Problem: Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Named after George Washington, the first President of the United States, the state was made out of the western part of the Washington Territory, which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 in accordance with the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from Washington, D.C., the capital of the U.S., which is often shortened to Washington.

Washington is the 18th largest state with an area of 71,362 square miles (184,827 sq km), and the 13th most populous state with over 7 million people. Approximately 60 percent of Washington's residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area, the center of transportation, business, and industry along Puget Sound , an inlet of the Pacific Ocean consisting of numerous islands, deep fjords, and bays carved out by glaciers. The remainder of the state consists of deep temperate rainforests in the west, mountain ranges in the west, central, northeast and far southeast, and a semi-arid basin region in the east, central, and south, given over to intensive agriculture. Washington is the second most populous state on the West Coast and in the Western United States, after California. Mount Rainier, an active stratovolcano, is the state's highest elevation at almost 14,411 feet (4,392 m) and is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States.
1. What is this about?
2. What is that?
3. Where?
4. But where?
5. When was it made?
6. Which one was it?
7. Was it part of the Confederate states?
8. What is the capital of it?
9. Does it ever get confused with anything else?
10. What?
11. How do they get around that?
12. How large is it?
13. How many miles?
14. How many people live there?
15. What ranking does that make it?
16. Where do most of them live there?
17. What is that?
18. What is the rest of it?
19. What is the highest point?
20. How high is it?
Answer: 1. Washington
2. a state
3. in the United States
4. in the Pacific Northwest region
5. 1889
6. the 42nd
7. No
8. Olympia
9. Yes
10. Washington, D.C
11. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State
12. It's the 18th largest state
13. 71,362
14. 7 million
15. the 13th most populous
16. in the Seattle metropolitan area
17. the center of transportation, business, and industry along Puget Sound
18. temperate rainforests, mountain ranges, and a semi-arid basin region
19. Mount Rainier
20. 14,411 feet

Problem: A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply. Electrification has many advantages but requires significant capital expenditure. Selection of an electrification system is based on economics of energy supply, maintenance, and capital cost compared to the revenue obtained for freight and passenger traffic. Different systems are used for urban and intercity areas; some electric locomotives can switch to different supply voltages to allow flexibility in operation.

Electric railways use electric locomotives to haul passengers or freight in separate cars or electric multiple units, passenger cars with their own motors. Electricity is typically generated in large and relatively efficient generating stations, transmitted to the railway network and distributed to the trains. Some electric railways have their own dedicated generating stations and transmission lines but most purchase power from an electric utility. The railway usually provides its own distribution lines, switches and transformers.
1. What supplies electric power to railway trains and trams?
2. What does it not have?
3. What carries passengers?
4. Do they share motors?
5. Where is the power generated from?
6. Do some stations have their own?
7. What do most do though?
8. What is capital amount compared to?
9. Do urban and intercity use the same systems?
10. What allows flexibility in operations?
11. What does the railway provide?
Answer: 1. A railway electrification system
2. An on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.
3. Electric locomotives
4. No
5. Generating stations
6. Yes
7. Purchase power from an electric utility.
8. The revenue obtained for freight and passenger traffic
9. No
10. The ability to switch to different supply voltage
11. Electric power to railway trains and trams

Problem: CHAPTER VI: FIRKET

June 7, 1896

Since the end of 1895 the Dervish force in Firket had been under the command of the Emir Hammuda, and it was through the indolence and neglect of this dissipated Arab that the Egyptian army had been able to make good its position at Akasha without any fighting. Week after week the convoys had straggled unmolested through the difficult country between Sarras and the advanced base. No attack had been made upon the brigade at Akasha. No enterprise was directed against its communications. This fatal inactivity did not pass unnoticed by Wad Bishara, the Governor of Dongola; but although he was nominally in supreme command of all the Dervish forces in the province he had hardly any means of enforcing his authority. His rebukes and exhortations, however, gradually roused Hammuda, and during May two or three minor raids were planned and executed, and the Egyptian position at Akasha was several times reconnoitred.

Bishara remained unsatisfied, and at length, despairing of infusing energy into Hammuda, he ordered his subordinate Osman Azrak to supersede him. Osman was a Dervish of very different type. He was a fanatical and devoted believer in the Mahdi and a loyal follower of the Khalifa. For many years he had served on the northern frontier of the Dervish Empire, and his name was well known to the Egyptian Government as the contriver of the most daring and the most brutal raids. His cruelty to the wretched inhabitants of the border villages had excluded him from all hope of mercy should he ever fall into the hands of the enemy. His crafty skill, however, protected him, and among the Emirs gathered at Firket there was none whose death would have given greater satisfaction to the military authorities than the man who was now to replace Hammuda.
1. Who was in command?
2. who was neglected?
3. when was he in command from?
4. was akasha attacked?
5. was the inactivity go unnoticed?
6. how often was convoys deployed?
7. who was in supreme command?
8. what was his other occupation?
9. of where?
10. did any one have the ability to enforce his rule?
11. when were the raids?12. how many raids?
13. what position was changed?
14. was he satisfied?
15. Who superseded him?
16. was he a normal dervish?
17. what was he a follower of?
18. was he a kind ruler?
19. what protected him?
20. who was wanted dead?
Answer:
1. the Emir Hammuda
2. the Dervish force
3. Since the end of 1895
4. no
5. yes
6. Week after week
7. Wad Bishara
8. Governor
9. Dongola
10. no
11. May
12. two or three
13. the one at Akasha
14. no
15. Osman Azrak
16. no
17. the Khalifa
18. no
19. His crafty skill
20. Osman