question: Seed of Kindness Jim, a successful businessman, told the experience of his childhood. When he was 12, his parents died. He was alone and didn't get on well with others. People always laughed at him. No one showed kindness to him. His only friend was a dog named Tige. He gave his dog enough to eat and drink, but sometimes he was not polite to it. He didn't know that an unkind work sometimes could cut one's heart like a knife. One day as he walked down the street, a young lady was walking in front of him. Suddenly one of her bags dropped from her arms. As she stopped to pick it up, she dropped other bags. He came to help her."Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!"she said kindly, smiling. A special feeling came to him. These were the first kind words he had ever heard. He watched her until she went far away, and then he whistled to his dog happily and went directly to the river nearby. "Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!"he repeatedthe woman's words. Then in a low voice he said to his dog,"You are a nice little dog!"Tige raised its ears as if it understood. "Uhum! Even a dog likes it!"he said,"Well, Tige, I won't say unkind words to you anymore."Tige waved its tail happily. The boy thought and thought. Finally he looked at himself in the river. He saw nothing but a dirty boy. He washed his face carefully. Again he looked. He saw a clean nice boy. He was amazed. From then on, he had a new life. After telling this, the businessman stopped for a while, and then he said,"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the very place where that kind woman planted in me the first seed of kindness. All of us should learn about kindness. What a great powerit has!"
1. What is Jim's career?
2. True or False: Jim had many friends.
3. How many friends did he have?
4. What was the friend's name?
5. Were they human?
6. What animal, then?
7. What did Jim see the first time he looked in the river?
8. Did he look again?
9. What did he see then?
10. What did the lady drop?
11. True of False: Tige helped the lady.
12. Who did, then?
13. What did the lady call Jim?
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answer: 1. businessman
2. False
3. one
4. Tige
5. no
6. a dog
7. a dirty boy
8. yes
9. a clean nice boy.
10. one of her bags
11. False
12. Jim
13. a nice little boy

question: CHAPTER V

THE DOOM POOL

Fortune showed itself strangely favourable to the plans of Nahoon and Nanea. One of the Zulu captain's perplexities was as to how he should lull the suspicions and evade the vigilance of his own companions, who together with himself had been detailed by the king to assist Hadden in his hunting and to guard against his escape. As it chanced, however, on the day after the incident of the visit of Maputa, a messenger arrived from no less a person than the great military Induna, Tvingwayo ka Marolo, who afterwards commanded the Zulu army at Isandhlwana, ordering these men to return to their regiment, the Umcityu Corps, which was to be placed upon full war footing. Accordingly Nahoon sent them, saying that he himself would follow with Black Heart in the course of a few days, as at present the white man was not sufficiently recovered from his hurts to allow of his travelling fast and far. So the soldiers went, doubting nothing.

Then Umgona gave it out that in obedience to the command of the king he was about to start for Ulundi, taking with him his daughter Nanea to be delivered over into the _Sigodhla_, and also those fifteen head of cattle that had been _lobola'd_ by Nahoon in consideration of his forthcoming marriage, whereof he had been fined by Cetywayo. Under pretence that they required a change of veldt, the rest of his cattle he sent away in charge of a Basuto herd who knew nothing of their plans, telling him to keep them by the Crocodile Drift, as there the grass was good and sweet.
1. Who would follow with a black heart?
2. Where were they sent?
3. Who arrived after the incident?
4. Did the soldiers resist?
5. Who was delivering someone?
6. Who was being delivered?
7. Her name was?
8. Why was she delivered?
9. What else was delivered?
10. How many?
11. Where were they kept?
12. Why?
13. Were they aware of the plans?
14. Who fined him?
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answer: 1. Nahoon
2. their regiment
3. a messenger
4. no
5. Umgona
6. his daughter
7. Nanea
8. forthcoming marriage
9. cattle
10. fifteen
11. by the Crocodile Drift
12. the grass was good and sweet.
13. no
14. Cetywayo.

question: When Carrie Conley's husband left in the early 1960s, she started raising six children on her own. She took a job at a hospital, delivering meals to patients as what was called "a tray girl".

Jerry Johnson, the youngest child in the family, was 5 years old when his dad left. Speaking with his mother recently, Johnson heard his mother repeat the question she asked at that time. "Lord, what am I going to do with all these kids by myself?" The answers came in the form of lima beans, black-eyed peas and low prices on chicken necks. "Something to boil for every day of the week," Conley said.

"I cannot remember one Christmas that I didn't feel like the luckiest kid in the world," Johnson said, "even though now I realize we had hardly anything in terms of money."

"How did you hold all that together?" he asked his mother.

Conley said she would save up her sick days at work, going in no matter how she felt. Then in December, the company would pay her for the unused sick days. More help came in castoffs , when wealthy families would clean out their toy chests at Christmastime and take a load of toys to the Salvation Army. Conley would pick through them, finding the best ones for her children. The result of those sacrifices led to a big, happy Christmas for Conley and her kids.

"But I never did tell you it was a Santa Claus," Conley said, "I couldn't give any man credit for what I had done."

Johnson thanked his mom for her sacrifices, and for the good example she set for him and his siblings. "I think it's helping us all be better parents," Johnson said.

In 1975, Conley retired from Detroit's Outer Drive Hospital. Jerry was a sophomore in college at that time. He later graduated from Washington University Medical School and received a degree in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.
1. When did Carries husband leave?
2. How many kids did she have?
3. Did she have help taking care of them?
4. Where did she work?
5. What did she do there?
6. What did people call the position?
7. What year did she retire?
8. What was the name of her last son that was born?
9. How old was he when his father left?
10. Where did he go to school?
11. What did he go for?
12. Did he feel like his Christmases as a child were bad?
13. How did he say he would feel on that holiday?
14. Did they have a lot of cash?
15. What did his mom conserve all year even if she was feeling ill?
16. What would the place she worked for do?
17. Would she get donated gifts for them?
18. Did she let them think the stuff was from Santa?
19. Why?
20. Does he believe she was a bad role model?
21. What does he think her influence has taught him?
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answer:
1. in the early 1960s
2. six
3. No
4. at a hospital
5. she delivered meals to patients
6. "tray girl"
7. 1975
8. Jerry Johnson
9. 5 years old
10. Washington University Medical School
11. Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
12. No
13. He said he would feel "like the luckiest kid in the world"
14. No
15. her sick days
16. the company would pay her for the unused sick days
17. Yes
18. No
19. Because she couldn't give any man credit for what she had done
20. No
21. To be better parents