Q: CHAPTER VI

A DEAL IN LAND

On the morning after the corporal's discovery, Gustave Wandle was leading his team to a drinking pool on the creek that crossed his farm. He was a big, reserved, fair-haired man, with a fleshy face that was redeemed from heaviness by his eyes, which were restless and keen. Though supposed to be an Austrian, little was known about him or his antecedents except that he owned the next half-section of land to Jernyngham's and farmed it successfully. It was, however, believed that he was of an unusually grasping nature, and his neighbors took precautions when they made a deal with him. He had reached the shadow of a poplar bluff when he heard hurried footsteps and a man with a hot face came into sight.

"I'm going across your place to save time; I want my horse," he explained hastily. "Curtis, the policeman, has ridden in to the settlement and told me to go up and search a muskeg near the north trail with Stanton. Somebody's killed Jernyngham and hidden him there."

"So!" exclaimed Wandle. "Jernyngham murdered! You tell me that?"

"Sure thing!" the other replied. "The police have figured out how it all happened and I'm going to look for the body while Curtis reports to his bosses. A blamed pity! I liked Jernyngham. Well, I must get to the muskeg soon as I can!"

He ran on, and Wandle led his horses to the pool and stood thinking hard while they drank. He was well versed in Jernyngham's affairs and knew that he had once bought a cheap quarter-section of land in an arid belt some distance off. A railroad had since entered the district, irrigation work had been begun, and the holding must have risen in value. Now, it seemed, Jernyngham was dead, which was unfortunate, because Wandle had found their joint operations profitable, and it was very probable that Ellice and himself were the only persons who knew about the land. Wandle mounted one of the horses and set out for Jernyngham's homestead at its fastest pace.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was murdered?
2. Where did Wandle head on his horse?
3. Was he taking his time?
4. What was it about his nature that made his neighbors be cautious around him?
5. Where was Wandle taking his team that day?
6. Where was it?
7. Did it run through his property?
8. Was he a small guy?
9. What color was his hair?
10. Anything memorable about his eyes?
11. Where was he supposedly from?
12. Was his life an open book?
13. How was he doing with his land?
14. Did somebody want to cross his land?
15. Why?
16. Who had sent him?
17. Who was he?
18. Where was the muskeg located?
19. What was he going to look for?
20. Who was going with him to look?
A: 1. Jernyngham
2. Jernyngham's homestead
3. no
4. he was of an unusually grasping nature
5. a drinking pool
6. creek
7. yes
8. no
9. fair
10. yes
11. Austria
12. no
13. he farmed it successfully
14. yes
15. to save time
16. Curtis
17. policeman
18. near the north trail
19. Jernyngham
20. Stanton

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Getting a 4-year-old to eat his lunch of pizza and applesauce on a recent Saturday afternoon wasn't exactly what Sam and Diane McMutrie thought they'd be doing after their three kids grew up.

The couple, in their 50s, are raising Fredo after his birth mother in Haiti gave him to an orphanage.

"In so many ways he's changed us," said Diane McMutrie. "I'm glad that he's here, I'm glad that we can make a difference in his life."

"He makes us smile everyday, he makes us laugh, he says the cutest things and he's just now the love of our life."

Fredo arrived in Pittsburgh six months ago -- just a week after the January 12 earthquake devastated his home country and destroyed his orphanage.

The McMutries' daughters played a key role in getting Fredo out of Haiti and into their parents' lives.

About two years ago, daughters Jamie, 30, and Ali, 22, were working at an orphanage in Haiti when they called with an unusual request: They wanted to know if their parents would be willing to adopt Fredo.

It was the beginning of a long process -- and the McMutries didn't go into it with any illusions.

"I don't consider ourselves special," said Sam McMutrie. "We just happen to be adopting a Haitian boy who our daughters love and thought it would be great for us."

Sam McMutrie admitted he needed some convincing, but in the end, both he and Diane knew what they were getting into.

1. Who was adopted?
2. Who adopted him?
3. Where do they live?
4. about how old are the McMutrie's?
5. Are they happy to have him?
6. When did Fredo get to Pitsburg?
7. Where did he come from?
8. What natural disaster took place there?
9. Do the McMutrie's have children?
10. Where did they work?
11. What did they ask of their parents?
12. Was it fast and easy?
13. Were they both immediatly on board?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Fredo
2. Sam and Diane McMutrie
3. Pittsburgh
4. in their 50s,
5. Yes
6. six months ago
7. Haiti
8. earthquake
9. Yes
10. orphanage
11. to adopt Fredo
12. No
13. No

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global "lingua franca". Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, it ultimately derives its name from the Anglia (Angeln) peninsula in the Baltic Sea. It is closely related to the Frisian languages, but its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse (a North Germanic language), as well as by Latin and Romance languages, particularly French.

English has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century, are called Old English. Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England, and was a period in which the language was influenced by French. Early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London and the King James Bible, and the start of the Great Vowel Shift. Through the worldwide influence of the British Empire, modern English spread around the world from the 17th to mid-20th centuries. Through all types of printed and electronic media, as well as the emergence of the United States as a global superpower, English has become the leading language of international discourse and the "lingua franca" in many regions and in professional contexts such as science, navigation and law.

1. Has english developed over time?
2. when did early modern english begin?
3. when did it become global?
4. when was that?
5. is english most commonly used internationally?
6. when did middle english begin?
7. what kind of language is english?
8. when was english first spoken?
9. in what country?
10. is it related to frisian languages?
11. what has influenced it?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. yes
2. the late 15th century
3. the influence of the British Empire
4. 17th to mid-20th centuries
5. yes
6. the late 11th century
7. a West Germanic language
8. in medieval times
9. England
10. yes
11. other Germanic languages