question: Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the year in which a nation as a whole has theoretically earned enough income to pay its taxes. Every dollar that is officially considered income by the government is counted, and every payment to the government that is officially considered a tax is counted. Taxes at all levels of government local, state and federal are included.

According to Neil Veldhuis, Director of Fiscal Studies, Fraser Institute, the purpose of Tax Freedom Day is to provide citizens of tax-paying countries with a metric with which to estimate their "total tax bill". The premise is that by comparing the benefits received by citizens to the amount they pay in taxes, the value of paying taxes can be assessed.

The concept of Tax Freedom Day was developed in 1948 by Florida businessman Dallas Hostetler, who trademarked the phrase "Tax Freedom Day" and calculated it each year for the next two decades. In 1971, Hostetler retired and transferred the trademark to the Tax Foundation. The Tax Foundation has calculated Tax Freedom Day for the United States ever since, using it as a tool for illustrating the proportion of national income diverted to fund the annual cost of government programs. In 1990, the Tax Foundation began calculating the specific Tax Freedom Day for each individual state.
1. Who is Neil Veldhuis?
2. Where?
3. When was Tax Freedom Day established?
4. By whom?
5. Where is Dallas from?
6. Why was the day developed?
7. What happened in 1971?
8. What happened with the trademark?
9. From who?
10. To who?
11. Who has the trademark now?
12. Was it always calculated per state?
13. When did this start?
14. What exactly is Tax Freedom Day?
15. Which dollars are counted?
16. How many levels of taxes are included?
17. What are they?
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answer: 1. Director of Fiscal Studies
2. Fraser Institute
3. 1948
4. Dallas Hostetler
5. Florida
6. so people could measure their taxes
7. Hostetler retired
8. it was transferred
9. Hostetler
10. the Tax Foundation
11. The Tax Foundation
12. no
13. In 1990
14. the first day when a nation has earned enough income to pay its taxes
15. all income
16. Three
17. local, state and federal

question: Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; ) is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, as well as several much smaller islands.

Prince Edward Island is one of the three Maritime Provinces and is the smallest province in both land area and population. It is the only subnational jurisdiction of North America outside the Caribbean to have no mainland territory, and the only such jurisdiction to have no land boundary. The island has several informal names: "Garden of the Gulf," referring to the pastoral scenery and lush agricultural lands throughout the province; and "Birthplace of Confederation" or "Cradle of Confederation", referring to the Charlottetown Conference in 1864, although PEI did not join Confederation until 1873, when it became the seventh Canadian province. The backbone of the economy is farming; it produces 25% of Canada's potatoes. Historically, PEI is one of Canada's older settlements and demographically still reflects older immigration to the country, with Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and French surnames being dominant to this day.

According to the 2016 census, the province of Prince Edward Island has 142,907 residents. It is located about north of Halifax, Nova Scotia and east of Quebec City. It consists of the main island and 231 minor islands. Altogether, the entire province has a land area of . Its capital is Charlottetown.
1. How many people are there in the province of Prince Edward Island?
2. What is Prince Edward Island?
3. What is one or the informal names for it?
4. What is another?
5. What is the basis of its economy?
6. What's its third informal name?
7. How much or Canada's potatoes does it grow?
8. What kind of surnames would you find there?
9. Besides the main island, how many others does it have?
10. How many minor islands does it have?
11. What kind of Province is it?
12. What other kind of province is it one of?
13. How many Maritime Provinces are there total?
14. When was the Charlottetown Conference?
15. What happened in 1873?
16. What is it situated north of?
17. And what city is it east of?
18. What is it a subnational jurisdiction of?
19. Does it have a mainland territory?
20. Is it a newer settlement?
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answer: 1. 142,907
2. it is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, as well as several much smaller islands
3. : "Garden of the Gulf,"
4. "Birthplace of Confederation"
5. The backbone of the economy is farming
6. "Cradle of Confederation"
7. 25%
8. Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and French surnames
9. several much smaller islands
10. 231 minor islands
11. a Canadian province
12. a Maritime Provinc
13. three
14. in 1864
15. it joined the Confederation
16. Halifax
17. Quebec City
18. subnational jurisdiction of North America
19. no
20. no

question: CHAPTER LVIII. "Fairoaks to let"

Our poor widow (with the assistance of her faithful Martha of Fairoaks, who laughed and wondered at the German ways, and superintend the affairs of the simple household) had made a little feast in honour of Major Pendennis's arrival, of which, however, only the Major and his two younger friends partook, for Helen sent to say that she was too unwell to dine at their table, and Laura bore her company. The Major talked for the party, and did not perceive, or choose to perceive, what a gloom and silence pervaded the other two sharers of the modest dinner. It was evening before Helen and Laura came into the sitting-room to join the company there. She came in leaning on Laura, with her back to the waning light, so that Arthur could not see how pallid and woe-stricken her face was, and as she went up to Pen, whom she had not seen during the day, and placed her fond arms on his shoulders and kissed him tenderly, Laura left her, and moved away to another part of the room. Pen remarked that his mother's voice and her whole frame trembled, her hand was clammy cold as she put it up to his forehead, piteously embracing him. The spectacle of her misery only added, somehow, to the wrath and testiness of the young man. He scarcely returned the kiss which the suffering lady gave him: and the countenance with which he met the appeal of her look was hard and cruel. "She persecutes me," he thought within himself, "and she comes to me with the air of a martyr!" "You look very ill, my child," she said. "I don't like to see you look in that way." And she tottered to a sofa, still holding one of his passive hands in her thin cold clinging fingers.
1. Who made the feast?
2. Who attended?
3. When time of day did the other ladies arrive?
4. Who was looking pale?
5. Who did she plant her lips on?
6. Where did she touch him?
7. What did he tell her?
8. Who did she think looked sick?
9. What did they walk towards?
10. Who assisted in making the meal?
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answer:
1. Our poor widow
2. the Major and his two younger friends
3. evening
4. Helen
5. Pen
6. his shoulders
7. that his mother's voice and her whole frame trembled
8. Pen
9. a sofa
10. Martha of Fairoaks