Q: CHAPTER THREE.

Obedient to orders, Tom Brixton lay perfectly still on his back, just where he had fallen, wondering much whether the cord was really cut, for he did not feel much relaxation of it or abatement of the pain. He resolved, at any rate, to give no further cause for rough treatment, but to await the issue of events as patiently as he could.

True to his promise, the Irishman after supper sang several songs, which, if not characterised by sweetness of tone, were delivered with a degree of vigour that seemed to make full amends in the estimation of his hearers. After that he told a thrilling ghost story, which drew the entire band of men round him. Paddy had a natural gift in the way of relating ghost stories, for, besides the power of rapid and sustained discourse, without hesitation or redundancy of words, he possessed a vivid imagination, a rich fancy, a deep bass voice, an expressive countenance, and a pair of large coal-black eyes, which, as one of the Yankee diggers said, "would sartinly bore two holes in a blanket if he only looked at it long enough."

We do not intend to inflict that ghost story on the reader. It is sufficient to say that Paddy began it by exclaiming in a loud voice--"'Now or niver, boys--now or niver.' That's what the ghost said."

"What's that you say, Paddy?" asked Gashford, leaving his own separate and private fire, which he enjoyed with one or two chosen comrades, and approaching that round which the great body of the diggers were already assembled.

Answer the following questions:
1. What chapter is this?
2. Who obeyed commands?
3. Was he standing?
4. Why?
5. What wasn't he feeling?
6. Who kept his word?
7. What was one thing he did after dinner?
8. Did he have a sweet voice?
9. What did he do to draw a crowd of men?
10. What color were his eyes?
11. What did a Yankee say they can do to a quilt?
12. What did Gashford have apart from the others?
A: 1. CHAPTER THREE
2. Tom Brixton
3. no
4. he had fallen
5. much relaxation of it or abatement of the pain
6. Paddy
7. sang several songs
8. if not characterised by sweetness of tone, were delivered with a degree of vigour
9. he told a thrilling ghost story
10. coal-black
11. bore two holes
12. a separate and private fire
Q: CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.

TELLS OF DESPAIR AND A WILD PURSUIT.

On discovering that Nunaga and the children were not at Moss Bay, and that there were no fresh sledge tracks in that region to tell of their whereabouts, Simek drove back to the village at a wild scamper, in a state of mind very much the reverse of jovial. His hope was that the girl might have been to some other locality, and had perhaps returned during his absence; but the first glance at Nuna put that hope to flight, for the poor woman was in a state of terrible anxiety.

Cheery little Kunelik and her mild son did their best to comfort her, but without success, for she knew well the determined character of the man who had probably carried off her children.

"Has she not come back?" demanded Simek, appearing, like an infuriated Polar bear, at the inside opening of the passage to Okiok's mansion.

"No," gasped Nuna.

Simek said no more, but backed out faster than he had come in. Ippegoo followed him.

"Run, Ippe; tell all the men to get all their sledges and dogs ready, and come here to me."

Ippegoo ran off at once, while the energetic hunter rearranged the fastenings of his own sledge and team as if for a long journey.

He was thus engaged when Okiok and Angut were seen approaching the village at an easy trot. Evidently they knew nothing of what had occurred. Simek ran out to meet them. A few words sufficed to explain. The news seemed to stun both men at first, but the after-effect on each was wonderfully different. The blood rushed to Okiok's face like a torrent. He clenched his hands and teeth, glared and stamped, and went on like one deranged--as indeed for the moment he was. Angut, on the other hand, was perfectly self-possessed and subdued, but his heaving chest, quivering nostrils, compressed lips, and frowning brows told that a volcano of emotion raged within.

Answer the following questions:
1. What was Simek's state of mind?
2. Who was in a state of anxiets?
3. Who had been comforting her?
4. Who was missing?
5. Why was she inconsolable?
6. Who followed him out of Nuna's house?
7. What was he instructed to do?
8. where to?
9. Who was seen arriving in the town?
10. What did Simek do when he saw them?
11. Did they know what had happened?
12. Did he tell them?
13. What was their first reaction?
14. How did Okiok look?
15. how did ANgut react?
16. What gave away his emotions?
A: 1. in reverse of jovial
2. Nuna
3. Kunelik and her son
4. her children
5. she knew the character of the man who took her children.
6. Ippegoo
7. Run
8. tell the men to get their sledges and dogs
9. Okiok and Angut
10. ran out to meet them
11. No
12. Yes
13. stunned
14. like one deranged
15. perfectly self-possessed and subdued
16. heaving chest, quivering nostrils, compressed lips, and frowning brows
Q: (CNN) -- As Easter comes into view, the thoughts of billions of Christians turn to Jerusalem, to a sacred weekend that includes the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Of course, people regard these events with various degrees of literalness. But Easter retains its power.

It is, in fact, the essential Christian celebration, as the Gospels focus hugely on this part of the Jesus story. They describe in slow motion his entry into Jerusalem and the final week leading up to the crucifixion on Good Friday, the uncertain stillness of Holy Saturday, when the world seems to have slipped into total darkness, then the joy of the Resurrection itself, with a sense that boundaries have been broken -- most aggressively, the membrane between life and death.

Questions arise, of course. Did Jesus really rise from the dead? What would that look like? Many Christians imagine some literal wakening from the dead and refuse to accept the slightest hint that the Resurrection might be regarded as symbolic without denigrating it.

Indeed, if you read the Gospel narratives closely, it's not easy to say what actually happened. All four of them skip the actual Resurrection. That is, we never see Jesus waken. The first inkling of change comes when a few women close to him visit the tomb. Accounts differ on who turned up at the tomb that morning: Mary Magdalene, a close friend of Jesus, alone or with Mary, his mother, and with Salome (who is either Mary's sister or the mother of apostles James and John).

Answer the following questions:
1. How many Gospels are there?
2. What is excluded from them?
3. Of whom?
4. Do we know who visited the location of his body?
5. How many Mary's may have been there?
6. What line may have been crossed?
7. What holiday keeps its appeal?
8. And which religion observes it?
9. What part of the bible is it centered around?
10. How long was the journey?
11. How was he executed?
12. What religious holiday is observed on that day?
13. And which one follows?
14. What occured that day?
15. Does the bible ever state that he woke from the dead?
16. But do many believe that it actually occured?
17. Are they willing to entertain any other possibilities?
18. Is it difficult to know the truth about what happened?
19. When is the first hint that something isn't right?
20. Is his mother believed to be one of them?
A:
1. Four
2. the Resurrection
3. Jesus
4. Accounts differ
5. Two
6. between life and death
7. Easter
8. Christians
9. the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus
10. a weekend
11. crucifixion
12. Good Friday
13. Holy Saturday
14. Resurrection
15. no
16. yes
17. no
18. yes
19. a few women visit the tomb
20. yes