Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

So ill he could not move, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart supposedly sang parts of his final masterpiece, "Requiem," from his deathbed. Two centuries later, the exact cause of the Austrian composer's premature death, in December 1791 at age 35, is still a mystery.

This portrait by painter Johann Georg Edlinger, showed Mozart not long before his mysterious death in 1791.

Theories abound. It's known that his entire body was so swollen he couldn't turn over in bed; some say jealous rivals poisoned him, while others suggest scarlet fever, tuberculosis, or lethal trichinosis from undercooked pork.

Now, new evidence points to an altogether different conclusion: Mozart may have died from kidney damage caused by a strep infection, possibly strep throat. Health.com: Can't stop coughing? 8 causes of chronic cough

Dr. Richard H.C. Zegers of the University of Amsterdam and his colleagues analyzed data from Vienna's death registry. Researchers had not previously analyzed the daily death registry -- begun in handwritten script in 1607 and maintained until 1920 -- for clues to Mozart's death.

Zegers and his team looked at information for 5,011 adults who died during three consecutive winters starting in 1790, as well as eyewitness accounts of Mozart's death, according to the study published this week in Annals of Internal Medicine.

"By looking at the patterns of death during Mozart's time and combining them with the signs and symptoms of his final disease, we have not one but two pillars on which our theory is built," said Zegers. "Although we can't be 100 percent conclusive, I'm convinced that we have come very near the exact reason he died."

1. When did Vienna start their death registry?
2. When does it end?
3. How was it written in the beginning?
4. Who has been looking it over?
5. From where?
6. What are they hoping to find?
7. Are they the first to do this?
8. When did Mozart die?
9. What month?
10. How old was he?
11. Are there rumors about how he died
12. Who might have poisoned him?
13. Where could he have picked up trichinosis?
14. Can that be fatal?
15. What did he do while on his deathbed?
16. What?
17. Who painted a picture of him?
18. Why couldn't he flip over?
19. What is a current theory on his cause of death?
20. From what?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 1607
2. 1920
3. it was handwritten
4. Dr. Richard H.C. Zegers and his colleagues
5. the University of Amsterdam
6. clues to Mozart's death
7. unknown
8. 1791
9. December
10. 35
11. yes
12. jealous rivals
13. undercooked pork
14. yes
15. sing
16. "Requiem"
17. Johann Georg Edlinger
18. his body was swollen
19. kidney damage
20. a strep infection

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XIX

MAUD MAKES A MEMORANDUM

My mother used to say to me: "Never expect to find brains in a pretty girl." Perhaps she said it because I was not a pretty girl and she wished to encourage me. In any event, that absurd notion of the ancients that when the fairies bestow the gift of beauty on a baby they withhold all other qualities has so often been disproved that we may well disregard it.

Maud Stanton was a pretty girl--indeed, a beautiful girl--but she possessed brains as well as beauty and used her intellect to advantage more often than her quiet demeanor would indicate to others than her most intimate associates. From the first she had been impressed by the notion that there was something mysterious about A. Jones and that his romantic explanation of his former life and present position was intended to hide a truth that would embarrass him, were it fully known. Therefore she had secretly observed the young man, at such times as they were together, and had treasured every careless remark he had made--every admission or assertion--and made a note of it. The boy's arrest had startled her because it was so unexpected, and her first impulse was to doubt his innocence. Later, however, she had thoroughly reviewed the notes she had made and decided he was innocent.

In the quiet of her own room, when she was supposed to be asleep, Maud got out her notebook and read therein again the review of all she had learned concerning A. Jones of Sangoa.

1. Who was good looking?
2. Was she very good looking?
3. What did she have along with her looks?
4. Was the narrator also good looking?
5. Who did Maud think was keeping a secret?
6. What did she think it would to, if revealed?
7. What did she do to try to uncover this secret?
8. What surprised her?
9. Did she initially think he might be guilty?
10. What did she decide subsequently?
11. Where was the man from?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Maud Stanton
2. yes
3. brains
4. no
5. A. Jones
6. embarrass him,
7. secretly observed him
8. The boy's arrest
9. yes
10. .he was innocent.
11. Sangoa.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Our village carpenter , John Hill, came one day and made a dining table for my wife. He made it just the right size to fill the space between the two windows. When I got home that evening, John was drinking a cup of tea and writing out his bill for the job.

My wife said to me quietly, "It's his ninth cup of tea today." But she said in a loud voice, "It is a beautiful table, dear, isn't it?"

"I will decide about that when I see the bill, " I read:

One dining table, 10 November, 1989.

Cost of wood: $17.00

Paint: $1.50

Work: 8 hours ($1 an hour) $8.00

Total: $36.50

When I was looking at the bill, John said, "It's been a fine day, hasn't it? Quite sunny." "Yes," I said, "I'm glad it is only the 10thof November."

"Me, too," said John. "You wait. It'll be a lot colder by the end of the month."

"Yes, colder.... And more expensive! Dining tables will be $20 more expensive on November 30th, won't they, John?" John looked hard at me for half a minute. Was there a little smile in his two blue eyes? I gave his bill back to him.

"If it isn't too much trouble, John," I said, "Please add it up again and you can forget the date."

I paid him $26.50and he was happy to get it.

1. How much did he pay for the table?
2. Was the carpenter angry about that?
3. Was it less than he billed?
4. By how much?
5. Was there an addition error?
6. What did the carpenter mistakenly add to the priuce?
7. What day of the month was it?
8. What did the man joke would be different at the end of the month?
9. On which date?
10. If that were true, how much more would a table be on the 20th?
11. Does the carpenter have green eyes?
12. What color?
13. What's the carpenter's name?
14. Who was the table for?
15. Why couldn't they just buy any table from a store?
16. Did the husband come home in the afternoon?
17. How many beverages did the worker partake in that day?
18. How much does the carpenter bill for labor?
19. What cost $17?
20. And how much for the paint?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. $26.50
2. No
3. Yes
4. $10.00
5. Yes
6. Too many man hours
7. The 10th
8. $20 more expensive
9. on November 30th
10. $10.00
11. No
12. blue
13. John Hill
14. The wife
15. They wanted it just the right size to fill the space between the two windows.
16. No
17. Nine
18. $1 an hour
19. wood
20. $1.50