Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Pliny the Elder (b. Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23 79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of the emperor Vespasian.

Spending most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, Pliny wrote the encyclopedic "Naturalis Historia" ("Natural History"), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. His nephew, Pliny the Younger, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus:

Pliny the Younger refers to Tacitus's reliance upon his uncle's book, the "History of the German Wars". Pliny the Elder died in AD 79, while attempting the rescue, by ship, of a friend and his family, in Stabiae, from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which already had destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The wind caused by the sixth and largest pyroclastic surge of the volcano's eruption did not allow his ship to leave port, and Pliny probably died during that event.

Pliny's dates are pinned to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 and a statement of his nephew that he died in his 56th year, which would put his birth

Pliny was the son of an equestrian, Gaius Plinius Celer, and his wife, Marcella. Neither the younger nor the elder Pliny mention the names. Their ultimate source is a fragmentary inscription (CIL V 1 3442) found in a field in Verona and recorded by the 16th century Augustinian monk Onofrio Panvinio at Verona. The reading of the inscription depends on the reconstruction, but in all cases the names come through. Whether he was an augur and whether she was named Grania Marcella are less certain. Jean Hardouin presents a statement from an unknown source that he claims was ancient, that Pliny was from Verona and that his parents were Celer and Marcella. Hardouin also cites the conterraneity (see below) of Catullus.
1. who was friends with the emperor?
2. what was his real name?
3. who was his dad?
4. and mom?
5. how did he spend his spare time?
6. anything else?
7. what was his nephews name?
8. what did the elder write?
9. how did he die?
10. when did he die?
11. why couldnt his ship leave the port?
12. who did the younger write a letter to?
13. what was it about?

Numbered answers:
1. Pliny the Elder
2. Gaius Plinius Secundus
3. Gaius Plinius Celer,
4. Marcella
5. studying
6. Yes
7. Pliny the Younger
8. Naturalis Historia
9. the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
10. AD 79
11. The wind caused by Mount Vesuvius
12. Tacitus
13. Tacitus's reliance upon his uncle's book

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XXV

Terniloff and Dominey, one morning about six months later, lounged underneath a great elm tree at Ranelagh, having iced drinks after a round of golf. Several millions of perspiring Englishmen were at the same moment studying with dazed wonder the headlines in the midday papers.

"I suppose," the Ambassador remarked, as he leaned back in his chair with an air of lazy content, "that I am being accused of fiddling while Rome burns."

"Every one has certainly not your confidence in the situation," Dominey rejoined calmly.

"There is no one else who knows quite so much," Terniloff reminded him.

Dominey sipped his drink for a moment or two in silence.

"Have you the latest news of the Russian mobilisation?" he asked. "They had some startling figures in the city this morning."

The Prince waved his hand.

"My faith is not founded on these extraneous incidents," he replied. "If Russia mobilises, it is for defence. No nation in the world would dream of attacking Germany, nor has Germany the slightest intention of imperilling her coming supremacy amongst the nations by such crude methods as military enterprise. Servia must be punished, naturally, but to that, in principle, every nation in Europe is agreed. We shall not permit Austria to overstep the mark."

"You are at least consistent, Prince," Dominey remarked.

Terniloff smiled.

"That is because I have been taken behind the scenes," he said. "I have been shown, as is the privilege of ambassadors, the mind of our rulers. You, my friend," he went on, "spent your youth amongst the military faction. You think that you are the most important people in Germany. Well, you are not. The Kaiser has willed it otherwise. By-the-by, I had yesterday a most extraordinary cable from Stephanie."
1. What chapter are we in?
2. Who is the second character introduced?
3. And the first?
4. Where were they?
5. Under what?
6. Were they standing?
7. What were they doing?
8. What other thing were they doing?
9. What had they just got done with?
10. What was the accusation made against the Ambassador?
11. Did everyone share his confidence?
12. Was Dominey excited?
13. Who was mobilizing?
14. Were the numbers surprising?
15. Why did the Prince say they were mobilizing?
16. Did he feel Germany would be attacked?
17. Did he believe they would take military action?
18. What did he say Servia deserved?
19. What had he been shown?
20. Who did he get a telegram from?
Numbered answers:
1. 25
2. Dominey
3. Terniloff
4. Ranelagh
5. A tree
6. No
7. Sitting
8. having iced drinks
9. Playing golf.
10. Fiddling while Rome burns.
11. No
12. He was calm.
13. Russia
14. Yes
15. For defence
16. No
17. No
18. To be punished.
19. The mind of our rulers.
20. Stephanie