Q: CHAPTER 13

I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war when they should kneel for peace, Or seek the rule, supremacy, and sway, When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.

--Taming of the Shrew

It was an early season, and Theodora had not been a fortnight at her brother's before numerous arrivals necessitated a round of visits, to which she submitted without more than moderate grumbling. The first call was on the Rickworth ladies; but it was not a propitious moment, for other visitors were in the drawing-room, and among them Miss Marstone. Emma came to sit by Violet, and was very anxious to hear whether she had not become intimate with Theresa. Violet could not give a good account of herself in this respect; their hours did not suit, and they had only twice met.

'And is she not delightful?'

'She is a very superior person' said Violet, looking down. 'Do you know her sisters? I liked one of them.'

'We shall have to call on them, but they are mere ordinary girls--no companions to Theresa. She laments it very much, and has had to make a line for herself. I must come and tell you about it some morning. It is nonsense to meet in this way and think of conversation.

Theodora had, in the meantime, had the exclusive attention of Miss Marstone. 'So Emma is constant to the Prae-Raffaelite,' said Theodora, as they drove from the door. 'What is all this about the Priory?'

1. a fortnight
2. yes
3. no
4. Rickworth ladies
5. twice
6. Violet
7. one
8. unknown
9. superior
10. Taming of the Shrew

Numbered questions:
1. How long had Theodora been at her brother's place?
2. Did she get many visitors?
3. Was she especially delighted to see them?
4. Who were the first to visit?
5. How many times had Emma met Theresa?
6. Which girl thinks Theresa is wonderful?
7. How many of Theresa's sisters did she like?
8. How many sisters does Theresa have?
9. What adjective does Violet use to describe Theresa?
10. What is the name of the play quoted at the beginning of the text?

Q: (CNN) -- The United States breached international law by executing a Mexican national without having granted him consular access, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday.

Navi Pillay, in a statement, said she deeply regrets the execution of Humberto Leal Garcia, after a 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court denied him a stay of execution Thursday night.

"The execution of Mr. Leal Garcia places the U.S. in breach of international law," said Pillay, who is on an official mission in Mexico. "What the state of Texas has done in this case is imputable in law to the U.S. and engages the United States' international responsibility."

Pillay said Leal was not granted consular access, which -- as a foreign national -- was his right under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

The denial of access raises concerns about whether Leal got a fair trial, Pillay said.

Leal, who was convicted for the 1994 rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl, was executed Thursday evening by lethal injection in Texas.

Federal officials, including the Obama administration, had tried to persuade Texas Gov. Rick Perry to delay the execution. "The secretary herself is quite disappointed in the outcome in this case," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Neuland about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

"The U.S. government sought a stay of Leal's execution in order to give the Congress time to act on the Consular Notification Compliance Act, which would have provided Leal the judicial review required by international law."

1. Garcia
2. Mexico
3. Texas
4. consular access
5. 36
6. oreign national
7. rape
8. murder
9. 16-year-old girl
10. lethal injection
11. false
12. regrets
13. U.S. Supreme Court
14. Nine
15. Thursday
16. official mission
17. Federal
18. secretary
19. Hillary
20. Clinton
21. Victoria

Numbered questions:
1. Who was killed?
2. What country was he from?
3. In which state did the issue occur?
4. What did Garcia have a right to under an article of the Vienna Convention?
5. What number article details this right?
6. What was it about Garcia that entitled him to this right?
7. What crime did Garcia commit?
8. And what else?
9. Of whom?
10. How was he put to death?
11. True or False: Pillay upholds the decision to execute Garcia.
12. What did she say she feels about it?
13. What body refused to grant a stay of execution?
14. How many voted in support of granting the stay?
15. When was the decision made?
16. What is Pillay doing in Mexico?
17. Who did officials fail to get to delay the execution?
18. Who was dissappointed by what happened?
19. Who is the Secretary?
20. Hillary who?
21. Who was her spokesperson?

Q: (CNN) -- Roger Ebert was seldom at a loss for words.

His debates with Gene Siskel, his longtime co-host on a succession of movie-review television shows, sometimes seemed to start before the introduction and often appeared to continue well after the credits rolled. He wrote reviews, columns, interviews and articles, an astonishing collection of work that spanned more than four decades with the Chicago Sun-Times, freelance contributions for magazines such as Esquire, CD-ROMs (Ebert's movie guide was one of the sources for the popular Cinemania) and rogerebert.com. He hosted festivals for underappreciated films. He gave running travelogues from Cannes and Toronto.

He tweeted, Facebooked, corresponded with film lovers and held court with words long after his physical voice was silenced by cancer a decade ago.

Ebert lost his battle with cancer Thursday. He was 70.

What a voice he had: firm, plain, brooking no claptrap and telling you exactly what he thought, a throwback, he said, to his newspaper reporter days. (Chicago, then and now, was full of such cheerily blunt personalities: Mike Royko, Irv Kupcinet, Studs Terkel -- perhaps to be expected in the birthplace of "The Front Page.")

Opinion: Ebert's sheer love of life

Above all, he was easy to relate to. Like many of his readers, I didn't always agree with Ebert, but I could understand his viewpoint. He understood movies were these complex machines of directors and actors and special effects guys and studio suits holding bags of money, machines that -- when they worked -- were magical, like dreams. And when they didn't, he could be a compassionate man, more forgiving than many other critics.

1. Roger Ebert
2. movie-review
3. cancer
4. Gene Siskel
5. yes
6. no
7. 70
8. no
9. to relate
10. magical, like dreams

Numbered questions:
1. Who does the article feature?
2. what is he famous for?
3. how did he die?
4. Who was his cohost?
5. Could he speak?
6. For his entire life?
7. how old was he when he passed away?
8. Did he hold back on his reviews?
9. Did people usually agree with him?
10. how was he different from other critics?