Q: The first grade class went on a bus to visit a farm. The farm was a long ways from their school. The farm was also far away from any other farms or houses. The farmers who lived there were the Nixon family. They grew corn. Sometimes when the weather was right, they would plant wheat, too. The fields were so large that the class could not see where they ended. Mr. Nixon gave all of the children a long ride in the fields on his tractor. The Nixon family also had a lot of farm animals. In the red barn next to their home, they kept a few cows and horses. Everyone fed hay to some of the cows. The farmers got milk from their cows. Some of the class got small bottles of fresh milk to take home with them. All the kids got to ride on the big brown horses the Nixons had. They went up into the nearby hills, where they could look down on the farm below. Around the farmyard there were many goats and chickens, who wandered around as they wished. The Nixon children liked to play with their goats, feed them peanut shells and pet them, like the first grade kids did with their dogs and cats. The smallest tried to bump the children with their hard heads and tiny horns! When it was almost dark, the school kids got back on the bus to go home. They were a little sad to leave the fun life of the farm children. But they brought back stories for all the rest of the school to hear.

Answer the following questions:
1. who went on a bus?
2. to do what?
3. How far was it?
4. Was it close to other farms?
5. how about homes?
6. Who lived their?
7. were they farmers?
8. Did they grow things?
9. what?
10. anything else?
11. what?
12. what did they ride in?
13. Did they have animals?
14. what kind?
15. any others?
16. what did they do?
17. Was it large?
18. When did they leave?
19. How did they get back?
20. Were they sad to go?
A: 1. The first grade class
2. visit a farm
3. a long ways
4. no
5. no
6. the Nixon family
7. yes
8. yes
9. corn
10. yes
11. wheat
12. tractor
13. yes
14. cows and horses
15. goats and chickens
16. wandered around
17. yes
18. When it was almost dark
19. bus
20. yes
Q: In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi (?, [bu.i]) or buke (?). According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character was originally a verb meaning "to wait upon" or "accompany persons" in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility", the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai. According to Wilson, an early reference to the word "samurai" appears in the Kokin Wakashu (905914), the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the 10th century.

By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai were usually associated with a clan and their lord, were trained as officers in military tactics and grand strategy, and they followed a set of rules that later came to be known as the bushido. While the samurai numbered less than 10% of then Japan's population, their teachings can still be found today in both everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts.

Answer the following questions:
1. What percent of the population in Japan are samurai?
2. Do they still have an impact today?
3. How so?
4. And anything else?
5. What other country are they in?
6. Is there a Japanese saying that means the same thing?
A: 1. less than 10%
2. yes
3. both everyday life
4. in modern Japanese martial arts.
5. unknown
6. yes
Q: CHAPTER XI

MR. LITTLESON, FLATTERER

Once more a little luncheon was in progress at the corner table in the millionaires' club. This time Littleson also was of the party. He had been describing his luncheon of the day before to his friends.

"I am dead sure of one thing," he declared. "She is on our side, and I honestly believe that she means getting that paper."

"But she hasn't even the entree to the house now," Weiss objected.

"There are plenty of the servants there," Littleson answered, "whom she must know very well, and through whom she could get in, especially if Phineas is really up in his room. I tell you fellows, I truly believe we'll have that wretched document in our hands by this time to-morrow."

"The day I see it in ashes," Bardsley muttered, "I'll stand you fellows a magnum of Pommery '92."

"I wonder," Weiss remarked, "what sort of terms she is on with her cousin, the little girl with the big eyes."

"I wish to Heaven one of you could make friends with that child!" Bardsley exclaimed. "I'd give a tidy lot to know whether Phineas Duge lies there on his bed, or whether his hand is on the telephone half the time. You are sure, Littleson, that Dick Losting is in Europe?"

"Absolutely certain," Littleson answered. "I had a letter from him dated Paris only yesterday."

"Then who in God's name is shaking the Chicago markets like this!" Bardsley declared, striking the newspaper which lay by his side with the palm of his hand. "You notice, too, the stocks which are being hit are all ours, every one of them. Damn! If Phineas should be sitting up there in his room with that hideous little smile upon his lips, talking and talking across the wires hour after hour, while we hang round like idiots and play his game! It's maddening to think of."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was included in the party finally?
2. what kind of party was it?
3. where?
4. when?
5. was there a luncheon the day before?
6. what city are they in?
7. who is the child?
8. what do they want from the house?
9. Do they want Phineas to greet them at the door?
10. where do they hope he will be?
11. What will Bardsley do if they succeed?
12. Does he say he will stand them a magnum of Pommery 92?
13. when did Littleson get a letter?
14. from where?
15. from who?
16. about what?
A:
1. Littleson
2. luncheon
3. millionaires' club
4. unknown
5. yes
6. Europe
7. her cousin
8. wretched document i
9. no
10. his room.
11. hang round like idiots and play his game
12. yes
13. yesterday.
14. Paris
15. Dick Losting
16. unknown