Q: CHAPTER X: Reddy Fox Is Impudent

A saucy tongue is dangerous to possess; Be sure some day 't will get you in a mess. --Old Granny Fox.

Reddy Fox is headstrong and, like most headstrong people, is given to thinking that his way is the best way just because it is his way. He is smart, is Reddy Fox. Yes, indeed, Reddy Fox is very, very smart. He has to be in order to live. But a great deal of what he knows he learned from Old Granny Fox. The very best tricks he knows she taught him. She began teaching him when he was so little that he tumbled over his own feet. It was she who taught him how to hunt, that it is better never to steal chickens near home but to go a long way off for them, and how to fool Bowser the Hound.

It was Granny who taught Reddy how to use his little black nose to follow the tracks of careless young Rabbits, and how to catch Meadow Mice under the snow. In fact, there is little Reddy knows which he didn't learn from wise, shrewd Old Granny Fox.

But as he grew bigger and bigger, until he was quite as big as Granny herself, he forgot what he owed to her. He grew to have a very good opinion of himself and to feel that he knew just about all there was to know. So sometimes when he had done foolish or careless things and Granny had scolded him, telling him he was big enough and old enough to know better, he would sulk and go off muttering to himself. But he never quite dared to be openly disrespectful to Granny, and this, of course, was quite as it should have been.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who taught Reddy how to use his nose to follow tracks?
2. What did he forget?
3. What did she teach him about chickens?
4. Was Reddy Fox unintelligent?
5. Why does he have to be smart?
6. When did his grandma start teaching him?
7. And what was the name of the hound she taught him to fool?
8. Where did he hunt Meadow Mice?
9. Did Reddy start to have a big opinion about himself?
10. What did Granny tell him when he did foolish and careless stuff?
11. Then what would he do?
12. Was he outright disrespectful to Granny?
13. What's the name of this chapter?
14. What did Old Granny Fox say about a saucy tongue?
15. What kind of rabbits was Reddy trying to catch?
16. Where was he told to get chickens from if not close to home?
17. What did he do over his feet when he was little?
18. Did he have a little red nose?
19. What color was it?
A: 1. Granny
2. what he owed to her.
3. never to steal chickens near home
4. No
5. to live
6. When he was little
7. Bowser
8. under the snow
9. Yes
10. he was big enough and old enough to know better
11. he would sulk and go off muttering to himself.
12. No
13. Reddy Fox Is Impudent
14. is dangerous to possess
15. careless young Rabbits
16. long way off
17. tumbled over
18. No
19. Black

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

We're unleashing the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending November 15, 2014. We don't get any new songs this week...but things do get shaken up a bit. It all starts in fifth place, where Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj dip a notch with "Bang Bang." Jessie says she wanted to assemble this lineup for a long time - she says she only met the other two after the song went to number one on iTunes. Jessie also says she wanted to use Nicki five years ago on her debut single, "Do It Like A Dude." Taking over fourth place is Maroon 5 with "Animals." This band has been around for 20 years...but not always under this name. The Los Angeles group formed in 1994 as Kara's Flowers, and released one album under that name in 1997. Four years later the members re-grouped as Maroon 5, and the rest is chart history. Holding in third place is Tove Lo with "Habits (Stay High)." Where did that name come from? This Swedish artist's real name is Ebba Tove Elsa Nillson. "Lo" is Swedish for lynx - a species of wildcat that Tove says she fell in love with as a little girl. After eight weeks, Meghan Trainor falls off the Hot 100 pedestal: "All About That Bass" falls to second place. Last week, she and Miranda Lambert sang this song at the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, and Meghan kicks off a headlining North American tour next February in Vancouver, Canada. Taylor Swift re-takes the Hot 100 title, with "Shake It Off" - giving her three total weeks at the top - but that's only the beginning of her phenomenal week. Taylor's 1989 album just opened at number one by selling 1.2 million domestic copies. That's the largest sales week since The Eminem Show sold 1.3 million copies, way back in 2002. That's a wrap for this week, but as you know, the chart is always changing. Come back in seven days for an all-new lineup.

1. How many songs are being discussed?
2. Is this the Billboard Country singles chart?
3. Is the week in question before Christmas?
4. Did "Bang Bang" go up or down this week?
5. How many musicians contributed to that single?
6. Is Beyonce one of them?
7. Who put together the group?
8. What song made her want to join forces with Nicki Minaj?
9. When did Maroon 5 form?
10. Have they always gone by that title?
11. How many records did they put out under an alternate name?
12. Did their song move up or down this week?
13. What does the word "Lo" mean?
14. Who is Ebba Tove Elsa Nillson?
15. Who was number one the week prior to this chart?
16. Was she number one more than eight weeks?
17. Has she performed anywhere in the last week?
18. Where at?
19. Is Taylor Swift's "Reputation" number one this week?
20. Which song is?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. five
2. no
3. no
4. down
5. Three
6. no
7. Jessie J
8. "Do It Like A Dude"
9. 1994
10. no
11. One
12. up
13. lynx
14. Tove Lo
15. Meghan Trainor
16. no
17. yes
18. the Country Music Association Awards
19. no
20. "Shake It Off"