question: CHAPTER XXIX

"WOUNDED AND MISSING"

"Battered but Not Broken" was the headline in Monday's paper, and Susan repeated it over and over to herself as she went about her work. The gap caused by the St. Quentin disaster had been patched up in time, but the Allied line was being pushed relentlessly back from the territory they had purchased in 1917 with half a million lives. On Wednesday the headline was "British and French Check Germans"; but still the retreat went on. Back--and back--and back! Where would it end? Would the line break again--this time disastrously?

On Saturday the headline was "Even Berlin Admits Offensive Checked," and for the first time in that terrible week the Ingleside folk dared to draw a long breath.

"Well, we have got one week over--now for the next," said Susan staunchly.

"I feel like a prisoner on the rack when they stopped turning it," Miss Oliver said to Rilla, as they went to church on Easter morning. "But I am not off the rack. The torture may begin again at any time."

"I doubted God last Sunday," said Rilla, "but I don't doubt him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh."

Nevertheless her faith was often tried in the dark spring that followed. Armageddon was not, as they had hoped, a matter of a few days. It stretched out into weeks and months. Again and again Hindenburg struck his savage, sudden blows, with alarming, though futile success. Again and again the military critics declared the situation extremely perilous. Again and again Cousin Sophia agreed with the military critics.
1. How many people died in 1917?
2. What was Monday's headline?
3. Wednesday's?
4. Who was retreating?
5. Who did this concern?
6. Did it seem like there was an end in sight?
7. What was Saturday's headline?
8. Was this a relief?
9. For which townspeople?
10. Who temporarily lost her faith?
11. Had she regained it?
12. Who was she discussing this with?
13. On what date?
14. At what location?
15. As time went on, did the war get less dangerous?
16. According to whom?
17. Did Sophia agree with them?
18. Who continued to strike?
19. How long did it continue?
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answer: 1. half a million
2. "Battered but Not Broken"
3. "British and French Check Germans"
4. unknown
5. Susan
6. No.
7. "Even Berlin Admits Offensive Checked,"
8. Yes.
9. Ingleside
10. Rilla
11. Yes.
12. Miss Oliver
13. Easter
14. church
15. No.
16. military critics
17. Yes.
18. Hindenburg
19. months

question: A suicide bomber targeted a funeral in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 37 others, officials said.

The blast took place just outside Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said city police official Kalam Khan.

While no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, authorities believe the target may have been members of the Awami National Party.

Khushdil Khan, a party member who is the deputy speaker of the provincial assembly, had gone to the funeral for a local woman. But he left before the suicide bomber walked up to mourners and blew himself up as they were leaving, police said

The Awami National Party, which is part of the governing coalition led by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's Pakistan Peoples Party, is often targeted by the Taliban.

In February, an explosion outside a political rally in northwest Pakistan killed five people and wounded 10, officials said.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban, or Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the blast.

"We carried out the attack," said Asim Mehsud, the Taliban spokesman for Pakistan's South Waziristan region. "We will also target upcoming rallies of the Awami National Party, as it is a secular party. We will also target any other rallies conducted by secular political parties in the future."

In November, party member Hanif Jadoon and his bodyguard were killed in a suicide attack.

Jadoon had just finished morning prayers on the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha when a bomber approached his car and detonated his explosives.

The attack took place in the Swabi district of the province, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Islamabad.
1. who claimed responsibility for the blast
2. anyone else ?
3. the blast was outside of where ?
4. is it the capitol ?
5. name the capitol
6. who part of the governing coalition
7. led by who ?
8. what is his title ?
9. what happened at the funeral ?
10. where ?
11. on what day ?
12. were there 1000 people killed ?
13. how many was it ?
14. how many were hurt ?
15. who said thet did the attack ?
16. who is he ?
17. for who ?
18. what happened in nw Pakistan ?
19. was it a dinner ?
20. where was it ?
21. how many people died ?
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answer: 1. The Tehrik-e-Taliban
2. Pakistani Taliban
3. Peshawar
4. yes
5. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
6. he Awami National Part
7. ousaf Raza Gilani's
8. Prime Minister
9. A suicide bomber
10. northwest Pakistan
11. Sunday
12. no
13. 14
14. 37
15. Asim Mehsud
16. Taliban spokesman
17. Pakistan's South Waziristan region
18. explosion
19. no
20. olitical rally
21. five

question: CHAPTER XXVIII

A dozen times that morning, dictating to Blake or indicating answers, Dick had been on the verge of saying to let the rest of the correspondence go.

"Call up Hennessy and Mendenhall," he told Blake, when, at ten, the latter gathered up his notes and rose to go. "You ought to catch them at the stallion barn. Tell them not to come this morning but to-morrow morning."

Bonbright entered, prepared to shorthand Dick's conversations with his managers for the next hour.

"And--oh, Mr. Blake," Dick called. "Ask Hennessy about Alden Bessie.-- The old mare was pretty bad last night," he explained to Bonbright.

"Mr. Hanley must see you right away, Mr. Forrest," Bonbright said, and added, at sight of the irritated drawing up of his employer's brows, "It's the piping from Buckeye Dam. Something's wrong with the plans--a serious mistake, he says."

Dick surrendered, and for an hour discussed ranch business with his foremen and managers.

Once, in the middle of a hot discussion over sheep-dips with Wardman, he left his desk and paced over to the window. The sound of voices and horses, and of Paula's laugh, had attracted him.

"Take that Montana report--I'll send you a copy to-day," he continued, as he gazed out. "They found the formula didn't get down to it. It was more a sedative than a germicide. There wasn't enough kick in it..."

Four horses, bunched, crossed his field of vision. Paula, teasing the pair of them, was between Martinez and Froelig, old friends of Dick, a painter and sculptor respectively, who had arrived on an early train. Graham, on Selim, made the fourth, and was slightly edged toward the rear. So the party went by, but Dick reflected that quickly enough it would resolve itself into two and two.
1. How long did Dick discuss business?
2. With whom?
3. What kind of business where they talking about?
4. Which of the men left the conversation desk?
5. Where did he go?
6. What sound caught his interest?
7. Did he see her?
8. How many horses were near her?
9. Was Paula interacting with them?
10. Doing what?
11. Which one of Dick's friends was a painter?
12. Did he also know a sculptor?
13. Who?
14. Had they been friends for a long time?
15. When did they arrive?
16. Who was the rider at the back of the group?
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answer:
1. for an hour
2. his foremen and managers
3. ranch business
4. Dick
5. over to the window
6. Paula's laugh
7. Yes
8. Four horses
9. Yes
10. teasing them
11. Martinez
12. Yes
13. Froelig
14. Yes
15. an early train
16. Selim