question: CHAPTER IV--CYCLES

"What flowers grow in my field wherewith to dress thee." - E. BARRETT BROWNING.

Mrs. Best departed early the next morning. It was probably a parting for life between the two old friends; and Magdalen keenly felt the severance from the one person whom she had always known, and on whose sympathy she could rely. Their conversations had been very precious to her, and she felt desolate without the entire companionship. Yet, on the other hand, she felt as if she could have begun better with her sisters if Sophy Best had not come with them, to hand them over, as it were, when she wanted to start on the same level with them, and be more like their contemporary than their authority.

They all stood on the terrace, watching the fly go down the hill, and she turned to them and said -

"We will all settle ourselves this morning, and you will see how the land lies, so that to-morrow we can arrange our day and see what work to do. Thekla, when you have had a run round the garden, you might bring your books to the dining-room and let me see how far you have gone."

"Oh, sister, it is holidays!"

"Well, my dear, you have had a week, and your holiday time cannot last for ever. Looking at your books cannot spoil it."

"Yes, it will; they are so nasty."

"Perhaps you will not always think so; but now you had better put on your hat and your thick boots, for the grass is still very wet, and explore the country. The same advice to you," she added, turning to the others; "it is warm here, but the dew lies long on the slopes."
1. Did Mrs. Best expect to see her friend again?
2. How did she feel without her friendship?
3. True or False: Mrs. Best wished to be seen as her sisters' equal.
4. What does she tell Thekla to do?
5. After she has done what?
6. What does she want to see?
7. True or False: Thekla does not like reading her books.
8. What does she call them?
9. How long a break has she had from reading them?
10. Is it cold outside?
11. What lingers on the hills?
12. What does Mrs. Best tell the sisters to wear?
13. What area will they investigate outside?
14. Where were they are standing?
15. Were they all observing something?
16. What?
17. Who brought the sisters?
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answer: 1. no
2. desolate
3. true
4. bring her books to the dining-room
5. had a run round the garden
6. how far she has gone
7. true
8. nasty
9. a week
10. no
11. dew
12. a hat and thick boots
13. the country
14. unknown
15. yes
16. the fly going down the hill
17. Sophy Best

question: Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States. The state is the tenth largest by area, the least populous and the second least densely populated state in the country. Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana, on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska, on the south by Colorado, on the southwest by Utah, and on the west by Idaho. The state population was estimated at 586,107 in 2015, which is less than 31 of the largest U.S. cities including neighboring Denver. Cheyenne is the capital and the most populous city, with population estimated at 63,335 in 2015.

The western two-thirds of the state is covered mostly by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie called the High Plains. Almost half of the land in Wyoming is owned by the U.S. government, leading Wyoming to rank sixth by area and fifth by proportion of a state's land owned by the federal government. Federal lands include two national parksGrand Teton and Yellowstonetwo national recreation areas, two national monuments, several national forests, historic sites, fish hatcheries, and wildlife refuges.

Original inhabitants of the region include the Crow, Arapaho, Lakota, and Shoshone. Southwestern Wyoming was in the Spanish Empire and then Mexican territory until it was ceded to the United States in 1848 at the end of the MexicanAmerican War. The region acquired the name "Wyoming" when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress in 1865 to provide a "temporary government for the territory of Wyoming". The name was used earlier for the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, and is derived from the Munsee word "", meaning "at the big river flat".
1. Which region Wyoming is in?
2. Who were the original inhabitants there?
3. Which part of it went under an Empire?
4. Which empire?
5. After that what it became?
6. Which year it became part of US?
7. Which war led that?
8. What is its rank by area?
9. How about population?
10. How many states border it?
11. Can you name two of them?
12. Which state is to its north?
13. And south?
14. What is Wyoming's population?
15. When the it was named Wyoming?
16. Which state had a similarly named place?
17. What Wyoming means?
18. Is the state mountainous?
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answer: 1. western United States
2. Crow, Arapaho, Lakota, and Shoshone
3. Southwestern Wyoming
4. Spanish
5. Wyoming
6. 1848
7. MexicanAmerican War.
8. tenth
9. second least densely
10. Six
11. South Dakota and Nebraska
12. Montana
13. Colorado
14. 586,107
15. 1865
16. Pennsylvania
17. at the big river flat
18. yes

question: Bristol () is a city and county in South West England with a population of 454,200 in 2017. The district has the 10th-largest population in England, while the Bristol metropolitan area is the 12th-largest in the United Kingdom. The city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively.

Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English "the place at the bridge"). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373, when it became a county of itself. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts. Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.

Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
1. What is the main subject?
2. What was it a starting place for?
3. And where were they headed in those days?
4. In what country is it located?
5. What part of that country?
6. Is it a State?
7. What is one thing it is?
8. And another?
9. Who arrived in 1497?
10. In what type of vehicle?
11. What was his ethnicity?
12. Who was the first English merchant in North America?
13. What was the population in 2017?
14. Making it what ranking in the England?
15. How does the metro area rank in the UK?
16. How many cities border it?
17. Please name one.
18. And another.
19. Can you please name another one?
20. And the last?
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answer:
1. Bristol
2. early voyages
3. the New World
4. England
5. South West
6. No
7. a city
8. it's a county as well
9. John Cabot
10. on a ship
11. Venetian
12. William Weston
13. 454,200
14. the 10th-largest population
15. the 12th-largest
16. Four
17. Bath
18. North Somerset
19. South Gloucestershire
20. Gloucester