Problem: (CNN) -- Answers to the quiz are in bold.

1. What is the 5-digit number in which the first, third and last digits are the same, the first digit is four less than the second, the last is four less than the fourth and the second and fourth are the same? (Hint: The sum of all the digits is 33.) 59,595

2. Boris Smetana and Karl Smith were world-class chess champions. In one series of matches, each won every game. How? They were not playing each other

3. Nicole was sure she got the right answer when her botany teacher asked her to pick out the plant that was not a tree from the list below. Which one would you choose? Peach, plum, walnut, linden, banana Banana

4. Six bricklayers can lay 24 bricks in half an hour. How many bricks can 12 bricklayers lay in two hours? 192 (Each bricklayer lays four bricks in half an hour, or eight bricks in an hour. That is 16 bricks in two hours times 12 bricklayers who can lay 16 bricks each.)

5. What is the number that is one more than one-tenth of one-fifth of one-half of 4,000? 41. (4,000/2 = 2,000, /5=400,/10=40,+1=41)

6. In a pie-eating contest, Alice was neither first nor last, but she beat Evan. Ben beat Alice. Carol beat Dan who beat Ben. Who was last? Evan

7. What letter would logically complete the series below? A Z B Y C X D W E? V (There are two series: A to E forward and Z, Y, X, W backward)
1. How many digits are in the number?
2. Are they all the same?
3. What do you get when you add them up?
4. Name two chess players.
5. Did they lose a game?
6. What class was Nicole in?
7. Do bananas grow on trees?
8. How many bricks can 6 workers lay?
9. Was Alice first in the contest?
10. Who did she beat?
Answer: 1. Five
2. No, first, third and last digits are the same,
3. 33
4. Boris Smetana and Karl Smith
5. No, each won every game
6. botany
7. yes, banana Banana
8. 24 bricks
9. No, Alice was neither first nor last
10. she beat Evan

Problem: CHAPTER IX

Isobel was standing quite still in the middle of the room, her hands tightly clenched, a spot of colour aflame in her cheeks. Arthur, who had passed Lady Delahaye and me upon the stairs, had apparently just been told the object of her visit.

"Oh, I hate that woman!" Isobel exclaimed as I entered, "I hate her! I would rather die than go to her. I would rather go back to the convent. She looks at me as though I were something to be despised, something which should not be allowed to go alive upon the earth!"

Arthur would have spoken, but Mabane interrupted him. He laid his hand gently upon her shoulder.

"Isobel," he said gently, "you need have no fear. I know how Arnold feels about it, and I can speak for myself also. You shall not go to her. We will not give you up. I do not believe that she will go to the courts at all. I doubt if she has any claim."

"Why, we'd hide you, run away with you, anything," Arthur declared impetuously. "Don't you be scared, Isobel, I don't believe she can do a thing. The law's like a great fat animal. It takes a plaguey lot to move it, and then it moves as slowly as a steam-roller. We'll dodge it somehow."

She gave them a hand each. Her action was almost regal. It some way, it seemed that in according her our protection we were receiving rather than conferring a favour.
1. Where was Isobel?
2. How did she clench her hands?
3. Who passed the narrator at the stairs?
4. Who else was there?
5. What Arthur told her?
6. Where was Isobel prior to this place?
7. Did she hate the woman?
8. What she would rather do than to go to her?
9. Did she give the narrator a nasty look?
10. Who interrupted Arthur?
11. Did Arthur try to reassure Isobel?
12. Did he tell her not be scared?
13. Did he and Arnold feel the same way about it?
Answer: 1. the middle of the room
2. tightly
3. Arthur
4. Lady Delahaye
5. the object of her visit
6. he convent
7. yes
8. die
9. yes
10. Mabane
11. yes
12. yes
13. yes

Problem: CHAPTER XVII.

Five minutes later, Tom Thurston entered, and Julia Monson came down to receive HIM, her pique not interfering, and it being rather stylish to be disengaged on the morning of the day when the household was in all the confusion of a premeditated rout.

{premeditated rout = planned party}

"This is SO good of you, Miss Monson," said Tom, as he made his bow--I heard it all, being still on the sofa--"This is SO good of you, when your time must have so many demands on it."

"Not in the least, Mr. Thurston--mamma and the housekeeper have settled every thing, and I am really pleased to see you, as you can give me the history of the new play--"

"Ah! Miss Monson, my heart--my faculties--my ideas--" Tom was getting bothered, and he made a desperate effort to extricate himself--"In short, my JUDGMENT is so confused and monopolized, that I have no powers left to think or speak of plays. In a word, I was not there."

"That explains it, then--and what has thus confused your mind, Mr. Thurston?"

"The approach of this awful night. You will be surrounded by a host of admirers, pouring into your ears their admiration and love, and then what shall I have to support me, but that 'yes,' with which you once raised me from the depths of despair to an elevation of happiness that was high as the highest pinnacle of the caverns of Kentucky; raising me from the depths of Chimborazo."

{caverns of Kentucky = Mammoth Cave; Chimborazo = a 20,500 foot volcano in Ecuador}
1. who came in?
2. and who was there to greet him?
3. what was going on in the house?
4. was she happy to see him?
5. what did she say to him?
6. who was on the sofa?
7. what does he say of his judgement?
8. and what does he lack?
9. to do what with?
10. who says something to him about his confusion?
Answer:
1. Tom Thurston
2. Julia Monson
3. a party
4. Yes
5. I am really pleased to see you"
6. "I"
7. is so confused and monopolized
8. powers
9. to think or speak of plays
10. Miss Monson