Q: CHAPTER XXV Two Famous Swimmers

The bank of the Smiling Pool was a lovely place to hold school at that hour of the day, which you know was just after sun-up. Everybody who could get there was on hand, and there were several who had not been to school before. One of these was Grandfather Frog, who was sitting on his big, green, lily pad. Another was Jerry Muskrat, whose house was out in the Smiling Pool. Spotty the Turtle was also there, not to mention Longlegs the Heron. You see, they hadn't come to school but the school had come to them, for that is where they live or spend most of their time.

"Good morning, Jerry Muskrat," said Old Mother Nature pleasantly, as Jerry's brown head appeared in the Smiling Pool. "Have you seen anything of Billy Mink or Little Joe Otter?" "Little Joe went down to the Big River last night," replied Jerry Muskrat. "I don't know when he is coming back, but I wouldn't be surprised to see him any minute. Billy Mink was here last evening and said he was going up the Laughing Brook fishing. He is likely to be back any time. One never can tell when that fellow will appear. He comes and goes continually. I don't believe he can keep still five minutes."

"Who is that can't keep still five minutes?" demanded a new voice, and there was Billy Mink himself just climbing out on the Big Rock.

"Jerry was speaking of you," replied Old Mother Nature. "This will be a good chance for you to show him that he is mistaken. I want you to stay here for a while and to stay right on the Big Rock. I may want to ask you a few questions."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is the teacher?
2. Where is class taking place?
3. What time did it start?
4. had all the students attended school in the past?
5. Did they travel to get there?
6. Who does she address first?
7. what does she tell him?
8. What color is he?
9. Who is missing from class?
10. Where is Joe?
11. Where is Billy?
12. Do they know when he'll return?
13. Is he hyper?
14. Does he show up?
15. what does he pick for a seat?
16. Do they know when to expect Joe?
17. Could it be any time?
18. Is this Jerry's first day?
19. Is the frog old?
20. What kind of seat does he have?
A: 1. Old Mother Nature
2. the Smiling Poo
3. just after sun up
4. No
5. no
6. Jerry Muskrat,
7. "Good morning,
8. brown
9. Billy Mink and Little Joe Otter
10. went down to the Big River last night,
11. he was going up the Laughing Brook fishing.
12. no
13. yes
14. yes
15. a rock
16. no
17. yes
18. yes
19. yes
20. big, green, lily pad
Q: CHAPTER XII

THE WHITE WITCH

I descended from the litter and told the others what the old fellow had said. Robertson did not want to come, and indeed refused to do so until I suggested to him that such conduct might prejudice a powerful person against us. Umslopogaas was indifferent, putting, as he remarked, no faith in a ruler who was a woman.

Only Hans, although he was so tired, acquiesced with some eagerness, the fact being that his brain was more alert and that he had all the curiosity of the monkey tribe which he so much resembled in appearance, and wanted to see this queen whom Zikali revered.

In the end we started, conducted by Billali and by men who carried torches whereof the light showed me that we were passing between houses, or at any rate walls that had been those of houses, and along what seemed to be a paved street.

Walking under what I took to be a great arch or portico, we came into a court that was full of towering pillars but unroofed, for I could see the stars above. At its end we entered a building of which the doorway was hung with mats, to find that it was lighted with lamps and that all down its length on either side guards with long spears stood at intervals.

"Oh, Baas," said Hans hesitatingly, "this is the mouth of a trap," while Umslopogaas glared about him suspiciously, fingering the handle of his great axe.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did the glow of fire allow to be seen while they were walking?
2. Where they in the woods?
3. Where were they?
4. What was above their heads?
5. That led them onto what?
6. Was there a roof on it?
7. Did they remain outdoors?
8. Was their entrance covered?
9. What covered it?
10. Was it dark inside when they got inside?
11. What did they see inside?
12. Was the group comfortable as they entered?
13. Did they have a way to protect themselves?
14. How many weapons did they have that we know of?
15. Who of their group did not want to accompany them?
16. What was Umslopogaas's opinion?
17. Why was he indifferent?
18. Who looked like the other tribe?
A: 1. that they were passing between houses
2. no
3. a paved street
4. a great arch
5. a court
6. no
7. no
8. no
9. the stars above
10. no
11. guards
12. no
13. yes
14. just one
15. Robertson
16. He was indifferent
17. He had no faith in a ruler who was a woman.
18. Hans
Q: (CNN) -- The mother of a 25-year-old woman killed in a Boston hotel more than a week ago said Friday that she will remain haunted by her daughter's death for the rest of her life.

The mother of Julissa Brisman says she remains haunted by her daughter's death.

"Our family has been devastated by the loss of our beautiful daughter, Julissa," Carmen Guzman said in a statement released Friday, which would have been Julissa Brisman's 26th birthday.

"The feeling of losing my daughter in this way and the pain she must have felt will haunt me for the rest of my life," Guzman said. "She won't live to see her dreams. We will hold Julissa in our hearts every day."

Philip Markoff, 23, a second-year student at Boston University's School of Medicine, is charged with killing Brisman on April 14 at Boston's Copley Marriott Hotel.

Police have said that Brisman, a model from New York, advertised as a masseuse on the online classifieds Web site Craigslist. They say Markoff may have met her through the online site.

Prosecutors say Brisman sustained blunt head trauma, and said she was shot three times at close range. One of the bullets passed through her heart, killing her, prosecutors said.

Markoff, who was arraigned Tuesday, is being held without bail. His attorney, John Salsberg, told reporters after the hearing that Markoff is "not guilty of the charges. He has his family's support. I have not received any document or report or piece of evidence other than what I heard in the courtroom. All I have at the moment are words -- no proof of anything."

Answer the following questions:
1. Was the person killed a mother?
2. How old was the woman who was killed?
3. Is her mother alive?
4. Who was killed?
5. Did Carmen Guzman make a statement?
6. When did she do that?
7. What else was that day?
8. Who was charged?
9. When?
10. How old is he?
11. Where does he go to school?
12. For how long?
13. Where did the murder occur?
14. What was Brisman?
15. Who said that?
16. What did she advertise as?
17. Where?
18. Which site?
19. How many times was she shot?
20. At a far range?
A:
1. unknown
2. 25
3. Yes
4. Julissa Brisman
5. Yes
6. on Friday
7. Julissa Brisman's birthday.
8. Philip Markoff
9. April 14
10. 23
11. Boston University
12. two years
13. the Copley Marriott Hotel.
14. a model
15. Police
16. a masseuse
17. online classifieds
18. Craigslist.
19. Three
20. close range