question: A nine-year-old kid was sitting at his desk when suddenly there was a puddle between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet. He thought his heart was going to stop because he couldn't possibly imagine how this had happened. It had never happened before, and he knew that when the boys found out, especially Jack, _ When the girls found out, especially Martha and Jackie, they would never speak to him again as long as he lived.

He prayed this prayer, "Dear God, I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat!" He looked up from his prayer and here came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he had been discovered. As the teacher was walking toward him, a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl full of water. Susie lost her balance in front of the teacher and dumped the bowl of water in the boy's lap. The boy pretended to be angry, but all the while was saying to himself, "Thank you, Lord!"

Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule , the boy was the object of sympathy . The teacher rushed him downstairs and gave him gym shorts to put on while his trousers dried out. All the other children were on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. Martha even gave him her own candy. The sympathy was wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been turned to someone else--Susie. She tried to help, but they told her to get out.

When school was over, the boy walked over to Susie and whispered, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Susie whispered back, "I wet my trousers once, too!"
1. Who old was the child who was wet?
2. Who were the girls that found out?
3. How would they react?
4. Who was the classmate?
5. What was she carrying?
6. Did she drop it?
7. Was the boy angry?
8. Did he pretend to be?
9. He was now the object of what
10. Who assisted him downstairs?
11. What did Martha give him?
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answer: 1. Nine
2. Martha and Jackie
3. They would never speak to him again
4. Susie
5. a goldfish bowl full of water
6. Yes
7. No
8. Yes
9. sympathy
10. The teacher
11. her own candy

question: CHAPTER V

The Vacation was over, and Vivian returned to Burnsley Vicarage. He bowed cavalierly to Mr. Dallas on his arrival, and immediately sauntered up into the school-room, where he found a tolerable quantity of wretches looking as miserable as schoolboys who have left their pleasant homes generally do for some four-and-twenty hours. "How d'ye do, Grey? How d'ye do, Grey?" burst from a knot of unhappy fellows, who would have felt quite delighted had their newly arrived co-mate condescended to entertain them, as usual, with some capital good story fresh from town. But they were disappointed.

"We can make room for you at the fire, Grey," said Theophilus

"I thank you, I am not cold."

"I suppose you know that Poynings and Etherege don't come back, Grey?"

"Everybody knew that last half:" and so he walked on.

"Grey, Grey!" halloed King, "don't go into the dining-room; Mallett is there alone, and told us not to disturb him. By Jove, the fellow is going in: there will be a greater row this half between Grey and Mallett than ever."

Days, the heavy first days of the half, rolled on, and all the citizens of the little commonwealth had returned.

"What a dull half this will be!" said Eardley; "how one misses Grey's set! After all, they kept the school alive: Poynings was a first-rate fellow, and Etherege so deuced good-natured! I wonder whom Grey will crony with this half; have you seen him and Dallas speak together yet? He cut the Doctor quite dead at Greek to-day."
1. who said dont go in the dining room?
2. who is in there?
3. what did Mallett tell them?
4. why did Vivian return?
5. where did he return to?
6. why were the fellows disappointed?
7. who bowed?
8. to who?
9. why didnt Grey want to sit by the fire?
10. who kept the school alive?
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answer: 1. King
2. Mallett
3. not to disturb him
4. Vacation was over
5. Burnsley Vicarage
6. they left their homes
7. Vivian
8. Mr. Dallas
9. he was not cold
10. Grey's set

question: CHAPTER XXXV.

THE HULL OF THE URSULA.

Ten days had passed, and Mark and Annaple were thinking that they ought to return to ordinary life, and leave the bereaved ones to endeavour to construct their life afresh under the dreadful wearing uncertainty of their darling's fate. Still they were detained by urgent entreaties from father and daughter, who both dreaded their departure as additional desolation, and as closing the door of hope. And certainly, even this rest was good for Annaple; and her baby, for whom nurse had discovered a better system, had really not cried more for a whole day than 'befitted a rational child,' said the mother, as she walked back to Springfield with her husband in the summer night, after dinner, on the day that Broadbent's negotiations had failed.

'Nurse will break her heart at parting with her,' said Mark. 'I wish we could afford to have her.'

'Afford, indeed! Her wages are about a quarter of your salary, sir! And after all, 'tis not the nurse that guards the child, as we have seen only too plainly.'

'Do you think he is alive, Nan?'

'I begin to think not. He is not so young but that he could make himself known, and those advertisements are so widely spread. I am sure poor Nuttie would be more at rest if she could give up hope.'

'I did not tell you before, Nan, but Dutton was going to-day to look at a poor little unclaimed child's body that had been found in the Thames. He knew him better than I, so he went.'
1. How long has gone by?
2. Who think it's time to go back?
3. Who else?
4. Who would they leave?
5. Who didn't want them to go?
6. Why not?
7. What else?
8. What other reason was there?
9. Who else?
10. Did it cry a lot?
11. Why not?
12. Who doesn't want it to leave?
13. Who says this?
14. How much is she paid?
15. Do they think he is living?
16. Who should stop hoping?
17. Why?
18. Who wasn't told something?
19. What was it?
20. Why?
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answer:
1. Ten days
2. Mark
3. Annaple
4. the bereaved ones
5. father and daughter
6. They dreaded their departure as additional desolation
7. as closing the door of hope
8. his rest was good for Annaple
9. her baby
10. No
11. nurse had discovered a better system
12. Nurse
13. Mark does
14. a quarter of his salary
15. No
16. Nuttie
17. to be more at rest
18. Nan
19. Dutton was going to the Thames.
20. to look at a little unclaimed child's body