. Bilson

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN) -- Risking their lives to help disadvantaged Afghans became almost a norm for Tom and Libby Little.

"We raised our three daughters through what was, at times, just hell," Libby Little said. "A hundred rockets a day was a good day."

Family members lived underground to avoid bombings, she said. Yet they stayed out of a love for the people and a passion for providing eye care for the needy.

But violence prevailed on Thursday.

Tom Little, a New York optometrist, was among 10 people killed by gunmen in Badakhshan, a remote northeastern region of the country. The mostly foreign members of a medical team were robbed and shot one-by-one on a remote road. Their bodies were transferred to Kabul early Sunday, authorities said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

"He died right where he loved to be -- and that was doing eye care in remote areas," Little said from her home in New York. "Our daughters are missing him terribly. But I think their feeling is, too, that this is a real passion that he had."

More than 400 people gathered Sunday at Loudonville Community Church in Loudonville, New York, to honor Little. The church supported his trip financially and emotionally.

"Four weeks ago, Tom Little stood right here," an emotional Stan Key, senior pastor, told the congregation.

The church had printed Wednesday in its weekly worship guide, "Praise the Lord that Tom's ministry in conducting outpatient clinics ... in a remote village was successful. God protected Tom and his team." Key said he decided to leave it in the guide even after hearing the news of Little's death.

1. What kind of doctor was Tom Little?
2. Where is he from?
3. What happened to him?
4. How?
5. Where?
6. Was he alone?
7. How many people was he with?
8. Why were they shot?
9. How many daughters did he leave behind?
10. Was he married?
11. To whom?
12. Did they live in a safe area?
13. How did they miss being bombed?
14. Why did they stay there?
15. What were they passionate about?
16. Who killed Tom?
17. What day was it?
18. How many people showed up to his memorial?
19. Where?
20. Who had kept Tom safe?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. optometrist
2. New York
3. he was killed
4. by gunmen
5. Badakhshan
6. no
7. ten
8. they were being robbed
9. three
10. yes
11. Libby Little
12. no
13. by living underground
14. They loved the people
15. providing eye care for the needy
16. The Taliban
17. Thursday.
18. More than 400
19. Loudonville Community Church
20. God