Question:
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He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire and being proclaimed "Genghis Khan", he started the Mongol invasions that resulted in the conquest of most of Eurasia. These included raids or invasions of the Qara Khitai, Caucasus, Khwarezmid Empire, Western Xia and Jin dynasties. These campaigns were often accompanied by wholesale massacres of the civilian populations especially in the Khwarezmian and Xia controlled lands. By the end of his life, the Mongol Empire occupied a substantial portion of Central Asia and China.

Before Genghis Khan died, he assigned Ogedei Khan as his successor and split his empire into khanates among his sons and grandsons. He died in 1227 after defeating the Western Xia. He was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia at an unknown location. His descendants extended the Mongol Empire across most of Eurasia by conquering or creating vassal states out of all of modern-day China, Korea, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and substantial portions of modern Eastern Europe, Russia, and Southwest Asia. Many of these invasions repeated the earlier large-scale slaughters of local populations. As a result, Genghis Khan and his empire have a fearsome reputation in local histories.
1. Who founded the Mongol Empire?
2. Who did he assign to take over after he died?
3. How did Khan come to power?
4. Where did the Mongols raid?
5. Were they nice to the civilians?
6. When did the founder of the Mongol Empire pass away?
7. After doing what?
8. Who did he defeat shortly before dying?
9. Where was he laid to rest?
10. What is the Mongol's reputation in history?

Numbered answers:
1. Genghis Khan
2. Ogedei Khan
3. by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia
4. the Qara Khitai, Caucasus, Khwarezmid Empire, Western Xia and Jin dynasties
5. no
6. in 1227
7. after assigning Ogedei Khan as his successor and splitting his empire into khanates among his sons and grandsons
8. the Western Xia
9. in an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia at an unknown location
10. they had a fearsome reputation

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CHAPTER XXVII

A fortnight afterwards Trent rode into Attra, pale, gaunt, and hollow-eyed. The whole history of those days would never be known by another man! Upon Trent they had left their mark for ever. Every hour of his time in this country he reckoned of great value--yet he had devoted fourteen days to saving the life of John Francis. Such days too--and such nights! They had carried him sometimes in a dead stupor, sometimes a raving madman, along a wild bush-track across rivers and swamps into the town of Garba, where years ago a Congo trader, who had made a fortune, had built a little white-washed hospital! He was safe now, but surely never a man before had walked so near the "Valley of the Shadow of Death." A single moment's vigilance relaxed, a blanket displaced, a dose of brandy forgotten, and Trent might have walked this life a multi-millionaire, a peer, a little god amongst his fellows, freed for ever from all anxiety. But Francis was tended as never a man was tended before. Trent himself had done his share of the carrying, ever keeping his eyes fixed upon the death-lit face of their burden, every ready to fight off the progress of the fever and ague, as the twitching lips or shivering limbs gave warning of a change. For fourteen days he had not slept; until they had reached Garba his clothes had never been changed since they had started upon their perilous journey. As he rode into Attra he reeled a little in his saddle, and he walked into the office of the Agent more like a ghost than a man.
1. Where Trent went?
2. Was he in good shape?
3. Would other people know about all these?
4. Who did he try to save?
5. For how long?
6. Did he think highly of his time there?
7. Which town Francis was carried into?
8. Who made fortune in Garba?
9. How long ago?
10. Did he build something useful there?
11. Was Francis very close to dying?
12. Is he safe now?
13. Could Trent have a better life that this?
14. Was Francis too important for him to forgo that?
15. Did Trent carry him too?
16. Was he ever watchful?
17. How long he didn't sleep well?
18. Could he change his clothes in the journey?
19. Was he riding horse on the way to Attra?
20. Who did he meet there?

Numbered answers:
1. into Attra
2. no
3. no
4. John Francis
5. A fortnight
6. yes
7. Attra
8. a Congo trader
9. years ago
10. yes
11. yes
12. yes
13. yes
14. yes
15. yes
16. yes
17. For fourteen days
18. no
19. yes
20. the Agent

Question:
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Susan was very happy to get some money from her grandmother. She spent all morning at her grandmother's house doing chores for her. Grandmother was getting older, and sometimes she needed help with small things around the house. The first thing that Susan did was clean the big window in her house. It was afternoon and the sun was shining, but it was hard to tell because the window was so dirty! Susan used water and soap to clean the window. It was very clean when she was finished. Next, she swept the front porch. She put all of the dirt and leaves into a big bin in the front yard. That was a lot of work. Susan was going back in the house for lunch when she saw that the light in the hall was out. She asked her grandmother to show her where the light bulbs were at so that she could change it. Since she was so short she had to get a stool to stand on. Her grandmother stood by to make sure she didn't fall. This was her last job of the day. After all of her hard work her grandmother made her a ham sandwich with no cheese. Susan did not like cheese. Then her grandmother gave her five dollars for helping. This was a whole dollar more than she got the last time!
1. What did Susan get?
2. From whom?
3. And how did that make her feel?
4. What did she do in return?
5. What did she need help with?
6. Where?
7. What did Susan do first?
8. During what time of day?
9. And what did she use?
10. What did she do next?
11. What did she put the refuse in?
12. Where?
13. Why did she go back in the house?
14. What did she notice?
15. Could she reach it unaided?
16. Did she do any more work?
17. What did her grandmother fix her?
18. And how much was Susan paid?
19. Was that more than before?
20. What didn't Susan like?
Numbered answers:
1. some money
2. her grandmother
3. very happy
4. chores
5. small things
6. around the house
7. clean the big window in her house
8. afternoon
9. water and soap
10. swept the front porch
11. a big bin
12. in the front yard
13. for lunch
14. that the light in the hall was out
15. No
16. No
17. a ham sandwich with no cheese
18. five dollars
19. Yes
20. cheese