Question: Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house and the second-largest university press in the world (after Oxford University Press). It also holds letters patent as the Queen's Printer.

The Press's mission is "To further the University's mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence."

Cambridge University Press is a department of the University of Cambridge and is both an academic and educational publisher. With a global sales presence, publishing hubs, and offices in more than 40 countries, it publishes over 50,000 titles by authors from over 100 countries. Its publishing includes academic journals, monographs, reference works, textbooks, and English-language teaching and learning publications. Cambridge University Press is a charitable enterprise that transfers part of its annual surplus back to the university.

Cambridge University Press is both the oldest publishing house in the world and the oldest university press. It originated from Letters Patent granted to the University of Cambridge by Henry VIII in 1534, and has been producing books continuously since the first University Press book was printed. Cambridge is one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). Authors published by Cambridge have included John Milton, William Harvey, Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, and Stephen Hawking. 1. What does CUP stand for?
2. What is it?
3. For what institution?
4. True or False: CUP is an exclusively academic publisher.
5. What other kind of publisher is it?
6. Does CUP keep all of its income for itself?
7. To whom does it send some money?
8. When did the CUP begin?
9. What was the school granted that year?
10. Who granted the Letters Patent?
11. Has the CUP ever stopped printing books since then?
12. What is the name of a writer whose work has been published by CUP?
13. And another?
14. And one more?
15. True or False: The press only publishes works from British authors.
16. How many countries have had work published by them?
17. How many titles does CUP publish?
18. Does it print monographs?
19. Comic books?
20. Journals? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Cambridge University Press
2. publishing business
3. University of Cambridge
4. false
5. educational
6. no
7. the university.
8. 1534
9. Oxford University Press
10. Henry VIII
11. no
12. John Milton,
13. William Harvey
14. Isaac Newton
15. False
16. 100
17. 50000
18. yes
19. no
20. yes

Question: The bird by the river chirped twice before breaking into song, to tell all the other animals to sing along. The dog barked, the other birds sang, the squirrel squeaked, and the rabbit clapped its ears together. The cat did not because his mouth was hot from some very strong mustard. He thought to himself that he wouldn't have eaten that hot dog if he knew it was on it. He tried to look for water, but that mustard drove his nose crazy and he couldn't smell anything. Not even water.

Luckily for the cat, cats have very good eyes, and he saw a puddle out of the corner of his eye. He ran to it. He wondered why the water was kind of yellow, and thought it must be from the leaves floating in the puddle. The cat took a big drink. It made his tongue felt so much better that it made him want to sing, but the others were done and the bird had flown away. 1. What is the main character in this story?
2. What was bothering the cat?
3. From where?
4. What negative effects was the mustard having on him?
5. Since he couldn't do that, what senses was he relying on?
6. What did this sense help him accomplish?
7. What was strange about the water?
8. Why?
9. Did he drink it anyway?
10. Did it solve the problem with his mouth?
11. What did he desire to do after he felt normal again?
12. So did he?
13. How many different animals were singing at the beginning of the story?
14. Did they all use their voices only?
15. What else did they use besides their voices?
16. What sound did the squirrel make?
17. What was the bird's cue for all the others? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. The cat
2. his mouth was hot from strong mustard
3. a hot dog
4. couldn't smell
5. sight
6. find water
7. it was yellow
8. maybe the floating leaves
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. sing
12. no
13. Four
14. No.
15. ears
16. a squeak
17. two chirps

Question: CHAPTER XVIII

THE HUNTER LOSES HIS TEMPER

The hunter, hidden near the pond of Paddy the Beaver, chuckled silently. That is to say, he laughed without making any sound. The hunter thought the warning of Mr. and Mrs. Quack by Sammy Jay was a great joke on Reddy. To tell the truth, he was very much pleased. As you know, he wanted those Ducks himself. He suspected that they would stay in that little pond for some days, and he planned to return there and shoot them after he had got Lightfoot the Deer. He wanted to get Lightfoot first, and he knew that to shoot at anything else might spoil his chance of getting a shot at Lightfoot.

"Sammy Jay did me a good turn," thought the hunter, "although he doesn't know it. Reddy Fox certainly would have caught one of those Ducks had Sammy not come along just when he did. It would have been a shame to have had one of them caught by that Fox. I mean to get one, and I hope both of them, myself."

Now when you come to think of it, it would have been a far greater shame for the hunter to have killed Mr. and Mrs. Quack than for Reddy Fox to have done so. Reddy was hunting them because he was hungry. The hunter would have shot them for sport. He didn't need them. He had plenty of other food. Reddy Fox doesn't kill just for the pleasure of killing. 1. Where did the hunter hide?
2. Whose pond?
3. What did he want for himself?
4. Would he leave them and return?
5. How long did he expect them to stay?
6. When would he come back?
7. Why did it need to be in that order?
8. Who had helped the hunter?
9. Was it intentional?
10. Without him, who would have gotten a duck?
11. What were the ducks' names?
12. Why did Reddy want them?
13. Why did the Hunter?
14. Was the hunter starving?
15. Whose killing would be the biggest shame?
16. What kind of animal was Reddy?
17. Does the hunter hope for one duck, or both?
18. Who had a joke played on them?
19. Was the hunter noisy while observing the ducks?
20. Where would the hunter find Lightfoot? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. near a pond
2. Paddy the Beaver's
3. the Ducks
4. yes
5. for some days
6. after he had got Lightfoot the Deer
7. shooting at anything might spoil his chance of getting a shot at Lightfoot
8. Sammy Jay
9. no
10. no
11. Mr. and Mrs. Quack
12. he was hungry
13. for sport
14. no
15. the hunter
16. a fox
17. both
18. Reddy
19. no
20. unknown