input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Virginia (, , officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" due to its status as the first English colonial possession established in mainland North America, and "Mother of Presidents" because eight U.S. presidents were born there, more than any other state. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna. The capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond; Virginia Beach is the most populous city, and Fairfax County is the most populous political subdivision. The Commonwealth's estimated population is over 8.4 million.

The area's history begins with several indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony. Slave labor and the land acquired from displaced Native American tribes each played a significant role in the colony's early politics and plantation economy. Virginia was one of the 13 Colonies in the American Revolution and joined the Confederacy in the American Civil War, during which Richmond was made the Confederate capital and Virginia's northwestern counties seceded to form the state of West Virginia. Although the Commonwealth was under one-party rule for nearly a century following Reconstruction, both major national parties are competitive in modern Virginia. 1. What place has Richmond as the capital?
2. A.k.a.?
3. Who were natives of the area?
4. What country colonized it in 1607?
5. How many other colonies did they have?
6. Name1
7. Whose side was it on during the revolution?
8. What title did its capital get during that time?
9. How many inhabitants are there?
10. Which city has the most?
numbered_answers: 1. Commonwealth of Virginia
2. Virginia
3. several indigenous groups
4. English
5. 13
6. unknown
7. Confederate
8. unknown
9. 8.4 million
10. Virginia Beach

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER IX

LETTIE COMES OF AGE

Lettie was twenty-one on the day after Christmas. She woke me in the morning with cries of dismay. There was a great fall of snow, multiplying the cold morning light, startling the slow-footed twilight. The lake was black like the open eyes of a corpse; the woods were black like the beard on the face of a corpse. A rabbit bobbed out, and floundered in much consternation; little birds settled into the depth, and rose in a dusty whirr, much terrified at the universal treachery of the earth. The snow was eighteen inches deep, and drifted in places.

"They will never come!" lamented Lettie, for it was the day of her party.

"At any rateLeslie will," said I.

"One!" she exclaimed.

"That one is all, isn't it?" said I. "And for sure George will come, though I've not seen him this fortnight. He's not been in one night, they say, for a fortnight."

"Why not?"

"I cannot say."

Lettie went away to ask Rebecca for the fiftieth time if she thought they would come. At any rate the extra woman-help came.

It was not more than ten o'clock when Leslie arrived, ruddy, with shining eyes, laughing like a boy. There was much stamping in the porch, and knocking of leggings with his stick, and crying of Lettie from the kitchen to know who had come, and loud, cheery answers from the porch bidding her come and see. She came, and greeted him with effusion.

"Ha, my little woman!" he said kissing her. "I declare you are a woman. Look at yourself in the glass now" She did so"What do you see?" he asked laughing. 1. Had Lettie asked Rebecca something a lot?
2. What time was this that she asked?
3. What was the time when Leslie showed up?
4. What was her complexion like?
5. How were her eyes?
6. What was she laughing like?
7. Who was called from the kitchen?
8. How did Leslie greet them?
9. Was Leslie told to look in the mirror?
10. How old was Lettie?
11. On what day was her birthday?
12. What color was the lake called?
13. How else was it described?
14. What animal floundered?
15. Where did the birds settle?
16. The woods were compared to what on a face?
17. On the face of what?
18. Who hadn't been seen in two weeks?
19. What did the birds rise in?
20. What kind?
numbered_answers: 1. Yes
2. Fiftieth
3. Not more than ten o'clock
4. Ruddy
5. Shining
6. A boy
7. Lettie
8. With effusion.
9. Yes
10. Twenty-one
11. Day after Christmas
12. Black
13. Like the open eyes of a corpse
14. A rabbit
15. Into the depth
16. A beard
17. A corpse.
18. George
19. A whirr
20. Dusty

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER 52

Nicholas despairs of rescuing Madeline Bray, but plucks up his Spirits again, and determines to attempt it. Domestic Intelligence of the Kenwigses and Lillyvicks

Finding that Newman was determined to arrest his progress at any hazard, and apprehensive that some well-intentioned passenger, attracted by the cry of 'Stop thief,' might lay violent hands upon his person, and place him in a disagreeable predicament from which he might have some difficulty in extricating himself, Nicholas soon slackened his pace, and suffered Newman Noggs to come up with him: which he did, in so breathless a condition, that it seemed impossible he could have held out for a minute longer.

'I will go straight to Bray's,' said Nicholas. 'I will see this man. If there is a feeling of humanity lingering in his breast, a spark of consideration for his own child, motherless and friendless as she is, I will awaken it.'

'You will not,' replied Newman. 'You will not, indeed.'

'Then,' said Nicholas, pressing onward, 'I will act upon my first impulse, and go straight to Ralph Nickleby.'

'By the time you reach his house he will be in bed,' said Newman.

'I'll drag him from it,' cried Nicholas.

'Tut, tut,' said Noggs. 'Be yourself.'

'You are the best of friends to me, Newman,' rejoined Nicholas after a pause, and taking his hand as he spoke. 'I have made head against many trials; but the misery of another, and such misery, is involved in this one, that I declare to you I am rendered desperate, and know not how to act.' 1. Who is losing their nerve?
2. Who is he worried about?
3. What is her last name?
4. Does he get it back?
5. Who is an obstacle for him?
6. By any means necessary?
7. What is he concerned with someone yelling?
8. Why?
9. What would happen then?
10. Could he get out easily?
11. What did he do because of this?
12. Where was he going?
13. What is his goal?
14. For his kid?
15. Is he discouraged by someone?
16. Who?
17. What does he decide to do then?
18. What if he is asleep?
19. Does someone disapprove?
20. Who?
numbered_answers:
1. Nicholas is
2. Madeline
3. Bray
4. Yes
5. Newman
6. Yes
7. Stop thief
8. some passenger might lay violent hands upon his person
9. a disagreeable predicament
10. No
11. slackened his pace
12. Bray's
13. to awaken consideration
14. Yes
15. Yes
16. Newman
17. go straight to Ralph Nickleby
18. He'll drag him from it
19. Yes
20. Noggs