Q: The Second Boer War (, , "Second Freedom War"), known variously as the Boer War, Anglo-Boer War, South African War or Anglo-Boer South African War, started on 11 October 1899 and ended on 31 May 1902. Britain defeated two Boer states in South Africa: the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State. Britain was aided by its Cape Colony, the Colony of Natal and some native African allies. The British war effort was further supported by volunteers from the British Empire, including Southern Africa, the Australian colonies, Canada, India and New Zealand. Inside Britain and its Empire there also was significant opposition to the Second Boer War.

Britain was overconfident and under-prepared. The Boers were very well armed and struck first, besieging Ladysmith, Kimberley, and Mafeking in early 1900, and winning important battles at Colenso, Magersfontein and Stormberg. Staggered, Britain brought in large numbers of soldiers and fought back. General Redvers Buller was replaced by Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener. They relieved the three besieged cities, and invaded the two Boer republics in late 1900. The onward marches of the British Army were so overwhelming that the Boers did not fight staged battles in defense of their homeland. Britain quickly seized control of all of the Orange Free State and Transvaal, as the civilian leadership went into hiding or exile. In conventional terms, the war was over. Britain officially annexed the two countries in 1900, and called a "khaki election" to give the government another six years of power in London.

1. October 11th 1899
2. May 31 1902
3. Main two: Britain and South Africa
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. the Australian colonies, Canada, India and New Zealand
7. The Boers
8. Ladysmith, Kimberley, and Mafeking
9. the early 1900s
10. They brought in a bunch of soldiers and fought back
11. Yes
12. General Redvers Buller
13. Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener
14. 1900
15. "khaki election"
16. gives the government another six years of power in London.

Numbered questions:
1. When did the Boer war start?
2. When did it end?
3. What countries fought?
4. Was Britain confident?
5. Did anyone aid them?
6. Who?
7. Who attacked first?
8. Where did the strike?
9. When?
10. What did the British do in return?
11. Did they switch generals?
12. Who was the old one?
13. And who took over for him?
14. When did Britain officially annex the countries?
15. what did the call for?
16. What did it do?

Q: Beijing, China (CNN) -- A court in eastern China sentenced a man to death Saturday for attacking 29 kindergarten students and three teachers with a knife, state-run media said.

The Taixing Intermediate People's Court found Xu Yuyuan, 47, guilty of intentional homicide after a half-day trial, Xinhua news agency said.

Xu told the court that his rage against society motivated him in the April 29 attacks, according to Xinhua. But he appealed the death sentence, arguing that the punishment was too severe since no one died in the attacks, Xinhua said.

Chinese penal code says a person can be convicted of intentional homicide for acting on an intent to kill, the news agency reported.

A police probe found Xu had been unemployed since 2001, when he was fired by a local insurance company. He told police he carried out the attack because he was angry about a series of business and personal humiliations, Xinhua said.

About 300 people attended Saturday's open trial, according to Xinhua.

Xu's sentence was the second death penalty conviction after a recent spate of school attacks that have prompted public outrage across China.

Zheng Minsheng, 42, was sentenced to death and executed on April 28 for attacking students in front of an elementary school in Fujian province, killing eight and wounding several others. Zheng also used a knife in the attacks, Xinhua reported.

Authorities said Zheng carried out the attack because he was frustrated at "failures in his romantic life," the news agency said.

At least four other such attacks on school children in China have been reported since March.

1. 47
2. Chinese
3. yes
4. intentional homicide
5. a half-day
6. CNN
7. 32
8. no
9. no
10. the death penalty
11. he was angry
12. business and personal humiliations
13. yes
14. he was executed
15. eight
16. he was frustrated
17. failures in his romantic life
18. four

Numbered questions:
1. How old was the defendant?
2. What was his nationality?
3. Was he found guilty?
4. of what?
5. How long was the proceeding?
6. Who published the information?
7. How many victims were there?
8. was Xu employed?
9. Did anyone perish in the incident?
10. What punitive measures were sought by the prosecutors?
11. What was the assailant's motive?
12. about what?
13. Have there been other similar crimes commited recently?
14. What became of the other criminal?
15. How many lives did he take?
16. and his motivation?
17. with what?
18. How many crimes of this nature have been reported this year?

Q: CHAPTER IV

IT was a morning of artistic creation. Fifteen minutes after the purple prose of Babbitt's form-letter, Chester Kirby Laylock, the resident salesman at Glen Oriole, came in to report a sale and submit an advertisement. Babbitt disapproved of Laylock, who sang in choirs and was merry at home over games of Hearts and Old Maid. He had a tenor voice, wavy chestnut hair, and a mustache like a camel's-hair brush. Babbitt considered it excusable in a family-man to growl, "Seen this new picture of the kid--husky little devil, eh?" but Laylock's domestic confidences were as bubbling as a girl's.

"Say, I think I got a peach of an ad for the Glen, Mr. Babbitt. Why don't we try something in poetry? Honest, it'd have wonderful pulling-power. Listen:

'Mid pleasures and palaces, Wherever you may roam, You just provide the little bride And we'll provide the home.

Do you get it? See--like 'Home Sweet Home.' Don't you--"

"Yes, yes, yes, hell yes, of course I get it. But--Oh, I think we'd better use something more dignified and forceful, like 'We lead, others follow,' or 'Eventually, why not now?' Course I believe in using poetry and humor and all that junk when it turns the trick, but with a high-class restricted development like the Glen we better stick to the more dignified approach, see how I mean? Well, I guess that's all, this morning, Chet."

II

By a tragedy familiar to the world of art, the April enthusiasm of Chet Laylock served only to stimulate the talent of the older craftsman, George F. Babbitt. He grumbled to Stanley Graff, "That tan-colored voice of Chet's gets on my nerves," yet he was aroused and in one swoop he wrote:

1. Hearts and Old Maid.
2. At his home.
3. Laylock's
4. Laylock
5. Babbitt
6. He disapproved of him.
7. He was excited like a girl
8. unknown
9. April enthusiasm of Chet Laylock.
10. George F. Babbitt.

Numbered questions:
1. What games were played?
2. Where?
3. Whose?
4. Who didn't his singing?
5. Who didn't like did not approve?
6. What did he think of the singer?
7. Why?
8. What did he do after singing?
9. What happened in April?
10. What was Babbitt's full name?