Q: Sen. Ted Cruz slammed the White House on Tuesday for a "failure of leadership" as President Barack Obama prepares to nominate his administration's fourth defense secretary.

The Texas Republican, who is considering a 2016 run in hopes of heading his own White House administration, called the unusually high turnover at the helm of the Defense Department emblematic of a White House that puts politics above U.S. national security.

"It seems what the administration is looking for is a defense secretary who will follow the orders of a political White House rather than focus on defending the national security interests of this country," Cruz said. "At a time when the threats are this grave, we shouldn't see turnover at the Defense Department than one has at a typical Burger King."

Cruz said he did not know Ashton Carter, the former No. 2 man at the Pentagon who is expected to be Obama's nominee to succeed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, but Cruz said he looks forward to learning more about Carter and his "good reputation."

But Cruz emphasized he was unsettled to see several potential picks pull their names out of the running to head the department, including former Pentagon official Michele Flournoy and Sen. Jack Reed.

"It says something that so many people are saying, 'No, thank you, I don't want to serve in an administration that overrides the Defense Department, that treats the defense secretary as subservient to political lackeys in the White House," Cruz said.

Cruz made the remarks Tuesday at an event cosponsored by Concerned Veterans of America and the conservative publication The Weekly Standard during which he bore out his hawkish foreign policy and staked out positions starkly in contrast to Obama.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who thought there was a failure at the White House?
2. What position does he hold?
3. For what state?
4. What party?
5. When did Cruz make the comment?
6. Did he think the defense department was doing a good job?
7. What kind of establishment did he compare them to?
8. What event did he say these things at?
9. Who had decided not to run as the head of the department?
10. What did she do?
11. Does she still work there?
12. Who else had pulled out?
13. Who is he?
A: 1. Ted Cruz
2. Senator
3. Texas
4. Republican
5. On Tuesday
6. No
7. Burger KIng
8. An event cosponsored by Concerned Veterans of America and The Weekly Standard
9. Michele Fluornoy
10. She was a Pentagon official
11. No
12. Jack Reed
13. A senator
Q: CHAPTER VII

There was a good deal of speculation at the Sheridan Club, of which he was a popular and much envied member, as to the cause for the complete disappearance from their midst of Francis Ledsam since the culmination of the Hilditch tragedy.

"Sent back four topping briefs, to my knowledge, last week," one of the legal luminaries of the place announced to a little group of friends and fellow-members over a before-dinner cocktail.

"Griggs offered him the defence of William Bull, the Chippenham murderer, and he refused it," another remarked. "Griggs wrote him personally, and the reply came from the Brancaster Golf Club! It isn't like Ledsam to be taking golfing holidays in the middle of the session."

"There's nothing wrong with Ledsam," declared a gruff voice from the corner. "And don't gossip, you fellows, at the top of your voices like a lot of old women. He'll be calling here for me in a moment or two."

They all looked around. Andrew Wilmore rose slowly to his feet and emerged from behind the sheets of an evening paper. He laid his hand upon the shoulder of a friend, and glanced towards the door.

"Ledsam's had a touch of nerves," he confided. "There's been nothing else the matter with him. We've been down at the Dormy House at Brancaster and he's as right as a trivet now. That Hilditch affair did him in completely."

"I don't see why," one of the bystanders observed. "He got Hilditch off all right. One of the finest addresses to a jury I ever heard."

Answer the following questions:
1. what was the name of the club?
2. what was going on there?
3. how much?
4. who has disappeared?
5. since when?
6. what did someone announce to a small group?
7. what was announced?
8. on what occasion?
9. what would be out of character for Ledsam to do?
10. when?
A: 1. Sheridan Club
2. speculation
3. a good deal
4. Francis Ledsam
5. the culmination of the Hilditch tragedy
6. one of the legal luminaries
7. Sent back four topping briefs...
8. before-dinner cocktail
9. golfing holidays
10. middle of the session
Q: CHAPTER XXXIII.

TIME FLIES.

Eighteen months passed away in England, and nothing more was heard of the two fugitives to Africa. Lady Emily's cup was very full indeed. On the self-same day she learned of her husband's death and her son's mysterious and unaccountable disappearance. From that moment forth, he was to her as if dead. After Granville left, no letter or news of him, direct or indirect, ever reached Tilgate. It was all most inexplicable. He had disappeared into space, and no man knew of him.

Cyril, too, had now almost given up hoping for news of Guy. Slowly the conviction forced itself deeper and still deeper upon his mind, in spite of Elma, that Guy was really Montague Nevitt's murderer. Else how account for Guy's sudden disappearance, and for the fact that he never even wrote home his whereabouts? Nay, Guy's letter itself left no doubt upon his mind. Cyril went through life now oppressed continually with the terrible burden of being a murderer's brother.

And indeed everybody else--except Elma Clifford--implicitly shared that opinion with him. Cyril was sure the unknown benefactor shared it too, for Guy's six thousand pounds were never paid in to his credit--as indeed how could they, since Colonel Kelmscott, who had promised to pay them, died before receiving the balance of the purchase money for the Dowlands estate? Cyril slank through the world, then, weighed down by his shame, for Guy and he were each other's doubles, and he always had a deep underlying conviction that, as Guy was in any particular, so also in the very fibre of his nature he himself was.

Answer the following questions:
1. Whose husband died?
2. What happened to her son?
3. Where is she?
4. What is her son's name?
5. Did he write home?
6. Does anybody know where he is?
7. Who was killed
8. Was it a homicide?
9. Could the killer be charged with a crime?
10. Who might of done it?
11. Who is his brother?
12. Does he think he's the killer
13. Does everyone?
14. Who doesn't?
15. Is Guy missing?
16. What is Cyril's burden?
17. How does it make him fee?
18. Who was going to take care of Guy's money?
19. What was never paid?
20. Who passed away before he could get that done?
A:
1. Lady Emily's.
2. He disappeared.
3. England.
4. Granville.
5. No.
6. No.
7. Montague Nevitt.
8. Yes.
9. Yes.
10. Guy.
11. Cyril.
12. Yes.
13. No.
14. Elma Clifford.
15. Yes.
16. Being a murderer's brother.
17. Oppressed continually.
18. Unknown benefactor.
19. Six thousand pounds.
20. Colonel Kelmscott.