question: Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent (the first being Asia). At about 30.3 million km (11.7 million squaremiles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of its total land area. With /1e9 round 1 billion people as of , it accounts for about 16% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos. It contains 54 fully recognised sovereign states (countries), nine territories and two "de facto" independent states with limited or no recognition.

Africa's average population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population. Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago, including "Sahelanthropus tchadensis", "Australopithecus africanus", "A. afarensis", "Homo erectus", "H. habilis" and "H. ergaster"with the earliest "Homo sapiens" (modern human) found in Ethiopia being dated to circa 200,000 years ago. Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.
1. What is the largest continet?
2. What is the most populous?
3. What is the second largest?
4. How big is it
5. What is the second most populous continent
6. How many people live in it
7. How much of the world's population is that
8. What Sea is to the north
9. What ocean is to the southeast
10. What about to the west
11. How many countries are in Africa
12. How many territories?
13. What is it's median age?
14. In what year?
15. What was the worldwide median age at that time
16. What is Africa's largest country by size
17. By population?
18. What is the scientific name for great apes?
19. Where was the earliest Homo sapiens found?
20. To what year was it dated
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answer: 1. Asia
2. Asia
3. Africa
4. 30.3 million km
5. Africa
6. 1 billion people
7. 16%
8. Mediterranean Sea
9. Indian Ocean
10. Atlantic Ocean
11. 54 fully recognised countries
12. nine
13. 19.7
14. 2012
15. 30.4
16. Algeria
17. Nigeria
18. Hominidae clade
19. central Eastern Africa
20. around seven million years ago

question: Chapter XXXII.

The seniors of the party at Benfield Lodge were all assembled one morning in a parlor, when its master and the baronet were occupied in the perusal of the London papers. Clara had persuaded her sisters to accompany her and Francis in an excursion as far as the village.

Jane yet continued reserved and distant to most of her friends; while Emily's conduct would have escaped unnoticed, did not her blanched cheek and wandering looks at times speak a language not to be misunderstood. With all her relatives she maintained the affectionate intercourse she had always supported; though not even to her aunt did the name of Denbigh pass her lips. But in her most private and humble petitions to God, she never forgot to mingle with her requests for spiritual blessings on herself, fervent prayers for the conversion of the preserver of her life.

Mrs. Wilson, as she sat by the side of her sister at their needles, first discovered an unusual uneasiness in their venerable host, while he turned his paper over and over, as if unwilling or unable to comprehend some part of its contents, until he rang the bell violently, and bid the servant to send Johnson to him without a moment's delay.

"Peter," said Mr. Benfield doubtingly, "read that--your eyes are young, Peter; read that."

Peter took the paper, and after having adjusted his spectacles to his satisfaction, he proceeded to obey his master's injunctions; but the same defect of vision as suddenly seized the steward as it had affected his master. He turned the paper sideways, and appeared to be spelling the matter of the paragraph to himself. Peter would have given his three hundred a year to have had the impatient John Moseley a hand, to relieve him from his task; but the anxiety of Mr. Benfield overcoming his fear of the worst, he inquired in tremulous tone--
1. Whose eyes were better suited for reading?
2. Did he wear glasses, also?
3. How did he turn the paper to read it?
4. Was he having trouble deciphering it?
5. Where were the seniors gathered?
6. Was there a party?
7. Where?
8. What was being read in the parlor?
9. What was Clara planning?
10. Who was coming with her?
11. How far were they going to go?
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answer: 1. Pryrt
2. yes
3. sideways
4. yes
5. a parlor
6. yes
7. Benfield Lodge
8. the London papers
9. Clara had persuaded her sisters to accompany her and Francis in an excursion
10. her sisters and Francis
11. to the village

question: The United States Census of 1850 was the seventh census of the United States. Conducted by the Census Office on June 1, 1850, it determined the resident population of the United States to be 23,191,876an increase of 35.9 percent over the 17,069,453 persons enumerated during the 1840 Census. The total population included 3,204,313 slaves.

This was the first census where there was an attempt to collect information about every member of every household, including women, children, and slaves. Prior to 1850, census records had recorded only the name of the head of the household and broad statistical accounting of other household members (three children under age five, one woman between the age of 35 and 40, etc.). It was also the first census to ask about place of birth.

Hinton Rowan Helper made extensive use of the 1850 census results in his politically notorious book "The Impending Crisis of the South" (1857).

The 1850 census, Schedule 1, Free Inhabitants, collected the following information:

Full documentation for the 1850 population census, including census forms and enumerator instructions, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.

The 1850 United States Census collected a great amount of data that gave insight into the state of the U.S. economy in 1850. Some of the data revealed the growth of the economy with regards to agricultural and manufactured production, international trade, federal debt, taxation, transportation, education, and land expansion.
1. Who wrote a book about the 1850 census?
2. What was the title?
3. When was it published?
4. Was it controversial?
5. If I were looking today for the 1850 census forms, could I find them?
6. What about enumerator instructions?
7. Where would I find these things?
8. Did the census that year show anything in regards to the economy?
9. Was the economy in a recession then?
10. How many censuses were there before this one?
11. Who organizes these?
12. And what date did they perform this one?
13. Did the population increase in the ten years prior?
14. By what percentage?
15. And by approximately how many millions of people?
16. True or false: Slaves were counted in the population figures.
17. Besides population growth, what is another reason this census showed an increase in people?
18. In 1840, would they collect the names of wives?
19. What about the head of household?
20. What else was this census the first to collect information on?
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answer:
1. Hinton Rowan Helper
2. "The Impending Crisis of the South"
3. 1857
4. unknown
5. yes
6. yes
7. the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.
8. yes
9. no
10. Six
11. the Census Office
12. June 1, 1850
13. yes
14. 35.9 percent
15. 6 million
16. true
17. unknown
18. no
19. yes
20. place of birth