input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Do you remember the game "Telephone"? A message gets passed from person to person, and everyone laughs at how distorted it becomes. As a game, telephone can be fun. In real life, sending messages through third parties fouls things up. It is important for family members who have "business" with other family members to take it up directly.

When tension arises in a relationship between two people, a frequent way of dealing with this is to send messages through a third person. Family doctors refer to the process as 'triangulation". Following a quarrel, a mother may say to her son, "Tell your father to pass the salt", which may be answered by, "Tell your mother to get her own salt." In many long cases of triangulation, the middleman becomes severely disturbed.

Two years ago, Ruth and Ralph Gordon brought their 17-year-old daughter for treatment. Lucille was not doing well in school, using drugs heavily. When I began to work with her, she was uncommunicative and aggressive. After some time, however, she opened up and told me her parents rarely talked to each other, but both used her as a middleman. Mrs. Gordon was sexually unsatisfied and suggested to Lucille that she ask her father to go for marriage advice. Mr. Gordon told Lucille that he was seeing another woman, and he urged Lucille to speak to her mother about improving her behaviour. Caught in this confusing situation, Lucille became more and more troubled. It wasn't until she refused to play middleman that she began to improve. When either parent began to send a message through her, she learned to say, "Tell him/her yourself!"

You'll find that when family members learn to dial each other directly, there's rarely a busy signal or wrong number. With direct dialing, a sense of freshness is created. 1. How old is Lucille?
2. How has Ralph broken his marriage vows?
3. How many classes is the teen getting straight A's in?
4. What kind of occupation does the narrarator have?
5. How did everything get better around the house for the 17 year old?
6. How did the girl initially respond to therapy?
7. What is a long term effect of constantly saying stuff through a third party?
8. What do some practitioners call this method of communication?
9. Would the therapist suggest that one go behind each others' backs to talk?
10. What was the name of Mr. Gordon's girlfriend?
numbered_answers: 1. 17
2. He was seeing another woman,
3. None
4. Therapist
5. She started refusing to be her parents' middleman.
6. She was uncommunicative and aggressive.
7. Middleman becomes severely disturbed.
8. Triangulation
9. No
10. unknown

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. At Buya in Eritrea, one of the oldest hominids representing a possible link between Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens was found by Italian scientists. Dated to over 1 million years old, it is the oldest skeletal find of its kind and provides a link between hominids and the earliest anatomically modern humans. It is believed that the section of the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was also a major player in terms of human evolution, and may contain other traces of evolution from Homo erectus hominids to anatomically modern humans.

The Scottish traveler James Bruce reported in 1770 that Medri Bahri was a distinct political entity from Abyssinia, noting that the two territories were frequently in conflict. The Bahre-Nagassi ("Kings of the Sea") alternately fought with or against the Abyssinians and the neighbouring Muslim Adal Sultanate depending on the geopolitical circumstances. Medri Bahri was thus part of the Christian resistance against Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi of Adal's forces, but later joined the Adalite states and the Ottoman Empire front against Abyssinia in 1572. That 16th century also marked the arrival of the Ottomans, who began making inroads in the Red Sea area. 1. Who was the traveler?
2. Where was he from?
3. Did he report on three terrtories?
4. How many did he report on?
5. What were they?
6. What was their name?
7. Did one of those regions have a nickname?
8. Was it "Jewels of the Ocean"?
9. Was it French researchers who discovered a similarity between early men?
10. Who was it?
11. What date was that discovery made?
12. Were these links the oldest finds of their type?
13. What happened in 1572?
14. Against what region?
numbered_answers: 1. James Bruce
2. Scotland
3. No
4. two
5. territories
6. Medri Bahri and Abyssinia
7. Yes
8. No
9. no
10. Italian
11. unknown
12. yes
13. Medri Bahri joined the Adalite states
14. Adal's forces

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XXI

Before going to sleep that night Duane had decided to go to Ord and try to find the rendezvous where Longstreth was to meet his men. These men Duane wanted even more than their leader. If Longstreth, or Cheseldine, was the brains of that gang, Poggin was the executor. It was Poggin who needed to be found and stopped. Poggin and his right-hand men! Duane experienced a strange, tigerish thrill. It was thought of Poggin more than thought of success for MacNelly's plan. Duane felt dubious over this emotion.

Next day he set out for Bradford. He was glad to get away from Fairdale for a while. But the hours and the miles in no wise changed the new pain in his heart. The only way he could forget Miss Longstreth was to let his mind dwell upon Poggin, and even this was not always effective.

He avoided Sanderson, and at the end of the day and a half he arrived at Bradford.

The night of the day before he reached Bradford, No. 6, the mail and express train going east, was held up by train-robbers, the Wells-Fargo messenger killed over his safe, the mail-clerk wounded, the bags carried away. The engine of No. 6 came into town minus even a tender, and engineer and fireman told conflicting stories. A posse of railroad men and citizens, led by a sheriff Duane suspected was crooked, was made up before the engine steamed back to pick up the rest of the train. Duane had the sudden inspiration that he had been cudgeling his mind to find; and, acting upon it, he mounted his horse again and left Bradford unobserved. As he rode out into the night, over a dark trail in the direction of Ord, he uttered a short, grim, sardonic laugh at the hope that he might be taken for a train-robber. 1. who did Duane avoid?
2. Fill in the blank, If Cheseldine was the brains, Poggin was the ...
3. what was Duane trying to find?
4. where?
5. in what place?
6. did he decide this before sleeping?
7. what number train was robbed?
8. who was killed?
9. what was taken?
10. was the mail-clerk uninjured?
11. where was Duane happy to be away from?
12. did his heart ache for MIss Longstreth?
13. who lead the posse?
14. Did Duane think he was honest or crooked?
15. who made up the posse?
16. did Duane leave Bradford?
17. who did he pretend to be?
18. did he think this was funny?
19. where was headed?
20. what time of day was it?
numbered_answers:
1. Sanderson.
2. executor.
3. Longstreth's rendezvous.
4. Where he was to meet his men.
5. Bradford.
6. Yes.
7. No. 6.
8. Wells-Fargo messenger.
9. The bags.
10. No.
11. Fairdale.
12. Yes.
13. A sheriff.
14. Crooked.
15. Railroad men and citizens.
16. Yes.
17. Train-robber.
18. Yes.
19. The direction of Ord.
20. Night.