Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XV

THE SNOWBALL BATTLE

"Now then, fellows, for the greatest snowball battle of the age!"

"Here is where Company A smothers Company B!"

"Rats! You mean that Company B will bury Company A out of sight!"

"Hi, Major Ruddy! What side are you going on?" queried Bart Conners, who still commanded Company B.

"He is coming on our side!" answered Henry Lee, the captain of the other company.

"Well, I can't fight on both sides," answered the young major with a laugh.

"Go with the company that wins!" suggested Pepper, with a grin.

"Toss up a cent for it," suggested Andy.

"All right, I'll toss up," answered Jack, and did so, and it was decided that he should fight with Company B.

"Good enough!" cried Pepper, who was in that command. "Now Company A is licked, sure!"

"Not much!" was the answer from Stuffer Singleton. "We'll win, sure!"

"We will, unless you stop to eat a doughnut!" put in Joe Nelson, and at this remark a general laugh went up, for Stuffer had once lost a long-distance running race because he stopped on the way to devour some cookies he had in his pocket.

It was after school hours, and the cadets had gathered on the field where, during the summer, corn had been raised. It was to be a battle between the two companies of the school battalion, with the company captain as leader on each side.

The preliminary rules were speedily arranged. Lines were drawn at either end of the field, about five hundred feet apart. In the center, about a hundred feet apart, two other lines were drawn. Along the latter lines the cadets arranged themselves.

1. what does Company A do to the other company?
2. who was the other company?
3. who said with a smile
4. what did they throw up in the air?
5. who said I can't argue both issues?
6. what was grown on the land where they got together?
7. what was 1200 inches apart?
8. how about 6000 inches away?
9. who got themselves in order on the boundry?
10. what would they possibly take time to consume by mouth?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. smothers them
2. Company B
3. Pepper
4. a cent
5. the young major with a laugh.
6. corn
7. , two other lines
8. Lines were drawn at either end of the field
9. the cadets
10. a doughnut

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President Hu departs for G8 summit

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1. 190
2. BOMBAY, India
3. No
4. On trains
5. Bombs
6. No
7. Eight
8. Hu Jintao
9. Yes
10. Sunday morning the week of July 16
11. G8 summit
12. St. Petersburg, Russia
13. Yes
14. Vladimir Putin
15. He is the Russian President
16. Eight
17. Yes
18. Britain,Canada,France,Germany,Italy,Japan,Russiaand theUnited States
19. Yes
20. 110 metres hurdles

Numbered questions:
1. how many people died?
2. where?
3. were they in a school?
4. where were they?
5. what killed them?
6. 2 of them?
7. how many?
8. who is the president of china?
9. did he go somewhere?
10. when?
11. where did he go?
12. where was it held?
13. did he receive and invitation?
14. from who?
15. his position?
16. how many countries make up the group?
17. are they named?
18. what?
19. is a competition mentioned?
20. which one?