Q: (CNN) -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.

Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at his home in Philadelphia, his family said. He was 82.

The veteran Pennsylvania politician had overcome numerous serious illnesses over the past two decades, including a brain tumor. He had been in the public eye since serving as a member of the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Specter was elected to the Senate in 1980 and represented Pennsylvania for 30 years, longer than anyone in the state's history. His politically moderate image fit hand-in-glove in the politically blue Northeast, both with its Democratic centrists and its liberal Republicans.

He was also one of America's most prominent Jewish politicians, a rare Republican in a category dominated by Democrats over the decades. And his name is synonymous with Pennsylvania, an idiosyncratic state that pushes and pulls between the two parties, and his home, the staunchly Democratic city of Philadelphia.

In 2006, Philadelphia magazine called him "one of the few true wild cards of Washington politics ... reviled by those on both the right and the left."

"Charming and churlish, brilliant and pedantic, he can be fiercely independent, entertainingly eccentric and simply maddening," the profile read.

Former Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, called Specter "a mentor, colleague and a political institution" who "did more for the people of Pennsylvania over his more than 30-year career with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin." And Pat Toomey, the Republican who now holds Specter's old Senate seat, praised him as "a man of sharp intelligence and dogged determination."

1. Former U.S. Senator
2. he died
3. complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
4. 82
5. at his home
6. no
7. Philadelphia
8. no
9. Democrat
10. since serving as a member of the Warren Commission
11. investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
12. Pat Toomey
13. did more for the people of Pennsylvania over his more than 30-year career with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin
14. Pat Toomey
15. 1980
16. Pennsylvania
17. no
18. Philadelphia
19. no
20. Jewish

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1. Who is Arlen Specter?
2. What happened to him?
3. What did he die of?
4. How old was he?
5. Where did he die?
6. In Washington D.C.?
7. Where?
8. Was he a conservative republican?
9. What kind was he?
10. When did he first enter the public's eye?
11. What was the purpose of that?
12. Who has Specter's old Senate seat now?
13. What did he say about him?
14. Who said that quote?
15. When was Specter first elected?
16. Which state did he represent?
17. Was he loved by both democrats and republicans?
18. What city did he live in?
19. Was he catholic?
20. What was his religion?

Q: CHAPTER THE FOURTH.

Now hold thy tongue, Billy Bewick, he said, Of peaceful talking: let me be; But if thou art a man, as I think thou art, Come ower the dyke and fight with me. BORDER MINSTRELSY.

On the morning after this gay evening, the two young men were labouring together in a plot of ground behind Stevenlaw's Land, which the Doctor had converted into a garden, where he raised, with a view to pharmacy as well as botany, some rare plants, which obtained the place from the vulgar the sounding name of the Physic Garden. [Footnote: The Botanic Garden is so termed by the vulgar of Edinburgh.] Mr. Gray's pupils readily complied with his wishes, that they would take some care of this favourite spot, to which both contributed their labours, after which Hartley used to devote himself to the cultivation of the kitchen garden, which he had raised into this respectability from a spot not excelling a common kail-yard, while Richard Middleman did his utmost to decorate with flowers and shrubs a sort of arbour, usually called Miss Menie's bower.

At present they were both in the botanic patch of the garden, when Dick Middlemas asked Hartley why he had left the ball so soon the evening before?

"I should rather ask you," said Hartley, "what pleasure you felt in staying there?--I tell you, Dick, it is a shabby low place this Middlemas of ours. In the smallest burgh in England, every decent freeholder would have been asked if the Member gave a ball."

1. Billy Bewick
2. fight him.
3. worked together on the land
4. behind Stevenlaw's Land
5. the Doctor
6. some rare plants
7. care of this favourite spot
8. to decorate with flowers and shrubs a sort of arbour
9. o devote himself to the cultivation of the kitchen garden
10. Dick Middlemas
11. why Hartey had left the ball so soon the evening before?
12. shabby low place

Numbered questions:
1. Who was told to be quiet?
2. What does the man command Billy to do to prove his manhood?
3. What did the men do the next morning?
4. Where was this land?
5. Who made it a gardenpatch?
6. What was grown there?
7. What was the Doc's wishes of his pupils?
8. What was Richard's role in the garden?
9. And Harltey's role?
10. Who interrupted their work?
11. What did he want to know?
12. What is Hartley's opinion of the town?