input: CHAPTER XXV

THE TRAIL THROUGH THE JUNGLE

"Sid Merrick is certainly in deadly earnest," was Mr. Rover's comment, after the boys had finished their tale. "He means to get hold of that treasure by hook or by crook, and he will stop at nothing to gain his end."

"We want to go after him and his gang," said Dick. "We ought not to lose a minute doing it."

"Can you walk, Dick?"

"I guess so, although being tied up made me rather stiff."

"I see your wrist is bleeding."

"Yes, and I tried pretty hard to free myself."

"And I tried, too," added Sam. "But I couldn't budge a single knot."

"We could not unknot the knots," added Tom, who was bound to have his joke.

It was now morning, for which all were thankful. The lights were put out, and the whole party partook of some of the provisions on hand.

"I believe Merrick would have left us to starve," said Sam. "He is the greatest rascal I ever knew!"

The Rover boys pointed out the direction Sid Merrick and his party had taken. Bahama Bill said that trail was new to him, and if it led to the treasure cave he did not know it.

"But I'll know the cave as soon as I see it--if it is still there," he added.

"Well, you won't see it if it isn't there," said Dick, grimly. "That earthquake may have changed the whole face of that portion of the isle."

The trail appeared to make a wide sweep to the westward, and led them over ground that was unusually rough. The trailing vines were everywhere and they had to brush away innumerable spider webs as they progressed. Once Songbird came upon some spiders larger than any he had yet seen and two crawled on his shoulder, causing him to yell in fright. 1. How many boys are mentioned?
2. What are their names?
3. Why does Dick have trouble walking?
4. Why?
5. Does he have any injuries?
6. What?
7. How did that happen?
8. Did the other children try, too?
9. Were they successful?
10. Who did this to them?
11. What is he after?
12. Where does he expect to find it? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Three
2. Dick, Sam & Tom
3. He is rather stiff
4. He was tied up.
5. Yes
6. His wrist is bleeding
7. When he tried to free himself
8. Yes
9. No
10. Merrick
11. Treasure
12. A cave

input: CHAPTER III. Rome

One warm, still day, late in the Roman autumn, our two young men were sitting beneath one of the high-stemmed pines of the Villa Ludovisi. They had been spending an hour in the mouldy little garden-house, where the colossal mask of the famous Juno looks out with blank eyes from that dusky corner which must seem to her the last possible stage of a lapse from Olympus. Then they had wandered out into the gardens, and were lounging away the morning under the spell of their magical picturesqueness. Roderick declared that he would go nowhere else; that, after the Juno, it was a profanation to look at anything but sky and trees. There was a fresco of Guercino, to which Rowland, though he had seen it on his former visit to Rome, went dutifully to pay his respects. But Roderick, though he had never seen it, declared that it could n't be worth a fig, and that he did n't care to look at ugly things. He remained stretched on his overcoat, which he had spread on the grass, while Rowland went off envying the intellectual comfort of genius, which can arrive at serene conclusions without disagreeable processes. When the latter came back, his friend was sitting with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. Rowland, in the geniality of a mood attuned to the mellow charm of a Roman villa, found a good word to say for the Guercino; but he chiefly talked of the view from the little belvedere on the roof of the casino, and how it looked like the prospect from a castle turret in a fairy tale. 1. What season was it?
2. what was the weather like?
3. how many people sat under a tree?
4. were they old?
5. were they men or women?
6. where were they?
7. under what tree?
8. what kind?
9. of what?
10. how long had they been there?
11. what mask is there?
12. what kind?
13. where does it stare?
14. with what look?
15. from where?
16. who found something nice to say?
17. about what?
18. what did he discuss?
19. from where?
20. where is that? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. autumn
2. warm
3. two
4. no
5. men
6. at the garden-house
7. pines
8. high-stemmed
9. the Villa Ludovisi
10. an hour
11. mask of the famous Juno
12. colossal
13. out
14. blank eyes
15. that dusky corner
16. Rowland
17. the Guercino
18. the view
19. the little belvedere
20. on the roof of the casino

input: John was born to Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine on 24 December 1166. Henry had inherited significant territories along the Atlantic seaboardAnjou, Normandy and Englandand expanded his empire by conquering Brittany. Henry married the powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine, who reigned over the Duchy of Aquitaine and had a tenuous claim to Toulouse and Auvergne in southern France, in addition to being the former wife of Louis VII of France. The result was the Angevin Empire, named after Henry's paternal title as Count of Anjou and, more specifically, its seat in Angers.[nb 2] The Empire, however, was inherently fragile: although all the lands owed allegiance to Henry, the disparate parts each had their own histories, traditions and governance structures. As one moved south through Anjou and Aquitaine, the extent of Henry's power in the provinces diminished considerably, scarcely resembling the modern concept of an empire at all. Some of the traditional ties between parts of the empire such as Normandy and England were slowly dissolving over time. It was unclear what would happen to the empire on Henry's death. Although the custom of primogeniture, under which an eldest son would inherit all his father's lands, was slowly becoming more widespread across Europe, it was less popular amongst the Norman kings of England. Most believed that Henry would divide the empire, giving each son a substantial portion, and hoping that his children would continue to work together as allies after his death. To complicate matters, much of the Angevin empire was held by Henry only as a vassal of the King of France of the rival line of the House of Capet. Henry had often allied himself with the Holy Roman Emperor against France, making the feudal relationship even more challenging. 1. Who is John's mom?
2. And his dad?
3. What country was he from?
4. When was he born?
5. What oceanic regions did Henry have?
6. How many is that?
7. What region did he add to that?
8. How?
9. Where did his mom reign?
10. Did she have a strong claim to Toulouse?
11. Who was her previous husband?
12. Where was he from?
13. What was created when Henry and Eleanor wed?
14. Was Henry the Duke of Anjou?
15. What was he?
16. How did he get that title?
17. Was the empire strong?
18. Why not? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Eleanor of Aquitaine
2. Henry II
3. England
4. Dec 24 1166
5. Anjou, Normandy and England
6. Three
7. Brittany
8. by conquering it
9. the Duchy of Aquitaine
10. it was tenuous
11. Louis VII
12. France.
13. the Angevin Empire
14. no
15. Count of Anjou
16. its his paternal title
17. no
18. each part had a different history