Q: The Dutch Republic, also known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), Republic of the United Netherlands or Republic of the Seven United Provinces (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provincien), was a republic in Europe existing from 1581, when part of the Netherlands separated from Spanish rule, until 1795. It preceded the Batavian Republic, the Kingdom of Holland, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and ultimately the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands. Alternative names include the United Provinces (Verenigde Provincien), Federated Dutch Provinces (Foederatae Belgii Provinciae), and Dutch Federation (Belgica Foederata).

Until the 16th century, the Low Countries corresponding roughly to the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg consisted of a number of duchies, counties, and Prince-bishoprics, almost all of which were under the supremacy of the Holy Roman Empire, with the exception of the county of Flanders, which was under the Kingdom of France.

1. Dutch Republic
2. 1581
3. separated
4. yes
5. Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
6. Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
7. Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
8. duchies, counties, and Prince-bishoprics
9. Holy Roman Empire
10. yes
11. Flanders
12. France
13. unknown
14. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. What is this article about?
2. When did it begin?
3. What happened in 1795?
4. Does it have other names?
5. What is one of them?
6. What are the Low Countries?
7. What are they known as in modern day?
8. What makes up these countries?
9. Who ruled them?
10. Were there any exceptions?
11. What was this?
12. Who ruled Flanders?
13. What is the population of The Dutch Republic?
14. Were they ever under Spanish rule?

Q: CHAPTER XXII

HAIL

A thin crescent moon hung low in the western sky. The prairie was wrapped in silent shadows. Leland stood outside the homestead, with the bridle of an impatient horse in his hand, and talked with his wife. There was only one light in the house behind them, and everything was very still, but Leland knew that two men who could be trusted to keep good watch were wide awake that night. The barrel of a Marlin rifle hung behind his shoulders, glinting fitfully when it caught the light as he moved. Without thinking of what he was doing, he fingered the clip of the sling.

"The moon will be down in half an hour, and it will be quite dark before I cross the ravine near Thorwald's place," he said. "Jim Thorwald is straight, and standing by the law, but none of us are quite sure of all of his boys. Anyway, we don't want anybody to know who's riding to the outpost."

Carrie laid her hand upon his arm. "I suppose you must go, this once at least."

"Of course!" said Leland with a smile. "If I'm wanted, I must go again. The trouble's spreading."

"Then," said Carrie, "why can't they bring more troopers in? Why did you ever have anything to do with it, Charley?"

"It seemed necessary. A man has to hold on to what is his."

Carrie's fingers tightened on his arm. "Perhaps it is so; I suppose it must be; but, after all, I don't think that was your only reason. I mean, when you started the quarrel. No, you needn't turn away. I want you to look at me."

1. Leland
2. Carrie
3. no
4. silent
5. yes
6. two
7. yes
8. in the western sky
9. yes
10. no

Numbered questions:
1. Who was standing outsdie?
2. What was his wife's name?
3. Was the prairie loud?
4. What was it?
5. Did he trust some men to keep a watch?
6. How many/
7. Was there a thin crescent moon?
8. Where exactly?
9. Was there only one light in the house behind them?
10. Was Leland a part of a trooper?

Q: (CNN) -- One of four former Khmer Rouge leaders charged with crimes against humanity was ruled unfit to stand trial and could be set free, a spokesman for the special U.N. court in Cambodia said Thursday.

Lars Olsen said the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia decided that Ieng Thirith, the 78-year-old former minister of social affairs in the Khmer Rouge regime, was "not fit to stand trial as she has dementia."

Prosecutors have 24 hours to object to the court's decision, Olsen said. If there is no objection, Ieng Thirith will be released, he added.

Opening statements by the defendants are scheduled for Monday.

Ieng Thirith was the only woman among the four defendants in the trial, which charges surviving leaders of the four-year Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s with crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, genocide, homicide, torture and religious persecution.

The other defendants are her husband, Ieng Sary, the former Khmer Rouge foreign minister; Khieu Samphon, the nominal head of state; and Nuon Chea, the prime minister, also known as Brother Number 2.

The head of the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, was known as Brother Number 1. He died in 1998, long before the U.N.-backed court came into existence.

Under Pol Pot's leadership, the Khmer Rouge regime was responsible for the deaths of millions of ordinary Cambodians during a four-year reign of terror that was eventually halted in 1979 by invading Vietnamese forces.

In 1975, the Khmer Rouge ordered people out of Phnom Penh, the capital, and other cities in Cambodia to work in the countryside.

1. A spokesman for the special U.N. court
2. Former minister of social affairs in the Khmer Rouge regime
3. 78
4. She was "not fit to stand trial as she has dementia."
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphon, and Nuon Chea
8. Crimes against humanity
9. Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
10. Cambodia
11. Phnom Penh
12. Khmer Rouge
13. Four years
14. 1979
15. Pol Pot
16. Brother Number 1
17. Nuon Chea
18. Ordered people to work in the countryside.
19. Millions
20. Yes
21. One

Numbered questions:
1. Who is Lars Olsen?
2. Who is leng Thirith?
3. How old is she?
4. What did Lars Olsen say about her?
5. Has she been charged with crimes?
6. Does she have co-defendents?
7. Who are they?
8. Name one of the crimes they are charged with?
9. And another?
10. What country did these things happen in?
11. What is its capital?
12. Which faction or group were the defendents part of ?
13. How long did it last?
14. When did it end?
15. Who was its head?
16. What other name was he known by?
17. Who was Brother Number 2?
18. What did the Khmer Rouge do in 1975?
19. How many Cambodians died?
20. Is brother no 2 one of the defendents?
21. How many women are defendents?