Q: (CNN) -- At an auction at a gallery in New York recently, a piece of artwork sold for a higher price than had been anticipated by the auctioneers: $4,080.

It wasn't a very big piece of art -- just 8-by-10 inches. Technically, it wasn't even art. It was a glossy black-and-white photograph. It had a slight imperfection: there were staple holes in the upper left-hand corner.

Someone had written all over the front of the photograph. The person who had scrawled on it was, in fact, the subject of the photograph. He had written:

"To Patricia Keating, with very best wishes, John Kennedy"

That is what made the photo so valuable to someone: Kennedy had held it in his hands, had run his pen over it. The owners of Swann Galleries, where the signed photo was auctioned, believe that Kennedy had autographed the picture in 1956, when he was a United States senator. The picture itself wasn't worth much; but his signature, personalized to Patricia Keating. ...

"As far as we know, she wasn't anyone famous," Rebecca Weiss, a Swann Galleries employee, told me on the day after the auction. "There's no particular significance to her name."

Then why would someone pay more than $4,000 for the photo?

Weiss told me that the identities of the buyers and sellers at Swann auctions are kept confidential, so she could not disclose who had consigned the photo for sale, or who had purchased it. But she said there is a pretty safe rule of thumb about the sale of autographs of renowned men and women:

Answer the following questions:
1. Who wrote on the image?
2. Whom was it too?
3. Where was it sold?
4. Was the selling price a shock?
5. What was the selling point?
6. Was it a big photo?
7. How big was it?
8. When did he sign it?
9. What was his occupation then?
10. Was patricia famous?
11. Was it release who bought it?
12. Was the photo considered art?
A: 1. John Kennedy
2. Patricia Keating,
3. Swann Galleries
4. Yes.
5. Kennedy had held it in his hands
6. No.
7. 8-by-10 inches.
8. 1956
9. A United States senator.
10. No
11. No.
12. No
Q: Betty and I are best friends.Our birthdays are on the same day,so every year we have a birthday party together.But this year,we had a costume party instead. While we were writing the invitation,my mum came in and asked."Why not invite John?"John had been in our class for only a few months,but he was always getting better grades in math than anyone else in class.I wrinkled my nose and said,"Mum,he wears the same pants to school every day.How can he even afford a costume?"Mum said nothing.The next day,mum gave me an envelope with a shopping certificate in it."I thought it would be nice of you to give this to John,"Mum said.But how?We didn't want to make John embarrassed.We discussed it for a long time.Finally,Betty and I had a good idea. On the day of our party,kids arrived,dressed differently.John arrived,in an old sheet ,but still in the same brown pants as usual.We danced,ate snacks and played games in groups.Before eating the birthday cake,Betty said in a loud voice,"Now it's time for the great prize game.It's the following riddle..."It was a math game.None of us was surprised when John came up with the right answer first and walked off with the envelope. Everything went on well as we planned.John wore a new pair of pants and a new shirt the next week.He felt happy.So did we. When we helped others,we need to find a proper way,or we may hurt them in another way.

Answer the following questions:
1. What sort of party did the friends have this year?
2. What is the friend's name?
3. Are their birthdays right next to each other?
4. What date were the two born?
5. Who did the mother tell them to have come to the celebration?
6. What was he good at?
7. Was he new to the school?
8. How did the mother gift him for the celebration?
9. Were the girls worried that he would be too happy about it?
10. How many activities did they do at the celebration?
11. Did they have a celebratory pie?
12. What type of game did they tailor to the boy?
13. Did he win?
14. What item of clothing did they notice he donned every day?
15. Did he buy new ones?
16. How did that cause him to feel?
A: 1. costume party
2. Betty
3. on the same day
4. unknown
5. John
6. math
7. yes
8. a shopping certificate
9. yes
10. Three
11. yes
12. a math game
13. yes
14. pants
15. yes
16. happy
Q: CHAPTER XX

BETTY AT LARGE

It was not till Betty found herself many blocks distant from the office of _Peaceful Moments_ that she checked her headlong flight. She had run down the stairs and out into the street blindly, filled only with that passion for escape which had swept her away from Mervo. Not till she had dived into the human river of Broadway and reached Times Square did she feel secure. Then, with less haste, she walked on to the park, and sat down on a bench, to think.

Inevitably she had placed her own construction on John's sudden appearance in New York and at the spot where only one person in any way connected with Mervo knew her to be. She did not know that Smith and he were friends, and did not, therefore, suspect that the former and not herself might be the object of his visit. Nor had any word reached her of what had happened at Mervo after her departure. She had taken it for granted that things had continued as she had left them; and the only possible explanation to her of John's presence in New York was that, acting under orders from Mr. Scobell, he had come to try and bring her back.

She shuddered as she conjured up the scene that must have taken place if Pugsy had not mentioned his name and she had gone on into the inner room. In itself the thought that, after what she had said that morning on the island, after she had forced on him, stripping it of the uttermost rag of disguise, the realization of how his position appeared to her, he should have come, under orders, to bring her back, was well-nigh unendurable. But to have met him, to have seen the man she loved plunging still deeper into shame, would have been pain beyond bearing. Better a thousand times than that this panic flight into the iron wilderness of New York.

Answer the following questions:
1. What city is Betty in?
2. Where did she used to live?
3. Was she walking around calmly?
4. What street did she go down?
5. Were their a lot of people on the street?
6. Where did she take Broadway to?
7. Why?
8. Who was she surprised to see in NYC?
9. Why did she think he was there?
10. Does he know anyone else there?
11. Who?
12. Are they friends?
13. Is there another reason he might be in the city, besides her?
14. What reason?
15. Who does she think told him to bring her back?
16. Does she love John?
17. What is she afraid she would feel if she saw him?
18. Where did she go after Times Square?
19. Did she run there?
20. What did she do when she got there?
A:
1. New York City
2. Mervo
3. no
4. Broadway
5. unknown
6. Times Squar
7. to sit and think
8. John
9. to bring her back
10. yes
11. Smith
12. yes
13. yes
14. to see his friend
15. Mr. Scobell
16. yes
17. beyond bearing.
18. to the park
19. no
20. sat down