Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

The grandfather of Nell Trent owns a shop of odds and ends. He wants to make sure his grandfather is provided for when he dies. His memory of his daughter's suffering and early death gives him a fear of poverty. Gambling becomes an addiction for Nell's grandfather, which results in his financial and physical ruin. Nell and her grandfather flee from their home and begin a journey that has no destination. For Nell, all she wants is a peaceful existence with enough to live on.

They come across many interesting people on their travels and often meet with the kindness of strangers. Yet, in a colorful world, they also face the reality of the Industrial Revolution. From simple villages and fields of flowers, they go into a dirty city full of mass unemployment and plague victims --- where children die of starvation and many are abandoned.

The story isn't only about Nell and her grandfather, but also the people who are connected to them directly or indirectly. There is Richard Swiveller, a careless young man who is a friend of Nell's older brother, who wants Swiveller to marry Nell for the fortune he thinks she has. Daniel Quilp is a cruel moneylender, who manages to fool the grandfather into borrowing large sums of money from him. There is honest Kit, a boy employed at the shop, who becomes a victim even though he never harms other people. Kit desires to help Nell, whom he considers an angel that has always inspired the best in him. The mysterious Bevis Marks, who is a generous customer to some people and an enemy to others, also has his own reasons for looking after Nell and her grandfather.

Unlike Dickens' other works, The Old Curiosity Shop is a book of contrasts: the purity of Nell compared to the dishonesty of Quilp, fresh air and scenic villages to the polluted, stone-covered city, etc. Even people's reaction to the book presented a cruel contrast. At first, Nell Trent was praised and considered Dickens' best character. Later, she was criticized by many well-known people like Oscar Wilde. While characters in Dickens' other books are moving towards a better future, Nell and her grandfather are fleeing for their life and their story is moving towards a sad ending.

1. Who owns a shop?
2. whose?
3. Did they meet many people?
4. What is the time period?
5. Is the story only about them?
6. Who else is it about?
7. Only close relatives?
8. Like whom?
9. Who was he?
10. What he wanted?
11. Who is the author?
12. What is the name of this novel?
13. Do some people disagree with the concept?
14. Did any famous author disagree?
15. Like who?
16. Is this novel different from author's other books?
17. Did the main characters stay home?
18. Where did they go?
19. Is there any mysterious character?
20. Who?
21. Was he good with the main characters?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. grandfather
2. Nell Trent
3. yes
4. Industrial Revolution
5. no
6. people who connected to them
7. indirectly
8. Richard Swiveller
9. a friend of Nell's older brother
10. marry Nell
11. Dickens
12. The Old Curiosity Shop
13. presented a cruel contrast
14. yes
15. Oscar Wilde
16. yes
17. no
18. no definite destination.
19. yes
20. Bevis Marks
21. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN) -- Donald Sterling has agreed to the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Sterling's attorneys told CNN on Wednesday.

Last week, Sterling's estranged wife, Shelly, agreed to sell the franchise to Ballmer for an NBA record $2 billion. The Sterlings are co-owners of the team through a family trust.

Donald Sterling initially indicated he would fight the sale and filed a lawsuit against the National Basketball Association.

The suit has yet to be withdrawn, attorneys Bobby Samini and Maxwell Blecher, said, but that likely will happen this week.

"Donald Sterling officially announces today, the NBA and Donald Sterling and Shelly Sterling have agreed to sell the Los Angeles Clippers to Steve Ballmer for $2 billion and various additional benefits. All disputes and outstanding issues have been resolved," Samini said in a written statement.

Blecher said he thought that Sterling worked out a resolution with the league or with Shelly Sterling.

The NBA was expected to issue a news release commenting on Wednesday's developments.

As of 8 p.m. ET, the NBA had not received a sale agreement with Donald Sterling's signature, a source with detailed knowledge of the negotiations said. The source said Sterling was in a room with his two attorneys, going through the deal.

NBA owners still have to approve the sale to Ballmer, who has indicated he would keep the team in Los Angeles. Ballmer, according to Forbes magazine, is worth $20.3 billion.

Ballmer has tried to buy a NBA team before. Last year, he and investor Chris Hansen were set to purchase the Sacramento Kings, but the NBA nixed the deal because the duo would have moved the franchise to Seattle.

1. Who is purchasing a team?
2. How much is it going to cost?
3. Are the owners receiving anything else?
4. What?
5. Where does Ballmer work?
6. Where did he used to work?
7. What was his title there?
8. Who wants to sell the group?
9. Who needs to agree first?
10. Why?
11. Did he try to keep the sale from happening?
12. What was his method of blocking it?
13. Against whom
14. What team is being sold?
15. Who will be giving their statement on Wednesday?
16. What will he do once he owns the team?
17. Is this the first team he tried to get?
18. What other team did he want?
19. Who cancelled that sale?
20. Why?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Steve Ballmer
2. $2 billion
3. yes
4. various benefits
5. unknown
6. Microsoft
7. CEO
8. Shelly
9. Donald Sterling
10. They co-own it
11. yes
12. a lawsuit
13. the National Basketball Association
14. the Los Angeles Clippers
15. The NBA
16. keep it in Los Angeles
17. no
18. the Sacramento Kings
19. the NBA
20. they wanted to move it to Seattle.