Problem: The Sahara (Arabic: , as-sahra al-kubra, 'the Greatest Desert') is the largest hot desert in the world. It is the third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its surface area of 9,400,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi)[citation needed]including the Libyan Desertis comparable to the respective land areas of China or the United States. The desert comprises much of the land found within North Africa, excluding the fertile coastal region situated against the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlas Mountains of the Maghreb, and the Nile Valley of Egypt and Sudan. The Sahara stretches from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean in the north, to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, where the landscape gradually transitions to a coastal plain. To the south, it is delimited by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and Sudan Region of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahara can be divided into several regions, including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Air Mountains, the Tenere desert, and the Libyan Desert. Its name is derived from the plural Arabic language word for desert ( sahara [sr]).
1. What is the passage about?
2. Is it a Gaelic word?
3. What is it known for being?
4. How many areas can it be classifieded into?
5. Does it include any fertile ground?
6. Is it 10,000,000 sq km?
7. How large is it?
8. What is it's ranking among all the world's deserts?
9. What are the other 2?
10. Are they considered hot?
11. What mass is the hot one considered comparable to?
12. How far east does it reach?
13. Are there any other notable borders?
Answer: 1. The Sahara
2. unknown
3. the largest hot desert in the world
4. several regions
5. No
6. No
7. 9,400,000 square kilometres
8. third largest
9. Antarctica and the Arctic
10. No
11. the respective land area of China
12. from the Red Sea
13. Yes

Problem: CHAPTER XXIX

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Though the jongejuffrouw seemed inexpressibly tired and weak, her attitude toward Diogenes lost nothing of its cold aloofness. She was peeping out under the hood of the sledge when he approached it, and at sight of him she immediately drew in her head.

"Will you deign to descend, mejuffrouw," he said with that slight tone of good-humoured mockery in his voice which had the power to irritate her. "Mynheer Ben Isaje, whose hospitality you will enjoy this night, lives some way up this narrow, insalubrious street, and he has bidden me to escort you to his house."

Silently, and with a great show of passive obedience, Gilda made ready to step out of the sledge.

"Come, Maria," she said curtly.

"The road is very slippery, mejuffrouw," he added warningly, "will you not permit me--for your own convenience' sake--to carry you as far as Ben Isaje's door?"

"It would not be for my convenience, sir," she retorted haughtily, "an you are so chivalrously inclined perhaps you would kindly convey my waiting woman thither in your arms."

"At your service, mejuffrouw," he said with imperturbable good temper.

And without more ado, despite her screams and her struggles, he seized Maria round her ample waist and round her struggling knees at the moment that she was stepping out of the sledge in the wake of her mistress.

The lamp outside the hostel at the corner illumined for a moment Gilda's pale, wearied face, and Diogenes saw that she was trying her best to suppress an insistent outburst of laughter.
1. What had Gilda been riding in?
2. Who did she see from in there?
3. Was her attitude towards him warm?
4. How did she feel about his tone of voice?
5. What does Diogenes ask Gilda if he can do?
6. carry her where?
7. Who is Ben Isaje?
8. Why does Diogenes offer to carry Gilda?
9. Does she accept his offer?
10. Does he carry someone else instead?
11. Who?
12. Who was Maria?
13. Does Diogenes complain about this?
14. What did Gilda think about this scene?
15. Does Ben Isaje live on a large street?
16. Did Gilda seem to be full of energy?
17. What did she do when she saw Diogenes from the sledge?
18. Does Gilda know Ben Isaje?
19. What did Maria do when Diogenes lifted her?
20. Did she leave the sledge before or after Gilda?
Answer: 1. a sledge
2. Diogenes
3. no
4. she thought it was irritating
5. to carry her
6. to Ben Isaje's door
7. Gilda's host that night
8. The road is very slippery
9. No
10. Yes
11. Maria
12. Gilda's waiting woman
13. No
14. She found it humorous
15. No
16. No
17. she immediately drew in her head
18. unknown
19. she screamed and struggled
20. after

Problem: One day Kyle's Dad had to go for a long ride. He went on this ride because he wanted to get breakfast. With breakfast the dad always loved to get a banana in a drink. This was his favorite drink. But along the ride, Kyle's dad had a scare. The back door was open but someone else shut it and tossed his book. Later he found his book in a white bin. Along with the book, there was a white costume. He thought that maybe this was a sign. So he took the white costume and found out it was a doctor costume. He remembered that his son Kyle's favorite thing to do was play doctor. This made him remember that he never even asked his son Kyle if he wanted to come for the ride. So the dad turned around and drove all the way home to get his son. He asked Kyle if he wanted to come out to breakfast. Kyle got very excited and said he did. Kyle's dad was happy he came back because it helped him make his son happy.
1. Who went out for a ride?
2. was it a short one?
3. what did he go out for?
4. what beverage did he want?
5. what happened along the route?
6. What did he see that reminded him of his son?
7. what could it be used to dress up as?
8. had he checked to see if Kyle wanted to join?
9. so what did he do?
10. did Kyle want to join him
11. how did the father feel?
12. was the son as well?
13. what else was in the bin besides the costume?
Answer:
1. Kyle's Dad
2. no
3. to get breakfast.
4. a banana in a drink
5. he had a scare
6. a white costume
7. a doctor
8. no
9. he drove home to get him
10. yes
11. happy
12. yes
13. a book