Problem: Robert Spring, a 19

century forger ,was so good at his profession that he was able to make his living for 15 years by selling false signatures of Americans. Spring was born in England in 1813 and arrived in Philadelphia in 1858 to open a bookstore. At first he became rich by selling his small but real collection of early U.S. autographs . Discovering his ability at copying handwriting, he began imitating signatures of George. Washington and Ben Franklin and writing them on the title pages of old books. To lessen the chance of detection , he sent his forgeries to England and Canada for sale.

Forgers have a hard time selling their products. A forger can't deal with a respectable buyer but people who don't have much knowledge in the field. Forgers have many ways to make their work look real. For example, they buy old books to use the aged paper of the title page, and they can treat paper and ink with chemical.

In Spring's time right after the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the Southern states, so Spring invented a respectable maiden lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, the only daughter of General "Stonewall" Jackson. For several years Miss Fanny's financial problems forced her to sell a great number of letters and manuscripts . Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand. All this activity did not prevent Spring from dying in poverty, leaving sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of separating his forgeries from the originals.
1. What was Robert Spring good at?
2. When was he born?
3. Where?
4. Did he stay there?
5. Where did he move?
6. When?
7. Why?
8. Where did he send his "work"?
9. Why?
10. Who "sold" them ?
11. And she was suppose to be who?
12. Why was she selling?
13. Was there a big demand?
14. Was everything he sold a forgery?
15. Who were some of the people he copied?
16. Was he rich at one time?
17. Did he die rich?
Answer: 1. selling false signatures
2. 1813
3. England
4. no
5. Philadelphia
6. 1858
7. open a bookstore
8. England and Canada
9. lessen the chance of detection
10. Miss Fanny
11. only daughter of General "Stonewall" Jackson
12. financial problems
13. yes
14. no
15. George. Washington and Ben Franklin
16. yes
17. no

Problem: Washington (CNN) -- More than 42 years after Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger died on a Laotian mountaintop, President Barack Obama on Tuesday awarded him the Medal of Honor, saying, "It's never too late to do the right thing. It's never too late to pay tribute to our Vietnam veterans and their families."

Etchenberg's three sons were at the White House for the ceremony. For decades they didn't know about their father's heroism.

Cory Etchberger was in third grade in 1968, when he was told that his father had died in a helicopter accident in Southeast Asia. At age 29 he learned the truth, when the U.S. Air Force declassified his father's story.

"I was stunned," he told CNN during a visit to his hometown of Hamburg, Pennsylvania.

During the Vietnam War, U.S. troops weren't supposed to be in neutral Laos, so Richard Etchberger and a handful of colleagues shed their uniforms and posed as civilians to run a top secret radar installation high on a Laotian cliff. Called Lima Site 85, it guided U.S. bombers to sites in North Vietnam and parts of Laos under communist control.

"Dick and his crew believed they could help turn the tide of the war, perhaps even end it," said Obama.

The North Vietnamese wanted to eliminate the installation, and early on the morning of March 11, 1968, its soldiers succeeded in scaling the 3,000-foot precipice and launching an attack.

Timothy Castle, of the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence, wrote the book "One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam." He calls Etchberger "a hero."
1. Who was in third grade?
2. When was he in 3rd grade?
3. Who died?
4. What was his ranking?
5. Did he have children?
6. how many?
7. What was he being awarded?
8. Who was awarding him with it?
9. How did he die?
10. Was that actually how he died?
11. When did he learn the truth of his fathers death?
12. What was Richard's nickname?
13. Who wrote a book?
14. What was the book called?
15. Was Richard called a hero?
16. How did Richard exactly die?
17. What war did he die during?
Answer: 1. Cory Etchberger
2. in 1968
3. Richard L. Etchberger
4. Air Force Chief Master Sgt.
5. yes
6. three sons
7. Medal of Honor
8. Barack Obama
9. in a helicopter accident
10. no
11. when he was 29
12. Dick
13. Timothy Castle,
14. "One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam."
15. yes
16. no
17. the Vietnam War

Problem: Robert is sixteen now. He'll finish middle school in two years. His father has a shop and got much money. He hopes his son can go to university and makes him study hard. But the young man likes to play cards. He has to go out when his parents fall asleep. One night, when Robert came back, his father happened to see him. The old man was very angry and told his son to live upstairs. Robert has to go up and down quietly. Of course it troubles him. He thought and thought but didn't find a way. Last evening Robert listened carefully. And he was sure his parents went to sleep, he went out to play cards with his friends. He won some money and was happy. And he got back, he took off his shoes and was going upstairs. He heard a noise in his parents' bedroom. He stood behind the door and saw a man come out. He understood it was a thief . He stopped him at once. The man was very afraid and brought out all the things he stole in the room. "Tell me how you didn't wake my parents up," said Robert. "Or I'll take you to the police station!"
1. when will Robert finish middle school?
2. how old will he be?
3. what does his dad want him to do then?
4. what does he make Robert do?
5. What would he rather do?
6. when does he like to go out?
7. who caught him?
8. was he happy?
9. did he sneak out successfully after that?
10. did he go to play cards?
11. did he win?
12. what did he do before going up the stairs?
13. what made him pause?
14. What was it?
15. What was the intruder worried about?
16. What was Robert's concern?
17. what was he going to do if the intruder woke his parents?
Answer:
1. Yes
2. Eighteen
3. Go to university
4. Study hard.
5. Play cards
6. After his parents fall asleep
7. His father
8. No
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. Took off his shoes
13. He heard a noise
14. A thief
15. The things he stole
16. How the thief went up the stair without waking his parents.
17. ell me how you didn't wake my parents up," said Robert. "Or I'll take you to the police station