Q: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Tyler Perry has, for the first time, revealed graphic details about the sexual, physical and emotional abuse he says he suffered as a child.

"I'm tired of holding this in," Tyler Perry wrote on his Web site, "... so I've decided to give some away."

Perry recounts in a message posted on his Web site and in an e-mail to fans that a prescreening of the film "Precious," due out later this year, dislodged "some raw emotions and brought me to some things and places in my life that I needed to deal with but had long forgotten. It brought back memories so strong that I can smell and taste them."

Perry is an executive producer of the movie, which tells the tale of Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate, obese 16-year-old girl from Harlem who is emotionally and physically abused.

The 40-year-old producer says he can identify with the character, and he recalls a number of incidents from his childhood.

Emmitt Perry Sr., a construction worker, uttered profane insults at him and relentlessly beat and belittled him, Perry says. The random, violent beatings were commonplace until Perry was 19, he said.

"You ... jackass! You got book sense but you ain't got no ... common sense," he quotes his father as saying.

"I heard this every day of my childhood," says Perry.

Attempts to reach Emmitt Perry Sr. for comment were unsuccessful.

Tyler Perry was born Emmitt Perry Jr. but changed his name to distance himself from his father.

1. Perry
2. Claireece "Precious" Jones
3. Harlem
4. 16
5. yes
6. emotional and physical
7. no
8. yes
9. yes
10. sexual, physical and emotional
11. a prescreening
12. Precious
13. Emmitt Perry Jr.
14. Emmitt Perry Sr.
15. yes
16. Emmitt Perry Sr.
17. 19
18. jackass
19. common sense
20. every day

Numbered questions:
1. Who is the executive producer of Precious?
2. Who is the movie about?
3. Where is she from?
4. How old is she?
5. Was she abused?
6. What kind of abuse?
7. Can she read?
8. Is she overweight?
9. Was Perry abused?
10. What kind did he go through?
11. What brought these memories up?
12. Of what?
13. What is Perry's birth name?
14. Who is he named after?
15. Is that his father?
16. Who abused him?
17. How old was he when it stopped?
18. What did he call him?
19. What did he tell him he was lacking?
20. How often did he say it?

Q: Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition. The meaning of the term humanism has fluctuated according to the successive intellectual movements which have identified with it. Generally, however, humanism refers to a perspective that affirms some notion of human freedom and progress. In modern times, humanist movements are typically aligned with secularism, and today humanism typically refers to a non-theistic life stance centred on human agency and looking to science rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world.

Gellius says that in his day humanitas is commonly used as a synonym for philanthropy or kindness and benevolence toward one's fellow human being. Gellius maintains that this common usage is wrong, and that model writers of Latin, such as Cicero and others, used the word only to mean what we might call "humane" or "polite" learning, or the Greek equivalent Paideia. Gellius became a favorite author in the Italian Renaissance, and, in fifteenth-century Italy, teachers and scholars of philosophy, poetry, and rhetoric were called and called themselves "humanists". Modern scholars, however, point out that Cicero (106 43 BCE), who was most responsible for defining and popularizing the term humanitas, in fact frequently used the word in both senses, as did his near contemporaries. For Cicero, a lawyer, what most distinguished humans from brutes was speech, which, allied to reason, could (and should) enable them to settle disputes and live together in concord and harmony under the rule of law. Thus humanitas included two meanings from the outset and these continue in the modern derivative, humanism, which even today can refer to both humanitarian benevolence and to scholarship.

1. teachers and scholars of philosophy, poetry, and rhetoric
2. (106 43 BCE)
3. a lawyer
4. speech
5. it enabled them to settle disputes and live together
6. unknown
7. humanitas
8. a favorite author in the Italian Renaissance
9. The fifteenth century
10. Two
11. no
12. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. In Italy, who called themselves humanists?
2. What years was Cicero alive?
3. What was his occupation?
4. What did he say was the difference between man and beasts?
5. What did he say the benefit of that was?
6. What was Gellius attitude?
7. What did he term as being nice to people?
8. What did Gellius become?
9. When?
10. How many different definitions did we end up with on the topic of discussion?
11. Does the topic include God or not?
12. Was what uneducated people's opinions included?

Q: For Urban Treuil, there's no escaping the misery.

Because of Hurricane Isaac, Treuil's home in Braithwaite, Louisiana, is ruined by floodwaters. So, too, is the gas station and convenience store he owned and ran in the community, 15 miles by car and 10 miles as the crow flies from New Orleans.

But all that pales to what Treuil, the fire chief for Braithwaite and Woodlawn in Plaquemines Parish, saw when he and fellow volunteer firefighters steered their boat up to the home of a couple he knew. Inside, they found the pair floating in the kitchen, the first of at least three fatalities in Louisiana being blamed on Isaac.

"It's not something I want to see, and I hope it's the last ones we do see," said an exhausted Treuil on Friday, a day after he pulled the couple from the home.

In terms of total deaths, Isaac doesn't compare to Hurricane Katrina, which led to nearly 1,800 fatalities in New Orleans and the vicinity seven years ago. Isaac struck Louisiana on Tuesday night as a Category 1 hurricane, not a Category 3 like Katrina.

Don't tell that, though, to the thousands of residents in St. Tammany, Ascension, Plaquemines and other parishes who Friday found their homes and hometowns still deluged. Even with a few drops of drizzle falling all day and with levels down considerably from the previous day, waters were still 10 feet deep in spots.

"This is unbelievable. Deja vu, man," Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish said Thursday as he surveyed the town of Ironton, inundated by floodwater and sludge. "There is more water here than Katrina."

1. fire chief for Braithwaite and Woodlawn
2. Braithwaite, Louisiana,
3. Hurricane Isaac
4. Category 1
5. no
6. Three
7. yes
8. 15 miles by car
9. yes
10. 10 feet deep
11. yes
12. St. Tammany, Ascension, Plaquemines and other parishes
13. yes
14. Gas station and convenience store
15. Treuil
16. yes
17. Three
18. yes
19. Two
20. Treuil and fellow volunteer firefighters

Numbered questions:
1. Who is Urban Treuil?
2. Where does he live?
3. What happened there?
4. What category was it?
5. Is the same size as Katrina?
6. What was that one?
7. Is Braithwaite near New Orleans?
8. How close?
9. Did the town get flooded?
10. How deep did the water get?
11. Did other nearby towns get flooded too?
12. Which ones?
13. Were any businesses harmed?
14. Which ones?
15. Who owned those?
16. Were there fatalities?
17. How many?
18. Anyone Treuil knew?
19. How many?
20. Who found them?