Q: CHAPTER XXVII

A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

If Jimmy had entertained any doubts concerning the effectiveness of this disclosure, they would have vanished at the sight of the other's face. Just as the rich hues of a sunset pale slowly into an almost imperceptible green, so did the purple of Sir Thomas's cheeks become, in stages, first a dull red, then pink, and finally take on a uniform pallor. His mouth hung open. His attitude of righteous defiance had crumpled. Unsuspected creases appeared in his clothes. He had the appearance of one who has been caught in the machinery.

Jimmy was a little puzzled. He had expected to check the enemy, to bring him to reason, but not to demolish him in this way. There was something in this which he did not understand. When Spike had handed him the stones, and his trained eye, after a moment's searching examination, had made him suspicious, and when, finally, a simple test had proved his suspicions correct, he was comfortably aware that, though found with the necklace on his person, he had knowledge, which, communicated to Sir Thomas, would serve him well. He knew that Lady Julia was not the sort of lady who would bear calmly the announcement that her treasured rope of diamonds was a fraud. He knew enough of her to know that she would demand another necklace, and see that she got it; and that Sir Thomas was not one of those generous and expansive natures which think nothing of an expenditure of twenty thousand pounds.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was confused?
2. What was a fraud?
3. Whose was it?
4. Who was righteous at first?
5. Did somebody perform a test?
6. What did Jimmy think Lady Julia would insist on?
7. Did Sir Thomas seem generous?
8. What did Jimmy expect to do to the enemy?
9. But what did he end up doing?
10. Who handed him the diamonds?
11. How did he feel after looking at them?
12. Did he turn out to be right?
13. What would Lady Julia make sure of?
14. In whose clothes did creases show up?
15. And how did he appear?
16. Did the necklace have rubies on it?
17. Who had a trained eye?
18. What color did Sir Thomas' cheeks turn at first?
19. What color next?
20. And then what finally?
A: 1. Jimmy
2. diamonds necklace
3. Lady Julia
4. sir thomas
5. yes
6. another necklace
7. no
8. check him
9. demolish him
10. Spike
11. suspicious
12. yes
13. got necklace
14. sir thomas
15. like one who has been caught in the machinery.
16. no
17. Jimmy
18. red
19. pink
20. uniform pallor
Q: Moscow (CNN) -- The Bolshoi Ballet says the allegations swirling around one of its dancers -- that he choreographed an attack to blind the artistic director -- are "absurd."

Even an alleged confession in the case does nothing to convince the cast and crew that Pavel Dmitrichenko could be behind the attack that severely burned and nearly blinded Sergei Filin, the Bolshoi employees said in an open letter Wednesday.

"Unfortunately, the history of our country and our society knows many examples" when results were achieved by "illegal methods, and evidence and proof often turned out to be a fiction," the letter said.

The group called for an independent commission to probe the attack.

Moscow police struck back, saying its "investigators do their job honestly."

Ballet 'villain' arrested: Story in 4 Acts

The plot laid out by authorities pits Dmitrichenko as the central villain, lashing out against Filin -- a man who often cast Dmitrichencko as the villain in productions.

What neither side disputes: Someone threw sulfuric acid into Filin's face in January as he entered his Moscow apartment.

Police say Dmitrichenko had two co-conspirators, one of whom threw the acid.

Local newspapers had quoted ballet members as saying Dmitrichenko was angry because he thought Filin was stifling the career of Anzhelina Vorontsova -- Dmitrichenko's girlfriend.

"For everyone who knows Pavel Dmitrichenko, even the idea that he could be the mastermind and the customer of the crime committed in such a brutal form, is absurd," the Bolshoi's cast and crew said in their letter.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where does this story occur?
2. WHat famous organization is from that country?
3. Are some of their dancers involved in the crime?
4. Who?
5. WHat is he accused of?
6. Who?
7. How does the story describe the accused dancer?
8. Is that ironic in anyway?
9. How so?
10. What did the victim do for a living?
11. where?
12. Did the victim and accused know each other?
13. Who is accusing the dancer?
14. What do they say the motivation was?
15. DO they have any evidence?
16. what?
17. Does everyone believe it?
18. why not?
19. What does everyone agree on?
20. WHen?
A: 1. Moscow
2. The Bolshoi Ballet
3. yes
4. Pavel Dmitrichenko
5. an attack that severely burned and nearly blinded someone
6. Sergei Filin
7. as a 'villain'
8. yes
9. he was oftencast as the villain
10. artistic director
11. The Bolshoi Ballet
12. yes
13. Police
14. unknown
15. yes
16. an alleged confession
17. no
18. many time results were achieved by illegal methods, and evidence and proof often turned out to be a fiction
19. Someone threw sulfuric acid into Filin's face
20. in January
Q: (CNN) -- Oklahoma State University women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed when their plane crashed on the way to a recruiting trip in Arkansas, university officials said Friday.

Former Oklahoma state Sen. Olin Branstetter and his wife, Paula, also died in the crash Thursday, university spokesman Gary Schutt said.

"It's a terribly sad day," he said.

The crash occurred in Perry County, Arkansas, leaving no survivors.

The plane, a Piper Cherokee PA-28, according to FAA records, crashed under "unknown circumstances" in a wooded area about four miles south of Perryville, Arkansas, about 4:30 p.m. CT on Thursday, agency spokesman Lynn Lunsford said Friday.

No additional information about the crash was immediately available.

The National Transportation Safety Board has sent investigators to the crash site, the agency said Friday.

Budke and Serna were on a recruiting trip to Little Rock, Arkansas, the university said.

"For any coaching community to lose bright stars like Kurt and Miranda is tragic," NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement. "This is a profound loss for the Oklahoma State women's basketball family, the entire university and future women's basketball players as well."

University officials credited Budke for turning the school's women's basketball program around, culminating with a top-10 national ranking and an appearance in the second round of the NCAA tournament last season. He was in his seventh season with the school.

"Kurt was an exemplary leader and a man of character who had a profound impact on his student-athletes," Oklahoma State President Burns Hargis said. "He was an outstanding coach and a wonderful person. We send our deepest sympathies to his wife, Shelley, and their children, Sara, Alex and Brett."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is the coach of the Oklahoma State University women's basketball team?
2. Who is the assistant coach?
3. What happened to their plane?
4. What were they doing in Arkansas?
5. Which county did it crash in?
6. Did anyone survive?
7. What kind of plane was it?
8. Why did it crash?
9. When?
10. Who is Lynn Lunsford?
11. Who sent investigators?
12. Who is the NCAA President?
13. How long had Budke been coaching there?
14. Who is the president of Oklahoma State?
15. Did Kurt have kids?
16. Did he have a wife?
17. What is her name?
A:
1. Kurt Budke
2. Miranda Serna
3. It crashed
4. Recuiting
5. Perry
6. unknown
7. A Piper Cherokee PA-28
8. unknown
9. About 4:30 p.m. CT on Thursday
10. unknown
11. The National Transportation Safety Board
12. Mark Emmert
13. seven seasons
14. Burns Hargis
15. yes
16. yes
17. Shelley