input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. East Prussia enclosed the bulk of the ancestral lands of the Baltic Old Prussians. During the 13th century, the native Prussians were conquered by the crusading Teutonic Knights. The indigenous Balts who survived the conquest were gradually converted to Christianity. Because of Germanization and colonisation over the following centuries, Germans became the dominant ethnic group, while Poles and Lithuanians formed minorities. From the 13th century, East Prussia was part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466 it became a fief of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1525, with the Prussian Homage, the province became the Duchy of Prussia. The Old Prussian language had become extinct by the 17th or early 18th century.

Because the duchy was outside of the core Holy Roman Empire, the prince-electors of Brandenburg were able to proclaim themselves King of Prussia beginning in 1701. After the annexation of most of western Royal Prussia in the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772, eastern (ducal) Prussia was connected by land with the rest of the Prussian state and was reorganized as a province the following year (1773). Between 1829 and 1878, the Province of East Prussia was joined with West Prussia to form the Province of Prussia. 1. When were the native Prussians conquered?
2. by who?
3. who survived?
4. what were they converted to?
5. Who was the dominant ethnic group?
6. and the minority?
7. why?
8. When was the second peace of Thorn?
9. What happened in 1525?
10. What happened to the language?
11. when?
12. Was duchy in the core Holy Empire?
13. what happened because of this?
14. When did this start?
15. When was eastern Prussia connected by land with the rest of the state?
16. When was it recgonized?
17. What forms Province of prussia?
18. when did this happen?
19. Who were the native Prussians defeated by?
20. that was when?
numbered_answers: 1. During the 13th century
2. by the crusading Teutonic Knights
3. The indigenous Balts
4. Christianity
5. the Germans
6. Poles and Lithuanians
7. Because of Germanization and colonisation
8. 1466
9. the province became the Duchy of Prussia
10. it became extinct
11. by the 17th or early 18th century
12. No
13. the prince-electors of Brandenburg were able to proclaim themselves King of Prussia
14. in 1701
15. in 1772
16. in 1773
17. the Province of East Prussia and West Prussia
18. Between 1829 and 1878
19. by the crusading Teutonic Knights
20. During the 13th century

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new idea: quick service,no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.

Their hamburgers were sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity , for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks' sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became surprisingly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundred during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.

Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954 when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the special attraction of the brothers' fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise other copies of their restaurants. The agreement included the right to duplicate the menu, the equipment, even their red and white buildings the golden arches .

Today McDonald's is really a household name. In 1976, McDonald's had over$1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most surprising successes in modern American business history. 1. Who started a drive-in business?
2. What year did this happen?
3. And where?
4. Had they owned a business before?
5. How much were the burgers sold for?
6. How much if you wanted cheese?
7. Was the menu shortened?
8. What did they offer on the new menu?
9. Did they take tips?
10. What was the name of the salesperson who met them?
11. When did they meet?
12. What was he selling at the time?
13. How many sales did McDonald's have in the 1970's?
14. Did their food have a uniformity about it?
15. Before they met Ray, how many restaurants had they opened?
16. Is McDonald's well known today?
17. Was the new drive in more popular for lunch or dinner?
numbered_answers: 1. Mac and Dick McDonald
2. 1939
3. San Bernardino, California
4. Yes
5. fifteen cents
6. four cents
7. Yes
8. French fries, hamburgers, and sodas
9. no
10. Ray Kroc
11. 1954
12. milkshake-mixing machines
13. $1 billion
14. Yes
15. ten
16. Yes
17. lunch

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER V. THE FIRST SPARK PASSES

"Now, gentlemen," shouted the auctioneer when he had finished his oration upon the girl's attractions, "what 'tin I bid? Eight hundred?"

Stephen caught his breath. There was a long pause no one cared to start the bidding.

"Come, gentlemen, come! There's my friend Alf Jenkins. He knows what she's worth to a cent. What'll you give, Alf? Is it eight hundred?"

Mr. Jenkins winked at the auction joined in the laugh.

"Three hundred!" he said.

The auctioneer was mortally offended. Then some one cried:--"Three hundred and fifty!"

It was young Colfax. He was recognized at once, by name, evidently as a person of importance.

"Thank you, Mistah Colfax, suh," said the auctioneer, with a servile wave of the hand in his direction, while the crowd twisted their necks to see him. He stood very straight, very haughty, as if entirely oblivious to his conspicuous position.

"Three seventy-five!"

"That's better, Mistah Jenkins," said the auctioneer, sarcastically. He turned to the girl, who might have stood to a sculptor for a figure of despair. Her hands were folded in front of her, her head bowed down. The auctioneer put his hand under her chin and raised it roughly. "Cheer up, my gal," he said, "you ain't got nothing to blubber about now."

Hester's breast heaved and from her black eyes there shot a magnificent look of defiance. He laughed. That was the white blood.

The white blood!

Clarence Colfax had his bid taken from his lips. Above the heads of the people he had a quick vision of a young man with a determined face, whose voice rang clear and strong,-- "Four hundred!" 1. Who was the second person to bid?
2. What did he offer?
3. Did that make Jenkins get more serious?
4. What was his new bid?
5. What was his first?
6. Did he act goofy with his first?
7. What did the auctioneer suggest for the first bid?
8. Was there a fourth?
9. from who?
10. Who was getting ready to bid when this new man did?
11. What is being sold?
12. What is her name?
13. Is she scared?
14. How does she feel?
15. What does the auctioneer see that as?
16. How does she show it to him?
17. What kind of look does she give him?
18. Where was she looking before that?
19. where were her hands?
20. Does the auctioneer like the first bid?
numbered_answers:
1. Colfax
2. Three hundred and fifty
3. Yes
4. Three seventy-five
5. Three hundred
6. Yes
7. Eight hundred
8. Yes
9. a young man with a determined face
10. Clarence Colfax
11. a girl
12. Hester
13. No
14. defiant
15. the white blood.
16. from her black eyes
17. a magnificent look of defiance
18. down
19. folded in front of her
20. No