Problem: The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated NYT and The Times) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company. "The New York Times" has won 122 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper. The paper's print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind "The Wall Street Journal", and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the United States. "The New York Times" is ranked 18th in the world by circulation. Following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million.

Nicknamed "The Gray Lady", "The New York Times" has long been regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record". It has been owned by the Ochs-Sulzberger family since 1896; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of the Times and the chairman of the New York Times Company, is the fourth generation of the family to helm the paper. "The New York Times" international version, formerly the "International Herald Tribune", is now called the "New York Times International Edition". The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print", appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page.
1. What is the abbreviation for the New York Times?
2. Is there another name it's known as?
3. Any other nicknames?
4. Has it been owned by the same family for a long time?
5. Who is that family?
6. What generation of the family currently owns the paper?
7. When was it founded?
8. Has it ever won a Pulitzer?
9. How many?
10. Has any other paper won more Pulitzers?
11. Is its print version the largest in circulation?
12. What paper has the largest print circulation?
13. What is its world ranking in terms of circulation?
14. What was the international version once called?
15. What is it called now?
16. What is the NYT motto?
17. Does it appear on the front page?
18. Where?
19. On what page?
20. What is the current weekday circulation?
Answer: 1. NYT
2. The Times
3. The Gray Lady
4. YES
5. Ochs-Sulzberger
6. fourth generation
7. 1896
8. Yes
9. 122
10. No
11. No
12. "The Wall Street Journal"
13. 18th
14. "International Herald Tribune"
15. New York Times International Edition
16. All the News That's Fit to Print"
17. Yes
18. upper left-hand corner
19. front page
20. unknown

Problem: Unlike the Spanish milled dollar the U.S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. In addition to the dollar the coinage act officially established monetary units of mill or one-thousandth of a dollar (symbol ), cent or one-hundredth of a dollar (symbol ), dime or one-tenth of a dollar, and eagle or ten dollars, with prescribed weights and composition of gold, silver, or copper for each. It was proposed in the mid-1800s that one hundred dollars be known as a union, but no union coins were ever struck and only patterns for the $50 half union exist. However, only cents are in everyday use as divisions of the dollar; "dime" is used solely as the name of the coin with the value of 10, while "eagle" and "mill" are largely unknown to the general public, though mills are sometimes used in matters of tax levies, and gasoline prices are usually in the form of $X.XX9 per gallon, e.g., $3.599, sometimes written as $3.59910. When currently issued in circulating form, denominations equal to or less than a dollar are emitted as U.S. coins while denominations equal to or greater than a dollar are emitted as Federal Reserve notes (with the exception of gold, silver and platinum coins valued up to $100 as legal tender, but worth far more as bullion). Both one-dollar coins and notes are produced today, although the note form is significantly more common. In the past, "paper money" was occasionally issued in denominations less than a dollar (fractional currency) and gold coins were issued for circulation up to the value of $20 (known as the "double eagle", discontinued in the 1930s). The term eagle was used in the Coinage Act of 1792 for the denomination of ten dollars, and subsequently was used in naming gold coins. Paper currency less than one dollar in denomination, known as "fractional currency", was also sometimes pejoratively referred to as "shinplasters". In 1854, James Guthrie, then Secretary of the Treasury, proposed creating $100, $50 and $25 gold coins, which were referred to as a "Union", "Half Union", and "Quarter Union", thus implying a denomination of 1 Union = $100.
1. Is the US dollar on a decimal system?
2. What country's dollar is not?
3. What is a mill?
4. And a cent?
5. And the dime?
6. What's the symbol for a mill?
7. And that for cent?
8. How much is an eagle?
9. What are these coins made of?
10. When was making $100 as a union proposed?
11. Were union coins made?
12. Were there patterns for it?
13. What about for the half union?
14. When are mills used in regular life?
15. When else?
16. How are values less than a dollar given out?
17. Are there one dollar coins?
18. Are they common?
19. What was occasionally issued for values under a dollar?
20. How much is a double eagle?
Answer: 1. yes
2. Spain
3. 1/1000 of a dollar
4. 1/100
5. 1/10
6.
7.
8. ten dollars
9. gold, silver, or copper
10. mid-1800s
11. no
12. no
13. yes
14. tax levies
15. gasoline prices
16. coins
17. yes
18. no
19. paper money
20. $20

Problem: CHAPTER V

For a number of days Michael saw only Steward and Kwaque. This was because he was confined to the steward's stateroom. Nobody else knew that he was on board, and Dag Daughtry, thoroughly aware that he had stolen a white man's dog, hoped to keep his presence secret and smuggle him ashore when the _Makambo_ docked in Sydney.

Quickly the steward learned Michael's pre-eminent teachableness. In the course of his careful feeding of him, he gave him an occasional chicken bone. Two lessons, which would scarcely be called lessons, since both of them occurred within five minutes and each was not over half a minute in duration, sufficed to teach Michael that only on the floor of the room in the corner nearest the door could he chew chicken bones. Thereafter, without prompting, as a matter of course when handed a bone, he carried it to the corner.

And why not? He had the wit to grasp what Steward desired of him; he had the heart that made it a happiness for him to serve. Steward was a god who was kind, who loved him with voice and lip, who loved him with touch of hand, rub of nose, or enfolding arm. As all service flourishes in the soil of love, so with Michael. Had Steward commanded him to forego the chicken bone after it was in the corner, he would have served him by foregoing. Which is the way of the dog, the only animal that will cheerfully and gladly, with leaping body of joy, leave its food uneaten in order to accompany or to serve its human master.
1. Who was seen?
2. by who?
3. why?
4. why?
5. where was he confined?
6. what was stolen?
7. whose dog?
8. what did he do with it?
9. where?
10. where was he hid?
11. what was he fed?
12. where could he chew on them?
13. where?
14. was he kind?
15. did he serve someone?
16. did the dog love touch?
17. how many lessons are there?
18. how long were they?
19. what was the duration?
20. who carried the bone?
Answer:
1. Steward and Kwaque
2. Michael
3. he was confined?
4. unknown
5. steward's stateroom.
6. a dog
7. n a white man's
8. smuggled him?
9. Sydney
10. the _Makambo
11. chicken bone.
12. only on the floor of the room
13. in the corner nearest the door
14. yes
15. yes
16. yes
17. Two
18. five minutes
19. half a minute
20. the dog