Q: CHAPTER XXI

THE LAST AFTERNOON

It was a bright day when Lisle took his leave of the Marples. They gave him a friendly farewell and when he turned away Bella Crestwick walked with him down the drive.

"I don't care what they think; I couldn't talk to you while they were all trying to say something nice," she explained. "Still, to do them justice, I believe they meant it. We are sorry to part with you."

"It's soothing to feel that," Lisle replied. "In many ways, I'm sorry to go. I've no doubt you'll miss your brother after to-morrow."

"Yes," she said with unusual seriousness. "More than once during the last two years I felt that it would be a relief to let somebody else have the responsibility of looking after him, but now that the time has come I'm sorry he's going. I can't help remembering how often I lost my temper, and the mistakes I made."

"You stuck to your task," commended Lisle. "I dare say it was a hard one, almost beyond you now and then."

He knew that he was not exaggerating. She was only a year older than the wilful lad, who must at times have driven her to despair. Yet she had never faltered in her efforts to restrain and control him; and had made a greater sacrifice for his sake than Lisle suspected, though in the light of a subsequent revelation of Gladwyne's character she was thankful for this.

"Well," she replied, "I suppose that one misses a load one has grown used to, and I feel very downcast. It's hardly fair to pass Jim on to you--but I can trust you to take care of him."

1. Lisle
2. the Marples'
3. no
4. bright
5. yes
6. Bella
7. they were all trying to say something nice
8. yes
9. yes
10. yes
11. unknown
12. two years
13. yes
14. yes
15. Bella
16. yes
17. Lisle
18. no
19. yes
20. her brother

Numbered questions:
1. Who was leaving?
2. From where?
3. Was it a cloudy and dark day?
4. How was it?
5. Did the farewell go well?
6. Who walked him to the drive?
7. Why she couldn't talk to him earlier?
8. Did she say they were serious about it?
9. Was she sorry to see him going?
10. To some extent was he sorry too?
11. Did he consider her a sister?
12. How long they have been looking after someone?
13. Was she upset some of the times?
14. And mistakes too?
15. Who felt very downcast?
16. Was it because she had lighter workload then?
17. Who did she entrusted Jim with?
18. Did she think it was fair?
19. Did she think he would take good care of him?
20. How Jim is related to her?

Q: Last Saturday was the best day of Timmy's summer. After waking up at nine and turning on his lamp, Timmy ran downstairs, counting the steps as he always did. There were always seven. At the bottom, he jumped over his dog Lucky who was licking himself clean. Timmy took a bite of toast and a sip of the orange juice his mom Suzie had left on the table for him before running outside to check the mail. Before he made it down the steps, he almost tripped on a big package waiting for him. It was here! Timmy's birthday present from his grandmother Betty had arrived. He brought it into the kitchen, where his dad Ryan was waiting for him with a grin on his face. As Timmy tore into the package, he found the greatest present he could have asked for. It was a huge water gun! Timmy immediately filled it up and ran outside to begin playing. His neighbor Maeby came outside with her water hose after eating her sandwich and the two got in a water fight! Soon, Timmy's dad came outside to play too! He brought 11 water balloons. Soon all five of Timmy's friends were playing in the water with each other. Timmy's water gun was the best toy out there. It worked by winding up the handle before firing the water. Soon it was evening and Timmy's dad was firing up the grill to cook hotdogs and hamburgers for Timmy's friends and their families.

1. Last Saturday
2. nine
3. his lamp
4. Yes
5. the steps
6. seven
7. his dog
8. Lucky
9. licking himself
10. his mom
11. toast and orange juice
12. Yes
13. a bite and a sip
14. a big package
15. Yes
16. his grandmother
17. No
18. into the kitchen

Numbered questions:
1. When was the best day of Timmy's summer?
2. What time did he wake up?
3. What did he turn on?
4. Did he run downstairs?
5. What did he count while doing so?
6. How many were there?
7. What did he jump over at the bottom?
8. What's its name?
9. What was it doing?
10. Who left him something on the table?
11. What did she leave?
12. Did he eat or drink any of it?
13. How much?
14. What did he almost trip over?
15. Was it for him?
16. Who sent it?
17. Was her name Suzie?
18. Where did he take it.

Q: In psychology, memory is the process in which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. Encoding allows information from the outside world to be sensed in the form of chemical and physical stimuli. In the first stage the information must be changed so that it may be put into the encoding process. Storage is the second memory stage or process. This entails that information is maintained over short periods of time. Finally the third process is the retrieval of information that has been stored. Such information must be located and returned to the consciousness. Some retrieval attempts may be effortless due to the type of information, and other attempts to remember stored information may be more demanding for various reasons.

Short-term memory is believed to rely mostly on an acoustic code for storing information, and to a lesser extent a visual code. Conrad (1964) found that test subjects had more difficulty recalling collections of letters that were acoustically similar (e.g. E, P, D). Confusion with recalling acoustically similar letters rather than visually similar letters implies that the letters were encoded acoustically. Conrad's (1964) study, however, deals with the encoding of written text; thus, while memory of written language may rely on acoustic components, generalisations to all forms of memory cannot be made.

1. the information must be changed
2. Storage

Numbered questions:
1. What is the beginning part of the memory process?
2. The next part?