Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
When, after a year of being alone on his island, Robinson Crusoe sees a footprint in the sand, the reader of Robinson Crusoe trembles. Will Crusoe find another human being to end his loneliness? Is the footprint the sign of an enemy? Since 1719, when Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe, thousands of people who enjoy English novels have thrilled to this great adventure story. But few know how the story came to be written. Robinson Crusoe was the first English novel. Its birth brought together the misadventures of a Scotch "failure" and the untapped imagination of an aging English scribbler. Near the end of the Seventeenth Century, the hot-tempered Alexander Selkirk was charged with bad conduct while in church. Rather than face this charge, he ran away to sea. Several years later, Selkirk found himself on the ship of an English privateer. The privateer was preying on Spanish shipping. But Selkirk quarreled bitterly with the Captain. So, when the ship came to the island of Juan Femandez in the South Seas, Selkirk asked to be put ashore. When he saw that there were no people on the island, he begged to be taken back on board. But the Captain refused--Selkirk had gone too far. Over four years later, Selkirk was rescued by another ship. When Selkirk got back to England, the story of his life on the island fired the imagination of Daniel Defoe. Defoe had been earning a living by his pen since he was thirty. He was amazingly hard-working. He wrote a whole newspaper three times a week. He also made part of his living from politics. He supported both political parties. He told each party that it had his sole support. Defoe's morals were weak. But he was a fine writer. He was almost sixty when, in the midst of his work in politics, he wrote Robinson Crusoe. In it, Defoe--said one critic--"forged a story, and forced it on the world for truth." The detail of Crusoe's battle for survival on a lonely island is so vivid that the reader of Robinson Crusoe accepts the product of the author's imagination for reality. Robinson Crusoe became the first of a long line of heroes and heroines that have peopled English novels since Defoe's time.
1. What was the first English novel?
2. Who was it based off?
3. Who was charged for being bad in church?
4. When?
5. Did he accept his penatily?
6. What did he do?
7. Defoe has been earning income by writing since what age?
8. Which political party did he support?
9. Was he considered a man with morals?
10. What did he do three times a week?
11. What age did he write Robinson Crusoe?
12. And the year he wrote it?

Numbered answers:
1. Robinson Crusoe
2. English scribbler
3. Alexander Selkirk
4. Near the end of the Seventeenth Century
5. No
6. bad conduct while in church
7. thirty
8. both
9. No
10. wrote a whole newspaper
11. almost sixty
12. 1719

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XII. A PRISONER OF LOVE

When Eric betook himself to the orchard the next evening he had to admit that he felt rather nervous. He did not know how the Gordons would receive him and certainly the reports he had heard of them were not encouraging, to say the least of it. Even Mrs. Williamson, when he had told her where he was going, seemed to look upon him as one bent on bearding a lion in his den.

"I do hope they won't be very uncivil to you, Master," was the best she could say.

He expected Kilmeny to be in the orchard before him, for he had been delayed by a call from one of the trustees; but she was nowhere to be seen. He walked across it to the wild cherry lane; but at its entrance he stopped short in sudden dismay.

Neil Gordon had stepped from behind the trees and stood confronting him, with blazing eyes, and lips which writhed in emotion so great that at first it prevented him from speaking.

With a thrill of dismay Eric instantly understood what must have taken place. Neil had discovered that he and Kilmeny had been meeting in the orchard, and beyond doubt had carried that tale to Janet and Thomas Gordon. He realized how unfortunate it was that this should have happened before he had had time to make his own explanation. It would probably prejudice Kilmeny's guardians still further against him. At this point in his thoughts Neil's pent up passion suddenly found vent in a burst of wild words.
1. What is the name of the chapter?
2. Where would Eric go tomorrow?
3. How did he feel?
4. Who would be greeting him?
5. Who was he concerned would not be happy to see him?
6. Who was also concerned when learning about the meeting?
7. What title did she refer to him by?
8. What delayed him from seeing Kilmeny?
9. Was she at the orchard?
10. What happened when he go to the entrance?
11. Who startled him?
12. Was Neil calm?
13. What did Eric get at once?
14. Of what?
15. And what was that?
16. Who did Neil also tell?
17. What did Neil finally find?
Numbered answers:
1. A Prisoner Of Love
2. The orchard.
3. Nervous.
4. Kilmeny
5. The Gordons.
6. Mrs. Williamson.
7. Master
8. A call from a trustee.
9. No.
10. He stopped short.
11. Neil Gordon.
12. No.
13. Understanding.
14. What must have taken place.
15. Neil had discovered that he and Kilmeny had been meeting in the orchard.
16. Janet and Thomas Gordon.
17. Neil's pent up passion suddenly found vent in a burst of wild words.