Q: CHAPTER IX.THE MAD ELEPHANT.

From Middletown the circus went to Dover, and then to Grasscannon.

At each of these places a big business was done, and at every performance Leo did better.

The young gymnast became a great favorite with all but two people in the "Greatest Show on Earth."

These two people were Jack Snipper, who remained as overbearing as ever, and Jack Broxton, the fellow discharged for intoxication.

Broxton had been following up the circus ever since his discharge, in the vain hope of being reinstated.

But the rules in the "Greatest Show on Earth" are very strict, and no intoxication is allowed.

After leaving Grasscannon, the circus struck up through New York State, and at the end of the week arrived at Buffalo.

It was while at this place that Broxton tried to play a dangerous trick upon Leo.

He met the young gymnast on the street one night after the performance.

He was under the influence of liquor at the time, and in his pocket he carried what is known by the boys as a giant torpedo.

As Leo turned a corner he threw the torpedo at Leo's feet.

Luckily the torpedo failed to explode.

Had it gone off the young gymnast would have been sadly crippled.

"You rascal!" cried Leo, and he made for Broxton and landed him in the gutter.

Some of the other performers then came up.

"What's the row, Leo?"

"Look what Broxton threw at me," he replied, and handed the torpedo around for inspection.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was kicked out for being drunk?
2. Did he like Leo?
3. Who else did not like him?
4. True or False: Leo was steadily improving.
5. Where did the circus go after Middletown?
6. And after Grasscannon?
7. What did someone throw at Leo?
8. Who threw it?
9. Where did it land?
10. Did Leo fight Broxton?
11. Who went in the gutter?
12. Who came up and saw the torpedo?
13. What was Leo's role in the circus?
14. What was the circus called?
15. True or False: Broxton hoped to get his job back.
16. For how long had he been trying to make that happen?
17. Was he drunk when he threw the torpedo?
18. True or False: The torpedo exploded.
19. What did Leo call Broxton?
20. Would could have happened to Leo?
A: 1. Broxton
2. no
3. Jack Snipper
4. true
5. Dover
6. New York State
7. giant torpedo
8. Broxton
9. at Leo's feet
10. yes
11. Broxton
12. other performers
13. gymnast
14. Greatest Show on Earth
15. true
16. ever since his discharge
17. yes
18. False
19. rascal
20. he would have been crippled

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Malmo is the capital and largest city of the Swedish county of Scania. Malmo is the third largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the fifth largest city in Scandinavia, with a population of above 300,000. The Malmo Metropolitan Region is home to 700,000 people, and the resund Region, which includes Malmo, is home to 3.9million people.

Malmo was one of the earliest and most industrialized towns of Scandinavia, but it struggled with the adaptation to post-industrialism. Since the construction of the resund Bridge, Malmo has undergone a major transformation with architectural developments, and it has attracted new biotech and IT companies, and particularly students through Malmo University, founded in 1998. The city contains many historic buildings and parks, and is also a commercial centre for the western part of Scania.

The earliest written mention of Malmo as a city dates from 1275. It is thought to have been founded shortly before that date, as a fortified quay or ferry berth of the Archbishop of Lund, some to the north-east. Malmo was for centuries Denmark's second-biggest city. Its original name was "Malmhaug" (with alternate spellings), meaning "Gravel pile" or "Ore Hill".

In the 15th century, Malmo became one of Denmark's largest and most frequented cities, reaching a population of approximately 5,000 inhabitants. It became the most important city around the resund, with the German Hanseatic League frequenting it as a marketplace, and was notable for its flourishing herring fishery. In 1437, King Eric of Pomerania (King of Denmark from 13961439) granted the city's arms: argent with a griffin gules, based on Eric's arms from Pomerania. The griffin's head as a symbol of Malmo extended to the entire province of Scania from 1660.

1. When was Malmo's university founded?
2. What type of companies does it attract now?
3. What area is it the commercial hub for?
4. What was Malmo's original name?
5. What does the name mean?
6. What country was Malmhaug a part of?
7. Is Malmo still part of Denmark?
8. What county is Malmo the largest city of?
9. Is it the largest city in Sweden?
10. Which Swedish cities are bigger?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. In 1998
2. biotech and IT companies
3. the western part of Scania.
4. Malmhaug
5. Gravel pile or Ore Hill
6. Denmark's
7. Yes
8. Swedish county
9. third largest
10. Stockholm and Gothenburg

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Hubert Joseph Schlafly was an electrical engineer who helped change the way actors, politicians and other people speak on television. In 1950, he and two other men developed the teleprompter. One co-worker, Fred Barton, was an actor. He had an idea for a tool that would help television actors read their lines without having to memorize them. The other co-worker was Irving Kahn. He worked as vice-president of radio and television at 20thCentury Fox.

The first teleprompter involved a person who held a long piece of paper printed with big letters. As the actor read the lines, another person would move the paper ahead on the device . The teleprompter was first used on a television program called "The First Hundred Years." Later versions used television screens to show the words that were to be read.

Hub Schlafly and his co-workers believed that many companies would want to buy the teleprompter. So, they left their jobs and created the TelePrompTer Corporation to sell their invention.

In 1952, former President Herbert Hoover became the first politician to use a teleprompter. The former president was speaking at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, USA. For a brief time, he stopped reading and began to talk about a subject not written in his speech. When Hoover wanted to continue the speech, the words on the teleprompter were not moving. He then said the machine should be restarted and viewers became aware of the new invention. Many reporters wrote about that incident, creating a new level of publicity for the teleprompter.

Soon more and more politicians started to use it to face the television camera while reading prepared statements, instead of looking down at their notes. Then the device was used for almost all live television broadcasts.

1. What did Joseph Schlafly help to create?
2. Did he do it alone?
3. How many others were there?
4. Who were they?
5. What was Fred's job?
6. What about Irving's?
7. Did they all quite their jobs?
8. why?
9. did they have a company?
10. What was it?
11. When did they create the teleprompter?
12. Who was the person in politics to use it?
13. When?
14. Where was he?
15. At what gathering?
16. Did he give away that he was using it?
17. How?
18. Did this serve as advertising for it?
19. Why did he need it?
20. What was the first show to use it?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. the teleprompter
2. no
3. two
4. Fred Barton and Irving Kahn
5. he was an actor
6. Vice President at 20th Century Fox
7. yes
8. to sell their invention
9. yes
10. the TelePrompTer Corporation
11. In 1950
12. Herbert Hoover
13. 1952
14. in Chicago
15. the Republican National Convention
16. yes
17. he said it should be restarted
18. yes
19. to continue his speech
20. the First Hundred Years