Question: CHAPTER XIX

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IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences chronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly Seventeen, but the event unchronicled, undiscussed, and supremely controlling, was her slow admission of longing to find her own people.

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Bea and Miles Bjornstam were married in June, a month after "The Girl from Kankakee." Miles had turned respectable. He had renounced his criticisms of state and society; he had given up roving as horse-trader, and wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps; he had gone to work as engineer in Jackson Elder's planing-mill; he was to be seen upon the streets endeavoring to be neighborly with suspicious men whom he had taunted for years.

Carol was the patroness and manager of the wedding. Juanita Haydock mocked, "You're a chump to let a good hired girl like Bea go. Besides! How do you know it's a good thing, her marrying a sassy bum like this awful Red Swede person? Get wise! Chase the man off with a mop, and hold onto your Svenska while the holding's good. Huh? Me go to their Scandahoofian wedding? Not a chance!"

The other matrons echoed Juanita. Carol was dismayed by the casualness of their cruelty, but she persisted. Miles had exclaimed to her, "Jack Elder says maybe he'll come to the wedding! Gee, it would be nice to have Bea meet the Boss as a reg'lar married lady. Some day I'll be so well off that Bea can play with Mrs. Elder--and you! Watch us!" 1. Who was married in June?
2. Who was married a month before?
3. What did Miles give up?
4. Anything else?
5. And?
6. What did he do instead?
7. Where?
8. Who was the patroness of the wedding?
9. Who did Haydock call a sassy bum?
10. Did Haydock like him?
11. What did she recommend Carol do to him?
12. Anything else?
13. Is Haydock planning to attend the wedding?
14. Did the other matrons agree with Juanita?
15. How many years was Carol in exile?
16. From what?
17. What was recorded as important by the Dauntless?
18. What event was not chronicled?
19. Did Jack Elder say he might come to the wedding?
20. Did Elder approve of Bea's wedding? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Bea and Miles Bjornstam
2. "The Girl from Kankakee"
3. criticisms of state and society
4. roving as horse-trader
5. wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps
6. gone to work as engineer
7. Jackson Elder's planing-mill
8. Carol
9. Red Swede
10. no
11. chase him off with a mop
12. hold onto her Svenska
13. no
14. yes
15. three
16. herself
17. Carol's experiences
18. Carol's slow admission of longing to find her own people
19. yes
20. yes

Question: A boy called Mario had many friends, and he was proud of it. Whoever he met, he would like to show off how popular he was at school. One day, his grandpa said to him, "Mario, I know that you don't have as many friends as you think. Many of them are not true to you." Mario thought maybe his grandpa was right. However, he wasn't sure how he could test whether his schoolmates were real friends or not, so he asked his grandpa. The old man answered, "I have just exactly what you need. It's in my room. Wait a minute." The old man left, soon returning as if carrying something in his hand, but Mario could see nothing there. "Take it. It's a very special chair. Because it's _ , it will be hard for you to sit on it. However, if you manage to sit on it, you can use the chair's magic power to tell who your real friends are." Mario took the strange invisible chair to school. At break time he asked everyone to form a circle, and he put himself in the middle, with his chair. "Nobody move. You're about to see something amazing," said Mario. Then he tried sitting on the chair. Having difficulty seeing it, he missed and fell to the ground. Everyone had a pretty good laugh. "Wait, wait," said Mario, making another try. But again he missed the seat. Mario didn't give up. He kept trying to sit on the magic chair. Finally, he did it. This time he felt himself in mid-air. Then he experienced the magic that his grandpa had been talking about. Looking around, Mario saw George, Lucas and Diana holding him up, so he wouldn't fall. But some schoolmates whom he had regarded as friends had done nothing but made fun of him. Mario was quite thankful to his grandpa, who helped him test who his true friends were. 1. What was invisible?
2. What is the boy's name?
3. Where did he take the chair?
4. Did this chair involve his grandma or grandpa?
5. What happened when the boy first tried to sit on the chair?
6. How did people around him react to this?
7. Did he miss the chair a second time?
8. Did the boy take pride in how many friends he had?
9. How many of his friends held him up?
10. What were their names? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. a chair
2. Mario
3. to school
4. his grandpa
5. he missed and fell to the ground
6. Everyone had a pretty good laugh
7. yes
8. yes
9. Three
10. George, Lucas and Diana