Problem: CHAPTER IV.

Signor Andrea D'Arbino, searching vainly through the various rooms in the palace for Count Fabio d'Ascoli, and trying as a last resource, the corridor leading to the ballroom and grand staircase, discovered his friend lying on the floor in a swoon, without any living creature near him. Determining to avoid alarming the guests, if possible, D'Arbino first sought help in the antechamber. He found there the marquis's valet, assisting the Cavaliere Finello (who was just taking his departure) to put on his cloak.

While Finello and his friend carried Fabio to an open window in the antechamber, the valet procured some iced water. This simple remedy, and the change of atmosphere, proved enough to restore the fainting man to his senses, but hardly--as it seemed to his friends--to his former self. They noticed a change to blankness and stillness in his face, and when he spoke, an indescribable alteration in the tone of his voice.

"I found you in a room in the corridor," said D'Arbino. "What made you faint? Don't you remember? Was it the heat?"

Fabio waited for a moment, painfully collecting his ideas. He looked at the valet, and Finello signed to the man to withdraw.

"Was it the heat?" repeated D'Arbino.

"No," answered Fabio, in strangely hushed, steady tones. "I have seen the face that was behind the yellow mask."

"Well?"

"It was the face of my dead wife."

"Your dead wife!"

"When the mask was removed I saw her face. Not as I remember it in the pride of her youth and beauty--not even as I remember her on her sick-bed--but as I remember her in her coffin."
1. Who was searching in vain?
2. Who was he searching for?
3. Where was he searching?
4. Where did he try last?
5. Did he find him there?
6. What was he doing?
7. Who did D'Arbino go to seek help?
8. Did he find anyone there?
9. What was he doing?
10. Where did they carry Fabio to?
Answer: 1. Signor Andrea D'Arbino
2. Count Fabio d'Ascoli
3. in the palace
4. the corridor leading to the ballroom
5. yes
6. lying on the floor
7. in the antechamber
8. the marquis's valet
9. assisting the Cavaliere Finello
10. to an open window

Problem: An antenna (plural antennae or antennas), or aerial, is an electrical device which converts electric power into radio waves, and vice versa. It is usually used with a radio transmitter or radio receiver. In transmission, a radio transmitter supplies an electric current oscillating at radio frequency (i.e. a high frequency alternating current (AC)) to the antenna's terminals, and the antenna radiates the energy from the current as electromagnetic waves (radio waves). In reception, an antenna intercepts some of the power of an electromagnetic wave in order to produce a tiny voltage at its terminals, that is applied to a receiver to be amplified.

Typically an antenna consists of an arrangement of metallic conductors (elements), electrically connected (often through a transmission line) to the receiver or transmitter. An oscillating current of electrons forced through the antenna by a transmitter will create an oscillating magnetic field around the antenna elements, while the charge of the electrons also creates an oscillating electric field along the elements. These time-varying fields radiate away from the antenna into space as a moving transverse electromagnetic field wave. Conversely, during reception, the oscillating electric and magnetic fields of an incoming radio wave exert force on the electrons in the antenna elements, causing them to move back and forth, creating oscillating currents in the antenna.
1. What is the main topic?
2. Does it have another name?
3. What would that be?
4. What does it do?
5. Is it used alone?
6. What else needs to be present for radio waves?
7. Anything else?
8. What type of electricity does it use?
9. What is it made of?
10. What frequency is used?
11. is it low?
Answer: 1. An antenna
2. yes
3. aerial
4. converts electric power into radio waves
5. No
6. radio transmitter
7. radio receiver
8. alternating current
9. metallic conductors
10. unknown
11. no

Problem: Jen put on her favorite dress. She liked it because it had cats on it. She was very excited about her birthday cake. Maybe the cake would have a turtle on it. Jen was going to have turkey. She had no gravy, so she had chicken for dinner instead. After eating the chicken, she remembered she was late for the dance! She ran up the stairs. She put on a coat and ran out the door. She walked past some ice cream. She did not have time to stop and eat any of the ice cream. She walked past some sprinkles. She did not have time to eat the sprinkles. Jen walked past the yogurt. She did not have time to get the yogurt. Jen got to where she had to go. Soon after, she turned around and started the long walk back home. She got home at last. She saw her huge cake. It had chocolate on it. Jen was very happy. She was ready to enjoy the cake.
1. Who put on her favorite dress?
2. Why did she like it?
3. Was she excited?
4. About what?
5. What might be on it?
6. What was she going to have?
7. Why didn't she have it?
8. So what did she have instead?
9. What was she late for?
10. Where did she run?
Answer: 1. Jen.
2. Because it had cats on it.
3. Yes.
4. Her birthday cake.
5. A turtle.
6. Turkey
7. Because she had no gravy
8. Chicken.
9. The dance!
10. Up the stairs.

Problem: CHAPTER XX

A NIGHT OF ANXIETY

Had the lightning struck Dick and knocked him overboard?

Such was the terrifying question which Sam asked himself as he stared out of the pilothouse window into the darkness before him. Another flash of lightning lit up the scene and he made certain that his big brother was nowhere in sight.

"Tom! Tom!" he yelled down the tube, frantically.

"What now, Sam?"

"Dick is gone--struck by lightning, I guess. Come up!"

At this alarming information Tom left the engine room at a bound and came on deck almost as soon as it can be told. He met Sam running toward the bow.

"Where was Dick?" he screamed, to make himself heard above the roaring and shrieking of the wind.

"At the forward rail, on the lookout. He was standing there just before that awful crash came, and I haven't seen him since."

No more was said by either, but holding fast to whatever came to hand, the two Rovers worked their way forward until they reached the rail where Dick had been standing. They now saw that the foretopmast had come down, hitting the rail and breaking it loose for a distance of several feet.

"The mast must have hit Dick and knocked him overboard," said Tom, with a quiver in his voice.

"Oh, Tom!" Sam could say no more, but his heart sank.

The two boys stared around helplessly, not knowing what to do. Dick was very dear to them and they could not bear to think that he was lost, and forever.
1. Where was Dick?
2. Where was Dick standing before being struck by lightning?
3. Where was Sam running?
4. Did the characters try to save Dick?
5. Where is the story set?
6. What is the job title of Sam and Tom on the boat?
7. Where was Tom when he heard the information?
8. How did Tom ask about Dick's location?
9. Did Sam look around for his brother when the first bolt of lightning hit the boat?
10. Then who did he yell for?
11. In what way was he yelling?
12. Who spoke next?
13. Did Sam tell Tom about Dick?
14. Did Tom then run fast or slow?
15. What piece of the boat came down with the lightning?
16. What did it hit?
17. What happened to the rail?
18. Where was Dick knocked?
19. Did the two characters like Dick?
Answer:
1. overboard
2. At the forward rail, on the lookout
3. toward the bow
4. no
5. on a boat
6. unknown
7. the engine room sorry about that rover one!
8. he screamed
9. yes
10. Tom
11. frantically
12. Tom
13. yes
14. fast
15. the foretopmast
16. the rail
17. broke loose
18. overboard
19. yes