Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXVII

THE SILVER CLASP

It was about eleven o'clock on a hot morning and Kenwardine, who had adopted native customs, was leisurely getting his breakfast in the patio. Two or three letters lay among the fruit and wine, but he did not mean to open them yet. He was something of a sybarite and the letters might blunt his enjoyment of the well-served meal. Clare, who had not eaten much, sat opposite, watching him. His pose as he leaned back with a wineglass in his hand was negligently graceful, and his white clothes, drawn in at the waist by a black silk sash, showed his well-knit figure. There were touches of gray in his hair and wrinkles round his eyes, but in spite of this he had a look of careless youth. Clare, however, thought she noticed a hint of preoccupation that she knew and disliked.

Presently Kenwardine picked out an envelope with a British stamp from among the rest and turned it over before inserting a knife behind the flap, which yielded easily, as if the gum had lost its strength. Then he took out the letter and smiled with ironical amusement. If it had been read by any unauthorized person before it reached him, the reader would have been much misled, but it told him what he wanted to know. There was one word an Englishman or American would not have used, though a Teuton might have done so, but Kenwardine thought a Spaniard would not notice this, even if he knew English well. The other letters were not important, and he glanced at his daughter.

1. What time was it in the morning?
2. Who had adopted the native customs?
3. Where was he getting his breakfast?
4. Who was sitting and watching him?
5. What color clothes was he wearing?
6. and what fabric was the sash?
7. What look did he have?
8. Did he have wrinkles?
9. and what about a few gray hair?
10. Did the envelope have an American stamp?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. eleven o'clock
2. Kenwardine
3. the patio
4. Clare
5. white
6. silk
7. of careless youth
8. yes
9. yes
10. no

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world, the second oldest in the United States, and the sole member of the "Big Six" film studios still located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and honored each with a star on the logo. These fortunate few would become the first "movie stars." In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.

Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

The company's headquarters and studios are located in 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States.

Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company (1895) and Pathe (1896), followed by the Nordisk Film company (1906), and Universal Studios (1912). It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.

Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company. Hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time (leading to the slogan "Famous Players in Famous Plays"). By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success. Its first film was "Les Amours de la reine Elisabeth", which starred Sarah Bernhardt.

1. What is a subsiiary of Viacom?
2. Is there a shoter name?
3. what is it?
4. What is Paramount?
5. where is it?
6. and they are a member of what?
7. any other memberships mentioned?
8. what?
9. Who was an investor in nickelodeons?
10. where was he from?
11. What significance does 1912 have?
12. How many actors and actresses were contracted in 1916?
13. who did this?
14. what was his occupation at the time?
15. What do the stars on the logo represent?
16. these would become the first what?
17. What did Paramount do in 2014?
18. Are many major film studios in Los Angeles?
19. how many?
20. which one?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Paramount Pictures Corporation
2. yes
3. Paramount
4. American film studio
5. Hollywood, California
6. the "Big Six"
7. Yes
8. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
9. Adolph Zukor
10. Hungary
11. the founding date of the Famous Players Film Company.
12. 22
13. Adolph Zukor
14. film producer
15. the original 22 actors and actresses
16. "movie stars."
17. Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.
18. No
19. Just one
20. Paramount

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi. UMG's global corporate headquarters are in Santa Monica, California. It is considered one of the "Big Three" record labels, along with Sony Music and Warner Music Group.

Universal Music was once the record company attached to film studio Universal Pictures. Its origins go back to the formation of the American branch of Decca Records in September 1934. The Decca Record Co. Ltd. of England spun American Decca off in 1939. MCA Inc. merged with American Decca in 1962. The present organization was formed when its parent company Seagram purchased PolyGram in May 1998 and merged it with Universal Music Group in early 1999. However, the name had first appeared in 1996 when MCA Music Entertainment Group was renamed Universal Music Group. The PolyGram acquisition included Deutsche Grammophon which traces its ancestry to Berliner Gramophone making Deutsche Grammophon UMG's oldest unit. UMG's Canadian unit traces its ancestry to a Berliner Gramophone breakaway firm the Compo Company.

Between 1995 and 2000, music companies were found to have artificially inflated compact disc prices through the use of illegal marketing practices such as minimum advertised pricing, doing so in order to end price wars that began in the early 1990s by discounters such as Best Buy and Target. A settlement in 2002 included the music publishers and distributors; Sony Music, Warner Music, Bertelsmann Music Group, EMI Music and Universal Music Group. In restitution for price fixing they agreed to pay a $67.4 million fine and distribute $75.7 million in CDs to public and non-profit groups but admitted no wrongdoing. It is estimated suppliers/customers were overcharged by nearly $500 million and up to $5 per album which conflicts with proof of sale and purchase interests.

1. Where is vevendi located?
2. Who is a part of the company in America?
3. Also known as?
4. Are they as large a company as Sony Music?
5. And who else?
6. What do they call them?
7. What label formed in 1934?
8. What occured in 1962?
9. What was Seagram?
10. Who did they buy?
11. When?
12. Who did they absorb in 1999?
13. What other label was a part of the Polygram deal?
14. Is it their youngest unit?
15. What is it linked back to?
16. What was the feud regarding compact discs about?
17. Did the music companies do something to brreak the law?
18. What were they trying to stop?
19. Between companies like?
20. How much were they fined?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. France
2. Universal Music Group
3. UMG Recordings
4. Yes
5. Warner Music Group
6. the "Big Three"
7. the American branch of Decca Records
8. MCA Inc. merged with American Decca
9. The parent company
10. PolyGram
11. May 1998
12. Universal Music Group
13. Deutsche Grammophon
14. No
15. the Compo Company
16. pricing
17. Yes
18. end price wars
19. Best Buy and Target
20. $67.4 million