Problem: Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by Tibet Autonomous Region in the north, India in the south, the Sikkim state of India and the Chumbi Valley of Tibet in the west, and Arunachal Pradesh state of India in the east. Bhutan is geopolitically in South Asia and is the region's second least populous nation after the Maldives. Thimphu is its capital and largest city, while Phuntsholing is its financial center.

The independence of Bhutan has endured for centuries, and the territory was never colonized in its history. Situated on the ancient Silk Road between Tibet, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, the Bhutanese state developed a distinct national identity based on Buddhism. Headed by a spiritual leader known as the Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the territory was composed of many fiefdoms and governed as a Buddhist theocracy. Following a civil war in the 19th century, the House of Wangchuck reunited the country and established relations with the British Empire. Bhutan fostered a strategic partnership with India during the rise of Chinese communism and has a disputed border with the People's Republic of China. In 2008, it transitioned from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy and held the first election to the National Assembly of Bhutan, that has a two party system characterizing Bhutanese democracy.
1. How long has Bhutans independence lasted?
2. Was it ever colonized?
3. What is it officially called?
4. Is it an island?
5. Where is it located?
6. Is it a state or country?
7. What borders it on the North?
8. South?
9. What is the capital city?
10. Where does it rank in city size?
11. Where is it situated?
12. What is their identity based on?
13. Who is the religious leader?
14. Have they ever had a civil war?
15. When?
16. What happened after?
17. Did the make a partnership with anyone?
18. What type of partnership was it?
19. When did they do this?
20. Has it ever transitioned its monarchy?
Answer: 1. for centuries
2. no
3. Kingdom of Bhutan
4. no
5. South Asia
6. country
7. Tibet Autonomous Region
8. India
9. Thimphu
10. it is the largest city
11. Eastern Himalayas
12. Buddhism
13. Zhabdrung Rinpoche
14. yes
15. 19th century
16. the House of Wangchuck reunited the country and established relations with the British Empire
17. India
18. strategic
19. during the rise of Chinese communism
20. yes

Problem: The Indian National Congress () (INC, often called Congress) is a broad-based political party in India. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th-century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement, with over 15 million members and over 70 million participants. The Congress led India to independence from Great Britain, and powerfully influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire.

The Congress is a secular party whose social liberal platform is generally considered on the centre-left of Indian politics. The Congress' social policy is based upon the Gandhian principle of Sarvodayathe lifting up of all sections of societywhich involves the improvement of the lives of economically underprivileged and socially marginalised people. The party primarily endorses social liberalism seeking to balance individual liberty and social justice, and secularism asserting the right to be free from religious rule and teachings.

After India's independence in 1947, the Congress formed the government at center in most instances, and many regional state governments. Congress became India's dominant political party; , in the 15 general elections since independence, it has won an outright majority on six occasions and has led the ruling coalition a further four times, heading the central government for 49 years. There have been seven Congress Prime Ministers, the first being Jawaharlal Nehru (194764), and the most recent Manmohan Singh (200414). Although it did not fare well in the last general elections in India in 2014, it remains one of two major, nationwide, political parties in India, along with the right-wing, Hindu nationalist, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). In the 2014 general election, the Congress had its poorest post-independence general election performance, winning only 44 seats of the 543-member Lok Sabha.
1. What is INC?
2. Was INC ever independent?
3. Who did they break free from?
4. Who was the leader?
5. what happened in 1947?
6. How many prime ministers were there?
7. Who was the first one?
8. and the most recent one?
9. why did congress perform slowly in elections?
10. How many political parties are there in India?
11. what are they?
Answer: 1. Indian National Congress
2. yes
3. Great Britain
4. Mahatma Gandhi
5. India gained independence
6. seven
7. Jawaharlal Nehru
8. Manmohan Singh
9. unknown
10. two
11. Bhartiya Janata Party and Indian National Congress

Problem: CHAPTER XXVII

THE SPY

Wrayson found himself a few minutes later alone with the Baron, who, with some solemnity, rose and took the chair opposite to him. Conversation between them, however, languished, for the Baron spoke only in monosyllables, and his attitude gave Wrayson the idea that he viewed his presence at the chateau with disfavour. With stiff punctiliousness, he begged Wrayson to try some wonderful Burgundy, and passed a box of cigarettes. He did not, however, open any topic of conversation, and Wrayson, embarrassed in his choice of subjects by the fact that any remark he could make might sound like an attempt at gratifying his curiosity, remained also silent. In a very few minutes the Baron rose.

"You will take another glass of wine, sir?" he asked.

Wrayson rose too with alacrity, and bowed his refusal. They recrossed the great hall and entered the drawing-room. Louise and Madame de Melbain were talking earnestly together in a corner, and from the look that the latter threw at him as they entered, Wrayson was convinced that in some way he was concerned with the subject of their conversation. It was a look deliberate and scrutinizing, in a sense doubtful, and yet not unkindly. Behind it all, Wrayson felt that there was something which he could not understand, there was something of the mystery in those dark sad eyes which seemed to pervade the whole atmosphere of the place and the lives of these people.

Louise rose as he approached and motioned him to take her vacated place.
1. Who is with someone else?
2. Who is he with?
3. Are they alone?
4. What does he do?
5. Did they have a good talk?
6. How so?
7. Why?
8. Did he seem like he wanted him to be there?
9. What gave that impression?
10. What does he offer?
11. Anything else?
12. Did they talk about anything?
13. What happens eventually?
14. Where do they go?
15. What was on the other side?
16. Was anybody in there?
17. Who?
18. Anybody else?
19. What were they doing?
20. What might they have been discussing?
Answer:
1. Wrayson is
2. the Baron
3. Yes
4. rose and took the chair opposite to him
5. No
6. Conversation between them languished
7. the Baron spoke only in monosyllables
8. No
9. his attitude
10. some Burgundy
11. cigarettes
12. No
13. the Baron rose
14. They recrossed the great hall
15. the drawing-room
16. Yes
17. Louise
18. Madame de Melbain
19. talking earnestly together in a corner
20. Wrayson