Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXIX. "BONY."

Mrs. Ellmother reluctantly entered the room.

Since Emily had seen her last, her personal appearance doubly justified the nickname by which her late mistress had distinguished her. The old servant was worn and wasted; her gown hung loose on her angular body; the big bones of her face stood out, more prominently than ever. She took Emily's offered hand doubtingly. "I hope I see you well, miss," she said--with hardly a vestige left of her former firmness of voice and manner.

"I am afraid you have been suffering from illness," Emily answered gently.

"It's the life I'm leading that wears me down; I want work and change."

Making that reply, she looked round, and discovered Francine observing her with undisguised curiosity. "You have got company with you," she said to Emily. "I had better go away, and come back another time."

Francine stopped her before she could open the door. "You mustn't go away; I wish to speak to you."

"About what, miss?"

The eyes of the two women met--one, near the end of her life, concealing under a rugged surface a nature sensitively affectionate and incorruptibly true: the other, young in years, with out the virtues of youth, hard in manner and hard at heart. In silence on either side, they stood face to face; strangers brought together by the force of circumstances, working inexorably toward their hidden end.

Emily introduced Mrs. Ellmother to Francine. "It may be worth your while," she hinted, "to hear what this young lady has to say."

1. Why did Francine stop someone leaving?
2. Who didn;'t want to go into the room?
3. how did the elderly worker look?
4. was she healthy in appearence?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. She wanted to speak with her.
2. Mrs. Ellmother
3. round
4. No

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein, have contributed articles in the past 170 years. It is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States(though it only became monthly in 1921).

"Scientific American" was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus M. Porter in 1845 as a four-page weekly newspaper. Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U.S. Patent Office. It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual motion machines, an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and the universal joint which now can be found in nearly every automobile manufactured. Current issues include a "this date in history" section, featuring excerpts from articles originally published 50, 100, and 150 years earlier. Topics include humorous incidents, wrong-headed theories, and noteworthy advances in the history of science and technology.

Porter sold the publication to Alfred Ely Beach and Orson Desaix Munn a mere ten months after founding it. Until 1948, it remained owned by Munn & Company. Under Munn's grandson, Orson Desaix Munn III, it had evolved into something of a "workbench" publication, similar to the twentieth-century incarnation of "Popular Science".

1. When did SciAm become a monthly publication?
2. Who famously contributed to the magazine?
3. Anyone in particular?
4. Who was it founded by?
5. When?
6. Was it sold soon thereafter?
7. To whom?
8. How long after it was founded was it sold?
9. What did it emphasize early on?
10. What section is included in current issues?
11. What kinds of articles does it publish in this section?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 1921
2. Many famous scientists,
3. Albert Einstein
4. Rufus M. Porter
5. 1845
6. yes
7. Alfred Ely Beach and Orson Desaix Munn
8. ten months
9. reports of what was going on at the U.S. Patent Office.
10. "this date in history"
11. excerpts from articles originally published 50, 100, and 150 years earlier.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XII.

TONY ON THE WAR-PATH.

"She did it all," said Harry, when they had told the tale to half the village, on the store-porch.

"I!" exclaimed Kate. "Rob, you mean."

"That's a good dog," said Mr. Darby, the storekeeper; "what'll you take for him?"

"Not for sale," said Harry.

"Rob's all very well," remarked Tony Kirk; "but it won't do to have a feller like that in the woods, a fright'nin' the children. I'd like to know who he is."

Just at this moment Uncle Braddock made his appearance, hurrying along much faster than he usually walked, with his eyes and teeth glistening in the sunshine.

"I seed him!" he cried, as soon as he came up.

"Who'd you see?" cried several persons.

"Oh! I seed de dog after him, and I come along as fas' as I could, but couldn't come very fas'. De ole wrapper cotch de wind."

"Who was it?" asked Tony.

"I seed him a-runnin'. Bress my soul! de dog like to got him!"

"But who was he, Uncle Braddock?" said Mr. Loudon, who had just reached the store from his house, where Kate, who had run home, had told the story. "Do you know him?"

"Know him? Reckon I does?" said Uncle Braddock, "an' de dog ud a knowed him too, ef he'd a cotched him! Dat's so, Mah'sr John."

"Well, tell us his name, if you know him," said Mr. Darby.

"Ob course, I knows him," said Uncle Braddock. "I'se done knowed him fur twenty or fifty years. He's George Mason."

1. Who wants to buy the dog?
2. What's the price?
3. What was the problem with Rob?
4. Who was walking quickly?
5. Who did Uncle Braddock see?
6. Did Uncle Braddock recognize the man?
7. What's his name?
8. How long did they know each other?
9. What was Mr. Darby's job?
10. Was it a sunny day?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Mr. Darby
2. Not for sale
3. unknown
4. Uncle Braddock
5. the dog
6. Yes
7. George Mason
8. twenty or fifty years
9. storekeeper
10. Yes