Question: CHAPTER V

In the misty morning twilight Colonel Zane, fully armed, paced to and fro before his cabin, on guard. All night he had maintained a watch. He had not considered it necessary to send his family into the fort, to which they had often been compelled to flee. On the previous night Jonathan had come swiftly back to the cabin, and, speaking but two words, seized his weapons and vanished into the black night. The words were "Injuns! Wetzel!" and there were none others with more power to affect hearers on the border. The colonel believed that Wetzel had signaled to Jonathan.

On the west a deep gully with precipitous sides separated the settlement from a high, wooded bluff. Wetzel often returned from his journeying by this difficult route. He had no doubt seen Indian signs, and had communicated the intelligence to Jonathan by their system of night-bird calls. The nearness of the mighty hunter reassured Colonel Zane.

When the colonel returned from his chase of the previous night, he went directly to the stable, there to find that the Indians had made off with a thoroughbred, and Betty's pony. Colonel Zane was furious, not on account of the value of the horses, but because Bess was his favorite bay, and Betty loved nothing more than her pony Madcap. To have such a march stolen on him after he had heard and seen the thieves was indeed hard. High time it was that these horse thieves be run to earth. No Indian had planned these marauding expeditions. An intelligent white man was at the bottom of the thieving, and he should pay for his treachery. 1. Who was the threat?
2. WHat did they do?
3. Who did they steal from?
4. Did he know they were a threat?
5. How?
6. Who was he?
7. Who did he comminucate with?
8. What method did he use?
9. Why would Wetzel contact Jonathan?
10. WHat did JOnathan do after hearing that?
11. What did Colonel Zane do?
12. Why did he stay behind?
13. What could he have done instead?
14. How long did he stay up?
15. Were they successful in stopping the Indians?
16. Were the stolen items valuble?
17. Was that why people were upset?
18. Why then?
19. What other reasons?
20. Did they think the natives were working alone?
21. Who did they think was responsible? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Indians
2. made off with a thoroughbred, and Betty's pony.
3. Colonel Zane
4. yes
5. Wetzel had signaled
6. a mighty hunter
7. Jonathan
8. system of night-bird calls
9. seen Indian signs
10. seized his weapons
11. maintained a watch.
12. his family
13. send his family into the fort
14. All night
15. no
16. yes
17. no
18. Bess was his favorite
19. Betty loved her pony
20. no
21. An intelligent white man

Question: CHAPTER XXI

A FIGHT WITH POLAR BEARS

"Look out, he's coming for you!" shouted Barwell Dawson.

Both Chet and Andy heard the words, but paid no attention. Their guns were raised, and each was aiming at the bear nearest to him. Crack! went Andy's firearm, and the polar bear was halted by a wound in the forepaw.

Chet was not so fortunate, as his gun failed to go off. The next instant the polar bear leaped on him and bore him to the ice. As boy and beast went down, Barwell Dawson opened fire, and the bear was hit in the side, a wound that made him more savage than ever.

Although Chet was sent sprawling, he did not lose his presence of mind. As quick as a flash he rolled over, from under the very forepaws of the polar bear, and continued to roll, down a slight hill to one side.

By this time Andy and Mr. Dawson were firing again, and Olalola, coming up, used several spears with telling effect. At the increase in noise,--the Esquimau adding his yells to the cracks of the weapons,--one after another of the bears turned and commenced to run away.

"Don't go after them!" sang out Barwell Dawson. "They may turn again, if you do. Shoot them from a distance."

Once more he discharged his gun, and Andy did likewise. Then Chet scrambled up and used his firearm, the piece this time responding to the touch on the trigger.

Another of the bears was now killed outright, while the largest of the group was badly wounded in the hind quarters. This bear dropped behind the others and, drawing closer, Chet let him have a shot in the ear that finished him. The other beasts disappeared behind a hummock of ice, and that was the last seen of them. 1. Are they playing with animals?
2. Are they having fun?
3. What kind of animals are there?
4. Only one?
5. What are they doing with them?
6. With what?
7. Did they kill any?
8. All of them?
9. Who yelled a warning?
10. Who ignored him?
11. What were they busy doing?
12. Which one was more successful?
13. Did the other one die?
14. Then what happened?
15. Did someone use a different weapon?
16. Who?
17. What kind of weapon?
18. Did someone yell for them to chase the animals?
19. Was it recommended that they shoot from close or far away?
20. Where did the animals scamper off to? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Yes
2. No
3. polar bear
4. no
5. Fighting them
6. guns
7. Yes
8. no
9. Barwell Dawson.
10. Chet and Andy
11. Shooting the bear
12. Andy
13. no
14. the polar bear leaped on him and bore him to the ice.
15. Yes
16. Olalola
17. spears
18. No
19. Far away
20. behind a hummock of ice

Question: Foday Gallah saw the sick child was distressed and felt he had to do something. So he picked the kid up to comfort him.

And with that act of kindness, the 37-year-old ambulance supervisor in Monrovia, Liberia, contracted Ebola himself.

"Of course, he got vomit all over him and that's how he got Ebola," said photographer Jackie Nickerson, who shot Gallah's image for Time's "Person of the Year" magazine cover, which honors those on the front line of the Ebola epidemic.

They're "the ones who answered the call," the magazine said on its website Wednesday morning.

Nickerson expanded on why Gallah was chosen for one of the magazine's five covers: "He's the shining example of what the right thing to do is. He's a shining example that we should all try to follow. He really did touch me with his story. I don't usually like to use the word hero, but I have to use it here."

According to the latest World Health Organization figures, about 6,300 people have died from the disease, mainly in West Africa. Health workers are still battling more than 11,000 confirmed cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and more than 6,000 suspected and probable cases loom, according to WHO.

Though those countries mark the epicenter of the outbreak, isolated cases have spread wider, penetrating other African countries, Europe and even the United States.

Time magazine's editors decided to honor the "unprecedented numbers" of doctors and nurses who responded when Ebola overtook an already-weak public health infrastructure, and Time Editor Nancy Gibbs outlined how governments were ill-equipped to respond, WHO "was in denial and snarled in red tape" and first responders were accused of crying wolf as the disease spread. 1. What did Foday Gallah saw?
2. Who is the photographer?
3. What is the disease named?
4. How many person have lost their life from this disease?
5. What is the age of Gallah?
6. What is her profession?
7. Which area?
8. For which company is Jackie Nickerson working? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. A sick child
2. Jackie Nickerson
3. Ebola
4. About 6,300
5. 37
6. Ambulance supervisor
7. Monrovia, Liberia
8. Time magazine