Question:
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Chapter XV.

Return to the Congo Mouth.

In the evening there was a palaver.

I need hardly say that my guide, after being paid to show me Nsundi, never had the slightest intention to go beyond the Yellala. Irritated by sleeping in the open air, and by the total want of hospitality amongst the bushmen, he and his moleques had sat apart all day, the picture of stubborn discontent, and

"Not a man in the place But had discontent written large in his face."

I proposed to send back a party for rum, powder, and cloth to the extent of 150, or half the demand, and my factotum, Selim, behaved like a trump. Gidi Mavunga, quite beyond self-control, sprang up, and declared that, if the Mundele would not follow him, that obstinate person might remain behind. The normal official deprecation, as usual, made him the more headstrong; he rushed off and disappeared in the bush, followed by a part of his slaves, the others crying aloud to him, "Wenda!"-- get out! Seeing that the three linguisters did not move, he presently returned, and after a furious address in Fiote began a Portuguese tirade for my benefit. This white man had come to their country, and, instead of buying captives, was bent upon enslaving their Mfumos; but that "Branco" should suffer for his attempt; no "Mukanda" or book (that is, letter) should go down stream; all his goods belonged of right to his guide, and thus he would learn to sit upon the heads of the noblesse, with much of the same kind.
1. What was proposed?
2. For what?
3. For how much?
4. Who behaved like a trump?
5. What chapter is this?
6. What is the title?

Numbered answers:
1. to send back a party
2. rum, powder, and cloth
3. 150
4. Selim
5. Chapter XV
6. Return to the Congo Mouth

Question:
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CHAPTER XII

MOVING ON

"Here's a letter from my dear old friend Silas Watson," said Uncle John, delightedly. "It's from Palermo, where he has been staying with his ward--and your friend, girls--Kenneth Forbes, and he wants me to lug you all over to Sicily at once."

"That's jolly," said Patsy, with a bright smile. "I'd like to see Kenneth again."

"I suppose he is a great artist, by this time," said Beth, musingly.

"How singular!" exclaimed Louise. "Count Ferralti told me only this morning that he had decided to go to Palermo."

"Really?" said Uncle John.

"Yes, Uncle. Isn't it a coincidence?"

"Why, as for that," he answered, slowly, "I'm afraid it will prevent our seeing the dear count--or whatever he is--again, at least for some time. For Mr. Watson and Kenneth are just leaving Palermo, and he asks us to meet him in another place altogether, a town called--called--let me see; Tormenti, or Terminal, or something."

"Give me the letter, dear," said Patsy. "I don't believe it's Terminal at all. Of course not," consulting the pages, "it's Taormina."

"Is that in Sicily?" he asked.

"Yes. Listen to what Mr. Watson says: 'I'm told it is the most beautiful spot in the world, which is the same thing you hear about most beautiful places. It is eight hundred feet above the Mediterranean and nestles peacefully in the shadow of Mount Etna.'"

"Etna!" cried Uncle John, with a start. "Isn't that another volcano?"

"To be sure," said Beth, the geographer. "Etna is the biggest volcano in the world."
1. What is Etna?
2. a small one?
3. what size?
4. Did Uncle John sound happy about that?
5. Who was the letter from?
6. a stranger>
7. a relation?
8. where was it writen?
9. was he alone?
10. who was he with?
11. who is called?
12. what's the ward's name
13. how many girls are there?
14. what are their names?
15. who has just decided to go to Palermo
16. Where were the people in palermo traveling to next?
17. what did Uncle John call it?
18. who read it correcly?
19. how high up is it?
20. is it ugly?

Numbered answers:
1. a volcano
2. no
3. biggest in the world
4. no
5. Silas Watson
6. no
7. no
8. Palermo
9. no
10. his ward
11. unknown
12. Kenneth Forbes
13. Three
14. Louise, Patsy and Beth.
15. Count Ferralti
16. Taormina
17. Tormenti, or Terminal
18. Patsy
19. eight hundred feet above the Mediterranean
20. no

Question:
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In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word ' , meaning "My Master" (irregular plural ' ), which is the way a student would address a master of Torah. The word "master" "" literally means "great one".

The basic form of the rabbi developed in the Pharisaic and Talmudic era, when learned teachers assembled to codify Judaism's written and oral laws. The first sage for whom the Mishnah uses the title of rabbi was Yohanan ben Zakkai, active in the early to mid first century CE. In more recent centuries, the duties of a rabbi became increasingly influenced by the duties of the Protestant Christian minister, hence the title "pulpit rabbis", and in 19th-century Germany and the United States rabbinic activities including sermons, pastoral counseling, and representing the community to the outside, all increased in importance.

Within the various Jewish denominations there are different requirements for rabbinic ordination, and differences in opinion regarding who is to be recognized as a rabbi. For example, Orthodox Judaism does not ordain women as rabbis, but other movements have chosen to do so for halakhic reasons (Conservative Judaism) as well as ethical reasons (Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism).
1. What religious is this about?
2. What is a teacher of this religion called?
3. Do all variations use the exact same method of choosing them?
4. Can a woman be one?
5. Which ones?
6. For what purposes?
7. What version says no to a woman doing it?
8. What exactly do they teach?
9. What does the name mean?
10. What time period did they develop?
11. What was the name of the first one?
12. When was this?
13. What influences the more recent ones?
14. What name were they given?
15. In what time frame are the most recent ones referenced?
16. And in what countries during this time?
17. What sort of activity do they engage in?
18. Anything else?
19. Have these services become more or less important?
20. What does the term that students would call the educator mean in literal terms?
Numbered answers:
1. Judaism.
2. A rabbi.
3. No.
4. Yes.
5. Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist.
6. For halakhic reasons.
7. Orthodox Judaism.
8. Torah.
9. "My Master."
10. The Pharisaic and Talmudic era.
11. Yohanan ben Zakkai.
12. The early to mid first century CE.
13. The duties of the Protestant Christian minister.
14. "Pulpit rabbis."
15. 19th-century.
16. Germany and the United States.
17. Sermons.
18. Pastoral counseling.
19. More.
20. "Great one".