Problem: Jim was a 15-year-old boy living with his little sister, Joy. Their parents had passed away long ago. Jim took care of Joy by himself. One day, Jim woke up at 3 in the morning as usual. When Joy was sleeping alone, Jim left their little house to deliver newspapers. As he did so, he found something unusual. One man was sitting in front of Jim's house. Jim was so surprised that he stopped to look at him closely. It was an icy morning and he looked very old. The poor old man didn't have anything to cover himself with. Jim went into his house to get the old man a blanket . However, there were no extra blankets, so Jim thought hard and took his father's coat. It was the only thing of his father's that he had left. Jim wrote a short note. "Sir, I found you sleeping in front of my house. This is my father's coat. I hope it fits you well." He put the note in a pocket of the coat, and covered the old man with the coat. Then he went to work. When he came back three hours later, both the man and the coat were gone. Jim thought that it was the best thing he could have done with his father's coat. That afternoon, Jim hurried home after school because Joy was at home alone. However, Joy and the old man were standing in front of the house, and Joy shouted to Jim, "Brother!He's our grandfather!" The grandfather smiled and said, "Jim, I have been looking for you all around the country for eight years. I'm not rich. But I can take care of you two. Thank you for giving me the coat and letting me know what a good person my grandson is. This coat was the very one that I gave my own son, a long time ago."
1. Who did Jim live with?
2. How were Jim and Joy related?
3. Who else did Jim and Joy meet?
4. Who met the grandfather first?
5. Where did he see his grandfather?
6. Who lived in the house?
7. Where were the mom and dad?
8. Was the grandpa related to their mom or dad?
9. What did he give the old fellow?
10. Why did he give him a jacket?
11. What was in the pocket?
12. Who wrote it?
13. Who was looking for the kids?
14. How long had he tried to find them?
15. Was he happy to find them?
16. Who had to go to work?
17. What was his job?
18. What time did he get up to go?
Answer: 1. Joy
2. siblings
3. Their grandfather
4. Jim
5. in front Jim's house
6. Jim and his sister
7. they passed away
8. dad
9. a coat
10. it was an icy morning
11. a note
12. Jim
13. the grandfather
14. eight years
15. yes
16. Jim
17. delivering newspapers
18. 3 in the morning

Problem: Benjamin Franklin FRS, FRSE ( April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a renowned polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution.

Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity, initially as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies. As the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, "In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat." To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."
1. Who is this article about?
2. When was he born?
3. What school did he help create?
4. Was he an inventor?
5. How many inventions are mentioned?
6. What are they?
7. What job did he do in London?
8. For what organizations?
9. Was he a printer?
10. How many historians are quoted?
11. Who are they?
12. What kind of science experiments did he do?
13. What were his theories about?
14. He was ambassador to which country?
15. What title did he get in London?
16. Why?
17. What practical values were part of the American ethos?
18. What Philadelphia city organization did he help found?
19. Was he a Founding Father?
20. And a freemason?
Answer: 1. Benjamin Franklin
2. April 17, 1790
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. yes
5. three
6. lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove
7. spokesman
8. for several colonies
9. yes
10. two
11. Henry Steele Commager and Walter Isaacson
12. physics
13. electricity
14. France
15. "The First American"
16. for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity,
17. a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious
18. fire department
19. yes
20. yes

Problem: (CNN) -- Jewish organizations called for a Romanian official to resign and face a criminal investigation after he wore a Nazi uniform during a fashion show over the weekend.

Radu Mazare, the mayor of the town of Constanta, wore a Nazi uniform during a fashion show over the weekend.

Radu Mazare, the mayor of the town of Constanta, and his 15-year-old son "entered the stage marching the clearly identifiable Nazi 'goose step,'" the Center for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism in Romania said in a letter to the country's prosecutor general.

The organization's director, Marco Katz, said Mazare had broken Romanian law and encouraged his son to do the same, "educating him to treat the law with contempt."

Katz said Mazare was sending a message "that to wear Nazi uniforms and to march the Nazi steps is legal and 'in vogue' in Romania."

He urged the authorities and the head of Mazare's Social Democrat party to show that message "will be strongly countermanded."

Mazare, 41, said he had not noticed the Nazi swastika symbol on the uniform before he wore it, according to the Romanian Times newspaper.

"I checked it before I put it on but the swastika was very small and I didn't see it," he said. "I really liked the look of the uniform after seeing it in the Tom Cruise film 'Valkyrie.' I bought it from a costume hire shop in Germany."

A top Nazi hunter said Mazare should quit.

"The proper thing for you to do is to admit your mistake, apologize for it and resign your position," Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem wrote to Mazare. Zuroff sent CNN a copy of the letter.
1. who is was asked to step down from his position?
2. called?
3. what is his title?
4. of?
5. why is he in trouble?
6. was he alone?
7. who was with him?
8. who is calling for him to step down?
9. is one of them named?
10. which one?
11. who is the official representing that one?
12. what hollywood star is mentioned?
13. is one of his films mentioned?
14. which one?
15. which one?
Answer:
1. a Romanian official
2. Radu Mazare
3. mayor
4. the town of Constanta
5. he wore a Nazi uniform during a fashion show
6. no
7. his 15-year-old son
8. Jewish organizations
9. yes
10. Center for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism
11. Marco Katz,
12. Tom Cruise
13. yes
14. Valkyrie
15. Valkyrie