Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Edmonds, Washington (CNN) -- For Michael Reagan, the portraits always start the same way.

"I do the eyes first so I get this connection with the face," he said. "I am pretty exhausted after a picture. Just try staring at a photograph for five hours without any distractions."

Reagan, a professional artist for 40 years, is known for his vivid etchings of politicians, celebrities and athletes.

Today, he has a new subject: fallen members of the military.

It all started three years ago when the wife of a Navy corpsman who was killed in Iraq asked Reagan to draw her late husband.

Reagan insisted on doing the portrait for free. Then he had a realization.

"I looked at my wife and told her what happened and said, 'Now we need to do them all,' " Reagan remembered.

"Doing them all" meant closing his art gallery and reaching out to the families of fallen service members.

Most of the troops Reagan draws are U.S. service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has recently started drawing portraits for family members of British and Canadian troops killed in those conflicts.

Many families were unsure why someone would offer to do a portrait for them at no cost. They wanted to know why someone would volunteer to, as Reagan puts it, "participate in the worst time of their life."

Slowly, word among military families spread and requests for portraits began pouring in. Reagan, a Vietnam veteran, grew to know the faces of hundreds of troops lost to war.

1. How long has Reagan been an artist?
2. What is his new subject?
3. How do the portraits start for Reagan?
4. Did it all start 5 years ago?
5. How long ago did it start?
6. What are most of the troops Reagan draws?
7. Has he drawn portraits for troops from other places?
8. Where were they from?
9. What are most families unsure of with him?
10. Is Reagan a veteran?
11. Of which war?
12. Who first asked Reagan to draw her late husband?
13. Did he draw the picture for free?
14. What was his realization?
15. What is Reagan known for?
16. Does he feel energized after a picture?
17. How does he feel?
18. Did he keep his art gallery open?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 40 years
2. fallen members of the military
3. He does the eyes first.
4. no
5. three years ago
6. U.S. service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
7. yes
8. Britain and Canada
9. why he would offer a free portrait
10. yes
11. Vietnam
12. the wife of a Navy corpsman
13. yes
14. That he needed to do them all
15. for his vivid etchings of politicians, celebrities and athletes.
16. no
17. exhausted
18. no

Question: (CNN) -- Chris Froome conquered Mont Ventoux at the Tour de France to extend his overall lead with a week remaining in cycling's most prestigious race.

In a fascinating battle Sunday, Team Sky's Froome caught and then passed Nairo Quintana during the steep 13-mile climb to give him a four-minute cushion over his nearest rivals.

A spent Froome had to be given oxygen when the 15th stage -- the longest of this year's Tour at 150 miles -- ended but he'll get a chance to recover during Monday's day off.

On Bastille Day French hopes were dashed, as Sylvain Chavanel lost his lead to Movistar's Quintana before the Colombian faded and Froome charged.

"I thought he'd be less strong than he was," Quintana told the Tour's website.

Froome has now won both stages with summit finishes.

"I didn't expect to win," Britain's Froome said after nearly six hours of racing. "I wanted to get more of a buffer on the general classification but I didn't think I could go for the win.

"Quintana is a very strong climber and I wasn't expecting him to go from as far as he did but hats off to him. He did a great ride and he showed how strong he is."

Despite the gruelling end to the stage, Froome and Quintana -- one to watch for the future -- had time for a quick chat.

"In the last (1.2 miles) he was fading a little and I still had a little bit left," said Froome. "I was just trying to say, 'Man, come on just a little bit more, we're almost there.' But he was slipping behind. 1. Who's now in the lead?
2. How much time is left in the race?
3. What country is the leader from?
4. Who did the leader fight for 1st place?
5. What country is the challenger from?
6. What group does the leader compete for?
7. What's the length of his lead?
8. What's the name of the part that they completed?
9. Did he need extra air?
10. What's the length of the part they just completed?
11. Is there a competitor from the host country?
12. On what host country's holiday did this battle occur?
13. Is there a day of rest before the next part?
14. Did the leader struggle during this part?
15. What is the name of the competitor from the host country? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Chris Froome
2. a week
3. Britain
4. Quintana
5. Colombia
6. Team Sky's
7. a four-minute cushion
8. Mont Ventoux
9. had to be given oxygen
10. 13-miles
11. yes
12. On Bastille Day
13. yes
14. yes
15. Sylvain Chavanel

Q: CHAPTER XXII

THE REFUGEE'S RETURN

Sabatini's attitude of indolence lasted only until they had turned from the waterway into the main river. Then he sat up and pointed a little way down the stream.

"Can you cross over somewhere there?" he asked.

Arnold nodded and punted across towards the opposite bank.

"Get in among the rushes," Sabatini directed. "Now listen to me."

Arnold came and sat down.

"You don't mean to tire me," he remarked.

Sabatini smiled.

"Do you seriously think that I asked you to bring me on the river for the pleasure of watching your prowess with that pole, my friend?" he asked. "Not at all. I am going to ask you to do me a service."

Arnold was suddenly conscious that Sabatini, for the first time since he had known him, was in earnest. The lines of his marble-white face seemed to have grown tenser and firmer, his manner was the manner of a man who meets a crisis.

"Turn your head and look inland," he said. "You follow the lane there?"

Arnold nodded.

"Quite well," he admitted.

"At the corner," Sabatini continued, "just out of sight behind that tall hedge, is my motor car. I want you to land and make your way there. My chauffeur has his instructions. He will take you to a village some eight miles up the river, a village called Heslop Wood. There is a boat-builder's yard at the end of the main street. You will hire a boat and row up the river. About three hundred yards up, on the left hand side, is an old, dismantled-looking house-boat. I want you to board it and search it thoroughly."

1. to get to the other side of the hedge.
2. Sabatini
3. no
4. to do a service."
5. Arnold
6. that Sabatini for the first time was in earnest
7. his chauffeur
8. to a village
9. some eight miles
10. no
11. hire a boat
12. no
13. marble-white
14. About three hundred yards
15. no
16. a house-boat
17. search it thoroughly
18. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. What were they trying to do?
2. Who has been lazy?
3. Did they go to the water for fun?
4. Why then?
5. Who did he ask?
6. What surprised him?
7. Who was he to find?
8. Where was he to go?
9. How far away?
10. Was that his final destination?
11. What was he to do next?
12. Was it a powerboat?
13. What color was the lazy man's face?
14. How far was he to travel up river?
15. Was his destination on the right?
16. What was his destination?
17. What was he supposed to do there?
18. For what?