Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER IX

Miss Amanda Hill, teacher in the Middleville High School, sat wearily at her desk. She was tired, as tired as she had ever been on any day of the fifteen long years in which she had wrestled with the problems of school life. Her hair was iron gray and she bent a worn, sad, severe face over a mass of notes before her.

At that moment she was laboring under a perplexing question that was not by any means a new one. Only this time it had presented itself in a less insidious manner than usual, leaving no loophole for charitable imagination. Presently she looked up and rapped on her desk.

"These young ladies will remain after school is dismissed," she said, in her authoritative voice: "Bessy Bell--Rose Clymer--Gail Matthews--Helen Tremaine--Ruth Winthrop.... Also any other girls who are honest enough to admit knowledge of the notes found in Rose Clymer's desk."

The hush that fell over the schoolroom was broken by the gong in the main hall, sounding throughout the building. Then followed the noise of shutting books and closing desks, and the bustle and shuffling of anticipated dismissal.

In a front seat sat a girl who did not arise with the others, and as one by one several girls passed her desk with hurried step and embarrassed snicker she looked at them with purple, blazing eyes.

Miss Hill attended to her usual task with the papers of the day's lessons and the marking of the morrow's work before she glanced up at the five girls she had detained. They sat in widely separated sections of the room. Rose Clymer, pretty, fragile, curly-haired, occupied the front seat of the end row. Her face had no color and her small mouth was set in painful lines. Four seats across from her Bessy Bell leaned on her desk, with defiant calmness, and traces of scorn still in her expressive eyes. Gail Matthews looked frightened and Helen Tremaine was crying. Ruth Winthrop bent forward with her face buried in her arms.

1. Who was crying?
2. Where does this story take place?
3. What employee there is mentioned by name?
4. What's her job?
5. How long has she been employed?
6. She was a blonde?
7. What then?
8. Was she wide awake?
9. How did she feel?
10. Did someone get detention?
11. Who?
12. Why?
13. What sounds could be heard after the detention was announced?
14. Was it otherwise quiet?
15. Was someone scared?
16. Who?
1. Helen Tremaine
2. Middleville High School
3. Miss Amanda Hill
4. teacher
5. fifteen years
6. no
7. it was iron gray
8. no
9. She was tired
10. yes
11. Bessy Bell--Rose Clymer--Gail Matthews--Helen Tremaine--Ruth Winthrop
12. because of the notes found in Rose Clymer's desk
13. he gong in the main hall
14. no
15. yes
16. Gail Matthews