Q: Jews originated as a national and religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE, in the part of the Levant known as the Land of Israel. The Merneptah Stele appears to confirm the existence of a people of Israel, associated with the god El, somewhere in Canaan as far back as the 13th century BCE. The Israelites, as an outgrowth of the Canaanite population, consolidated their hold with the emergence of the Kingdom of Israel, and the Kingdom of Judah. Some consider that these Canaanite sedentary Israelites melded with incoming nomadic groups known as 'Hebrews'. Though few sources in the Bible mention the exilic periods in detail, the experience of diaspora life, from the Ancient Egyptian rule over the Levant, to Assyrian Captivity and Exile, to Babylonian Captivity and Exile, to Seleucid Imperial rule, to the Roman occupation, and the historical relations between Israelites and the homeland, became a major feature of Jewish history, identity and memory.

1. as far back as the 13th century BCE
2. somewhere in Canaan
3. The Merneptah Stele
4. in the Middle East
5. during the second millennium BCE
6. a national and religious group
7. Kingdom of Israel
8. god El
9. Canaanite
10. incoming nomadic groups
11. 'Hebrews'
12. the Roman occupation
13. no
14. historical relations between Israelites and the homeland
15. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. How long have people in Israel existed?
2. Where?
3. According to what?
4. Where did Jews originate?
5. When?
6. What kind of group were they?
7. What did they call their homeland?
8. What god did the first Israelites associate with?
9. What population did they grow from?
10. What group of people did they merge with?
11. Combined, what were they known as?
12. What was one of many historical events that influenced Jewish identity?
13. Is it referenced in detail within the Bible?
14. Were there any other major historical events that influenced the area?
15. How many groups of people were held captive and eventually exiled?

Q: Comcast Corporation, formerly registered as Comcast Holdings,[note 1] is an American multinational mass media company and is the largest broadcasting and largest cable company in the world by revenue. It is the second largest pay-TV company after the AT&T-DirecTV acquisition, largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States, and the nation's third largest home telephone service provider. Comcast services U.S. residential and commercial customers in 40 states and the District of Columbia. The company's headquarters are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Comcast operates multiple cable-only channels (including E! Entertainment Television, the Golf Channel, and NBCSN), over-the-air national broadcast network channels (NBC and Telemundo), the film production studio Universal Pictures, and Universal Parks & Resorts, with a global total of nearly 200 family entertainment locations and attractions in the U.S. and several other countries including U.A.E., South Korea, Russia and China, with several new locations reportedly planned and being developed for future operation. Comcast also has significant holding in digital distribution (thePlatform). In February 2014 the company agreed to merge with Time Warner Cable in an equity swap deal worth $45.2 billion. Under the terms of the agreement Comcast was to acquire 100% of Time Warner Cable. However, on April 24, 2015, Comcast terminated the agreement.

1. April 24, 2015
2. Time Warner Cable
3. $45.2 bil
4. 100% of Time Warner Cable
5. February 2014
6. Comcast Holdings
7. America
8. no
9. second largest pay-TV company largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider
10. AT&T-DirecTV
11. third
12. yes
13. 40 states
14. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
15. E! Entertainment Television, the Golf Channel, and NBCSN
16. NBC and Telemundo
17. yes
18. Universal Pictures
19. yes
20. Universal Parks & Resorts

Numbered questions:
1. When did Comcast end the contract?
2. Who was it with?
3. What was it worth?
4. If it had gone through, how much would Comcast get?
5. When was the initial agreement for a merger?
6. What is the corporation's official name?
7. What country is it based in?
8. Is it a small business?
9. How big is it?
10. Who is ahead of it?
11. How does it rank in phone service?
12. Is it available in DC?
13. And how many states?
14. Where is the HQ?
15. What are some cable only options?
16. And which broadcast channels?
17. Do they own any studios?
18. Which one?
19. Any parks?
20. Which one?

Q: CHAPTER XXVIII

VIRTUE TRIUMPHS

Mart maintained his deceptive cheer at the breakfast-table, and the haggard look of the earlier hour passed away as he resolutely attacked his chop. He spoke of his exile in a tone of resignation--mixed with humor. "Sure, the old dad will have the laugh on us. He told us this was the jumpin'-off place."

"What will we do about the house?" asked Bertha. "Will we sell or rent?"

"Nayther. Lave it as it is," replied he quickly. "So long as I live I want to feel 'tis here ready for ye whinever ye wish to use it. 'Tis not mine. Without you I never would have had it, and I want no other mistress in it. Sure, every chair, every picture on the walls is there because of ye. 'Tis all you, and no one else shall mar it while I live."

This was the note which was most piercing in her ears, and she hastened to stop it by remarking the expense of maintaining the place--its possible decay and the like; but to all this he doggedly replied: "I care not. I'd rather burn it and all there is in it than turn it over to some other woman. Go you to Ben and tell him my will concerning it."

This gave a new turn to her thought. "I don't want to do that. Why don't you go and tell him yourself?"

"Didn't the doctor say I must save meself worry? I hate to ask ye to shoulder the heavy end of this proposition." His face lost its forced smile. "I'm a sick man, darlin'; I know it now, and I must save meself all I can. Ye may send Lucius down and bring him up, or we'll drive down and see him; maybe the ride would do me good, but I can't climb them stairs ag'in."

1. Haggard
2. Because of his exile
3. In a tone of resignation mixed with humor
4. No

Numbered questions:
1. How did Mart feel before breakfast?
2. Why?
3. How did he speak of it?
4. Does the house belong to him?