Q: Helen Keller lived in the U.S.A. She was a great woman. When Helen Keller was a baby, she got very sick. After many weeks, the doctor said, "She is better, but now she can't see and she can't hear." Her mother and father were very sad. After a few years, things got worse. There was no way for Helen to speak to other people. She heard nothing. She saw nothing. She didn't understand anything. Then one day a teacher came to live with Helen and her family. The teacher helped Helen learn about words. Helen was a bright child and soon she learned to spell her first word. When she was older, she went to college. Helen was very famous. She helped many blind and deaf people. She traveled around the world and helped many people. Helen was a very old woman when she died. The world remembers her today as a brave and wonderful person. She was blind and deaf, but she found a way to see and hear. ,.

1. she got very sick
2. many weeks
3. U.S.A.
4. she can't see or hear
5. a teacher
6. yes
7. yes
8. yes
9. many blind and deaf people.
10. no
11. no

Numbered questions:
1. What happened to Helen Keller when she was a baby?
2. How long was she sick?
3. Where was she from?
4. What else couldn't she do?
5. Who worked with Helen so she could communicate?
6. Did the teacher live with them?
7. Was she smart?
8. Did she go to school?
9. Who did she help?
10. Did she stay in the USA all her life?
11. Did she die young?

Q: Once there was a beautiful Queen. She liked dancing. She liked singing. She liked playing. But the thing she liked the most was eating ice cream. She liked many kinds of ice cream, but her favorite was strawberry. She liked it best because it was pink, and pink was her favorite color. Because she liked eating ice cream so much, she wanted a kingdom wide ice cream eating holiday. Everyone had to stop working and eat ice cream. All of the people were happy with the new holiday. It was summer, and everyone would rather eat ice cream than work. The queen wanted to see what the favorite flavor of ice cream was in her kingdom. Everyone got to say their favorite flavor. 159 people liked chocolate. 67 people liked vanilla. 382 people liked strawberry. The queen was very happy that everyone liked strawberry as much as she did. The king was not happy. He liked chocolate the best. He wanted to get rid of all of the strawberry ice cream so that chocolate could be the winner. When the queen found out she was very sad. Then she had an idea: chocolate strawberry ice cream. The king liked the idea. All the people liked the idea. A new ice cream flavor was made and everyone loved it.

1. the Queen
2. dancing, singing, playing, and eating ice cream
3. eating ice cream
4. strawberry
5. a holiday
6. eat ice cream
7. summer
8. favorite flavors
9. strawberry
10. very happy
11. not happy
12. he wanted chocolate to win
13. get rid of all strawberry ice cream
14. very sad
15. chocolate strawberry ice cream
16. liked the idea
17. also liked the idea

Numbered questions:
1. Who was good looking?
2. What did she like to do?
3. which was the one she liked best?
4. which was her favorite kind?
5. what did she want to establish for the kingdom?
6. to do what?
7. what season was it?
8. what did she conduct a poll of?
9. what was everyones's favorite?
10. how did this make the queen feel?
11. how did the king feel?
12. why?
13. so what did he want to do to make this happen?
14. how did this make the queen feel?
15. what was her solution
16. how did the king feel about it?
17. what about everyone else?

Q: Luke was starting his first day of day care. He was a little nervous about meeting his new teacher and all of his new friends. When his mother dropped him off, he kissed her goodbye and sat down in the green seat that his teacher showed him. He looked around the room. There were a lot of other kids there. A baby sat in a high chair sucking on a blue pacifier. A kid about Luke's age named George was drawing and tracing his hand on paper. A little girl named Mary raised her hand and asked the teacher if she could go to the toilet. The teacher walked her into the bathroom and then returned to the class. She started helping Luke get to know the other kids in the class. A little girl named Jessica tapped Luke on the shoulder and gave him some candy. He took the pink candy from her and thanked her. Luke smiled and thought, "I'm going to like it here."

1. Luke
2. yes
3. meeting his new teacher and all of his new friends
4. his mother
5. in the green seat

Numbered questions:
1. Who was starting their first day of daycare?
2. Was he nervous?
3. What was he nervous about?
4. Who dropped him off?
5. Where did he sit down

Q: CHAPTER XXIII

CHECK TO THE QUEEN

How long they stood thus, heart to heart, they themselves could never have said. The sound of many voices in the near distance roused them from their dream. Ursula started in alarm.

"Holy Virgin!" she exclaimed under her breath, "if it should be the Queen!"

But Wessex held her tightly, and she struggled in vain.

"Nay! then let the whole Court see that I hold my future wife in my arms," he said proudly.

But with an agitated little cry she contrived to escape him. He seemed much amused at her nervousness; what had she to fear? was she not his own, to protect even from the semblance of ill? But Ursula, now fully awakened to ordinary, everyday surroundings, was fearful lest her own innocent little deception should be too crudely, too suddenly unmasked.

She had so earnestly looked forward to the moment when she would say to him that she in sooth was none other than Lady Ursula Glynde, the woman whom every conventionality had decreed that he should marry, and whom--because of these conventionalities--he had secretly but certainly disliked.

Her woman's heart had already given her a clear insight into the character and the foibles of the man she loved. His passion for her now, sincere and great though it was, was partly dependent on that atmosphere of romance which his poetical temperament craved for, and which had surrounded the half-mysterious personality of exquisite, irresistible "Fanny."

Instinctively she dreaded the rough hand of commonplace, that ugly, coarse destroyer of poetic idylls. A few hastily uttered words might shatter in an hour the mystic shrine wherein Wessex had enthroned her. She had meant to tell him soon, to-morrow perhaps, perhaps only after a few days, but she wished to find her own time for this, when he knew her inner soul better, and the delicate cobwebs of this great love-at-first-sight had fallen away from his eyes.

1. Ursula and Wessex
2. yes
3. no
4. she hears people
5. the Queen
6. no
7. yes
8. her deception might be unmasked.
9. amused
10. yes
11. proud
12. yes
13. yes
14. his character
15. ove-at-first-sight
16. the mystic shrine
17. in her own time for
18. tomorrow or a few days
19. her inner soul better
20. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. Who is embracing?
2. Is Ursula ready to stop?
3. is Wessex?
4. Why does she want free?
5. Who is she worried might be coming?
6. Does Wessex care?
7. Does she get free?
8. What's making her nervous?
9. How does Wessex feel about her fears?
10. Are they planing to get married?
11. How does that make Wessex feel?
12. Would their marriage be the traditional thing to do/
13. Is she thinking that maybe he doesn't like her?
14. What has she gotten a good picture of?
15. What kind of love is he feeling?
16. What does she think might get shattered?
17. When does she want to talk to him about it?
18. What are the possible days she might talk to him?
19. What does she want him to learn about
20. Where are they standing?